SOWMYA BHATT DASANAKODGE
Princeton,New Jersey
Summary
AWS cloud practitioner, ISTQB tester and Artificial Intelligence Certified QA Automation Lead Engineer with 14 plus years of experience. Expertise in management, Automation design, identifying regression suit for automation and developing End-to-End testing. Extensively worked on automating using different tools like Selenium, Cypress, Postman, Karate, UFT, JMeter, Blaze meter and Load runner using Java and VB scripting. Hands on automation experience on Angular JS application, Rest API, AWS cloud computing and Azure DevOps Pipeline. Experienced in designing the Enterprise level framework using page object model design pattern and Hybrid framework using TestNG, Maven, Extent report, Jenkin, Bitbucket and GitHub. Lead the planning and execution of QA process and successfully delivered the critical project. Strong Experience in SDLC, STLC, JIRA, Agile methodology, Requirement Analysis, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Case, Defects -Priority, Severity, Tracking and Closure, Root Cause Analysis, Database Back-end testing, MS-SQL Data Verification and Validation. Involved in SCRUM meeting with the development and Product Management team, analyzed and developed product stories based on the requirement.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
QA Automation Lead Engineer
Bank of America
Pennington, USA
07.2024 - Current
- Designed a RAFT automation framework for a newly built application using Selenium, Cucumber and Java programming language
- Extensively worked on analyzing the requirement gap and reporting the defects during the initial development of the project
- Worked on multiple projects testing Tabular, MicroStrategy and Angular reports
- Worked as a Scrum master to facilitator and coach within a development team, ensuring the team effectively follows Agile principles by removing obstacles and optimizing their workflow to deliver high-quality products
- Responsible for leading and managing QA team for automation testing and identifying and converting the manual test cases into automation scripts
- Responsible for testing the product using SQL queries for Database validation
- Hands on experience testing Angular JS application and Rest API
- Developed end to end automation framework using Selenium, TestNG, Maven, page factory, extent reports, GitHub, and Jenkins
- Establish and evolve formal QA processes for automation, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices
QA Automation Lead Engineer
Fidelity Investment
Durham, USA
03.2022 - 07.2024
- Working on POC for designing the automation framework for the enterprise level for all the Web application, Microservices, API, DB testing using tools like Cypress & Karate
- Proficient with testing REST API's, web, and Database testing
- Extensively worked on developing karate automation script for API end to end testing of the functionalities
- Responsible for leading and managing QA team for ICE application in asset management
- Extensively worked on automating in AWS cloud computing for Dynamo DB, S3 and Lambda
- Expertise in testing component level testing and Integration testing using API
- Working on Creating end to end automation framework using Cypress, Karate, Cucumber, Bitbucket, and Jenkins
- Strong in writing SQL queries to perform backend data validations
- Establish and evolve formal QA processes for automation, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices
- Design and Develop the Automated solution for Smoke Testing and regression testing for various repeatable tests
- Implement QA process for Automation for all the projects to improve the overall utilization of automation scripts
Automation Lead Engineer-SDET
ConnectiveRX
Whippany, USA
10.2019 - 03.2022
- Designed the automation framework for the enterprise level in Java programming language using page object design pattern and Hybrid framework for all the Web application, Microservices, DB testing using different tools like Selenium, UFT and Karate
- Responsible for leading and managing QA team for automation testing and identifying and converting the manual test cases into automation scripts
- Responsible for testing the product using SQL queries for Database validation
- Hands on experience automating Angular JS application and Rest API
- Expertise in testing integration testing on the newly built application
- Establish and evolve formal QA processes for automation, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices
- Design and Develop the Automated solution for Smoke Testing and regression testing for various repeatable tests
- Implement QA process for Automation for all the projects to improve the overall utilization of automation scripts
- Back-end testing using SQL queries using SQL server management studio
- Implemented code management tool for the automation framework using Bitbucket
Computer programming analyst -SDET
UPS
Parsippany, USA
07.2016 - 09.2018
- Responsible for end-to-end QA testing and development and execution of automation regression script
- Expertise in working on Karate and cypress automation for API & Front end application
- Responsible for identifying test cases for manual and Automation for Smoke Test, Functional and Regression Tests
- Created a Hybrid Framework of automation for the windows application in UFT using VBScript for windows application and developed automation scripts using selenium Java for Web based application
- Created executable batch files to open multiple applications using VB script on a newly built machine
- Actively participate in all the testing like writing test cases, identifying the edge case scenarios, execution, publishing reporting and all the Sprint activities
Computer programming analyst
NYC HRA
Brooklyn, USA
07.2015 - 06.2016
- Responsible for end-to-end testing and deliver of a core module in ICE application
- Actively involved in requirement elicitations and acted as Single point of contact (SPOC) for all testing releases and operations
- Formalized testing process and created test cases, identifying the scenarios, raising a requirement defect
- Worked actively with Business stockholder, business analysts and developers to collect the business and functional requirements
Computer programming analyst
UPS
Paramus, USA
11.2012 - 07.2015
- Automated AS/400 mainframe application using Terminal emulator in UFT/QTP
- Design and Developed Hybrid Driven Test Automation Framework using UFT/QTP using VB script, worked on custom function, shared object repository, and descriptive programming
- Extensively worked on mobile application and worked on created critical end to end enterprise scenarios based on production issues
- Created and Executed Automation Test Scripts for Functional and Regression Testing
- Automated test scripts which were extensively used for backend validation
- Used driver script to navigate the test data variables by using VB Script in UFT
- Worked on batch file to run automation script on Task Scheduler in Windows
- Involved in testing UDP and MQ messages
- Involved in testing web services using SOAPUI
- Involved in creating end-to-end scenario for testing
Software Engineer
Century Link
Bangalore, India
06.2010 - 04.2012
- Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Estimation & Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Professional expertise in Smoke Testing, Backend Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional testing, Positive/Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad hoc Testing, Cross Browser/Platform Testing, UI Validation, Boundary Value Testing
- Reviewing database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with SQL queries from oracle database
- Involved in automating on the regression test cases for e-Commerce sites including Checkout Process & Registration process, user account using UFT/QTP
Testing Engineer
Neurosynaptic systems
Bangalore, India
08.2009 - 05.2010
- Worked on network protocol testing for weather data transmission
- Extensively performed business workflow, ad hoc, regression, functional, integration, release and database integrity testing based on system test cases
- Interacted with the developers and project team on day-to-day basis to discuss about the defects and to make sure the reported defects were resolved
- Actively involved in requirement elicitations and acted as Single point of contact (SPOC) for all testing releases and operations
- Involved in Functional study of Application, Prepared work distribution plan for the team, performed gap analysis and documented them
- Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to map the test cases with the Requirements
- Generated various test metrics and shared with the Project Manager
Education
ASTQB Artificial Intelligence Certification
12-2024
AWS Cloud Practitioner
06-2023
ASTQB foundation level certified -
01.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Global Academy of Technology
01.2009
Skills
- Selenium Web driver
- UFT/QTP
- Jenkin
- GitHub
- Extent Reports
- TestNG
- Cypress
- Postman
- Karate
- JMeter
- Blaze meter
- Load Runner
- JIRA
- Quality Center
- Bugzilla
- PractiTest
- Serena business management
- Share point
- Swagger
- Confluence
- Mysql
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Dynamo DB
- Oracle
- Web
- Mobile
- Windows
- API
- Microservices
- AS400
- Mainframe
- AWS
- Azure Devops
- Java
- VB script
- SQL
- HTML
- XML
- CSS
- JSON
- Health Care
- Logistic
- Ecommerce
- Networking
- Continuous integration
- Software development lifecycle
- Data-driven testing
- Test automation strategy
- Agile methodology experience
- Test case design
Timeline
QA Automation Lead Engineer
Bank of America
07.2024 - Current
QA Automation Lead Engineer
Fidelity Investment
03.2022 - 07.2024
Automation Lead Engineer-SDET
ConnectiveRX
10.2019 - 03.2022
Computer programming analyst -SDET
UPS
07.2016 - 09.2018
Computer programming analyst
NYC HRA
07.2015 - 06.2016
Computer programming analyst
UPS
11.2012 - 07.2015
Software Engineer
Century Link
06.2010 - 04.2012
Testing Engineer
Neurosynaptic systems
08.2009 - 05.2010
ASTQB Artificial Intelligence Certification
AWS Cloud Practitioner
ASTQB foundation level certified -
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Global Academy of Technology
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