RENUKA GUNDKAL

Quality-driven Test Lead with expertise in team leadership, project planning and due diligence. Specialize in strategic planning, risk management, and stakeholder communication. Excel at leadership, problem-solving, and adaptability to ensure objectives are delivered successfully and teams are guided towards achieving collective goals.

Striving for leadership roles in product/quality management.

• Analyzed and documented business requirements to create test plans, cases, and scripts.
• Responsible for overall supervision, training, mentoring, and appraisal for test team.
• Managed a team of testers in the execution of manual and automated tests.
• Collaborated with development teams to ensure quality of product releases.
• Provided feedback on software design documents to ensure quality standards are met.
• Conducted system integration testing to identify compatibility issues between components in complex systems.
• Created detailed reports outlining results from testing activities and presented findings to stakeholders.
• Facilitated user acceptance testing sessions with internal and external customers.
• Identified areas for improvement in existing processes and implemented solutions accordingly.
• Documented all test results, including successes and failures, for future reference.
• Tracked progress against project timelines and communicated any delays or risks appropriately.
• Planned, implemented and monitored software testing by coordinating with staff and holding test review meetings.
• Drafted defect reports identifying problems and shared testing metrics with team to develop solutions.
• Assigned test jobs to team members and evaluated performance.
• Created and optimized automated testing tools for repetitive tasks.
• End to End Testing of ETL function, Black-box Testing, Regression Testing, Functional testing.
• Accountable for developing and updating SQL Queries needed for Automation Regression test cases Ownership of Business Data Analysis.
• Interpreting, and visualizing data to discover useful information for business decision-making.
• Data visualization tools used Grafana and Excel.
• Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports.
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets.

• Being awarded the Trend setter in VWITS .
• Successful completion of VWITS EVOLVE leadership program 2024 .
• Being awarded the An excellent performer award in July 2014 by Tech Mahindra.
• Java SE6 Programmer Certification by oracle in 2014.
• Certified in Scaled Agile framework in November 2017.
• Certified in IELTS in February 2018 .
• German language A1,A2,B1 Certification.

• Date of Birth: 06/13/89
• Gender: Female
• Nationality: Indian

• Painting, Hand crafts ,Photography
• Invent gluten free cooking recipes
• Yoga
• Exploring new places and different cultures

Company: 

Domain: User interface application, ETL (Integration : Success factor,HRHUB,MIPS,IGA) 

Project #1: HRHUB (Scania)

Project #2: MIPS (Scania)

Role: Test lead 

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Company: Volkswagen Group IT Services  GIS

Domain ETL( Vehicle data)

Project #1 : GVF (Group Vehicle files)  

Role :  Test Manager   

Project #2  ELSA DCP (Vehicle Data Migration Project)  .

Project #3  VLM (Vehicle Lifecycle Module)

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Company: GfK GmbH (market research organisation) 

Domain ETL: Mobile (iOS, Android) and desktop data   

Project #1   GXL MDE (Meter Data Enrichment)  

Role: QA Engineer and Data Analyst  (Staffed of two test QA Engineers).

Project #2  LeoTrace  

Role: Big Data QA Engineer and Data Analyst   (Single QA Team member).

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Company: Tech Mahindra Private limited    

Domain ETL: customer and billing data for all fixed line, Prepaid and Post-paid (Mobile) business customers, Social media data, Data Anonymization, Telecom Service Delivery order management

Project #1   BIG DATA (Proof of concept)   Role: Developer

Project #2  Vodafone Migrations, Qatar  Role: Tester

Project #3  Telefonica Germany   Role: Tester

Project #4  Order Management System Analytics Using SPLUNK   Role: Developer