Engineer Manager

SRINIVASAN KUPPAN

Technical Test Lead ********@*****.***

(Acting QA Manager) +1-201-***-****

Career summary

** ***** ** ******* ********* Technical and executive Leadership delivering significant improvements in quality by Manual and Automation Testing.

Having 9+ years of experience in Health Care Domain (Client - Horizon BCBSNJ)

Work experience

Infosys Limited

TEST Lead (Acting Test Manager) November 2010 – Present

Monitoring status of all projects, reviewed all the artifacts shared by testing team, solving internal and external issues from Testing team, preparing monthly metrics and review it with internal and business stake holders.

Good experience in using automation testing tools Selenium and Java

Forecasting the pipeline projects and aligning resources

Planning and estimating.

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 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.

Arranging team meetings and workshops.

Preparing and executing test cases

Sharing daily and weekly status reports to internal and Business stake holders

Attending scrum call and explaining planned activities and raising issues and hosting defect triage calls.

Providing Test case and Test result walk through to Business stake holders.

Wipro Technologies Limited

Senior Test Engineer January 2008 – November 2010

ReadyTestGo Private Limited

Test Engineer May 2005 – December 2007

Academic qualifications

RMD Engineering College

2001 – 2004

MCA

Madras University

Indo American Arts and Science College

1998 - 2001

BSc

Computer Science

Key skills

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Waterfall and Agile

Automation Testing using Selenium and Java

Defect tracking

Systems testing, Integration, ETL, Regression and End to End Testing

Test Management Tool – HP ALM, JIRA and IBM Rational Clearquest

Tableau – Reporting Tool

IDE’s: Eclipse

PROFESSIONAL ABILITIES

Experience across multiple types of testing i.e. user acceptance, system integration, Regression and End to End Testing.

Experience of working on Business, Technical and Functional Requirements.

Have worked in Insurance, Securities, Health Care and HR Domains

Knowledge of MS Office tools including MS project, PowerPoint and Visio.

Able to take preventative action when any risks become unacceptable.

Understanding of different test approaches and techniques.

ISTQB, HP – QC and HP - QTP accredited.

Actively maintain awareness and understanding of current developments and best practice in testing.

Hands on experience in execution, scripting and planning.

Making sure that all testing plans comply with company guidelines, standards and regulations.

MANAGERIAL ABILITIES

Managing test teams.

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.

Visa type: H1B

Valid till: 03/20/2021

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