Quality Assurance

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REMYA KRISHNAN KUTTY

***-*** ****** **. ********, Ontario L6K 0H7 +1-201-***-**** **.*****@*****.*** LinkedIn.com/in/remyakk/ SUMMARY

Customer focused and technology independent Software Quality Engineering & Assurance Management

12+ years of industry hardened experience managing quality of global business critical applications

Outstanding track record of surpassing customer and organizational expectations in all engagements

Managed multiple projects/programs concurrently with multi-location teams (Global Delivery)

Institutionalized best practices, innovative ideas and process improvement initiatives

Directed teams and collaborated with diverse stakeholders to streamline operations

Exceptional strategist with notable success in end to end project planning and execution

Dynamic leader with expertise in articulation of high level objectives and enterprise vision

Excellent written and verbal communication capabilities enabling effective business communication

Confident, dependable, adaptable, smart worker without compromising on integrity and ethics

Recipient of several departmental and organizational awards and customer accolades AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Quality Engineering and Assurance

Software Testing Life Cycle

Exploratory/Functional/Regression Testing

Responsive/Mobile Testing

API (SoapUI) Testing

Automation (Selenium) Testing

Agile/Scrum/Kanban/JIRA

Defect Lifecycle Management

Requirements Development

Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Continuous Integration (CI)

Global Project Delivery

Production Deployment Planning

Resource/Team Management

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS / INDUSTRY AFFILIATIONS

Project Quality Management (2019) LinkedIn Learning

Foundation for Successful Test Automation (2019) Test Automation University

TestBash New York Conference (2015) Ministry of Testing

Diploma in Project Management (2013) Alison – Project Management

ISTQB Certified Tester (2007) International Software Testing Qualifications Board

Bachelor of Computer Applications (2006) University of Calicut EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Quality Assurance Lead SpringerNature – New York, NY USA Oct 2008 – May 2019

Software Quality Consultant Bluefly, Ogilvy Health – Edison, NJ USA Nov 2007 – Oct 2008

Assistant Engineer – Testing Infosys – Bangalore, KA India Jul 2006 – Oct 2007 Remya Krishnan Kutty Page 2 of 2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – SUMMARY

Role Duration Organization QA Tools

QA Lead

Oct 2015 – May 2019

(3 Years 8 Months)

SpringerNature

(Scientific American)

JIRA, Selenium, Ruby, Github, Rubymine

(IDE), Rspec, Chrome DevTools, SitePrism,

Mura, Slatwall, Pugpig Distribution Service,

Silverpop, Slack, Diffux, Google Analytics,

Browserstack, Litmus

QA Lead

Oct 2008 – Sep 2015

(7 Years)

SpringerNature

(Nature Research)

JIRA, SoapUI, Github, Selenium, Cucumber,

Gherkin, Java, Trello, Browserstack, Litmus,

Basecamp, Pivotal Tracker, Confluence, Rest

Client, Oxygen, Feedreader, Webtrends,

ShowIP, HttpFox, LiveHttpHeader, Firebug,

Putty, WinSCP, DBVisualiser, ReadCube

QA Consultant

Nov 2007 – Oct 2008

(1 Year)

Bluefly and

Ogilvy Health

Remedy, Quality Center, WinRunner,

LoadRunner

QA Analyst

Jul 2006 – Oct 2007

(1 Year 3 Months)

Infosys (Houghton

Mifflin Harcourt)

IBM Rational Clearcase, Test Director, Quick

Test Professional

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Successfully led and managed a team of QA Analysts to own, plan and complete end to end quality assurance activities for business-critical technology projects and programs such as: o Implementation of Scientific American’s ecommerce platform with redesigned user experience, enhanced shopping cart and checkout process, simplified customer information pages, improved self-service account management, redesigned subscription management, seamless integration with order fulfillment systems, enhanced security and multi-language capabilities o Technology initiatives for Scientific American such as AWS migration, Mura upgrade, Slatwall upgrade, Android/iOS apps, Webtrends Analytics to Google Analytics, Search, Site License/Institutional Access, Metered Paywall, Subscription Management, Product Launches o Industry leading projects for Nature.com such as Pay per View and Access Control Management, Rialto (Invitation system for authors to join Loop - Frontiers Research Network), Manuscript Tracking System, Author Engagement, DRUM – Database Rebuild and User Management with APIs

Hired new project members and provided knowledge transition of business functions and ongoing projects

Mentored and guided QA team to perform software testing using acquired domain and technical expertise

Collaborated with stakeholders to liaise between business and technology teams to outline technical solution and ensure alignment with enterprise wide vision and smooth project execution

Interpreted business needs and translated into application specific detailed use cases and screen flows

Articulated application changes to support business requirements based on an appreciation of the current and ideal future state of the application by understanding core functionality, critical interfaces, data flow and underlying architecture of business solution

Created test strategy and performed Exploratory, Functional, Regression, Responsive, Performance, Accessibility, API and Automation Testing as well as sanity check of critical business functions for releases

Partnered with all stakeholders to execute agile projects in Scrum and Kanban methodologies

Managed defect tracking to closure, coordinated user acceptance testing and planned release schedule

Streamlined QA processes to continuously improve test efficiency and maintained all QA documentation, policies and procedures in Jive based enterprise social intranet platform

Provided regular QA status updates to technology and business leadership for all ongoing projects and final QA sign off for all deployments to staging and production

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