VINOD KURUDUMALE SRIDHAR

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Over a decade of experience in software quality assurance specializing in the products, media & entertainment, storage, hospitality, retail & healthcare industries.

Extensive experience in the agile methodology. Agile certification from Massachusetts University through Accenture. Active participant in all feature grooming and scrum calls for the current projects.

Hands on experience with back-end testing on SQL server & Oracle DB and web-services with SOAP UI.

Leading the automation efforts for releases. Experienced with creating scripts and frame-work on Selenium for automation.

HP QC (ALM) and HP QTP.

My role as a lead/manager includes owning the test environments for a particular release and ensuring the stage level tracking of projects until they get deployed.

Quality assurance experience includes requirements gathering, system testing and integration testing.

I have Performed UAT and got it approved from the business. Familiar in interacting with end-users at various levels.

Experience in providing test estimates to the client by using industry standard estimation techniques.

Good experience in requirement analysis, data model understanding, develop complex data conditioning scenarios and work with aggressive timelines while ensuring quality.

Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, committed and motivated team leader/player with strong sense of organization with being effective in time/resource management.

Good working knowledge in project scoping, project planning, capacity planning, resource bandwidth management, team leadership, risk analysis, issues tracking/mitigation, stage containment and status reporting.

Hands on experience in creating the release checklist and driving the action items during production releases.

More than 8 years of experience as a QA Lead/Manager with 20+ resources reporting to me.

EDUCATION

B.E (Bachelor of Engineering in Information science)

Master’s in Business Administration

VISA STATUS

In the USA on H1B (I-140 approved)

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Randstand Technology LP April 2015 to current

Client: Optum (UnitedHealth Group) - Project: Integrated clinical user experience.

Role – QA Lead/Manager

ICUE is the web-based clinical platform that connects the service delivery process across the continuum of care. It is used by the internal clinical staff to enable a consistent, intuitive, and flexible

“Integrated clinical user experience”, in the delivery clinical management programs across the continuum of care. ICUE powered by e-Sync is one system that includes a variety of features and functions required to effectively deliver services.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for leading monthly/quarterly releases.

Responsible for all the QA related activities from the project initiation to sign off before the release.

Activities include daily scrum, feature grooming, automation readiness, test planning and project status tracking at various levels. Release check-out responsibility to lead and drive for a successful QA check-out during the release.

We are a team of 20+ resources that I deploy on stories to successfully achieve the delivery with maximum test coverage.

Involved in multiple phases of testing i.e. system, integration and end to end testing.

Testing performed included validations on SOAP UI, data stage file processing and back end validations.

Created the test plan document in all the iterations.

Active participation during estimation for the stories and change requests.

Technical guidance and mentoring the off-shore team.

Defect management and triaging.

Status reporting with key point indicators.

Issue resolution and process improvement.

Condition creation, test case review, content reviewing, test execution monitoring and defect management.

Release level tracking of issues and driving the production checkout.

Environment: Webservice- SOAP and REST protocols, HP ALM 12.2x, Oracle DBi & Selenium IDE.

Differentiating factor: My success as lead has been the fact that the production defects have been reduced to nil from 8-12 defects when I took over CI. I’m presently leading the (CI) clinical integration projects for more than 8 releases now. These projects get 40% of the budget for a release with an average of 47000 hours for the entire effort per year.

Quantifying efforts: I am able to plan & execute the tests at on-shore for restricted projects in addition to 80% of daily efforts in lead activities, driving defect triage calls and owning the CI- iterations for each release.

Accenture July 2014 to April 2015

Client: Best Buy - Projects: Star POC, Star upgrade, Star pre-freeze, Star Critical enhancements, Part Search Integration, Concealed damage, License Plate and Reverse Logistics.

Role - Project test manager/Software engineering team lead

Best buy has a service management process which is done on Amdocs. Nova is the front end web application which creates a service order and generates a receipt after the completion of the same. The transactions like shipping the product to a service center/depot from a store and getting the repaired product back to the store is managed by Star (Amdocs). The complete transactions that can happen for a product to be repaired like – checking the warranty to getting the parts from the third party is managed by Star (Amdocs). Now the star upgrade project’s goal is to upgrade to the latest version of Amdocs. This requires extensive testing as there are various infrastructural dependencies with respect to the database and the fact that Star itself is heavily customized.

Responsibilities:

Handling 9 projects with on-shore and off-shore teams.

Involved from the scoping face of the project where the new requirements are discussed with the business.

Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and use case Scenarios.

Performed gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.

Responsible for conducting walkthroughs at various levels.

Responsible for the submission and approval of the project estimation for each initiative.

Capacity planning and tracking for each resource.

Designed and developed test plans for the pre-freeze enhancements of Star.

Performed risk analysis and mitigation during the test cycle.

Presented metrics and reports of daily open defects to the senior management and progress reporting against the test plans in order ensure business needs are met.

Verified the fixes for the reported defects and defect triaging.

Stage containment and mitigation of risks & issues.

Notifying the key point indicators to raise the risks in time and explain the same to the project stakeholders.

Confirmation testing to check if the software glitches were fixed followed by regression testing.

Involved in sending consolidated reports for managerial reviews & stakeholder related statistics.

Presenting the UAT to the business and getting the same approved.

Environment: Amdocs Clarify –Star, Nova, SQL Server 2008, SOAP UI, Clear Case and Clear Quest and ALM (HP QC)

Differentiating factor: I am responsible for 9 projects with a monthly resource billing of 1700 hours. This with the responsibility of getting the UAT approved for 3 projects.

Quantifying efforts: I am able to execute scripts, plan the tests at on-shore in addition to 90% of daily efforts in lead activities.

Accenture September 2013 to July 2014 Client: Marriott International – Projects: Search responsive and Reservations responsive

Role - Test Lead

Marriott.com is the front end web application which the customers use to search and reserve hotels. I was responsible in testing this major piece of functionality which is called shop and book. The search process includes a search engines and endecca which is the indexing tool. The content was pulled from vignette while the property details were fetched from the Marsha. Test execution done on view ports like mobile devices and tablets.

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed test plans and test cases in an agile model.

Designed test cases for mobile devices by considering the break points which saved many hours with respect to test coverage.

Involved in analyzing the system under test, identifying system components, describing configuration, user profile and system operation profiles.

Project estimation and resource capacity planning.

Reported daily status and stand up calls.

Involved in helping the testers understand the business requirements.

Participated in enhancements meeting to distinguish between bugs and enhancements.

Provided technical support to the FSV (Full Site Validation) effort for the search and reserve project, which included working with the end-user team.

Stage containment and mitigation of risks & issues.

Ensuring that the changes in requirements and add-ons, stated by the user, get fixed before user acceptance test.

UAT presentation to the business for approval.

Environment: Marriott.com, RQM, rational clear quest Windows 2000 professional.

Differentiating factor: QA Lead for 2 projects. Total number of defects logged is 30% more as compared to my peers. I introduced the test planning technique using break points. This reduced the effort of testing on every mobile device and the ability to have a better test coverage.

Quantifying efforts: Individual contribution of 162 defects in both the projects while executing test scripts along with 90% of daily hours for lead activities.

Accenture

Client: EMC Corporation – Project: Campaign to Cash September 2010 to Aug 2013

Role - Test Lead

The project involved testing the functionality of EMC’s campaigning strategy through SFDC. This involved integration testing between 3 applications. GMDB (global marketing database), Aprimo and SFDC. This also involved backend database testing of the tables on SQL server to watch the movement of data from the dot net based applications to SFDC. The monitoring of tables was to make sure that the data was getting populated correctly. Received great feedback mails from the client and product owners of agile projects.

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed test plans and test cases in an agile model.

Used HP ALM extensively to store all testing results and metrics.

Created Test plan Document, Defect Tracking and Reporting, RTM’s and Test Metrics.

Performed all aspects of verification, validation including functional, structural, regression, and system testing.

Worked extensively with developers on data stage to complete the testing.

Developed basic SQL queries, analyzed and executed them to monitor the tables.

Involved in conducting peer reviews for test cases, and procedures.

Supported the SME to the best of my ability for critical modules that went into production.

Business scenarios were adhered to learn and understand the user needs which helped a through UAT.

Ensuring and verifying that the application developed adheres to the software requirement specification (SRS) through system test.

SQA (Software Quality Assurance): Documents created and maintained for audits: Test Plan, Test Strategy, Query Log, Review Log, induction checklist, KT recordings, regression suite, smoke testing suite, Estimation/Work Breakdown Structure & capacity planning/management.

Involved in sending consolidated reports for managerial reviews & stakeholder related statistics.

Environment: SFDC, GMDB, Aprimo, SQL server 2005 and HP Quality Center.

Differentiating factor: I was responsible for 2 projects. I saved multiple hours on defect closure time daily by notifying the developers in a timely manner with minimal interference from the PM. An average of 42 defects logged per month. I had an excellent relationship with the client development team which kept me in the same project for 3 years. I groomed a junior resource to take the lead activities prior to moving to the next project.

Quantifying efforts: Individual contribution to test planning and execution along with 85% of daily hours for lead activities.

Hewlett Packard August 2006 to August 2010

Client: THQ – Project: UFC

Role - Test Associate Engineer

Responsibilities:

Web application testing.

Creation of test scripts and scenarios.

A noted tester in the team for carrying out negative testing.

Interacted with the developers to know and understand the application’s data flow and changes made for enhancements.

Handled all activities related to fault detection, functionality, flow testing, and Ad Hoc test case execution.

Defect lifecycle management.

Involved in weekly calls with the client.

Involved in defect retesting, regression testing and confirmation testing to validate the integrity of the software product.

System Testing was done to verify whether the application developed adhered to the SRS (system requirement specifications).

Involved in brain-storming sessions to come up with ideas.

Environment: Bugzilla, HP QC and Windows 2000.

Differentiating factor: Had the highest average for the number of defects logged.

Quantifying efforts: Mine was an individual contributor role in test planning and execution. A total of 7000 + scripts created and executed during my tenure.

Accolades

Awarded the prestigious stellar award from Accenture.

Received great feedback emails from the client and product owners of agile projects for saving hours.

Highly appreciated by the stakeholders in a project which actually saved the project from a major crisis before release. (EMC & OPTUM)

Was recognized as a STAR tester during the Performance Appraisal.(HP & Accenture)

Was awarded the best tester in a performance survey which was conducted on testers.(HP)

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