Manager Engineer

SRM VARUN KUMAR RAJ

** - 944-***-**** adco6a@r.postjobfree.com Chennai, TN, India

B.E.M.B.A

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Fifteen + years of experience in the IT industry with exposure in Insurance, Banking, IDM, e-commerce, Retail and Fieldpower Domain services. Three years worked at Onsite New Jersey, USA. Expertise in validation and testing of Mobile, Mainframe, Client-Server and Web-Based Applications in different environments.

Manage overall End to End Test delivery and Operations across the QA Functional Test Teams, UAT Test Teams & Client/ External Testing. Instilling standard processes, methodologies & tools across test phases. Involved in RFP and also in IQA, EQA & PMR audits. Experience in SDLC Agile, Waterfall and V process methodologies.

Client Management, Program Management, Business Development, Good Documentation and Process Management skills to develop a quality product. Experienced in tools such as JIRA, ALM, Quality center, ERP, MTM, TFS & Team Track to track the project via the tool & pull the status report. Worked on Configuration Management & Project Management tools like ‘PVCS’, ‘PPM’, ‘ITG’ & SVN for tracking project effectively. Worked as a Business Analyst(BA) during my onsite tenure.

Experienced in Web services testing using SOAP UI. Experienced in developing Test Plans, Test Strategy and Test Reports based upon the business requirements. Involved in supporting UAT and (IVP) testing. Involved in creating Risk Matrix, Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix and performed Gap Analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ducont Systems Jun’ 18 – Aug’ 19

Baseproduct & Banking products– US, Malaysia & UAE clients. It is the leading IT Products & Services provider in the Middle East with 20 years of experience in the design of Digital Transformation Solutions, Enterprise Mobility, Field Service Management, IT Consulting, Business Process Consulting, Microsoft Solutions and Analytics catered to various verticals.

Worked as a Testing Head / Project Manager / Program Manager

Setting up Testing Practice for all verticals and won the new business as Testing Project first time in South Africa as a service.

•Supervising 24 QA members overall of 30 to 40 projects testing practice execution

from Initiation to Completion stage; Providing necessary guidance.

•Researching business opportunities for company growth. Develop good working

relationship & coordinating with internal project stakeholders & client.

•Identifying risks relating to testing activity and mitigating them & prioritize

workload

•Review and Approval of Test plan & also review of test cases, if required

•Monitoring test execution and tracking testing schedules

•Reporting Project related metrics to the Senior Management and also the testing

status to the relevant authorities, including the client where necessary

•Validation of the Metrics reported by the projects

•Identifying the needed process changes needed based on the outputs of the

metrics analysis and report to QMS

•Involved in RFP and won new business first testing project as a service

Tata Consultancy Services Sep’ 14 – Jun‘ 18

Involved in Domains Insurance (LIU), Retail (Home Depot and Target) and Banking (BB&T, World Bank and KeyBank) projects.

Worked as a Program Manager / Test Manager / Scrum Master

•Introduced Agile methodology for frequent delivery which made customers happy.

•Authored Master SIT Plan, Performance test plan and IST plan.

•Conducted formal test plan walk through with FSA & internal project stakeholders

•Managed overtime for team of 48 that included QA team, Business Analysts and

Business Operation team.

•Participation in Project stakeholder meetings and also team lead meetings for

issue resolutions and upgrading the knowledge base with innovative discussions

on new testing methodologies, procedures and lean management procedures.

•Managed all phases of testing from requirement to implementation. SIT,UAT & IVP

•Deployed automated data driven testing frameworks for multiple clients, trained

engineers on their use.

Mphasis May ‘07 – Sep ‘14

Involved in Domains Insurance (AIG Corporate – Novell IDM, Comptrollers, ERMS & eBusiness Technology and EIC) and Banking (CBA) projects.

Worked as Test Lead / Project Lead / Onsite Coordinator / Business Analyst

Got the star of the month & best performer award by completely owning testing activities first time right from the scratch till IVP. Also took the IDM project which didn’t go to production for 2 years and after I took control went in production within 10 months.

•Build new team of 15 - 25 consultants by reviewing resumes, interviewing and

decision making in hiring process.

•Setup of QA processes and procedures and implemented them.

•Trained new team on QA tools, processes & existing application architecture

•Day to day task management by conducting daily stand up meetings.

•Provided project timelines, level of efforts, detailed status reports, risk

assessments and gap analysis to all project stakeholders.

•Participated in bug review meetings to explain and prioritize issues with PMO,

Development and Product Managers.

•Provided test strategies & managed different aspects of testing. Functional, Sanity,

Load, Regression, Performance, Integration, Web Service, ETL & workflow testing.

Polaris Consulting and Services Nov’ 04 – May’ 07

Involved in Domains Banking (Development Bank of Singapore (DBS)) and ecommerce (Nalanda) projects.

Worked as a Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer

Got the best performer for test case format and wrote GUI test cases approximately 1000 + within short span of time in a detailed manner

•Participated in Business, Functional and Technical review meetings.

•Developed Test Plan, Test Cases & involved in creation of test data.

•Performed traceability matrix to map the test cases to the requirements.

•Performed Functional Testing, System, Regression & Sanity Testing

•Reporting Defects and tracking the defects using Test Director.

•Coordinated with development team for issues and resolution of defects.

•Performed back-end testing by writing SQL queries

•Prepared weekly status reports.

EDUCATION

MBA from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Madurai Kamaraj University

CERTIFICATIONS

HP Certified Quality Center 9.2

HP Certified Quick Test Professional 9.2

ISTQB Foundation Level

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation tools: ALM, Quality Center, Selenium, QTP, SOAP UI, Test

Director, Load Runner, MTM, TFS, Claim Center,

Teamtrack and Orbisolve

Application Tools: Novell iManager 2.7, User Application 4.0.1,

LotusNotes, IBM Mainframe PC, RUMBA, AS400,

Service Now, AD/NT and Top Secret

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, VB, HTML, XML, Servlets, JSP

Application Servers: Weblogic 6.1/8.1, Websphere, Internet Information

Server, Unix, Tomcat and Jboss

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000/2003,

Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10

RDBMS: SQL Server, DB2, PL SQL using Oracle 9i

Scripting Languages: VB Script, Java Script

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