Hi, I’m
Suresh Kumar
Director - QA, Automation, ERP, AI, ML
BENGALURU
Summary
Dynamic Director oversees every facet of Quality with strong project management and decision-making skills. Brings comprehensive knowledge of HR, Financial, Payroll, payments production writing, planning and technical operations. Skilled at coordinating Release plans and personnel resources to complete work under tight deadlines. Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance. Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Strategic-thinking individual experienced in turning low-performing organizations into top revenue producers. Offering engaging and pleasant personality with expertise improving customer relationships.
Overview
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Oracle
Director QA
10.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Managing the team size of 40 which included QA functional,automation team and DEVOPS team for setting up the DEVOPS system for CI/CT execution
- We are in agile scrum model of product development and i have 15 scrum team
- One of the stackholder of all the 15 scrum team which have 3 months release model
- From qa side we moved to CI/CT model with daily regression execution
- Experience working in CI/CD, agile model of delivery, Excellent knowledge in Java/Selenium with building framework and script development and with hands on experience for 7+ years, Managing DEVOPS team for CI/CD automation regression execution with Cloud Orchestrating System, Having hands on experience in Jenkins and using it for the CI/CD execution model, Excellent knowledge on dockers and Kubernet.
- Oversaw operations and provided corrective feedback to achieve daily and long-term goals.
- Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
- Monitored office workflow and administrative processes to keep operations running smoothly.
- Managed daily operations while overseeing multiple locations to foster increased productivity.
- Mitigated business risks by working closely with staff members and assessing performance.
Oracle
Group Manager
08.2020 - 09.2023
Job overview
- Managing the team size of 35 which included QA functional team
- Automation team and DEVOPS team for setting up the DEVOPS system for CI/CT execution
- We are in agile scrum model of product development and i have 8 scrum team
- One of the stackholder of all the 8 scrum team which have 3 months release model
- From qa side we moved to CI/CT model with daily regression execution
- Experience working in CI/CD, agile model of delivery, Excellent knowledge in Java/Selenium with building framework and script development and with hands on experience for 7+ years, Managing DEVOPS team for CI/CD automation regression execution with Cloud Orchestrating System, Having hands on experience in Jenkins and using it for the CI/CD execution model, Excellent knowledge on dockers and Kubernetes
- Travelled to London and Madrid to meet the Customers for critical escalation in PeopleSoft product, Experience in Internalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n) testing, Prepared a POC for using
- Cradle/Appium for running the automation on Mobile devices and worked on the device guidelines supported for testing, Collecting
- Test Metrics and preparation of Test Summary Reports, Validation with checklists and proven ability to assume responsibilities to meet challenges in dynamic environments, Pioneered the usage of
- BDD (Behavioral Driven Development) using Cucumber and did
- POC for the same to the QA management, Excellent knowledge in
- SCRUM, Agile and played SCRUM MASTER role for many products new features, Worked closely with DEVOPS team and played pivotal role in moving the QA organization to Continuous testing model
Oracle
Senior Automation Manager
09.2015 - 06.2020
Job overview
- Managing the team size of 25 and 14 Contractor
- We are in agilescrum model of product development
- From QA side we moved to
- CI/CT model with daily regression execution
- I manage the 8 scrumteam and responsible for the deliver of all task related to QA bothautomation and functional testing
- Active member of QAarchitecture team of ORACLE for PeopleSoft division
- Here we willbe working on the areas of improvement for QA team, how toimprove the QA quality
- We also concentrate on future of
- PeopleSoft product like UI changes, support the product across
- Smartphone, Tablets
- Worked on Simulator products like Key note
- Device anywhere, Micro Emulator for across platforms like
- Windows OS, IOS
- Exploring the current QA methodology like BDD
- TDD, Kanban and coming up with the guidelines for theimplementation in QA process.
Automation Manager, Oracle
08.2011 - 07.2015
Job overview
- QA manager with 16 team member reporting to me
- We are in agilescrum model of product development
- From QA side we do CI/CTmodel
- I manage the scrum team and QA task
- I have to managethe SD and ND for the product release every 3 months once as wellthe automation development and maintenance.
PeopleSoft
Project Lead at
06.2009 - 08.2011
Job overview
- Oracle
- QA Lead with 6 team member reporting to me and overall teamsize of 35 member
- I have been involved as a lead in the
- Maintenance pack testing for all releases
- I have been involved as alead in the bundle testing that handles the cycle after developmentand take it to the Release engineering
- I have a thoroughunderstanding of all the PeopleSoft HCM business processes andeffectively use them to deploy the day-to-day activities in
- Preparation and Automation of all the Functional testwares for Regression testing of all GP EMEA countries Preparationand Automation of Build Acceptance test, Core Regression and
- Functional Test wares for new releases to assist the producttesting phases.
Oracle
Senior Software Engineer
02.2007 - 06.2009
Job overview
- PeopleSoft
- HRMS, Payroll, Recruiting and Absence Management -
- Functional testing of the product - Automation of the test caserelated to the product using Java/Selenium - Security layer testingand Accessibility testing - Regression and UAT testing -
- Understanding the Business requirements with great ease andclarity has helped to be part of the TDD and FDD review team for1 and 9.2 releases
Education
Tamil NaduMedium
B.Tech/B.E from Electrical and ElectronicsEngineering
University Overview
GPA: 89.9%
College Bharathidasan University, Tamil NaduMedium English
XII
University Overview
GPA: 81%
University Overview
GPA: 94.9%
Birla Institute of Technology and Science(BITS)
MS/M.Sc from Science, Computers
University Overview
GPA: /10
Skills
Selenium/JAVA
QA ManagerAgile/SCRUM
Testing FrameworkContinuous Delivery/Jenkins/Devops CI Cd
Jira / ConfluenceRisk MitigationProgram ManagementProject ManagementCradle/APPIUM/BDD
Cloud Manager, OCI,AWS
AUTOMATION ENGINEERINGAgile Project ManagementSCRUMDevops And DeploymentStrategic planning
Generative AI for Automation
Chatbot ODA
Self-healing Automation AI
Test-automation triage AI
Python
Script review and revision
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Timeline
Director QA
Oracle
10.2023 - Current
Group Manager
Oracle
08.2020 - 09.2023
Senior Automation Manager
Oracle
09.2015 - 06.2020
Automation Manager, Oracle
08.2011 - 07.2015
Project Lead at
PeopleSoft
06.2009 - 08.2011
Senior Software Engineer
Oracle
02.2007 - 06.2009
Tamil NaduMedium
B.Tech/B.E from Electrical and ElectronicsEngineering
04.1999
College Bharathidasan University, Tamil NaduMedium English
XII
04.2003
04.1996
Birla Institute of Technology and Science(BITS)
MS/M.Sc from Science, Computers
04.2007