NANDISH T R Email: acxmh8@r.postjobfree.com

No-**, “Sannidhi”, I Main Road, III Cross Phone: +919********* Kumaraswamy Layout II Stage Bangalore-78

PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Overall 12 years experience in Software Quality Assurance

• 2 years as QA Manager in Cisco Systems, from Feb 2014. Seasoned QA manager with global experience in managing large multi site and local team. Currently transitioning in to Engineering Manager Role from past 3 months.

• 7+ years as a QA Engineer/Lead in Cisco Systems, from Feb 2007 to 2014

• 3 years as a QA Engineer in Tecknodreams Software Consulting Private Limited, Bangalore from May 2003 – August 2005 and March 2006 – Feb 2007

• 6 months’ as a Testing Consultant in PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES, Bangalore from September 2005 – February 2006 as a vendor from Tecknodreams.

• Expertise in NMS and IMS domains

• Proven analytical thinker with a strong foundation in program management, process improvement, RISK management and Quality improvement

• Strong subject matter expertise and experience in implementing AGILE principles and techniques.

• A strong Leader who enjoys providing strategic direction and technical mentoring, interfaces effectively with all levels of management and across all functional groups, ability to attract, motivate, and retain high caliber technical team

• Expertise in Vendor/Partner Management from contract negotiation.

• Mentoring skills with positive attitude and strong motivation skills.

• Accelerated Automation, achieved success with focus on Automation.

• Administered QA strategy and Quality Metrics for over all products.

• Domain and technology expertise to drive delivery and customer satisfaction Professional Experience

QA Engineering Manager [Cisco System from Feb 2014 to Present]

• Build strong QA team with around 20 engineers who are focused on the quality of the product with customer focus testing.

• Drive agile ceremonies, which includes backlog grooming, release planning, sprint planning, scrum meetings and retrospective meetings. Participate and drive SAFE agile across different scrum teams.

• Hire/Train and retain resource pools with required skillsets optimizing the budget spend to maximize the delivery capacity. Manage vendors for better budget optimization. Mentor team members to develop their technical skills, soft skills, and leadership skills

• Participate in User stories creation and review, Design review and test cases creation and review meeting to provide strategic and technical direction to teams both onshore and offshore.

• Drive security testing which includes vulnerability scanning, penetration testing and threat modeling

• Technical leadership to QA teams in analyzing technical requirements, defining test strategies, build release planning, test infrastructure, entry/exit criteria, and accountable for final certification and deployments to production environment

• Preparing the QA estimation, schedule and resource management.

• Drive adoption of Static analysis, Unit testing, release notes enclosures and Code coverage

• Helped define project charters, scope, priorities, efforts, schedules, resources, dependencies and risks for every new release. Effectively communicated to all stakeholders to secure timely approvals for budget, resources, and infrastructure

• Managed UAT and Beta test programs working closely with product management and support teams

• Worked closely with IT teams to procure new HW and software license for QA

• Generated status reports and metrics on periodic basis. Presented status, issues, risks, recommendations to all stakeholders and client teams

• Collaborate closely with product management, development team, QA team and support team to ensure the requirement are clear at all levels and the release happens hassel free.

• Driving automation for legacy code and the new features.

• Performing UAT for the automation build

• Created sustaining release process for Major, Minor and Patch releases

• Vendor management and consolidation

QA Lead [Cisco System from June 2010 to Feb 2014]

Software testing, project management for NMS based application. Roles and Responsibilities

• Involved in the project from Requirement Phase working with Product owner, SME and Development team.

• Participate in User stories review, Design review and test cases review meeting

• Provided strategic and technical direction to multiple QA teams both onshore and offshore

• Preparing the QA estimation, schedule and resource allocation.

• Creating Alpha Test Plan, reviewing alpha test cases and providing technical inputs.

• Guiding on Test bed setup

• Monitoring Bug reporting and verifications

• Weekly status reporting to higher management

• Providing the automation requirements to the team and driving automation across the team.

• Performing UAT for the automation build

• Generated status reports and metrics on periodic basis. Presented status, issues, risks, recommendations to all stakeholders and client teams

• Guide QA leads to define detailed test plans and test processes for all new releases, onboarding resources, and acquiring tools and test infrastructure

• Collaborate closely with development and release teams to ensure high quality builds via continuous integration (Jenkins) and test automation at white box, API and black box level

• Collaborating and influencing at multiple levels to lead continuous improvement initiatives working across broader group QA Engineer [Cisco System from Feb 2007 to June 2010] My Role: Alpha test case development and execution, UAT test cases planning and execution, bug management, performance testing and handled the responsibility of Release Manager.

QA Engineer/Lead [Tecknodreams Software Consulting from 2003 to Feb 2007]

Roles and Responsibilities: Wrote Test Plan using IEEE 829 Standards, Executed Test Cases, prepared Test Report, handled the responsibility of Release Manager, gathered information for improving the Quality of the product, Gave product demos to more than 20 Clients, maintained VSS and bugzilla, lead the team of 3 members and also handled the role of QA engineer.

Skills Set

Technical: Testing Skills on Network management applications, working knowledge on SNMP, SSH, Telnet, FTP, TCP/IP and other networking protocols, work experience on Linux and Windows Platform, QA Engineering and Management, Define, incorporate and drive QA metrics, Developing Test Strategy, Performance Testing, Security Testing, Agile Methodologies and SAFE Agilist

Manager: New Team Building, Performance and Skill Management, Strategic/Budget Planning, New Setup, Capability Development, Gap Analysis, Stakeholder Management, SQA/Testing, Customer Support, Vendor Management, Project Management, Agile based Software Development, scaled agile implementation and Dev. ops Key Accomplishments

• 30+ awards & other recognitions in Cisco for excellent performance in different projects

• CMMi member for L 3 assessment

• Part of CSTG employee engagement group running multiple programs. Certifications

• CCENT

• CCNA

• ISTQB Foundation

• SAFE Agilist

Courses

• Cisco Management Training Program

• Conflict Resolution Training program

• Coaching for Performance & Development

• Coaching for communication

• Training on leading the change.

• SAFE Agile Coaching Program.

Education

• B.E in Computer Science and Engineering from VTU, Belgaum, Karnataka in the year 2003 with 73%.

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