Shashidhar Thumkunta

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About Shashidhar Thumkunta

Around 6 years 4 months of experience in analysis and testing and implementation expertise in internet and client/server, web-based using manual, web services and restful Services using Soap UI, JavaScript, XML, and SQL Server databases Good exposure in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Test Life Cycle) and agile methodology. Leading a QA team of 5 members delivered 11 projects on the release cycle. Experience in interaction with Clients, Multiple Vendors, and End Users. Experienced QA Lead on-shore and off-shore teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance ratings. Strong leadership skills with an overview of when to sell, tell, participate, and delegate tasks to the team. Extensive experience in developing, implementing, and updating Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios. Onsite-Offshore coordinator. Ability to communicate testing goals and results with project stakeholders. Strong expertise in testing web services via SOAP, using the open-source testing tool SoapUI and Postman tool. Experience in Business Functionality Testing, Smoke testing, User Interface testing, Integration Testing, Black Box Testing, End-to-end Testing, Manual Testing, UAT testing, Regression Testing, Documentation, and Reporting. Expertise in XML, Web Services, and restful services testing using Soap UI. Good exposure and experience in working with CA LISA Tool for Service Virtualization. Experience in interaction with Clients, Multiple Vendors, and End Users. Knowledge of Jenkins and experience in promoting and deploying the code builds into servers. Commitment to cooperative teamwork and being involved in delivering high-quality products to clients. Working Knowledge of Agile methodology and actively participating in the Sprint grooming and planning meetings, Retrospective, Scrum meetings to understand the requirements by using JIRA, confluence. Expertise on Defect Reporting and Defect Life cycle using Mantis, HP- ALM, and JIRA. Good Team player, quick learner, proactive, collaborative and self-starter, excellent oral and written skills Strong team player to find defects in Software application against requirement specification. Excellent problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail and good at reproducing complex and intermittent bugs. Good knowledge on Continuous Integration tool like Docker. Experience in creating Docker files and Docker images.