Mahesh Bontha
Hyderabad
Summary
Dynamic and accomplished software professional with 15+ years of experience in software testing, Scrum management, and retail banking would like to deliver in a progressive and vibrant organization to further enhance knowledge and credibility by acquired skills, domain understanding, and competency in delivering challenging projects.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr QA Engineer
Sakshath Technologies Pvt Ltd
12.2023 - 05.2024
- Understood the Business Requirement User Stories
- Identified Test Scenarios from the User stories
- Preparing test cases in each sprint
- Defect Reporting and Tracking using Jira
- Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software
- Experience into tools- Performance testing using Jmeter, Grafana Integration, Magento FE & admin, JDE, Sales force, Avalara, Rialto orders
Quality Assurance Lead
Healthonus Technology Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
05.2023 - 10.2023
- Develop and manage master test plan, integrated project plan, schedule risk assessments, risk mitigation planning, and risk reporting of the program
- Extensive experience in MS office tools and knowledge of full SDLC
- Penetration testing tools-Kali Linux, Pynt, Joker framework, Nessus, Greenbone OpenVAS etc
- Excellent verbal and writing skills, with strong program development and presentation
- Collaborative team builder able to guide the team’s top performance
- Responsible for status reporting to senior management and client managers
- Managed team of functional and UAT testers
Scrum Master
Leader IT Pvt Ltd
08.2022 - 04.2023
- Mastery of project management methodology, tools and templates (includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management)
- Interface and communicate with project team, management and stakeholders
- Facilitate Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and retrospective meetings
- Coaching the team on Agile principles and processes
- Track and remove internal and external impediments for the scrum team
- Facilitate the Grooming sessions with Product Owner to build product backlog
- Facilitate and plan Go-live activities
- Proactively identify risks and issues on projects - leading team to develop risk management and issues management plans
Scrum Master, Project Manager
Kanerika Software India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
01.2021 - 08.2022
- Worked as Scrum Master for clients BITBREW & Repora
- Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality
- Focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done
- Ensure that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
- Find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management
- Provide ways for the Scrum Team to understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items
- Establish empirical product planning for a complex environment
- Facilitate stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed
- Leading, training and coaching them in their Scrum adoption
- Remove barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams
- Conducts and assists with the development of Security Awareness training material
- Performed UAT testing and penetration testing for clients
Sr QA Engineer
Cigniti Technologies Ltd
Hyderabad
07.2016 - 12.2020
- Having proficient hands experience with Open text Team Site Application Testing like Page Creation, Content Authoring, Page Preview and Page Publishing from Team Site to Live Site
- Experience in Web based applications, and involved in quality assurance, Static Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing (identify test scope, environment, Effort, Resource, Development Deliverables, Risk etc.) and Regression Testing of various applications
- Hands on experience in testing Banking applications like OAOS, CASA (Current Account & Savings Account, DBS Online Account Opening Forms & Overseas Finds Transfer Applications
- Deep understanding of web-based software product and of how to break/test them
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum methodology for products
- Publishing Quality Reports/Dashboards (Daily/Weekly/Monthly)
- Having good knowledge in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Bug Life Cycle (BLC) process including AGILE, and Waterfall methods
- Identifying Test Scenarios, Writing test Cases, Execution of Test cases, Defect Reporting & Tracking
- Participated in Test Readiness meetings and UAT handover meetings
- Participated in Defect Triage and clarification calls from offshore
- Flexible and versatile to adapt to any pristine environment and work on any project
- Hands on experience in Web application security testing, vulnerability assessment (research), penetration testing and report generation using automated tools
- Worked with tools like Kali Linux, BackBox, Burp suite, Nmap, Nikto, OWASP ZAP, wireless attacks and generating reports
- SRE responsibilities- Incident management, Monitoring server capacities, debugging issues in lower environments, assisting UAT testers and report publishing
Senior QA Engineer
Soft Logic Technology Ltd
07.2012 - 05.2016
- Understood the Business Requirement User Stories
- Identified Test Scenarios from the User stories
- Preparing test cases in each sprint
- Defect Reporting and Tracking using Jira
- Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software
- Knowledge on security testing
Assistant Manager-PB Authoriser
HDFC Bank Ltd
01.2011 - 05.2012
Assistant Manager
ICICI Bank Ltd
08.2008 - 11.2010
- Role: Branch Operations Manager
- Experience in Retail Banking, Audit & compliance, SOX testing, Reporting
- KYC/AML reporting, Large Transaction monitoring, Cross selling banking products
Education
MPIB(Finance) – Master Program in International Business -
Badruka Institute of Foreign Trade
HyderabadBachelor of Technology - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
JNT University
HyderabadSkills
- Manual Testing
- Penetration testing
- Performance testing
- Jmeter
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum model
- SRE
- Incident Management
- Capacity review
- Alerts Monitoring
Certification
- Completed Practical penetration testing using Backbox from EC-Council
- Completed Ethical Hacking Essentials certification from EC-Council
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials, Security Best Practices & Well Architected certified
- CSM certified from Scrum Alliance
- Agile Certification from Cigniti Technologies Ltd
- AppSec Titan Bronze Certification from DBS
- SRE Practitioner Certification from DBS
Timeline
Sr QA Engineer
Sakshath Technologies Pvt Ltd
12.2023 - 05.2024
Quality Assurance Lead
Healthonus Technology Pvt Ltd
05.2023 - 10.2023
Scrum Master
Leader IT Pvt Ltd
08.2022 - 04.2023
Scrum Master, Project Manager
Kanerika Software India Pvt Ltd
01.2021 - 08.2022
Sr QA Engineer
Cigniti Technologies Ltd
07.2016 - 12.2020
Senior QA Engineer
Soft Logic Technology Ltd
07.2012 - 05.2016
Assistant Manager-PB Authoriser
HDFC Bank Ltd
01.2011 - 05.2012
Assistant Manager
ICICI Bank Ltd
08.2008 - 11.2010
MPIB(Finance) – Master Program in International Business -
Badruka Institute of Foreign Trade
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
JNT University
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