Ambika Radhakrishnan

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About Ambika Radhakrishnan

Specialties: Business Analyst, QA Analyst in a wide variety of Software projects. ISTQB certified tester with 9+ years of IT Industry experience involving Test Analysis, Test Design, Test Execution and Quality Assurance. Have experience as a Business Systems Analyst and Quality Analyst with a disciplined knowledge of Requirement Gathering, Data Analysis, Business Process Modeling, Test Management, Planning and Test Governance. Have extensive experience in Manual and Automation Testing. Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies (Waterfall, Agile) from project definition to post-deployment documentation. 6+ years of expertise in successfully leading large QA Testing Programs based on Onshore-Offshore global delivery model. Have hands on experience in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Closure documents for complex testing programs for various clients. Has been involved in defining and bench-marking the metrics framework for the division and in helping with predictable delivery measurement through analytics Successfully implemented testing under short sprint cycles using Agile Scrum methodologies. Have a good understanding various other Agile Methodologies (XP, Kanban etc) Exposed to test execution using QTP and Selenium (Webdriver, IDE) test automation including design and implementation of test automation frameworks (Keyword and Data-driven). Domain expertise in Insurance, Retirement, Claims and Mortgage banking. Used Bug/Defect Tracking systems (Clear Quest, Quality Center and JIRA) for logging and tracking of bugs. Involved in successfully executing testing for clients Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife), ING Insurance, Crawford Insurance, TIAA and JP Morgan Chase.