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Ranjita Chezhiyan

Summary

Software-savvy quality assurance professional committed to confirming proper functionality and usability of software products before release. Plans test schedules and strategies according to project scope and delivery dates and monitors and tracks bug resolutions. Reviews software documentation to verify technical accuracy and completeness and to mitigate risks. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Software Quality Analyst

Pearson
09.2018 - Current
  • Worked in Agile/Scrum development environment with frequently changing requirements and features.
  • Interacted closely with developers, business analysts, data analysts and psychometricians for test reviews, bug reports and clarification on requirements.
  • Participated in daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint grooming and retrospective meetings.
  • Created and validated functional and regression test cases for core and extension plugins.
  • Created and maintained automated scripts for functional and regression automation testing using Perl and Java.
  • Performed Functional, Exploratory, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression and Database testing and analyzed test results and submitted the bugs using JIRA and qTest.
  • Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
  • Worked in a development environment set up in Virtual Machine with Centos7. Executed Linux scripts for testing and monitoring scoring workflow.
  • Performed back-end testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate data.
  • Performed API testing using Postman.
  • Performed back-end testing using Robomongo and Robo3T to validate data in the MongoDB collections.
  • Discussed with team lead regarding testing deadlines and post deployment validation.
  • Provided test summary documentation and analyzed test results, identifying trends and/or root cause of problems.
  • Worked with offshore testers to provide direction for testing and executing test cases.
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.


Software Engineer in Test

ACT
11.2016 - 08.2018
  • Worked in Agile/Scrum development environment with frequently changing requirements and features.
  • Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for test reviews, bug reports, clarification on acceptance criteria.
  • Participated in daily stand up meetings, sprint planning, sprint grooming and retrospective meetings
  • Created and validated Test cases as per acceptance criteria
  • Created automated scripts for functional automation testing using Robot Framework and SeleniumLibrary in Python.
  • Created Performance testing scripts using Blazemeter and Jmeter.
  • Assisted with UAT.
  • Performed Functional, Exploratory, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression and Database testing and analyzed test results and submitted the bugs using Zephyr for JIRA
  • Performed back end testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in appropriate tables and manually verify the correctness of the data with front-end values.
  • Performed API testing using Postman
  • Performed ETL testing by writing and executing queries to validate the flow of data from the source table to a staging table and to the target table using SQL and Mongo DB.
  • Performed back end testing using Robomongo to validate date in the MongoDB collections.
  • Helped in troubleshooting the error log using Informatica Workflow Monitor
  • Ran ETL jobs using ControlM
  • Built test scrips to Jenkins.
  • Performed cross- browser testing on various devices and operating systems.
  • Discussed with team lead regarding testing deadlines and post deployment validation.
  • Provided test summary documentation and analyzed test results, identifying trends and/or root cause of problems.
  • Worked with Automation QA to set up scripts and run regression tests using Virtual Machine.
  • Wrote automated test scripts in Python in Robot framework with Selenium2 library and Bitbucket
  • Performed mobile testing.

QA Analyst

CDS Global
03.2015 - 11.2016
  • Worked in Agile/Scrum development environment with frequently changing requirements and features.
  • Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for test reviews, bug reports.
  • Participated in daily stand up meetings, sprint planning, sprint grooming, retro meetings and code walkthrough meetings.
  • Created and validated Test cases, Test scripts as per the design documents (both Functional and Technical Designs).
  • Worked on both manual and automation testing of the application using Trackit and Selenium and established the baseline scripts for future automation.
  • Wrote automated test scripts using Selenium and created various test suites.
  • Performed Functional, Smoke, System, Exploratory, Integration, Regression and Database testing and analyzed test results and submitted the bugs using Trackit.
  • Performed back end testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in appropriate tables and manually verify the correctness of the data with front-end values.
  • Performed web API testing using Restclient and Postman.
  • Performed cross- browser testing using Virtual Box and Saucelabs.
  • Created Z-blocks and other CMS pages on the web page using HTML.
  • Discussed with team lead and PM regarding testing deadlines and post deployment validation.
  • Monitored test coverage using Requirement Traceability Matrix.
  • Provided test summary documentation and analyzed test results, identifying trends and/or root cause of problems.
  • Performed mobile ecommerce testing

Education

Master of Science - Bioinformatics

Mangalore University
Mangalore, India
06.2008

Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology

Bangalore University
Bengaluru, India
06.2006

Skills

  • Positive testing, Negative testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black box testing, Browser testing, ETL Testing
  • Mysql, MongoDB querying
  • Requirements Analysis, Bug Tracking, debugging
  • Selenium Webdriver, Robot Framework
  • Cross-Platform Testing
  • Programming Languages: Java, Python, unix
  • JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Splunk, Rundeck, Zephyr, AEM
  • iOS, Windows, Centos7

Timeline

Sr. Software Quality Analyst

Pearson
09.2018 - Current

Software Engineer in Test

ACT
11.2016 - 08.2018

QA Analyst

CDS Global
03.2015 - 11.2016

Master of Science - Bioinformatics

Mangalore University

Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology

Bangalore University
Ranjita Chezhiyan