Nisha Pisharody

My work responsibilities are briefly classified into the below major areas

• Test Manager for Payments Domain
• RAID and Test Operations
• Deliver on the planned Client's Business Roadmap
• Productivity improvement
• Talent detection, Acquisition and Retention
• People Manager

• Owned entire STLC for Telecom OSS product for two large telecom clients
• Managed test deliverables for 50-60 user stories
• Formulated and defined test strategy for all designs/features and got client sign offs
• Implemented defined test strategy
• Defined client and test deliverables
• Resource planning and engagement for maximum test coverage
• Planned resource optimization using automated testing of APIs
• Provided timely test progress updates with RAID to all stakeholders including clients
• Test Management - with JIRA
• Hands-on manual testing of Telecom- OSS - Inventory Product
• Workflow based - function testing

• Lead and managed System Test Execution for 3 major Siebel CRM Transformation Program - Vodafone , Ge Money -SBI and Deutsch Telekom
• Involved actively in test analysis, high level test scenario assessment , test plan reviews
• Collaborated with Solution architect , Business analysts to review gaps in designs , bringing in a business perspective to the solution
• Release test management for Maintenance & Support Release leveraging ISTQB methodologies for complete STLC
• Lead and managed a mainframe system testing team for Energy and Utility Client - SSE UK
• Test Manager for AT&T project - managing both Waterfall and Agile projects
• Test resource management and allocation for projects - negotiate with Project Managers for schedule, blockers, estimation , deadlines and planned versus actual costs
• Hands -on experience using Selenium - BDD framework and Selenium based hybrid framework to automate test cases to help build POCs, and implementation
• Enhanced Selenium framework by adding functions to callout
• Lead and coached the testers to automate test cases and mentored them to find xpath /and using other locators, plus drive the automation to completion
• Spearheaded test automation implementation for an Angular based application using Selenium framework - with Gherkin -BDD scripts

Clientele -for Automation POC : MTN , Eli Lily , H&M , Prudential , Softbank, Oncore , IBM Internal applications etc.

Test reviewer and quality analyst for travel domain projects.

• Manual Testing - Siebel CRM Application , Product Catalog
• Test lead - Siebel Marketing Application
• Test planning and written test cases
• Lead test data creation for testing onsite at Telstra Australia