Manager Test
Resume:
Narendra Naidu
*************@*******.***
Green Card Holder
Professional Summary
With 13+ years of dedicated to the Software Quality Assurance industry in multiple Lead and consulting roles during my career including Senior Testing Architect, Test Lead and Test Manager.
Specialized in Functional, automation and manual testing and all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and has substantial experience in e-Commerce and Automotive services industry business processes.
Experience in Testing Process by using DevOps, Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall and V-Model.
Good knowledge of Business process development using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Selenium Test Life Cycle (STLC) for testing and Defect Life Cycle.
Experience in Automation and Manual testing.
Hands on experience using Automation testing tools like: Silk,Winrunner,Selenium, Cucumber, Quality Center, SoapUI, Load Runner, Jenkins.
Experience in developing scripts in Junit & TestNG.
Knowledge in developing scripts using Cucumber & Gherkins (BDD).
Experience in Page Object Model (POM), Data Driven, Behavior Driven Development and Keyword Driven: Framework with Web Services tools like SOAP UI, REST API.: Possess good exposure to Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery process/set ups (CI/CD).
Experience in using Git repository.
Expertise in Test Strategy, Test Approach, Test Metrics, Test Planning, Test Execution, Test Result Analysis: and maintaining the Requirement Traceability Matrix.
Dry run of the scripts, analysis of the test results also enabled execution of the script in multiple releases/: Multiple iterations and on demand basis (daily or weekly).
Expertise in all aspects of the SDLC, STLC and Bug Life cycle.
Ability to adapt very quickly to a new environment and learn new technologies, tools quickly and to leverage: that knowledge for problem analysis and problem solving.
Lead and develop a skilled, motivated and cohesive team by providing effective direction, coaching and: motivation.
Extensively involved in manual testing of web applications across different platforms/browsers: Capable of handling multiple tasks with an ease.
Good communication skills and ability work well across teams and meet deadlines.
Skills and Core Competence
Testing: Mobile applications (iOS and Android), Web applications, Server
API’s, Mobile testing frameworks/tools such as Appium and
Splendored on native IOS and Android devices
Software Testing Methodology: Agile (Scrum), DevOps, V & Waterfall Model
Automation: Silk, WinRunner, QTP, WATIR, Selenium, Appium, UI
Automation, SOAP UI, Postman, JMeter,
Languages: JavaScript, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, TSL, 4Test, VB, XML.NET
Python, XML.
Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, Redmine, Bugzilla, AXOSOFT,
Android Studio, JIRA, Selenium WebDriver, TestRail, Git,
Jenkins,
Education and Trainings
Master of Science from Gulbarga University,
P.G.D.C.A from Valli Computer Academy,
Certificate Diploma in RDBMS from SSI,
Work Experience
IT Handling Services, La Mirada, CA, Jan. 2018 to Present
QA Manager/Lead
Provided leadership in defining QA methodologies, strategies, standards, Metrics, tools, best practices for supporting and builds releases.
Creation of Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Cases Modified automation test scripts according to the new changes/requirements in the ongoing functionality of product Developed.
Developed QA Process and Procedures all Build and Sprint releases.
Developed comprehensive test plans for each sprint releases.
Managed day to day activates of team members including scheduling and managing out going projects.
Created detailed documents for all tests performed on each release.
Defined testing and test automation coding norms, oversight of their implementation, and promoting continuous improvement through periodic reviews.
Worked cross-functionally with Development and Product Management teams for resource planning and to make sure acceptance criteria are well delivered.
Identified bugs and issues logged in Jira.
Coordinated bug fixes with development teams.
Partnered with the team to understand project objectives, gather automation requirements, troubleshoot issues, and implement scalable test solutions.
Prioritize, organize and executing recurring manual testing during software development.
Managed day-to-day updates to product, site content and site functionality.
Performed Backend SQL Testing to validate Order Records.
Performed Rest API testing Using Postman.
Participated in regular meetings with upper management to communicate accomplishments, plans and issues as well as any risks to the project's progress.
UAT Labs, La Mirada, CA, Jan. 2015 to Dec. 2017
Test Manager/Lead
Effectively lead teams with various staffing models of internal and external on-shore and off-shore resources. Provided leadership and supervisory oversight to quality assurance.
Improved and maintained programs and processes for quality. Improved defect identification and remediation cycles.
Implemented programs to identify and drive early test adoption and agile principles in all projects validated functional and non-functional requirements.
Successfully implemented test automation using Selenium, Java.
Worked collaboratively with development team to establish and reinforce automation development processes.
Exposure to Agile development methodologies e.g. test driven development (TDD), continuous integration (CI), code coverage, code analysis.
Reviewed technical specifications/limitations and constructed reviews of technical approach, including application capacity reviews.
Coordinated test strategy development, project planning, scheduling, allocation of test engineers to programs, ensuring the test environment availability, generation of test reports, communication of test status, and networking to coordinate test activities.
Provided testing feedback to Developers.
Synchronized requirements as JIRA issues were assigned to the lead developer to track development LOE.
Administered and maintained Testrail (Test Management Tool) including creating projects and users, customizing workflows, and training the entire organization.
Conducted full software test lifecycle (strategy, plan, cases, execution) for all types of testing, including unit, smoke, integration, Functional, Cross Functional, regression, UAT.
GUTHY RENKER, Santa, Monica, CA, Aug. 2008 to Dec. 2014
QA Lead
Lead a team of 8 software testers to maintain and deliver multiple concurrent releases of Guthy-Renker beauty, Fitness, Skincare, Weight Loss sites domains.
Involved with the development team in estimating, planning and refactoring software development programs, projects and tasks.
Manage and mentor a team of testers to run test cases on numerous projects concurrently.
Defined QA Strategy and Approach of all GR Products and be ultimately responsible to ensuring All GR Brands Quality..
Performed QA Activities like Creating Test Plans to cover weekly build releases, Test Scenarios, Test scripts and test cases and lead in their execution.
Build QA Team, mentering, coaching the team, ensuring the success of the team’s manual and automation.
Have a clear idea about the technology and business and offer innovative solutions to improve the current test platform.
Contribute to continuous process improvement of the QA department.
Responsible for the full QA Test Life Cycle, ensuring all development tasks meets the Quality Criteria through test Artifacts.
Understand the best practices of web development and work closely with the product and business development teams to suggest ways and means of improving user experience.
Developed Test Automation Framewoks based on industry best Practices
Participated and contribute to sprint retrospective and ensure the best practices are implemented and incorporated in STLC.
IBD, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2007
QA Analyst
Worked as a QA Analyst for Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), which is a stock market (such as stock, bond, market and prices) newspaper subscription company that offers variety of products to help investors to find the best stocks in the least amount of time.
Define, create, & implement Testing Methodologies including templates, processes, and tools to test All IBD Modules.
Developed and document Subscription Module test cases in Quality Center (QC) based on business requirements, functional and technical requirements, and business use cases.
Performed in various forms of software testing: smoke testing, regression testing, functional and non-functional testing, UAT etc
Created Automated Test Scripts Using QTP(Quick Test Professional) and conducted reports on the results of Testing and proactively participated weekly team meetings with Business and Dev teams.
Direct supervision of 3 testers from the detailed use cases, create manual & automated test cases for .net web online Subscription application.
Environment: Quality Center(QC),Quick Test Pro(QTP), Asp.net, SQL Server, HTML, XML, MS Office, JSP, Java Scripts, Bugzilla, Manual testing.
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