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Balaji Kotta

Associate Project Manager
Hyderabad

Summary

Personal Summary: Valued Assistant Project Manager addresses complex obstacles with experienced insight and anticipation. Demonstrates knowledge of quality management principles through clear communication of task expectations and informed suggestions for process optimizations. Determined advocate of safe and ethical work environment for staff to comfortably accomplish project objectives according to organizational standards. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Associate Project Manager

Criticalriver Technologies Pvt Ltd
Hydrerabad
07.2018 - Current
  • Delivered high level of service to clients to both maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
  • Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
  • Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Supported senior managers and department leaders by completing projects and problem resolution under tight budgets and schedule demands.
  • Documented project progress to fulfill project requirements and establish traceability.
  • Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
  • Generated weekly and monthly status reports for helpful progress tracking.
  • Facilitated workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
  • Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.

Quality Analyst Lead

Buzz Board India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
09.2016 - 03.2018
  • BuzzBoard uses data science to transform business intelligence into meaningful insights by analyzing the Digital Presence of a Business, that marketers and sellers use to create impactful conversations and more sales across every stage of the customer lifecycle
  • Responsibilities:
  • Attending product requirement meetings, reviewing the PA written scope and writing the comments
  • Involved in Planning the sprint and QA resources
  • Co-ordinate/Delegating the task(s) to the team members
  • Reviewing the Test Cases Prepared by the Team Members
  • Monitor the Test Execution Progress and Manage the Issues during Test Execution
  • Defect Management (Tracking and Reporting)
  • Act as a POC for Product Owners
  • Preparing & Sharing the Status Report as applicable
  • Handling internal release demos
  • Initiated Automation testing and DB Testing
  • Written Scripts and executed
  • Wrote, reviewed and approved documents to preserve quality assurance.
  • Established new and improved QA processes by developing test processes, test cases and assigning and executing tests.

QA Engineer

Cintell Technologies
Hyderabad
11.2014 - 09.2016

Cintell is a cloud-based customer intelligence platform that enables companies to better understand their buyers and operationalize customer insights to make customer-centric decisions. Cintell will allow businesses to compile a rich customer knowledge base in the cloud and publish live digital personas

  • Responsibilities:
  • Involved in Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Database Testing, Integration Testing manually
  • Building Test Automation Framework using WebDriver, TestNG, Java
  • Building automation regression test suite for the application which can be executed after each sprint is released
  • Executing regression suite, finding defects and logging defects in JIRA
  • Identifing the server logs for contact & content matching processes & defects
  • Participating in various meetings and coordinating with onsite QA team members
  • Executing test cases and analyzing the outcome of test case execution
  • Finding bugs and classifying them on the basis of their types and severity
  • Core PHP, Amazon Webservices , Big Data (Hadoop)

Test Engineer

Xperttech Consultants Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
04.2012 - 10.2014
  • Gozaik is a B2B App offering employers the opportunity to find, hire and engage talent on Twitter and other social media outlets. Employers job announcements no longer get lost in the 500 million Tweets a day. With Gozaik's technology their employment opportunities can be searched in a Google style format enabling employers to truly get their jobs in front of the masses using Twitter and other social media outlets, while offering a method for talent to apply to a job directly through social media and engage with the job announcer.Gozaik's newest technology, Limitless, allows employers to conduct a Kyak style search for talent throughout the entire web, reaching the unreachable, and seeing everything about an individual all on one profile with up-to-date information.Gozaik will be able to automate Twitter cards jobs for employers, push them to other social platforms, trend their jobs, talent matching and much more through Twitter

Responsibilities:

  • Interacted with the Development team and Business Analysts on a regular basis to understand Business/Functional requirements
  • Reviewing the Test Reports and Preparing Test Summary Report
  • Performed Sanity Testing, Functional, Compatibility and Regression Testing
  • Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases
  • Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements
  • Defect logging, Reporting and giving mandatory information about Defect to developers in order to fix it
  • Interacting with Developers to resolve the Defects and Technical Issues
  • Involved in Meetings with the team to review status reports submitted within the time.

Education

MBA - Marketing

ISBM, Hyderabad
04.2009 - 02.2010

Skills

    Project Resource Assessment

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Certification

SFDC Administrator

Timeline

CPQ Specialist

11-2023

SFDC Administrator

03-2022
Associate Project Manager - Criticalriver Technologies Pvt Ltd
07.2018 - Current
Quality Analyst Lead - Buzz Board India Pvt Ltd
09.2016 - 03.2018
QA Engineer - Cintell Technologies
11.2014 - 09.2016
Test Engineer - Xperttech Consultants Pvt Ltd
04.2012 - 10.2014
ISBM - MBA, Marketing
04.2009 - 02.2010
Balaji KottaAssociate Project Manager