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Kalai Vani

Kalai Vani

Tallinn

Summary

Dedicated IT professional with 13 years of versatile expertise in QA Engineering, encompassing Automation, Manual, Rest API, Microservices, and DB testing. Proficient in crafting test automation frameworks from scratch. Skilled in Python, Ruby, and Core Java languages. Adept at architecting efficient, scalable automation solutions.

Enthusiastic about diversifying domain knowledge and excelling, with a keen interest in advancing proficiency in the cloud domain and mobile automation.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

CLOUDMORE
Tallinn
11.2022 - Current
  • Proficient in writing and maintaining UI and API automation scripts in Python, harnessing the capabilities of the Playwright framework.
  • Created comprehensive test cases to validate the functionality of gRPC services, covering various scenarios, and edge cases for microservices.
  • Dedicated to continuously improving the speed and stability of automation tests, ensuring high-performance testing environments.
  • Skilled in crafting detailed test plans, test cases, and functional testing, contributing to a thorough understanding of testing requirements and procedures. Also, I am responsible for the release to production environments.
  • Provided technical guidance to junior QA team members on how to write effective automated tests.
  • Hands-on experience with the Azure portal, Kafka, and databases for test data creation and testing Kafka messages.
  • Participated in sprint planning meetings to provide feedback on scope definition, timeline estimates and risk assessment.

Senior Automation Quality Analyst

BREAD FINANCIAL (FORMERLY KNOWN AS ALLIANCE DATA CARD SERVICES AND EPSILON)
Bangalore
11.2018 - 10.2022
  • Company Overview: Domain: Banking, Credit Card services, Customer Support application.
  • Expertise in Automation, functional, regression, integration, compatibility, UAT, and production testing, enhanced by coverage analysis via Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
  • Implemented integrating test scripts within CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and conducting database testing with advanced SQL query skills.
  • Have set up the automation framework from scratch for cucumber framework and Web UI, API using Ruby Water framework.
  • In-depth experience in Automating application migrated to Cloud and Rest services testing using Postman.
  • Strategic in sprint planning, metric preparation, and status reporting, with a strong foundation in Agile methodology and active participation in client meetings.
  • Leadership-oriented, with a track record of team management, task delegation, and mentoring, including the delivery of knowledge transfer and training sessions.
  • Regularly assess team member performance to ensure continuous improvement.
  • Technical proficiency in databases such as MSSQL, PL/SQL, and Cosmos DB (NoSQL), and adept in test and project management tools like JIRA, HP ALM, QC, and Confluence.
  • Operating system expertise in Windows, Mac with proficiency in version control tools GIT and SVN.
  • Domain: Banking, Credit Card services, Customer Support application.

Senior QA Analyst

WELLS FARGO
Bangalore
04.2017 - 11.2018
  • Company Overview: Domain: Banking, KYC, HRCA
  • Migration of ruby test scripts to Java-Selenium and development of new test scripts in Java-Selenium using QAF framework.
  • Coach the team members and resolve any blocking technical/functional issues.
  • Plan and execute the regression scenarios and automate them.
  • Involved in Team members recruitment and leading the periodical assessment of Team members' performance.
  • Involved in Sprint planning meetings, Metrics preparation and Status reporting.
  • Domain: Banking, KYC, HRCA

Senior QA Engineer

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
Bangalore
11.2012 - 03.2017
  • Company Overview: Domain: B2B, Retail, Banking, Securities, Health Care.
  • Developed automation and maintained automating scenarios for new features in the release using the Cucumber framework, using Ruby and Water [developed from scratch].
  • Automating REST APIs for various flows in the application using RSpec.
  • Test the web services using the SOAP tool.
  • Domain: B2B, Retail, Banking, Securities, Health Care.
  • Mobile application testing and did a POC for mobile automation using BrowserStack.
  • Participated in Agile Scrum meetings to plan sprints and review progress towards completion goals.
  • Worked on the ATDD model of testing, along with developers, to identify bugs at the initial stage of testing.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Vellore Institute of Technology
India
01-2015

Skills

  • Automation testing
  • PYTHON
  • RUBY
  • JAVA
  • Cucumber, Behavior-Driven Development
  • ATDD
  • Api testing
  • GRPC, Microservices
  • KAFKA
  • Selenium, Playwright, Pytest
  • QAF(Hybrid)
  • CI/CD integration
  • Mobile testing, cross-browser testing
  • Testing, MAVEN
  • GIT, Jenkins, Bitbucket
  • Mobile automation testing
  • MS SQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and IBM DB2 connect
  • JIRA, HP ALM, Confluence
  • Agile methodology

Languages

English

Accomplishments

  • Received the Feather in My Cap award at Wipro for my astonishing project completion
  • I was awarded Star of the Week multiple times at Wells Fargo for my weekly performances and for leading the KYC team
  • Received the Award of Achiever for handling it single-handedly at Wells Fargo

Timeline

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

CLOUDMORE
11.2022 - Current

Senior Automation Quality Analyst

BREAD FINANCIAL (FORMERLY KNOWN AS ALLIANCE DATA CARD SERVICES AND EPSILON)
11.2018 - 10.2022

Senior QA Analyst

WELLS FARGO
04.2017 - 11.2018

Senior QA Engineer

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
11.2012 - 03.2017

Master of Science - Information Technology

Vellore Institute of Technology

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