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Santosh Lingaraju

Santosh Lingaraju

Bengaluru,Karnataka

Summary

I am having15 years of professional work experience in IT industry under the Telecom Domain, Banking Domain, E- Commerce domain, working extensively as Test Delivery Manager, Test Manger from 5 years. Experienced as technical lead, Test Analyst, Manual and Automation Tester, Expert in System, Regression, Functional testing and non-functional assignments. A responsible Project Manager with exemplary skills in resource and planning and strong technical skills in problem solving. Well versed in project management process with testing.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Test Manager

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
Bengaluru
02.2024 - Current

Project : University of Adelaide - Automation of Desktop Web application.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and design the Automation test cases and oversee the execution of automated test scripts and analyze results.
  • Identify, track, and report test coverage, defects, and trends.
  • Manually executed web application to understand the functionality and feasibility check for automation Implemented Automation testing for web application using Selenium Web driver with Java as programming language and hybrid framework.
  • Managed team members day to day activities, monitor the allocated work and performance of the team members.
  • Develop, coach, support, and evaluate team members - Identify learning and development needs for all team members.
  • Created RFP's for Test Automation Projects that involves designing, implementing, and supporting a scalable, maintainable, and effective automation framework.
  • Sales support - Identified potential business opportunities in existing accounts.

TEST DELIVERY MANAGER

Qapitol QA
Bengaluru
09.2022 - 10.2023

Project : GMG - Sun and Sand Sports, Under Armour, Dropkick and Nike

Responsibilities

  • Web Application and Mobile application - Defined automation strategy aligned with the organization’s testing and quality goals.
  • Involved in developing Automation framework using Selenium Web Driver, hybrid framework and Cucumber Framework
  • Integrated mobile application with Cloud based BrowserStack to execute the tests on various mobile devices and ensuring compatibility of automation tools with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Managed relationships with key stakeholders to ensure smooth project deliveries and overall satisfaction.
  • Managed more than one project simultaneously and managed complex internal and external dependencies while planning IT delivery.
  • Report test results and metrics to stakeholders (QA, Dev, and Business teams).

Solution Architect

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd /
Bengaluru
12.2021 - 09.2022

Project : TELUS - GONET

Responsibilities

  • To test, integrate, and program software systems to ensure that specific business issues are solved.
  • Establish test data strategies, including masking, synthetic data, and data provisioning tools.
  • Assessing system architecture currently in place and working with technical team to recommend solutions to improve.
  • Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.
  • Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have.
  • Guide the team in best practices for test design and defect management.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.

TEST LEAD / TEST MANAGER

HCL Technologies Ltd
Bengaluru
09.2018 - 11.2021

Project : T-MOBILE - Testing of T-MOBILE MONEY

Responsibilities

  • Implemented test automation scripts, resulting in a reduction in testing time.
  • Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.
  • Create and present project highlights to QA team and other stakeholders.
  • Create, Maintain, manage, and enforce Test Plan Risk analysis and management.
  • Lead, guide, and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites.
  • Responsible for developing the plan which specifies T-Mobile Money project will be met and distributing it to stakeholders.
  • Monitoring the schedule progress throughout the project execution in different phases.
  • Communicating the expected completion date to the applicable stakeholders, as well as any milestones.

TEST SPECIALIST / TECHNICAL PROJECT LEAD

IBM India Pvt Ltd
08.2010 - 08.2018

Project : Vodafone - Testing of 190Web Application

Responsibilities

  • Design and execution of Test cases.
  • Have performed black box testing with strong experience in specification based functional testing, System testing and Integration testing.
  • Experience in Regression testing and GUI testing.
  • Prepared test scripts for the regression suite using RFT with ATA accelerator.
  • Maintained the defects through its life cycle, using different tools like MQC.
  • Responsible for preparing DSR (Daily Status Report) and WSR (Weekly Status Report) and sharing the same with the client counterparts.
  • Scheduling walkthrough sessions with the business analysts.
  • Compatibility testing of the application in different browsers and pre-production environments.
  • Worked closely with counterparts in Product Management to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap.
  • Collaborating with multiple stakeholder teams to understand their business requirements and technology needs through sessions, questionnaires, and workshops.
  • Conduct daily calls, Agile ceremonies, Demos, and presentations for different teams.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bengaluru
01.2010

Skills

  • WEB Automation , API Automation , Java, JavaScript, Selenium Web Driver , Cucumber, Rest assured framework, Karate framework , Mobile Testing (iOS and Android), Salesforcecom , IAM , AWS EC2 , Project Management , AGILE , Test Planning , Test estimation , CI/CD , Generative AI , LLM's
  • Defect Management: Mercury Quality Center 90 , ALM , Azure DevOps , JIRA

Tools

Eclipse, Intellij, Toad for Oracle, Soap UI, Jenkins, BrowserStack , Selenium Web-driver, Apache, PCF, GitLab, SPLUNK, POSTMAN, Tableau, POWER BI, Confluence, APPD.


DATABASE/ TECHNOLOGY: TOAD, SQL, Cassandra, Oracle 10G/11G/12G, JAVA, JSON, XML, Microservices, REST SERVICES, SWAGGERS, APIGEE, Webservices.



Certification

ISTQB, SAFe Agile, Salesforce Certified Administrator

Timeline

Software Test Manager

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
02.2024 - Current

TEST DELIVERY MANAGER

Qapitol QA
09.2022 - 10.2023

Solution Architect

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd /
12.2021 - 09.2022

TEST LEAD / TEST MANAGER

HCL Technologies Ltd
09.2018 - 11.2021

TEST SPECIALIST / TECHNICAL PROJECT LEAD

IBM India Pvt Ltd
08.2010 - 08.2018

Bachelor of Engineering -

Visvesvaraya Technological University
Santosh Lingaraju