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Sujatha Thada

Hyderabad

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Manager

Infosys Limited
Hyderabad
08.2020 - Current
  • 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

Timeline

QA Manager

Infosys Limited
08.2020 - Current

Technical Test Lead

Infosys Limited
05.2018 - 08.2020

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Limited
06.2014 - 05.2018

Software Test Engineer

Wipro Limited
02.2010 - 06.2014

Master of Science - Engineering Technology

Osmania Unversity College of Engineering
Sujatha Thada