Kamlesh Nandagawali

Email: acpd5m@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 720-***-**** (U.S.A)

Quality Assurance Program Management

TEST CENTER OF EXCELLENCE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

A top performing Test Center of Excellence Program Manager with over

14 year record (8 + years being at onsite in U.S.A) of achievement

in the IT and Engineering sectors. Successfully handled programs/

delivery/ account/ engagements of with clients having $10M with a

Team size of 80. My natural business acumen and relationship building

skills have allowed me to achieve career growth and a special talent

for transitioning strategy into action and achievement. Looking to

utilize my experience building and managing QA department while

leading, mentoring and developing a team of Test Managers, QA

Engineers, Process consultants, Vendors, Test center of excellence

engineers.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Quality Assurance management Strategic Planning / Analysis

Leadership/ Team Building Test Center of Excellence

Hiring / Budgeting / Team Management and Effectiveness

Forecasting

Test automation & test Process Implementation

framework

SCRUM Master Technical Program management

Agile testing (SCRUM & KANBAN) PMP trained (Certification

pending)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain: RETAIL (Ecommerce[web & mobile], marketing, merchandizing, supply

chain, POS, CRD), EMBEDDED SYSTEMS(Remote Monitoring systems for

Equipments, Wireless Technologies, Telecom Technologies, IP Networking

Technologies), ENGINEERING(Electrical Utility Systems).

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Planview, Rally, Sharepoint,

Test Management: HP ALM, TestLink, Jira, Rally, ScrumWorks, Kanban

Automation testing tools: Selenium & Cucumber, JUnit, QTP, SilkTest,

JMeter, SOAP UI

KEY SKILLS ASSEMENT

TEST CENTER OF EXCELLENCE - Expertize in creating Test center of excellence

even in organizations without any testing teams. Creating various

dashboards that helps the executive management to take decisions like QA

Operational dashboard and Release readiness dashboard. Working with

management to get their commitments on setting up QA Organization that's

shall avoid High defect creep in to production, Lack of standardized

testing processes, Frequent schedule slippages, Increased testing spend.

Excellent understanding of organizational effectiveness, change management,

as well as, facilitation and other coaching/motivating methods. Reviewing

the current state of the organization and taking them to the next level by

standardizing, centralizing, optimizing, reviewing and expanding.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGEMENT - Primary interface with the customer in

ensuring customer satisfaction. Managing the relationship with vendors

.Derived and implemented an effective governance for the program. Excellent

understanding of organizational effectiveness, change management, as well

as, facilitation and other coaching/motivating methods. Achieving

Operational Parameters for the program as set out by the organization.

Budget estimates, and Budget tracking. Pro-active communication in all

directions o Self-motivated with strong analytical and problem solving

skills.

QUALITY ASSURANCE : Hands on experience on test automation. Create testing

standards for Waterfall and agile projects. Create Test strategy and test

plans. Create metrics and SLAs.

Kamlesh Nandagawali

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CSC, USA Feb 2006 - Present

General Electric, Hyderabad, India July 2004 - Jan 2006

Maharashtra State Electricity Board, June 2003 - July 2004

Amravati, India

Sunsys Innovative System Ltd., Aug 2001 - May 2003

Nagpur, India

Informatics (India) Ltd., Kolkata, July 2000 - Aug 2001

India

CSC, USA Feb'2006 - Present

QA Program Manager

Project Name: Cabela's Client: Cabela's (USA Head

Quarter)

Project Description:

Cabela's - World's Foremost Outfitter, are a leading specialty retailer,

and the world's largest direct marketer, of hunting, fishing, camping and

related outdoor merchandise. Since 1961, Cabela's has grown to become one

of the most well-known outdoor recreation brands in the world, and has long

been recognized as the World's Foremost Outfitter . Through their

established direct business and their growing number of destination retail

stores, Cabela's offer a wide and distinctive selection of high-quality

outdoor products at competitive prices while providing superior customer

service.

Contribution:

. Responsible for the entire program and the engagement/delivery for CSC

. Setting up Test Center of Excellence.

. Manage the budget, resources, forecast, planning, and delivery.

. Manage the testing efforts for CSC teams, internal Cabelas System

testers and Cabelas Business users.

. Single handedly managed the testing efforts for various strategic

projects

. Work with the Project team to come up with budget and worked on

preparing Statement of work (SOW) for various projects worth $10M.

. Establishing strategic plans, policies, and procedures at all levels

to ensure that the results of the quality improvement efforts meet and

exceed customer's needs and expectations.

. Hiring, Training, Mentoring, and establishing a new supplementary QA

team from ground up.

. Building Enterprise dashboard to showcase the Release and Test Metrics

for Executive Management.(Test Centre of Excellence)

. Requirement ambiguity, System, User acceptance, Automation,

Regression, Security and performance testing of various line of

businesses (Ecommerce and Marketing, Retail, POS, Supply chain,

Merchandizing, Customer Relations).

Project Name: Resort Technology Partners

Client: ACTIVE Network(USA)

Project Description:

Recreation companies optimize performance and create customer loyalty with

RTP's innovative online(E-commerce solution for B2C and B2B sales), on-

location(Ticket windows and self-serve kiosks), on-demand(Third-party

retail ticket distribution), Mobile(Mobile ticketing and mobile commerce

via LivePass,REALSKI,VegasReality) and call center(Advanced sales, channel

and third-party sales and group sales) solutions for ticketing, activities,

events and retail. RTP technology integrates critical functions such as:

Point of Sale(Retail sales and inventory management, Food and beverage,

Rentals and inventory) and inventory management for ticketing; RFID.

Contribution:

. Single point of contact for the customer and QA team

. Establishing strategic plans, policies, and procedures at all levels

to ensure that the results of the quality improvement efforts meet and

exceed customer's needs and expectations.

. Hiring, Training, Mentoring, and establishing a new supplementary QA

team from ground up.

. Functional and Regression testing of Ticketing, POS system and Mobile

Apps.

. QTP automation testing of RTP One products.

. Localization testing of RTP One products.

Project Name: Axeda Platform Client: Axeda(MA,

USA)

Project Description:

Axeda Corporation, the leading cloud platform and applications company for

enabling connected products. Axeda Platform, complete M2M data integration

and application development platform with infrastructure delivered as a

cloud-based service. With the highest levels of scalability and security as

well as powerful development tools and flexible APIs, you can quickly build

and deliver custom M2M applications for the most demanding requirements and

integrate M2M data into your key enterprise applications and systems. As a

result, can connect to any product using any device, over any communication

channel (cellular networks, Internet, WiFi, or satellite), for any

application.

Contribution:

. Overall Test manager for the whole program and single point of contact

for all test related activities for all different applications and

companies.

. Establishing strategic plans, policies, and procedures at all levels

to ensure that the results of the quality improvement efforts meet and

exceed customer's needs and expectations.

. Preparation of Automation Testing framework for external developers

and test engineers.

. Hiring, Training, Mentoring, and establishing a new supplementary QA

team from ground up.

. Performance, Load testing of Axeda Codec Server.

. Acceptance and Unit testing of Axeda wireless protocol toolkits using

JUnit 4.5.

. Also as a contributor to the SCRUM team, developed automated

acceptance test cases using JUnit and Selenium.

. Automation: JUnit 4.5, JMeter, Groovy & Java, QTP, Selenium

Project Name: IDM Client:

Questra(NY, USA)

Project Description:

Questra provides Internet Download Manager (IDM) solutions to allow

manufacturers to remotely connect to their devices in the field.

Contribution:

. Test Manager for the program.

. Coordinating among all different development and test team during test

planning and execution phase.

. Allocate work to team members and also able to work on issue

resolution independently.

General Electric July'2004 -

Jan'2006

Engineer

Hyderabad, India

Project Name: Entellisys LV Switchgear Client: La-farge Cement(USA) -

2010 winter Olympics

Project Description:

Entellisys Low Voltage- Fly By Wire (FBW) is an integrated switchgear

control system using a single central processing unit (C/CPU) to perform

all switchgear functions. It replaces all devices and the point-to-point

wiring used today to perform protection, monitoring, metering, discrete I/O

and control functions in GE low voltage distribution switchgear.

Project Name: CPS Plus

Project Description:

CPS+ is a complete power protection Solution. Controls and monitors various

equipments on different platforms and protocols. The equipments it monitors

and controls are breakers trip units, UPS, fire protection units, Power and

Control electronics circuits, Switchboards etc.

Contribution:

. Understanding requirements to approach at test strategy along with the

team.

. Creation of Test Estimation, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test

Data

. Responsible for Lab setup and Maintenance.

. Automating the test cases with a data driven approach using VB.

. Automation: Exposure on QTP, Silk Test 6.5, LabView, Rational Test

Manager.

Maharashatra State Electricity Board Jun'2003

- Jul'2004

Engineer

Amravati, India

Project Name: Fault finding & testing of 220KV Amravati GCR Sub-Station

(State Government)

Contribution:

. Carry out prescribed standard tests on the section or the equipment

under test.

. Coordinate with the other sub-stations depending upon the Load to

maintain the balance of the Grid to avoid Cascade- tripping.

. Automation: SCADA for full control of the grid, Event seq recorder for

post fault analysis.

Sunsys Innovative System Ltd Aug'2001

- Jun'2003

Software Engineer

Nagpur, India

Project Name: Psychometric Analysis and testing System

Contribution:

. Prepare development plan for the project and handing flowcharts of the

modules to the remaining team.

. Development of the owned module and then Integration of all the

modules.

. Unit and Integration Testing for checkpoints, failure and reliability.

. Automation: Java 2.0, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, Tomcat-Apache webserver.

Informatics (India) Ltd

Jul'2000 - Aug'2001

Software Engineer

Kolkata, India

Project Name: Goods management system

Contribution:

. Developed forms and reports and interacting with actual user after

implementation for necessary modifications and conformity of the

designed Form/Report.

. Automation: Java 2.0, Swings, Jtable.

DEGREES & CERTIFICATIONS

Electrical Engineering

Nagpur University (India)

Six Sigma Black Belt Professional (SSBBP) Management

and Strategy Institute

Six Sigma Lean Professional (SSLP)

Management and Strategy Institute

Change Management Specialist (CMS)

Management and Strategy Institute

Java 2

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