Satish Kandikonda

E-mail: ac0iuo@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 224-***-****

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satishkandikonda/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over fourteen years of experience in Product/Agile Management, Manual Testing of web and PC applications. Closely worked with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Developers, Testers, Technical Analysts and Business Analysts through the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) focusing on Agile and Testing Methodologies.

STRENGTHS:

As a Product Manager/Scrum Master

Experience in Agile/Scrum environment.

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)

Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams.

Developed and executed Release Management in Agile environment

Involved in all aspects to culture discussion to form an agile dependent team

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery

Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.

Manage the lifecycle of engineering development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.

Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.

Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams.

As a QA Lead

Advanced knowledge and experience in Manual/Functional Testing.

Experience in Development and Implementation of Test Plans and Test Cases.

Proficient in Functional Testing, Black-box Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing.

Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Proficient in creating Test cases based on Business Requirement Documentations and Functional Requirement Specification.

Expertise in Defect Tracking and Reporting.

Experience in all major CRMs like Salesforce, MS Dynamics and Sugar CRM

Provided automation solution support with Selenium WebDriver/Grid

Participated in Scrum activities such as test coverage reviews, story grooming sessions, and sprint planning.

Recommended strategies and methods to improve test plans and test process

Service testing experience with Soap UI

Involved in all aspects to culture discussion to form an agile dependent team

Develop and execute automated and manual test scripts

Recommended strategies and methods to improve test plans and test process

Experience with Selenium using Java

Good experience in Rally and Jira tools of project management

Helped in Risk Analysis and Mitigation Reports

Handled and maintained Release Readiness Team

Involved in Mobile Testing of native apps both in iOS and Android Development

Education:

Master of Computer Application.

Technical Skills:

•Testing Tools : Badboy and Selenium

•Markup Languages: HTML, XML

•RDBMS : MS Access, MySQL

•Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows XP, 2000, Windows NT, Linux.

•Bug TrackingTools: Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla

•Management Tools: MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Shibi Info Lab (Nov2016-Mar2017)

Product Manager & QA

I am into contractual work for 3 months in this company. I am handling Product Management and Quality Engineering. Involved in creating QA process for the company and release management.

Responsibilities:

•Created a process in agile technologies (Scrum) for both development and testing

•Involved in complete release management

•Involved in Mobile Testing of native apps in Android and iOS

•Automated the business cases in Appium tool

•Assisted with test design and test strategy

•Prepared test cases for the native apps

•Generated regression test cases and process to execute them on regular intervals

•Configured and maintained Google App Store for the native apps to deploy them Live

InsideView Inc (Mar2007-Nov2015)

Manager - Test Engineering

Project: InsideView

InsideView, the leading provider of on-demand Business Search & Intelligence solutions. Introducing the next generation of sales performance technology. InsideView Opportunity Intelligence transforms sales by taking random cold-calling and luck out of the equation. It automatically identifies key selling opportunities for you, and alerts you in real time. And it provides the inside information you need to close the deal details on the target company, key decision makers and connections you can leverage to engage and sell.

Responsibilities:

•Involved in agile technologies (Scrum) for both development and testing

•Prepared own scrum testing process for test engineering

•Prepared test strategy and test designs for all the products

•Involved in requirement gathering, design documents and test scripts

•Prepared use cases, test scripts and regression cases

•Prepared test case suite for automation

•Interacted with POs, SMs and Developers in all kinds requirements and design gathering

•Generated lots of metrics for analyzing stability of the product like Test Case Pass/Fail criteria, Defect trends, Impact analysis and risk mitigation plan

•Review backend logs gather all valid defects and log them to the developers for a scheduled fix

•Executed daily standup meetings and shared the progress of iterations

•Attended scrum-of-scrum meetings and tried to resolve dependencies accordingly

•Executed Go-NOGO meetings

•Arranged a Release Readiness team to ensure stability of the product before pushing it to the production servers

•Closely worked with DevOps team to ensure all release requests are available and executed properly

•Executed backend testing in analyzing XML documents adding data to the database

•Automation in Badboy and Selenium

•Involved in automation framework and scripting in Selenium

•Maintained Bug Reports and captured them in Rally/Jira tool

•Performed Regression Testing on every new build

•Involved in preparing test cases for all the features

•Involved in verifying database using MySQL

•Majorly involved in functional testing of all the features of the product

TechMahindra Singapore Pte Limited (Sept2006-Dec2006)

Technical Consultant

Project: Mansion.com

Mansion is an international Casino, Poker, Exchange and Sports book Entertainment Company. It is licensed and operating in Gibraltar. Mansion provides some of the best odds on all favorite sports. All the major sports are covered such as NFL, English Premier League, NBA, Baseball and many more. Entire system is categorized into various components like Casino, Poker, Exchange, Sports book and Mobile.

MANSION V2MS is an online gambling Application which is the re-engineering of an existing V1MS gambling system. Current V1MS architecture consists of a number of heterogeneous technologies, which includes C++, Java, Flash, PHP, MySQL, SQL Server and many others. Key component in current system is CAS (Central Accounting System). Purpose of reengineering is to increase the Performance, scalability and reliability. V2MS is being developed in J2EE Technology and Using Oracle as back end and Interwoven as CMS.

Responsibilities:

•Prepared and executed Test Cases for Exchange component

•Performed manual functional testing for all the features

•Maintained Bug Report and captured them in Bugzilla tool

•Performed Regression Testing on every new build

•Participated in client review meetings

Convergys Private Limited (Mar2006-Sept 2006)

Associate Testing, INTL

Project: Cisco Desktop Client

Cisco Desktop Client enables the users to take the e-learning courses staying offline. This project enables to navigate through courses, answer the assessments and get the feedback from the tutor services without internet connection. The process involves three major actions i.e. downloading the user profile and courses, navigate through the course completely and synchronization of tracking data.

Project: Cisco Reporting Tool

Cisco Reporting Tool gets current data for all the columns based on the cumulative data for reports, which are already delivered. It consolidates the data and builds the data in the required format.

Responsibilities:

•Performed functional testing every line of business inside CDC.

•Performed logical testing on several combinations of risk analysis.

•Prepared Functional Test Plans on CDC.

•Performed Regression Testing at every new build.

•Prepared and executed functional test cases.

•Performed user acceptance test on the application.

•Developed test cases and scenarios for the functional testing of the application.

•Maintained bug reports and entered bugs in bug tracking tool which is mapped to the network.

•Captured several bugs found during installation and reinstallation of new versions.

•Documented and reported every bug found during testing to the Senior Manager.

•Worked closely with the development team and Senior Manager.

•Participated in client review meetings.

•Environment: Windows 2000, Oracle 8i, MS Excel, Manual Testing.

DigitalThink Private Limited (May2003-Mar2005)

Quality Engineer

Project: Content Management System

CMS is a workspace which enables you to work efficiently with the Convergys training development team. CMS enables better management and facilitation of projects by providing document management and version control, global access to a centralized repository and collaboration tools for entire team.

Project: L5 Scorm Producer

L5 SCORM Producer is a Macromedia DreamWeaver extension used to convert the courses (non scorm based) to SCORM compliant courses. SCORM stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model and is an e-learning standard. The tool consists various features like creating, editing, importing, packaging and deleting courses.

Project: L5 Desktop Client and Desktop Services

L5 Desktop Client enables the users to take the e-learning courses staying offline. This project enables to navigate through courses, answer the assessments and get the feedback from the tutor services without internet connection. The process involves three major actions i.e. downloading the user profile and courses, navigate through the course completely and synchronization of tracking data.

Project: L5 Desktop Client and Desktop Services

L5 AST (Administrative Support Tool) is an application to handle all the account level settings, which are part of For-Profit functionality and Non For-Profit functionality.

L5-Admin provides Administrative Functionality. Administrators manage L5 courses, L5 users (enrollments) and Domains. This application also Manage Learning paths. The new L5A provides administration of new “For-profit” functionalities like course bundles, purchase order etc along with existing functionalities.

L5 Learning Center (L5LC) is an application that implements the current Learning Center functionality, which launches the various courses. The users of L5LC are Students who are interested in viewing and launching the courses they are enrolled in. These Students can belong to “For-Profit” accounts that have purchased their Course enrollments through a Store Front Domain, or they can belong to non-For-Profit accounts.

Project: Solution Custom Courseware

DigitalThink develops custom courses to fit your company's unique business needs

from highly structured content to discovery-based exploration, from information presentation to

immersive 3D simulation training - all within an online learning environment. Performed testing for the

solutions Nokia, GlaxoSmithKline, Mazda, Deutsche Bank, Saturn Learning Solutions,

EDS.

Responsibilities:

•Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.

•Prepared test plans based on business requirements.

•Participated in requirement review, functional and technical review meetings.

•Created Test Procedure and test data.

•Wrote test cases for GUI and Functional testing.

•Performed manual GUI testing.

•Performed manual testing for complex operations

•Communicated defects encountered during regression test and followed-up with developers until all issues were resolved.

•Necessary modifications and enhancements were done on Test Cases after regression testing.

•Updated test plans and test cases at every new build.

•Maintained project deadlines and scope.

•Responsible for Integration testing to do the end- to- end testing of the application.

Environment: Manual Testing, J2EE, Oracle 8i, Adobe Macromedia

Sagarsoft Limited (Apr2001-May2003)

Software Tester

Project: Corporate Intranet

Dept head forwards the request for sending an employee on official tour. On approval from sanctioning authority, a message is generated to Manager- Finance indicating the same. The employee raises advance request and this request moves along the hierarchy till it reaches the approving authority. On approval the same is moved to Manager-finance who issues the advance for the tour.

On return from tour, employee fills the traveling expenses statement sheet and forwards the same to approving authority. On approval, the same is indicated to Manager-finance. If the amount is due to the company, employee will return the same. If the amount is due to the employee payment is done to the employee.

Project: Leave Processing System

This is about employee’s leave management in a company. The employee applies for a leave the request is forwarded to the leave sanctioning authority for that particular person. The employee gets back the status of his application through the internal mailing system.

Project: Integrated Dairy Information System

The financial operations of the APDDCFL are performed according to the double-entry system of bookkeeping. It involves rising of vouchers when a transaction occurs and posting the ledgers. Cash receipt voucher is raised when the federation for sale of milk and milk products receives the money. Cash payment voucher is raised when the federation pays the cash to anybody for the services rendered by them. Based on this, cash ledger and account ledger is updated.

Project: Employee Performance Monitoring

Employee Performance Monitoring is software, which has been developed for Sign-In Technologies, Hyderabad. It implements a Performance Evaluation System, which gives a clear picture of an employee’s Performance and enables the employee to understand the objectives to be achieved in future.

The performance evaluation is done on a quarterly basis. Each employee performance is directly mapped into points (scale 1 to 10) scored in three Key Performance Areas (KPAs). Extra points can be scored depending on any additional tasks handled by an employee. Assigned tasks not done or frequent absence leads to loss of points in respective KPAs. A consolidated system incorporating the above features was developed.

Responsibilities:

•Analyzed system requirements and developed a plan to test Functional, GUI, security and Performance requirements

•Attended weekly meetings with team and reviewed existing documentations to understand the application development done by third party vendor.

•Created Test Plan and Test Cases for the business requirements.

•Performed extensive Functional and System Testing.

•Worked with business analysts and developers to analyze data, detect bugs, verify fixes, review and validate project development stages and made recommendations.

•Reported the bugs through defect tracking tool.

•Performed Regression testing after fixing the bugs.

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