Project Manager

Ade Oshin

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SENIOR TEST MANAGER / TEST MANAGER OR CONSULTANT / SENIOR TEST ANALYST / TEST ANALYST / MANUAL TESTER

(IT)

Top-performing and results-driven management professional with experience in the areas of end-to-end testing, consulting testing, test plan development / strategy development, project implementation and delivery, risk mitigation, issue management, project phasing and methodology, team management, and vendor management within the IT industry. ISEB Certified Professional with domestic and international exposure to multiple industries, including government establishments, banking, travel, retail, telecommunications, and research and development. Skilled in software development life cycle (SDLC) such as Agile, Waterfall, V-Models and RUP. Extensive experience in facilitating requirements and analysis, designing and test planning with respective stakeholders. Adept in identifying and flagging cross-project or cross-team dependences impacting project timelines. Functional understanding of IT domains/industry. Skilled in managing and / or participating in an overall auditing process while contributing to tactical and strategic planning for future quality programs and monitoring applicable business unit work, ensuring consistency and compliance with standard processes.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Estimation and Planning Gap Analysis Knowledge Share Workshop Organization and Execution Business Process Mapping Solution Designing Project Management Risk and Issue Management Pre-Sales Support Manual and Automated Lead and Mentor QA teams Auditing Strategic Planning Quality Programs Functional Testing Integration Testing System Testing UAT Regression Testing and Unit Testing ITIL procedure

Technical Skills - Test Script Development Client Server Principles Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Project/ Project Management Microsoft Visio HP LoadRunner 8.0 HP QTP SQL ETL TOAD VB, Java, JSP Rational ClearCase EDI ProStar Remedy Visual SourceSafe SOAP TestNG SOA

Standards - TMM CMMI ISO9001

KEY SKILLS

End-To-End Software Testing – Hands-on experience in conducting new end-to-end testing of integrated solutions on multiple implementations while ensuring accurate results and assisting lower-level programmers with programming standards. Proven ability to test all the programs for field size increase.

Project Management – Expertise in project planning and managing multiple full cycle implementations with multiple phases; developing project test plans and test strategies for all phases i.e. from functional to UAT testing and sign-off of the project.

Client Relationship Management – Extensive exposure in managing clients, understanding project requirements or specifications, facilitate client interaction, and managing client expectations while ensuring smooth execution of test projects.

Business Process Analysis – Extensive knowledge and understanding of process methodologies and business and functional strategies along with an ability to conduct audits for evaluating quality compliance and identify process deficiencies and improvement opportunities for ensuring profitability, productivity and effective service delivery.

Budget Management – Adept in managing budgets ensuring successful delivery of project within assigned budget and timeframe.

Resource Planning and Management – Skilled in identifying resource requirement for the project, planning and managing the resources such as financial resources, inventory, human skills, production resources, or information technology (IT).

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS / PROJECTS

Successfully delivered on time within budget quality software for the UK wide bus ticketing project, benefiting 800 buses.

Successfully delivered on time within budget quality solutions for Sogeti Customers from Catlin Insurance Underwriter to the Government Defra Animal Health Program.

Test Consultant - Guided and delivered quality solutions for United Nation’s ERP, used for their resource planning, central support, finance and budget, supply chain and other cross-functional areas.

For detailed list of projects handled, please refer to appendix.

CAREER HISTORY

Test Manager Oct 2011 – Mar 2013

HCL –AXON, Surrey

HCL AXON, a wholly owned subsidiary of HCL Technologies, a $6 billion global technology leader with over 85,000 employees combining unrivaled experience in deploying the world’s leading, SAP, ERP platforms with huge industry experience.

Responsible for ensuring retail business software applications and hardware’s in all UK locations are completely tested, functional and deliver as per requirements / specifications, ITIL process, Data Validation and Agile development used

Managing Consultant / Test Manager Feb 2009 – Feb 2010

Sogeti UK Ltd., London

Responsible for project test plan and developments for all test phases.

Successfully delivered program/s in adherence to company policies, standards and best practices in support of delivery, finance, human resources, operations and sales; supported development and management of staff in line with company objectives as well as managed all the stakeholders’ expectations. ITIL processes was engaged

Carried out project management of all the testing phases, developed project test plans and test strategies for all the test phases from functional to UAT testing and signs off of the project. Automation Frameworks in QTP was used.

Test Consultant Jun 2008 – Aug 2008

(ICC) International Computing Centre, Brindisi, Italy

ICC, established in 1971 as a common service, providing a wide range of information and communication technology and services, on a cost recovery basis to its users’ world wide.

Provided test consultancy including use of LoadRunner for performance, test the UN developed application used world wide (an ERP application based on SAP and Oracle implementation).

Worked on the project wherein the ERP handled most of the resource planning requirement such as central support, finance and budget, human resource, supply chain and other cross-functional areas.

Developed modeling performance test document for the ERP effort including other software test consultation effort required by the customer; reviewed the test plans, test cases for ERP and SAP performance testing goals.

Associate Manager Mar 2007 – Mar 2008

Accenture, London

Accenture, a global management consulting technology services and outsourcing company committed to delivering innovation.

Reported to senior manager and client management while demonstrating operational effectiveness and development of people; created values in addition to good interactions with clients.

Carried out other responsibilities such as preparing test strategies, master test plan documents and performing review of documents such as plans, test conditions, test scripts and data. Selenium was used. ITIL procedure used.

Senior Test Analyst / Test Manager Apr 2004 – Mar 2007

Atos Origin, London

emphasis on V-Models; software change management; ISO 9001; ITIL and CMMI; specification of information flow, processes and procedures and data structure.

Reviewed and ensured correctness of functional and non functional requirements and documentation and signoff.

Carried out interviews and conducted workshops.

Responsible for project test plan and development of all test phases, project test strategies, estimation and planning, team leadership, stakeholder and vendor management; applied best practices in support of delivery.

Delivered projects while planning timelines, budget, margin and quality specifications.

Established and managed project plans; assigned and reviewed delegated tasks, performance and resourcing requirements.

Quality Assurance Leader Sep 2003 – Feb 2004

GE Energy, Denver Colorado USA

GE Energy Network Reliability Services provides an expanding portfolio of innovative product and service solutions for the utility, communications and public system industries.

Reported to pre-release QA leader and development manager.

Responsible for overall quality of release throughout the lifecycle for the project team.

Managed and mentored outsourced team based in Hyderabad, India and 4 others based in Denver office.

Developed quality plans for project and prepared detailed test plans for covering functional and non functional tests.

Identified resource requirements for QA and testing tasks and established test team with appropriate skill-sets.

Ensured adherence to project life cycle quality management including emphasis on the V-Models, software change management, ISO 9001 and CMMI.

Assigned and scheduled test tasks to test team members including test designing, implementing, execution and maintenance, as well as managed onshore and offshore project team members.

Design Manager, an application developed for utilities companies such as energy business, electricity, water etc.

In charge of project life cycle work products, requirements and technical specifications and design models.

Undertook detailed test design, test case development and implementation and execution of manual and automated test scripts.

Contributed to work of QA CoE, recommended process improvements and identified through six sigma projects.

Ensured all defects detected by the project team were reported in the defect tracking systems.

Participated in the project change control board; prioritized and tracked reported defects and worked with the project team members to ensure timely closure.

Senior QA/ Validation Engineer May 2001 – Mar 2003

Intel, Lafayette, Colorado USA

Intel Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturer supplying technology solutions for the computing and communications industries.

Reported to the engineering director and responsible for writing and executing test plans, strategies and procedures on telecommunication equipment to validate products as per design specifications.

Documented and analyzed test results including bug reproduction, validation and resolution.

Mentored junior staff members and staff from Bangalore, India while assisting developers with test requirements and supervising four direct reports.

Reduced bug counts for VoATM and VoIP products to an absolute minimum as agreed by the customer by developing and implementing improved test processes and plans including defect management tool (Tibet) used to track bugs and their resolution.

Completed all projects on time and within budget post managing project activity schedule, milestones and release calendars and notes; delivered periodic reports regarding project milestone to engineering senior managers.

Enabled on time project delivery after tracking test time per project and adjusting according to priority, severity and necessity.

Continuously improved the validation process by ensuring a cohesive team approach with developers by effectively liaising to create and run system, functional, system and regression test plans and test cases.

EARLIER CAREER

Senior Member of Technical Staff 1997 – 2001

Nortel, Simi Valley, California USA

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Communications and Network Systems

Metropolitan University, Leeds

Post Graduate Certificate in Management

Northampton University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Teesside, Middlesbrough

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

ISEB Software Testing Certificate (Foundation and Intermediate)

Project Manager School - Internal Training

Requirements Analysis using UML

Siebel 7.7 Core Consultant Internal Training

Siebel Analytics: Data Warehouse Developer Training

Mercury: LoadRunner for the Web Training

Solution Delivery School - Internal Training

IBM e-business solutions internal training

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Member, British Computer Society (MBCS)

Chartered Engineer of Engineering Council

Chartered Information Technology Practitioner

Registered Chartered Information Systems Engineer

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Nationality: British

Marital Status: Single Driving License: British/ American

References available on request

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