Srinivasan Kannan
Rancho Santa Margarita,CA
Summary
Accomplished Senior Quality Assurance Lead at Cognizant Technology Solutions, proficient in API testing and automation with tools like Postman, and proficient in JavaScript. Spearheaded quality management system enhancements, significantly improving workflow efficiency. Mentored junior staff, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth. Demonstrates exceptional leadership and technical skills in complex project environments.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Quality Assurance Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Rancho Santa Margarita, California
01.2024 - Current
- Led team of QA analysts, ensuring consistency in test execution and timely delivery of results.
- Develop and implement API testing strategies based on project requirements and objectives.
- Design, develop, and execute functional API test cases to validate behavior of APIs.
- Use tools like Postman, GraphQL or SoapUI to automate API tests and ensure consistent and repeatable results.
- Verify API functionality, data integrity, security, and performance against specified requirements.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts for API testing using scripting languages like JavaScript.
- Spearheaded efforts to implement robust quality management system that streamlined workflows across various departments.
- Mentored junior team members, fostering culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
Senior Quality Assurance Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chicago, IL
06.2022 - 12.2023
- Managed testing initiatives, establishing metrics, standards, methodology and necessary testing precautions and scheduling execution.
- Acted as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases by providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
- Part of the Database Migration Project from Mainframe to Oracle CC&B
- Projected Python Automation Scripts to ensure validation of millions of records to customer and got their buy in for same.
- Handled the entire line of business which has totally 8 modules and in scope for Oracle CC&B Migration.
Quality Assurnace Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai, India
12.2009 - 06.2022
- Lead, guide and monitor analysis, design, implementation and execution of test cases, test procedures and test suites.
- Involving in Daily Scrum calls, Retrospective Calls, Development team calls for any new feature implementation.
- Performing System Integration testing with various supporting teams and publishing test execution summary to client
- Designed test plans, scripts for functional and regression testing.
- Worked on Functional, SIT, User Acceptance, End to End, Black box and White box testing of Web base applications.
- Designed testing programs that address database impacts, software scenarios, negative testing for different phases of testing.
- Validated restful API’s using postman & performed data validation and testing on Mongo DB
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Anna University
Trichy, Tamilnadu, India04.2009
Skills
- Quality Advocate
- Quality Metrics Analysis
- Training and mentoring
- Test automation expertise
- API Testing (POSTMAN, REST, Graph-QL)
- Oracle SQL
- Playwright JavaScript
- SDLC and Agile
- Leadership and Communication
- Adaptability
- Problem-solving
Certification
- ISTQB
Timeline
Senior Quality Assurance Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2024 - Current
Senior Quality Assurance Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2022 - 12.2023
Quality Assurnace Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2009 - 06.2022
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Anna University