Senior Testing and Quality Engineer with excellent technical communication skills, collaborative teamwork abilities, and broad technical acumen across full SDLC. Having 12 years of experience and excelling in scenario, functional, Integration, regression, UX testing in Windows and Linux environments. Experience in Retail, Merchandising, Point of Sale and Payment systems. Seeking a challenging position with the opportunity to drive improvements in quality, security and efficiency.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
01.2017 - Current
Designed and implemented testing infrastructures to validate a large scale application deployment, partnered with software developers to create/code test tools and implement automation.
Subject Matter Expert in Point of Sale Systems
Lead larger teams, developed Test Strategies for Point of Sale Systems to implement multiple programs in ~9000 Walgreens Stores all across United States, Alaska and Hawaii
Lead test teams for almost 35 releases (every release to be deployed in ~9000 stores) in Point of Sale systems over a span of 5 years
Collaborated with System Engineering and Architecture, Program Management, and Software Development teams in all aspects of the development lifecycle from early design feedback, functional automation, reliability, performance, integration testing, through to supporting production issues.
Worked with multiple external company teams which include but not limited to Western Union, Synchrony Financial, Incomm Payments, FIS Global to develop/implement Integration Test strategies for major programs which Walgreens collaborated with.
Provided SQA guidance to program and project teams during business planning, instituted assessment of eligibility and provided overview training for Agile methodology adoption initiative.
Created, maintained, and executed test plans and test cases.
Analyze and reported results, track defects, and participate in day to day QA support activities.
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Meijer Inc.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
01.2016 - 01.2017
Developed Software Quality Assurance guidelines document emphasizing defect prevention, requirements management excellence, measuring, monitoring, and control of software projects.
Embedded with project team to provide reviews of key SDLC deliverables, coaching on processes and tools, and measuring of software KPIs with specific improvement recommendations.
Developed the Test strategy and Lead the QA team to launch EMV payment acceptance in 250 Meijer Retail Stores across all states in US (Implementing EMV Chip card payments in Meijer Stores)
Create reports from HP ALM and JIRA to provide Test case coverage for stake holders to review the most recent and accurate test status for various projects.
QA Analyst Team Lead
Target Corporation
Minneapolis, Minnesota
12.2014 - 11.2015
Developed and maintained quality assurance procedure documentation.
Compiled and distributed weekly feedback to team leaders and managers to improve service time and quality while increasing productivity.
Perform Smoke, Functional, Integration, Sanity, Regression, System and Ad Hoc testing for multiple merchandizing projects
Develop QA Test Plans, create Scenario documents, test cases, Traceability and Test Strategies for Testing cycle
QA Analyst
Target Corporation
Chennai, India
06.2012 - 11.2014
Led team of testers in developing test strategy, methodology for "end to end" verification of Merchandising system solution.
Team lead for review of test plans and procedures to ensure adequate coverage of system requirements.
Work with business users on User Acceptance Testing by mentoring them on various aspects of testing Lead integration testing which includes data transfer and validation between different application areas.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
GITAM UNIVERISTY
Andhra Pradesh, India
04.2012
Skills
Delivery Models : Agile Scrum and SDLC
Databases: DB2, SQL, Oracle, Mongo
Tools/Applications: MS Office, Selenium, Oracle SQL Developer, JIRA, HP ALM, Putty, WinSCP, DB Visualizer, Eclipse, IBM WebSphere, MQ Explorer, IBM Data Studio, ADO, Postman
Languages & Web Technologies: C, Web Services, HTML, Java, JavaScript, MongoDB, UNIX, XML, REST API
Certification
ISTQB Software Testing
Certified Scrum Master
AZ900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Timeline
Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Walgreens Boots Alliance
01.2017 - Current
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Meijer Inc.
01.2016 - 01.2017
QA Analyst Team Lead
Target Corporation
12.2014 - 11.2015
QA Analyst
Target Corporation
06.2012 - 11.2014
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering