Ademir

QA Specialist
Since 2009, Prashanth Venkatesan has been working in the field of Software QA, Manual, Performance Testing, Automation testing, DevOps CI with Jenkins through Selenium-Java automated test scripts for all client applications, Database Testing, handling different lifecycles and specifically worked extensively in Agile methodology and worked across different API’s.
CANDIDATE ID
AG029
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
12
+ years
EXPERT IN
Quality Assurance
Java
SQL
Selenium
Automation Testing
Jenkins
Maven

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Postman

Other

Google Analytics, JUNIT

 

Languages

Java, SQL

 

Paradigms

Quality Assurance

 

Software Lifecycle

Agile, Waterfall

 

Framework

TestNG

 

Storage

MSSQL 

 

Servers

Apache Tomcat and Glassfish

 

Tools

Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins, Maven, JMeter, Devops CI

Professional experience

QA Specialist

Agilisium

2020 – Current

Project 1

Client : Universal Music Group (UMG)

Project type : Web application

Team Size : 6

Role : Specialist

Tools : Jenkins, Selenium, Postman, Scrum

Period :  From Oct 2020

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Review and analyze system specifications.
  • Collaborate with client side QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans. 
  • Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyse results. 
  • Execute sanity, smoke, functional, and regression testing. Have performed Test Planning, Estimation, Setting up of environment, Test Script/Test, Client Support, Preparation/Review, Test Execution / Review & Status Reporting, Defect Management, and Test Closure & Sign-off for migration release.
  • Create logs to document testing phases and defects. Report bugs and errors to development teams. Help troubleshoot issues.
  • Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing. Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the Agile-Scrum methodology. 
  • API testing using Postman.

Technologies : JAVA, Jenkins, Selenium, Maven, Postman

Automation Test Engineer

Cognizant

2018 – 2020

Project 2

Client : Pearson

Project type : Web application

Team Size : 6

Role : Test Engineer

Tools : Jenkins, Selenium, TestNG

Period : From Aug 2018

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Review and analyse system specifications
  • Collaborate with client-side QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans
  • Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyse results
  • Execute sanity, smoke, functional, and regression testing.
  • Have performed Test Planning, Estimation, Setting up of environment, Test Script/Test, Client Support, Preparation/Review, Test Execution / Review & Status Reporting, Defect Management, and Test Closure & Sign-off for migration release.
  • Create logs to document testing phases and defects
  • Report bugs and errors to development teams
  • Help troubleshoot issues
  • Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
  • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Worked on Automating Test Cases using Selenium WebDriver with Java and TestNG framework.

Technologies : JAVA, Selenium, Jenkins, TestNG, Maven

Automation Test Engineer

Cognizant

2015 – 2017

Project 3

Client : National Australian Bank

Project type : Web application

Team Size : 6

Role : Test Engineer

Tools : Jenkins, Selenium, JMeter, Agile, Excel

Period : From Apr 2017

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Writing Test Plan, Test case Scenario's, identify load models and metrics to be collected
  • Reviewing the test environment to verify the required components are available for a performance test run.
  • Creating performance Test Scripts.
  • Experience in conducting various types of Performance tests and collecting necessary metrics. Have used PerfMon monitoring app for monitoring CPU Usage, Memory Utilization and Network.
  • Preparation of Test Data in CSV, Excel and Text files for Performance testing.
  • Handling the scripts using Regular expression extractor, Xpath extractor.
  • Defect Tracking and handling defect life cycle.
  • Attending daily calls with Internal Technical Team and with End Customer.
  • Collect and organize Performance Test metrics in Graph forms.

Technologies : JAVA, Selenium, Jenkins, JMeter, Agile, Maven, Excel

Automation Test Engineer

Cognizant

2015 – 2017

Project 4

Client : National Australian Bank

Project type : Web application

Team Size : 6

Role : Test Engineer

Tools : Jenkins, Selenium, Maven

Period :From Nov 2015

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Review and analyse system specifications
  • Collaborate with client-side QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyse results
  • Execute sanity, smoke, functional, and regression testing.
  • Have performed Test Planning, Estimation, Setting up of environment, Test Script/Test, Client Support, Preparation/Review, Test Execution / Review & Status Reporting, Defect Management, and Test Closure & Sign-off for migration release.
  • Create logs to document testing phases and defects
  • Report bugs and errors to development teams
  • Help troubleshoot issues
  • Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
  • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Technologies : JAVA, Selenium, Jenkins, Agile, Maven

Automation Test Engineer

Cognizant

2010 – 2012

Project 5

Client : Dubai Bank & Philippines Bank

Project type : Web application

Team Size : 6

Role : Test Engineer

Tools : Jenkins, Selenium, MSQL, Maven

Period : From June 2010

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Execute test cases and analyse results
  • Execute sanity, smoke, functional, and regression testing.
  • Have performed Test Planning, Estimation, Setting up of environment, Test Script/Test, Client Support, Preparation/Review, Test Execution / Review & Status Reporting, Defect Management, and Test Closure & Sign-off for migration release.
  • DB Validation using MSSQL.
  • Create logs to document testing phases and defects
  • Report bugs and errors to development teams
  • Help troubleshoot issues
  • Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
  • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Technologies : JAVA, Selenium, Jenkins, Agile, Maven, MSSQL

Certifications

Education

2011 – 2013

MBA

Anna University

2004 – 2009

Bachelor of Technology in CSE

Bharath University

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