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Soumyashree Matada ShanthkumarSM

Soumyashree Matada Shanthkumar

QA Consultant

€500/day
Ulm, DE
8-15 years
Software Testing
manual qa
api testing
Scrum
Atlassian JIRA

Average response time: 1 hour

About Soumyashree

Senior QA Engineer with 10+ years delivering end-to-end quality across Automotive, E-Commerce, SaaS, Banking, and Media domains. Proven track record owning full test strategy, regression suite design, API validation, defect lifecycle management, and release sign-off across safety-critical automotive systems, high-traffic OXID e-commerce platforms, and cloud SaaS retail environments serving 450+ retailers. ISTQB-certified, Agile-native, and immediately available for remote QA roles across Germany and the EU.
Digital and IT Services
Automotive OEM
Banking and Financial Services
E-commerce
Press and Media

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Conversational

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Alten GmbH
    QA Consultant
    AUTOMOBILE
    December 2024 - Today (1 year and 6 months)
    70 Stuttgart, Germany
    Domain: Automotive Software — ECU, TCU & Telematics Systems
    Own full SDLC/STLC test strategy — functional, integration, regression, system, and smoke testing for ECU/TCU/telematics software aligned to sprint release milestones.
    Deliver in-vehicle validation of infotainment, connectivity, and telematics features; execute eCall scenarios verifying trigger logic, backend connectivity, and call-centre handoff.
    Flash ECU/TCU firmware using OEM diagnostic tooling and run post-flash regression suites confirming zero defect regression and system stability.
    Validate OBD-II DTC fault codes — trigger conditions and severity classifications.
    Validate OTA software update delivery pipelines including roll-back on failure and telematics backend status reporting.
    Author Confluence SOPs and SharePoint guides reducing team onboarding time.
    Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OBD-II, ECU Flashing Tools, DTC Analysis, CAN Bus Analysis
    Software Testing Testing and Quality Assurance TELEMATICS
  • Norisk GmbH
    Testing & Quality Manager
    E-COMMERCE
    October 2022 - July 2024 (1 year and 9 months)
    Germany
    Clients: Sporthaus Schuster, Bettenrid, Lodenfrey, Tretter, Nitras Safety, Eppli, Michael’s Bund, Reiss Ambient, Dibbern | Domain: OXID E-Commerce
    Sole QA owner across multiple concurrent OXID retail clients — test strategy, sprint planning, defect triage, and release sign-off delivered independently per client.
    Executed cart testing, checkout validation, order lifecycle, inventory validation, product catalogue, search/filter/sort, and wishlist testing end-to-end.
    Validated PayPal, Klarna, credit card (3DS2 authentication) and shipping validation across multi-language EU storefronts.
    Tested coupon/discount engine and POS flows; executed pre-sale QA for Black Friday and campaigns under high-traffic peak conditions.
    Delivered responsive UI and accessibility testing on iOS/Android via BrowserStack and LambdaTest — device, OS, and cross-browser coverage.
    Validated newsletter subscription, double opt-in, transactional/promotional/trigger email, A/B campaign, and email delivery testing via Klaviyo.
    Executed GDPR consent, cookie consent, user role & permission, token/session validation, and MFA/2FA testing across customer and admin flows.
    Performed REST API testing via Postman/SoapUI/Swagger; validated ERP/OMS integrations; Figma UI/UX and accessibility reviews pre-development.
    Maintained JIRA dashboards and SharePoint trackers — real-time release readiness visibility.
    Designed and implemented a universal smoke test checklist covering core e-commerce flows — cart, checkout, payment, order, and catalogue — applicable across all 9 clients, reducing release validation time significantly per deployment.
    Introduced a Slack-based live issue logging system during DevOps releases to production — directly reducing store downtime and protecting client revenue.
    Tools: JIRA, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Postman, SoapUI, Swagger, BrowserStack, LambdaTest, Klaviyo, PayPal, Klarna, OXID, Azure DevOps, Figma, Google Analytics, Jenkins
    Atlassian JIRA Test Environment Management manual qa mobile qa
  • NSR Information Systems
    Senior QA Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    February 2021 - October 2022 (1 year and 8 months)
    India
    Domain: Cloud SaaS Retail — 450+ Retailers, 50,000+ Stores like kroger, meijer, Henderson etc.
    Designed and executed functional, integration, regression, and E2E test cases for forecasting, ordering, and inventory modules across 450+ retailers at 50,000+ locations.
    Validated order lifecycle, DSD workflows, expiration date management (FIFO/FEFO), shrink reporting, and inventory validation for food safety audit compliance.
    Executed SQL backend validation with row-count reconciliation confirming zero data loss; Postman API testing verifying schemas, pagination, and error contracts.
    Delivered mobile testing on iOS/Android for store-associate apps; coordinated UAT with retail ops teams; maintained Azure DevOps burn-up/burn-down dashboards.
    Actively participated in Agile/Scrum ceremonies — sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives — contributing QA estimates, test coverage updates, and go/no-go recommendations each sprint.
    Collaborated with Product Owners to refine user stories and define clear acceptance criteria, ensuring testability was built into requirements before sprint start.
    Raised and tracked QA-related impediments in sprint retrospectives, proposing process improvements that were adopted by the team — including earlier defect triage and mid-sprint regression checks.
    Maintained and groomed the QA backlog in JIRA, aligning test case priorities with sprint goals and release roadmap to ensure full coverage without blocking velocity.
    Delivered sprint-level QA sign-off reports and defect status summaries to Scrum Master and Product Owner — providing clear release readiness data at the end of every sprint cycle.
    Tools: Microsoft Azure, Postman, SQL, MongoDB, Azure DevOps, BrowserStack, LambdaTest, Microsoft Teams
    Scrum Atlassian JIRA Test Environment Management Testing and Quality Assurance Agile Ceremonies Facilitation
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Education

  • • •ISTQB® Certified Tester – CTFL • •Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) • •Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)
    • •ISTQB® Certified Tester – CTFL • •Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) • •Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)
  • B.E. Telecommunications
    Visvesvaraya Technological University
    2012
    B.E. Telecommunications

Certifications

  • ISTQB
    ITB
    2022
  • CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER
    Scrum Alliance
    2022
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Skill set

Agile Ceremonies Facilitation
Test Environment Management
Testing and Quality Assurance

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