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Usha Tamilarasu

London,United Kingdom

Summary

Enthusiastic Quality Assurance professional with over 12 years of expertise in Manual, Automation, API, Database, IVR, ETL, and Performance testing methodologies. Proficient in both Waterfall and Agile frameworks, with a proven track record of success across Banking, Healthcare, and Airline sectors for clients in the USA and UK. Skilled in test planning, execution, defect management, Regression and automation development.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Career Break

Maternity Leave and Family Commitment
London, UK
08.2021 - Current
  • Took a purposeful career break of 2 years and 10 months following the birth of my youngest child to provide attentive care during their formative years.
  • During this period, I ensured a nurturing environment for my child's growth and milestones while also dedicating time to continuously enhance my QA skills through self-directed learning initiatives.
  • Now i am ready to devote my time to my career and I'm looking forward to a new challenge.

Test Assurance Manager in TCS

IAG - British Airways & Virgin Atlantic Airline
London
07.2018 - 07.2021

• Create and facilitates review Detailed Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test artefacts, Test scenarios, cycle plan and secures approvals from stakeholders.

• Partners with project team members to identify and implement improvements to tools and processes that are targeted to increase testing efficiency.

• Performing Regression in multiple environments, Integrated Performance testing, and SOAK Testing for every release and producing the test summary report

• Responsible for defect coordination and management.

• Attends/Organize the meeting, lessons learnt, risk reviews and ad-hoc project related meetings.

• Requirement analysis, Project estimation, Resource allocation, Client interaction & Status reporting to management.

• Monthly Governance deck/Weekly Status Report/Automation deck preparation and Presenting to Customer.

Test Automation Lead in TCS

Humana Inc. USA
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
10.2016 - 06.2018

• Analyse the Automation feasibility of Functionality /Requirements/ Business flow/ Projects/ Applications/ Regression.

• Identifying the Right automation tool for the applications

• Performing POC – Proof of Concept

• Automation development for the feasible requirements in Functional\ Regression\ Integration testing.

• Web based application&Data base validation using Automation tool

• Integrating Automation tool with test management tool for executing Test scripts.

• Presenting Demo to client & QA Team of automated tool.

• Automation Dashboard Generation and presentation to Client\Stakeholders.

• As an Onsite coordinator, responsible for End to End Automation development of project on release basics.

• Attends\Organize the project meeting with offshore and Client\Stakeholders, lessons learnt, project risk reviews and ad-hoc project related meetings.

Quality Assurance Lead in TCS

CIGNA Corp, USA
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
11.2009 - 09.2016

QE – Quality Engineering Activities:

• Analyse the Automation feasibility of Functionality \Requirements\ Business flow\ Application.

• Identifying the Right automation tool for the applications

• Doing POC – Proof of Concept

• Automation development for the requirements

• Functional/Regression/Integration testing using Automation tool.

• Giving Demo to client & QA Team.

• Automation Dashboard Generation

QA – Quality Assurance Activities:

• Create and facilitates review Project Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test scenarios and secures approvals from client.

• Review System Testing level artifacts (i.e. Application Test Strategy, cycle plan and etc.)

• Identify and prepare Test Data Requirements.

• Directs and manages the development of Test Scenarios and test cases minimizing redundancy and optimizing with a goal of reusability/automation in collaboration with the QA team.

• Releases status & issue communications from the onset of test involvement to the project leadership and project team.

• Partners with project team members to identify and implement improvements to tools and processes that are targeted to increase testing efficiency.

• Responsible for test execution/defect coordination and management.

• Attends/Organize the meeting, lessons learnt, risk reviews and ad-hoc project related meetings.

Management Activities:

• Requirement analysis, Project estimation, Resource allocation, Client interaction & Status reporting to management.

• Governance deck/DSR/WSR/MSR/Automation deck preparation.

• Quality Reviews & Metrics collection.

• Internal Quality Audit, External Quality Audit & Final Inspection

Quality Engineer in TCS

CITI Bank, USA
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
04.2007 - 10.2009

• Initial understanding of business requirements and concepts.

• Designing and Execution of Test cases using QC and Ration tool.

• Preparation of TBP (Test Bed Pull) & Test data condition in back end.

• Involved in System, Functional, Regression & Shakedown testing

• Defect Management (Raising defect, Defect Tracking and retesting the fixed Defects) using QC and Ration tool.

• Regression testing of the application using QTP.

• Active participation in team reviews.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Thangavelu Engineering College
Chennai, Tamilnadu
01.2002 - 04.2006

Skills

  • Microsoft Office
  • Manual and Automation Testing
  • Agile and Waterfall methodologies
  • API, Database, ETL and IVR testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Test Planning and Strategy
  • Defect Tracking and Management
  • Test Documentation
  • Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Testing Tools - Azure DevOps, JIRA, HP QC/ALM, IBM Rational ClearQuest, SOAP UI, Jira, Jenkins, IntelliJ IDEA, Oracle Toad, SQL Server
  • Automation : QTP/UFT, Excel macro
  • Performance : Apache JMeter

Languages

English - Fluent
Tamil - Native

Personal Information

  • Visa status: Having Right to Work Visa
  • Immediately available to join

Timeline

Career Break

Maternity Leave and Family Commitment
08.2021 - Current

Test Assurance Manager in TCS

IAG - British Airways & Virgin Atlantic Airline
07.2018 - 07.2021

Test Automation Lead in TCS

Humana Inc. USA
10.2016 - 06.2018

Quality Assurance Lead in TCS

CIGNA Corp, USA
11.2009 - 09.2016

Quality Engineer in TCS

CITI Bank, USA
04.2007 - 10.2009

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Thangavelu Engineering College
01.2002 - 04.2006
Usha Tamilarasu