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ProjectManager

Charan Pasupuleti

Project Manager
India

Summary

Technology leader with over 13 years of experience and an excellent track record of building and delivering highly reliable and scalable systems/software across a variety of areas and technologies such as Enterprise applications, Embedded systems, Healthcare & Ecommerce systems. Currently working as Project Manager at Ferns n Petals.


Primary responsibilities includes

  • Technical direction on building highly client focused and large scale software components
  • Overseeing agile software development process, working with various stakeholders (PM, TPM, UX, Business/Operations Leads) on requirement/design/integration of software components
  • Currently leading multiple technical teams, with a total strength of 45 including 5 Leads, within
  • Addressing client issues/escalations and last but not the least, providing production support to existing systems
  • Experience in working with stakeholders across geographies to build product vision and roadmap
  • Strong experience in recruiting, strategic planning, performance and project management, including mentoring/coaching other managers and project coordinators
  • Design/Process OOAD : SDLC: Agile methodology, scrum framework (Scrum Master and product owner roles) and Traditional waterfall
  • Actively involved technical architecture, strategic and executive leadership planning decisions for the group, including client and partner engagements that fuel product adoption and help build long term strategy for the service.
  • Expertise and strength in hiring, leading and growing talent within teams, and help build vision that facilitates organizational growth.
  • Strong experience improving existing software as well as building new ones that impact bottom-line.
  • The application uses core J2EE frameworks like Springboot and Hibernate, apart from some internal frameworks.
  • Supported individual professional growth by providing frequent and constructive feedback, team building activities and healthy competition.
  • Handling the application revamp from Monolithic to Microservices
  • Manage and Co-ordinate the Test and deployment COE - Ensure effective, consistent & efficient testing and deployment across the feature teams delivering against the program
  • Managing big size QA & Dev team and managing their activities across the company - Process Changes and Implementations
  • Preparation of Goals and Objectives for the team members
  • Preparation of Test Artifacts - Test Coverage metrics, bug leakage, spill overs, burn-down, etc.
  • Monthly and weekly status reports to the stakeholders
  • Managing, Planning and Monitoring triple constraints of a project - Scope, Schedule and Budget
  • Close watch on BI reports and monitor the sales trends
  • Proficient in using test automation tools such as Selenium Web-Driver, Protractor, Web
  • Database Verification testing using Oracle - TOAD and PL/SQL queries/procedures.
  • Working experience with defect tracking tools like Jira, ALM/Quality Center (QC), Zephyr, Test-Rail
  • Direct interaction with the client and coordination between Onsite and Onshore teams.
  • Configured CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, VSTS, TFS
  • Proficient in Cucumber, Jasmine, & Behat BDD frameworks
  • Integrated SonarQube to C# and JAVA programs
  • Database Verification testing - Working experience with defect tracking tools like Jira, ALM/Quality Center (QC), Zephyr, Test-Rail

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
16
16
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Project Manager

Ferns N Petals Pvt. Ltd
09.2019 - Current
  • Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Delivering the IT projects across various technologies
  • PMO Deliverables throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Stakeholder Engagement, Product Owner role, Managed 4 vendors parallelly
  • IT Agile Project Management (Scrum/Kanban) - Manage and Co-ordinate the Test and deployment COE
  • Ensure effective, consistent & efficient testing and deployment across the feature teams delivering against the program
  • Strong Practical experience leading an Agile / DevOps based testing & Deployment division - Excellent Understanding of Measuring performance in an Agile / DevOps environment
  • Experience in resource forecasting and managing their activities across the company
  • Process Changes and Implementations
  • Reviews and regular feedbacks for the team member's activities
  • Preparation of Goals and Objectives for the team members
  • Performance appraisals and Ratings for Dev and QA team
  • Test Coverage metrics, bug leakage, spill overs, burn-down, etc.
  • Daily and weekly status reports to the stakeholders - Creation and Enhancement of Test Automations frameworks
  • POC of testing tools for Performance, load, automation, browser Compatibility testing
  • Close watch on BI reports and monitor the sales trends
  • Have very strong people management skills
  • Experience in implementing the testing automation using selenium
  • Have directly managed the large Development projects, with a proven record in institutionalizing the implementation to core
  • Experience in handling end to end migration projects from legacy to modern

Team Lead

PrimeSoft Solutions, Inc
06.2018 - 08.2019

Team lead with 10 years of excellency in various Deva and QA tools, Team Management and Domains


  • Good experience in Java, J2EE, Behat, POM, JS, TestNG
  • Configured CI/CD piperlines in VSTS, TF
  • Developed API automation framework. Proficient in using Postman
  • Proficient in Cucumber, Jasmine, & Behat BDD frameworks
  • Developed hybrid automation layered structure framework design and documented the same
  • Integrated SonarQube to C# and JAVA programs
  • Database Verification testing
  • Working experience with defect tracking tools like Jira, ALM/Quality Center (QC), Zephyr, TestRail
  • Direct interaction with the client and coordination between Onsite and Onshore teams

Project Lead

Trek Technologies INC
03.2016 - 03.2018
  • Years 1 month)
  • Project3 - CH Member Portal (Web and Mobile Browsers)
  • Project2 - CH Admin Portal
  • Project1 - CH Employer Portal
  • Responsibilities: - Involved in testing the functionality of the Web and mobile application to meet user requirements
  • Ensuring the overall quality of the intended solution and the performance of the application
  • Charan Kumar - page 2 - Responsible for developing, documenting and maintaining test cases and other test artefacts ensuring the maximum coverage of the requirements using JIRA and Zephyr
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts to cover some functionalities and executing them for regressions before releases
  • Performed Upgrade Path testing between various versions of the mobile app
  • Documenting the defects after executions and prioritising them based on the criticality using JIRA
  • Identified defects and communicated with Stakeholders
  • Performed UI/UX testing using the design documents from Sketch files and also performed End to End testing
  • Identifying the areas in which regression is required and preparing test cycles in TestRail with the appropriate modules and executing them and sending reports to the product managers
  • Providing development progress to management once in a week
  • Closely adhere to process and procedures of AGILE methodology
  • Participating in Scrum meetings providing inputs in developing the features and improvements and retrospect the existing system and its associated methods
  • Performed a QA Lead role in managing the sprint tasks aligning them to the scope and the deadlines
  • Research on feasible tools to help accommodate different needs of the team and working closely with - - Product managers in recommending the purchase of such software
  • Migrated the exhaustive existing tests from one system to another ensuring the new system works as

Senior Engineer

AVEVA
11.2011 - 03.2016
  • International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB) Certified Software Tester
  • Expertise in ERM-Catalogue Manager and Given trainings to customers and sales teams - Expertise in Web, Desktop and Mobile based application Testing - Involved in Database and API testing - Involved in reviews like Functional Spec Review, Technical Spec Review, High Level Scenarios
  • Review and Test Case Review
  • Written Automated test scripts in LUA - Good knowledge of JIRA tool & Confluence, w.r.t
  • To Writing test cases logging and tracking issues, dashboards etc
  • Preparation of Test cases, High Level Scenarios, Test Requirements, Root Cause Analysis(RCA) and
  • Test Plan documents - Involved in different types of testing activities like Functional, Regression, System Integration, End to
  • End, Build Verification Test.

Project Engineer

Wipro
02.2009 - 10.2011
  • Worked as an integral team player in testing the Clarify applications (thick client and thin client) customized by Wipro for Cable & Wireless, a major telecom giant worldwide
  • Cable & Wireless uses Clarify as part of their Work flow process where in they support their own
  • Customer by ticketing System
  • Was responsible for generating Reports for System Testing, Regression Testing and Supporting User
  • Acceptance Testing
  • Charan Kumar - page 3 - Preparing Test Plan, Writing test cases, Uploading test cases to Quality Center, Executing Test cases manually, raising and closing defects in QC
  • I have contributed to the team by finding Clarify Defects while testing and assigning it to the development team
  • The thick client support activity involves a thorough knowledge of Clarify out-of-box modules like,
  • Clear Support, Clear Sales, Policies and Customers and Product Manager and OMSE
  • Helped the team for testing Database issues by writing SQL (Oracle) queries.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Engineering

Osmania University
Hyderabad
09.2004 - 05.2008

11th and 12th - Maths, Physics, Chemistry

Santha Junior College
Visakhapatnam, AP
05.2002 - 04.2004

10th CBSE - 10th Class

Santha Junior College
Visakhapatnam
04.1992 - 03.2002

Skills

Team building, mentoring & management

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Certification

ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board

Accomplishments

  • Achieved best employee award for completing a vast module with accuracy and efficiency.
  • Resolved product issue through consumer/Multi browser, Multi mobile, Browser stack, crowd testing.
  • Collaborated with team of 34 in the development of FNP frontend Revamp.
  • Given Software Product Demos in presales meetings

Timeline

CSM - Certified Scrum Master

04-2022

Project Manager

Ferns N Petals Pvt. Ltd
09.2019 - Current

Team Lead

PrimeSoft Solutions, Inc
06.2018 - 08.2019

Project Lead

Trek Technologies INC
03.2016 - 03.2018

ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board

03-2014

Senior Engineer

AVEVA
11.2011 - 03.2016

Project Engineer

Wipro
02.2009 - 10.2011

Bachelor of Technology - Engineering

Osmania University
09.2004 - 05.2008

11th and 12th - Maths, Physics, Chemistry

Santha Junior College
05.2002 - 04.2004

10th CBSE - 10th Class

Santha Junior College
04.1992 - 03.2002
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