Testing Quality
Resume:
Nagaraja Kumar.
Sanga
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Experience Summary
A forward thinking, capable and committed test manager with a proven
ability to meet agreed deadlines, co-ordinate work and work to defined
testing methodologies within a structured environment. Focused on any task
at hand and able to utilize existing test knowledge and experiences to come
up with practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes. Having
first class executive leadership, negotiating and communicating skills and
capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and
third party test teams.
Areas of Expertise:
. Agile methods
. UAT Testing
. Defect Tracking
. Test Methodologies
. System Testing
. Integration Testing
Professional Abilities
. Experience in areas of Payrolls, Device testing, Mobile, DB, Migration
and Web applications
. Experience across multiple types of testing i.e. user acceptance,
system integration.
. Experience of working on Business, Technical and Functional
Requirements.
. Experience of Automation tools like QTP & Load Runner and other
project management tools like MS Office tools including PowerPoint and
Visio.
. Able to take preventative action when any risks become unacceptable.
. Understanding of different test approaches and techniques.
. Actively maintain awareness and understanding of current developments
and best practice in testing.
. Knowledge of execution, scripting and planning.
. Making sure that all testing plans comply with company guidelines,
standards and regulations.
Managerial Abilities
. Managing test teams.
. Strong influencing and Communication skills.
. Having a flexible attitude and positive approach.
. Ability to lead offshore testing teams.
. Experience of client facing roles.
. Constantly maintaining high levels of accuracy.
. Ability to quickly learn applications with minimal documentation
. An understanding & appreciation of the full development life cycle &
how testing relates to it.
. Can translate business processes into clear and comprehensive test
scenarios.
. Training new test team members.
Scrum Master Role - Contribution:
. Be a facilitator for both the Product Owner and the scrum team.
. Facilitate daily standup.
. Ensure the impediments are removed within the team to achieve sprint
goals.
. Ensure scrum rituals are followed within the sprint cycle like
Planning, Grooming, Sizing, Retro and Actions items are tracked.
. Report Burn down charts to showcase the progress.
. Defining DoD and adhering to the standards.
Skill Set
Testing Tools HP UFT 11.53 / HP Load Runner 9.5
Bug Tracking Tools Quality Center, Rally
Scripting / Languages VB Script / Java Script / Shell
Other Tools SOAPUI, FileZilla, AraxisMerge, Putty, WinSCP,
TOAD, Oracle Developer, PL/SQL Developer and Rally.
Reporting Tools Oracle Hypersion
Professional Experience:
ADP India Pvt. Limited, Hyderabad
From Sep 07 To Till Date
Responsible for the test management of projects throughout a projects life
cycle. Involved in creating structured processes to manage defects right
through to resolution.
. Developing and maintaining test methodology.
. Defining test strategies for projects.
. Coordinating the work of test teams and monitoring their performance.
. Following up any outstanding open test risks / issues.
. Managing the gathering of results.
. Compiling test metrics for management.
. Reporting to senior managers on progress and issues.
. Identify test approaches that optimize the delivery schedule.
. Planning and estimating.
. Arranging team meetings and workshops.
ValueLabs India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad - From Sep 04 To Aug 07
Other Achievements
. Conducted the Manual Testing Training across ADPI and BU partners.
. Was part of Testing "SIG-Skill Development" initiative at ADPI.
. Member of TechPaperForum at ADPI.
. Awarded with GIFT(Give it a Fresh Thought) award for 2010. The
iniatitive has been started in 2010 at R&D.
Education
. MCA - from Osmania University, Hyderabad during 2000-2003
. MBA (Finance) - from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai during
2009-2010
Certifications
. Certified Scrum Master By Scrum Alliance
. Fundamental Payroll Certification By American Payroll Association
. CSTP - Level 1 By IIST
. HP QTP 9.5
. HP - Quality Center 9.5
. Undergone PMP Training
White Papers Published
. Integration testing with Third party software in Agile Methodology -
for QAI STC 2013
. Integration testing with Legacy system - for QAI STC 2010
. Distributed Testing Using Agile process - for QAI STC 2009
Awards and Recognitions
. Received the Best Testing Team (Winner Up) Award for the 2007, 2008
and 2009(Hat trick) at ADP for the contribution to Testing activities
and successful in presenting Whitepapers.
. Received the Best Process Team (Winner Up) Award for the 2009 and
Runner Up for the 2007 at ADP for the contribution to QMS process and
successful CMMI L5 assessments.
. Awareded "Hall of Fame" award for my contributions towards Year End
process. I was main POC from Hyderabad for all YE testing activities
for 3 years. All the W2's and W3 printing were done successfully
without impacting the business. There were very few re-runs for YE
process which saved most of the time of business of user.
(approximately: 5 days of efforts)
. Awarded "Associate of the Quarter" for my contributions towards
Financial System applications. Quick enough to learn the
functionality and business behind the application.
. Received "Associate of the Quarter" for my contributions towards PRS
automation and SQL script development as part of Financial System.
PRS automation script reduced around 80% of manual efforts.
. Received en-number of appreciations and awards from Testing SIG for my
contributions towards organization wide trainings on CSTE & Manual
Testing concepts.
. Played a key role in getting one of the product developments (FS-BRIO
Reporting) to offshore, which team is working.
. Received appreciations and awards for my contributions towards Quality
process and improvements in our tem. Participated and contributed
towards Quality initiatives organization wide and developed new
process for tracking the quality within the team. Worked as SQL
representative for our company.
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