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Principal QA Engineer @ Oracle | CSM, Automation

About

As a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer at Oracle, I lead the test strategy and design for the Oracle Recruiting Product, a SaaS-based talent acquisition solution. I have over 9 years of experience in software testing, automation, and quality assurance, with a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) credential and a passion for agile and iterative development methodologies. I have successfully designed and developed automation and performance solutions that meet organizational standards and build reliable, reusable, and maintainable automated regression suites and test harness. I have also contributed to the requirements review, architecture and design reviews, test specifications, and technical reviews with an emphasis on test automation and performance strategy and ensuring best practices. Additionally, I have served as a Scrum Master for one release cycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services.

Location

Noida

Work experience

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer at Oracle, Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer at Oracle, Oct 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 8 mos, Noida

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Oracle, Oct 2018 - Sep 2022 · 4 yrs, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Highlights: • Designed and developed test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases for Oracle Recruiting Product (Taleo - Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud) based on SaaS distribution Model • Involved in requirements review and participated in architecture/design reviews, test specifications, technical reviews with an emphasis on test automation/performance strategy and ensuring best practices • Designed and developed automation/performance solutions that meet organization standards and build reliable, reusable and maintainable automated regression suites & test harness • Involved as Scrum Master for one release cycle, collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain product backlogs • Established defect RCA process using 5 Whys Technique to prevent production defects and delivered projects with high quality • Performed Webservices and Accessibility Testing as per Oracle Accessibility Guidelines (OAG) using JAWS • Involved in providing the objective feedback to development team on defect status on daily basis Key Achievements: • Developed Web UI Tests Scenarios with Behavior Driven Development Approach (BDD) using Gherkin and Selenium WebDriver • Zero defect leakage in UAT and Production for the projects

Quality Assurance Lead at Tata Consultancy Services, Apr 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Highlights: • Led a high-performing software testing team of 10 personnel through all the phases of application development; ensured that products and services met quality standards and end user requirement • Facilitated release planning, sprint planning, product backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives • Designed automation solutions for the projects, automation test plans, analyzed and prepared the Initial automation feasibility report for the projects • Conducted POC’s on in house automation testing tools for new prospective on test automation • Performed Internal Quality Audit(IQA), External Quality Audit(EQA) of product requirements, specifications, designs, code and test plan related to SDLC • Looked after resource planning, resource forecasting, scope assessment, testing framework, communication plan, reporting metrics template, defect reports, change management Key Achievements: • Enhanced the Keyword Automation Framework supporting web based objects for web browser testing • Customer Satisfaction Index >90 % for Application Quality • Achieved Defect Containment Effectiveness > 95 %

Quality Assurance Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, Sep 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos, Highlights: • Prepared, designed and led the test strategy and test plan for all projects ; reviewed activities such as Requirements Review, Design Review, Test Strategy Review • Analyzed manual test processes and developed shell scripts resulting in 80% reduction in manual testing efforts • Prepared tractability matrix between Business requirements, use cases and functional specifications • Documented new requirements, tasks and functionalities, maintain project knowledge base with latest run manuals and troubleshoot techniques • Participated in business requirements gatherings with stakeholders to understand the business need and analyzing testing scope based on the impact in the existing application Key Achievements: • Accomplished POC of Control M automation via QTP, Automation of data replication from Golden Gate via QTP, Automation of file creation and unix batch job processing via QTP • Developed VBA based tool to compare base line business requirements against RTM

Quality Assurance Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Dec 2012 - Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Highlights: • Introduced normalization of Object Repository for better performance and developed recovery scenarios for un-interrupted Test Executions • Involved in automation script development, maintenance using QTP. • Designed detail test cases from test scenarios and business requirements from End User Perspective and ensured full coverage of requirements • Reviewed test cases designed by peers, provide functional and technical comments to ensure proper coverage of the requirements • Performed test case execution in various testing phases iteration, system, user acceptance to ensure delivered functionality working as per expected requirements • Performed Ad hoc testing and Monkey Testing during functional Test execution to ensure the quality of the application Key Achievements: • Successfully catered 650 Test Cases into 18 automation scripts using parameterization • Zero defects in UAT and Production for various projects

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Hitkarini College of Engineering and Technology, Jabalpur