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Yashwanth Paka

6357 Amber Glen Dr,ON

Summary

8 years of experience leading and working with testing teams, with strong expertise in Manual Testing, System Testing, and System Integration Testing (SIT). 5 years of hands-on experience in test strategy development, test planning, and functional testing, ensuring alignment with business goals and project timelines. Strong knowledge of QA/UAT processes, methodologies, and industry-standard terminologies. Extensive experience in Defect Management and creating comprehensive test artifacts to support project delivery. Proficient in HP ALM and JIRA for test management, execution, and defect tracking. Solid experience in the Banking domain, with strong understanding of digital banking applications and end-to-end client lifecycle. Proven ability to mentor and guide junior testers, fostering collaboration and ensuring delivery of high-quality results. Skilled in streamlining QA/UAT processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across teams. Experienced in Waterfall and Agile (Scrum) project methodologies. Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and manage stakeholder relationships across internal and external teams.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Quality Analyst (UAT)

CITI Bank
04.2024 - Current
  • Work in Agile environment, attend Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
  • Extensively used JIRA and Rally tools in this project as we follow Agile Methodology to track the project.
  • Coordinate end-to-end UAT cycles for digital banking and client lifecycle management applications.
  • Develop test plans, test strategy, and execution schedules in alignment with business requirements.
  • Facilitate defect triage meetings and manage defect lifecycle in HP ALM and JIRA.
  • Prepare and maintain test artifacts such as scenarios, test cases, execution logs, and summary reports.
  • Collaborate with business SMEs, developers, and project managers to ensure on-time quality delivery.
  • Mentor and guide junior QA testers, promoting team growth and knowledge sharing.
  • Support large-scale banking transformation projects, ensuring compliance with QA standards.
  • As part of functional and ETL testing, analyzed the project user stories and reviewed the test scripts required for sanity, functional, integration, regression and API testing for the different types of Modules. Test execution is performed and tracked using test tool.
  • Involving in Azure & AWS Cloud migration projects and testing the data on AWS cloud servers.
  • • Involved in the validation of the data related to different sources (AWS JSON files, CSV, Flat files, tables).
  • • Validated the data in Dimension and Fact Tables as per the Mapping logic.
  • • Prepares Daily status reports and weekly/monthly metrics and reports to client.

Consultant

Capgemini
05.2022 - 02.2023
  • Coordinate and manage UAT activities ensuring test readiness, execution, and defect resolution.
  • Develop and implement test plans and strategies aligned with business requirements.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, business users, and IT teams to ensure smooth UAT cycles.
  • Conduct defect triage meetings, tracking issues using HP ALM and JIRA.
  • Prepare test artifacts including test scenarios, test cases, and execution reports.
  • Mentor junior testers, fostering collaborative and high-performing teams.
  • Work closely with project managers and business leads to ensure timely delivery of testing milestones.
  • Support both Waterfall and Agile (Scrum) project lifecycles.
  • Tools/Technology Used
  • Working knowledge of data warehouse techniques and practices, experience including ETL processes, dimensional data modeling (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, FACT & Dimension Tables), OLTP and OLAP.
  • Extensive knowledge in Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Good Knowladge in ETL and Data Base Testing
  • Involving in Azure & AWS Cloud migration projects and testing the data on AWS cloud servers.

QA Analyst

Wells Fargo India Pvt Ltd
09.2018 - 05.2022
  • Worked with Business Analysts, Development Groups, and the Project Manager in analyzing Business Specifications.
  • Analyzed the Stories to understand the Test Requirements in each Acceptance criterion.
  • Designed Test Cases and Test Scenarios, conducted functional, ad-hoc, and exploratory testing for a variety of applications with expanded test coverage.
  • Developed and maintained Big Data (Hadoop)/ETL Migration Test Planning & Strategy, test script preparation, test execution & documentation.
  • Conducted manual testing for multiple banking applications, including digital banking solutions.
  • Participated in requirement walkthroughs and test design sessions.
  • Logged and tracked defects in JIRA/HP ALM, collaborating with developers for resolution.
  • Prepared and maintained detailed test documentation and daily execution reports.
  • Ensured compliance with QA standards and best practices.
  • Performed input field validations by Database Testing using Data Tables and Flat files; Created both Positive and Negative data for the same. Used AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment for migration testing.
  • Experience using CloudWatch, S3Buckets in AWS as required. Also, able to run the Jobs using AutoSys Scheduler as required.
  • Performed ETL testing on Informatic Mappings using Mapping Documents as well as performed Test Data creation as required for testing.
  • As part of testing tested Big-Data (Hadoop) related Data, which is derived from MapReduce Techniques.
  • Participated in Snowflake environment migration testing from Non-Cloud to Cloud.
  • Worked in a Spark computing environment on API testing and validated the data in Hadoop hdfs.
  • Used HP ALM to store Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and for bug tracking.
  • Identified software problems, wrote bug reports, and logged them into the bug tracking tool in HP ALM.
  • Used complex SQL queries to retrieve data for validation in the oracle database.
  • Wrote automation scripts using various checkpoints like standard, image, page, text, and database Checkpoints in UFT.
  • Used Data Driven Test Scripts for the project using UFT.
  • Developed automated Test Scripts to perform Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and Regression testing of the application using UFT.
  • Developed scripts to perform Regression Testing using VBScript in UFT.
  • Involved in Hybrid Automation Framework using UFT.
  • Created and maintained Shared Object Repositories to enable Unified Functional Testing to identify the various objects in the application.
  • Involved in User Acceptance Testing and prepared UAT Test Scripts.
  • Assisted the business & marketing team in the execution of UAT by providing data.
  • Documented software defects, using a bug tracking system, and reported defects to software developers
  • Participated in various meetings and discussed enhancements and modification request issues.
  • Maintained meetings with the technical teams and management, developed proper documentation, and validated the current production environment.

QA Analyst

Wipro Pvt LTD
05.2016 - 05.2018
  • Participate in documenting Automated Test Strategy and assist the Testing Team with ongoing Automated Test Execution.
  • Used Agile programming techniques, such as test-driven development, continuous integration and testing, and story-based iterative development to build better software.
  • Interpret application architectures and identify areas for automation.
  • Work with the Application team to connect and bring automation test cases within the continuous integration process.
  • Creation of Test Data needed for testing.
  • Develop and execute application software testing such as functional, integration, and regression testing to ensure the quality of the features.
  • Create test plans, test cases, and test scripts to support specific software testing objectives, and assist the team in the creation, review, and finalization of agile stories and story acceptance criteria.
  • Review and give value-added input on the Product Requirement Documents created by the project Manager.
  • Configured Selenium and GRID scripts on Virtual machines.
  • Created common methods useful for different customers' testing using a Hybrid framework.
  • Performed multi-browser testing to check application can work on IE, Firefox, and Chrome browsers.
  • Prepare TestNG XML, build XML to work for automation scripts, and run them in remote systems.
  • Define and track quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results, and test status using the JIRA defect tracking system.
  • Worked with stakeholders, senior management, and end users in outlining the process of building and use of knowledge repository.

Education

B. Tech -

K.S. Raju Institute of Science & Technology
01.2013

Skills

    Technical Skills

  • Manual, System, and SIT Testing
  • UAT Coordination & Management
  • Test Strategy & Planning
  • Test Case Design & Execution
  • Defect Management & Reporting
  • Test Artifacts Development
  • HP ALM, JIRA
  • Banking & Digital Banking Applications
  • Agile (Scrum) & Waterfall Methodologies
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team Leadership & Mentoring
  • Testing documentation maintenance
  • Manual testing
  • Test plans and test methodologies
  • User Acceptance Testing,
  • Capital Markets (incl Derivatives),Financial Accounting & Reporting,Functional/System Testing,InSprint Testing,
  • Regression Testing,
  • SQL & Database testing,
  • RTM -Testing,SIT -Testing,Test Design and
  • Execution -Testing,Test Reports and Dashboards -Testing
  • SQL
  • Data Base Testing

    • Tools :

    Azure Data Factory, Azure data lake, Data bricks, Python ,RC / Grid / Web Driver,

    Quick Test Pro, HP Quality Center, JIRA, LoadRunner, Rational tools

Timeline

Quality Analyst (UAT)

CITI Bank
04.2024 - Current

Consultant

Capgemini
05.2022 - 02.2023

QA Analyst

Wells Fargo India Pvt Ltd
09.2018 - 05.2022

QA Analyst

Wipro Pvt LTD
05.2016 - 05.2018

B. Tech -

K.S. Raju Institute of Science & Technology

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