Somrita Roy Sarma
Singapore
Summary
With over 14 years of experience in functional and performance testing, I excel in analyzing requirements and implementing software testing strategies to deliver quality assured products. Expertise in estimating and planning all test phases in iterative Agile and Waterfall cycles. Professional test lead with a strong background in quality assurance and software testing, driving team collaboration and seamless integration with changing project needs. Known for reliability, results-focused approach, critical thinking, and leadership skills. Skilled in utilizing various testing frameworks, tools, and programming languages to ensure top-notch software performance and user satisfaction by identifying issues and implementing effective solutions.
Experienced with Agile methodologies, including Scrum framework. Utilizes effective communication and leadership to guide teams toward successful project delivery. Track record of fostering collaborative and productive team environment, ensuring project goals are met efficiently.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Quality Engineer & ScrumMaster
Dell Technologies
10.2022 - Current
- Conduct functional testing across hardware lifecycle, BIOS settings, firmware updates, RAID configurations, disk management, and container deployments.
- Validate HA clustering, network connectivity, backend APIs, and UI/UX of server and storage management tools.
- Automate API tests using Pytest and Python, and automate test cases for daily regression using Mocha Framework and bash scripting.
- Review documentation for accuracy, gather user feedback, and address usability issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, conduct daily sync-ups and demos, and identify automation gaps.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews.
- Coach team members on Agile principles and practices to improve team performance and delivery.
Test Team Lead
NCS Group
02.2019 - 10.2022
- Company Overview: NCS Group (also known as NCS Pte Ltd or "NCS", previously known as National Computer Systems) is a multinational information technology and communications engineering company headquartered in Singapore. Projects mainly include SDLC phases of different digital platforms of multiple Singapore Government Organisations.
- Responsible for conducting Benchmark test, Stress tests, Reliability tests, breakpoint tests using LoadRunner, Jmeter.
- Responsible for inserting Transaction Points and Rendezvous Points to measure the performance of the application.
- Responsible for creating scenarios running on different Load Generators using LoadRunner Controller.
- Responsible for Parameterisation using VuGen Scripts to ensure real time load conditions in Load Runner.
- Responsible for analysing various graphs generated by LoadRunner Analyser including Database Monitors, Network Monitor graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction graphs and Web Server Resource Graphs.
- Responsible for Performance Testing to simulate a process, which allows high number of user login at the same time, and observe the behaviour of the system by using Load Runner.
- Champion in using Blazemeter and Jmeter to record and simulate user actions and prepare scripts to generate load test, stress test.
- Responsible for preparation of performance test reports.
- Achieved excellence in handling multiple clients at the same time and aptly meeting different expectations in terms of delivery timeliness and quality.
Quality Assurance Test Lead - Taco Bell
Cognizant
01.2018 - 01.2019
- The digital maintenance project primarily involves maintenance of all mobile application (BLIMP) across different platforms like iOS, Android and desktop platforms (TACO and MMPO) along with KIOSK(Digital Dine In) and POS systems.
- Responsible for Building a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
- Responsible for documenting, implementing, monitoring, and enforcing all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organisation.
- Responsible for performing requirement gathering, requirement analysis, preparation of test plan and test strategy.
- Responsible for creating test design, test case execution, performing RCA analysis and defect logging, tracking and coordinating with teams across geography till closure.
- Responsible for Regression testing, sanity testing, Integration testing and cross browser testing.
- Responsible for organising and coordinating status meetings, testing kick-off meeting, preparing and sending status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client.
- Responsible for preparing Sign-Off documents.
- Responsible for applying the appropriate test measurements and matrices in the product and the Testing Team along with scope of testing aligning with release.
Quality Assurance Test Lead
Cambridge University
10.2017 - 12.2017
- Portals rebranding is a project that deals with enhancement and changes of multiple applications.
- Responsible for functionally testing the rebranding changes on all portals aligning with the Cambridge Assessment group brand.
- Responsible for performing requirement gathering, requirement analysis, preparation of test plan and test strategy.
- Responsible for creating test design, test case execution, performing RCA analysis and defect logging, tracking and coordinating with teams across geography till closure.
- Responsible for Regression testing, Sanity testing, Integration testing.
- Responsible for training and mentoring other team members on QTest and Jira.
Quality Assurance Test Lead
NetApp
11.2015 - 09.2017
- Company Overview: Config Advisor 5.0 is a complete web based and centralised solution in NetApp for health check and validating an existing NetApp configuration. It can validate all NetApp solution and its components. The product has been developed using open, industry standard , proven technologies and high quality software engineering methodologies. Config Advisor is highly parameterised to support constantly changing customers and regulatory requirements.
- Responsible for Designing, Reviewing and Updating PRD and Functional Specification.
- Responsible for planning, designing, deploying and manage Test Effort, Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test Metrics for sprint.
- Responsible for defining test requirements and implementation based mapping of storage products and solutions for developing appropriate test cases.
- Excelled in different storage plugins with their configuration, Data Extraction, Mining Report analysis and the plug-in regressions.
- Responsible for analysing the configurations and health checkup rules for all the converged storage arrays.
- Champion in verifying all the storage rules and the respective triggers for all the profiles of Config Advisor.
- Responsible for conducting storage implementations, performance optimisation and analysis.
- Responsible for coordinating and planning Agile scrum stand up, Retrospective and Planning meetings through Rally Tool.
- Responsible for performing various regression strategies.
- Responsible for ensuring all new storage technologies are sufficiently tested as well as integrated with Application and Infrastructure Services.
- Responsible for creating different lab setup to test and verify the configuration of different NetApp devicesm and Web application testing.
Quality Assurance Automation Tester and Storage Engineer - EMC Symmetrix
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2010 - 11.2015
- Company Overview: EMC Symmetrix is EMC Corporation's enterprise SAN storage system. Symmetrix is the world's most trusted storage platform, which is information centric, with unmatched availability and built-in security to protect the most mission critical applications.
- Responsible for designing and automating test scripts using the EMC Smart Builder.
- Responsible for requirement analysis and performing Quality Assurance design activities.
- Responsible for performing hardware and software Integration testing.
- Responsible for all SIT deliverables which includes automated system testing, regression testing, functional testing, black box testing and status reporting.
- Responsible for Functional & design document analysis, test plan preparation, test specification, Test summary and preparing ambiguity documents.
- Responsible for preparation of Project Plan, Project Estimations, Review and Optimisation of test scripts.
- Responsible for monitoring test preparation, execution and defects logging.
- Responsible for client coordination and internal team coordination from different global locations including onsite deputation at Ireland.
- Responsibilities included number of EMC's customer specific requirements (termed as EPacks) and implementation, production issue reactions at the testing lab and helped the designers and support team in debugging the problem.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - BE - Information Technology
University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan
India01.2010
Skills
- Test Management
- Defect Life Cycle
- PL/SQL
- User acceptance testing
- Regression testing
- Software development life cycle
- Accessibility testing
- Data validation
- Automated testing
- Test planning
- Performance testing
- Requirements analysis
- Load testing
- Scrum framework
- Cloud computing platforms
- Web application testing
- Continuous integration
- Version control systems
- Selenium
- Functional testing
- Python
- RESTful API
- Product testing
- Test reporting
- Integration testing
- Agile software development
- Test case management
- Team collaboration
- Effective communication
- Black box testing
- Project management
- System testing
- Test case design
- Test automation frameworks
Certification
- Registered Scrum Master
- Registered Product Owner
- TOSCA automation specialist
- Generative AI with Large Language Models
- EMC IE
Timeline
Senior Software Quality Engineer & ScrumMaster
Dell Technologies
10.2022 - Current
Test Team Lead
NCS Group
02.2019 - 10.2022
Quality Assurance Test Lead - Taco Bell
Cognizant
01.2018 - 01.2019
Quality Assurance Test Lead
Cambridge University
10.2017 - 12.2017
Quality Assurance Test Lead
NetApp
11.2015 - 09.2017
Quality Assurance Automation Tester and Storage Engineer - EMC Symmetrix
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2010 - 11.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - BE - Information Technology
University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan
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