Project Test Cases

Raja Kothapalli Phone: 972-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Profile

Over 16 years of experience in IT Product Development and ERP implementations with primary focus on Quality Assurance.

Solid understanding and implementation of testing strategies and practices in all phases of development and implementation life cycles following Agile and Waterfall models

Certified PMP with experience in managing multiple projects to achieve strategic business goals and operational objectives.

Excellent project planning and reporting to ensure on-schedule and on-budget delivery.

Ability to communicate, delegate and manage work activities to meet deadlines across cross-functional teams – Business, IT, QA, Infrastructure, Support and external vendors.

Identify and manage project dependencies, critical path, conflicts, risks and issues by using established project management processes of risk mitigation & contingency planning to address execution challenges associated with quality, schedule and cost.

Experienced in change management - Ability to build consensus among stakeholders by communicating, gain support and acceptance for changes that are being implemented.

Experienced resource manager - Build and manage teams of up to 25 highly motivated and technically competent resources across onshore and offshore. Budgeting, hiring, training, mentoring and career development of personnel.

Experience working with vendors, negotiate their contracts, release scope and scheduling.

Extensive experience in building and managing teams to validate functional, automation, performance, integration, usability and security requirements.

Experience in testing of digital platform, finance, retail, procurement, airlines / transportation, commercial asset and software compliance management, catalog management, configuration management and software development products, delivering new feature and maintenance releases to product customer base

Experience with test automation tools, design and implement automated test frameworks

Strong technical background, programming and database concepts and quick learner.

Good understanding of systems architecture, network topology and infrastructure.

Self-motivated performer with excellent communication skills in global organization.

Consensus-builder with a dedication to collaborative teamwork environment.

Strong analytical ability, attention to detail, and organization skills with ability to manage multiple projects concurrently under tight deadlines.

Education / Certification

PMP - Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by Project Management Inst.

M.S in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts

B.E in Computer Science, Osmania University

Technical

Project Management: MS Project, Clarity, Rally

Testing Tools: HP ALM / QC, UFT, HP QTP, Jira, JMeter, Junit, TestNG, Selenium, Mocha, Chai, TFS, MTM, BPT, Worksoft, SAP TAO, LoadRunner, Rational Robot, Rational ClearQuest, Rational SQA Manager, Silk Performer, SOAPUI, Bugzilla

ERP: Salesforce, SAP (CRM, SRM, SolMan, MDM, FI, PI, SD, HCM), Oracle (EBS, RMS)

Operating Systems: Windows, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Suse Linux.

Languages: C, Java, VB, PL/SQL, ASP, Perl, VB, XML, XSL, CGI, HMTL, CSS

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Ingres, MS Access, MySQL

Other: Azure, Informatica, MS CRM, VMware, Clearcase, Mainframe, Apache, BI

Experience

JCPenney – 2016 to Present

TCoE - Testing Portfolio Lead – Digital Platform, Finance, Supply Chain, Retail

Working in TCoE as Testing Portfolio Lead and Project Manager for testing of multiple ERP implementation projects.

Contribute to TCoE efforts in building standards, procedures, test accelerators, automation tool framework, project templates, resource pool training, test case and test data management.

Conduct daily review of prior day results by project (productivity, roadblocks, metrics, defects) with onshore and offshore teams

Create and present weekly status to project leadership and at various tollgate meetings.

Provide daily status to all stakeholders with various reports and metrics that include planned vs actual, showstoppers, execution and defect trend, velocity and burndown chart.

Establish schedules, delivery requirements and oversee testing deliveries.

Consolidate FTE and cost estimates for various projects for the fiscal year and each month

Track project costs and provide variance explanations for monthly reviews.

Lead project testing schedules, Identifying testing dependencies, critical path, conflicts, risks and issues & created strategies for risk mitigation & contingency planning.

Present to senior leadership on risk assessments leading to Go/No-Go decisions.

Work with multiple business teams across Finance, Pricing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Merchandising to get consensus on test requirements and project sign off.

Work with multiple 3rd party implementation vendors to ensure compliance on project schedule, cost and quality.

Responsibilities also include budgeting, hiring, training and mentoring of team members.

Conduct periodic backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions to ensure high productivity.

Work with teams in creating a test strategy, test requirements, test plans, test data, environments, and test results and get sign off from all stakeholders.

Facilitate escalations that impede progress of testing if unable to resolve.

Work with managers/leads on assignments for incoming work and schedule adjustments.

Work with Test Leads and Automation Architect to implement automated testing at every level of testing as part of the shift left strategy

Advance, maintain and support test practices, while driving critical planning and execution.

Validate & create documentation to support domain knowledge learning.

Conduct periodic audits to ensure compliance of QA standards and processes.

Lead root cause analysis (RCA) meetings and work with partner teams on implementing recommended actions

Setup and Manage UAT war rooms for high priority and complicated change requests that have distributed teams across the globe and need extensive testing on various scenarios.

Analyze processes across projects and make recommendations to improve and comply with standards.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise – 2007 to 2016

Business Consultant – QA Lead, Integration and UAT

Worked in Enterprise service delivery for multiple projects primarily providing project management and leadership in QA / Testing services for Product Development and ERP implementation projects.

Experience working in multiple projects that follow the Agile and waterfall models.

Lead multiple teams simultaneously to manage complex projects to plan, design, build, test and close.

Created High level scope, deliverables, work plan, time line, and resource requirements.

Planned project level milestones based on key dependencies across multiple teams

Manage different testing activities that include requirements gathering, test Case documentation, execution and maintenance of test cases.

Identified and improved procedures to document, execute and automate test cases.

Interacting with business analysts, technical leads, and functional experts to understand the functionality, critical areas and risks.

Demonstrated expertise in identifying project risks and Issues & created strategies for risk mitigation & contingency planning.

Organized Test case review meetings with Development team and Business analysts to ensure good test case coverage.

Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure complete test case coverage.

ALM Administration and setup to manage requirements, test cases, iterations and defects.

Used Jira for effective management of Agile projects, reporting and issue tracking

Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Plan and execute test cycles for new deployments, implementations and change requests.

Daily review of Defects and classify them based on priority and critical nature of the affected functionality.

Work with multiple IT work streams to ensure defect resolution in a timely fashion so there is minimal impact to overall project timeline.

Manage testing activities for new development, implementations and change requests across 25 member onshore and offshore teams in N. America, S. America and Asia.

Prioritized and coordinated testing activities between team members and analyzed findings based on high-risk areas.

Manage the ongoing maintenance of test cases and automation suite.

Utilized Selenium WebDriver to automate browser based test scenarios.

Developed Automation of End to End Business Scenarios using Quick Test Professional.

Created and Executed Web Services testing using SOAPUI.

Provided training on various testing tools and methodologies for different user groups.

Setup and Manage war rooms for Testing of high priority functionality that have distributed teams across the globe and extensive test scenarios.

Daily test status reports to all the stakeholders which includes overall project status, test cases execution status for each project/task, Items that are at risk of completing on time and Issues preventing successful completion.

Executed post go-live testing of enhancements, change requests and production defects.

Assist with schedule & budget creation for early and baseline plans.

Resource manager for a team of QA analysts: budgeting, hiring, training, mentoring and career development of personnel

Managed relationships with clients, account teams, and delivery teams to successfully plan and execute projects.

CA, Inc – 2001 to 2007

QA Manager

Manage testing activities of complex technical projects by coordinating the activities between 15 member team of onshore and offshore resources.

Manage testing projects; provided project initiation, resource allocation, project planning, project execution and project monitoring using Microsoft Project.

Worked with the Business Users, Functional and technical development teams to understand the various business processes.

Interact with developers to determine and resolve development and testing issues.

Develop Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Cases to test the functionality of different modules based on business process Requirements.

Developed testing scenarios to test the Modules and Web Portal applications etc.

Ensured that the test cases coverage included the implementation and its integrations with other legacy systems and/or mainframes.

Developed a requirements traceability matrix to ensure good test case coverage.

Conducted test case review meetings with business users to get sign off on test coverage.

Use Quality Center to manage requirements, test cases, defects and automated scripts

Used Jira for Agile based project planning and reporting.

Provide analysis of findings through a risk-based focus, and documented the findings in collaboration with PMO leadership and IT functional/technical area leads.

Worked with team in making sure functionalities, customizations and security are tested.

Performed functional, performance, system integration and regression testing.

Performed integration test among modules, sub-modules and the system as a whole.

Coordinated, prioritized and resolved dependencies through a QA cycle and timely launch.

Used QTP, Loadrunner and Silk Performer for functional, automated and load testing.

Automate tests to execute system, regression, SIT, load, E2E, Cross browser validations.

Test Data driven validation and controlled data checking (both positive/negative).

Develop automated scripts for Windows and Solaris platforms using Java, Unix and Perl.

Monitor Application server, DB Server, Web Server, LDAP, UNIX and Window Resources and identified the bottlenecks during performance test.

Wrote SQL statements in scripts to retrieve data from Oracle, SQL Server and Ingres databases to verify the accuracy of transaction data as well as back end testing.

Use VMware and Ghost to setup QA lab in order to support testing in multiple environments for the purpose of improving the efficiency and speed of testing.

Developed and maintained methodology, tools, templates, status reports and coordination.

Analyzed processes across all IT projects, making recommendations to establish and improve QA standards in compliance with corporate standards and industry best practices.

Identified QA improvement opportunities for documentation and procedures in relation to data migration, unit testing, functional and technical specifications.

Effectively interacted with all members of the Project Teams including Business Analysts, System Analysts, Project Managers, Development Leads and Business Users.

Active participant on UX board advocating changes for several products and projects,

Mentor and train team members in various QA processes, methodologies and Tools.

Participate in defect review meetings for future plan of actions.

Assisted technical support with resolution of customer support escalations.

Provided support post go live in ensuring the fixes are thoroughly tested and implemented.

Intern / Coop / Teaching Assistant – 1999 to 2001

Fidelity Investments

Nortel Networks

EMC Corporation

University of Massachusetts Lowell

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