Arul M Cholan

Experience

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  Accenture in India

  Aug 2016 - Apr 2020

  Application Development Analyst | Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India CMS System - Sitecore (C#, Selenium, SpecFlow, JSON, GIT, TFS, Jira)Gathered user requirements and reviewed them to ensure that requirements were testableCreated test scenarios, test cases, test plans, test scripts and test suites Developed Behavior-Data Driven BDD Test Automation Framework using Selenium C# and maintained the solution in GIT repository by updating work using Pull Requests in TFS Managed Test Data in JSON files reducing manual effort by 85% upon any modifications / updates in the applications or Sitecore System and used Jira for defect managementDesigned Cases via Gherkin (SpecFlow) & maintained coding standards and indentationsProactively identified risks and issues for release activities and developed risk management plans using TFSPerformed Load Testing, Performance Testing via Selenium (C#) and calculated the load time efficiencyWorked in a mobile test environment that includes iOS and Android devices and in cross browser testing that includes Chrome, Edge, Firefox, IEManufacturing Application (C#, Selenium, GIT, Jira, JSON, SQL) Implemented Keyword Driven, Hybrid automation Frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, C# and NUnitPerformed the White Box and Black Box testing for functionality and structural flow of the application Executed SQL Queries to retrieve data from the data base and validate the dataUsed Jenkins as a Continuous Integration server to configure with GitHub and MavenPerformed Load Testing, Performance Testing via Selenium and calculated the load time efficiencyDesigned & Developed test Automation BDD – Page Object Model Architecture using C# Selenium Proactively identified problems and issues for release activities and developed risk management plans using TFS Show less ERP Application (C#, Selenium, Load Runner, SoapUI, Soap/Rest, Jira) Actively participated in all the phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle (Planning, Designing, Development, Reporting and Results)Performed various types of testing such as smoke, functional, regression, user acceptance testing manuallyAttended various Functional Walkthroughs and written high level testing scenarios for test automation framework using C# SeleniumConducted Load and Performance testing using Load Runner to enhance the efficiency of applicationsPerformed API testing (SOAP and REST) using Postman and SoapUIDeveloped script and performed Soap / Rest based Web Services testing using SOAP UI tool for functional and regression testingGenerated detailed reports of the Bugs, Test Execution summary reports using JiraPfizer Tririga Web Portal Development () (MySQL, MS Office, ASP.NET) Designed and developed a web application portal using ASP.NET to collect innovative ideas and better approaches from the project Used MS Access database, MySQL queries to fetch and update dataExperience in MS Office Suite including MS VISIO Knowledge on MVC architectureDesigned an IBM Cloud based chat-bot for frequently received issues which reduced manual effort by 65% and expenses by 35% Show less

  • Application Development Analyst

    Dec 2017 - Apr 2020

  • Application Development Associate

    Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
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  Dot Dash

  Oct 2020 - now

  QA Automation Engineer

  Finance Applications (Java, Selenium, GIT, Jenkins, Jira, BitBucket, Bamboo) (Oct 20 - Current)Evaluated and analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specification documentsUsed Jenkins as continuous integration server to run automated test suitesPerformed E2E testing and executed regression test cases based on release and launch schedulesExperience with Atlassian tools such as Jira and BambooAutomated tests using Java Selenium for components like calculators and closely worked with developers under Agile methodologyExperience with using Version control system, like GIT Worked on Mantle and Venus frameworks (Page object Model) using jUnit5 and testNG Show less