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SHALINI SUBBARAJ

Sherwin Williams
Cleveland,Ohio
1
Certification
15
years of professional experience

With solid background in quality assurance within fast-paced environments, developed strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Proficient in identifying issues and implementing solutions to improve product quality. Seeking to transition into new field, leveraging transferable skills for impactful outcomes.

Work History

IT Manager

2 Years
Sherwin Williams | 09.2024 - Current
  • Lead QA efforts for Oracle EBS and Oracle Cloud implementations, upgrades, enhancements, and production support.
  • Manage onsite and offshore QA teams, including manual and automation resources.
  • Define and implement enterprise QA strategies, standards, and best practices.
  • Drove continuous improvement initiatives enhancing testing efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Developed QA roadmaps aligning with business and technology objectives.
  • Develop QA roadmaps aligned with business and technology objectives.
  • Led QA transformation initiatives by modernizing automation frameworks with Playwright and pioneering AI Agentic Testing capabilities, driving significant improvements in test efficiency, coverage, and release velocity.
  • Lead SIT, UAT, Regression, and End-to-End testing activities.
  • Track automation coverage, execution trends, script development, and maintenance.
  • Established KPIs measuring automation effectiveness and ROI.
  • Establish KPIs for automation effectiveness and ROI.
  • Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Development Leads.
  • Provide regular quality status updates to Senior Managers, Directors, and executive leadership.
  • Develop dashboards and reports using Jira, Zephyr.
  • Standardize QA processes across projects and teams.
  • Implement QA playbooks, templates, and reusable artifacts.
  • Promote AI-driven testing practices and quality engineering initiatives.
  • Ensure compliance with organizational standards and audit requirements.

IT Analyst Lead I

8 Years 3 Months
Sherwin Williams | 06.2016 - 09.2024
  • Achieved an average test coverage of 98% across multiple projects that ensured comprehensive testing and minimizing the risk of undiscovered defects
  • Maintained an average defect detection rate of 97% throughout the testing process, ensuring high-quality deliverables
  • Executed test plans and cases in Zephyr, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and adherence to requirements
  • Collaborated with automation team to implement Jenkins for continuous integration and deployment of new projects.
  • Assisted in creating an automation stories backlog for new projects while maintaining the existing regression suite.
  • Collaborated with automation team on Jenkins for continuous integration and deployment of new projects with Selenium Java
  • Enhance and run regression testing with Selenium Java scripts for releases
  • Led a team of 5 QA team members from training, process improvements and keeping the team updated on testing best practices.
  • Performed Complex SQL Queries to validate the Backend (WCS, OMS, Netezza).
  • Interact with POS/Sherlink/OMS teams for every release processing Ecommerce Orders.
  • Proposed improvements to enhance automation and manual QA processes.
  • Conducted defect triage calls with business stakeholders for each deployment.

QA Senior Consultant

2 Years 7 Months
Lexis Nexis | 11.2013 - 06.2016
  • Testing RESTful web services against service requirements derived from business and functional requirements.
  • Testing Manual scripts and Automated scripts for services with SoapUI 5.0.0. /Ready! API 1.3.0
  • Tested HTTP protocols, XML, WADL/WSDL, CRUD methods and schema validation.
  • Verifying the Request and Response for all the methods and End point URL for all the services.
  • Analyzing the error in the response XML/JSON in service testing.
  • Automated the SoapUI service calls using Groovy scripting.
  • Creating complex headers in the service calls and verified the response successfully.
  • Tested multiple users with multiple data by data parametrization with SoapUI tool and groovy scripting.
  • Tested a module integrated with Microsoft and testing Docx files in SoapUI attachment using Retrieve, update method.
  • Creating Automated Test Scripts for testing service calls using Java Selenium Webdriver.
  • Providing testing sizing for CRs and providing estimates for projects.
  • Coordinated with Offshore (team size 5) and completed the work on time.
  • Creating manual test cases in Microsoft Test Manager for Lexis Advance Web Application testing.
  • Execute test cases in MTM and link the test cases to TFS Tasks and User stories.
  • Used the Record and Play feature in MTM with Visual Studio 2015 and generated the Coded UI script, analyzed and tested it successfully.
  • Linked the test cases, created RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) and analyzed the coverage of requirements.
  • Logging bugs in MTM and linking it to the test case that was failed and in turn linked to the user story In TFS.
  • Design test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures focused on positive and negative scenarios.
  • Identify, analyze and document problems with program function, output, or content.
  • Provide Quality reports and raise risk when not according to the documentation.
  • Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.
  • Analyzed the Raw request and Response from the Fiddler and used the same request in SoapUI and executed the test case for binary content testing.
  • Attending Daily status meeting, Defect triage meetings.

Environment: MarkLogic, SQL, Java, SoapUI 5.0.0, Ready! API 1.3.0, MTM, Visual Studio, BluePrint, TFS, Agile, XML, WADL, HP ALM, Groovy, Selenium Webdriver.

QA Senior Consultant

10 Months
Catholic Health Initiatives | 12.2012 - 10.2013
  • Design of Test plan and Test cases and review with the national MEDITECH/Epic team.
  • Uploaded approved Test Plan and Test cases in ALM (Application Life Cycle Management).
  • Execution of Manual Test scripts and following the complete Testing Life cycle.
  • Reporting and tracking of bugs in ALM.
  • Estimating the Efforts of testing by pulling reports from the ALM.
  • Used TFS to track the requirements.
  • Created Automated scripts using Selenium TestNg framework.
  • Executing Automated and Manual Regression Tests every cycle.
  • Created Automated Scripts for smoke tests in Selenium Testng Framework.
  • Leading a team of 5 with offshore and coordinated with the National team (Client).
  • Tasks were created in the TFS by the development team which was tracked and updated by the testing team.
  • Creating score cards of the test case completion.
  • Prepared RTM, analyzed the gap in requirements and created test cases.
  • Testing Functional, Regression test cases and successfully released the multiple projects in time.
  • Created End to End scripts for more than 100 scenarios in Meditech 6.0 and 5.66.
  • Working with the national team to do the integration scripts, given the exact procedure and the diagnosis codes to add in the script and to test them.
  • Daily calls with National team to discuss more than 100’s of scenarios for E2E testing. Then writing detailed steps for the scenarios.
  • Creating claims and verifying the claims.
  • Handled the clinical modules, adding the RAD, PHA LAB details to see the processing in Billing/Account receivable to verifying the patient bill and process the bill and verifying

ICD 10 /ICD 9 code.

  • Verifying ICD 10 or ICD 9 codes in the 837 claim file.
  • Sync with the settings team to coordinate on the settings to test for PRE POST and CROSS scenarios.
  • Assigning work to fellow team members and assisting them with issues blocking testing.
  • Handled Daily Defect meeting calls.
  • Trained team members on Meditech, ICD 9/ICD10.
  • Daily meetings with the National team of EPIC/MEDITECH and discussing the main road blocks, Daily Status, and task for the next day and target set for the next day.
  • Logging bugs in ALM, Tracking it till it’s in the closed status.
  • Testing database of patient’s records using Complex SQL queries and verifying the same in the frontend application.
  • Appreciated as the Subject Matter Expert in a short span of time.

Environment: Oracle, PL/SQL, COBOL, UNIX, EDI, TFS, Pro C, HP ALM, Meditech, Epic

QA Associate

1 Year 3 Months
Mindtree | 08.2011 - 11.2012
  • Design of Test plan and Test cases and review with the national MEDITECH/Epic team.
  • Uploaded approved Test Plan and Test cases in ALM (Application Life Cycle Management).
  • Execution of Manual Test scripts and following the complete Testing Life cycle.
  • Reporting and tracking of bugs in ALM.
  • Estimating the Efforts of testing by pulling reports from the ALM.
  • Used TFS to track the requirements.
  • Leading a team of 5 with offshore and coordinated with the National team (Client).
  • Tasks were created in the TFS by the development team which was tracked and updated by the testing team.
  • Creating score cards of the test case completion.
  • Prepared RTM, analyzed the gap in requirements and created test cases.
  • Testing Functional, Regression test cases and successfully released the multiple projects in time.
  • Created End to End scripts for more than 100 scenarios in Meditech 6.0 and 5.66.

· Analysis of use case document and creation of test cases.

· Execution of test case and reporting the bugs in Quality Center.

· Performed Smoke, System testing, Client Environment testing, Regression Testing, Functional testing and End to End Testing.

· Created Test Scripts for Backend and Front end testing using Selenium IDE.

· Database testing with complex SQL queries.

· Version control using TFS.

· Web service testing using SoapUI 5.0.0 with CRUD methods and assertions feature.

· Automated functional, regression testing with Groovy in SoapUI.

· Tested WADL/WSDL, XML, Schema and API.

· Performed a request or response via HTTP using SOAPUI tool with WSDL.

· Performed accessibility testing using tool JAWS (Job Access with Speech).

· Created special test cases on Security Testing and executed them successfully.

· Used XML schema validation for Messages received by the customers for the registering in PNM website.

· Verifying different status codes 200, 500, 400, and 404 according to Schema.

· Performed mobile testing.

· Performed Database vulnerability scanner tool using SCUBA.

· Involved Testing in UNIX Environment.

· Co-Ordinated with Offshore team of 4 members.

· Testing in the UAT and the Roll out environment.

Environment: Java, ORACLE PL/SQL, UNIX, SCUBA, TFS, SoapUI, XML, SQL, HP ALM, WADL

Education

Bachelors Degree - Electrical and Electronics Engineer Computers, Electrical and Electronics

Sapthagiri College Of Engineering

Skills

Java Selenium
Playwright framework
AI testing
Test design
Quality metrics
Cloud testing
Presentation software
Cloud testing
Microsoft Excel
Point of sale
Microsoft PowerPoint
Maven
Ant
Test Automation Framework
SoapUI tool
E-commerce Testing

Certification

ISTQB, Oracle Certified Associate /Java SE 8 Programmer

Timeline

IT Manager

Sherwin Williams
09.2024 - CurrentRead More

IT Analyst Lead I

Sherwin Williams
06.2016 - 09.2024Read More

QA Senior Consultant

Lexis Nexis
11.2013 - 06.2016Read More

QA Senior Consultant

Catholic Health Initiatives
12.2012 - 10.2013Read More

QA Associate

Mindtree
08.2011 - 11.2012Read More

Sapthagiri College Of Engineering

Bachelors Degree from Electrical and Electronics Engineer Computers, Electrical and Electronics
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Personal Information

Title: IT Associate Manager
SHALINI SUBBARAJ