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Venista Arulsamy

Morrisville,NC

Summary

7 years of IT industry experience in Manual, Automation, Database, ETL, API, Functional, and Regression testing. Certified Test Engineer with expertise in functional testing processes for implementation, managing and troubleshooting systems. Skilled and experienced in implementing QA processes and procedures, developing, and setting automation framework, and writing scripts.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Automation Test Engineer

Aara Solutions
Canyon, MN
01.2024 - Current
  • Experience in analyzing Business, Functional, Technical Specification and writing Test Cases, Test Procedure and Test Scripts against Acceptance Criteria.
  • Experience in analyzing Business, Functional, Technical Specification and writing Test Cases, Test Procedure and Test Scripts against Acceptance Criteria.
  • Experience in integrating Selenium with the BDD framework and the platform, Cucumber with TDD environment for functional test automation.
  • Experience in creating feature files, writing and automating functional tests, managing page objects, and model page object implementation.
  • Experience in Model page object implementation with BDD frameworks and selenium WebDriver, using step definition files to implement the singleton design pattern and interface.
  • Experience in implementing functional test automation of form-based web pages using Cucumber and integrated with extent report for test reporting along with log4j logging setup.
  • Analyzing testing results to locate, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in a timely manner.
  • Good knowledge of OOPS concept and Java skills.
  • Executed smoke, integration and regression tests to ensure the proper working of features on various platforms.
  • Good knowledge of Webservices tools Rest API and understanding of HTTP code responses.
  • Created and maintained automated test script for API testing using Java and TestNG.
  • Parse the response JSON and validated the Data using Java.
  • Proficient in Defect management, including Defect creation. modification, tracking, and reporting using Jira.

Environment: Maven, Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber, Jenkins, XML, JSON, SQL, GitHub, Jenkins

Senior Test Engineer

SPi Technologies India Private Limited
Chennai, India
04.2012 - 05.2013
  • Responsible for Leading defect triage calls with different scrum teams, product owners and manage escalation process for any outstanding defects with leadership team.
  • Validation of ETL Informatica mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing).
  • Preparing test data for File Dashboard, MI-ITS Claims and provider Correction Reports by collaborating with Product Owner, SME’s, Developers, and various businesses service team.
  • Prepared the XMLs against various business scenarios to validate the Provider Correction Report and Metrics.
  • Manual Security testing of the applications and APIs.

Environment: SaaS, Informatica, Ctrl-M, Tableau, SSIS, SSAS, MSBI, Oracle, Pl/SQL, SQL Server, SSMS, TFS, Jira, XML, REST API, Agile Scrum

IT Consultant

HCL Technologies Ltd
Chennai, India
09.2010 - 03.2011
  • Test planning, test case execution, defect tracking and reporting using Zephyr and Jira.
  • Prepared Test Cases for newly developed screen for UI and executed those Test Cases
  • Involved in performing Smoke, Functional, integration, and regression testing.
  • Test planning, test case execution, defect tracking and reporting using Zephyr and Jira. Identified requirement and Code gaps to reduce business risk ahead.
  • Production reconciliation was performed before the deployment of the developed application to the production systems to ensure that the screens are visible correctly.

Environment: Windows 8/10, Quality Center, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, Jira, Agile Scrum

Software Test Engineer

GenNext Technologies
Bengaluru, India
02.2008 - 08.2010
  • Wrote SQL queries to do the column level verification of the Dimension and Fact tables.
  • Identified data streams and reviewed data models for testing strategies. Verified data completeness and transformation rules.
  • Extensively used SQL statements to query the Oracle Database for Data Validation and Data Integrity.
  • Prepared Requirement traceability matrix (RTM) for the application.

Environment: DataStage, Oracle, TOAD, IBM DB2, SQL, Bugzilla, ETL, Windows

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications

Anna University
India

Skills

Testing: Manual, Database, ETL, Functional Automation, Cross Browser, Web service - API Testing

Tools: ALM, Bugzilla 2181, 110, Toad, Eclipse, SoapUI, HP ALM, Jira, DataStage, Informatica, Cognos, Postman

Framework: POM, Cucumber, BDD, TDD, TestNG, Data-Driven, Modular Driven, Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, Maven

Operating Systems/Script / Languages: Windows, UNIX, Java, JavaScript, JSON, HTML, XML, SQL

RDBMS: Oracle 10g/11g, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Methodology: Agile – Scrum

Certification

  • Certified Tester Foundation Level, ISTQB® - August 2022
  • Beginning Cucumber and Behavior-driven Development, Skillsoft – June 2024
  • Automated Testing: Design Patterns, Skillsoft – May 2024
  • Java Explorer, Earned the explorer Badge from Oracle Java - November 2023
  • SQL and Relational Databases 101, IBM Developer - December 2023
  • Prompt Engineering for Everyone, Cognitive Class - December 2023
  • Introduction to Cloud, IBM Developer - December 2023

Additional Information

Automation Test Engineer, TekArch, USA 10/2022 to 02/2023

  • Reviewed and updated Manual test cases based on CRM application in Salesforce.
  • Involved in a Maven project with TestNG automation framework developed using Selenium and Java.
  • Performed data driven testing using excel, JSON and property files.
  • Performed regression using Selenium WebDriver for automating the cross-browser testing.
  • Designed and executed automation tests for API tests using REST Assured, in UI based components.
  • Experience in security assessment of online applications to identify vulnerabilities in different categories like input and data Validation, Authentications, Authorization, Auditing and logging.
  • Maintained Java automation code and resources in source controls, Git Repository and integrated with Jenkins.

Environment: Maven, Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Postman, Jenkins, REST Assured, XML, JSON, SQL, Jira, Agile.

GitHub: git@github.com:Venista/QA_Automation.git

Timeline

Automation Test Engineer

Aara Solutions
01.2024 - Current

Senior Test Engineer

SPi Technologies India Private Limited
04.2012 - 05.2013

IT Consultant

HCL Technologies Ltd
09.2010 - 03.2011

Software Test Engineer

GenNext Technologies
02.2008 - 08.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications

Anna University
Venista Arulsamy