Bhavana Thimmappa
Abu Dhabi,AZ
Summary
Seasoned Quality Assurance professional with over 9 years of experience in software testing, quality assurance processes, and performance testing. Skilled in designing and implementing robust testing strategies to ensure product excellence and customer satisfaction. Expertise includes functional testing, test automation using Selenium webdriver, Postman and performance testing using tools like JMeter.
Adept at identifying and resolving defects, optimizing system performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions. Proven ability to mentor junior team members, drive process improvements, and align QA objectives with organizational goals. Committed to delivering scalable, reliable, and efficient software products.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Tekion
01.2022 - Current
- Built solid UI automation frameworks with Selenium and Java from the ground up.
- Created and managed effective API automation using Postman
- Collaborated with Product Owners, developers, QAs, and UX designers to identify, prioritize, and resolve issues.
- Performed Rest API testing using Postman, alongside manual testing for web and mobile platforms including Android and iOS.
- Expertise in preparing Test cases, Test Plans, and Test Scenarios
- Experienced in Smoke testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, and Functional testing
- Proficient in End-to-End performance testing, encompassing NFR gathering, test planning, scripting, workload modeling, execution, analysis, reporting and documentation.
- Collaborated with Architects, Business Analysts, and Developers to develop comprehensive test plans aligned with project requirements.
- Developed test scripts to replicate realistic user scenarios, including load, stress, and endurance tests.
- Demonstrated in-depth analysis of test results, pinpointing performance bottlenecks like memory leaks, network latency, and CPU utilization.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to review test plans, analyze results and implement performance optimizations, ensuring code changes positively impact application performance.
- Demonstrated expertise in Microservice architecture hosted on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure.
- Worked on managing various databases including MongoDB, MySQL and Elasticsearch, and creating reports and dashboards using Grafana and Kibana to track performance trends.
- Proficient in both Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Demonstrated leadership by managing a team of two members and actively training new hires and junior staff.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Tekion
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Proficient in Agile Methodology, Regression and Smoke testing of Web applications
- Experienced in all phases of SDLC and STLC
- Expertise in preparing Test cases, Test Plans, and Test Scenarios
- Experienced in Smoke testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, and Functional testing
- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks including Selenium WebDriver.
- Experienced in SQL Queries
- Conducted API Testing using Postman
Module Lead
Mindtree
07.2015 - 12.2019
- Started My career as a Software engineer and then got promoted to senior position and then to a Module lead.
- Working experience on Selenium WebDriver using Java for UI testing.
- Working knowledge of API automation using rest assured and Postman
- Working Knowledge of tools like JIRA.
- Performed load testing using Soasta, Jmeter and LoadRunner to ensure the performance and scalability of the applications.
- Utilized Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Application Insights and logs in Splunk for monitoring and analyzing application performance.
- Implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins.
- Worked in an Agile methodology, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Prepared test reports in confluence and logging issues if any in Jira.
- Worked in Linux machines and have basic knowledge on integrating tests in Jenkins.
- Having collaborative spirit, would regularly have interaction with Client, Managers and Team members.
- Provided Knowledge transfer sessions and training sessions to team members.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
SJBIT
Bangalore05-2015
Skills
- Automation testing
- Performance testing
- Selenium Webdriver
- Postman
- Rest Assured
- JIRA
- JMeter
- AWS
- Jenkins
- MySQL
- Regression testing
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
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Certification
MongoDB Operations Foundation for MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB
Post Graduate Certifcate in Product Management, Duke Corporate Education
Timeline
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Tekion
01.2022 - Current
Quality Assurance Engineer
Tekion
01.2020 - 01.2022
Module Lead
Mindtree
07.2015 - 12.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
SJBIT
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