Manager Testing

SANJAY SRINIVAS

****, ***** *****, ****** *****, TX 75028

H: 972-***-**** C: 817-***-**** ******.********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Testing/QA Manager with more than 16 years in leading high performing testing teams in Agile and Waterfall

methodologies(with Six Sigma DMAIC Processes). Hands on and Management experience in all aspects of testing

from - Functional, End-to-End to Test Automation and Requirements Traceability. Coaching and mentoring testing

teams on best practices/standards and state of art tools/technology.

SKILLS

• • Languages - C/C++;Perl, SQL, XML and HTML

Waterfall (DMAIC) & Agile (XP, Scrum)

• Qik, Airline Profitability Model Testing

methodologies

• • Testing apps developed in Java, AJAX,

Requirement Traceability Matrix

• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Webservices and SOA

• • OS-Browser, Tablet, Mobile devices testing.

Quality Center (QC) / Test Director

• • Local Language Testing

Test Automation - QuickTestPro (QTP), FitNesse,

• E2E Testing Coordination

Cucumber, Selenium, LISA

• • Test Metrics facilitating Go/No Go decisions

Test cases and script creation

• • UNIX Shell Scripting, Vi

Testing Estimates, Risk Evaluation and Risk based

Testing • JIRA, Sharepoint, Wiki, Discovery

• Imparting training to QA/Testing Teams on testing

methodologies, processes and evaluate performance

using Kiviat foot prints.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Bank of America; Dallas, TX; Manager Testing /QA; May 2007 Current

• Leading Testing team for testing multiple applications (with high visibility) being developed in state of the art

technologies like Java, Responsive Design, Webservices, AJAX, and SOA

• Established test labs for OS-Browser, Tablet and Local Language Testing at offshore and onshore.

• Implemented Standards and Processes for Waterfall (using DMAIC) and Agile Methodologies that resulted in

40% more stable code being delivered to Testing.

• Mentored testing teams to refactor test scripts using techniques like Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value

Analysis, to get more code coverage with less scripts, which resulted in stable code to customer and reduced

production defects by 30%

• Managing Testing budgets, recruiting and performance review of onshore and offshore employees and contractors.

• Partnered with product and development team to pull customized test metrics that helped assess risk and make

Go / No Go decisions.

• Coordinated End to End (E2E) Testing for Complex financial applications, with geographically scattered teams.

• Researched for Open source testing tools and led early adoption of FitNesse, Cucumber and Eggplant by testing

teams.

• Coached and mentored 25 new staff members, including conducting performance reviews.

• Leading bi-weekly Scrum planning meetings and end of iteration demo/showcase.

Sabre Holdings; Southlake, TX; Agile Coach & Test Lead; May 1998 – April 2007

• Agile Coach for a newly formed business unit. To mentor Testing / QA team on best practices in Waterfall

and Agile methodologies,

• Assessment of Testing Processes and Testers skill set in each of the Vertical Teams (Kiviat charts) providing

Improvement plan.

• Evaluated Test Automation Tools (Open Source and Commercial).

• Conducted classes on "Software Testing" for new hires and other project partners to help build an awareness

of testing organization.

• Automation of UI functional regression tests using Mercury Winrunner. Design Test Automation framework

based on requirements. Re-usable test code libraries.

• Lead the test automation effort with off-shore team in India. Overcoming the hurdles of off-shore test

management, especially in the Agile method of software development.

• Install and configure new builds for testing. Validate the new build with automated Tests. Contribute with

process and tools to automate release and build validation activity.

• Provide metrics for every iteration and also for maintain a Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE) for testing team

during each quarterly release.

• Created a standardized bug template and requirements template that was adopted by all projects following XP

methodology. This helped streamline the requirement submission especially from customers and Business

Analysts that were located remotely and led to better iteration management.

Landis & Gyr; Zug, Switzerland; Software Engineer; May 1996 – February 1998

• Real time Energy Management Systems (EMS) and SCADA Software

• Developed the front end GUI for the Telegyr 8000 software on X-Windows/Motif.

• Created a Catalog of files in UNIX and development of routines to access them by their message

identification. Parsing the strings and returning only the relevant part.

• Implementing Test plans and test scripts to be executed before delivery. Facilitate User Acceptance Testing

(UAT) and onsite installation / training

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING – Electrical Engineering

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RV College of Engineering

Bangalore, Karnataka 1993

DIPLOMA –UNIX & C

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Brilliant’s Computer Center

Bangalore, Karnataka – 1993

CERTIFICATIONS

CERTIFIED SOFTWARE TESTER – CSTE

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QAI, 2006

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills. Speaker in various testing conferences such as QAI, TesTrek

and STARWEST.

• Testing experience in wide range of Domains ranging from Real-time systems to Airline /Travel and Banking

/Finance.

• Work experience in USA, Europe and India.

• Fairly fluent in German language.

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