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GAYATHIRI SHRIRAM

Summary

Resourceful Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 10+ years handling complete QA process. Proficient in understanding business processes and translating them into technical requirements. Committed to confirming proper functionality and usability of software products before release. Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, quick learner and good team player.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Quality Engineer

ZILLOW GROUP
08.2023 - Current
  • Zillow home loans provide a platform for users to share information and get pre approved.
  • Through knowledge about home loans ,insurance and e2e home buying process.
  • Currently managing QA team with 6 offshore QA and 2 onshore QA. Responsible for QA task allocation and running QA sprint board.
  • Plan test schedules and strategies according to project scope and delivery dates and monitors and tracks bug resolutions.
  • Handle projects end to end testing and shipping to production on daily basis. Work in tandem with cross team collaboration for keeping all upstream and downstream systems in sync.
  • Worked extensively in improving QA process in place with compliance, CICD release process and automation.
  • My daily responsibilities include (but not limited to): prepare test plan, conduct bug bashes, prepare test cases based on user stories, functional test execution, regression cycle execution, defect management, production support for multiple releases, cross team coordination, automation using cypress and lead QA work for team. Test management Activities include: Lower environments upkeep, Test cases updates, QA metrics, tracking teams velocity, actively involved in teams OKRs and AOP planning, Work on tools to improve ( ZHLDA) data management, Tailor automation scope and create reqs for automation, Present at sprint demo from QA side. Actively involved in all of Zillow QA community.

QUALITY ENGINEER II

S&P GLOBAL
07.2023 - 08.2023
  • Standard and Poor's is a credit rating company and I worked on ratings related products and to name a few i worked on Box Drive - Desktop application for content management, Ratings 360 - Platform for all publishing and maintaining the credit ratings related information which helped with boosting the company's revenue and Workflow Manager - Pega application to maintain all the USPF accounts around the United states
  • Worked on critical sprint deadlines and delivered the product on time without compromising quality
  • My daily responsibilities include (but not limited to): prepare test cases based on user stories, functional test execution, regression cycle execution, defect management, database testing, mobile/ device testing, maintenance using Azure DevOps, Writing scripts in Kosher Framework/ VS Code/ Cucumber, Preparation of UCL checklist
  • Workflow manager - Extensively tested the provided solution against large volumes of data. The project won many accolades and team recognition as the strongest link award for extensive reduction in processing time
  • Worked in automation of services using Selenium with Python - PyRaft framework and application regression and functional test cases using TOSCA
  • Worked extensively in automation of the services and UI for CI/CD/CT certification
  • Managed offshore team of 13 people. Also worked with a small team of 4
  • Team won the strongest link award with major contributions coming from QA engineer in identifying the issue and testing the fix with a short ETA
  • Test management activities - writing queries in ADO for metrics generation, tracking production defects and analysis, security vulnerabilities tracking and testing.

QA ANALYST

GREAT NON-PROFITS
04.2023 - 01.2023
  • Volunteered as a QA analyst
  • Tested mobile application using Textit and Twilio
  • Tested a SMS survey project in multiple languages and set up different flows as per the requirements.

TEST ANALYST

SCOPE INTERNATIONAL PVT. LTD.
02.2023 - 10.2023
  • Analyzed requirements received for every release to tailor test plan and test cases
  • Involved in preparing traceability matrix, test execution, reporting and defect management
  • Worked in 13 major releases and 7 minor releases.

ASSOCIATE ENGINEER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
06.2023 - 07.2023
  • SPI (Single Product Implementation) relates to implementation of Citi direct and liquidity products for corporate customers
  • Worked with a team to test 12 major products of Citibank and delivered the products successfully
  • Involved in training clients with product summary details.

Education

M.S. in Computer Science -

California State University East Bay
12.2016

B.Tech in Computer Science -

Sastra University
06.2009

Skills

  • Test Skills: Triage meetings, reviewing test plans, e2e testing - sanity, UAT, regression, manual and integration
  • Languages : Python, Java
  • Tools & Frameworks : Git, Cypress, PostMan, Selenium, QTP/UFT, TOSCA, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), RESTful API, MySQL, PyTest
  • Test Management : JIRA,Quality Center, ALM, Azure DevOps, SDLC, Agile, Testing Methodologies, CI/CD/CT

Timeline

Senior Software Quality Engineer

ZILLOW GROUP
08.2023 - Current

QUALITY ENGINEER II

S&P GLOBAL
07.2023 - 08.2023

ASSOCIATE ENGINEER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
06.2023 - 07.2023

QA ANALYST

GREAT NON-PROFITS
04.2023 - 01.2023

TEST ANALYST

SCOPE INTERNATIONAL PVT. LTD.
02.2023 - 10.2023

M.S. in Computer Science -

California State University East Bay

B.Tech in Computer Science -

Sastra University
GAYATHIRI SHRIRAM