VENKATESH KOTA

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Professional Summary

Results oriented professional with over 14 years’ experience leading Software Quality Assurance organizations

Managing Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, and the web application QA projects

Successfully oversaw complex Data migration projects

Extensive experience transforming QA teams to work in Agile methodology.

Working experience with the onshore & offshore model.

Worked on different domain like Healthcare, Finance, Retail & Insurance

Area of Expertise/Technology Summary

Agile Testing

Data Migration Testing

Web services testing

ETL & BI Testing

Financial Domain Testing

Structured query language (SQL) expert

Defect Root cause analysis

Strong Analytical skills

Data Testing

Integration Testing

Application Interface Testing

Data warehouse testing

Test Management Tools – HP ALM, TFS

BI – Cognos, OBIEE, SAP BO, SSRS

Informatica, Datastage

Netezza, MS SQL Server & Oracle

Data Models – Star Schema & Snowflake

Visual Basic & Excel Macros

Test Estimates, Project planning & resource planning

Project Management

Software Life Cycle Management

End to End Title Loan Process

Experience:

TMX Finance: QA Manager Dates Sept 2014 – Mar 2017

Summary: Leading a team of 10 QA associates responsible for testing ETL, BI, Migrations, web services & Point of Sale applications

End to End knowledge on the Title loan lifecycle

Developed strong technical team and streamlined testing process

Successfully lead data migration for large POS system

Implemented UAT testing approach during the QA phase to minimize defect leakage to UAT

Facilitated implementation and validation of SDSS Report, Enterprise reports, and dashboards used by company execs

Transformed team to support Agile / Iterative SDLC, from waterfall

Worked with Application automation team to automate the test data needs for downstream systems

Continuous update the automation scope as new releases planned

Led testing efforts for multiple projects simultaneous

Created dashboards and reports to highlight testing status and overall quality

Participated in vendor selection and evaluated the onshore & offshore resources

Interviewed candidates for the open FTE positions

Prepare the QA dashboard to present to the leadership team

Technologies Used: Informatica, Netezza, MS Server, Cognos, SSRS, TFS, Java, Oracle, UNIX, web services

Cognizant Technology Solutions: Manager- Mar 2010 to Sept 2014

Summary: Managed multiple projects with a team size of 25 onshore and offshore QA professionals, and executed complex projects like data migration and new point of sales implementation

Accountable for preparing the test strategy & walkthrough with the project stakeholders and ensure to get the sign off.

Defined Test Strategy for the ETL, BI, Integrations (XLM, Web services), End to End Testing

Ensure Integration testing with the external vendor is done on time as planned.

Accountable for estimates, schedule, resource plan for the each project

Monitoring & Tracking progress of each project

Identify the test data volumes for each cycle and test environments to perform testing

Documents (Unstructured data) reconciliation between the legacy and Guidewire Claims center.

Prepare weekly status report and share with the PMO team

Demonstrating potential in effectively assisting the team in preparing Automation scripts to validate the business functionality

Responsible for defining the automation framework, identifying, creating common functions for ETL testing.

Escalating the issue about the project requirement (Software, Hardware & Resource) to the senior manager within the defined time framed.

Interacting with test environment teams to ensure all the issues are resolved successfully on time for smooth execution of the testing phase.

Technologies Used: Informatica, Oracle, Guidewire, SAP BO, HP ALM, Control-M

Worked as Test Manager – Jan 2008- Mar 2010 for Tech Mahindra & Wipro

Summary:

Understanding of the business requirements and taking up initiatives in coming up with testing efforts, estimation, schedule and resource planning.

Discussed and agreed on the metrics to be captured as part of the project which is key metrics in knowing the quality of the deliverables.

Accountable for preparing the test plan & business test scenario, identifying test scenario’s for automation, updating/adding the automation test scripts to regression suite for each release and review of test results.

Escalating the issue about the project requirement (Software, Hardware & Resource) to the senior manager within the defined time framed.

Interacting with test environment teams to ensure all the issues are resolved successfully on time for smooth execution of the testing phase.

Responsible for Project Audit as per schedule and Tracking all NC to closure.

Tracking the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status. Sending the status reports (weekly and monthly).

Worked as Software Test Engineer & Test Lead – Jan 2004 to Mar 2007 for Perot Systems

Summary:

Accountable for understanding the requirement and coming with test scenarios.

Preparing the test cases & executing automation scripts and executing, test summary results sheet after each test cycle, weekly status report.

Guiding the team in test scope development and reviewing the test plan, test cases, and bug reports.

Maintaining bugs history database.

Imparting training for the New Associates – application functionality.

Providing support to Test Lead in preparing the test plan, test scope development.

Looking into peer reviewing, preparing test cases and executing test cases.

Maintain the requirement traceability matrix to identify the test cover gap

Certification:

Certified Manager of Software Testing: Certification from QAI Global Institute

Accomplishments

Managed complex data migration projects

Received the best associate of the quarter multiple times during my tenure at Cognizant Technologies

Pat on the back award for helping the team members

Personal Details

Visa Status: Green Card

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