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Quality Assurance Developer
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Toptal member since March 18, 2022
Bio
Vignesh is an experienced QA engineer with expertise in manual and automation testing. He has a strong urge for innovation, modernization, automation while putting simplification and efficiency at the core of product development. His key strength includes a deep understanding of tools and technologies, critical and analytical thinking, and customer focus.
Portfolio
Carelon
Selenium, BrowserStack, Postman, Jira, Git, Gradle, Manual QA...
Cognizant
Selenium, HP UFT, Git, Apache Maven, REST Assured, Mainframe, Eclipse IDE...
Cognizant
Quality Assurance (QA), Manual QA, QA Automation, Java, Selenium, HP UFT...
Experience
- Selenium - 4 years
- TestNG - 4 years
- Java - 4 years
- Postman - 2 years
- WebdriverIO - 2 years
- Git - 2 years
- REST Assured - 2 years
- Appium - 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Selenium, Appium, Java, REST APIs, Eclipse IDE, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Visual Studio, Postman, SQL
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a unified framework, a one-stop solution for web, mobile, and API automation.
Work Experience
Automation Test Engineer
2021 - PRESENT
Carelon
- Scrutinized enhancement requirements, functional specifications, and other essential documents for testing. Formulated comprehensive test cases and test scenarios to ensure robust product quality.
- Automated web and mobile platform tests using Selenium and Appium. Reduced testing time by 50% and increased test coverage by 30%.
- Led comprehensive workshops and provided hands-on guidance to team members, emphasizing user considerations, best practices, and accessibility standards, resulting in a 30% increase in QA standards.
- Performed system testing in QTest and tracked defects in Jira. Configured a CI/CD pipeline in GitLab and Jenkins for smoke, sanity, and regression test suites.
- Spearheaded accessibility testing, scrutinized designs and code for accessibility compliance, reported findings and developed remediation solutions when necessary.
- Crafted SQL queries as test scripts and executed them in Snowflake for data validation across multiple environments.
- Streamlined Agile processes as scrum master, utilizing Jira to evaluate project requirements and acceptance criteria and promptly raising and addressing defects. Led daily defect triage meetings to address status and blockers.
Technologies: Selenium, BrowserStack, Postman, Jira, Git, Gradle, Manual QA, Quality Assurance (QA), Automated Testing, Web App Automation, Java, Manual Testing, Test Case Creation, TestNG, API Testing, Cucumber, Cross-browser Testing, Apache Maven, Web Accessibility, Windows, IntelliJ IDEA, Web Applications, QA Testing, JavaScript, SQL, Automated UI Testing
Automation Test Engineer
2020 - 2021
Cognizant
- Engineered automation test scripts and framework utilizing TestNG to encompass web, mobile, desktop, API, and mainframe applications.
- Prepared test estimation, test strategy, and test plan documents for a change request and project. Created test scenarios, test cases, and a requirement traceability matrix (RTM) for functional testing.
- Innovated new utilities, such as PDF, image, and file comparison tools, and validating system-generated emails.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for various projects, spanning web, mobile, desktop, API, and mainframe applications using GitLab and Jenkins to execute smoke and regression scripts.
- Helped the team to understand the test automation framework and provided the necessary training to support the project.
Technologies: Selenium, HP UFT, Git, Apache Maven, REST Assured, Mainframe, Eclipse IDE, Cucumber, TestNG, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Manual QA, Quality Assurance (QA), Mobile Device QA Automation, API Testing, Web App Testing, Java, Automated Testing, Automated UI Testing, QA Automation, Manual Testing, Winium, Windows, Eclipse, Web Applications, SQL, QA Testing, JavaScript
Programmer Analyst
2019 - 2020
Cognizant
- Designed an automation framework that supports web, mobile, API, and mainframe applications to be reused by major automation teams. Enhanced the framework with utilities such as Excel, JSON files, email read and write utility, and PDF comparison.
- Prepared test estimation, test strategy, and test plan documents for a change request and project. Created test scenarios, test cases, and a requirement traceability matrix (RTM) for functional testing.
- Executed test scripts, logged defects, and tracked them to closure in an HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Participated in a defect triage meeting.
- Performed regression tests for web, mobile, API, mainframe, and Windows applications across Windows and Linux platforms and maintained the regression test suite reports.
- Conducted thorough analysis of new automation requests, prepared comprehensive feasibility reports, and delivered insightful execution and estimation assessments.
- Contributed valuable perspectives and recommendations for script and framework enhancements during dynamic team meetings.
- Helped the team to understand the test automation framework and provided the necessary training to support the project.
Technologies: Quality Assurance (QA), Manual QA, QA Automation, Java, Selenium, HP UFT, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Mainframe, Winium, Web App Testing, Web App Automation, Mobile App Testing, Windows, Eclipse, Web Applications, QA Testing, Manual Testing
Programmer Analyst Trainee
2018 - 2019
Cognizant
- Prepared test estimation, test strategy, and test plan documents for a change request and project. Created test scenarios, test cases, and a requirement traceability matrix (RTM) for functional testing.
- Performed manual testing for web applications, logged defects in HP Application Lifecycle Management, and reported bugs and errors to the development team.
- Executed regression tests for web applications across Windows and Linux platforms and maintained the regression test suite reports.
Technologies: Java, Selenium, HP UFT, Quality Assurance (QA), Manual QA, Web App Testing, Windows, Eclipse, Web Applications, QA Testing, Manual Testing
Experience
Automation Framework
This baseline automation framework was created for UI automation of web, mobile, API, and Windows applications. A simple plug-and-play device can support both TestNG and the Cucumber framework. It also supports pdf and image comparisons, read and write files, and sending individual or consolidated reports of the regression test suite to clients.
Education
2013 - 2017
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
Anna University - Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Certifications
JUNE 2021 - PRESENT
Java: Automated API Testing with REST Assured
MARCH 2021 - PRESENT
Java Programming Masterclass
Udemy
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs
Tools
Eclipse IDE, Cucumber, WebdriverIO, Visual Studio, REST Assured, IntelliJ IDEA, Git, Apache Maven, BrowserStack, Postman, Jira, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Gradle
Languages
Java, SQL, JavaScript
Frameworks
Selenium, Appium, TestNG, Winium, Cypress
Paradigms
Automated Testing, Manual Testing
Platforms
Windows, Eclipse
Other
Quality Assurance (QA), Web Applications, Web App Automation, Web App Testing, QA Automation, Automated UI Testing, QA Testing, Test Case Creation, Cross-browser Testing, Web Accessibility, Agile Software Testing, HP UFT, Mainframe, Manual QA, Mobile Device QA Automation, Mobile App Testing, API Testing
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