Sowmiya Narayani Rajasekar

Quality Consultant
Email: [email protected]
Phone : 848.283.3031
Charlotte, NC
Professional Summary

 Experienced Quality Assurance tester (ISTQB Certified - Foundation) with over 6+ years of
diversified experience in the Bank, Finance, Retail, Health care and Market Research domains as
Manual and Automation tester.
 Experienced in both Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.

 Quick learner and continue to improve myself by learning new technologies/process.

 Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle(STLC),
with specific focus on Analysis, test planning, test case design, test execution, test reporting, defect
tracking and defect cycle management.

Software Skills
Testing Tools Selenium WebDriver, Postman, Browserstack

Programming/Query Languages Java, SQL

Testing Frameworks TestNG, Data Driven, Cucumber

Test Management Tools Jira, ALM

Build, Version Control, CI/CD Tools Maven, Jenkins, Git, GitHub.

Methodologies/ Approaches Waterfall, Agile, SDLC, STLC.

Educational Qualifications
• Master of Computer Science from Bharathidasan University in 2013.
Accomplishments

 Received Nielsen Golden Award for outstanding performance in handling high profile projects.
 Received on the spot Award to exhibiting good teamwork and working as role model to others.
 Awarded as Gladiator of the team for determination on handling the extreme situations and for
emerging as winner.
 Ranked as 1st in BPS PRO Quiz among 8 lakh participants from TCS. The competition is regarding
the Crisis management, Team management, Risk Management and IQMS documents.
 Received Star performance award for consistently delivering the project on time.
 Participated in Hackathon program conducted by Numpy Ninja.
Bank of America: ATM Test Apr 2023 – May 2023
Roles & Responsibilities:
 Analyzing manifest provided by Line of Business for new functionalities and UI. Creating new
test scenarios and test cases for new/updated requirements
 Performing Functional and Regression testing for ATM Software Application in System Testing
Environment by utilizing Agile Scrum model.
 Performing ATM transactions with Debit Cards, Credit Cards, Business Credit Cards, Business
Cards, Investment Cards, DCC (Dynamic Currency Conversion) cards and various types of cards.
 Working with Tandem/BASE24 application for ATM transaction log files and test the responses.
 Performing End to End functional testing for various modules of ATM transactions (ATM UI
Testing)
 VOICE GUIDANCE: Testing ATM transaction using audio jack to validate the verbiage of VG. This
is a part of ADA compliance/ accessibility testing.
 Performing contactless, NFC Transactions on ATM with Android and iOS.
 SPLUNK validation for data monitoring on daily basis.
 Executing test cases in ALM and QTest and updating the test run status with required
screenshots.
 Raising defects using JIRA and interacting with Stakeholders and Development team for defect
closure.

Numpy Ninja : Patient Portal Apr 2022 – Mar 2023

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Analyze project documents/artifacts to understand the project requirements and come up with
scenarios that need to be tested.
 Develop Test plan and review with product owners and business user to get approval on the
plan.
 Convert the test scenarios into the test cases and prepare test data for the current sprint.
 Responsible for participating in Daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review, grooming and
retrospective meetings.
 Execute test cases and document results and defects in ALM.
 Responsible for creating and maintaining testing tasks in Jira.
 Coordinates meetings with development teams, testers, and business leads to discuss open defects
and prioritize them based on severity and business needs.
 Performed different types of testing like System Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression testing and
Functional testing, with Positive and Negative scenarios.
 Experienced in SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion, and updates into the
database.
 Responsible to update the traceability matrix to ensure the test coverage is met.
 Developed automation Framework and built Test scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Java.
Eclipse IDE is used to develop & debug the code.
 Utilized Page Object Model design pattern for test case maintenance and reduces the code
duplication.
 Implemented Data Driven frameworks and read the test data from the excel file to execute test
cases with multiple set of data.
 Test results are generated and produced as Allure Report.
 Performed cross browser testing and implemented parallel testing using TestNG.
  Implemented log4j2 to generate logs for test scripts.
 Experienced in implementing Cucumber Frameworks.
 Experienced in working with business team to develop Gherkins.
 Experienced in using version control tool Github and CI/CD tool Jenkins.
 Experienced in testing RESTFUL webservices using Postman.

Project : Compendia/Client Solutions Sep 2016 – March 2017

Company: EQUINITI

 Compendia is a powerful web-based solution and workflow-driven system. Compendia’s fully

integrated pensioner payroll solution is rich in the functionality required for carrying out the
pensioner payroll operations. Some of the key features are Payments by BACS, Payslip and P60
production, Supplementary and lump sum payrolls etc..,

Responsibilities:
 Responsibilities include requirements analysis, identifying the test scenarios, test plan update,
traceability matrix update, test case creation and Test case execution.
 Performed different types of testing like Smoke Testing, Exploratory testing, Regression testing,
Functional testing, Integration testing and End to End testing.
with Positive and Negative scenarios.
 Performed Mobile testing to verify the Compendia mobile application with Usability, Compatibility,
Performance and Functional testing.
 Utilized Browsers stack tool to stimulate Android and IOS devices with different versions to validate
the mobile application.
 Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion, and updates into
the database.
 Followed Agile Scrum process and maintained the project in Jira.

Project : Pro Sales CRM Feb 2014 – Sep 2016

Company: TCS
Roles & Responsibilities:
 Worked with product owners and engineers to understand complex systems and interfaces to
determine efficient analysis and testing approaches.
 Involved in the preparation of Test plans, Test scenarios, Test cases, and Test data. Tested the
company’s Salesforce CRM application.
 Created and tested Salesforce CRM Workflows, Approval processes, Validation Rules, and
Sharing Rules.
 Experience in performing regression testing in custom-built sales, order, and cart management.
 Performed System testing, functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, Sanity testing,
and other testing as necessary.
 Participate in Scrum Ceremonies, team-building events, and other meetings as a representative of
the QA team.
 Experienced in testing Campaign management which includes campaign creation, Adding
campaign members, converting into opportunities, updating status, assigning campaign
hierarchy, validating access provision, and record type for campaigns.
 Maintain test sandbox environments which include managing test data, configuring systems for
specific test needs, and monitoring issue reports.
  Validated the pick list values based on the record type layouts. Thoroughly validating the
validation and business rules.
 Validated all GUI alignment and column-level data in the SFDC application.
 Understood all aspects of salesforce configuration and technical/functional capabilities,
including all changes and potential system implications related to Salesforce release upgrades.
 Utilized Data loader to insert, update, and bulk import or export data from Salesforce.com
Objects.
 Experience in testing Custom code developments in LWC components, Process automation such
as Process Builder, Platform Events, and flows.
 Tested user profiles, hierarchies, and permissions sets as per user profile and public group.
 Tested salesforce Standard objects (Campaign, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunity, Cases) and
custom objects, page layouts, field validations, and access to the user based on defined profile.
 Tested Reports and Dashboard on sales cloud.
 Experience in handling UAT System demos and connecting with Users to help understand the
salesforce functionalities.

Project: Nielsen Local & National TV View Mar 2013 – Feb 2014
Company: TCS
Responsibilities:
 Major features of the application are to create the reports in the form of excel, pdf and word
files to identify who is watching, when is watching, including time-shifted viewing—the viewing
of recorded programming via DVR or video on demand.
 Integration testing took place to make sure the data flow from upstream to downstream.

 Interpret the variety of documentations (business/system/ technical requirement

documentation, process maps) to understand and identify the scope of testing.
 Actively communicating, asking pertinent questions, and working closely with various teams and
team members and Participating in all testing activities
 Responsible for updating Test plan, Test summary report and Traceability matrix.
 Documenting defects and testing information within ALM and follow up with development team
frequently to fix the defects.
 Retesting the defect fix and performing regression test to make sure existing functionalities are
not affected.
 Review the test results with operations (clients) to make sure they are satisfied with the testing.
 Communication with product owners for test plan approval, test results approval
 Make sure exit criteria is met to sign off the project.
 Ability to test backend applications by writing SQL statements.
 Followed Waterfall methodologies for software development life cycle.

Project : Nielsen – DD -Station Reportable Sep 2012 – Mar 2013

Company: TCS
Responsibilities:
 Performed User Acceptance Tester role and validated the application from the user’s
perspective.
 Functionalities of station reportable application and user roles are tested as part of system
testing. Station approvals, create, update and deletion of records are key features of the
application.
 Jobs are monitored and reported on the status for a given period. Incidents are created in case
of failures identified.
 Participated in test case creation and execution to make sure the application is performing as
per the requirements.
 Followed bug life cycle to log and retest the defects.