YASODHA VISWANATHAN
Manual QA Analyst
Johannesburg
Summary
Quality Assurance Test Analyst with experience across manual testing, exploratory testing, and regression testing for decoder software, routers, and IP camera products. Supports release quality by logging defects in Jira, executing regression suites for multiple firmware/software releases per month to ensure existing functionality remained stable, analysing debug logs, serial logs, Tera Term logs, and defect logs to identify root causes, validating fixes with clear test reports, and executing sanity, functional, regression, integration, and system test cases for STB software releases. Strengthens release confidence through STLC discipline, sanity checks, and load testing.
Overview
5
5
Certifications
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Assurance test analyst
Skyblu Technology (Pty)Ltd
03.2024 - Current
- Project/product: Zapper, OTT decoder, wireless routers, IP cameras
- Client: MultiChoice
- Technologies used in the projects: C, Jenkins, Jazz, Jira
- Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive testing of software applications, analyse test results and identify and report bugs, defects, and inconsistencies.
- Prepared clear and concise reports on software testing, detailing test results, defects, and processes for the development team.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams and product managers to clarify project requirements and functionalities.
- Executing sanity checks on the Driver software.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, Product Managers to understand project requirements and functionalities.
- Collaborate with the development team to facilitate timely issue resolution and ensure software quality standards are met.
- Preparing clear and concise reports on all aspects related to the software testing carried out and reporting all test results, defects and testing process to the development team.
- Ability to follow simple scripts or to do exploratory testing to narrow down scenarios causing errors and also to reproduce errors from descriptions given.
- Executed automated regression testing on software applications.
- Participated in design reviews, providing input on requirements, product design, and potential issues to enhance testing processes.
- Participating in design reviews and providing input on requirements, product design, potential problems and methods of streamlining the testing process/ activities.
- Stay informed about industry best practices, emerging trends and technologies related to software testing.
Quality Assurance Manual Tester
Neo-Tech Technology Solution (Pty)Ltd
02.2021 - 02.2024
- Project/product: Zapper, OTT decoder, wireless routers, IP cameras
- Client: MultiChoice
- Technologies used in the projects: RTOS Linux, JTAG Debugger, language C, Stream Xpress, git versioning system, SourceInsightC, Jenkins, Jira.
- Responsibilities (Software Developer):
- Implementation for multiple Filter notify to application from Pipeline Manager when Filter data has matched. Implemented Test Application to verify the feature.
- Design and Implementation of ES and PES files playback. Also implemented Test Application to verify the feature.
- Requirement to Design and Implement Fast Channel Change (FCC) which allows the user to change the channel
- Designed and implemented HDMI-IN feature for audio, enabling PCM data rendering and decoding/passthrough of Dolby Digital data to compatible sink devices.
- Executed bug fixes and contributed to feature implementations, enhancing overall software stability and functionality.
- Maintained detailed technical documentation and ensured code alignment with software requirements and specifications for improved clarity and compliance.
- Participated in code reviews and collaborated with team members to enhance code quality and performance.
Education
B.Sc. - Computer Science
MK, University
INDIA05-2007
Intermediate -
Board of intermediate Education
IndiaSSLC - undefined
Secondary Board of Education
IndiaSkills
Manual testing
Software testing life cycle (STLC)
Agile methodology
Regression testing
Exploratory testing
Jenkins
Jira
Git
C
JTAG debugger
Selenium WebDriver
TestNG
Defect reporting
Test reporting
Requirements analysis
Cross-functional collaboration
Design review participation
Certification
Oracle 9i Certified Programmer with PL/SQL.
Interests
Reading Books, Up To Date Technology online Reading, Listening to Music
Timeline
Quality Assurance test analyst
Skyblu Technology (Pty)Ltd
03.2024 - Current
Quality Assurance Manual Tester
Neo-Tech Technology Solution (Pty)Ltd
02.2021 - 02.2024
SSLC - undefined
Secondary Board of Education
B.Sc. - Computer Science
MK, University
Intermediate -
Board of intermediate Education