PARTHIBAN VINAYAGAM

Email: ac25t7@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 302-***-****

Objective: Seeking a leadership position which will leverage my technical and professional expertise in IT industry, with clear vision to accomplish business set goals by identifying effective IT solutions.

Professional Summary

A self-managed and self-oriented project lead with extensive and combined work experience of 9.4 years in Quality assurance and technical consultant from leading Software Outsourcing Company (Cognizant Technology Solutions) and (Hindustan computers limited HCL).

Served in cognizant as a QA Functional lead with around 7.3 years of professional experience.

Served as Technical consultant for around 2.1 years in HCL Technologies limited.

Possess Extensive Test Leadership and Test Planning skills.

Sturdy knack in Software Testing involving from test estimation, test planning, test cases review, status tracking and defect tracking / triaging.

Comprehensive perception of SDLC / STLC Testing concepts and Methodologies with the ability to map business requirements, capability to define new processes and provide bespoke solution to it.

Working Experience on Waterfall and Agile Environment.

Expertise in Manual – Functional, Regression& AODAs Testing.

Hands on experience testing various Web as well as Client Server applications.

Possess working experience with EDI systems and other Legacy applications that supports SCM, TMS and WMS.

Good communication skills, experience in managing test projects.

A result driven professional dedicated to understanding and meeting client needs.

Shown flexibility to work in a fast paced, challenging environment and the ability to prioritize tasks to meet strict project deadline.

Ongoing experience in Test Documentation – Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Matrices and other Test Delivery documents.

Experience with QA Methodology and QA (Functional, Regression, AODA, User Acceptance Testing, and Interface file validation) Strategies.

Strong interpersonal skills, highly adapt at diplomatically facilitating discussions and negotiations with stakeholders.

Recognized project operations and management skills, consistently deliver complex, large-scale projects on time, Quick Learner on new business and technology.

Employment History (9.4 years)

Name of the Company

From

To

Duration

(Years)

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd

Nov 2008

Feb 2016

7.3

Hindustan Computers Limited

Sep 2006

Oct 2008

2.1

Skills

Tools

HP Quality Center 12.0, ALM, JIRA

Other Utilities

Putty, Mainframe, CICS-RP, PRODUCT MANAGER, FileZilla, WebPDM, ORMS, COM, Promotion Manager, JDA INTACTIX, JDA Transport, Citrix, Siebel, eCo, Resolve, Whoosh, CRM, CSM, JAWS

Languages

HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, SQL, Java, VB Scripting, C, C++

Database

MS-Access, SQL, Oracle

Business Modelling Tools

Tableau Desktop, Star UML, Microsoft Visio, Power Designer, Smart Draw, Snipping, Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, Confluence

Technology

Web based Testing, Interface Testing, Accessibility (AODA) and Client Server Testing

Operating System

Windows-7/XP/2000/98

Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions

Project details:

#1 John Lewis Apr 2015 – Feb 2016.

Role: Innovation Evangelist

Responsibilities

Conduct ideation sessions every month

Identify opportunities for solution accelerators (in-house, industry, other verticals)

Set portfolio wise targets for innovation index & objectively measure the progress

Leverage “thought exchange” platform for seeding or adopting new ideas/tools etc.

Setting up E-Learning for the entire account and driving the respective teams to achieve the goal

Tracking the clarity submission and fixing clarity related issues with client.

Created and maintained the resource forecast portal in SharePoint.

Created revenue forecast vs actual automated excel implementing excel macros.

Identified opportunities for automating metrics collection/computation/reporting working closely with Technical consultant

Conducted project meetings with team members to explain roles/ responsibilities, relationships with other groups, deliverables, timelines, assignments and status reporting

#2 Marketing& Brands - Loblaw Companies Ltd, Nov 2014 – Feb 2015

Role: Test lead

Responsibilities

Acts as QA Test Lead and primary point of contact for deliverable for Onsite Communication

Is accountable for overall SIT testing delivery.

Responsible for project scoping sessions, planning and Test Estimations for projects using poker estimation.

Attend the requirement walkthrough sessions and serve as a primary point of contact for QA team.

Responsible for the delivery of Execution, reports, Metrics and closure reports

Responsible for setting up the tools and infrastructure for the testing services.

To discuss with Business representative and understand the business application functionalities and works with Business Analysts to design test scenarios, clarifications

Coordinates testing activities and also implements Quality Management process in the project.

Provide design approach and guidance for functional, End to End testing of the project.

Conducted Accessibility testing (AODA) for desktop and mobile sites.

Represents QA team in all meeting with Clients partners.

Responsible for task allocation, review and publish status reports (DSR/WSR) and metrics for senior management and client partners to track the progress of testing.

#3 LegacyRegression- Loblaw Companies Ltd, Nov 2013 – Oct 2014

Role: Test lead

Responsibilities

Reviewing test plan and having signed-off by the relevant stakeholders.

Putting together queries related to the requirements and get them clarified by the business person.

Identifying the required test automation and test management tools to carry out testing.

Creating the test schedule (tasks, dependencies and assigned team members)

Determine, procure, control, maintain and optimize the test environment (hardware, software and network)

Get information on the latest releases/ builds from the development team/ the client.

Administer the project in the test management system

Tracking the status of each assigned task daily and resolve any issues faced by the team members with their tasks

Review defect reports and assign valid defects to the relevant developer/ development manager.

Plan, organize and lead team meetings and ensure action is taken based on the team discussions

#4 PIP - The Home Depot Inc., Aug 2013 – Oct 2013

Role: Team Lead

Responsibilities

Ensuring testing & related work is carried out as per the defined standards and procedures

Involves in analyzing and understanding the Project requirement documents

Involves Test Scenario, Test Design, Test Execution and Defect management.

Tracks Planned effort in Internal tools

Involves in preparing daily status reports and sending it to the respective onsite Leads

Ensuring the resolved defects are re-tested and tracked in defect tracker.

Consolidate and report test results & defect tracker to the concerned stakeholders

#5 Blockbuster Inc, Sep 2012 – Jul 2013

Role: Team member

Responsibilities

Involves in Test case preparation. Test Data preparation, and execution of test cases

Raising the defect in JIRA & following up with respective stakeholder for fix.

Retesting and closing the defects with appropriate status in defect tracker.

Providing test reports, evaluate the results and document problems identified during testing.

#6 Nintendo 3DS - Blockbuster Inc, Nov 2010 – Aug 2012

Role: Team member

Responsibilities

Involves Design, Test data preparation, Test execution and defect management

Played a key role in identifying critical business functionalities for testing.

Active Participation in walkthroughs of testing procedures & product requirements.

#7 Blockbuster Movie Pass, Nov 2008 – Oct 2010

Role: Team member

Responsibilities

Involved test design, test execution and defect reporting and tracking phases.

Involved in the Component, Integration testing of the Blockbuster Movie pass website.

Carrying out testing as per the defined procedures

Testing Jobs in UNIX environment for Batches.

Employer: Hindustan Computers Limited

Project details:

BT Group Plc Jun 2006 – Oct 2008

Role: Sr. Technical consultant

Responsibilities

Running QTP scripts through Quality Centre.

Data creation done for the different line of business.

Fixed the scripts when application was modified.

Modified the framework for the application changes.

Status reporting and communication

Working on the Metrics and handling the audits.

Educational Summary

Title of Degree

University

Graduation

MBA with IT Concentration

Goldey-Beacom College

2017

Bachelor of Biotechnology

Gurunanak College of arts and science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu affiliated to University of Madras

2006

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