Anita Katyal

About the Candidate

ANITA KATYAL
QA Test  Lead || Test Automation |Test  Manager|
anitakatyal01@gmail.com | 613-404-6747| Ottawa, Canada

Career Profile:
❖       Expertise – Mobile/Web/Cloud/API Automation Testing, Project/Test Management, Business Analyst, QA Lead, Release/Delivery Management,CI CD Pipeline, Build Management, Product manager, Program Manager

❖       A leader with extensive experience in the QA domain, taking-on and accomplishing complex Leadership challenges.

❖       Excellent understanding of SDLC & STLC concepts and importance of Software Quality Assurance in new developments, Enhancements and Maintenance of software applications.

❖       Involved in all phases of IT Project life cycle – Feasibility analysis, Requirement gathering, Estimation, Framework Design, Script design, Script development, Automated test execution, Maintenance, reporting.

❖       Extensive experience in documentation for test processes and automation processes – Test Design, Test reports, other Test artifacts, Automation Design, Development, Automation script Maintenance, Feasibility analysis, Estimation preparation etc. •

❖       Breakthrough Professional in Program, Product Delivery & Management

❖       Raised customer satisfaction  by practicing amazing stakeholder engagement and crafting  project’s architecture to successfully deliver on critical milestones while fostering strong team collaboration

Technical Skills:
❖       Cloud/IOT Platform: AWS, Azure, GCP

❖       Domain knowledge: Automobile, Supply chain, Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, Ecommerce, CRM, ServiceNow

❖       Testing Scope : Mobile/Web/Cloud/API Automation Testing, Manual, Functional , Integartion, regression, Sanity, Nonfunctional, UAT

❖       Mobile Testing Automation Tool: Perfecto Mobile, See Test, DeviceAnywhere, Cross Browser and Browser Stack Tool,appium

❖     Web/API Automation and testing tool: Selenium Web driver, POSTMAN, TestNG, Rest Assured API, NUnit, Tosca, Squish, Selenium, JMeter, Load Runner and Katalon,SOAP UI, Test rail, HP ALM,Cypress,Cucumber, Karate

❖      Other Tools: JIRA (Defect and Agile), Rally (Agile), Maven (for automated build), Splunk (data Visualization tool),Confluence,

❖       CI Tool – Jenkins, bit bucket, Git, Team city, Artifactory, JUNIT, Sonarcube

❖     Languages: C, C++, SQL, C#, Java, QT, Python

 

 

 

Professional Experience:

Senior Test Manager (Wipro Technologies, Canada)  March 2021 – Apr 2023

Clients : Innovapost, FORD motors, Nike

 

❖       Shouldering responsibilities like building Metrics, directing QA initiatives, creating Standards Operating Procedures for a QA Organization, QA test Automation Framework, streamlining quality process.

❖       Provide documentations – Test plan, Test Data,Test cases, test reports, defect/bug triage, Test summary, requirements coverage matrix,CICD test pipeline

❖       Involved in various phases of Testing – Integartion, Sanity, Regression, Functional , UAT. Non functional testing, cloud testing

❖       Used various technical tools like Selenium,Java, Ecllipse. TestNG, Git, JIRA, Confluence,Postman,Testrail, Soap UI, RESTful API, SQL to create test automation framework,  maintain and enhance regression suit, Web and API testing.

❖       Apply analytical and problem solving skills to enhance the current QA Test framework and processes.

❖       Providing oversight to execution of various Manual, Automation,Functional, Non-Functional, regression tests by planning & building test strategies.

❖       Worked in CICD pipeline using Jenkin, GITHUB, Sonarcube, Maven

❖       Actively participating in data gathering and business requirement sessions with Business Users. Review business requirements, specification, and technical HLD , LLD designs to prepare test plans.

❖       Reporting the test execution reports to client and leadership team

❖       Involve in a full Testing Life cycle and provide end to end satisfaction to clients.

❖       Coordinate with Client and Business for Test requirements and tasks prioritization.

❖       Having daily Interactions with Project manager, Product Owner, Release Manager and various Stakeholders to give the Product right timelines in terms of Quality assessment and achievement.

❖       Helping the team in various tasks like scrum meetings, business analysis, project management and release management.

❖       QA portfolio management, business requirement analysis,risk analysis, stakeholders matter review sessions, setting up initiatives and adding value by innovative approach to Program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QA Automation Lead (IDC Technologies, Canada) Dec 2020 – March 2021

 

 

❖     Test Plan development and test execution in Katalon

❖     System Integration and automation testing activities

❖     Report the test execution reports to client and leadership team

❖     Involved in various phases of Testing – Integartion, Sanity, Regression, Functional , UAT, Automation, Non functional testing

❖     Actively participated in data gathering and requirement sessions with Business Users.

❖     Involved in daily defect meetings during testing phase and extensively worked throughout defect life cycle

❖     Design test plans and test cases and defect tracking and management using JIRA

❖     Used QA software tools – Katalon Studio, JIRA, Selenium, GIT, Java, HP ALM, confluence,TestNG, SQL for automation functional testing and regression testing,cloud testing, web and API Testing

❖     Writing an effective test script with intensive knowledge of selenium.

❖     Worked in CICD pipeline using Jenkin, GITHUB, Sonarcube, Maven

❖     Redesign existing modules to make it faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain.

❖     Analyze project requirements and estimate size and efforts, Test Planning and strategy for the assigned projects.

❖     Involve in a full Testing Life cycle and provide end to end satisfaction to clients.

❖     Generate and maintain Metrics associated with creation and execution of test cases.

❖     Validate system functionality and perform in depth analysis of complex functionality.

❖     Requirements documentation, program lead across different teams, project management, create program roadmap and use cases

 

 

 

Freelancing  ( Sep 2014 – Dec 2020)

❖     Freelanced  in testing domain with different vendors to support end to end testing activities

❖     Provided support in Manual testing , Functional Testing, regression Testing and automation, UAT testing, Integration and sanity testing.

❖     Write test plan, test strategy, defect matrix and requirement matrix documents.

❖     Prepared KPI and different matrices to support and enhance testing coverage

❖     Collaborate and coordinate with various teams to perform testing and give testing updates

❖     Provided post release support in fixing defects and validation testing.

❖     Involved in a full Testing Life cycle and provide end to end satisfaction to clients

❖     upskilled myself with knowledge of various domains and tools to deliver expected results

 

 

 

 

 

QA Lead (UniberaSoft Solution, India) Oct 2008 – Sep 2014

 

❖     Developed and review System Integration test strategies, plans, and profiles to ensure coverage of product features and meeting release schedules.

❖       Streamlined Quality process, across various scrum teams around the Globe and driven great improvements in the Quality of the Product – reducing the Customer defects by less than half.

❖       Collaborate with application development, architecture, IT infrastructure, and business operations teams to lead the definition of Integration requirements for both new releases and application/system updatesLeading the System Integration Test executions with multiple vendors co-ordination to successfully validate API – Endpoints (Micro Services) and Batch interfaces

❖       Shouldered responsibilities like building Metrics, directing QA initiatives, creating Standards Operating Procedures for a QA Organization, streamlining quality process.

❖       Used various technical tools like Selenium,Java, Ecllipse. SQL, TestNG, Git, JIRA, Confluence,Postman,Testrail, Soap UI, RESTful API to create test automation framework,  maintain and enhance regression suit, Web and API testing.

❖       Involved in various phases of Testing – Integartion, Sanity, Regression, Functional , UAT. Non functional testing

❖       Worked in CICD pipeline using Jenkin, GITHUB, Sonarcube, Maven

❖       Provide oversight to execution of various Functional, Non-Functional tests by planning & building test strategies

❖     Write test plans, create production simulations, and test data using Tosca.

❖     Installed, configured, and administered the automated test tool.

❖     I did scripting in Python to test UI interfaces with Squish.

❖     Defined the automated testing process, developed coding standards

❖     Involved in all design review meetings with the business team, system architects and developers.

❖     Coordinated with Client and Business for Test requirements and tasks prioritization.

❖     Involved in reviewing the test plan, test scripts and test closure report that were delivered and presented to project

❖     coordination with stakeholders, program review meetings,Program roadmap,create use cases,gap analysis.

 

 

 

QA Engineer (Infopark, India) July 2002 – Sep 2008

 

❖     Test Plan development and test execution

❖     System Integration and automation testing activities

❖     Enhancement of factory automation architecture (business objects) developed in Python and C++ OOP language to support dynamic requirements of factory floor

❖     Work with a Business Analyst to document and validate Requirements.

❖     Interact with the external teams and understand the overall impacts of the system.

❖     Create technical specifications documents.

❖     Design test plans and test cases for point of sales applications in testing tools Squish.

❖     Perform code reviews for the point-of-sale application.

❖     Work with the QA team to resolve any defects created/reported on the point-of-sale applications.

❖     Document any lessons learned for future use.

❖     Redesign existing modules to make it faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain.

❖     UI interfaces using QT

❖     Recommended changes to improve the development environment.

❖     Created documentation for the code.

❖     Wrote C/C++ software to test hardware and software for new comm devices

❖     Real Time, embedded, multi-threaded

❖     Write test procedures from end user requirements

❖     Participated in requirements reviews

❖     Wrote code modules to test code at the subroutine level. Did manual testing using NUnit.

 

 

 

 

 

Education:
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from Kurukshetra University,India  in June 2002.

 

 

Trainings and Certificates:
❖     Certificate in Selenium web drivers with Java

❖     Certificate in Katalon Studio

❖     Microsoft Cloud

❖     AWS Cloud