Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Roles and Responsibilities as Technical Solution Manager / Business Analyst
Roles and Responsibilities as QA and QA lead
Timeline
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Manoj S Kowshik

Sr Associate Manager (BA/QA)
Bangalore

Summary

Dynamic and results-driven professional with over 16 years of experience as a QA Test Engineer, QA Lead, Business Analyst, and Technical Solution Manager. Proven track record in extracting and integrating data across multiple platforms, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, and AEM, to drive enhanced outcomes. Expertise in developing comprehensive project documentation such as Epics, Features, User Stories, and Test Plans, while excelling in various testing methodologies including Smoke, Functional, Integration, System Testing, and Regression Testing. Exceptional relationship-building skills foster collaboration among business users, test teams, and development teams, ensuring successful project delivery within tight deadlines.

Overview

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Work History

Sr Associate Manager-Application & Software Test

Sutherland Global Services Pvt Ltd
04.2021 - Current
  • Client: GE HealthCare.
  • Duration: April 2021 – Present
  • Role: Verification Lead Engineer and Technical Solution Manager.
  • Tech Stack: React.js, Sitecore, Salesforce, Selenium.
  • Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, fostering collaboration and open communication.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Winsun Global Tech Pvt Ltd (WGT)
01.2013 - 02.2021
  • Client: Compartamos, ACE
  • Duration: February 2013 – February 2021
  • Role: Verification Lead Engineer
  • Tech Stack: HTML, Angular, React, .NET, REST, SFDC.
  • Supported the successful launch of numerous product releases by coordinating QA efforts, including test planning, execution, and reporting.

Software test engineer

PaNa Infotech Pvt Ltd
07.2009 - 12.2012
  • Client: Corventis, USA.
  • Duration: October 2009 – October 2012
  • Role: Verification Engineer.
  • Tech Stack: Java, SQL Server, QTP 9.2.
  • Identified critical bugs and worked closely with developers to ensure timely resolution, resulting in a more stable product.

Education

SSLC - Information Technology

Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board
Shimoga
04.2001 -

Diploma - Computer Science

Karnataka Technical Board
Shimoga
06-2005

BSc - Information & Technology

Karnataka State University
Shimoga
06-2009

Skills

Product Strategy & Vision

Customer & Stakeholder Focus

Agile & Delivery

UX & Design Collaboration

Communication & Leadership

Execution & Decision-Making

Accomplishments

  • Got the appreciation couple of times from client for good work (GE Sr. Manager and Sr. Director), taking responsibilities upfront and handling the team and project better.
  • Got the “Rock Star” appreciation from Sutherland for the year 2022.
  • Got the appreciation from Sutherland VP for outstanding contribution towards delivering superior customer experience “Digital Wall of the fame.”
  • By recognizing my expertise in GE Healthcare application got promoted as Technical Solution Manager.
  • Got the appreciation for successfully completed couple of projects with good co-ordination between multiple teams.

Certification

PgMP - Program Management

Roles and Responsibilities as Technical Solution Manager / Business Analyst

  • Understand business objectives, challenges, and opportunities
  • Analyze current processes, systems, and large datasets to find inefficiencies
  • Identify functional and non-functional requirements for new solutions.
  • Conduct interviews, workshops, and meetings with stakeholders
  • Preparing slides and confluence pages WRT business use case and criticality.
  • Translate business needs into clear, detailed requirements, user stories, and use cases.
  • Collaborate with IT/development teams to design solutions that meet requirements.
  • Creating features and user stories with all required details and grooming the same to Engineering team in time
  • Support testing (User Acceptance Testing - UAT) and implementation
  • Facilitate meetings and ensure clear, consistent communication
  • Proactively prioritizing the Incidents and Idea created by customers and Regional teams respectively.
  • Analyze data to provide insights and support decision-making
  • Perform financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
  • Coordinating and discussing with UX team for new design proposals for the application
  • Working with L3 support team in resolving the incidents and clarifying on their functional and technical doubts WRT application
  • Recommend strategies, tools, and process enhancements to increase efficiency and profitability.
  • Monitor implemented solutions and conduct post-implementation reviews.

Roles and Responsibilities as QA and QA lead

  • Gathering High Level requirements during grooming sessions of the project.
  • Work closely with various stake holders including TPM’s, TSM’s, Architects and Tech leads to do the impact analysis and ironing out the new requirements.
  • Estimate the efforts, resource, and cost for the requirement from verification perspective.
  • Design Project plan, Test cases and ensure test case execution in line with the requirement.
  • Active participation in test case reviews, design discussions and postproduction monitoring.
  • Timely follow ups with team members regarding their progress on the assigned stories.
  • Delivering the results successfully to the client and complete the release.
  • Deploying API and UI builds whenever requested from DEV team.
  • Attending the Kanban calls for High level analysis for the upcoming Features.
  • Collaborating with multiple teams to make sure the data readiness before starting the verification cycle.
  • Technical and Verification support for L1 and L2 support teams.
  • Led the validation effort by working closely with the Product team to ensure all the requirements are met.

Timeline

PgMP - Program Management

04-2026

Sr Associate Manager-Application & Software Test

Sutherland Global Services Pvt Ltd
04.2021 - Current

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Winsun Global Tech Pvt Ltd (WGT)
01.2013 - 02.2021

Software test engineer

PaNa Infotech Pvt Ltd
07.2009 - 12.2012

SSLC - Information Technology

Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board
04.2001 -

Diploma - Computer Science

Karnataka Technical Board

BSc - Information & Technology

Karnataka State University
Manoj S KowshikSr Associate Manager (BA/QA)