ANAKHA NIRMAL
Stockholm
Summary
ISTQB certified software test engineer with 12 years of experience in the software testing lifecycle. Skilled in requirement analysis, test strategy implementation, test plan creation and execution, defect identification and reporting across domains like trade finance, banking, and insurance. Proficient in maintaining and executing automated tests using Playwright. Successfully led and motivated teams to reduce defect rates and enhance test efficiency using excellent communication and problem-solving skills,
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Engineer
Mitigram AB
06.2019 - Current
- Test Planning and execution: Worked as single point of contact and lead small teams to create comprehensive test plans, estimations and test scripts to ensure thorough coverage for functional and regression testing
- Automation testing and execution: Contributed to developing and maintaining regression test suites using Playwright and puppeteer. Ran and analyzed automated tests results to report defects and modify existing tests to support new functionalities.
- Defect Tracking and Reporting: Expertly reported and tracked defects in JIRA ad constantly improved the process within the team
- Test Documentation: Maintained up-to-date documentation of all test plans, test estimations, test cases and defects in JIRA
- Test Optimization: Optimized regression testing efforts through continuous improvement of test estimations, test cases and testing methodologies.
- Collaboration and Communication: Collaborated with product owners to analyze gaps in requirements and prepare test scenarios from user stories, work closely with development teams to identify, reproduce, and resolve software issues promptly.
- Mentored junior team members, sharing best practices in software testing and application knowledge
- Tools and Technologies used: JIRA, Playwright, Puppeteer, Docker, Aqua IDE, Git
Senior Software Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2015 - 01.2019
- Test Planning & Test Case Preparation: Analysed business requirements, system use-cases and designed test scenarios, test-cases and traceability matrix. Ensured thorough coverage for functional and regression tests.
- Automation Testing & Execution: Contributed to the creation and maintenance of an automated regression suite using Unified Functional Test and eggPlant Functional tools, reducing manual test effort by 10%. Ran automated tests for functional and regression testing and analysed test results and reported defects using ServiceNow
- Collaboration and Communication: Successfully coordinated delivery by collaborating with multiple vendors, product owners, developers and globally located teams. Honoured with customer award for being the "most creative member of testing team" due to outstanding customer engagement during offshore client visits.
- Defect Tracking and Reporting: Expertly used various defect management tools like ServiceNow and JIRA to identify and track defects identified during functional and regression testing and collaborated with product and development team to bring it to closure
- Test Documentation: Used Test Management in HP ALM for creating and linking requirements to test scripts, defect management, creating reports and dashboards for test metrics using dashboard module.
- Tools and Technologies used: HP ALM, eggPlant, Unified Functional Test, Service-Now, IBM iSeries, Guidewire
Release Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2013 - 03.2015
- Responsible for deployment of code fixes to test/live branches and ATMs using Tivoli End-Point manager and web package deployments on IBM WebSphere server.
- Server build and migration for the windows application servers.
- Performed manual and automated regression testing for client server and web applications using Unified Functional Test and HP ALM.
- Contributed in the automation of server health check of over 100 production servers using Unified Functional Test.
- Received customer appreciation and Best Team Award for professional excellence.
- Tools and Technologies used: IBM WebSphere, Tivoli End-point manager, Unified Functional Test, HP ALM
Assistant Systems Engineer Trainee
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2012 - 03.2013
- Awarded Kudos for Top performer in a batch of 60 trainees.
- Led a team of six to develop a model banking application in Java with CRUD operations.
- Trained on Core Java, software development life cycle, PL/SQL, business communication and presentation skills.
Education
Bachelors of Technology - Computer Science
Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology
Kalady, Kerala2012
Skills
- ISTQB Certified Tester proficient in all phases of software testing lifecycle
- Requirement analysis, test planning, estimation, design and execution
- Defect management using JIRA
- Automation test execution, optimization and enhancement using Playwright and Puppeteer
- Collaboration, communication and leadership
- Domain knowledge in trade finance, insurance and retail banking
- Git for version control of test scripts
Certification
ISTQB Foundation Level Certification
HP Certification for UFT 11.0
Languages
English
Native language
Swedish
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Test Engineer
Mitigram AB
06.2019 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2015 - 01.2019
Release Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2013 - 03.2015
Assistant Systems Engineer Trainee
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2012 - 03.2013
Bachelors of Technology - Computer Science
Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology
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