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Rayudu Grandhi

Hyderabad

Summary

  • QA professional 12+ years of experience in information technology as a QA Manager, QA Team Lead, Project lead. Expertise on web and Client/Server applications.
  • Experience in API Automation Framework using Ready API.
  • Experience in performance testing using SOAP UI and Jmeter.
  • Exposure in UI Automation on 'Selenium' with Cucumber(BDD Framework) and Pytest using 'python'
  • Experience in various testing methodologies and practices (Agile, V- Model, WaterFall).
  • Experience in Manual Testing, API Testing, Database Testing and Performance Testing.
  • Experience in Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Usability, Smoke/Sanity, GUI Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
  • Expertise in SOA, Investment and administration domains.
  • Hands on experience in SOA Testing
  • Experience in SOAP and REST Services/API's governance and lifecycle/workflows.
  • Protocols Testing (HTTP/s, JMS, AMQP/s,SOAP)
  • Thorough understanding of WS-Security Policies
  • Experience in designing and reviewing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Estimation and Test Cases.
  • Hands on experience on product training, Expertise in understanding functional requirements and review discussion.
  • Always ready to adapt new environments and learn new technologies.
  • Exposure in handling stringent time bound assignments and parallel releases at the prestigious clients like AMERICAN EXPRESS, Verizon, WELLS FARGO, Bank of America, Pfizer, usbank, U.S AIRWAYS, BARCLAYS, SEI and AXA.
  • Effectively participated in Sprint Planning Sessions, Daily Scrum and Retrospective Meetings.
  • Having experience in following Tools:

A. Test Management Tools (JIRA, LISA, Test Rail, Confluence)

B. CICD Tools Jenkins, Maven

C. Source Code Management Tools Bitbucket, GITHub

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

QA Manager

Capgemini
03.2022 - Current
  • Monitored staff organization and suggested improvements to daily functionality.
  • Demonstrating newly implemented features to the product owner at the end of each sprint
  • Maintained open communication with team members and stakeholders, resulting in successful project outcomes.
  • Worked with cross-functional teams to achieve goals.
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Communicated clearly with project stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established business goals.
  • Participate in the Business Requirements Document (BRD) review and Functional Design Document review meetings.
  • Provide project QA estimations.
  • Assign task to the team and provide review comments
  • Prepare and review functional test plan, test scenarios, conditions and test data
  • Plan and guide team to automate API’s using Ready!API
  • Review bug Identification and Defect fixes retest results.
  • Review end to end testing and sign off from the QA perspective

QA Lead

Capgemini
08.2016 - 02.2022
  • Have implemented end to end test plan.
  • Daily scrums along with onshore team (Agile process).
  • Planning the tasks and providing estimations for the testing activities.
  • To check if the team has all the necessary resources to perform the testing activities.
  • Prepare test plan after discussions with the test team and have it reviewed and approved by the management.
  • Defining the testing activities for subordinates – testers or test engineers.
  • Identify tools for test reporting, test management, test automation, etc. and educate the team as required to be able to use the tools.
  • Prepare test cases and automated using ‘Ready API’.
  • Bug Identification and Defect fixes retest.
  • Responsible for end to end testing cycles and sign off from the QA perspective.
  • User stories demonstration to client at the end of each sprint
  • Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
  • Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
  • Managed project scope to ensure delivery with compliant and commitment.
  • Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics and task breakdown.
  • Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.

QA Lead

Akana Software Engineering India Pvt Ltd.
03.2014 - 03.2016
  • Work with Project Managers and Test Engineers to identify and fulfill the requirements
  • Responsible to provide training to Test Engineers in the use of test infrastructure and utilities.
  • Maintaining the test infrastructure and utilities by reviewing and monitoring performance on a regular basis, supplying updates and when required
  • Planning the tasks and providing estimations for the testing activities.
  • Responsible for end to end testing cycles and sign off from the QA perspective.
  • Reporting daily project status from QA stand point.
  • Defect reporting and tracking using JIRA.
  • Bug Identification and Defect fixes retest.
  • Planning and execution of test cases (System, Regression and Integration)
  • Review issues and defects identified by testers
  • Serve as a resource and communication point for decisions about test schedule changes
  • Product testing on multiple Operating Systems like Windows, linux, AIX and solaris

Education

Master of Business Application (M.B.A) - Human Resources Management, Marketing

Periyar University
Salem
03-2005

B.Sc. Computer Science - Computer and Information Sciences

Nagarjuna University
Guntur
03-2003

Skills

  • JIRA Test Management
  • Ready!API 352
  • Jmeter
  • SoapUI 5x
  • Groovy
  • Confluence
  • Bitbucket
  • Jenkins
  • Github
  • SourceTree
  • POSTMAN
  • Python
  • Selenium
  • Cygwin
  • WINSCP
  • Putty
  • Saml generator
  • OpenSSL
  • Sunone LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • Active MQ 520
  • Felix Load Balancer
  • FireFox REST client JIRA
  • Apigee
  • CA Rally
  • Jboss
  • GIThub
  • Databases: SQL, Oracle,DB2,Mysql
  • AIX
  • Solaris
  • Web Logic
  • Tomcat
  • RabbitMQ

Certification

  • Automation Anywhere Certified Advanced RPA Professional (V11.0) (Serial No:- AAADVC-14611920)
  • AWS Business Professional from 'aws'
  • Scrum Certified from 'SCRUM Study'(Serial No:- 784411)
  • MicroSoft Azure Fundamental Certified(AZ-900) Certification Number: H445-1641
  • HarVARD ManageMentor – Decision Making, Presentation skills and Team creation

Awards And Rewards

  • POB (Pat on the Back) Honour from Liquid Hub in the year 2016.
  • Project Excellence Award from Liquid Hub in the year 2017.
  • POB (Pat on the Back) Honour from Liquid Hub in the year 2018.
  • Extra Mile Achievement Award from Capgemini Invent in the year July-2019
  • Project Excellent Award from Capgemini Invent Dec-2019

Websites

Timeline

QA Manager

Capgemini
03.2022 - Current

QA Lead

Capgemini
08.2016 - 02.2022

QA Lead

Akana Software Engineering India Pvt Ltd.
03.2014 - 03.2016

Master of Business Application (M.B.A) - Human Resources Management, Marketing

Periyar University

B.Sc. Computer Science - Computer and Information Sciences

Nagarjuna University

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