Mari Vidhya Ashokan

Have 8 years of IT experience in Software Testing, with expertise in a variety of applications and testing methodologies. Worked on web-based, backend, and client-server applications, conducting both manual and automated testing. Key qualifications and experiences include:
Leadership: Worked as a Functional QA lead, managing teams of up to 10 members, and have worked in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
Analytical Skills: Possess strong analytical skills for understanding business requirements, business rules, processes, and application architecture.
Testing Types: Experienced in various testing types, including Functional, Integration, Regression, UAT, and End-to-end Testing. Also experienced with test-driven development and data-driven testing.
Test Planning and Execution: Created Test Plans, Test Scripts, and executed tests, including regression testing, distributed execution, and generating status reports, root cause analysis.
Automation Tools: Proficiency in automation tools such as Katalon, REST Webservice testing, Microservices, Data-driven testing, security testing, and load testing using ReadyAPI, Data Integrity (GIT), Visual Studio, HP's Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Team Foundation Server (TFS),
CI/CD: Experienced in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.
Defect Management: Proficiency in Defect Reporting and Tracking using HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA
Communication Skills: Have strong communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with personnel at all levels.

• ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Certification
• HP AIS - Functional Testing v11 Certification
• HP AIS Certification: HP Quality Center v10

Languages : JDBC, HTML, VBScript, JavaScript, Python and CSS
QA Tools :UFT/QTP, Visual Studio, ReadyAPI, Katalon, HP Quality Center (ALM), Rumba Tester, JIRA and Bugzilla, Jenkins, Dbeaver, MS Visio, MS Access, Team Foundation Server
Database : IBM DB2 and SQL Server 2005, Oracle DB