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Lara Margret Sekar

Quality engineering Lead
Chennai

Summary

Dynamic Lead Quality Engineer with a proven track record at Infosys Ltd., excelling in test plan creation and people management. Achieved a 37% improvement in resource utilization through process enhancements. Expertise in regression testing and mobile app testing, driving quality and efficiency in agile environments.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Quality Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
07.2022 - Current
  • Leading a team of 05 members
  • Involving in daily scrum calls and daily status meeting with team to discuss and streamline on the days or week priority.
  • Preparing traceability matrix and review them with dev team. Bug triaging and routing bugs to the right dev teams
  • Conducted test case optimization activities, resulting in a 45% increase in regression test execution productivity
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to address issues.
  • Test plan and test case creation for new features and Escape bug analysis
  • Creating Confluence docs for new features
  • Managing the bug scrubbing process by assigning the old bugs to the team to retest them and maintained the monthly reports.
  • Implemented Process improvements which improved resource utilization by 37% by reducing time in non-productive tasks.
  • Handling TC, Bug Audits and Onshore and offshore coordinator.
  • Done production defect retesting and is responsible to give a Go/No Go for weekly patches.
  • Performing mobile app accessibility testing.
  • Performing regression testing, user acceptance testing, Unit testing,Sanity testing and smoke testing for all the sprints.
  • Thorough knowledge in STLC.
  • Handling Audits on the bugs created by the team members

Senior Testing Associate

Amazon
05.2017 - 05.2022

• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.

• Converted adhoc bugs to test cases, added them to appropriate test suite and sent them to QA team.

• Hands on experience in test plan writing, reviewing.

• Involved in sending daily reports to stake holders without any execution miss and deviations.

• Handling Audits on the bugs created by the team members.

• Trained in preparing traceability matrix and review them with dev team

• Created wiki especially for new joiners and shared my testing knowledge to reduce floor support which improves productivity.

• Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members

• Assisted the QA team with documenting and testing multiple stories per sprint.

• Played the role of point of contact to the team and attending daily calls with QAs for task updates and assigning the test cycles across the team members

• Captured results, communicate and escalate failures and provide individual status reports

• Attended weekly meetings to provide feedback on the current status of test and to discuss new features.

Directed team members to follow specific testing standards and guidelines as outlined in project requirements

Software Testing Trainee

Bahwan Cybertek
08.2016 - 05.2017

• Actively participate in defect triaging with development teams.

• Effectively identified the issues and made sure the product gets delivered without any faults.

• Followed agile method for the project.

• Performed Regression testing, Upgrade testing, Sanity testing, Ad-Hoc testing.

• Raising defects using Jira and maintaining bug reports.

• Understand the app requirements and respond to bug clarification requests as required by the development team to ensure stable release of the product.Coordinate with the development team and complete test execution

Education

B.E - Aeronautical Engineering

KCG College of Technology
Chennai, India
04.2001 -

Skills

Test plan creation

People Management

Regression testing and UAT expertise

Functional testing

Test Case Creation

Mobile App testing

Agile Methodology

Escape Bug Analysis

JIRA

Postman

Core JAVA

Selenium

TestNG

Timeline

Lead Quality Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
07.2022 - Current

Senior Testing Associate

Amazon
05.2017 - 05.2022

Software Testing Trainee

Bahwan Cybertek
08.2016 - 05.2017

B.E - Aeronautical Engineering

KCG College of Technology
04.2001 -
Lara Margret SekarQuality engineering Lead