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RATHEESH MENON

QA/Test Manager
Kochi,KL

Summary

Experienced QA/Test Manager with more than 13 years of testing and leading/managing experience in different testing domains in IT. Have got extensive experience across market sectors like IoT, Mobility, Defense, Telecom, Logistics & shipping, Publishing media, Energy and Public sector. Have led teams for global delivery of products/service.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Project Test Manager

Coffee Beans Consulting LLP
Bangalore, Karnataka
05.2021 - 12.2022
  • Organizing meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
  • Reported regularly to program managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
  • Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
  • Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
  • Domains - Publishing Media, AI (NLP)
  • Responsibilities Handled: Driving daily calls, sprint meetings, retrospectives, Scoping, Monitoring and tracking using Jira.
  • QA management, Stakeholders management, Resource management, Issue triaging.
  • Backlog management, Roadmap creation.
  • Client handling, management.

QA Manager

Finlead Logiticks LLP
Ernakulam, Kerala
09.2019 - 04.2021
  • Managing QA team wrt Functional, API, Automation, Regression, Performance, Security Testing.
  • Domains IoT, Mobility, Fintech, Fitness, Automotive
  • Managed international and domestic accounts
  • Managed a team of 5 testers deployed across various Agile projects in Web, IoT, Mobile testing domains.
  • Reported directly to CXO level.
  • Managed costing, scheduling, budgeting of resources across projects.
  • User stories, Acceptance criteria, Test Plan, review activities, estimation, test management, overlooking deployments/releases to post production issues and solutions.
  • Process improvement activities for addressing production issues and test delivery.

SQA Lead Engineer

Tata Power SED
Bangalore, Germany
11.2015 - 04.2019
  • Lead for Security & Functional Testing
  • Test Management, UAT, SAT.
  • Product, Web, Application, Network testing.
  • Manual testing - integration, performance and system testing.
  • Reporting Daily and weekly status to Senior management and CTO for Project updates.

Sr Test Engineer

CGI India Private Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2012 - 03.2014
  • Functional testing, Regression testing, Web services testing, Performance testing, Security testing.
  • RA, RTM, Defects reporting, Test Summary Report preparation.
  • Waterfall, Agile, UAT, SAT.
  • Test case preparation, Test plan preparation, Test review.

Software Test Engineer

Logica Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2007 - 08.2012

· Test cases, Requirement analysis, test plan, performance testing, soak testing, Defect reporting, Python automation.

· Linux, Unix, SMSC, SS7, Sigtran, SoapUI.

· Domains - Telecom, Public Sector, Energy & Utilities.

Tech Support Engineer

HDPI Pvt. Ltd, HSBC
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2005 - 08.2006
  • Served as primary point of contact for support relating to owned solutions and products.
  • Advised senior personnel on potential process improvements to increase support quality and expedite ticket fulfillment.
  • Assessed system hardware and software and suggested modifications to reduce lag time and improve overall speed.
  • Held meetings to provide platforms for knowledge-sharing of discovered issues and recurrent custom complaints.
  • UK Operations.

Customer Support Executive

NetVision Cybertech Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2004 - 10.2004
  • Handling inbound and outbound customer service and sales calls for UK and US customers.
  • DSL, ADSL sales and support.
  • Reporting to Operations Manager.

Education

High School Diploma -

Kendriya Vidyalaya ASC(s)
Bangalore
04.1999 - 04.1999

Bachelor of Engineering - EEE

AIT
Chikmagalur
03.1999 - 04.2003

Skills

QA/Test Management

Web, Mobility & API testing

Performance & Security Testing

Project Management

Certification

CEH

Additional Information

Test Management Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, Test Rail, Zoho, Redmine, HP ALM, Trello, BMC Remedy, IBM Clearcase/Clearquest , Telelogic Synergy, Digite.

Testing Tools: pCloudy, Postman, MobSF, Nessus, N-map, Wireshark, ZAP, Metasploit, Canvas, IBM Appscan, Cypress, Selenium, JMeter, SoapUI, Burp Suite.

DB: SQL server, MySQL, MongoDB.

OS: Windows variants, Linux (Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Kali), Android, iOS.

Timeline

CSPO

02-2022

Project Test Manager

Coffee Beans Consulting LLP
05.2021 - 12.2022

CEH

12-2019

QA Manager

Finlead Logiticks LLP
09.2019 - 04.2021

SQA Lead Engineer

Tata Power SED
11.2015 - 04.2019

Sr Test Engineer

CGI India Private Ltd
08.2012 - 03.2014

Software Test Engineer

Logica Pvt. Ltd
01.2007 - 08.2012

Tech Support Engineer

HDPI Pvt. Ltd, HSBC
06.2005 - 08.2006

Customer Support Executive

NetVision Cybertech Pvt. Ltd
01.2004 - 10.2004

High School Diploma -

Kendriya Vidyalaya ASC(s)
04.1999 - 04.1999

Bachelor of Engineering - EEE

AIT
03.1999 - 04.2003
RATHEESH MENONQA/Test Manager