Subhash Chander Kanukunta

I bring 14.6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, spanning both Individual Contributor and Test Lead roles. Currently, I am working as a Senior Team Lead QA– hybrid role – Individual Contributor & as a QA Lead contributing hands-on across critical testing activities along with ensuring product quality, process efficiency, team productivity, and transparent communication with stakeholders, while continuously improving testing practices and delivery outcomes. Worked on different domains such as eCommerce, Automotive, Healthcare and Embedded Systems which has helped me build strong domain understanding and adaptability.

My primary focus is ensuring the quality and reliability of our software applications/products through rigorous testing, analysis, and process improvement. I'm passionate about delivering high-quality products and collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve exceptional results. I'm excited to bring my skills and experience to a new challenge and contribute to a team's success.

Let's discuss how I can add value to your organization.

Senior Software Engineer - QA - Clean Harbors India LLP

(2018-02 - 2025-04)

• Understanding and translate user requirements and product features into testing requirements.
• Design, create and execute test cases with effective Bug logging for all the sprints.
• Prepare estimates for testing from the beginning to the end for each sprint which also includes preparing of necessary test data for the test cases.
• Peer review and analyzing the Test Cases prepared by fellow team members. Also, coordinate with the Dev team to verify the test case coverage for each story.
• Handling multiple releases independently and assigning tasks to the Team members.
• Generating test status reports and preparing QA Checklist. Directly interact with the clients in daily scrum calls.
• Find the root cause of the bug and coordinate with onsite development team for bug fixes, using different tools like Dynatrace 7.0, Fiddler or SQL Profiler.
• Testing the SSIS Jobs, Webservices and Schemas for data validation.
• Actively interact with the business users for the UAT feedback and support on the user issues for every sprint release.
• Deploying builds and installations of required software/application in different Environments.
• Generation of Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Review Status Reports.
• Environment: Azure DevOps, Visual Studio 2017- Team Foundation Server, TMS, OMS, Microsoft TestManager, SQL Studio, NFC, SharePoint, Fiddler & DynaTrace 7.0, Microsoft Teams, POS, Android, iOS, Windows (Mobile & Tablet), Playwright.

QA Team Lead - TransGraph Consulting Pvt Ltd

(2015-01 - 2017-12)

• Understanding the Business Requirements by attending the meetings with product team and business analyst
• Playing dual role, managing the Implementation, as well as being the person they call for Support.
• Working on a hybrid role - Individual Contributor contributing hands-on across critical testing activities. and Lead QA in delivering the quality of the product to stakeholders.
• Managing all functions of Software Quality Assurance and Test Management including planning, define/design, review and execution control.
• Discuss about bug behavior with Dev team for better solution
• Involved in AAA client CxC Infra Project Upgrade - Go-Live Signed Off & Closure.
• Participated in DB Migration Testing (SQL 2008, 2012 & 2014)
• Environment: Windows 7 Professional, .Net, SQL Server 2010, Team Foundation Server & Mantis.

QA UAT Support - Target Corporation - MN, USA

(2013-12 - 2014-09)

• Reviewed Business, Design and Functional Requirement Documents and understood the overall flow of the business and listed operational order flow.
• Worked on Foundations Project –Merchant/Supply Chain R3 Implementation and involved in various systems enhancements, maintenance, optimize internal systems and ensuring to address any defects or system issues for all the releases.
• Tested the connectivity between Everest and Non-Everest systems that helps in avoiding any environment related roadblocks for the subsequent cycles 1,2 & 3.
• E2E Cycle 1 – Approx: 220Variations
• a) Cycle 1 scope will comprise of all High-Priority Regression variations identified for R3
• b) Scope for Cycle 1 will also include the new variations identified for R3
• E2E Cycle 2 – 220 Variations
• a) Cycle 2 scope will comprise of all Medium/Low-Priority Regression variations identified for R3
• b) Also covers re-execution of new variations identified for R3
• E2E Cycle 3 – Approx: 30 Variations
• a) Cycle 3 will be primarily to re-execute failed and Blocked and any spill over variations from Cycle2
• Worked on Sterling Call Center Access Changes, addition of Returns admin role and removal of Returns specialist and also Reviewed User Roles Maintenance (Guest/GCC Agent) EDI 204, 211, 990, 210, 810
• Reviewed Timeout setting for payments/Fraud Payments and Implemented time-out parameters for payment web services invocation, Transport Management System & Road Logistics
• Executed 250 Regression TC’s covering critical order management flows and interactions with downstream systems like eDW and 30 eStore specific TC’s covering critical flows outside of order management and validated the feeds pertaining respective systems like Prism, WMS, Innotrac, OHL, DVS, SPAM, LID, DAS CSL, Print Vendor, COM, POS, GENCO, EDW/ADW, eDW, GRDA, TRLS, Home Direct & PILOT; also confirmed the availability of systems for E2E testing highlighting any conflicts with other releases/testi
• Tracked the defects, prepared status summary reports and reported defects using Jira.
• Involved in whole process of UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Environment: Windows, Mac, Target Mobile App, SQL Server 2010, OMS, TMS, NFC, Agile Jira, POS, EMV, IBM messaging Server

QA ETL/Back-end Tester - Russell Investments - WA, USA

(2012-12 - 2013-11)

• Studied the mapping of the use cases from the Functional Specification Document with the Design Document, flow charts, mockups, interacted with business analysts and functional managers to clarify issues upon business requirements.
• Understood an overview of business requirements,
• Listed operation assumptions taken to design the case
• Provided implementation details in terms of the interface attributes that take care of the various inputs required for the eagle tools used.
• Identified detail procedure logic that will be used to do the required processing that provides Database mappings and validations.
• While mapping the data fields / attributes, certain fields that could not be mapped to the existing database and are Russell-specific, have been identified.
• Identified Outline Error Handling Methods.
• File format comparison according to requirement mentioned in respective documents.
• Column mapping comparison between data file and PACE tables.
• Data comparison between data file and PACE table.
• Transformation if exists. For example, in file we have data EQ, but in data base we need to store Equity. We need to refer design/requirement documents for that.
• Data/Feed comparison between PACE tables and exported files.
• Data/Feed comparison between different environments like staging1, staging2 and target database.
• Experience in reading Logical and Physical Data Models and Entity Relationship diagrams and write necessary SQL queries for identifying test data
• Extensively worked on Test Executing SQL Queries for backend testing to check the flow of data from source to target parsing thru different staging and loaded into target tables.
• Experience using flat/feed files and files while execution testing.
• Validated Security data related to equities, received from Bloomberg Back-office data file, into the PACE environment and then loaded into Target tables of Russell thru ETL Job.
• Identified the availability of dedicated resources for E2E execution / Support and also availability of Dev resources for triaging & fixing any defects identified during E2E testing.
• Also, identified availability of technical resources to troubleshoot any environment/system Issues while executing System Testing.
• Tracked the defects, prepared status summary reports and reported defects using Jira.
• Involved in whole process of UAT (User Acceptance, Integration, end-to-end)
• Environment: Windows 7 Professional, SQL Server 2010, Agile Jira

QA Specialist - Shire Pharma - PA, USA

(2012-01 - 2012-11)

• Developed Test Cases as they were upgrading their current Sales Force /SalesPro version 3.1 thru 4.0.
• Responsible for modification and executing of the Test Scripts manually.
• Involved in Functional, Integration, and Regression testing of the application.
• Identify, document, and review test conditions / test cases with help from core team
• Accountable and supportive for identifying Test scenarios
• Responsible for assisting with Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Master’s Diploma in Business Administration (MBA) - Pune

Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com) - Hyderabad

Diploma in Computer and Commercial Practice (D.C.C.P) - Hyderabad