Saranya Manoj
BARRIE,Ontario
Summary
A highly skilled and experienced Quality Engineer with 6+ years of experience in all phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) who have proven experience conducting manual and automatic testing of various product. Manages complex tasks and teams successfully integrating activities across multiple sites and business units. Creates positive and productive atmosphere within interactive team environments.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Test Engineer
Hudson’s Bay Company
10.2021 - Current
- Actively participated in design, delivery, and execution of manual test scripts to validate functional business requirements by defining preconditions, case steps, success criteria, etc
- Reviewed test scripts/cases with developers & product managers to ensure consistency & adherence to functional requirement documents
- Followed standard testing procedures and provided recommendations for improvement, remaining at forefront of emerging industry best practices
- Created Daily Status Report with testing metrics and defect metrics to all stakeholders
- Performed end to end work flow in SFCC & OMS (i.e., Place order using SFCC and verify order flow through OMS, resolve order holds, pick/pack ship orders in lower environments, cancel, return those orders to validate end to end flow after new release branch cut
- Provided support to stakeholders for test requirements, test results analysis/clarifications, etc
- Mentored other QA team members, including coordinating all testing activities with onsite and offsite QA teams
- Estimated, prioritized, planned and coordinated required testing activities
- Established quality goals, metrics, and developed new tools/processes to ensure quality goals were met
- Performed end to end work flow in SFSC as part of data migration and enhancements
- Communicated Testing strategy, progress, status between UAT team members, business leaders, and IT
- Coordinate UAT activities for business groups and IT
- Played pivotal role in introducing Zephyr Test case management tool enterprise in organization level
- Reactivated regression test suite developed in nightwatch
- Used Javascript as programming language and VS code as IDE for automating end to end test suite with Nightwatch framework
- Identified correct GUI elements using various locators like CSSselector, XPATH to find web elements for automation scripts
- Used Githubactions to manually trigger workflow to run configured jobs
Quality Assurance Analyst
QA Consultants Inc, Toyota Connected Vehicle
03.2021 - 10.2021
- Contributed to Agile development by attending daily scrum meetings and peer-reviewing test scenarios and cases
- Performed feature testing by triggering Postman Apis and CRUD operations
- Accelerated onboarding of QA engineers by creating mind maps and developing automated bulk test data creation and API testing procedures
- Prepared test scenarios, undertook peer to peer review sessions, test case development and execution
- Coordinated with developers and recorded defects in HP ALM to track until resolution
- Investigated defects and Issues by debugging using logs
- Assisted other team members to understand User stories
- Developed Automated Bulk Test data creation process using Postman Runner
Software Engineer
Coviam Technologies Pvt Ltd
11.2015 - 05.2018
- Blibli- Ecommerce website & App, Actively participated in Agile SCRUM process: attended daily meetings and sprint planning/grooming sessions
- Developed automation framework implementing Page Object Model using Selenium Webdriver and jbehave, saving 10+ hours per week
- Conducted extensive API testing for individual components/microservices using Swagger and Postman
- Utilized BDD (Behavior Driven Development) methodology with jbehave features, scenarios, and step definitions in Gherkin format
- Coordinated with developers and recorded defects in JIRA, reducing issue resolution time by 20%
- Conducted mobile application testing for Android and used Charles Proxy for debugging, resulting in quicker troubleshooting
- Developed Regression Suite using Jmeter for integration testing, saving 2 hours per day in manual testing time
- Conducted extensive web application testing for E-commerce domain, ensuring seamless experience for merchants
- Possess in-depth knowledge of backend system flows and database testing using Robomongo and PGAdmin for MongoDB and PostgreSQL
- Developed automation testing suite using jbehave framework and conducted regression, compatibility, localization, and exploratory testing
- Integrated QA automation pipeline with Jenkins for execution of scripts and using GIT for latest code
- Conducted production sanity testing after deployment, ensuring high-quality releases.
Software Engineer
Relevance Lab Pvt. Ltd
07.2014 - 10.2015
- Implemented automated test scenarios using cucumber framework for chatbot app, increasing test coverage by 40%
- Conducted Cross-browser testing using Sauce Labs and Browser Stack, reducing compatibility issues by 25%
- Actively involved in UI, functional, and integration testing, detecting and fixing issues promptly
- Conducted extensive smoke and sanity testing, identifying and resolving issues early in development cycle
- Developed Test Cases from requirement document (User Stories) Participated in Peer Review, improving overall quality of product
- Performed regression testing of stories completed in previous iterations, ensuring backward compatibility
- Created and executed detailed test cases for assigned area, achieving 95% test coverage
- Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for Functional testing, leading to more accurate results
- Executed test cases to validate front end, cross browser and backend database features
- Reported defects using proper priorities and severities using Jira
- Conducted Sharepoint, ePub, and eReader testing, ensuring seamless functionality across all platforms
- Awards & Achievements :
- Streamlined on boarding for new team members by creating Mind Map, reducing ramp-up time
- Implemented Zephyr across all teams, enabling real-time Quality Metrics reports for better decision-making
- Identified Quality Metrics with JIRA, such as ‘Defect Ageing’ and ‘RCA,’ to improve processes
- Reduced test data creation time by half by creating test data using Postman Runner
- Developed data pipeline using AWS Lambda to load data from S3 bucket to DynamoDB.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Vidya Academy of Science And Technology
India,Kerala2008
Skills
- Manual and automated testing
- Agile methodology and Scrum ceremonies
- QA leadership and team mentoring
- Test plan creation and execution
- Defect management and RCA
- SQL query writing and execution
- Automation frameworks (UI and API-based)
- BDD tools/frameworks (Cucumber and Jbehave)
- OOPs concepts and Core Java
- Nightwatch automation framework (Javascript using Nodejs)
- Database testing (PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL server, MongoDB)
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Salesforce Service Cloud
- AWS (Ec2, Lambda, S3 bucket, IAM, Data Pipeline)
Accomplishments
- Streamlined onboarding for new team members by creating a Mind Map, reducing ramp-up time.
- Implemented Zephyr across all teams, enabling real-time Quality Metrics reports for better decision-making.
- Identified Quality Metrics with JIRA, such as ‘Defect Ageing’ and ‘RCA,’ to improve processes.
- Reduced test data creation time by half by creating test data using Postman Runner.
- Developed a data pipeline using AWS Lambda to load data from S3 bucket to DynamoDB.
Technical Skills
- Methodologies : Agile-Scrum
- Testing Tools : Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, JMeter, Swagger, Zephyr Enterprise, Jbehave, Charles Proxy, Cucumber, Postman and PostmanRunner
- Languages : Java, Javascript,XML,HTML
- IDE : Eclipse, IntelliJ,VScode
- Test Framework : Data Driven Framework
- Build Tool : Maven
- Bug Tracking Tools : JIRA,HP ALM
- CI /CD Tools : Jenkins, Githubactions
- Version Control : Git
- Databases : PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL server,MongoDB,MySQL
- Documentation : Confluence, Mindmap,Sharepoint
- Operating Systems : Windows, MacOS
Timeline
Test Engineer
Hudson’s Bay Company
10.2021 - Current
Quality Assurance Analyst
QA Consultants Inc, Toyota Connected Vehicle
03.2021 - 10.2021
Software Engineer
Coviam Technologies Pvt Ltd
11.2015 - 05.2018
Software Engineer
Relevance Lab Pvt. Ltd
07.2014 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Vidya Academy of Science And Technology
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