Akshay R Acharya
Test Lead - Operational Acceptance Testing
Bangalore
Summary
Professional Summary
Experienced as both Manager and Individual contributor working for projects of Operational Acceptance Testing working, directly with the stakeholders at the client locations (UK and Sweden), on varied activities from recruiting/building the team, requirement gathering, identification of scenarios and transactions, scripting, coordinating with other stakeholders, execution , generation of reports and presenting of closure reports to stakeholders.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certificates
1
1
Language
Work History
Sr Operational Test Analyst
FIS
Bangalore
10.2021 - Current
- Analyze the scope and plan the approach for OAT NFRs for multiple projects simultaneously by holding discussion with Project Test managers, Architects and Technical Leads Create Detailed Test Plan
- Gathering information required to create Assessments to define changes/additions in the project to be considered in Performance and OAT
- Generate scripts for the scenarios in scope of the project
- Report Weekly execution to OAT manager by generating reports
- Prepare Test exit report and present it to Stakeholders
Test Manager -Operational Acceptance & Performance
Luminor
Bangalore
08.2019 - 09.2021
- Built the team from the scratch with resources with suitable skill set to a complex banking project.
- Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service.
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
- Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication.
Sr Operational Test Lead
Co-op, NBS, IKEA
Swindon, Manchester, Helsingborg
05.2014 - 08.2019
- Planning and Testing of non-functional requirements related to Performance and OAT
- Worked in Retail, Banking and Insurance domains as both Manager and Individual contributor working for projects of Performance Testing and OAT working , directly with the stakeholders at the client place (UK and Sweden), on varied activities from recruiting/building the team, requirement gathering, identification of scenarios and transactions, scripting, coordinating with other stakeholders, execution , generation of reports and presenting of closure reports to stakeholders.
- Groom and mentor, the new joiners to the project to pace up with current project speed
Performance Test Engineer
Walmart, Shop direct
Bangalore
03.2012 - 03.2014
- Worked for one of the leading nationalized Bank of Asia which has around 3900 branches and it is planning to grow the number of branches to around 5000 branches by 2015
- The bank’s business executive and leadership, based on their market growth trends have provided a forecast of the bank’s growth in terms of number of branches, number of customers, number of accounts, number of transactions and associated values till year 2015
- Our team worked on creating a model for this forecast and simulated the load for the same
- Responsibilities:
- Identifying and Analyzing performance Requirements
- Identification of performance Test types and monitoring strategy
- Preparation of Test Plan for Core Banking Application and interfaces associated with it
- Recording of Performance Test scripts which included analyzing the client server interactions and writing custom code to handle client-side compression and de-compression.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B. E) - Electronics and Communications
Vidhya Vardhaka College of Engineering VTU
03.2003 - 07.2006
Diploma - Electronics and Communications
Srimath Polytechnic KTU
03.2000 - 03.2003
Skills
OAT and Performance test planning and execution
Good Analytical and Communication skills
Groom and mentor the new joiners to the project to pace up with current project speed
Performance test planning
Documentation skills
Resilience Testing
Load testing
Disaster Recovery
Alerts and Monitoring Testing
Backup and Restore Testing
Accessibility Testing - Parasoft SOATest
Platform / OS - Azure, Unix (AIX), Windows, OCP and AWS
Certification
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Cloud Fundamentals
Timeline
Sr Operational Test Analyst
FIS
10.2021 - Current
Test Manager -Operational Acceptance & Performance
Luminor
08.2019 - 09.2021
Sr Operational Test Lead
Co-op, NBS, IKEA
05.2014 - 08.2019
Performance Test Engineer
Walmart, Shop direct
03.2012 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Engineering (B. E) - Electronics and Communications
Vidhya Vardhaka College of Engineering VTU
03.2003 - 07.2006
Diploma - Electronics and Communications
Srimath Polytechnic KTU
03.2000 - 03.2003
Highlights
- Analyze and finalize approach for NFRs by holding discussion with Architects and Stakeholders
- Create Detailed Test Plan
- Handle all the business-critical requirements like OAT, Security and Performance which would need good understanding of the Architecture and frequent interactions with Architects and client requirement owners.
- Onshore coordination of NFR’s during analysis, design and execution phases
- Estimation for the new CR for NFRs
- Review the test cases designed by off shore team
- Chair Quality Gate meetings to initiate execution
- Chair Defect triage meetings with Developers and Architects
- Report Daily execution to Stakeholders by generating reports
- Prepare Test exit report and present it to Stakeholders
Highlights
- Analyze and finalize approach for NFRs by holding discussion with Architects and Stakeholders
- Create Detailed Test Plan
- Handle all the business-critical requirements like OAT, Security and Performance which would need good understanding of the Architecture and frequent interactions with Architects and client requirement owners.
- Onshore coordination of NFR’s during analysis, design and execution phases
- Estimation for the new CR for NFRs
- Review the test cases designed by off shore team
- Chair Quality Gate meetings to initiate execution
- Chair Defect triage meetings with Developers and Architects
- Report Daily execution to Stakeholders by generating reports
- Prepare Test exit report and present it to Stakeholders