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Vinitha Mareedu

Auckland,New Zealand

Summary

7 years of experience as a Senior Agile tester in payments-oriented projects. Seeking to pursue a challenging career as a Senior Test Engineer with a team to deliver a top-notch client experience across agile projects. Have been part of many complex projects, Interacting in review and peer-to-peer sessions with stakeholders. Worked as a lead for end to end teams (merchant boarding and transactions) in release projects. Have mentored and trained 30+ associates on functional business knowledge. Acted as a liaison between the clients and the teams to understand and prioritize the requirements, which helped in delivering projects on agreed deadlines.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior QA Engineer

Smartpay
Wairau Road, Auckland
11.2022 - Current
  • Leading the preparation of test strategies and planning for all QA team projects, ensuring alignment with project goals and quality standards.
  • Design and execute comprehensive test plans for Android-based payment terminals and other onboarding systems.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues, making sure of the timely delivery.
  • Maintaining proper communication and daily updates on the progress to the stakeholders.
  • Actively participate in problem-solving sessions, contributing to the improvement of overall QA strategy and workflow.
  • Reviewed customer feedback and complaints to identify quality issues and improvement opportunities.
  • Led onboarding and knowledge transfer (KT) sessions for new team members, guiding them through tools, processes, and product features.
  • Provided task leadership to junior QA team members, assigning responsibilities, reviewing their work, and ensuring timely delivery.

Senior Test Analyst

Fiserv
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
05.2020 - 04.2022
  • Projects Delivered: EMS Clover, EDEKA Bank, FMS SoftPOS, ADCB Bank, Cardnet, RBS, Integrated payment platform
  • Strong domain knowledge of Banking and Card Payments
  • Managed team to deliver projects on agreed deadlines as Test Lead.
  • Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC and involved in all its phases.
  • Experience in handling merchant and terminal onboarding end-to-end solutions using API's and UI
  • Extensively been part of Sprint and UAT testing activities
  • Involved in test plan, test estimates, test design, test execution and reporting for sprint, functional and regression testing
  • Identifying and reporting defects using Jira.
  • Led an end-to-end team(Boarding merchant till transaction settlement) for releases, responsible in driving the daily status calls and defect calls
  • Handled multiple client program deliveries including boarding, transactions and settlements across Europe, Middle East and Africa region
  • Responsible in preparing daily status reports on the progress of testing activities
  • Presented completed functionalities to stakeholders after every sprint
  • Created and published new knowledge articles via confluence.
  • Tested sections of POS, transactions like sale, void, return, preauthorization, cancel with different tender types credit card and debit card.
  • Experience in Automating Web Applications using Selenium, WebDriver, Maven & BDD(cucumber).

Test Analyst

Cognizant
Pune
04.2017 - 04.2020
  • Involved in Project planning and estimation processes
  • Strong domain knowledge of Banking & Card Payments
  • Involved in test design activities like test case preparation, test execution and test data creation
  • Created knowledge articles for all the workarounds, resolutions and process fixes
  • Involved in regular team meetings with offshore managers
  • Worked along with Business Analysts for understanding the requirements
  • Involved in web UI testing for various applications and modules.

Education

Bachelor Of Technology - Electronics and Communication

Ramchandra College of Engineering
05.2016

Skills

  • SQL - postgres, TOAD
  • POSTMAN
  • MT900 message validations
  • Auth BACS file validations
  • XML Validations
  • JIRA
  • SOAP UI
  • Splunk
  • Camunda
  • T3 Switch
  • SWIFT payments
  • Felix
  • UNIX
  • AWS Services
  • Manual Testing
  • Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
  • Test planning
  • API testing
  • Team leadership
  • UAT Support

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Senior QA Engineer

Smartpay
11.2022 - Current

Senior Test Analyst

Fiserv
05.2020 - 04.2022

Test Analyst

Cognizant
04.2017 - 04.2020

Bachelor Of Technology - Electronics and Communication

Ramchandra College of Engineering

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