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PHOORNARAJ K R

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PHOORNARAJ K R

Summary

Experienced Software Quality Assurance professional having 15 years of experience in Manual and Automation test development. Works extensively with engineering and quality teams to foster quality product development. Recognized expert in Test Strategy, Plan, Design, Build/Maintain complex test automation frameworks and setting up and managing cloud infrastructure & Services for automation and manual testing. Experience in various level of testing having strong exposure to Retail/Banking/Finance domain .Excellent Analytical, problem solving and team building skills.

Overview

15
years of professional experience

Work History

Purpose Financial, An Grupo Salinas Subsidiary

Lead Engineer-QA
12.2017 - Current

Job overview

  • Implemented high Quality Engineering Test standards, Best Practices and Test strategies for functional test and automation across LOBS in collaboration with Business and Technology Team.
  • Developed and maintained Modular Automation Framework for Web application and API testing.
  • Solid experience creating the test plan, test scenarios and test scripts.
  • Solid experience in System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, regression testing, API testing both manual and automation.
  • Implemented early Automation approach for functional testing every sprint and driving automation projects and Increased automation regression coverage to 90%.
  • Developed and leveraged automation script every sprint for any new features and enhancement.
  • Experience using GitHub for automation code management.
  • Implemented branching strategy in GitHub to avoid conflicts when multiple QA engineers working on same Modules.
  • Responsible for code review and PR merge to develop and master branch.
  • Developed mock APIs using Mockoon tool and deployed to cloud test environment for performance testing.
  • Experience reviewing the api design and document from swagger hub and develop manual and automated scripts accordingly.
  • Experience in load testing on Services for the critical workflows with different concurrent threads and think time.
  • Collaborated with DevOps team and Implemented CI Pipeline for automated tests on Mobile/Native, Web Applications through GitHub Actions for every deployments.
  • Responsible for triaging defect with key stakeholder and getting it to closure based on the priority and severity.
  • Responsible for providing certification for staging builds and promoting it to release team for production deployment.
  • Collaboration with offshore team on work allocation, resolving issues if any and to get the deliverables on track.
  • Closely worked with DevOps team in every stage of service and application deployment to cloud.
  • Implemented cloud Infrastructure for cross browser Automation execution onboarding Sauce labs.
  • Experience using Split.io for feature management and testing by different environments.
  • Performed data base testing in AWS Dynamo DB and batch processing test for Lambda functions.
  • Experience doing automation Proof of concept on PyTest, behave BDD framework using python selenium libraries.
  • Monitoring industry trends and evaluate various new automation tools providing and implement solutions to automate functional flow based on business needs and product requirement.

Wipro Limited,

Software Quality Assurance Lead
12.2015 - 12.2017

Job overview

Client: TD Bank

  • Developed Test plan and strategy based on project requirements and product timelines.
  • Maintained automation framework and added automation scripts every sprint as per user story
  • Increased automation coverage to 65% and bring down regression manual effort for each releases.
  • Experience configuring the Jobs in Jenkins and Pipeline set up for the Automated test.
  • Involved in Functional, Regression, System, End to End testing for web and mobile application (IOS and Android)
  • Experience reviewing API specs and API testing using Postman tool.
  • Collaborated with cross channel teams to make sure other systems are not impacted for any release.
  • Involved in Monthly Metrics Report that are presented to customer to showcase value add and ROI
  • Conducting Defect management meeting and follow-up regularly until closure
  • Responsible to publish Test Closure Report for every iteration

Wipro Limited

Sr. QA Analyst
07.2009 - 12.2015

Job overview

Client: Best-buy

  • Developing and creating automated test cases using Selenium Web-Driver, JAVA.
  • Contributed developing Automation framework implementing Page Object Model, using JAVA, Selenium Web driver and increased automation test coverage to 60%
  • Used MAVEN for project build management, and Jenkins for Continuous Integration of builds
  • Assessed and analyzed user stories and participated in Sprint planning, Review Sessions & Scrum Meetings and developed Test scenarios, Test cases, Test data, Test procedures and Test reports
  • Performed User Acceptance testing (UAT) exclusively in agile environment
  • Experience testing API using tools like Postman, SoapUI.
  • Delivered back-end testing for data validation using SQL in Oracle and executed SQL
  • Participated in Stand-up meeting, walk-through meeting, weekly automation meeting with all other QA, weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.

Education

Anna University
Chennai, India

Bachelor of Science from Electronics & Communication Eng
2008

Skills

  • Java Python Selenium Cucumber PyTest TestNG Rest Assured Behave BDD Jmeter Maven Jenkins Mockoon Kibana NodeJS GitHub
  • Black Box Testing White Box Testing Mobile Testing Api testing Performance Testing Test Automation Framework
  • Cloud Computing AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform GitHub Actions CloudWatch Sauce Labs Prometheus
  • SQL MySQL No SQL

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H1B -I140 Approved

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