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Smitha Patil

Smitha Patil

Senior QA Engineer
Calgary,AB

Summary

Over 13 years of experience in software testing performing both manual and automation testing of applications in
client/server environment and web applications across various modern browsers.
Expertise in test planning, test case writing, test case reviews, test execution and defect management.
Sound knowledge in performing functional testing, regression testing, GUI testing, tracking defects and troubleshooting
issues.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, effective in working independently and an exceptional team player. A
critical thinker and always ask questions and voice suggestions for improving Quality of the software.
Experience collaborating in an Agile environment and work closely with all stakeholders of the product
Strong attention to detail and tons of experience in creating test reports and reporting defects
Work closely with development team to perform early testing on components and ensure quality releases

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Wipro (Enbridge Account)
Calgary, AB
11.2022 - 04.2023
  • Performed more than 80% testing through automation and remaining testing manually
  • Responsible for developing automated test scripts using cypress automation tool to automated Internal and External Portals web
  • application.
  • Attending all scrum ceremonies and actively participating in sprint planning, estimation, grooming and retrospective
  • Actively collaborate with developers and work on stories and tickets to get them completed
  • Deploy completed stories to UAT environment using Github actions
  • Run e2e automated test suites on Github actions on CI/CD pipeline
  • Report automation failures and work on fixing failed automation tests

Senior QA Developer

Alayacare
Calgary, AB
08.2021 - 08.2022
  • Responsible for developing automated tests for existing reports and Manual testing new clinical and finance reports
  • Creating pipeline on Azure devops for running cypress tests on demand and nightly
  • Being release coordinator every alternate sprint and taking care of release activities (Building artifacts,loading them to cloud environment and executing smoke test)
  • Acting as scrum master on need basis and being automation representative for my team and taking part in important meetings with all other QA peers from other teams

QA Developer

SkipTheDishes
Calgary, AB
08.2020 - 08.2021
  • Manual testing of features for Courier mobile app for skip the dishes
  • Participate in scrum meetings to understand new features being developed for Courier and write manual testcases and execute feature
  • Related testcases
  • Report to Tech manager directly about testing progress
  • Developed and presented QA improvement ideas to Tech Manger and Engineering Manger

Beta Tester

EcoNirman
Calgary, AB
01.2020 - 02.2020
  • Collaborate with key engineer to understand the project, scope and requirements for Beta testing
  • Report bugs, improvement and suggestions to the development team

Senior QA Engineer

Cherwell Software (Now Ivanti)
Colorado Springs, Colorado
03.2014 - 06.2019
  • Collaborate with developers to create and execute testcases. Strong knowledge in finding out impacted areas of testing and risk based
  • testing
  • Automate functional testcases using Selenium and Ranorex
  • Acting as scrum master along with QA responsibilities for a feature team
  • Work with QA team and QA management to improve QA processes, tools and techniques
  • Responsible for Functional testing and ad-hoc testing and Write and execute functional test cases

Tech Lead QC

NDS Video Techology(Now Cisco Technology)
Bengaluru, Karnataka
08.2007 - 11.2012
  • Write functional testcases and peer review testcases
  • Generate report through HP ALM and report it to Engineering manager
  • Train new hires in team and responsible for training QA team members about architecture of the product. Explain workflows related to video on demand and set top box domain and video broadcasting
  • Write functional testcases and update existing testcases based on requirement changes
  • Executing testcases and reporting appropriate bugs
  • Create and maintain regression test cycles for every release
  • Writing testcases and executing them
  • Submit and track defects for resolution

Software Engineer

ValTech
Bengaluru, Karnataka
06.2006 - 07.2007
  • Work on maintenance projects and fixing minor software bugs

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Siddaganga Institute of Technology
Tumkuru, Karnataka, India
01.2003 - 06.2006

Skills

JIRA

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Certification

ISTQB

Timeline

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Wipro (Enbridge Account)
11.2022 - 04.2023

Senior QA Developer

Alayacare
08.2021 - 08.2022

QA Developer

SkipTheDishes
08.2020 - 08.2021

Beta Tester

EcoNirman
01.2020 - 02.2020

Senior QA Engineer

Cherwell Software (Now Ivanti)
03.2014 - 06.2019

Tech Lead QC

NDS Video Techology(Now Cisco Technology)
08.2007 - 11.2012

Software Engineer

ValTech
06.2006 - 07.2007

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Siddaganga Institute of Technology
01.2003 - 06.2006
Smitha PatilSenior QA Engineer