Abilash Sadanandan Nair

Background

About Abilash Sadanandan Nair

10+ years of overall experience in the Information technology sector with a strong background in Quality assurance. 5+ years of extensive experience as a QA Lead with hands-on knowledge in Project and Product Management within the Digital Printing Technology. • Experience in Project Management, Process Improvement, Project Delivery, Test Management, Software Testing Life Cycle & Software Development Life Cycle. • Proficient and experienced in understanding of requirement, Test Planning and Estimation, Preparing Test Scenarios, Writing Test Cases, and defect tracking. • Extensive Experience of Software Development Life Cycle that includes Requirement gathering, Process Improvements, Project Management, Implementation, Software testing and Post Production Support Testing in various Projects. • Demonstrated abilities in carrying out Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Database Testing, Performance and Security Testing, Exploratory Testing and UAT Testing with proven record in release delivery and management for both large and small projects. • Great ability to facilitate communications between Project Stake Holders, Developers, QA testing team and Business units. • Experience in designing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, generating and maintaining Test Scripts, and analyzing tests. • Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines. • Excellent exposure to Test Management tools such as HP Quality Centre, Confluence and JIRA for Creating/Updating the Test Cases when there is a change in the requirement or new feature or enhancement is added. • Well versed with Agile & Waterfall model. • Experience in API and Web Services Testing using SOAP UI, POSTMAN and JSON Restful services. • Experience in testing Web based, desktop/windows and mobile (iOS and Android) applications. KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS Project Methodologies: AGILE/SCRUM & Waterfall. Testing Tools: Selenium Web Driver, HP QC, JIRA, Zephyr, Postman, Confluence, Bugzilla, Seibel. Testing Skills: Manual Testing, Automation Testing, API Testing, Functional & Non-Functional Testing, Regression & Defect Life Cycle. Tools: Microsoft Office. Operating System: Windows, LINUX & Mac OS. Programming Languages: Python, SQL.