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HARIPRASAD GOVINDAPPA

HARIPRASAD GOVINDAPPA

Bengaluru

Summary

ISTQB Certified QA professional with 17 years of software testing experience. Expertise in developing innovative solutions that enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness. Proven track record in mentoring and managing teams to implement robust testing processes and build automation frameworks, resulting in improved product quality.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
11.2020 - Current
  • Successfully built a Testing Centre of Excellence(TCoE) team of 32 members.
  • Implemented testing practices resulting delivery of a better-quality product to market with ~70% reduction in production defects.
  • Supervise various testing activities like test plan, design, execution, defect triage and providing QA sign on the build ready to go-live into production environment across applications and testing teams spread across the globe.
  • Trained and mentored dedicated and techno-functional team of test leads and analysts.
  • Involved in framework, test plan and test strategy design and reviews.
  • Team management starting from hiring, onboarding, training and annual performance reviews.
  • Involved in annual budgeting for team and vendor management.

Assistant Vice President

Citibank
Pune / New Jersey
09.2015 - 10.2020
  • Involved in a back-office migration project and delivered a high-quality product resulting in huge dollar savings in operational and maintenance costs for the organization.
  • Successfully delivered various market mandatory projects like BREXIT, Mid II.
  • Prepared reports outlining progress on projects, budgets, staffing needs.
  • Facilitated communication between internal stakeholders regarding project updates and changes.

QA Lead

HCL Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 09.2015
  • Working closely with Business Analyst and Developers to discover, document and maintain a set of requirements and test cases.
  • Design and development of test cases for functional, sanity and regression testing.
  • Involved in formulating test cases, test plans, defect reports and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
  • Executed test cases both manual and automation for functional and regression testing.
  • Involved in testing the market mandates like Dodd Frank Act, SDR, Mandatory clearing.
  • Involved in User Acceptance Testing, helping users execute the test cases and signing off on the functionality.
  • Involved in defect review calls with developers and BAs.

Test Engineer

Webcetera software solution pvt ltd.
08.2008 - 01.2010
  • Analyzing requirements and design test cases involved in functional, regression testing and defect triage.
  • Provide weekly test updates to PM and Project Lead.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Atria Institute of Technology
06.2007

Skills

  • Selenium WebDriver using core Java
  • Automated and manual testing methodologies
  • Software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Software testing life cycle (STLC)
  • UAT, regression, and functional test strategies
  • BFSI sector experience, capital markets, equities, credit derivatives, auto and home insurance
  • Front office to middle office coordination
  • Leadership in team dynamic

Timeline

Vice President

Goldman Sachs
11.2020 - Current

Assistant Vice President

Citibank
09.2015 - 10.2020

QA Lead

HCL Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 09.2015

Test Engineer

Webcetera software solution pvt ltd.
08.2008 - 01.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Atria Institute of Technology

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