Maninder Kaur

Experience

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  MAVEN WAVE PARTNERS (INDIA) PRIV LIMITED

  Feb 2016 - Aug 2020

  Worked on a Telecommunication project, overseeing their front-end and back-end applications responsible for managing data. Actively participated in stakeholders' meetings, contributing effectively to project discussions and decision-making processes.• Led projects independently, overseeing tasks ranging from grooming calls and sprint meetings to defect management and final release closure activities.• Implemented Java-based automation tests using Selenium WebDriver, Protractor, and Jasmine, reducing manual testing by 60% and increasing test coverage by 30%. Maintained group test execution, Page Object Model, and Failure Screenshots.• Analyzed and reported on test results, reporting defects to software developers and contributing to a 40% increase in product quality.• Created test plans and automated suites, resolving 300+ critical bugs and boosting system stability by 25% in the first year post-deployment.• Executed automated smoke tests for nightly builds, identifying critical issues early in the development cycle and reducing defect escape rates by 60%.• Executed tests in SoapUI for RESTful APIs to facilitate the exchange of data using JSON request and response formats.• Implemented automated regression testing for each build deployment, ensuring timely and effective bug detection and facilitating release sign-off.• Efficiently utilized Jira/Rally for defect tracking, requirements, and sprints management, while employing Eclipse for automation framework development.• Reviewed, analyzed and troubleshooted customer issues, identifying gaps in existing test cases. Led the final signoff in end-to-end Manual Testing, ensuring comprehensive validation of software functionality.• Leveraged Postman and Google ARC for sending REST requests, ensuring efficient communication and data exchange.• Provided guidance and support to team members, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment conducive to achieving project goals and objectives. Show less

  • Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

    Oct 2016 - Aug 2020

  • Internship Trainee

    Feb 2016 - Sept 2016
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  FIS

  Aug 2020 - Oct 2023

  Senior Software Test Analyst

  Led Testing team to create and maintain Performance Testing framework for banking application. I concurrently held the role of QA Lead overseeing a team of four resources, managing client interactions, ensuring release documentation and facilitating the seamless delivery of the project. • Mentored and coordinated a team of 4 to create and maintain Performance Testing framework using Java, Selenium using JMeter, comprising 150+ web and 50+ SQL Server and API test cases using Karate, identifying and resolving 90% of performance bottlenecks before production deployment, with GitHub serving as the CI/CD platform, and generating extent reports for comprehensive test result coverage. • Collaborated with development teams to implement performance optimizations, resulting in a 30% improvement in application throughput. • Conducted stress testing, validating system stability under extreme loads, with applications sustaining a 2x increase in concurrent users without critical failures. • Developed comprehensive Test Plans, Test Strategy, Verification Plan and Verification Report, provided test estimations and maintained checklist document and bug report. • Demonstrated proficiency in agile methodology, scrum methodologies, effectively accommodating and testing newly proposed changes throughout the release cycle. • Utilized JMeter and Dynatrace to analyze application performance, reducing response times by an average of 20% across all tested applications. • Developed automation scripts using companies’ in-house product SAFAL, built on Selenium, to streamline testing processes. • Collaborated with stakeholders, product owners and scrum master to gather and document business requirements, translating them into functional specifications for development teams, leading to the successful implementation of software enhancements. • Implemented performance monitoring solutions using InfluxDB and Grafana, reducing the mean time to detect and resolve performance issues by 50%. Show less