Banu Sardar

• Working with the engineering team to design and implement automated tests to ensure the high quality of software in our SaaS fintech product, utilizing cloud-native AWS services, including Lambda, DynamoDB, and EventBridge
• Driving a culture of quality across the team
• Being the owner of QA for the backend and mobile team
• Research industry best practices and champion continuous improvement of our automated testing strategy
• Knowledge sharing, upskilling, and contributing to the growth of your peers and other team members
• Reduced manual testing efforts with the development of reusable automated test scripts.

Technology Stack: GraphQL, JavaScript, Postman, Proxyman, JIRA, SQL, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and EventBridge, Appium

• Analyze business requirements and participate in business requirement walkthroughs and design walk-through meetings to represent the testing team
• End to end Testing: Requirement gathering, planning, coding executing in test suit, raising defects, documentation, submitting for integration.
• Analyze business requirements and participate in business requirement walkthroughs and design walk-through meetings to represent the testing team
• Release planning
• Work closely with key stakeholders to understand business and functional requirements to develop test plans, test cases, and scripts.
• Defect management: raising, tracking, and reporting defects in Jira. Retesting defects after the fix and Mitigating project risks through appropriate test approaches.
• Standardizing test reports and documentation (Confluence)
• Mentoring new team members throughout the testing life cycle, resolving issues and conflicts, and scheduling frequent knowledge management sessions to transfuse knowledge.
• Identify defects and recommends the appropriate course of action; perform root cause analyses.
• Identify, recommend, and implement process improvements to enhance testing strategies

Technology Stack: Cypress, Selenium, REST Assured API, Postman, SoapUI, Java, JavaScript, Mock Data, JIRA, OpenShift, Jenkins, SQL, Splunk

• Created test automation frameworks to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability in the automated solution
• Planned and tested task completion via the project management toolset for all assigned projects
• Thorough analysis of test requirements and test cases uses structured techniques to identify those suitable for automation
• Conducted tests and analyzed results to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified standards
• Proven knowledge of the proper automation approach across the software testing levels and with various software development lifecycles such as Agile and DevOps
• Knowledge of good software development practices and current methodologies and tools such as BDD with Gherkin
• Experienced with creating & maintaining automation testing frameworks, and hands-on experience with an automation tool
  Technology Stack: SQL, SoapUI, C#, Selenium, Jenkins, Postman, Splunk

• Improved software quality by designing and implementing comprehensive test plans and strategies.
• Provided complex automation testing services to multiple projects and led training sessions for various consulting projects.
• Prepared test plans and designs tests for verifying and validating the Functional and Quality requirements of the solution
• Defined and implemented the overall test approach, determining whether test phases will be automated, and selecting and implementing appropriate test tools.
• Produced the overall test delivery plan defining the business and IT test deliverable milestones, test tasks, and activities.

• Reduced the number of production issues by performing rigorous stress and performance tests on software applications
• Created and designed application and software testing processes
• Monitored system and software functionality
• Ensured offerings are entirely functional and quality assurance for software products
• Automated testing and problem-solving of various tasks that work towards a development process
• Advised best practices and optimizations throughout testing and bug-fixing processes
• Developed test plans and new approaches for seeking out bugs and exploits in end-user-facing applications
• Established and implemented rigorous reporting and automated monitoring systems