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Parul Nijhawan

Rancho Cucamonga,California

Summary

Dedicated Architect with more than 13 years of experience leading and collaborating with data teams on extensive technical designs. Presents in-depth technological data knowledge to satisfy up-to-date guidelines for project roadmapping, launch and provisioning. Resourceful expertise bolstering organization's IT deployment performance. Organized approach to balancing project-management tasks.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

TDM Architect

IEHP
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
07.2023 - Current
  • Plan and oversee TDM implementation projects.
  • Coordinate communication between different teams involved in TDM.
  • Responsible for the overall management and configuration of the Delphix and K2view TDM platform.
  • Utilizes the K2View TDM platform to provision test data for development and testing activities POC.
  • Generate Synthetic Data using K2View for POC for both files and Database.
  • Manage project risks and dependencies.
  • Ensure that TDM projects are delivered on time and within budget.
  • Responsible for the overall management and configuration of the Delphix TDM platform, including virtualization settings.
  • Manages storage resources and allocation for virtual data copies.
  • Configures and maintains virtualization policies, such as data compression, deduplication, and thin provisioning.
  • Designs and implements data models for virtual data copies, considering factors such as data masking, subsetting, and versioning requirements.
  • Collaborates with development and testing teams to understand data needs and define virtualization strategies.
  • Utilizes virtual data copies provisioned by Delphix TDM for development and testing activities.
  • Collaborates with the data architect to ensure that virtual copies meet the requirements of specific testing scenarios.
  • Responsible for defining data masking policies and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
  • Reviews and approves data masking configurations to protect sensitive information in non-production environments.
  • Designs and implements data masking strategies based on the organization's data privacy requirements and compliance regulations.
  • Identifies sensitive data elements within production databases or file systems that require masking.
  • Defines data masking rules and techniques to anonymize or obfuscate sensitive information while maintaining data realism and usability.
  • Collaborate with application developers and testers to understand data needs.
  • Optimize data structures for performance and efficiency.
  • Define data masking and subletting strategies for sensitive information.
  • Define and implement test data management policies and procedures.
  • Work with development and testing teams to understand data requirements.
  • Design and create data virtualization and masking processes.
  • Collaborate with other IT teams to integrate Delphix into existing systems.
  • Create Members manually and scripting using vb script EDI 834 files.
  • Create Claims manually and scripting using vb script and generate 837 files.
  • Created batch scripts for running member and claims jobs.

Quality Assurance Test Manager

Amazon
Toronto
05.2021 - 05.2023
  • Responsible for reviewing test artifacts including Test Strategy, Test Execution, Status Reports and Defect Reports for Alexa Speech org.
  • Drive Test strategy and Test Plan review meeting with all stakeholders.
  • Work as TPM’s to create roadmap for QAE including estimations, work effort & devices planned for testing.
  • Work closely with internal and external teams (Smart Home team, Alarm team) to understand business requirements, coordinate testing activities.
  • Work with external teams in reviewing their test plans to ensure full test coverage.
  • Hands on knowledge on Alexa devices as we currently support from flashing to production.
  • Lead internal defect triage calls before taking it to stakeholders..
  • Keep track of the new requirements/changes of the project
  • Interact, communicate and follow through with development teams throughout testing phase.
  • Improved QAE process & Designs and implements data masking strategies based on the organization's data privacy requirements and compliance regulations.
  • Organize status meetings and send status reports to stakeholders
  • Responsible for the overall management and configuration of Databrew TDM platform, including virtualization settings.
  • Work as TDM for Alexa devices using Databrew and set up masking jobs as per need basis
  • Work with Data scientist for reporting BI dashboard
  • Approves data masking configurations to protect sensitive information in non-production environments.
  • · Utilizes virtual data copies provisioned by databrew tool for development and testing activities

Test Manager

CoreLogic
Toronto
03.2019 - 11.2020
  • Collaborated with different teams o conduct research, gather requirements and implement masking procedures to meet company thresholds.
  • Oversaw complete lifecycle of testing on different projects.
  • Monitored development of custom testing software to maintain reliability and scalability about replicator tool
  • Coordinated masking activities along with project managers and developers.
  • Determined quality benchmarks and outlined testing and acceptance strategies needed in masking
  • Crafted and executed organizational TDM processes, procedures and best practices to maintain enhancement and standards testing programs.
  • Manages storage resources and allocation for virtual data copies.
  • Ensure that TDM projects are delivered on time and within budget.
  • Generate Synthetic Data using genrocket for SQL Database
  • Manual creation of Claim files needed large data set to Ingest and mask
  • Data Sub-setting, EDI 837 file created based on scenarios

QA Manager

TD Bank Group
Toronto
03.2018 - 03.2019
  • Acted as a QA Manager and worked collaboratively with HOJ Mortgage project team in an Agile environment and worked collaboratively with technology solution and RESL teams to ensure system specifications and changes satisfy project objectives and reflect business needs.
  • Proactively identified and mitigated risks performed E2E SIT/BAT testing and successfully delivered all streams effectively.
  • Modified POM (Page Object Model) framework to automate scripts for enhancement releases, automated regression suite to reduce manual effort.
  • Developed Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the specifications are been tested and no requirements are missed.
  • Participated in walkthrough for the evaluation of the test plan and test strategy with the design and development teams
  • Involved in Sprint testing, SIT and end-to-end testing, automation and API testing.
  • Responsible for backlog prioritization and sprint planning and was involved in retrospective meetings and effort estimation.
  • Excel in testing CLK legacy system and related downstream applications E2E.
  • Performed API testing using POSTMAN and Para soft for all API's.
  • Defined QA workflow and procedures and also defined and created test strategies for all releases.
  • Estimated test effort for all releases.
  • Worked with PMO to define granular testing activities and scheduled within project plan.
  • Attended project kick-off and periodic status meetings.
  • Maintained technical documentation and provided input to business analysis, development.
  • · Published Reports on the test execution status for each test cycle on different releases

Senior QA Lead

Sapient Consulting Limited
Bangalore
05.2016 - 12.2017
  • Liaised between the development team and other departments in meeting project timelines.
  • Analyzed requirements collected from users and completed the help desk workflow.
  • Tested Ecommerce application (Vera Bradley) which is a large US retailer
  • Worked on JIRA for defect logging and defect mapping to requirements
  • Used Oracle SQL to gather test data for the application and proactively used Select, Update and Join queries to extract and modify test data.
  • Created Page Objects framework using Selenium WebDriver and Core Java
  • Automated highly transactional e-commerce web application using Selenium WebDriver and performed load tests on mobile apps.
  • Performed Point of Sales testing for the largest Ecommerce client.
  • Excelled in cross browser testing and mobile testing.

Senior Test Consultant

Deloitte
Bangalore
06.2013 - 05.2016
  • Advised junior testers on best practices associated with software testing techniques.
  • Led cross-functional meetings between developers, business analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders involved in the development process.
  • Leveraged version control system such as Git and GitHub for maintaining different versions of source codebase.
  • Developed and maintained test scripts using various scripting languages.
  • Conducted manual and automated tests on web applications, databases, and mobile devices.

· Created Automation frameworks like POM (Page Object Model) to get rid of redundant test steps

· Organized and derived meetings to gather requirements from subject matter experts, technical leads and executive stakeholders.

· Analyzed and documented software requirements and specifications

· Document process flows for testing

· Sketched out mockups to understand high level details.

· Maintained all necessary documentation for internal and client purposes

· Defined and documented test plans and test cases and prepared SIT scenarios.

· Defined test data requirements.

· Published Reports on the test execution status for each test cycle on different releases

· Worked with the QA team by reviewing test case documents and following up on test execution.

· Conducted QA Testing (UAT) as needed

· Took ownership of the scope and collaborated with the development team throughout the release lifecycle

Senior Software Engineer

Igate Computer Systems
Hyderabad
08.2010 - 05.2013
  • Participated throughout the requirement analysis, design and development process, analyzed features to point out weaknesses or inconsistencies
  • Supported all test activities, enhance, develop and executed manual and automated test scripts, record and track software deficiencies.
  • Modified existing automation tests to account for functionality changes.
  • Develop automated tests in partnership with developers for continuous regression testing.
  • Investigated, reported, validated, and tracked bugs to resolution.
  • Actively participated in test automation initiatives.
  • Reported regularly on testing progress and results.
  • Identified and escalated issues related to requirement gathering and product quality.
  • Ensured that all domain knowledge and test cases are articulated and structured well to enable swift execution by any other members of the QA team.
  • Actively participated to improve quality in all processes.
  • Did exploratory testing and acceptance of new features as part of a story-driven Agile development process.
  • Identified bugs through systematic testing, help developers to reproduce errors, and ensured that defects are fixed
  • Worked with project stakeholders and developers to ensure that all aspects of the system have proper testing coverage and overall system reliability, performance and quality.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Apeejay Engineering College
06-2010

Skills

  • QA and QC Processes
  • Delphix Virtualisation
  • Delphix Masking
  • PII, PCI, PHI, GDPR Data understanding and profiling
  • Data Security and Vulnerability Management
  • Data Profiling
  • Dynamic Data Masking
  • Database Virtualization
  • Test Data as Service
  • Data Subset
  • TDOD - Test Data On Demand
  • Data Making/Data Obfuscation
  • Synthetic Data Generation
  • Test NG
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Automation
  • Para soft, Soap UI and Postman for API testing (Soap and Rest), Robot & Combat framework using Python

Accomplishments

  • Applause Award for demonstrating strong leadership skills and the ability to deliver the highest quality work within timelines, securing future projects with TDBFG in 2018.
  • Accelerator Award for demonstrating commitment, dedication and quality of work; willing to contribute extra effort to meet the changing needs of client "Vera Bradley" for Sapient Consulting.
  • On Spot Recognition for stepping up to a technical lead role from a Consultant and striving to deliver the highest quality work for one of the most challenging projects and securing a future partnership with Obama Health Care for RI in Deloitte Consulting.
  • New/Complex Technologies Outstanding Productivity Award for stepping up from a Senior software Engineer to a new role in supporting team members at IGATE
  • Outstanding Service Award for exceptional service and outstanding project delivery for Deloitte Consulting.

Languages

English
Native/ Bilingual
Hindi
Full Professional

Timeline

TDM Architect

IEHP
07.2023 - Current

Quality Assurance Test Manager

Amazon
05.2021 - 05.2023

Test Manager

CoreLogic
03.2019 - 11.2020

QA Manager

TD Bank Group
03.2018 - 03.2019

Senior QA Lead

Sapient Consulting Limited
05.2016 - 12.2017

Senior Test Consultant

Deloitte
06.2013 - 05.2016

Senior Software Engineer

Igate Computer Systems
08.2010 - 05.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Apeejay Engineering College
Parul Nijhawan