Venkatesh Sekar
IT - QA Lead
Chennai,TN
Summary
An Accredited Project Quality Manager with 11+ years of experience making sure products and services meet internal and external standards. Skilled in project management, DevOps and Automation Testing for Real-Time applications for Global clients in Telecom and Insurance Domains.
Overview
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Certification
3
3
years of post-secondary education
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
QA Lead
NLGIC Support Service Pvt Ltd
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
08.2020 - Current
- Working with all stake holders to ensure that the quality metrics is reviewed, closed and agreed upon.
- Create a list of milestones and checkpoints and set measurable criteria to check the quality on timely basis.
- Ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking.
- Work closely on the deadlines of the project.
- Ensure the team is focusing on automation along with manual testing.
- Keep raising the bar and standards of all the quality processes with every project.
- Setting up goals and objectives for QA Engineers.
- Motivating team for achieving continuous Improvement.
Spec-IT Quality Assurance
Infosys
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
12.2018 - 07.2020
- Responsible for conducting test of software components by coordinating with client.
- Handle the tasks of interacting with engineers in performing automated testing.
- Perform the tasks of assisting agile tester in preparing test cases, validating software by defining automated testing components.
- Responsible for estimating test effort, and running test validations.
- Handle the tasks of preparing defect reports, developing automation strategies, and perform automated testing and demonstrating to client.
- Responsible for finding out enablers to the test script in DevOps delivery pipeline.
- Provide suggestion to improve user experience.
Spec-IT Quality Assurance
VERIZON
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
10.2014 - 12.2018
- Responsible for conducting test of software components by coordinating with product engineers.
- Handle the tasks of interacting with engineers in performing automated testing.
- Assigned responsibilities of preparing test scripts and analyzing software to provide testing solutions.
- Perform the tasks of assisting agile tester in preparing test cases, validating software by defining automated testing components.
- Responsible for estimating test effort, and running test validations.
- Handle the tasks of preparing defect reports, developing automation strategies, and perform automated testing of back end systems, and demonstrating to higher management.
- Provide suggestion to improve user experience.
Quality Assurance Analyst
VERIZON
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
08.2012 - 10.2014
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Created and achieved product quality objectives and met product specifications.
- Created accurate and efficient test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
- Performed responsibilities of defect identification, and reporting metrics.
Software Engineer
VERIZON
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
06.2011 - 08.2012
- Assigned the tasks of performing test suite, and gathering technical requirements to meet project requirements.
- Handled responsibilities of writing test cases.
- Responsible for conducting manual exploratory testing under the guidelines of senior testing staff.
- Performed responsibilities of defect identification, and reporting metrics.
Test Engineer
STC Technologies
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
09.2009 - 06.2011
- Analyzed the Business specifications document and supportive initial documents.
- Provided Reverse KT to onsite POC to ensure proper understanding of project expectations.
- Prepared Test cases and run plan.
- Provided end to end test coverage by writing Test conditions for System Testing and SIT.
- Prepared detailed test data to suffice all test conditions.
- Provided Status report to lead.
Education
B.C.A - Computer Application
Ponnaiyah Ramajayam College
Thanjavur 03.2004 - 03.2007
M.C.A - Computer Application
SASTRA University
Thanjavur 04.2009 - 04.2009
Skills
Quality processes
Test Automation
DevOps
JIRA Administration
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Certification
Accredited Project Quality Manager
Quote
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
Timeline
Accredited Project Quality Manager
02-2021
QA Lead
NLGIC Support Service Pvt Ltd
08.2020 - Current
Spec-IT Quality Assurance
Infosys
12.2018 - 07.2020
Spec-IT Quality Assurance
VERIZON
10.2014 - 12.2018
Quality Assurance Analyst
VERIZON
08.2012 - 10.2014
Software Engineer
VERIZON
06.2011 - 08.2012
Test Engineer
STC Technologies
09.2009 - 06.2011
M.C.A - Computer Application
SASTRA University
04.2009 - 04.2009
B.C.A - Computer Application
Ponnaiyah Ramajayam College
03.2004 - 03.2007