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Ramya Sri Asam

London,United Kingdom

Summary

ISTQB Certified Tester with over 6 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance from projects across insurance, life insurance and financial services, and e- commerce sectors. I am looking for a challenging role in an organization that promotes continuous development and supports my career advancement.

Strong experience across all phases of SDLC, STLC, the bug lifecycle, and Agile with comprehensive knowledge of software testing Activity involved in Agile ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily standup, sprint demo, and retrospect using Scrum/Kanban boards for sprint planning and defect tracking. Coordinate with various stakeholders, business clients for understanding requirements and there by define test scenarios for different testing levels Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful QA feedback. Have Good consulting skills and proficient at designing, developing, and implementing test strategies, test plans, test cases and test processes. Experienced in applying equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, state transitions, and use case techniques to reduce exhaustive testing. Work in a cross-disciplinary team and participate in improvement working groups. Good experience in using SQL queries for data testing and data validation on different workflows. Good experience in testing different CRM workflows on Salesforce Applications. Good experience in interrogating XML for performing correspondence testing for different services. Have good exposure to automation testing using selenium, java and Cucumber BDD. Have good exposure in using CI tools such as Jenkins for CI/CD workflows.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Test Analyst

Foresters Financial
Bromley, London
01.2024 - 05.2025
  • Company Overview: Client: Foresters Financial Limited
  • Collaborate with the business and development teams to understand requirements, user journeys, and scenarios for different product types, configurations, and customer preferences.
  • Identify test scenarios, prepare test data, and test suites like sanity, independent feature-based, user scenario-based tests, and regression with regular updates in response to changing requirements.
  • Review test results, raise defects, and send an overall summary report with execution status and defect status to various stakeholders.
  • Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and follow Agile principles for delivering a working product with incremental changes based on business priority and technical feasibility.
  • Involved in creation of Test Plans and Test Completion reports and share the same with relevant stake holder during testing window.
  • Manage defects in Azure and coordinate with stakeholders for fixes, retests, and resolutions.
  • Run SQL queries and perform testing on backend services and to gather test data needed for functional testing.
  • Involved in testing different products within the company. Have worked on testing salesforce workflows, point of sale applications and data testing on centralized application.
  • Involved in performing API testing using SOAP UI in testing service calls to external systems.
  • Client: Foresters Financial Limited

Test Engineer

Tesco Insurance
Newcastle Upon Tyne
11.2020 - 12.2023
  • Involved from the inception of the project to understand requirements.
  • Work closely with Business Analysts to derive acceptance criteria for User Stories.
  • Review in sprint user stories and write manual test scenario's and test cases in QTest.
  • Execute test scenario's as part of releases within the sprint.
  • Identify defects and report them on Jira.
  • Actively involved in communicating the issues / defects to scrum team members.
  • Partner with developers, BA's and other stakeholders to improve testing processes.
  • Actively Involved in all the sprint ceremonies like backlog refinement, sprint planning, retro meetings etc.
  • Responsible in identifying End to End test cases for test automation and get them reviewed and signed off by business.
  • Perform API testing using SOAP UI.

Test Engineer

Atom Bank
Newcastle Upon Tyne
01.2019 - 11.2020
  • Involved from the inception of the project to understand requirements.
  • Work closely with Business Analysts to derive acceptance criteria for User Stories.
  • Review in sprint user stories and write manual test scenario's and test cases in QTest.
  • Execute test scenario's as part of releases within the sprint.
  • Identify defects and report them on Jira.
  • Actively involved in communicating the issues / defects to scrum team members.
  • Partner with developers, BA's and other stakeholders to improve testing processes.
  • Actively Involved in all the sprint ceremonies like backlog refinement, sprint planning, retro meetings etc.
  • Responsible in identifying End to End test cases for test automation and get them reviewed and signed off by business.
  • Perform API testing using SOAP UI.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Skills

  • Java
  • SQL
  • JSON
  • XML
  • MS SQL Server
  • Sanity Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • UAT
  • Jenkins
  • Salesforce
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android
  • IOS
  • IE
  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Sauce Labs
  • Automation testing tools proficiency
  • Selenium
  • Cucumber
  • GIT Lab
  • SOAP UI

Work Permit

ILR, References Provided on request

Timeline

Test Analyst

Foresters Financial
01.2024 - 05.2025

Test Engineer

Tesco Insurance
11.2020 - 12.2023

Test Engineer

Atom Bank
01.2019 - 11.2020

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Ramya Sri Asam