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Lokesh S

Lokesh S

Quality Engineering Lead
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

With over 16 years of experience in the IT industry, actively involved in various aspects of testing Confident in ability to contribute effectively to any organization's testing efforts.

Versatile Test Lead with 9 years of experience eliminating problems and flaws to enhance end-user experiences. Meticulously designs testing protocols, detecting obscure bugs and pitfalls to produce impeccable final products. Creates novel human and machine-based approaches to eliminating weaknesses in wide-ranging products.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quality Engineering Lead

Infosys Technologies
09.2024 - Current
  • Leading a team of 9 QA resources i.e. combination of Test engineers and Analysts who based across multiple locations.
  • Requirement Analysis: Participated in requirement grooming sessions and understands the requirements by going through the specifications and understand the scope of work to be performed.
  • Interact with client SME, undertake self-study and reviews software demos to understand client business and requirements in order to capture the functional and non-functional requirements in scope fo the delivery.
  • Suggest changes to Product Owner. Ensure effective coverage of requirements in the testing life cycle of the project.
  • Test Strategy definition: Created the Test Strategy for the project from the test requirements, review effort estimates for project execution, seek review from stakeholders in order to complete strategy definition of the project.
  • Project planning & tracking: Reviewed the detail schedule for a work and provide inputs to overall project schedule by carefully analyzing the effort and dependencies. Participate in status meetings jointly with team, participated in onsite-offshore interactions as required, shares daily updates in daily stand up calls, updates work progress in Agile tracking tool in order to support project tracking.
  • Involved in Test plan design, Test environment setup, Test case preparation and Test Scripting.
  • Responsible for Metrics Management, Test execution and closure.
  • Mentor the team, provide performance feedback of the individual team members to Project Manager in order to manage performance.
  • Involved in Quality Management, Business management, Client management and Knowledge Management.
  • Implement and review requested data provided by team members towards org initiative as decided between the manage and the lead in order to contribute positively towards the org initiative.

Technical Test Lead

Infosys BPM Ltd.
12.2020 - 09.2024
  • Leading a team of 15 members
  • Weekly interaction with clients and reporting the project status
  • Involved in triage calls with customer to maintain the quality of the deliverables
  • Allocation of work to team members through RTC and other tools
  • Analyzing business requirements and involved in preparation of test scenarios
  • Preparation of Master Test plan and Effort estimation
  • Prepare high level and critical scenarios for positive and negative test cases and documenting test results
  • Monthly testing status call with all the PM’s and DM
  • Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, testing
  • Defect tracking & reporting
  • Load execution report preparation and sharing it with all stake holders
  • Driving the initiative of skill development across the testing unit and employee connect
  • Clients: ECS business clients such as Oil, Marine classification Society, Telecom, Consulting, Safety, Security and Risk based engineering and American Publishing company
  • Tools: Ui path, Automation Anywhere, Service now, Mercury, Cherwell, Rational systems, Selenium, Fortify and jmeter
  • Model: Agile, V-Model
  • Achievements: Awarded the with top rank for completing the courses and exploring the features of the lex Application
  • Received an appreciation for forming the Fun team and driving monthly activities during the meetings
  • Received an appreciation for completing the RPA skill development initiative within the target duration
  • Collaborated with QA team to test software quality through manual and automated testing.

SMTS QA

MetricStream Infotech
12.2018 - 12.2020
  • Leading a team of 4 members
  • Weekly interaction with clients and reporting the project status
  • Involved in triage calls with customer to maintain the quality of the deliverables
  • Allocation of work to team members through Testlink and other tools
  • Analyzing business requirements and involved in preparation of test scenarios
  • Preparation of Master Test plan and Effort estimation
  • Prepare high level and critical scenarios for positive and negative test cases and documenting test results
  • Patch installation using WinSCP, PuTTy
  • Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, testing
  • Defect tracking & reporting
  • Production data preparation and upload activity on GRC objects and Questionnaires
  • Load execution report preparation and sharing it with all stake holders
  • Clients: Leading Power corporation, Pharma and Banking clients of North America and Europe
  • Tools: Test Link, Bugzilla, Oracle
  • Model: Agile, V-Model
  • Achievements: Completed Production data preparation and uploaded them to QA, UAT and Production environment successfully within a few months of joining the organization and has mastered the upload activity
  • Completed huge volume of RSAW testing and delivered to clients on time
  • Received SPOT Award for RSAW data preparation and testing

Test Analyst

Infosys BPM Ltd.
03.2008 - 12.2018
  • Leading a team of 6 members
  • Allocation of work to team members and involved in project related meetings
  • Analyzing business requirements and involved in preparation of test scenarios
  • Preparation of Master Test plan and Effort estimation
  • Prepare high level and critical scenarios for positive and negative test cases and documenting test results
  • Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, testing
  • Defect tracking & reporting
  • Clients: Leading Telecom and Banking clients of US, AUS and Africa
  • Tools: Selenium, Burp Suite, IBM Appscan, Rational Quality Management (RQM), Rational Team Concert (RTC) and MS VSTS
  • Model: Agile, V-Model

Education

Master of Computer Science -

Sikkim Manipal Distance Education University
Bengaluru
01.2016

Skills

  • IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM)
  • IBM Appscan Enterprise Edition
  • Fortify
  • Jmeter
  • MS VSTS
  • IIS 80
  • MS SQL Server
  • IBM Rational Team Concert
  • JIRA
  • Selenium Web driver
  • Eclipse IDE
  • Core Java
  • Postman

Certification

  • Yellow Belt certified for Quality training
  • Cloud 101 certification done in MetricStream India
  • Accounts Payable Certified professional in Finance & Accounting
  • Accounts Receivable certified professional in Finance & Accounting
  • Domain Certified professional for Process Foundation
  • IBM Certified for Rational Quality Manager 8.1
  • PCIDSS program certified professional

Kannada Theatre and TV artist

Enthusiastic theatre artist from 2006 and performed some important roles in television serials as well.

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
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thursday
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sunday
morning
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evening
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Timeline

Quality Engineering Lead

Infosys Technologies
09.2024 - Current

Technical Test Lead

Infosys BPM Ltd.
12.2020 - 09.2024

SMTS QA

MetricStream Infotech
12.2018 - 12.2020

Test Analyst

Infosys BPM Ltd.
03.2008 - 12.2018
  • Yellow Belt certified for Quality training
  • Cloud 101 certification done in MetricStream India
  • Accounts Payable Certified professional in Finance & Accounting
  • Accounts Receivable certified professional in Finance & Accounting
  • Domain Certified professional for Process Foundation
  • IBM Certified for Rational Quality Manager 8.1
  • PCIDSS program certified professional

Master of Computer Science -

Sikkim Manipal Distance Education University
Lokesh SQuality Engineering Lead