Lakshmi Narayanaswamy
Tunbridge Wells
Summary
- A Dynamic Test Manager 17 + years of experience in managing QA teams and implementing testing projects in various domains spanning across Insurance , Banking, Energy & Utilities , Healthcare and Life Sciences.
- Skilled in coordinating testing efforts, leading cross functional teams and ensuring the successful completion of testing cycles.
- Strong expertise in identifying client needs, implementing test strategies and providing effective communication through the testing process.
- Managed high profile client projects based in EU and US.
- Expertise in Test Management activities which include effort estimation , task planning, preparation of Test Plan, conducting defect triage calls , participating in daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, retrospective meetings, preparing Daily Status Reports, Weekly Status Reports, Risk Management through RAID log and Test Summary report.
- Experience in driving shift from Waterfall ways of testing to Agile ways.
- Demonstrated expertise in strategic programmes across multiple distributed scrum teams ( offshore, US, UK etc.).
- Have exposure in handling EU and US clients. Experience in driving shift from Waterfall ways of testing to Agile ways.
- Managed testing for strategic programmes spanning multiple distributed scrum teams (offshore, US, UK, etc).
- Extensive experience in co-ordinating User Acceptance testing, creation of UAT test scenarios, follow up with the business stakeholders for business sign off and closure of testing activities.
- Highly motivated , independent and organised team player, enthusiastic, strong initiative, and quick learner for new technologies with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Exposure to Report testing using Python based automation script.
- Strong knowledge of Data Management from data ingestion to processing to reporting & Analytics.
- Extensive experience in ETL/ Data warehouse Manual testing with strong SQL skills and BI Intelligence reports testing.
- Experience with test management tools like HP ALM and JIRA.
- Extensive experience in BI migration projects – Cognos to Power BI report migration, Business Objects to Cognos migration to name a few.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Manager
AXA XL
10.2020 - Current
- Involved in liaising with the project team to understand with functional requirements for each Agile Sprints
- Developed test plans, test cases and test scripts to ensure highest level of software quality
- Provide Test Summary report at the end of each Sprint
- Defect management through JIRA- follow up for defect closure by defect triage meetings
- Identify Root cause of defects wherever possible
- Interactions with the users before SIT phase to get their agreement for the system testing coverage thereby minimising UAT defects
- UAT co-ordination including the test data set up, environment access for the users, UAT scenario preparation and Defect triage during UAT
- Worked in automating test validation of excel report outputs using Python framework
- Participate in PROD Deployment Readiness including Go/No Go Meetings and co-ordinate with environment support team for deployment
- Mentor the testing team working at offshore and review the test results on a regular basis
- Responsible for the delivery for the project for the testing team comprising of 8 to 10 members
- Accomplishments: Worked in projects with challenging timelines and ensured testing is completed within deadline with no defect leakage to UAT environment
- Proactively interacted with the users during SIT phase to understand the test scenarios to incorporate the user specific scenarios in SIT
- Accelerated the delivery by enhancing an automation python script to validate data
- Juggled the work between multiple projects at the same time and co-ordinated testing for different teams
- Recognised as best performer of the quarter in Cognizant Worldwide Limited in 2023, Q2.
Senior Test Lead
Newton Investment Management
03.2018 - 12.2019
- Understand the business requirements from the users and prepare SIT test scenarios and test cases based on the business requirements
- Attend Project stand ups, sprint planning meeting and provide test estimates and provide sprint feedback during retrospective
- Test End to End workflow of the Client Reporting solution- Vermillion reports
- Defect management through JIRA, defect triage
- Accomplishments: Evolved from being a test lead to the Single Point of Contact for Testing in various projects within delivery team in a short span of time
- Experience in handling challenging business users in the project which transitioned into smooth interactions with the users overtime.
Senior Test Lead
John Lewis
04.2017 - 02.2018
- Preparation of SIT and E2E Test Scenarios
- Work with the business owners to understand the user acceptance test requirements and agree on the UAT test scenarios
- Plan and facilitate User acceptance testing and follow up the business stakeholders for business sign-off
- Accomplishments: Handled E2E interacting with various teams right from the source to the target systems which also involved third party vendors.
Senior Test Lead
GlaxoSmithKline
09.2016 - 02.2017
- Liaising with Cognos report owners to understand the report functionality and interact with the QlikView team to understand how the report logic is re-implemented in the Qlik reports
- Preparation of Test Strategy and Test plan based on HLD
- Review the SQL test scripts prepared by the offshore team
- Prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix and ensure all functional requirements are mapped to test cases and tested
- Follow up with the stake holders for business sign-off
- Prepare Test Summary Report
- Accomplishments: Applied the experience of working in Business Objects reports to work with Qlikview reports and scaled up quickly to learn and work in Qlikview reports.
Test Analyst
Connected Homes
11.2014 - 06.2015
- Liaising with source and target system owners to understand the data representation and flow of data in the existing source and target systems
- Analyse and review ETL mappings to understand the technical implementation of business rules
- Preparation of Test Strategy and Test plan based on HLD
- Attend Sprint planning meeting to identify the sprint scope and daily scrum meetings to update the scrum master on the daily progress
- Co-ordinate with the business users and understand the business requirements- Assist them in getting the UAT test scenarios shaped up before the UAT phase
- Share the test results with different stake holders of the project, involved in the defects discussions with business and development teams.
Test Analyst
Centrica British Gas
05.2011 - 10.2014
- Worked closely with Design and mapping team to understand the testing scope
- Creation of Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, and Test cases from mapping specification document and uploaded them in Mercury Quality Centre
- Wrote complex SQL scripts using JOINS, SUBQUERIES, MINUS Queries and AGGREGATORS to test and validate complex ETL Mapping transformation rules including Change data capture (CDC) with Slowly Changing Dimension 2 and the data across the source and targets after data loading (Initial and Delta load) process is complete
- Defect tracking through HP Quality Centre
- Preparation of test exit report.
Software Tester
Cognizant Worldwide Limited
01.2009 - 01.2012
- Test Design and creation of Test cases and test scripts for functional testing
- Working with the onsite co-ordinator for day-to-day deliverables.
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies Limited
09.2006 - 05.2008
- Functional testing - creation of SQL test scripts and execution.
Education
Skills
- JIRA
- Agile and Scrum
- Test Management- Test Plan and Test Estimation
- Databases: SQL Server, Netezza DB, Postgres SQL, Teradata
- ETL Tools- SSIS, BODS, Informatica Power Center 91
- Reporting Tools- Power BI, Cognos, QlikView, Business Objects, SAS Reports
- Client Reporting Tool – Vermillion
- Test Management Tools- JIRA, HP Mercury Centre
- Database Tools- Coginiti Pro, Aginiti Workbench, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Developer, Teradata SQL Assistant, Navicat for Postgres SQL
- User Acceptance Testing – Co-ordination, UAT scenario preparation and Environment setup
Certification
- ISTQB Certified professional
- Azure Data Fundamentals certified
Details
Tunbridge Wells, 07720250754, lakshmicn003@gmail.com
Timeline
Test Manager
AXA XL
10.2020 - Current
Senior Test Lead
Newton Investment Management
03.2018 - 12.2019
Senior Test Lead
John Lewis
04.2017 - 02.2018
Senior Test Lead
GlaxoSmithKline
09.2016 - 02.2017
Test Analyst
Connected Homes
11.2014 - 06.2015
Test Analyst
Centrica British Gas
05.2011 - 10.2014
Software Tester
Cognizant Worldwide Limited
01.2009 - 01.2012
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies Limited
09.2006 - 05.2008
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