Abhinandan Nithyanandan Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam Area

• Engaged in regular meetings with customers and stakeholders to understand their requirements and pain points effectively. Following the development of prototypes, facilitated additional feedback sessions to refine and iterate on the designs.• Translated requirements into comprehensive user stories for both front-end and back-end development teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment of objectives.• Collaborated with UI/UX developers by creating user flow prototypes with wireframes when necessary to guide front-end development processes.• Developed detailed process flowcharts for backend teams, integrating existing APIs and database structures to define expected system behavior.• Successfully managed backlogs for three projects by prioritizing user stories and ensuring that acceptance criteria were well-defined.• Led agile ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint refinement, planning, review, and retrospective sessions, fostering effective collaboration and progress tracking.• Reviewed support tickets, identifying and prioritizing requirements or defects to be addressed by the development team to enhance product functionality and resolve issues efficiently.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Worked for E*TRADE, a prominent electronic financial assets trading platform in the US as part of their QA team in their employee equity team catering to both website and mobile needs. Have met deadlines as an individual contributor and in a team setting. • Experienced in Waterfall, Agile Scrum frameworks and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) methodology.• Tested Rest API using Postman. Have basic knowledge on rest assured framework and parsing JSON. • Converted test cases into Cucumber scenarios and performed UI automation testing using Selenium web driver with Java and Cucumber, a Behaviour-driven development (BDD) framework. The tests were maintained in GIT Repository.• Trained and mentored 3 new software testers on testing procedures and product specifications. • Used JIRA and TestRail to design test cases, scenarios, test plans, track defects and prepared day-to-day burndown charts used by stakeholders.• Tested product at various layers for web browser and mobile application. Validated end to end functionalities from UI verification, batch jobs execution to database testing for equity order calculations and trade settlement. • Performed various phases of testing such as Smoke, Sanity, Integration, User Acceptance, Regression, Exploratory, Production and Disaster recovery testing. Created and executed checklists for Go-Live activities. • Performed database and report testing using SQL DML queries. • Reduced onboarding time by 40% by volunteering to record over 40 hours of training sessions as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for both application and domain knowledge of equity services.• Presented actionable metrics like Root Cause Analysis and Preventive Actions at Sprint Retrospective meetings. • Worked with Test Lead to develop test execution plans, schedules and present time estimation for testing activities to be performed. • Assisted the Product owner with backlog refinement meetings and facilitated daily stand-up meetings.

Master Of Science - Ms, International Business, Distinction

Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management | International Business Negotiations | Business Environment Analysis | Global Outsourcing.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering, First Class

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