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Ugandhar Telaganeni

Chennai

Summary


Currently working as a QA Architect for Photon Chennai right now, managing two clients in the ecommerce web & Mobile

Prior employment included 8 years, including 6 years on-site(US & Canada), as QA Manager at Cognizant, IBM.

Certified in Scaled Agile process and Soap UI NG Pro Web services testing tool.

End-to-End QA skills, hands-on automation experience and agile processes. Expertise on test strategy development, selenium, cucumber, services automation, Jmeter, Jenkins (CI/CD), Bamboo, DevOps pipeline jobs, Jira, UFT, ALM, LR, Jmeter, Blaze meter Git and MQ.


Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior QA Manager

Photon Interactive Private Ltd.
08.2021 - Current

Projects: SRS, Senegence & MCW

Domain: Ecommerce & Retail Domain

Role: Sr QA Manager/Automation Test Architect

Technologies Worked : Appium, Webdriver IO,Azure Dev Ops, Cucumber, Selenium, Blaze meter, Mobile testing, Magento cloud platform, Type scripting.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for End End QA Deliverables
  • Prepare Test Strategy and walkthrough with Customer
  • Web and Mobile Automation Framework setup
  • Involved in UI and API Automation, ADA Testing
  • API Automation Postman and newman
  • QA Resource management 15 member team
  • ADA testing ARC tool kit, Axe tool, NVDA
  • Review Test scripts created by group of test engineers
  • Client coordination DSM/WSR
  • E2E Testing Activities involved
  • CICD -ADO pipeline job setup for Api, UI
  • POC On Newman Postman Automation Api scenarios batch run
  • Prepared all QA templates, process

QA Manager Projects /Associate Architect

Cognizant Technologies
02.2012 - 08.2021

Projects: Digital Concierge, Money Movement Application, IDMNG –Northern Trust, AIG, Liberty Mutual

Role: QA Manager Onsite, Chicago

Technology you have worked in : Concourse, Java, Rest Assured Automation, Postman, Selenium, Jira, Bamboo, Cucumber, Guide wire Claim Center,

Responsibilities:

  • Creation of test artifacts
  • Working on XP programming weekly sprint model in this project.
  • Responsible for overall QA Testing Activities for DC.
  • Automation BDD Framework setup, POC, Demo to clients
  • Azure Devops pipeline job setup and Smoke Execution.
  • Functional Testing before Automating Stories on daily basis
  • Rest Assured automation to test API scenarios.
  • JIRA for tracking QA metrics.
  • Working with Offshore QA Team, Code review, In sprint Stories /Bugs testing.
  • Regression scenarios, Planning, creation review and Execution.
  • Daily smoke execution & Weekly regression
  • Defects discussion, UAT status calls, weekly QA meeting
  • Test Coverage and other QA Metrics
  • Test cases upload to zephyr and creating cycle summary
  • CI/CD -concourse Plan creation and execution.
  • Sharing QA Status, Defects & Test Coverage weekly basis to Application manager.
  • Mobile testing in perfecto
  • Worked as offshore Automation Project Lead for AIG Claims project (PI /CI)
  • Involved in Coding, debugging and Framework
  • Involved in Web services testing using Soap UI Pro

Test Specialist(6B Band)

IBM India Pvt Ltd, DLF Chennai
01.2010 - 02.2012

Projects: MetLife EBiZ Applications Automation, TSYS Automation –TD Bank

Role: Automation QA lead

Technology you have worked in : Soap Ui, QTP, ALM

Responsibilities:

  • To start with Project in IBM we received KT from other vendors (Cognizant, Infosys & Patni)
  • Undergone the Knowledge transfer activities for 10 applications with MetLife existing vendors and completed the successful transition.
  • Review, Modify and executing the QTP Scripts created by other vendors.
  • Worked as Offshore Team Lead for MetLife Automation Projects in E Biz Applications.
  • Trained Existing resources and new joiners in the project as per the need.
  • Coordinated with client to update the work status reports on daily basis
  • Creating Test Scripts, Reusable Modules and Test Data
  • Involved in Frame work Design and maintaining the existing Framework
  • Creating and Managing the Object Repository for Few Projects
  • Review the Automation test scripts prepared by the team members.
  • Creating and updating the MetLife automation documentation, Metrics as per the need
  • Coordinated with other Projects for Automation Training, Identifying Automation Scope, POC and Effort Estimations in MetLife account. Spring Framework used for Automation to build test cases
  • Preparing Modularity Relationship Matrix (Gap Analysis)
  • Customization of existing framework
  • Part of script design, development & execution.
  • Scripts review prepared by another vendor (Infosys)

Lead Software Engineer

Ntrust Infotech Pvt Ltd, Chennai
01.2006 - 01.2010

Projects: REAP, REAP-CS & NAMS

Role: Lead Software Engineer

Technology you have worked in : SQL server, Mercury Win runner, Delphi, Java, Test Director, Load Runner All types of testing to certify a product

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in Test Planning and Execution
  • Involved in Manual test case execution, automation Test Scripts execution in QTP 9.5
  • Preparation of Test scenarios for Load testing
  • Generation of Scripts in VuGen and Enhancing the Script by doing Correlation, parameterization, Rendezvous Points and Check points.
  • Designing and Executing the Scenario in controller.
  • Monitoring the graphs while running the scenarios and Analyzing the Reports. Identifying the Bottlenecks and reporting the conflicts against the SLAs.
  • Conducted audits for various projects to check the process adherence and facilitated a department for following the defined process
  • User creation fields customization in Test Director as per the request
  • Prepare the Monthly Schedule Tracker for the Team Members
  • Executed Automation Test scripts in Win runner for Sanity testing
  • Tracking and Reporting Defects, Review the bugs getting logged in the TD/QC
  • Preparation of Technical Specification/ Test Plans

Software Engineer

Yoga Software Pvt Ltd, Chennai
01.2004 - 01.2006

Projects: OBCELL – BSNL Telephones

Role: Software tester

Technology you have worked in : Postgress, Linux, Visual Basic Forms, SQL Server, in Java

Responsibilities:

  • Part of Visual Basics Forms front end development and testing
  • Red hat Linux Admin activities (Installation, Postgress DB Configuration ) connecting from Front End VB 6.0 for an Client Server Application development and testing

Technical Support Engineer

Galileo India
10.2002 - 12.2004

Project : Focul Point

Role: Technical Support

Technology you have worked in : Java, Viewpoint, Java script, Client server technologies, oracle Forms

  • Providing Technical Solutions to Customers using Focal Point & Viewpoint
  • Focal point implementation at customer place
  • Manual testing on Ticketing related scenarios
  • Testing and Defects tracking

Education

Master of Computer Applications - Comuter Science

Madras University
Chennai, India
10.2004

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Sri Venkateswara University
Bsc
10.1997

Skills

Selenium Webdriver, Appium, Webdriver IO, QTP, Rest Assured,Postman, Soap UI Pro, Load Runner, JMeter, Blazemeter Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD, Bamboo, Jenkins,Jira, Test Director Java Script, Vb Script, Linux shell scripting,

Certification

Scaled Agile Certified Practitioner

Soap Ui NG Pro Certified Professional

Timeline

Senior QA Manager

Photon Interactive Private Ltd.
08.2021 - Current

QA Manager Projects /Associate Architect

Cognizant Technologies
02.2012 - 08.2021

Test Specialist(6B Band)

IBM India Pvt Ltd, DLF Chennai
01.2010 - 02.2012

Lead Software Engineer

Ntrust Infotech Pvt Ltd, Chennai
01.2006 - 01.2010

Software Engineer

Yoga Software Pvt Ltd, Chennai
01.2004 - 01.2006

Technical Support Engineer

Galileo India
10.2002 - 12.2004

Master of Computer Applications - Comuter Science

Madras University

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Sri Venkateswara University
Ugandhar Telaganeni