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SREEARTHI KUTTY

Edison,NJ

Summary

Accomplished QA professional with 15+ years of professional experience seeks a challenging and rewarding position as a QA Manager / QA Lead / Senior QA where I can leverage my experience in leading teams through entire SDLC process while ensuring product excellence and optimizing team performance.

  • Extensive knowledge of all phases of Software Development and Testing Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
  • Experience in various software development methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative and Agile (Scrum).
  • Expertise in creating Test Plans and Test Cases based upon the business requirements.
  • Expertise in testing Client Server, Web Based applications and Mobile Application Testing using iPad, and Tablets.
  • Experience in stress testing of web applications using Open Load.
  • Experience in various testing methodologies; Black Box, Positive, Negative, Data-driven, Unit, System, Integrated, GUI, Regression, Functional Testing and Back End testing.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and strong interpersonal skills and a team player with the ability to work independently in fast paced environment.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Quality Assurance Engineering Manager

viaPeople
Plainsboro, NJ
01.2020 - Current

viaPeople is a best-of-breed talent management software company located in Plainsboro NJ that offers tailored solutions for performance management, 360-degree feedback and succession planning solutions. viaPeople products solve the most difficult HR software challenges through a combination of technology, talent expertise, and unprecendented service quality.

  • Lead the requirements, testing and implementation of entire viaPeople product suite and configuration options
  • Trained, Managed and Lead a high-performance QA team in a collaborative environment focused on quality excellence
  • Served as a player-coach, providing support, motivation and direction while maintaining active involvement with the work
  • Developed and implemented engineering processes that improved project efficiency by 70%.
  • Tracked the progress of projects and performed quality analysis throughout the development process to validate business requirements and application functionality and ensure compliance with the expectations of 70+ different clients
  • Trailed and implemented several new testing procedures and continuously improve quality-related processes
  • Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, areas for enhancement and, implemented best practices to enhance overall quality
  • Worked closely with cross-functional teams (such as development, product management, and operations) to align quality goals and ensure seamless product delivery
  • Provided weekly updates on the testing activities to all team members and product stakeholders.

Quality Assurance Lead

Inpensa Software
South Plainfield, NJ
06.2017 - 12.2019

Inpensa is a venture-backed SaaS company that focuses on digitizing the Business Case Management process. Inpensa software provides a purpose-built solution to manage the entire Enterprise Investment Lifecycle, from ideation to analysis, approval, and benefits realization. Inpensa’s innovative software platform automates and standardizes the process of managing corporate investments

  • Lead the requirements, testing and implementation of different modules of Inpensa's software products
  • Served as a liaison between the business and the technical team to gather business requirements and created Business Requirements Document (BRD) for the development team
  • Prepared Test Plans and Test Cases based on the functional and business requirements and Managed internal QA testing to validate application functionality
  • Created test scripts and test data for UAT testing and managed client UAT testing (script creation, assignment, issue tracking, resolution and retesting)
  • Involved in executing test cases for Penetration testing on a regular basis
  • Reviewed and approved product documentation for clients and assisted business users in defining UAT test cases and plans.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Integrated Media Management (IMM)
Rahway, NJ
05.2012 - 02.2017

IMM suite of software products improves productivity by automating the process for financial institutions. IMM's eSignatures and eWorkflow technology provides a full spectrum of signing environments and capabilities and allows financial institutions to process and close transactions more quickly reducing the lag times associated with paper based business processes.

  • As a QA Lead, Planned and executed testing activities of various IMM software products
  • Played an active role in design reviews and requirement analysis with development teams
  • Prepared Test Plans and Test Cases based on the functional and business requirements
  • Lead, mentored and trained onshore and offshore QA team members
  • Provided weekly updates on the testing activities to all product stake holders
  • Performed Functional, Integration, Load and UAT testing based on requirement specification and development release notes
  • Performed Black Box, White Box, Regression and Backend testing
  • Performed product compatibility testing in various Operating Systems, Browsers and Adobe Readers and on mobile devices like iPad and tablets
  • Involved in stress testing of web applications using Open Load
  • Reviewed and approved product documentation for clients and assisted business users in defining UAT test cases and plans
  • Responsible for documenting customer specific configurations for installers, providing knowledge transfer and assisting/supporting them during installations.

QA Analyst

FinTech Streets (Barclays Capital)
New York, NY
11.2011 - 04.2012

FISS (Fixed Income Settlement System) is Barclays Capital's primary securities settlement and accounting system. The primary functions of the system are Trade Enrichment - Settlement Netting - Clearing/Settlement - Position Management - PnL - Coupon processing – Accounting – Books & Records keeping - Borrow/Loan & Repo Processing - Sub Ledger/ Trial Balance- Regulatory Reporting. Users across all major global markets, USA, EMEA (All Europe), APAC (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore) have access to FISS.

  • Prepared Test Plans/ Test Cases for System, Regression & UAT testing
  • Developed SQL queries scripts to identify and resolve database related issues
  • Co-ordinated with various development / QA / UAT / Change Management team for periodic FISS release updates
  • Responsible for trouble-shooting various runtime issues while executing daily batch across all FISS trading area
  • Responsible for periodic Clear down / Database refresh for all the environments that includes both Static and Full volume transaction data snapshots to sync with Production Data for respect QA/UAT activities
  • Automated and scheduled end-of-day batch processes using ‘Autosys’ scheduler application
  • Responsible for executing/supporting various FISS development projects to facilitate QA/UAT in liaison with users/stakeholders across different geographic area.

MIS Process and Data Developer

Applied Card Systems
Glen Mills, PA
02.2004 - 09.2005

Applied card systems is a credit card servicing companies in the United States. This company services Cross Country Bank VISA credit card holders and private credit line accounts across the country.
TC Complaints audit is a web based application for the corporate management which is a series of intranet pages/forms for the management to easily access MIS reports and call recording files any time they wished to. This application is developed in ASP, HTML, JavaScript and MS Access as back-end on Windows.

  • Solely responsible for implementing, maintaining and testing the TC Complaints audit application
  • Developed and executed SQL queries to test the data from MS Access database
  • Responsible for all aspects of reporting, data collection and data analysis
  • Responsible for maintaining all report templates in MS Excel and their procedural documentation, data extraction programs (SAS code)
  • Responsible for compiling and distributing most of the daily and weekly quality reports for Collections and Account services
  • Responsible for adhoc data extraction, analysis, creating new reports and distribution as requested by corporate management

Software Engineer

Speech and Software Technologies
Chennai, India
05.2000 - 01.2002

Speech and Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd. have been developing solutions for the hospitality industry and has developed several applications that integrate with popular Central Reservation Systems and Property Management Systems. Central Reservation System (CRS) software enables Hotel chains to manage information related to Rates, Inventory, Reservations etc. in a Centralized location. The CRS provides interfaces to various divisions of the Hotel chain like Sales, Marketing and Hotel Managers to provide a holistic view of the Status of the hotels at any point of time.

  • Responsible for implementing and maintaining online Hotel Room Reservation system
  • Created and designed Websites and Webpages using ASP, HTML and JavaScript
  • Maintained and upgraded layouts, visual effects, and fonts for websites
  • Developed CSS and Java script to enhance functionality and user experience on web page
  • Implemented a graphical web-based reservation report using chart applets which provides a graphical report of the monthly and weekly statistics on hotel reservation to the hotel sales and Administrative staff
  • Performed unit and integration testing to validate the functionality of the reservation system.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

Madras University
Chennai
04-2000

Skills

HARD SKILLS

  • Windows (7 - 11)
  • Unix(Solaris)
  • iOS
  • JIRA
  • Asana
  • Wrike
  • MS Office
  • QTP
  • SQL server (2008, 2012, 2016, 2022)
  • Oracle (10g, 11g, 12c)
  • Postman
  • Fiddler
  • Open Load

SOFT SKILLS

  • Organized and Detail Oriented
  • Analytical and Strategic Thinking
  • Project Management
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Prioritization / Time Management
  • Interpersonal Skills / Team Player

Personal Information

Legal Status: US Citizen

References

Provided on Request

Timeline

Quality Assurance Engineering Manager

viaPeople
01.2020 - Current

Quality Assurance Lead

Inpensa Software
06.2017 - 12.2019

Quality Assurance Analyst

Integrated Media Management (IMM)
05.2012 - 02.2017

QA Analyst

FinTech Streets (Barclays Capital)
11.2011 - 04.2012

MIS Process and Data Developer

Applied Card Systems
02.2004 - 09.2005

Software Engineer

Speech and Software Technologies
05.2000 - 01.2002

Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

Madras University
SREEARTHI KUTTY