CHITHRA THANGAVELU
QA/Software Test Engineer
Amstelveen,NH
Summary
As a seasoned Software Tester and Scrum Master, possess a decade of hands-on experience in navigating the intricacies of V-Model, Waterfal, and Agile methodologies, particularly within the Scrum framework. Experienced in diverse sectors such as Insurance, Logistics, and Banking with extensive knowledge in both the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Recognized for manual and automation testing ski ls and driving continuous improvement to ensure quality of the software. Also trained and recognized for facilitating scrum ceremonies and resolve impediments.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Tester/Scrum Master
Brand New Day
Amsterdam
02.2019 - 12.2023
- Identified critical bugs through thorough testing processes, enhancing overall product performance.
- Collaborated with development teams to resolve defects and improve the overall stability of applications.
- Ensured compliance with industry standards by rigorously following established testing methodologies and best practices.
- Optimized test coverage, carefully selecting test scenarios to ensure all critical paths were evaluated.
- Reduced software downtime with rigorous regression testing, ensuring updates did not impact existing functionalities.
- Facilitated user acceptance testing with real-world scenarios, ensuring software met all client expectations.
- As a Scrum master recommendable skills in facilitating scrum ceremonies and resolve impediments
- Collaborated closely with product owners to prioritize backlog items based on business value and stakeholder needs.
- Implemented best practices to drive quality Sprint delivery
- Project management/Tracking: JIRA, HP ALM, Test Track Pro
- Software development/Version control: TeamCity, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, Sonar Qube, SQL
- Automation testing: Selenium with C#, Cucumber
- API testing: POSTMAN, Contract test(PACT framework)
- Cross-browser testing : Browser Stack
Software Test Engineer
Computer Science Corporations Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 11.2015
- As a software test engineer worked in logistics and insurance domains where I performed the below responsibilities
- Analyse Business Requirements
- Preparation of Test plan, Test cases
- Review test cases
- Test case Execution
- Test Results Documentation
- Integration Testing
- Regression Testing
- UAT support
- Data Migration Testing
- Defect Management in ALM
- Test report and closure
- Mentoring Team
- Automating Manual Test cases in QTP using Hybrid Framework (designed for project specific)
Associate Software Test Engineer
Combined Insurance Company of America
06.2007 - 08.2011
- Company Overview: AON - CICA is an Insurance Project with various modules such as Accident, Life, Health, Finance, Claims and MText, where applications are developed on COBOL
- Applications are also developed on Clarify Tool for creating Policies for customers
- Team maintains separate template for test documents such as test strategy, test approach and test cases preparation
- Test Track Pro is used as Defect Management Tool
- Responsibilities:
- Analyse Business Requirements
- Preparation of Test plan, Test cases
- Review test cases
- Test Data Preparation
- Enter Policies in Mainframes for testing
- Test case Execution on Mainframes and Web based Applications
- Test Results Documentation
- System Integration Testing
- Regression Testing
- UAT support
- Defect Management in Test Track Pro
- Test report and closure
- MText Letter Creation for sending to Policy Holders
- IDMS Database and SQL Database
- AON - CICA is an Insurance Project with various modules such as Accident, Life, Health, Finance, Claims and MText, where applications are developed on COBOL
Education
MBA - Information Technology
Bharathiar University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Avinashilingam University
04.2001 - 05.2007
Skills
Requirements analysis
Manual and automated testing
Mobile app testing
SDLC/STLC
Cross-browser testing
Scrum framework
Behavior-driven development
Exploratory, API testing
SQL query writing
Problem-solving
Attention to detail
UAT
Regression testing
Certification
Professional Scrum Master 1
Work Availability
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