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Snehal Awate

Newcastle,ON

Summary

Experienced QA Professional with over 10 years in software testing, skilled in various testing types including exploratory, system, smoke, integration, regression, UAT, functional, UI, API, CMS, and ETL testing. Proficient in test planning, execution, and defect management across SDLC and Agile/Scrum environments. Experienced in leading QA teams, mentoring, and coordinating across onshore-offshore models. Familiar with tools like Selenium, Cucumber, BrowserStack, JIRA, Quality Center, and Confluence, with solid SQL knowledge for database testing. Industry experience spans Telecom (OSS/BSS), US Healthcare, Retail, and E-commerce (Magento). Known for passionate about testing, strong attention to detail, teamwork and improvement driven mindset.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Lead

BFA Industries (BoxyCharm)
03.2019 - 09.2024
  • Led a team of functional QA engineers. Managed resource allocation and mentored the team.
  • Performed functional testing, did release management and deployments to different test environments, preproduction, production and handled post deployment verification. Tested features in fast paced release cycles.
  • Performed exploratory testing, integration testing, and regression testing with every release cycle. Well-documented bugs in Jira. Handled testing and deploying hot fixes when required.
  • Tested the Front-end content, design changes blocks, banners CMS changes. Got an opportunity to learn and test Magento admin, other third-party applications like SMFC journeys, Ravelin, Akeneo, FB pixel, GTM events.
  • With zero documentation initially, started understanding the concepts, business flow, and documenting the same for future reference.
  • Helped with configuring and launching different store events on the website.
  • Worked on multiple projects at the same time, being consistent and giving my best.
  • Coordinated with developers and BAs to gain more business knowledge. Analyzed problems and came up with optimal solutions by having the mindset of an end user.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Rubikloud Technologies
09.2017 - 03.2019
  • Tested Rubikloud’s enterprise products, and ensured the quality of products with every release.
  • Worked on implementing and maintaining automation framework using Selenium. Took initiative to enhance the existing test framework using Cucumber and implement BDD as much as possible.
  • Testing Frontend, backend and configuration layer of the product. Designed and created test plans and test cases, reviewed functional requirement documentation.
  • Performed product testing, release management, and deployments.
  • Attended daily status meeting and actively participated in sprint planning and sprint retrospective.

Functional Test Engineer

Amdocs
06.2016 - 06.2017
  • Worked on AMDOCS -Ensemble billing batch end to end testing (billing extract, bill presentment, discount engine usage processing).
  • Being the first one to undergo knowledge transition from client SME for Bill presentment gave an opportunity to a lead team of 5 junior QAs. Trained them on the functional and technical aspect of E2E billing process.
  • Performed System testing including Database, Functional and UI testing, Regression testing and Integration testing. Performed sanity tests to gain confidence in the readiness of the test environment.
  • Tested Web APIs, C APIs using SoapUI, UNIX and SQL to perform database validations.
  • Created the test plans, prepared dashboard and coordinated with the onsite team (Telus Canada) for review.
  • Participated in daily Triage call, defect meetings with business users, UAT team, Amdocs development teams, third party application owners, daily handoff meetings for better coordination among onsite-offshore team.
  • Assigned tasks to the team based on the software test plan, checked the status of each assigned task daily and resolved any issues faced by the team members with their tasks.

Software Engineer

Atos Syntel
06.2014 - 05.2016
  • Designed test scenarios and test cases for SSIS packages based on the FMD and requirement in the story. Also for areas like billing 820 and 277, accumulator, EOB, EOP and Enrolment.
  • Performed ETL testing by writing SQL queries to verify records loaded into various stages of database from source to destination. Executing test cases on DEV, QA and CERT environments.

Education

Master of Computer Science -

01.2016

Bachelor of Computer Science -

01.2014

Skills

  • Agile methodologies
  • Functional and exploratory testing
  • API and database testing
  • Test automation and regression
  • Bug tracking and test management
  • Test planning and execution
  • Release management
  • Project coordination
  • Team leadership and mentoring
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Smoke and cross-browser testing

Certification

  • Scrum Master Accredited Certification (SMAC), Authorized Certificate ID: 91264308736193, Certificate issue date: 2015-07-14
  • ISTQB, ITB-CTFL - 0077220, Certificate issue date: 2016-01-23

Timeline

Test Lead

BFA Industries (BoxyCharm)
03.2019 - 09.2024

Quality Assurance Engineer

Rubikloud Technologies
09.2017 - 03.2019

Functional Test Engineer

Amdocs
06.2016 - 06.2017

Software Engineer

Atos Syntel
06.2014 - 05.2016

Master of Computer Science -

Bachelor of Computer Science -

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