Sindhu Chitanand
Details
Sindhu
Chitanand
sindhumrao
Work Experience
QA Lead/Scrum Master QA Analyst/Lead
PeopleFun LogicStream Health
Mar 2021 – Oct 2022 Jan 17 – Feb 21
At PeopleFun, after 8 months of working as a QA Analyst, I was offered the role of QA Lead/Manager and I worked closely with WordSearch, Blockscapes, Wordscapes and BricksNBalls teams. I also wore the hat of Scrum Master and contributed to implementing Scrum practices in teams and facilitated scrum events.
● Worked with product owners and developers to understand the functionality, define acceptance criteria and goals for upcoming features and Sprints.
● Worked with PO in grooming and prioritizing the project backlog items.
● Facilitated Daily Scrum, Review and Retrospective meetings.
● Continuously contributed to improving the scrum process and coached the team to be self-organized, cross functional and accountable.
● Helped the team in resolving impediments and dependencies.
● Tracked the stories/bugs in Jira and continuously monitored the progress of sprints.
● Established Jira standards and improved team efficiency by making them follow standards for bug reporting.
● Consolidated and organized test cases in TestRail by removing redundant test cases and reducing the regression testing time by 20%.
● Created/Reviewed detailed test plans and test cases/scenarios to test every requirement.
● Performed Functional testing, Regression testing, Usability testing, Compatibility testing,
Exploratory testing on various gaming apps developed. Verified the functionality on a variety of devices on both iOS and android platforms.
● Outsourced and Coordinated test efforts between internal teams and external vendors.
● Performed User Acceptance testing of new features and ensured that the Regression test runs were executed and validated before the final approval of the release.
Environment: iOS, Android, TestFlight, AWS Device Farm, Firebase, deltaDNA, Jira, Slack, Trello
Actively participated in the Technical Design meeting to understand the functionality, scope, and
dependencies for the upcoming Sprints.
● Wrote User Acceptance test cases, set up the testing environment with test data and helped the
stakeholders during UAT and logged defects based on the feedback.
● Approved the releases by conducting regression testing in Staging environment and did smoke test
on Production environments by executing the post deployment validation scripts.
● Continuously tracked the stories/bugs and monitored the progress of sprints, escalated any
concerns/impediments to the managers.
● Managed a team of 3 testers and acted as a key point of contact for all QA aspects and
approved the releases.
● Identified test cases for automation, consolidated regression test cases and reduced
regression testing time by 20%.
● Created detailed Test Plans, Test cases, and performed Functional and Regression testing.
● Wrote automation scripts in Visual Studio using Selenium Webdriver with C#.
● Wrote SQL queries to validate the data against the SQL database.
● Assessed the risk of issues pre-release and post release and helped in making decisions.
● Actively participated in Effort estimation, Sprint Review, Retrospective, go/no go meetings.
● Contributed in analyzing the defects and performing root cause analysis.