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Hareesh Kotu

Hareesh Kotu

Summary

Senior Test Consultant with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes. Backed by strong credentials including a Master's degree, ISTQB Foundation Level Certification, advanced command of various testing suites, agile methodologies and monitoring tools and cross-platform skills in Windows, Android and iOS.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior System Test Engineer

Cubic Transportations
Redhill
04.2022 - 04.2024
  • Responsible for creating Test Plan, Test Scenarios and RTM documentation
  • Designing manual functional/API Tests and Selenium Scripts and executing them
  • Implemented and configured Jira and Test management tools for all projects and generated KPIs for weekly stakeholder progress meetings. Performed data
    analysis on project progress and feedback to senior management
  • Testing and coordinating API Testing using SOAP UI.
  • Documented test results and shared findings with development teams and project stakeholders
  • Testing the Mobile Native app for Functionality, UI and Regression on the handsets
  • Conducted tests both in house and Witness/UAT testing for the clients and 3rd parties
  • Prepared and conducted in-house reliability tests
  • Coordinated the work of Test Technicians, collated results and reported defects
  • Prepared and conducted environmental sanity tests
  • Participated in Defect Triage an performed Defect Reviews
  • Prepare and maintained the test configuration environments

QA Verification Analyst

Dense Air Ltd.
Marlow
10.2021 - 04.2022
  • Responsible for creating Test Plan, Test Scenario and Test Case documents
  • Proficient with Test Estimation for NQT mobile application and Denseware Web Application
  • Actively participated/collaborated in all SPRINT ceremonies like daily scrum calls, SPRINT Planning and SPRINT Retro
  • Writing of Test Documentations: Test Plans, Test Cases, Environment Setup, Test Schedule, Test Execution, Status & Summary reports
  • Involved in setting up Test Environment, installing APKs on the various devices and conducting network tests on them
  • Collaborating with Developers, Data Engineers, Business Analysts and other stake holders to draft user stories in JIRA and acceptance criteria for each user story
  • Executed Test Cases, logged defects in JIRA and liaised with the developers for the resolution of defects
  • Involved in Ad hoc/Exploratory and regression testing of NQT mobile app
  • Produced data reports for the Head of Data Analytics with Test results for data related to SINR, RSRP, EARFCN, PCI, etc
  • For every sprint
  • Responsible for testing Denseware Web application across multi-browsers for each SPRINT
  • Responsible for creating BDD-Gherkin tests for test automation of Dense ware web application.

Lead Test Analyst

Samsung R&D
Staines-upon-Thames
04.2017 - 04.2021
  • Participating in Test Estimations and Sprint planning meetings to have common understanding of the business requirements and collaborate with stakeholders and project teams
  • Writing of Test Documentations: Test Plans, Test Cases, Environment Setup, Test Schedule, Test Execution, Status & Summary reports
  • Mentoring and monitoring junior testers and helping them out in understanding the application
  • Collaborating with Developers, Architects, Analysts, Product Owner and other stake holders to write story definition and acceptance criteria for each user story
  • Recorded problems & issues in accordance with the project's problem and issue management plans
  • I was involved in testing new third party APK's and checking the compatibility with Bixby
  • I was involved in Regression Test Cycles in all areas of Bixby
  • Produced progress reports for Project Managers with Project Status from QA perspective in a timely and efficient manner
  • Involved in Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Exploratory, Sanity & Regression Testing Manually.

Functional Test Analyst

Lebara
London
08.2016 - 04.2017
  • Undertaking application testing, ensuring operability remains after the deployment of changes into a managed pre-production environment Implementation
  • Planning, coordinating and execution of testing with the aim of validating that deployment, co habitation and when necessary, back out is possible for any number of changes that are to be promoted into the live environment at the same time
  • Ensuring that all the test requirements have been requested along with all the necessary environments, connectivity and support
  • Coordinating test days including being the key contact for my customers, being the escalation point when errors are identified and liaising with support teams to aid resolution and also ensuring that testing timescales are met
  • Carrying out test execution by following manual test scripts or by running automated test scripts
  • Maintaining both manual and automated test scripts and ensuring that sufficient test data is always available
  • Attending project definition workshops to input and identify any test requirements
  • Reviewing and maintaining test scripts submitted by the project teams.

UAT Test Analyst

Sogeti
London
08.2015 - 08.2016
  • Identified issues & risks relating to workload and provide suggested mitigating actions & appropriately escalate to Team Leads, SCRUM Master, and clients
  • Worked with team members on Product and Sprint backlogs
  • Tested software to identify and resolve problems from an end users perspective
  • Accurately monitored and recorded results in test documentation
  • Prepared detailed test plans, acceptance criteria and test scenarios for each project
  • Liaised with developers and programmers to swiftly resolve faults.

Education

Masters in International Strategic Management -

Staffordshire University
01.2008

Skills

  • Over 8 years of extensive experience in testing Mobile (Android & IOS), Web UI/UX, Desktop (Standalone) applications
  • Test Management, Resource Management, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test scripting/Execution, Defect Management, Jira/Zephyr, Confluence, Sharepoint, MS Azure
  • Agile, V-model, Waterfall, TDD, BDD
  • Acceptance, Integration, System, Regression, E2E, upgrade, performance, UAT, Usability Testing
  • MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server
  • API testing-Postman, SoapUI
  • Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, JMeter
  • Java, Javascript, Sql, Xml, Json
  • Good communication, presentation and analytical skills

Accomplishments

  • Successful delivery on multi-million-pound projects
  • ISTQB Certified Agile Tester
  • ISTQB Software Testing Foundation

Additional Information

Excellent References Available on Request

Timeline

Senior System Test Engineer

Cubic Transportations
04.2022 - 04.2024

QA Verification Analyst

Dense Air Ltd.
10.2021 - 04.2022

Lead Test Analyst

Samsung R&D
04.2017 - 04.2021

Functional Test Analyst

Lebara
08.2016 - 04.2017

UAT Test Analyst

Sogeti
08.2015 - 08.2016

Masters in International Strategic Management -

Staffordshire University

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