Shruthi Devendra Nayak

Note- Maternity leave of 15 months availed during this period.

• Managed product backlog effectively, led sprint reviews, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
• AWS DynamoDB, Cloud watch, lambda monitors, S3, Cognito for test monitoring and test data creation and management.
• Server side testing to debug front end game preview issues.
• SDK testing- Locally running the streaming agent and game and launching it using the latest SDK versions and Pureweb CLI (command line interface used to manage your PureWeb projects)
• Mentored junior team members on agile best practices and playwright automation fostering their fast paced contribution to the team.
• Championed the adoption of Agile methodologies within the QA department, promoting flexibility in response to evolving project needs.
• Managed defect tracking system effectively, maintaining clear communication channels with stakeholders regarding bug status and resolution timelines.
• Provided crucial feedback on user experience, leading to significant improvements in application usability and customer satisfaction.
• Developed a strong understanding of product requirements through close collaboration with business analysts, contributing valuable input during requirement gathering phases.
• Worked closely with developers to reproduce and troubleshoot complex bugs, facilitating timely fixes and enhanced product quality.
• Performed end-to-end testing on web applications, ensuring an exceptional user experience across various platforms and devices.
• Played a key role in successful software deployments through diligent validation of release candidates against established acceptance criteria.
• Streamlined QA processes by developing automated testing scripts, resulting in increased efficiency and reduced manual effort.
• Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.
• Built automated test scripts to handle repetitive software testing work.
• Incorporated delivery requirements into planning of testing schedules.
• Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes, and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
• Completed in-depth usability testing on Windows, Android and iOS mobile devices.
• Conducted detailed API testing using Postman, verifying system integrity and data flow between frontend and backend systems.

• Test lead for a major BRM project (advanced billing) with 10 people in the team, challenging complexities involved in planning and execution (of over 300 test cases).
• I have been recognized as best performer in rewards and recognitions process.
• Provided guidance and mentorship to onboard new people to the BRM domain was a major responsibility.
• The project is launched successfully, zero defects in production being the largest billing project for the client so far.
• Project execution plan and test approach creation.
• High level scenarios design and review of 180 test cases.
• Working closely with tech lead to resolve time shifter environment challenges, resource allocation, suggesting and convincing the stake holders about better test execution strategy, data creation strategy etc.
• Work with defect management, release management teams and tech lead for coordinating the time lines, blocker issues and timely bug fixes.
• Work with team mates to set the project understanding, tax calculation on each user flow, resolve requirement related queries etc.
• Production support – supporting and testing the changes due to production CRs as new requirements were added.
• Worked as a test lead on 4 to 5 projects with similar responsibilities - creating test approach and execution plan. Identifying the test scenarios for the team to write test cases. Determine severity and priority of the defects/gaps. Working with business analysts, tech leads, project stakeholders, digital team leads to devise plan for E2E testing and it’s execution.

Note- Maternity leave of 10 months availed during this period.

Responsibilities and Contributions:

• Test plans and test cases creation and execution.
• Data migration testing – Full product test with data integrity testing.
• Test data set up and internally test the client specific settings needed on product Go Live.
• Managing testing projects, Functionality tests and documentation.
• Automated test environment set up (data creation and data clean up)- writing MySQL query snippets.
• Creating SSIS packages for report generation.
• Data preparation (ETL) and recording plan creation (for audio) for running campaigns.
• Own product features for end to end testing- Communicate defects and issues in a concise, timely and professional manner.
• Generating recording plans and final audio creation with Audio builder, an internal tool.

Worked as a Cognizant contractor for Quick Books Online (at INTUIT Inc.) on site

My responsibilities included:

• Performance testing using silkperformer and silkcentre
• Selenium webdriver and TestNG for developing java automation testcases.
• Jira for defect management.
• Programming languages expertise in Java, cURL
• Continuous integration and automatic build management systems - Jenkins.
• Splunk- An application server log analysis tool
• Dynatrace – Application profiling tool
• Automation testing, Performance testing, Exploratory testing.
• Learnt basic scripting and correlation using HP Loadrunner when I was a Programmer Analyst Trainee before deputation at Intuit.