DhivyaRekha Manikandan

Quality Analyst - Automation, Marktine Technology Solutions 

|| Spectralink (USA) ||

• Worked on requirements gathering and evaluation with Product, Design and Engineering teams. Scheduled meetings and discussions with software design teams to discuss verification protocols, test scope and parameters for automated tests.
• Extensive knowledge of Agile methodology and participated in Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective, Product backlog refinement and daily Scrum meetings.
• Implemented POM model in BDD framework using Cucumber Gherkin to script complex test case scenarios that involve calling between multiple hand-held sets.
• Experienced in using in adb commands, git and Gerrit version control systems.
• Achieved 90% positive runs for over 1000 plus automation test scripts maintained in CI/CD Jenkins for various Spectralink smartphone devices test repository - Versity, Saturn, Orion, Mars handsets.
• Triaged, analysed and recorded bugs with extensive detail for reproduction with screenshots and tracked to closure in JIRA.
• Analysed logs and test results to investigate errors in software, highlighting causes to help developers create fixes.

Associate - Software Test Engineer, Cognizant Technology Solutions 

Liberty Mutual (USA) || Boots, Home SERV(UK) || Telstra(Australia) || Bamboo Rose (HongKong) || Cigna (USA)

MANUAL EXPERIENCE:

• Led, reviewed and validated requirements and technical specifications to develop test plans, Test estimation and Test Summary/Completion documents prior to a release.
• Extensively experienced in the creation of functional and regression test suites, analysing test results, and maintaining RTM for manual execution of web and client/server applications.
• Wrote detailed test scenarios and cases, accurately logging errors and defects in comprehensive test reports. Experienced in defect management in popular defect management tools like JIRA, HP QC.
• Presented test reports and analysis to management including recommended software fixes. Demonstrated outstanding product knowledge to achieve high customer satisfaction levels.
• Experienced in a broad range of testing including Sanity, Smoke, Regression, Integration, End to End, Exploratory testing for modules and responsible for product release.
• Interpreted blueprints, data, manuals and other materials to write System Integration test scenarios and executing them.

AUTOMATION EXPERIENCE:

• Developed automation test scripts in Selenium Webdriver  from scratch or contributing to existing testing frameworks for web applications using BDD, TestNG, POM frameworks using JAVA programming language.
• Built automation test scripts and have experience in advanced Selenium concepts. Implemented TestNG for smoke test and used all annotations effectively.
• Worked on Data Driven/ Page Object model framework and have extracted excel files using Apache POI and loaded variables in script code.
• Used Maven for build and dependency management where plug-ins were added according to project needs.
• Used log4j, experienced in writing complex xpaths, and cross browser testing.
• Strong understanding of OOPS concepts.
• Working experience in performance test tools like Blazemeter, Jmeter, Postman to test web application performance under load.
• Performed SOAP UI testing to test xml messages exchanged between two nodes.
• Clearly articulated and communicated project status with development, Business analyst teams across the world from different time zones as Lead and raised ambiguities found in Business requirements

M.Sc., Big Data Technologies 

University of Westminster 

Academic Achievement Award : DISTINCTION

• Big Data Technologies, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Data Repositories, Web and Social media analytics, Data warehousing, Data Visualisation and Dashboarding.

B.E, Electronics and Communications Engineering 

Anna University 

Academic Achievement Award : FIRST CLASS

• Successfully completed all modules during the 4 years of study in Electronics and Communication