Maha Lakshmi, Test Lead

Maha Lakshmi

Test Lead

M h alshaya : kuwai

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Master's degree, MASTER OF SCIENCE –
Experience
13 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 6 Months

Test Lead at M h alshaya : kuwai
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since March 2022

• Understand the business requirements and the priorities for each work item and review the roadmap for every quarter and come up with resource allocation plan.
• Working closely with Product owners and Business function to ensure that QA testing requirements are appropriately identified and incorporated in the projected requirements.
• Creating Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Scripting, Test Cases, Test Data and Test Execution plan and preparing Test Environment, Conduct Test Execution & Test Reporting that clearly articulate test results, concerns and project status with an emphasis on project risk, including defect rates.
• Led team of 12 through all project test phases from estimation and planning through functional and non-functional testing to deployment, post-live verification. Provide guidance, support, and training to the team members, helping them improve their skills and productivity.
• Managed multilocation test workstream on a project to deliver new Loyalty application (AURA/H&M - Mobile & website), reporting to extremely tight deadlines with no major issues released to production and successfully launched the application in multiple markets.
• Managed Testing Projects both Functional and Non-Functional (Automation, Performance, Analytics) and delivered multiple SIT and UAT releases parallelly on time without any slippages.
• Collaborating with multiple internal and external project at various levels and vendors in continuous build and deployment process and facilitates meeting for technical solutions.
• Played a pivotal role in product backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint estimation, brainstorming sessions, and retrospective meetings for the loyalty project.
• Identified weaknesses in Automation Processes and proposed and implemented improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Monitor automation test solution and review the automation test results by executing the automation suites daily by Jenkins before moving to PROD environment.
• Meticulously work with Product Management team and Store operations for rollouts and Production testing
• I was involved in the full software delivery lifecycle from the requirements plans through to coordinating implementation of the finished product.
• A track record of success in finishing projects on time and under budget.

Senior Test Engineer at M h alshaya : kuwai
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • February 2020 to February 2022

• Conducted project system study, requirements scoping, and gathering, including understanding use cases and reference documents.
• Involved in Test plan documentation, engaged in Test Environment readiness, Walkthrough test cases to senior business users and product team and achieved sign off prior to execution
• Provided end-to-end testing support and involved in creating test plan, Review test artefacts, such as test cases, test scripts and test data, to ensure their quality, consistency and adherence to the test strategy and plan.
• Performed Smoke test, functional/, SIT, End to End Regression and test data maintenance for all scripts and developed Performance Test scenarios.
• Supported UAT and the Deployment of Modules into Pre-production and Production systems.
• Monitored test progress and escalated test-related issues, risks, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle.
• Developed JIRA and Confluence dashboards and generate test reports that clearly articulate test results, concerns and project status with an emphasis on project risk, including defect rates.
• Maintained central repository for all test documents from planning to final sign off report for both functional and nonfunctional testing.
• Review the automation candidates and come up with optimum efforts to develop the automation test scripts and to perform testing.
• Determine the readiness of the application for automation and developing reusable functional in selenium
• Seconded as Defect Manager during integration phase of the project- Responsible for triage SIT, E2E and UAT issues, collaborating across multiple internal and external teams to identify, analyze, and resolve defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in software functionality, outputs, screens, and content.
• Monitored SLAs and KPIs for the testing process, identified areas for improvement, and implemented measures to enhance stability and maximize customer satisfaction.
• Generated a final Test report upon completion of testing, achieving successful project sign-off.
• Demonstrating strong leadership and organizational skills in managing multiple stakeholders

Project Lead at Talyaa (Kuwait)
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • October 2018 to March 2019

• Working with client to gather and document requirements for incremental deliveries.
• Handled complete Testing activities of a project, right from requirement analysis, estimation, test case and data creation, scripting, execution and reporting application.
• Responsible for GUI and Functional Testing, Mobile testing with IOS and Android simulators using Browser Stack, APITesting using Postman
• Reporting into weekly client project meetings on product progress resolving issues
• Supporting the business users to test the application in Preprod environment.

Senior Project Engineer at Wipro Ltd.
  • India - Chennai
  • February 2013 to September 2018

• Worked in a Highly dynamic AGILE environment - Involved in Sprint Planning, test estimation for user stories, daily scrum, defect triage and retrospective meetings.
• Drafted Test Plan which included testing objectives, testing phases, scenarios, and test environment after a thorough analysis of the business rules.
• Work allocation and monitoring the functional team and involved in execution of API, Database testing, Regression testing, and End to End functional test cases.
• Proficient in conducting RCA on production defects and integrating the findings into testing process to enhance overall quality assurance.
• Experience in Planning-Designing-Development-Implementation of Test Automation Frameworks like Data Driven and Page Object Model
• Developing automation test scripts using Selenium, Test NG for web applications
• Creating reusable functions in selenium and maintainable Java code to develop Page Object Models.
• Good knowledge on executing the automated test suites using Jenkins for CI test execution.
• Attending regular project review calls / meetings. Monitor and escalate issues effectively, ensuring clear communication channels and timely voicing of risks on the projects.

Test Engineer at Wipro Ltd.
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • September 2009 to January 2013

• Collaborate closely with Business Analysts and Product team to understand the business requirements.
• Prepared comprehensive test plan and estimated efforts required for testing activities.
• Preparing test scenarios, RTM, test data creation and executing test cases for the functional requirements for System testing
• Executed test scripts across multiple platforms including Web Applications, Mobile Applications, and Database Validation.
• Logged and tracked defects using QC (Quality Center)
• Provided regular status reports and updates on task progress to the Team Lead and Project team.

Education

Master's degree, MASTER OF SCIENCE –
  • at BITS PILANI
  • January 2013
Bachelor's degree, BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Computer Science
  • at Thiruvalluvar University
  • May 2009

Specialties & Skills

Functional Testing
Test Automation
Database Testing
Agile Testing
Selenium
DATABASE TESTING
PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO)
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
GOVERNANCE
HOSPITALITY
AUTOMATION
FUNCTIONAL
ECLIPSE
HPALM QUALITY CENTER
Requirement and Data Analysis
Software Test Management
Defect Management
Stakeholder Management
Resource Management
RISK and Issue Management
Mentoring and Coaching
Test Process improvisation
Matrix Management (Dashboard and Reporting
Incident Management (RCA)
Loyalty Program
Oracle Finance
Ecommerce
Omnichannel
Digital Transformation
Web Application testing
Automation testing
Mobile Application testing

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Native Speaker