Sudha S
Chennai
Summary
Results-driven Senior QA Management professional with over 15 years of experience ensuring high-quality software delivery across Agile environments. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage end-to-end test strategy, mentoring engineers and align quality initiatives with business goals. Experienced in sprint planning, risk mitigation, stakeholder communication, and driving defect-free releases. Adept at collaborating with developers, product owners, and business users to deliver projects on time and within scope.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead QA
Xome India
01.2023 - Current
- Managing end-to-end quality for mission-critical real estate platform used by major U.S. clients including Mr. Cooper and Bank of America.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering high-quality releases through Agile methodologies.
- Drive test planning, estimation, design and executions, resource management, and lead automation and performance test integration for complex product releases and infrastructure changes.
- Lead QA Center of Excellence to contribute to organization-wide process improvement, CI/CD best practices and automation governance.
- Demonstrated leadership in mentoring and growing high-performing QA teams through hiring, goal setting, and performance management.
Lead QA
Logitech Engineering Designs
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Responsible for managing & delivering QA (Manual & Automation) for the various project releases.
- Lead efforts in the development of test automation feasibility & strategy Designed & implemented automation testing infrastructure, test framework/suites with Python & Robot Framework/Selenium across different OS platforms for Logitech Desktop applications & Web Applications.
- Enforced testing standards and best practices.
- Collaborated with different product stakeholders to understand the business use cases and customer issues to improve test effectiveness and close gaps in regression testing.
- Periodically present the testing & automation impact, value & improvement to stakeholder.
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2011 - 12.2022
- Lead E2E Test activities for banking clients including NatWest Group, JPMC etc. Responsible for test plan and design walk through to customer, test execution and presenting defect reports; test completion reports to stakeholders etc.
- Involved in test automation setup for the web applications; APIs. Responsible for automation framework optimization - execution time, standardization, and modularization etc., integrate test tools with Defect/Test Management tools, customized test reporting, CI/CD integration etc.
- Conducted training on Test Automation, UI; API Testing tools to different stakeholders.
- Project management - managing team leaves, billing vitals, performance management etc.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2007 - 04.2008
- Developer in re-engineering project. Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for project plans.
- Revised, modularized, and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
- Unit testing of developed modules to ensure defect free code.
Education
Masters - Information Technology
Madras Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University
Skills
- QA Management
- Test Automation - Selenium
- Test Automation - Java
- Test Automation - Test NG
- API Testing - SoapUI
- API Testing - Postman
- API Testing - Rest assured
- JIRA
- Azure ADO
- Team Management
Timeline
Lead QA
Xome India
01.2023 - Current
Lead QA
Logitech Engineering Designs
01.2022 - 01.2023
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2011 - 12.2022
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2007 - 04.2008
Masters - Information Technology
Madras Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University
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