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Suganya Sekar

Business Analyst
Chennai

Summary

A Techno-functional leader with over 13+ Yrs of extensive experience in QA business analysis, end to end Quality Assurance and Project Delivery Management. Domain expertise for Banking, Cards and Retail (Know Your Customer), Payments for core banking applications and KYC repository. Certified Scrum Master, ISTQB Act as the primary point of contact for all JIRA-related queries and issues, providing functional and technical guidance and support to team members. In-depth knowledge of JIRA to customize workflows, dashboards, and reports that meet the needs of various stakeholders. Conduct regular training sessions and workshops to enhance team members' proficiency in JIRA and promote best practices. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Analyse and document business processes, identifying areas for improvement and efficiency gains. Facilitate meetings and workshops to elicit requirements and resolve conflicts or ambiguities. Work closely with developers and QA teams to ensure accurate translation of requirements into actionable tasks within JIRA. Monitor project progress and performance metrics using JIRA reports and dashboards, providing insights and recommendations to enhance project delivery. Implemented Agile best practices and coached team members on Agile principles and facilitated daily stand ups, sprint planning, review and retrospection. Proficient in Delivery, Risk Mitigation, Customer Service Management. Specialized in ETL / DWH Testing, API Testing, Functional Testing, Automation Testing, Unix Based Testing, Web Service Testing. Expertise in Data testing, Data migration, Data Quality, Extract, Transform & Load Automation, Data Lineage, Test Program Management. Managing QA Automation Service for Data warehouse / Data Migration with Ab initio tool. Expertise in writing complex Queries. Review allocations and work capacities while collaborating with other managers to create detailed project plans and strategies from the estimated work scope. Involved in preparing the Design document, Tech specification document for Business Requirements. Solid background in Agile / Waterfall Test process design, ETL testing using Ab initio tool and Automation Testing solution. Gathered BR during Grooming calls and have given walkthrough to Dev / Testing teams on the functional flows. Have been part of various POC for KYC related projects by providing SME level inputs on creation of framework and automation solution. Create work breakdown structures of sprints and collate estimates from all relevant teams and create schedules based on estimates and business needs. Prepare and implement comprehensive QA test plans for US Banking Regulatory requirements of Credit Cards software systems including detailed testing approach, strategy, levels, types, pre – requisites, risks and acceptance criteria. Preparation of Daily and weekly status reports, EOTR, Root cause Analysis, Lesson learnt, Month of report.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Lead Data Quality Engineer

Maveric Systems Limited
05.2017 - Current
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document business and technical requirements.
  • Translate business needs into functional specifications and user stories for technical teams.
  • Work closely with developers, QA, and product teams to ensure solutions meet business objectives.
  • Facilitate workshops, meetings, and presentations to gather input and communicate findings.
  • Analyse and improve existing systems, workflows, and business processes.
  • Maintain clear documentation including business process models, workflow, mapping document and data flow diagrams.
  • Monitor project progress and support issue resolution during the testing lifecycle.
  • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile/Scrum methodologies.
  • Proficiency in tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, ALM.
  • Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language.

Delivery Manager

Maveric Systems Limited
01.2014 - Current
  • Provide end to end testing support for time and business critical projects by leading test strategy, plan, execution, documentation, defect management and status reporting.
  • Reviews all project test deliverables.
  • Involved in preparing the functional Framework document for writing rules in Ab initio DQE.
  • Tested several complex ETL mappings, mappings and reusable transformations for daily data loads.
  • Written Unix commands in Tectia SSH Terminal to execute test cases in entire system flow by converting unreadable file into readable format, reading new line delimited file, fetching a single customer data from multiple layouts/various files.
  • Involved in developing graphs using Ab initio GDE.
  • Prepared Quality Assurance Documents like Test strategy, Test Estimation, Test Plan, Test cases & Test results.
  • Good exposure in Defect analysis and management.
  • Provided efficient Functional / Technical knowledge to team members.
  • Interacting with Clients / Onsite co coordinators for issues / Queries / Clarifications in the project.
  • Coordination between different Stakeholders. Handling multiple testing projects within the line.
  • Responsible for offshore set up, ramp up and testing team set up. Managed 30+ member project testing team.

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2012 - 04.2017
  • Created Test Estimation and Test plan.
  • Writing complex SQL queries using Joins and Sub Queries.
  • Loaded files and batch run using Putty tool.
  • Created Test Scenarios, Test cases, Execution and defect logging.
  • Interacting with the clients/onsite coordinators for issues/queries/clarifications in the project.
  • Good exposure in Defect analysis and Test Coverage.
  • Preparation of Test Plan, RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) and EOTR (End of Test Report), Lessons Learnt, Root cause defect analysis.
  • Automated Scripts in UFT using TAF Framework.

Test Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Created Test Scenarios, Test cases, Execution and defect logging.
  • Preparation of Daily and Weekly Status reports.
  • Good exposure in Defect analysis and Test Coverage.
  • Having good exposure in System Testing, System Integration Testing and Regression Testing.

Education

Master of Arts - Test

Test
Chennai, India
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Banking
  • My SQL
  • Oracle
  • DB2
  • Zephyr
  • ALM
  • TFS
  • SQL
  • UNIX scripting

Accomplishments

test

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

Senior Lead Data Quality Engineer

Maveric Systems Limited
05.2017 - Current

Delivery Manager

Maveric Systems Limited
01.2014 - Current

Test Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2014 - 01.2017

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2012 - 04.2017

Master of Arts - Test

Test
04.2001 -
Suganya SekarBusiness Analyst