Worked cross-functionally with other managers to streamline operations .
Established, implemented, and improved QA test procedures, process, and quality standards in accordance with overall development and product releases.
Mitigated QA risks including escalation to senior management, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure testing quality.
Supervised and led 15 QA engineers to ensure quality releases under aggressive schedules.
Responsible for maintaining open communication with project leaders and upper management to insure that QA was informed of priorities, deadlines, project status, and release plans.
Identified dependencies between applications to eliminate/reduce risks and potential conflicts during releases.
Worked closely with change management to ensure only approved changes are assigned to a release.
Communicated with functional and technical stakeholders, to schedule system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and provide input on planned production deployment dates.
Responsible for the daily activities of the QA staff assigned to various and multiple projects; Monitor the successful completion of the quality initiatives at every step of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC.
Adapt quality initiatives to suit the specific project without compromising the integrity of the Quality Assurance process.
Monitor the progress of projects for adherence to the planned schedule and participate in all project-affecting decisions.
Continuously streamline and improve the testing life cycle to ensure test planning, execution and reporting are effective and coordinated.
Participate or provide oversight in gathering requirements, developing test strategies, plans and procedures, coordinate testing and developing and / or reviewing test automation with test team.
Worked with managers to develop resource allocation and QA plan for the quality assurance aspects of the development schedule, advise management pro-actively of steps required to mitigate project/delivery risks.
Planned and prioritize test efforts and resolution of defects based on trade-off between severity of defect, impact to committed release and delivery dates, and customer needs and expectations.
Encouraged collaboration and growth of individual QA team members to take ownership of features.
Responsible for creating and managing QA Projects, Priorities, Resource allocation .
Identifies and communicates risk and risk-mitigation strategies.
Provide leadership, performance feedback, mentoring, and career development planning to team members.
Inspected products and worker progress throughout production.
Monitored staff organization and suggested improvements to daily functionality.
Assured consistent quality of production by implementing and enforcing automated practice systems.
Technical Test Lead
Infosys Limited
Hyderabad
05.2018 - 08.2020
Develop scripts using business requirements and functional design documents as inputs.
Supported test review, defect control and configuration management within delivery pipeline.
Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing,
Coordinated work with various teams to solve problems and improve efficiency for software testing and automation.
Developed efficient technical solutions to resolve wide range of business problems.
Defined and identified test cases for new application development.
Execute manual tests and Automation scripts analyze outcomes against expected results.
Identify and document software and environment defects.
Work with developers to analyze and resolve defects.
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro Limited
Hyderabad
06.2014 - 05.2018
Developed scripts using business requirements and functional design documents as inputs.
Collaborated with development team to identify gaps in design and or code deliverables and agree on best approach to closing the gaps.
Worked with business analysts to revise ambiguous, incomplete, or incorrect functional and non-functional requirements.
Executed manual tests and analyzed outcomes against expected results.
Identified and documented requirement, software, and environment defects.
Worked with developers to analyze and resolve defects.
Software Test Engineer
Wipro Limited
Hyderabad
02.2010 - 06.2014
Developed test plans and scripts.
Planned, executed, and reported results of manual testing.
Identified and documented software defects.
Created testing summary documenting execution efforts and final state of testing at time of deployment to production.
Documented procedures used for testing work items to ensure a smooth knowledge transition.
Education
Master of Science - Engineering Technology
Osmania Unversity College of Engineering
Hyderabad
06.2009
Skills
Testing Tools: Selenium with Java , BDD Cucumber, Maven, Git ,HP Quality Center, Putty,Jenkins
UNIX /Shell Scripting
Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, HP Quality Center
Databases: Oracle, SQL, Salesforcecom
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Sun Solaris UNIX, OS390