Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Passport And Visa Details
Personal Information
Accomplishments
Additional Information
Software
Certification
Timeline
Sudhakar Gara

Sudhakar Gara

Summary

Proven skills in completing black, white and grey box tests. Background writing and implementing test cases, developing testing plans and identifying use cases. Fully versed in complete SDLC.


Well-versed at identifying and documenting complex software problems and causes. Designs test plans and procedures and equips and trains newer colleagues. Demonstrates practiced expertise in product design and participates in design reviews to offer early input on functional requirements and potential problems.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

QA Lead/Test Consultant and Onsite Coordinator

Utica National Insurance Group
07.2014 - Current
  • Client Interaction
  • Requirements gathering and Analysis
  • Identifying the scenarios and preparation of test coverage matrix
  • Creation of automation batch script for High level stable test cases
  • Test execution and defect tracking, reporting on daily basis
  • Mentoring and reference implementation support for different teams working at different locations of the project
  • Tracking the Review effectiveness and metrics creation.
  • Automation Scheduling Monitoring test results

Team Member

Tower Group
07.2012 - 06.2014
  • Client Interaction
  • Requirements gathering and Analysis
  • Identifying the scenarios and preparation of test coverage matrix
  • Creation of automation batch script for High level stable test cases
  • Test execution and defect tracking, Reporting on daily basis
  • Mentoring and reference implementation support for different teams working at different locations of the project
  • Assigned with the development team to gather the knowledge about the new functionality and formulate this knowledge among the team members.

Team Member

Virgin America
05.2011 - 07.2012
  • Client Interaction
  • Requirements gathering and Analysis
  • Design and Implementation of the Automation Framework
  • Developed a scheduler service to provide a greater flexibility to the framework design
  • Preparation of Deliverables
  • Conversion of Manual Test Cases into Automated Test Cases
  • Performed different types of Testing such as Functionality, Integration, Regression and User Interface Testing using manual techniques and QTP Automation tool
  • Mentoring and reference implementation support for different teams working at different locations of the project
  • Assigned with the development team to gather the knowledge about the new functionality and formulate this knowledge among the team members.

Team Member

MQ Subscribe
09.2009 - 04.2011
  • Maintenance of existing automation frame work (Modular Framework)
  • Conversion of Manual Test Cases into Automated Test Cases
  • Execution of the automation scripts
  • Defect logging, defect retesting, and defect tracking
  • Documentation of test summary reports and defect summary reports
  • Responsible for interacting with developers regarding testing status, and enhancements
  • Involved in raising the issue for the clarifications to the onsite implementation Engineers.

Education

  • B-Tech (Mechanical) from "JNTU", Hyderabad with 56.24%.
  • Intermediate from Aditya College Kakinada with 81.3%.
  • Xth from GJ High School Yellamanchili with 79.4%.

Skills

Requirements Analysis

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Passport And Visa Details

J3961520, 06/2027

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 03/03/1980
  • Marital Status: Married

Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of 20 head count in the development of Insurance P&C products
  • Best team player Awarded last two years
  • Achieved functional and regression best practices by Automation tools Selenium/QTP ALM/TAC Automation Tools
  • TDD method implementation
  • API testing for several webservices and third party testing

Additional Information

Good Team Player

Good Experience in P&C and Airline Domains

Effective usage of Automation for reusability and regression

Test metrics capturing and monitoring

Software

Selenium/QTP/TAC

Certification

INS 23 certification

Timeline

INS 23 certification

02-2022
QA Lead/Test Consultant and Onsite Coordinator - Utica National Insurance Group
07.2014 - Current
Team Member - Tower Group
07.2012 - 06.2014
Team Member - Virgin America
05.2011 - 07.2012
Team Member - MQ Subscribe
09.2009 - 04.2011
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Sudhakar Gara