LAKSHMIPATHY K
Project Manager
Summary
Project Manager, with more than 15+ years of experience in Project Management and Quality assurance across multiple domains including Retail, Insurance, eCommerce and Supply management. Proficient in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Strong experience in leading the testing team and focused on delivery of high-quality process enabled outcomes. Excellent in team collaboration, problem solving and building client relationships. Proven track record in effective team management and implementing Agile practices.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Project Manager
HCL Technologies Ltd.
10.2023 - Current
- Managed the overall project planning, deliverable, timelines and resources
- Monitor the daily progress and update the status to key management stakeholders
- Work closely with different teams and understand the risks, issues and challenges to overcome at the earliest
- Identify the dependencies and follow up with the required stakeholders to avoid any delays in the project
- Effective planning of sprint deliverables
- Coordinated with Security, Cloud Management and other non-functional teams for smooth project releases
- Regular connect with HCL and Client management teams
- Ensured good collaboration between the project teams
- Monitor the KPIs and reported to management on regular basis.
Project Manager
HCL Technologies Ltd.
11.2022 - 09.2023
- Managed the overall project deliverables
- Analyzed requirements and involved in Requirement proposals for new projects
- Identify risks, assumptions and dependencies involved in the project
- Prepared project plans, estimations and status reports
- Have regular connect with HCL and Customer management teams
- Manage and monitor the scope, timelines, cost and deliverables of the projects
- Maintain good relationship with client and all stakeholders
- Monitor and highlight the project risks at right time to the right stakeholders
- Assess the risks and identify suitable solutions to reduce the impact by coordinating with required stakeholders
- Prepared Test plan and test cases for system testing
- Performed test execution for Dataset Tool and Artifactory integration
- Manage the resources and ensure good collaboration between the projects teams
- Monitor and measure the key performance indicators and SLAs
- Motivate the team members and address their concerns on regular basis.
Test Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2021 - 11.2022
- Accountable for overall quality and timelines of testing deliverables
- Prepare test plan, test estimation and manage test resources
- Risk identification, tracking and planning mitigation of risks and issues
- Review the testing artifacts and perform audits on regular basis
- Prepare the project status dashboard to senior management and customer stakeholders
- Collaborate with different teams for processes, tools and techniques
- Conduct regular meetings within the team and address their gaps and issues
- Motivate the team and arrange training sessions based on the needs
- Monitor team performance, project progress and performance.
RPA Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2019 - 04.2021
- Lead the Robotics process automation testing team
- Analyzed the business requirements and prepared test artifacts
- Managed the testing deliverables and project milestones
- Involved in test estimation, test planning along with onsite test lead
- Coordinated with different stakeholders and follow up on tasks/status/issues
- Managed the releases, defects, hotfixes and internal processes
- Arranged UiPath training for team and effectively utilized the resources
- Received multiple customer appreciation for effectively managed the team and shown better process improvement using prior experience and application knowledge.
Project Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2015 - 06.2019
- Started as Functional test lead then elevated to end to end test lead and overall project lead
- Analyzed the requirements and estimated the testing effort
- Prepared test plan and managed overall testing activities
- Coordinated with customer management, business team on daily basis and improved the ways of working
- Strategized the release activities for each sprint
- Reported the status, issues and risks to internal and external management through daily calls & Meetings
- Monitored the tasks and ensure no slippages
- Managed internal and external audits
- Defect tracking across releases and published the dashboards to major stakeholders.
Manual Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2013 - 04.2015
- Analyzed the requirements and do proper test estimation along with client manager
- Prepared Release test plan along with client test manager
- Coordinated with business and product owners on daily basis for defect/requirement tracking
- Lead the team of 15 members and review all test artifacts prepared by them and ensure requirement test coverage in Application Lifecycle Management tool
- Reported the status, issues and risks to internal and external management through daily calls & Meetings
- Allocated the tasks to appropriate team members and do follow ups till closure
- Monitored the tasks on daily basis and ensure no slippage in schedules & efforts
- Managed the production releases, defects, hotfixes and internal processes
- Performed Manual, Regression, End to End, Cross browser testing & Mobile testing using Chrome
- Lead and performed Analytics testing using Omniture tool with the team of 4 members
- Defect tracking across releases and publishing the dashboards to major stakeholders
- Publish progress dashboard on daily and weekly basis to all stakeholders.
Onsite Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2012 - 04.2013
- Performed Test Lead at Onsite – Client facing role
- Coordinated with the client on business requirements and handle offshore team members
- Setup the required environment and test data for testing and responsible for getting required access/permissions
- Understand the business requirements and clarify the queries and issues for offshore team
- Coordinate with offshore lead and estimate test effort
- Prepared detailed test plan, test scenarios, test cases and test completion reports
- Reviewed all the test artifacts prepared by the offshore team members and ensure the coverage with the requirements
- Performed system, system integration and regression testing
- Performed SOA testing using test harness (internal) tool
- Responsible for arranging the required training sessions to offshore team
- Conducted regular review meeting, Defect meeting and status call with offshore and also with client
- Monitored the status and planning the tasks accordingly on daily basis to ensure there is no slippage in schedules and efforts.
Test Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2010 - 01.2012
- Performed Module lead for financial planning tools module
- Understand the business requirements and prepare test artifacts
- Reviewing test scenarios prepared by other team members
- Involved in Scrum meeting and report the daily test status of each deliverable
- Performed System, Regression, Automation and Cross browser testing
- Conducted regular Defect Meetings to analyzed the defects logged
- Coordinated with onsite coordinator for queries and issues
- Documented the execution report, daily project progress status report and weekly status report etc.
Test Engineer
Olam Information Services (I) Pvt Ltd
12.2006 - 02.2010
- Performed Test analyst role in a product-based company
- Understand the business requirements and explaining the details to team members
- Prepared the test cases based on the specification document
- Executed test cases and reporting the defects
- Performed Functional testing, Database testing, Regression testing, Multilingual testing on oracle database
- Responsible for the Production Defects and analyzed the root cause for them
- Performed Automatic synchronization of data between the server and oracle lite database
- Coordinated with DBA team in analyzing sync related issues
- Involved in Defect Review Board (DRB) Meeting and analyze the root cause for Production Defect.
Education
B.E in Electrical and Electronic Engineering -
Vel S.R.S College of Engineering (Anna University)
Chennai, TamilnaduSkills
Project Management: Agile, Waterfall
Quality Assurance: Functional Testing, Selenium Automation, RPA Testing, Mainframe Testing, Database Testing (SQL), ETL Testing, API & Cross-browser Testing
Tools: JIRA, HP ALM, Agile Manager, Azure DevOps, UI Path Orchestrator, Swagger, SOAP UI, BrowserStack, Toad for Oracle, SQL Developer, SSMS, Mainframe DB2, RMS, RPM, STEP, IBM WCS
Team Management: Team Leadership, Collaboration, Problem Solving
Certification
HP AIS Application Lifecycle Management v11
Accomplishments
- Received star of the quarter and star of the month awards in Olam Information services company for on time project completion
- Received multiple on the spot awards and star of the month awards in Tata consultancy services for various customer appreciations on project deliverable
Timeline
Project Manager
HCL Technologies Ltd.
10.2023 - Current
Project Manager
HCL Technologies Ltd.
11.2022 - 09.2023
Test Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2021 - 11.2022
RPA Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2019 - 04.2021
Project Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2015 - 06.2019
Manual Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2013 - 04.2015
Onsite Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2012 - 04.2013
Test Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2010 - 01.2012
Test Engineer
Olam Information Services (I) Pvt Ltd
12.2006 - 02.2010
B.E in Electrical and Electronic Engineering -
Vel S.R.S College of Engineering (Anna University)