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CHANDANA DARA

Indianapolis,IN

Summary

QA professional with 7.5+ years of experience in manual and automation testing in Retail, HR, and Public sectors. Strong in SDLC/STLC, Agile/Scrum, and test strategy. Skilled in Selenium, JMeter, SQL, REST/SOAP API testing, and Azure deployments. Proven leadership in offshore QA teams and delivering high-quality releases.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior QA Analyst

Indiana Department of Revenue
09.2024 - Current
  • - Tested legislative changes for Motor Carrier Services (MCS) in End-to-End, UAT, and production environments.
  • - Analyzed new 2024 compliance updates and validated core system functionality.

PS Quality Engineer-II/Test Lead

NCR Corporation
08.2023 - 01.2024
  • - Offshore QA lead for deployments and stakeholder reporting for Meijers.

PS Quality Engineer II

NCR Corporation
04.2023 - 07.2023
  • - Led QA for 450+ store deployments for Cumberland Farms

PS Quality Engineer II

NCR Corporation
01.2022 - 03.2023
  • - Managed offshore QA, Azure setups, Selenium automation, E2E testing for British Petroleum customer

PS Quality Engineer I

NCR Corporation
01.2021 - 12.2021
  • - ADK migration, hardware testing, QA planning for Coles-Australia customer

PS Quality Engineer I

NCR Corporation
07.2017 - 12.2020
  • QA Engineer for clients including Advanced Stores, Shell, Jumbo, and AS Watson. Led E2E tests, backend validations, and mobile/web testing.


Education

B.E. - Electronics & Communications Engineering

Osmania University
06-2017

Skills

  • - Testing: Functional, Regression, UAT, E2E, POS Testing
  • - Tools: Selenium, Postman, SoapUI, JMeter, HP ALM, Jira, Zephyr
  • - Languages/DB: Java, SQL Server
  • - Platforms: Azure, Jenkins, TFS
  • - Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
  • - Certifications: ISTQB CTFL

Timeline

Senior QA Analyst

Indiana Department of Revenue
09.2024 - Current

PS Quality Engineer-II/Test Lead

NCR Corporation
08.2023 - 01.2024

PS Quality Engineer II

NCR Corporation
04.2023 - 07.2023

PS Quality Engineer II

NCR Corporation
01.2022 - 03.2023

PS Quality Engineer I

NCR Corporation
01.2021 - 12.2021

PS Quality Engineer I

NCR Corporation
07.2017 - 12.2020

B.E. - Electronics & Communications Engineering

Osmania University
CHANDANA DARA