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Renuka Sastry

@renukasastry

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I am an ISTQB-certified requirements and test analyst moving into Business Analysis.

Netherlands

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior Agile role where I can grow into Business Analysis, lead requirement discovery, improve test processes, coach teams, and deliver high-quality, cost-effective solutions.

I have over 20 years' experience working in cross-functional Agile teams worldwide as a requirements and test professional, translating designs and client conversations into clear user stories and test plans. I lead backlog management, sprint planning and refinements, and have set up and coached teams on MS Azure DevOps and Agile processes to improve delivery quality and efficiency.

I hold ISTQB foundation and advanced certifications and Certified Scrum Master training, and I bring strong expertise in test automation, UAT coordination, SQL querying and defect analysis. I deliver cost-effective, zero-defect focused processes using tools like JIRA, Confluence, Selenium, UFT, Jenkins, Git and HP-ALM, and I continuously mentor teams to raise testing maturity and product quality.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Requirements and Test Analyst

Current

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Feb 2020 - Present (5 years 8 months)

Translated designs and client communications into compact user stories, set up Azure DevOps processes and coached teams while leading sprint planning and refinements; executed UI, Swagger and MS SQL tests to validate deliverables.

Azure DevOps Jira User Stories Test Execution Swagger SQL Agile Scrum Backlog Management

Test Professional

Schuberg Philis

Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 11 months)

Performed QA for a core banking middleware (Matrix) developed in C#, authored JIRA user and test stories, coordinated acceptance testing and used MS-SQL to create test data while driving sprint refinement and CI/CD testing.

C#Jira SQL Selenium Agile Scrum CI CD Test Automation Acceptance Testing

Senior Test Professional

IBM CIC

Nov 2015 - Sep 2017 (1 year 10 months)

Delivered technical testing and automation (UFT, RIT) for banking systems including RABO payment engines, coordinated cross-system acceptance tests and completed test audits and team leadership tasks.

Cucumber Jenkins Test Automation Acceptance Testing Agile Scrum Auditing

Senior Software System Tester

ING

Jun 2010 - Mar 2015 (4 years 9 months)

Led system and functional testing of bank-wide customer and credit risk applications, coordinated IT-business test activities, implemented Agile from scratch and automated regression suites using QTP.

Functional Testing Agile Scrum SQL

Software Test Manager

IBM

Oct 2006 - May 2010 (3 years 7 months)

Managed multinational test teams and developed test strategies, plans and reports across clients, executing functional, regression and integration tests and improving defect reporting using ClearQuest/TestDirector.

Test Management Test Strategy ClearQuest Integration Testing Test Reporting

Senior Quality Control Engineer

UPC Broadband

Aug 2006 - Sep 2006 (1 month)

Tested Java cSpire applications, created Vitria XML requests and performed provisioning via LDAP/JXplorer, documented test cases and coordinated integration testing with Accenture and Jacobs-Rimell.

Java Application Testing Vitria LDAP Websphere Integration Testing

Senior Quality Control Engineer

VoCognition B.V

Sep 2003 - Jul 2006 (2 years 10 months)

Executed functional, regression and non-functional testing for a J2EE warehousing execution system across multiple platforms, automated regression in XML and led UAT while creating DB schemas across Oracle, SQL Server and DB2.