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G. ANOOP

G. ANOOP

Marzahn-Hellersdorf,Berlin

Summary

A seasoned technical expert and a QA Manger with over 18 years of experience in Finance, Banking and Retail business verticals. Experience of setting up teams, tools, frameworks and processes to achieve excellence in quality. Strong understanding of REST API's and microservices. Well versed with DevOps concepts, microservices architecture, Docker Container and its orchestration using Kubernetes.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

QA Manager

SAS
Pune, India
12.2014 - Current
  • Established a strong QA team of 45 members by recruiting, training, and mentoring skilled professionals.
  • Implemented continuous process improvement initiatives to streamline QA operations and maximize efficiency.
  • Managed end-to-end testing efforts for multiple projects, ensuring successful release of robust applications.
  • Introduced automation tools to optimize testing efforts and reduce manual workload on team members.
  • Oversaw budgeting, resource allocation, and risk management activities for all QA-related projects in the organization.
  • Successfully transitioned an On-Premise solution to a cloud offering.
  • Built automation competency using Python, Selenium and REST API's.
  • Maintained a high standard of product performance by conducting thorough regression testing on each release.
  • Increased customer satisfaction with products by ensuring consistent quality across all platforms and devices.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to establish key performance indicators for the QA team, driving continuous improvement efforts throughout the organization.

QA Lead/Consultant

Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, India
07.2013 - 12.2014

As a QA Lead, my role included:-

  • Streamlined QA processes for improved efficiency, reducing project completion time.
  • Led cross-functional teams to ensure seamless collaboration in achieving project goals.
  • Implemented automation tools, increasing testing accuracy and reducing manual effort.
  • Performing functional, regression testing,smoke testing, ABtesting on dailybasis.
  • Designing test plans and test strategy documents
  • Optimized test coverage by defining clear test objectives and prioritizing scenarios based on risk assessment.
  • Preparing test data and test case execution

Sr. QA

Fiserv India Pvt. Ltd
Pune, India
04.2010 - 07.2013
  • Preparing Test plan, Test cases,Release Documents and QA Readiness documents
  • Test case execution, Result analysis & defect identification and reporting in tracking tool.
  • Performing functional, Integration, Regression testing & SIT testing.
  • Creation of SQL scripts and other database activities
  • Understanding the functionality and providing on-job knowledge transfer to peers.
  • Attending client meetings, reporting daily & weekly status to client and managers

Sr. Test Engineer

Mindtree India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, India
10.2007 - 12.2010

As a senior QA my roles and responsibilities included:-

  • Enhance existing systems by analyzing business objectives, preparing an action plan and identifying areas for modification and improvement.
  • Validation of device drivers on various operating systems of Windows Client and Server Operating system such as Win XP/ Windows Server 2000, Windows Sever 2003, Windows 8 and Windows Vista.
  • Debugging, analyzing and reporting the kernel logs of the operating system. Enabling kernel level debugging to find the exact root cause of the issue.
  • Designing of test cases to ensure critical requirements of the application have been met.
  • Use Microsoft's Windows Development Kit extension to Visual Studio to build, deploy, install and test device drivers.
  • Creating and publishing reports of execution.
  • Record any new defects uncovered during the test execution.
  • Creation of strategies for White box testing using functional requirements.
  • Ensuring that all tested related work is carried out as per the defined standards and procedures

Education

MCA - Computer Science And Programming

Pune University
Pune
06.2007

SKILL SUMMARY

Testing Skills:-

  • REST API Automation
  • Test planning, Test case design, Test execution, Defect reporting, Retesting, Regression testing, Smoke testing, SIT Testing, UAT testing, GUI, Integration Testing, AB Testing
  • HP QC, ALM 11, ALM 12, TestRail, JIRA, PIVOTAL
  • Core Java
  • Oracle, Mysql

Agile Skills :-

  • Plan Program Increment.
  • Scaled Sprint Planning.

DevOps :-

  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Containers.
  • Feature toggle
  • CI/CD

Certification

  • ISTQB Certified
  • Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP)
  • Leading SAFe 5.0 - Scaled Agile Framework
  • DevOps Practitioner - Containers, Kubernetes and CI/CD (Cloud Academy)

Timeline

QA Manager

SAS
12.2014 - Current

QA Lead/Consultant

Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2013 - 12.2014

Sr. QA

Fiserv India Pvt. Ltd
04.2010 - 07.2013

Sr. Test Engineer

Mindtree India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2007 - 12.2010

MCA - Computer Science And Programming

Pune University
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