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Lakshmi Manasa A

Hyderabad

Summary

Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services, worked as Information/Functional analyst, Manual/Automation tester, Scrum Master(Agile methodologies – SCRUM)

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2011 - Current
  • Thirteen+ years of IT experience in Information/Functional analysis, Manual and Automation testing
  • Proficient in the domain of Airline and Travel Industry
  • Worked in Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Corner Stone OnDemand, Moodle, Drillster
  • Analyze the high-level functional requirements and convert them into epics/feature and further breakdown them into user stories and tasks
  • Worked with Stakeholders, project architect, developers for gap and solution analysis
  • Design system design & process flows, create conceptual and logical data models using Enterprise Architecture(EA) Tool
  • Design SOA web services & REST APIs
  • Refining the user stories with team for development
  • Experience with Manual/Automation Testing in Web Services (Rest/SOAP API), web applications and client-server applications on various Learning adapters (Moodle, Drillster, P1, AG5, Cross Knowledge etc.)
  • Three+ years of TOSCA automation and manual testing experience on platforms like Mainframes, Web services, database, PDF files and GUI
  • Two years of UFT automation on End-to-End interfaces
  • Very good experience in VB Scripting
  • Knowledge in Agile methodologies – SCRUM and I am certified Professional Scrum Master
  • Management of Sprint & Product – back log
  • Worked as a Scrum Master more than 6 months, conducted SCRUM ceremonies like – Sprint refinements, daily stand-up, retrospectives, etc
  • Experience in using JIRA, HP ALM, Rally, SOAP UI, Postman (REST), Bruno (API), Sparx Enterprise Architect, Confluence, Como, MS Office, Postgre SQL, graylog, TOSCA, UFT
  • Involved in Test planning and effort estimation
  • Experience in all stages of Software Test Life Cycle
  • Involved in Devops activities – Deployment through GitHub, Azure Cloud Resource Management
  • Good communication and leadership skills

Software Engineer

KLM Dutch Airlines
06.2021 - Current

Company Overview: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, legally Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands.It is part of the Air France–KLM group and a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance


  • Coordinating with the Product Owner and Business Product Analysts for identifying Business and Functional requirements, data mapping and prepare features, and user stories
  • Hands on experience Enterprise Architect tool (UML) and project management tools and Conducting data modeling, designing & documenting the technical solutions for the requirements
  • Participating in design sessions with development teams as well as other stakeholders, to challenge the best solution.
  • Designed the solution for business requirements in the following areas external/Internal employee training assignment, Course Mapping and handling employees on multiple learning platforms
  • Coordinating with third party application leads for system study, requirements gathering, analysis & testing of applications and managing smooth implementation of the same
  • Performed functional, regression, integration, security and UAT Testing.
  • Having good experience on Learning Management Systems (CSOD, Moodle, Drillster...etc).
  • Involved in Microsoft Azure resource migration from on premise to cloud.
  • Creating and maintaining BRD, FRD, SRD, test documentation, including test plans, test cases, and test reports
  • Informing the client about constraints, assumptions, risks, dependencies, issues and plan of actions, associated to the projects
  • Identified, analyzed, and documented defects using Jira defect tracking systems.
  • Good technical knowledge on SQL queries, and API webservices and having good debugging skills.

Functional/Information Analyst, Automation and Manual Testing

Vantiv| Worldpay
11.2016 - 12.2019

Company Overview: Vantiv was an American payment processing company and technology provider. Later it was acquired and merged into Fidelity National Information Services (FIS)


As Information/Functional Analyst


  • Gathering requirements from business/Product Owner
  • Analyze the requirements and come up with activity and use-case diagram
  • Align with Architect on the designs, which I made
  • Explaining requirements to the team and refine the user stories along with the team
  • Designed the solution for business requirements in the following areas of Credit card order management, third party payments
  • Prepare and keep maintaining documentation for the functional implementation of Credit Card-related applications


As Automation Test Engineer


  • Frequently aligned with stakeholders to see the IT solution is in-alignment with business requirements
  • Manage functional testing of the applications and reviewing the testing
  • Performed automation of Mainframe, Web based applications, Web Services (SOAP UI, Rest API), Data base automation testing using TOSCA Automation tool
  • Good Knowledge of TOSCA Test Suite (Modules, Test Case, Test Case Design, Requirement and Execution), TOSCA Scanning methods (XScan and TOSCA Wizard,) TOSCA Engines which helps to steer control
  • Participate in the requirement Review meeting
  • Migrated 400+ Mainframe testcases from UFT tool to TOSCA successfully
  • Admin for TOSCA tool to handle user access, Version upgrade solutions, set up in Remote desktops and helped the team with TOSCA configuration related fixes
  • Perform feasibility analyze and test case optimization
  • Design Frameworks based on the understanding of application and its functionality
  • Automating test cases for the functionalities
  • Execute the test cases in the execution list and report issues
  • Test non feasible testcases manually
  • Perform batch execution for regression testcases, analyzing the results
  • Maintaining the automation script
  • Guiding the team on updating the necessary documents, training them on technical front wherever required


Quality Assurance Manual Test Engineer

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
05.2016 - 08.2016

Company Overview: Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) is a mobile telecommunications company that operates the Vodafone brand in Australia

  • To read the product backlog, all the related requirement and application documents and understand what needs to be tested
  • Based on the information procured in the above step decide how it is to be tested
  • Inform the test lead about what all resources will be required for software testing
  • Develop test cases and prioritize testing activities
  • Carry out regression testing whenever changes occur to the code to fix defects
  • Execute all the test case and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect
  • Report the test status and defect status using the test management tool
  • Give walkthrough of the test results to the customer and assist in getting signoff on the test activities performed
  • Reporting project status to clients through status update in confluence and daily status calls


Automation Test Analyst

Comcast Cable Corporation
12.2013 - 04.2016

Company Overview: Comcast is the largest video, high-speed Internet and phone provider to residential customers under the XFINITY brand

  • Analyzing various Business documents for the initial draft version of the Test Played an active role in both Manual and Automation perspectives
  • Performed Automation of Web based applications, Web Service (SOAP UI, Rest API), Data base automation testing in UFT Automation tool using VB script
  • Handled End to End application flows for order management system
  • Test Case, Scenarios development and Execution
  • Defects logging and tracking till their closure
  • Communicating with the Managers and the Business team for the perfect surveillance of the Business flow
  • Conducted Functionality Test, User Interface Test, Regression, Smoke testing, UAT


Network Engineer

Kimberly Clark
08.2011 - 10.2013

Company Overview: Kimberly-Clark Corporation is a personal care corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products

  • Production Support: Scheduling production jobs on different tools like TWS, Control-M, CA7
  • Resolving issues related to firewall security systems using RSA envision
  • Monitoring the application and resolving production issues
  • Handling mainframe DB2 related issues
  • Testing: Understanding requirement and design document
  • Experienced in test design with respect to test plan
  • Involvement in test execution and defect reporting using ALM
  • Performing smoke, functional, system integration and regression testing
  • Experienced in executing automation test case in ALM
  • Reporting the Failures
  • Communicating with other team members (Development Team, Technical Support) to resolve the issue
  • Involvement in test reporting on daily and weekly basis

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication

JNT University
01.2010

Skills

  • Business Product/Information Analyst
  • Scrum , Agile Coaching
  • Software Manual/ Automation testing
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • API design
  • Project management

Technical Stack - Software Technologies

  • Corner Stone On Demand (CSOD)
  • Confluence
  • Rest/SOAP API
  • Business Analysis , Manual/Automation Testing
  • Device Testing (Kobiton)
  • TOSCA
  • UFT
  • Selenium
  • JIRA
  • HP ALM
  • Rally
  • Postgre SQL
  • SOAP UI
  • Postman
  • GitHub
  • IntelliJ
  • Bamboo

Certification

  • Completed Scrum Master Certification (PSM1)
  • Completed ISTQB advanced test analyst certification
  • TOSCA Certifications – Automation Engineer Level1, Test design specialist level 1 & 2, Cross browser test automation, Tricentis certified professional 9.0, Web services test automation
  • Completed ISEB- ISTQB foundation level certification
  • Completed ITIL foundation level certification

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the above furnished details are true to the best of my knowledge.

Timeline

Software Engineer

KLM Dutch Airlines
06.2021 - Current

Functional/Information Analyst, Automation and Manual Testing

Vantiv| Worldpay
11.2016 - 12.2019

Quality Assurance Manual Test Engineer

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
05.2016 - 08.2016

Automation Test Analyst

Comcast Cable Corporation
12.2013 - 04.2016

Network Engineer

Kimberly Clark
08.2011 - 10.2013

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2011 - Current

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication

JNT University
Lakshmi Manasa A