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Thilaga Vedaraju

Waterloo,ON

Summary

Solution oriented Software Test Engineer with 6+ years of experience in the field of Quality Assurance which includes both Manual & Automation Testing. Well experienced in all phases of STLC & SDLC which include Requirement Analysis, Test Case Development , Bug creation, test plan and test strategy creation.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Associate (Quality Assurance Lead)

Kanini Software Solutions, Client - Deloitte
10.2020 - 05.2023

● Diversified experience in Software Automation Testing of Web Client/Server and Web Services applications using Manual and Automation Test Tools.

● Extensive experience in reviewing requirements and project documentation to understand an application and perform automation feasibility analysis.

● Thorough understanding of SDLC, STLC methodologies, test engineering and QA principles, and Hands-on experience on Agile SCRUM

● Hands-on experience with designing test cases & executing various types of testing (Functional, Regression, Integration, End-to-end) and defect logging & tracking in JIRA with accurate details.

● Experience & knowledge of the creation & maintenance of test estimates, test schedules, test scenarios,test cases, test plans, test strategy & test scripts.

● Experience in creating, debugging & maintaining automation scripts of Web Applications using tools Selenium, TestNG, Java, and Maven.

● Rich experience with version control system GIT & build management tool Maven.

● Hands-on experience with API Manual Testing using POSTMAN tools.

● Good experience with test management tools JIRA, andTest Rail & have experience with SQL to prepare test data and validation and backend testing.

Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment& excellent troubleshooting skills & have ability to work independently

● Excellent documentation skills and communication skills in both verbal & written

Quality Analyst

Maersk Global Service Centre
07.2017 - 04.2020

● Analyzed the project documentation to understand the requirements including, user stories, technical specifications, design documents etc.

● Actively participating in agile meetings like Sprint Planning , Sprint Review, Retrospection and Standup meetings and providing constructive feedback.

Performed various types of testing ex- Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity testing of Web Application and Api’s to make sure product is bug free.

Estimating the work thoroughly & reporting the progress of work accurately.

Performed various types of testing– Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Regression and Ad hoc Testing, End to End to make sure product is bug free..

● Responsible for the end-to-end tracking of all defects in JIRA and logging the same which accurate details

Designing , Developing & execution of Web Application automation test cases by understanding intended behaviors using Java ,Selenium,POM, TestNg.

● Prepared Test Strategy, Test Matrix, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts.

● Documenting test cases, test scenarios & executed manual test cases according to test strategy/plan for Web Application & Rest Api’s.

Understanding the Rest Api’s of the product using the Swagger and manual testing of the same using the POSTMAN tool

Application Engineer

CSS Corp Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 06.2017

Effectively managed, tracing the requirements, writing the test cases, execution of test scripts, analyzed defects and reported in JIRA bug tracking system

● Created positive & negative tests and created Test Data and wrote test cases to cover all the possible scenarios of testing.

Attained daily triage meetings with project teams to discuss and track the testing efforts on daily basis during UAT period & Collaborated with developers as needed to isolate root cause of defects.

● Execute the test cases on daily basics and log defects and report the status to the lead.

● Developed application specific SQL queries to triage and verify application functionality testing.

● Participated in agile meetings like Sprint Planning , Sprint Review, Retrospection and Standup meetings and provided constructive feedback & participated in backlog grooming sessions.

Performed various types of testing ex- Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity testing of Web Application and Api’s to make sure product is bug free.

● Documenting test cases, test scenarios & executed manual test cases according to test strategy/plan for Web Application & Rest Api’s.

● Assisting the technical support team through root cause analysis of customer reported issues.

● Assisting developers to triage and resolve defects identified in release candidates

Education

Post Graduate Certification in Project Management - Management

Conestoga College
Canada
12.2023

MBA - Masters of Business Administration

Anna University
India
05.2014

Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Anna University
India
05.2012

Skills

❖ Manual Testing

❖ Automation Testing

❖ Java & OOPS

❖ Selenium WebDriver

❖ TestNg

❖ BDD (Behavior Driven Development)

❖ Cucumber

❖ JIRA

❖ Postman

❖ Maven ( Build Management)

❖ OS (Unix , Linux , Windows)

❖ Agile Methodology

❖ Test Plan , Test Strategy

❖ Defect Tracking

❖ Team Management

❖ Release Process

❖ Smoke Testing

❖ Sanity Testing

❖ Regression Testing

❖ Integration Testing

❖ Testing Techniques

❖ Jenkins

❖ SQL

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Tamil
Native or Bilingual

Technical Skills

  • Domain Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Finance (Mortgage and Auditing), Banking (CORE Banking
    and Deposit Accounts), Human Capital Management domain.
  • Programming languages: Core JAVA, OOPS Concepts, JavaScript, Typescript, Mysql, Relational Database
    systems (RDBMS).
  • Test Automation Tools: Selenium, Cypress, REST API - POSTMAN, JMETER, JENKINS, Mobile Testing and
    Automation.
  • Test Management Tools: JIRA, VSTS, Test Rail, Git, Github, Visual Studio
  • Framework Expertise: TestNG, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), POM (Page Object Model), Hybrid and
    Data Driven framework, TDD.
  • Platform: Selenium Grid, UI Testing, Database Testing

Timeline

Lead Associate (Quality Assurance Lead)

Kanini Software Solutions, Client - Deloitte
10.2020 - 05.2023

Quality Analyst

Maersk Global Service Centre
07.2017 - 04.2020

Application Engineer

CSS Corp Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 06.2017

Post Graduate Certification in Project Management - Management

Conestoga College

MBA - Masters of Business Administration

Anna University

Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Anna University
Thilaga Vedaraju