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Parameswaran Sudarsanam

Parameswaran Sudarsanam

Summary

Certified PMP Professional, Test Manager, Automation lead, and a Certified Scrum Master with 18 years of experience in Testing Service with a proven ability to meet agreed deadlines, implementing quality assurance.

Thorough quality assurance professional highly skilled in manual and automated application testing. Partners successfully with project management and development team members to put out high-quality software for customers. Decisive in identifying problems at any stage of production.

Having 9 years of experience (3 years at Onsite) in handling Guidewire Policy Center and Sales Portal applications implementation with good functional knowledge in Property and Casualty Insurance policies, and specialization in agile principles and values.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Automation Lead (Protractor Framework)

HTC Global Services
03.2022 - Current
  • Executing automated regression scenarios using the Protractor framework for all minor and major production releases.
  • Preparing new automation scripts for the new enhancements in the application.
  • Performing functional testing on the new enhancements developed for each production release.
  • Facilitating the Scrum meeting from offshore, conducting sprint reviews, and sprint planning meetings with the PO and Business Team.
  • Coordinating with other teams to gather the requirements on the Test Only cards.
  • Managing and Coordinating with other test teams from a release sign-off perspective.
  • Providing KT on the newly joined teammates and cross-training on the Sales Portal application across teams in the Amfam account.
  • Manages QA and Engineering team for a quick release.
  • Conducted Agile coaching for the team in a short span of time to help them transition into Agile values and principles.
  • Instituted the Testing Center of Excellence, a centralized application Test support services team for better utilization of the resources and developing best practices across applications.

Test Manager

CTS
08.2015 - 12.2020
  • Manage offshore delivery across all AA portfolios with high visibility at Client and Cognizant end.
  • Span of control includes up to 50 Associates at Offshore, 28 associates at Onsite across multiple teams, and annual revenue of up to $2M.
  • Responsible for driving transformation levers with the program for the account.
  • Instituted the Testing Center of Excellence, a centralized application Test support services team for better utilization of the resources and developing best practices across applications.
  • Developed test plans, strategies and schedules for software testing projects.
  • Created detailed test cases to ensure appropriate coverage of functional requirements.
  • Reviewed project deliverables to ensure they meet quality standards.
  • Managed multiple concurrent projects while ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.
  • Coordinated with developers, testers, project managers and other stakeholders throughout the entire software testing life cycle.
  • Provided technical guidance and support to junior team members on all aspects of manual and automated testing activities.
  • Developed comprehensive reports on application performance metrics for senior management review.
  • Collaborated with product owners to define acceptance criteria for sprints based on customer feedback.
  • Monitored progress of each sprint and provided regular updates to key stakeholders.
  • Ensured that all test cases are properly documented according to established standards.
  • Performed root cause analysis on defects in order to identify underlying problems and recommend solutions accordingly.
  • Documented lessons learned from past projects in order to improve future efforts.
  • Reviewed test results prior to release in order to verify accuracy before deployment into production environment.

Test Lead

CTS
06.2008 - 08.2015
  • Scrum Master for 2 distributed teams and managed planning, backlog grooming, and TDD implementation.
  • Create Automation Test Scripts for Smoke, Functional, and Regression test scenarios using Selenium Web Driver in Cucumber.
  • Facilitating Scrum and Scrum of Scrum meetings on a daily basis.
  • Creating realistic and achievable test plans, per Agile Principles.
  • Educating the team on Agile Principles and Values.
  • Evaluating risks and developing strategies to overcome project obstacles.
  • Commitment to quality deliverables throughout a project lifespan.
  • Managing a diverse team of professionals.
  • Responsible for release train management: dependencies, challenges, and risks.

Programmer Analyst

HTC Global Services
12.2004 - 05.2008
  • Test Planning
  • Test Execution
  • Onsite-Offshore co-ordination
  • Issue resolutions
  • Analysis/Change for any new requirement.

Education

B.E [E.C.E] -

A.M.S College Of Engineering
01.2004

Diploma in Computer Technology -

A.M.S Polytechnic
01.2001

Skills

  • Certified PMP Professional
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Project management
  • Test Planning
  • Process Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Scrum Framework
  • Web services testing using POSTMAN
  • Selenium Web Driver (Java) automation
  • Protractor web automation using JavaScript
  • Functional Domain knowledge in Property & Casualty Insurance policies
  • Resource planning expertise

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute.
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) - Scrum Alliance.
  • PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) – Project Management Institute.

Timeline

Automation Lead (Protractor Framework)

HTC Global Services
03.2022 - Current

Test Manager

CTS
08.2015 - 12.2020

Test Lead

CTS
06.2008 - 08.2015

Programmer Analyst

HTC Global Services
12.2004 - 05.2008

B.E [E.C.E] -

A.M.S College Of Engineering

Diploma in Computer Technology -

A.M.S Polytechnic

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