Manager Project
Resume:
SENTHILKUMAR. S
*******************@*****.*** +919*********
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
oS/W testing professional with 14 years of experience in Functional testing (Manual and Automation), Non functional testing (performance testing) and delivery of projects in various domains (BNFS, Telecom and Retail) under Managed Services and T&M Models
oProven experience in SDLC and QA methodologies
oOn process front, have end to end working experience of STLC employing Waterfall, V Process and Agile methodology (Scrum).
o5.8 years worked as AMEX Project’s End to End Test manager/QA Manager
o10 + years experience in functional testing (black box), regression, performance testing, white box testing and automation tools such as Selenium, QTP10 and Silk test
oWorking experience as Scrum Master in Cards and Payments domain.
oProven experience in facilitatation, coordination between technical teams and project stakeholders
oHave extensive experiences in End to End Test Management and Project Management skills with rich testing experience in applications developed under Mainframe/TPF and GUI based platforms.
oExperienced in handling multiple projects and multiple stakeholders simultaneously
oWell versed in handling stakeholders from different geographical locations
oStrong in testing effort estimation and WBS
oExpertise in Test strategy, Test plan and extensive experience in managing Test environments.
oStrong in managing risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
oIdentify priorities, conflicts, dependencies and conducting Release Readiness reviews
oMilestone Reviews, Business Go/No-Go reviews, communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required.
oImplemented process based improvements in projects by identifying process gaps and performing internal audits.
oAssisting Senior Management team in ensuring the availability of required process documents for Internal/External Audits.
oMetrics and data collections for internal and external audits
oDemonstrated Leadership, Mentoring, Training, Problem solving and Negotiation skills for delivery and management of business critical projects.
oExperience in performance appraisal and improvement plan
oGood domain exposure in eCommerce, Ad platforms, capital markets and Insurance.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
BE (CSE) from Jayamatha engineering College, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli on Apr2003
WORK EXPERIENCE
Company Name: SYNTEL International Pvt. Ltd – JULY 2011 to May 2017
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Project Name
Client Name
Duration
Team Size
Designation
Technologies
/Skills Used
AXPMC RIB_ITT CAS ITT - SIT
American Express
May2016 to Feb2017
32
Program test manager
Test management/Clarity/ALM/Rally
Project description: CAS ITT is an independent testing team to provide SIT support to different vendors based on engagement types. It’s an separate entity with 70 resources supporting various types of testing.
Responsibilities:
oInvolved in engagement activities and ensuring that all impacted teams are engaged.
oAnalysis of requirements and proposing effort estimation
oEnsure all compliance deliverables from a testing perspective are appropriately documented and provided to child and overall project managers (for all test phases including UAT)
oMaking sure that all testing plans and test strategy comply with company guidelines, standards and regulations
oParticipation in Scrum/Sprint meetings and conducting Risk analysis meeting to identify projects risk and mitigation plans.
oAnalyze and assign the test regions for projects.
oCapture and status report on the outcome of test activities
oDocument and track issues till closure.
oPrepare and maintain documents to meet the quality standards set forth by Quality Assurance team.
oReview Daily status report, weekly status reports and Dashboards, publish the same to leadership.
oManaged tests and identified all associated risks in test processes.
oCoordinated with individual development teams and implemented System Integration Tests on processes
oMaintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
oMaintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists
oIdentifies opportunities to make tactical improvements to the release
Project Name
Client Name
Duration
Team Size
Designation
Technologies
/Skills Used
AXPMC RIB_ITT CAS UAT
American Express
Dec2016 to May2017
13
Test program manager
Test management/Clarity/ALM/Rally
Project Description: CAS UAT team supporting the User acceptance testing along with business users for the SIT projects done by AXPMC RIB_ITT CAS ITT
Responsibilities:
oEnsure all compliance deliverables from a testing perspective are appropriately documented and provided to child and overall project managers (for all test phases including UAT)
oMaking sure that all testing plans and test strategy comply with company guidelines, standards and regulations
oParticipation in Scrum/Sprint meetings
oAnalyze and assign the test regions for projects.
oCapture and status report on the outcome of test activities
oDocument and track issues till closure.
oPrepare and maintain documents to meet the quality standards set forth by Quality Assurance team.
oContinually work towards making improvements in the release process
oMaintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
Project Name
Client Name
Duration
Team Size
Designation
Technologies
/Skills Used
Global Limits and One Exposure (GL & OE)
American Express
Feb2013 to Nov2016
7
Test manager
Test management/Clarity/QC
Project Description: GL - Global Limits uses an exposure, which combines Card member system information and CAS authorization charges. Global Limits calculates the amount the Card member has left to spend from the assigned limit.
OE - One Exposure (1E) is the POA CAS application (a sub-component of Authorize-a-Charge) that compiles, stores, and calculates the most up-to-date exposure for an account
Responsibilities:
oAct as the overall testing liaison as the first point of testing communication for the project and interfacing application
oEffort estimation and planning
oDeveloping and maintaining End-to-End Test strategy, End-to-End Test plan
oCoordinating test strategy and test plan with impacted test teams
oConducting Risk management meeting and deriving plan to mitigate
oConduct gap analysis of testing process and implement improvements
oEnsure all compliance deliverables from a testing perspective are appropriately documented and provided to child and overall project managers (for all test phases including UAT)
oCapturing test metrics for management.
oArranging status calls to monitor testing prgress.
oMaintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
oFacing the Quality Audit team to meet the standards.
Project Name
Client Name
Duration
Team Size
Designation
Technologies
/Skills Used
CAS Online - Credit Authorization System (Risk Management) Online
American Express
Dec2011 to Feb2013
7
Test manager
Test management/Clarity/QC
Project Description: CAS RISKY deals with risk score, CDSS core value and all risky variables. Core CAS risk logic uses variables with model parameters to manage authorization risk in real-time, using multiple risk strategies
Responsibilities:
oAct as the overall testing liaison as the first point of testing communication for the project and interfacing application
oEffort estimation and planning
oDeveloping and maintaining End-to-End Test strategy, End-to-End Test plan
oCoordinating test strategy and test plan with impacted test teams
oConducting Risk management meeting and deriving plan to mitigate
oConduct gap analysis of testing process and implement improvements
oEnsure all compliance deliverables from a testing perspective are appropriately documented and provided to child and overall project managers (for all test phases including UAT)
oCapturing test metrics for management.
oArranging status calls to monitor testing prgress.
oMaintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
oFacing the Quality Audit team to meet the standards.
Project Name
Client Name
Duration
Team Size
Designation
Technologies
/Skills Used
WMS – Warehouse Management System
The Home Depot
Sep2011 to Dec2011
5
Automation Test Lead
QTP 10/QC 10.5
Responsibilities:
oIdentify & understand the manual test cases for automation.
oIdentify and setting up the environment for developing and executing the scripts.
oAssign and assisting the team to automate the test cases
oPublishing the daily status report for automation
oDaily status call with onshore counterpart to explain the status
oCoordinating with other interface team w.r.to interface test cases
oInvolved in QA process and assisting them for internal & external audit teams
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems
Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7 & UNIX
Skill sets
End to End Test Management, Manual and Automation
Nature of Work
Scrum Master, Project Management,
End To End Test management, Release management
Database
Oracle 8, 9i, 10g, SQL Server 2000/2005
CM Tools
Eclipse3.2, 3.4 & Win CVS
Business Tools
Clarity, Rally, QC, ALM
Development methodologies
V model, Waterfall and Agile
Automation Tools
WinRunner7.0, QTP10, SilkTest10, LoadRunner, Atlassian JIRA 3.2.2, Bugzilla, Selenium
Domain
BNFS Cards and Payments, Telecom, Retail
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
From
To
Duration
Company Name
Designation
Role
July 2011
May 2017
5.11 years
SYNTEL Internaional Pvt. Ltd
Test Lead
Test manager
June 2006
July 2011
5 years
Verizon data services
S/W Analyst
Team handling
November 2005
May 2006
6 months
Office Tiger database systems
Quality Engineer
Team member
June 2003
November 2005
2.5 years
Igenik info-way technologies
Testing Engineer
Team member
VISA DETAILS
Visa Type
Visa No
Visa Issued Date
Visa Expiry Date
B1
97891900
06/FEB/2009
05/FEB/2019
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Gender
MALE
Date of Birth
27/05/1979
Nationality
INDIAN
Passport No
P7629829, valid up to 2027
Mailing Address
3, Arunagiri St, BrindavanGardens, Mugalivakkam, Porur, Chennai - 600125
Personal e-mail ID
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