Senior QA Manager | Agile | Certified Scrum Master | Product Development | Demand Planning
14 Years of Experience
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
+91 9**********
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▶️ THE VALUE I BRING: Expert Senior QA and Release Manager with 14 + years of expertise in evaluating existing quality procedures, assessing release management, and forward plan across multiple projects. Adept at SDLC, automation using programming languages, and a keen eye on mapping product lifecycle to customer needs. Professional capacity to assess product road maps with strategies insights, avoiding product delays, and controlling budget scope beyond the set deadlines. Demonstrated knowledge in monitoring Audit ISO/ISMS external auditing needs, overseeing product requirement gathering, root cause analysis, UAT, and preempting probable defects to eliminate product release defects. ▶️ CORE COMPTENCIES : Quality Engineering Software Testing Agile & Scrum, JIRA, Test Management tools (TestRail), Test Automation, Ranorex, Selenium, Cucumber SQL Software Applications UAT Deploying Solutions Product Release and Forward plan Defects Detection & Recovery Testing Project & Product Documentation Risk Mitigation Engineering Standards Test Cases Process Improvement Version control tools: SVN, GIT Post Production release support Performance Testing ▶️ SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS ✅Hands-on experience of working with top clients and understanding their product requirements. Some of these include Dell, PMI, SGWS, Vodafone, WBA, and Nokia ✅Working with globally distributed teams on application development, functional and regression testing across different time zones ✅Reduced test time and defects by identifying new user strategies and their implementation along with eliminating recurring project defects and errors using root cause analysis, test escape analysis, creating standardized tools, methodologies and processes ▶️ CERTIFICATIONS: ►ISTQB Certified ►Agile Scrum Certified I’m always interested in hearing from former colleagues, managers, or just interesting creative folk, so feel free to contact me if you’d like to connect.
Darwinbox, SaaS/Cloud Product, Computer Software
E2open
E2open
Darwinbox, E2open, E2open, Steelwedge (Now part of E2open), Steelwedge (Now part of E2open), Steelwedge (Now part of E2open), Cigniti Technologies
Job Title : Senior QA Manager
Company name : Darwinbox
Period : August 2023 - Present
Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Title : Senior QA Manager ➡️Release ▪️ Service Delivery ▪️ Product Development
Company name : E2open
Period : July 2020 - August 2023
Summary : ★► Product Development | Quality Engineering | Release Management | Agile Practitioner ★►
• Senior Manager: Release Manager: Fostered a globally distributed team to perform complex functional, application, and regression tests. Planning and implementation of automated testing along with timely releases of product and production escalation patches and providing sign-off on release milestones and deployments to production.
• Mentoring & coaching pool of resources on using Automation tools namely Ranorex(using C#) and Selenium(using Java). Formulating high order performance testing and expertise in using VSTS for the same.
• Allocating resources needed to implement new test strategies (Agile Scrum, Sanity Suite Regression),resulting in development of best practice models. Efficiently use JIRA to construct Sprints and derive metrics using JIRA dashboards. Manages Sprint QA Task estimations within a scrum/agile team.
• Fair knowledge towards Supply Chain domain and associated activities.Actively participating in all ISO external audit activities.
Software Quality Assurance, Agile Methodologies, Test Planning ,Linux ,Requirements Analysis ,Software Project Management , Unix , Manual Testing
Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Title : Software Quality Assurance Manager ➡️Release ▪️ Service Delivery ▪️ User Acceptance Testing
Company name : E2open
Period : February 2018 - June 2020
Summary : ★► Requirement Gathering | User Acceptance Testing (UAT) | Release Management ★►
• Improved software quality and reduced defects via introduction of defect and requirements management tools, requirements gathering, testing best practices and root cause analysis.
• Technically participating in every stage of feature development from design and brainstorming through feature implementation & testing.
• Participated in periodic walk through of teams accomplished objectives. Completing post implementation review assignments for learning & process improvement.
• Resolved initiatives related to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and product rollout into production. Responsible for reporting all identified issues, delays and risks and liaise with stakeholders to ensure test environments and any specific UAT requirements are set up in readiness for test execution and assist with UAT defect triage calls.
Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Title : Associate software QA Manager ➡️ Release Manager ▪️ Product Development
Company name : Steelwedge (Now part of E2open)
Period : January 2017 - January 2018
Summary : ★► Associate Software QA Manager | Release Manager | Risk Management ★►
• Worked as Release Manager (Steelwedge, now part of E2OPEN) Established, implemented, and improved QA infrastructure; test procedures, process, and quality standards in accordance with overall development and product releases.
• Mitigated QA risks including escalation to senior management. Monitor risk-management procedures, and maintain and analyze problem logs to identify and report recurring issues to management and product development.
• Provide training and support to quality assurance team on systems, policies, procedures, and core processes.
Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Title : Principal Software QA Engineer ➡️ Test Lead ▪️ Quality Assurance
Company name : Steelwedge (Now part of E2open)
Period : July 2014 - May 2017
Summary : ★► Principal Software QA Engineer | Risk Management ★►
• Worked as Principal Software QA Engineer (Steelwedge, now part of E2OPEN)
• Assisted operations and local quality function in tracking, documenting, and reporting quality levels as well as CSR, environmental and safety goals/KPIs.
• Achieved the Individual Excellence Award for the responsibilities carried out.
Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Title : Software Quality Assurance Engineer ➡️ Test Engineer ▪️ Software Testing
Company name : Steelwedge (Now part of E2open)
Period : February 2011 - June 2014
Summary : ★► Senior QA Engineer | Release Management ★►
• Senior QA Engineer (Steelwedge, now part of E2OPEN)
• Strong organizational skills, ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and synthesize the results and communicate cross functionally and across management levels & stakeholders.
• Delivery of testing evidences for client evaluation.
• Dynamically settle production issues with well-defined SLAs. Awarded as Steel Performer in the Q3 and Q4 for the year 2012.
Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Title : Software Test Engineer ➡️ Software Testing
Company name : Cigniti Technologies
Period : April 2009 - January 2011
Summary : ★► Software Test Engineer ★►
• Created comprehensive and well-structured test cases and gathered test data to execute test scripts. Identified, documented, and troubleshooted system errors in applications. Compiled required test status reports.
• Reviewed project-related documentation (project plans, requirements and design documents, and risk and issue logs). Participated in release-related activities including pre-release planning, mock release activities, smoke testing during release, disaster recovery testing, and warranty work following a release, and other tasks as assigned.
Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Title : Blockchain Basics
Period : January 2022 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : DevOps Foundations: Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration
Period : January 2022 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
Period : December 2021 - December 2023
Summary : 1507460, bcert.me, https://bcert.me/sznylwzfy
Issuing Authority : Scrum Alliance
Title : Characteristics of a Great Scrum Master
Period : December 2021 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Java: Automated API Testing with REST Assured
Period : December 2021 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Learning Java
Period : December 2021 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Scrum: Advanced
Period : December 2021 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Scrum: The Basics
Period : December 2021 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Agile Certified
Issuing Authority : Agile Education by Scrum Inc.™
Title : ISTQB Certified
Issuing Authority : ISTQB® - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
Title : Manager Development Program
Issuing Authority : E2open
English (Full Professional), Hindi (Full Professional), Kannada (Full Professional), Telugu (Full Professional)
Achieving project-based goals within deadlines with a team size of 10 and proactively sorting issues on a day-to-day basis; As an SME (Subject Matter Expert) stepped into control risks and avoid escalations. Brainstormed with top management and business partners to understand project roadblocks and sort them through regular cross-functional communication; Building and delivering new generation UI with an intent to meet business results with the desired flexibility and doing away with outdated systems; Consistently achieved production metrics with pre-defined SLS. This led to Q3 and Q4 Steel Performer Award (2012); Hands-on experience of working with top clients and understanding their product requirements. Some of these include Dell, PMI, SGWS, Vodafone, WBA, and Nokia; Keeping a tab on resource requirements for different projects, negotiating with other vendors and internal teams on resource allocation, and meeting testing deadlines; Motivated direct reports of 10 QAs team members to achieve industry standards on quality checks and quality strategies and their implementation. Overseeing team metrics to meet short and long-term objectives, goals and meet organizational mission; Reduced test time and defects by identifying new user strategies and their implementation along with eliminating recurring project defects and errors using root cause analysis, test escape analysis, creating standardized tools, methodologies and processes; Working with globally distributed teams on application development, functional and regression testing across different time zones
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