Mahesh Venkatesh

#***, *** ****, *** *****, *nd Stage, KS Layout Bangalore-78

Contact: 997-***-****

E-mail: addeot@r.postjobfree.com

Date of Birth: 2nd July 1984

Career Objective

To strive towards challenges in a growing and reputed organization, enhancing my knowledge and skills in the field of software design & implementation, thereby contributing to the success of the organization alongside Lead, manage and grow the team and improve their performance and technical competencies

Core Competencies: Managing Engineering, Product and Support Team ~ Test Planning ~ Test Metrics ~ Resource Planning ~ Knowledge Sharing / Quality ~ Team Management ~ Mentoring ~ Training ~and much more

Experience Summary

14 years of technical experience involving various testing techniques across domain.

Involved in Testing of Website, Android and iOS app (Native and Hybrid Apps)

Experience with cross device testing (iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac)

Leverage comprehensive business and technical skill sets for handling large scale delivery assignments for various platform technologies in Telecom.

Developed components for Framework, did enhancements to the existing components in the framework, Code-optimization of the framework. Solving framework related issues of the testers who are using the framework.

Sound Knowledge of web technologies and Apps nativity

Sound knowledge of TDD and BDD automation framework.

Demonstrated technical expertise in Quality Assurance and Test Management.

Experience in Risk Management, Change Management and Quality Management

Experience in Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Requirements Traceability matrix

Sound knowledge of Agile/Scrum development environment.

UAT Testing, Automation Testing, Functional Testing, End to End Testing, Regression Testing and Go Live Testing

Involved in Defect Tracking and Daily/Weekly Status meetings, present status for IBM Senior Management and client

Client Handling ( giving demonstration to client, UAT support and performed deep dive analysis & technical leadership to deliver client facing projects)

Involved in Internal QA Audits, Project Metrics, Root Cause Analysis and UAT analysis report

Technical Skills:

Operating System

Mac, Windows, DOS, UNIX

Programming Languages

CORE Java, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Python.

S/w Engineering Methodology

SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum

Database

MySql

Testing Tools

Test process tool - HP Quality Center,

Test Automation Tool- Selenium Webdriver/IDE/RC, TestNG, Maven, GitHub, Continuous Integration Tool-Jenkins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FoodVista India Pvt ltd (FreshMenu) Mar’15 – Till Date

Domain – Food(Hospitality) – (Program Manager - QA) – Mar’15 till date

Pilani SoftLabs India Pvt ltd (RedBus) Nov’14 – Mar’15

Domain – Travel – (Manager QA (droid, iOS & Windows)

Serendipity India Pvt ltd (TaxiForSure) Apr’13 – Mar’14

Domain – Travel – (Manual/Automation Testing of website and apps (droid, iOS & Windows)

Subex ltd Mar’11 – Mar’13

Domain – Telecom – (Manual/Automation Testing and Deployment of Fraud Systems)

Torry Harris Business Solutions Oct’06 – Mar’11

Domain – Telecom – (UAT Testing of various OSS and BSS applications)

Role: Program Manager QA / UAT

Roles and Responsibilities :

Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.

Lead, manage and grow the team and improve their performance and technical competencies

You will ensure that your team works diligently and consistently, through constant communication with the lead developers and Engineering Managers

Experience with backend technologies, such as: Node.JS, MySQL, MongoDB, Memcache, Redis in-house built systems

Coordinating and scheduling BRD & FRD walkthrough & review with system analyst, stake holders and business team.

Intensely involved in creating and reviewing master test plan, test strategy, test cases, test scenarios and requirements traceability matrix, also responsible for scheduling review with all stake holders and getting their sign-off on all these deliverables

Responsible for project execution plan & execution tracking, monitoring & controlling.

Client Handling (Giving demonstration to client and to support users team, UAT).

Intensely involved in reviewing the test artefact’s to ensure right deliverables as per the business requirements

Experience with frontend technologies, such as: HTML5, CSS3, ReactJS

Coordinating Onsite and Offshore team in delivering solution to our customer.

Risk Management, Change Management and Quality Management

Scheduling daily & weekly status reporting, updating in tool and providing status to stake holders. Responsible for issue resolution & escalation handling.

As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.

Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer.

Provide day-to-day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer and the management.

Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.

Identify flows, test cases to be automated and update regression suite for every release.

Review test case Develop selenium tests for different flows of the web based application

Provide day-to-day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer and the management.

Hiring, Mentoring and leading team to reach new heights

Certification

ISEB Ceritified Software Tester

PERSONAL DOSSIER

Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.

Flexibility to work during off hours to ensure smooth process setup.

Ability to think & execute testing from a user’s perspective

Excellent listening, oral and written communication skills

Strong planning and multi-tasking ability

High level of professionalism, energy and sense of urgency to make things happen

Very detail oriented and able to deliver within very stringent timelines

Creative and analytical problem solving

Multicultural communication skills

Work on deadlines and meet cost constraints

Proficient at managing multiple efforts simultaneously

Ability to adapt and be flexible

Excellent organizational and documentation skills

Passport No: F6662651

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