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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

1. Strategic Test Automation Planning: Aligned test automation strategies with business objectives, delivering cost savings, accelerated time-to-market, and improved product quality for customers.2. Scalable Test Automation Framework Implementation: Designed and implemented a scalable framework, boosting test coverage by 50% and reducing maintenance efforts by 30%. Resulted in faster regression cycles, enhanced product stability, and increased customer satisfaction.3. CI/CD Enablement: Led the adoption of CI/CD practices, integrating automated testing into the software delivery pipeline. Enabled faster releases, reduced errors, and ensured consistent product functionality for customers.4. QA Process Optimization: Optimized QA processes through best practices and streamlined workflows. Achieved a 20% increase in defect identification at earlier stages, enhancing software reliability and improving customer experience.5. Customer-Centric Test Approach: Developed and executed a customer-centric testing strategy, aligning test scenarios with customer needs. Incorporated feedback and prioritized critical use cases, resulting in valuable, customer-oriented solutions.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

1. Facilitating scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.2. Metrics and Reorting: Generating and Tracking metrics for senior management reporting for continuous improvement.3. Collaboration and Prioritization: Working with other team members (including engineering leads, business stakeholders) to ensure sprint plans with clearly defined outcomes are achievable and to help prioritise delivery and sprint goals.4. Scrum Adherence and Coaching: - Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines. -Coaching team in self-organization, cross-functional skills, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team. 5. Stakeholder Engagement: - Working with internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and supportorganizational project or product teams. - Resolving team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

1. Managed day to day functions of onsite, offshore, vendor team. Monitored metrics and workflows to ensure daily production targets.2. Increased the efficiency of the application from 75% to 90% by engaging in discussions with business stakeholder, developers and vendors to find root problem areas and mitigate the gaps in design.3. Prepared Test strategy, Test plans and presented to the customer for sign offs prior to the start of SIT.4. Guided and Mentored team in developing a regression suite using BDD- Cucumber framework.5. Reviewed Test plans, Selenium scripts and created reusable scripts using VBA for test data management.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

1. Liaise with Business, BAs and Technology team to ensure required UAT coverage.2. Set and implemented product quality standards with effective quality assurance steps.3. Scheduled all testing activities and prepared reports of all results. Prepared test plans/scripts, -created regression packs and macros to minimize test design effort.4. Reviewed testing costs and implemented cost-effective testing procedures. Managed and supervised UAT testing team and addressed any issues.5. Provided progress reports to all clients and worked with vendors to resolve issues. Reviewed UAT test implementations and tracked any defects.6. Trained and coached business users to help define UAT testing plans and requirements.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

1. Streamlined workflows and implemented best practices, resulting in improved efficiency and a 10% decrease in post-release defects. 2.Managed defects effectively, reducing resolution time by 25% and conducting root cause analysis to prevent recurrence. 3. Fostered strong customer relationships, providing regular updates and addressing concerns to maximize satisfaction. 4. Designed thorough Automation Regression suite, achieving 85% test coverage and capturing critical scenarios accurately. 5. Executed tests efficiently, maintaining a 90% pass rate, and generated detailed reports for informed decision-making.

Australia

1. Designed and developed Automation Test Scripts and managed testing activities using Selenium.Modified and Executed Automated and Manual Test Scripts for different modules using Selenium, QTP and TOSCA.2. Involved in Defects Management (Fault Verification, Tracking Issues, Communicating Test Results, and Preparation of Bug Reports).3. Gathered requirements with the stakeholders for all the testing work streams for the program.4. Automated smoke, sanity and regression using WebDriver.5. Developed a macro tool to generate re-used test cases and results after successful execution.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

1. Identified and reported an average of 10 bugs per week, ensuring software quality and reliability. This helped in saving customer an amount of 500k in terms of rework.2. Created various utilities using Excel VBA and shell scripts for the project and published it to stakeholders to use in the UAT testing.3. Conducted comprehensive regression tests on a bi-weekly basis, reducing customer-reported issues by 20% and ensuring product stability. 4. Maintained a 24-hour average turnaround time for bug resolution, fostering effective communication and seamless collaboration between testers and developers.5. Implemented automated testing processes, reducing test execution time by 30% and increasing overall testing efficiency. Introduced new testing methodologies resulting in a 10% reduction in critical defects in the final product.6. Developed and Executed Automated and Manual Test Scripts for different modules using Selenium, QTP and TOSCA