Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Software
Interests
Timeline

DINESH KUMARAN

Test Lead
Kamarajar Nagar,India

Summary

Strength and Exposure:

  • 15+ Years of experience in Software Testing.
  • 11+ Years of experience in Artwork Management domain
  • Project leader with 7+ years of experience coordinating complex programs and supervising teams to attain business goals. Directs employees, mitigates project risks, solves standard and non-standard problems and reports to senior management. Demonstrates leadership, influencing, and negotiating skills. Performs analytical problem-solving to overcome obstacles.
  • Experience in Agile methodologies and Waterfall model in Artwork Management domain
  • Represented the project for 'CMMI - Level 3' audits.
  • Hardworking Project Lead with an exceptional commitment to exceeding client expectations. Engaging and friendly to manage work quality, key milestones, and deliverables.
  • Determined Test Lead adept at assigning tasks to team members based on individual strengths. Communicated with key project stakeholders to ascertain project requirements.
  • Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
  • Reliable employee seeking Project Lead position. Offering excellent communication and good judgment.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Project Lead

Aspire Systems
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
09.2010 - Current

Project Description:

  • BLUE is an artwork management and labeling tool
  • BLUE tool has workflow management and digital asset library solution that offers an integrated tool set for online proofing
  • Highly configurable and scalable, BLUE provides users total control over managing workflows (projects, processes, approval cycles, and schedules) and accessing the digital images and files that are critical to the success of any organization
  • BLUE stores and organizes information in a configurable and secure system that is built according to the business requirements and workflows of an organization
  • Designed to run as a web-based application

Responsibility:

  • Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
  • Performed independent analysis and provided recommendations to overcome project obstacles.
  • Led team of 4 employees for critical Artwork Management project.
  • Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Recruited, hired and supervised resources to staff project team.
  • Met with client weekly to provide detailed project report and milestone updates.
  • Met with Management monthly to provide detailed project report and milestone updates.
  • Process Maintenance and attending audit for every quarter

Achievements:

  • Role Star Award for Best Performance

Software Tester

Anadocs IT Solutions Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
08.2007 - 08.2010

Project Description:

  • Point of sale is a product developed using dot net
  • The concept of this product is to do a retail sale
  • The product has following modules
  • Aster, Settings, Purchase, Inventory, Sales, Point of Sale, Payments, Admin, Reports, Utilities and Help

Responsibility:

  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
  • Reporting issues/defects and tracking of the same to closure., EC-Poll is the next generation touch screen based “Verifiable Voting
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Fixed identified issues to increase productivity and boost workflows.
  • Supported test review, defect control and configuration management within delivery pipeline.

Software Test Engineer

PBSC Spectacular Solution Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
05.2007 - 08.2007

Project Description:

  • EC-Poll is the next generation touch screen based “Verifiable Voting System”.
  • EC-Poll can be used at various levels from club elections to national elections.
  • The product provides the following features: Minimum setting up time, handling single/multiple candidates, toggling choices to voters for voting till confirmation.
  • Results can be known in a few minutes after the completion of election, candidate’s preference as per voter’s choice.

Responsibility:

  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
  • Reporting issues/defects and tracking of the same to closure., EC-Poll is the next generation touch screen based “Verifiable Voting
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Fixed identified issues to increase productivity and boost workflows.
  • Supported test review, defect control and configuration management within delivery pipeline.

Sales Executive

V.S.T Motors Pvt Ltd
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
08.2004 - 02.2006

Worked as a Sales Executive, selling 'Tata Indica' cars

Education

B.E. - Mechanical Engineering

Thangavelu Engineering College, Chennai
08.2000 - 04.2004

High School Diploma -

Raja Muthaiah Higher Secondary School, Chennai
06.1998 - 04.2000

Skills

    Project Management

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Accomplishments

  • Role Star Award for Best Performance in Aspire Systems 2016
  • Collaborated with team of 4 in the development of BLUE.

Software

Zephyr(Jira), HP ALM Quality Centre, Mantis

Workato

JIRA

SVN

Soap UI, Post Man

Ms-Office, OpenOffice 32

Windows XP and above and Mac 106

SQL Server Management Studio 18

Pentaho (open source), Qlik Report

Filezilla, Putty

Adobe Photoshop, Sound Forge

Interests

Tamil Music and Photography

Timeline

Project Lead - Aspire Systems
09.2010 - Current
Software Tester - Anadocs IT Solutions Limited
08.2007 - 08.2010
Software Test Engineer - PBSC Spectacular Solution Limited
05.2007 - 08.2007
Sales Executive - V.S.T Motors Pvt Ltd
08.2004 - 02.2006
Thangavelu Engineering College - B.E., Mechanical Engineering
08.2000 - 04.2004
Raja Muthaiah Higher Secondary School - High School Diploma,
06.1998 - 04.2000
DINESH KUMARANTest Lead