George K U Date of Birth Communication Address

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14th June 1980 Kadampanattu House Manganam P O Kottayam,Kerala

91-815*******

adl33c@r.postjobfree.com

Success driven leader with proven expertise in turning around and optimizing operations in IT –Test Management and Manufacturing sector-Production Management.

Spearheads business and operational initiatives, delivering production demands within budget and on time. Implements strategic changes to reduce the cost. Engages employees at all level with clear vision of future thereby overcoming challenging situations and by providing profitability to the organization.

Software Testing Experience of 10.5 Years covering areas like Test Management, Test Leading, Product Implementation, Requirements Gathering, Test Planning, and Testing from 3 MNC’s in Banking, Education and Enterprise workload automation domains.

QA Manager for Mindtree handling Silicon Valley Bank Projects on outcome based models.Managing team of more than 55 testers for multiple offshore testing projects ( Functional as well as Automation)

Production Management Experience in manufacturing of Footwear for 5 Years.

Successfully Planned, implemented and started a factory for Gallant Rubbers, in footwear industry.

Setup and run successful Agile Testing and development Project from Offshore. Burn down chart preparation for Agile Projects for each Sprint.

Estimate and Validation Strategy prepared for running the projects from UK head office and India.

Worked in client location (UK Abingdon Office) to gain product and process knowledge Set up high quality testing team in Offshore ( starting from resume review and recruitment )

One of the Founder of Testing Forum in the RM Education, which is presently the open forum for sharing knowledge for around 100 testers ( offshore and onshore)

Has been part of two implementation projects in Infosys Finacle as Product consultant

across Melbourne, Australia.Finacle &ANZ Certified Test Lead. ISTQB certified tester

Have successfully implemented Automation to increase the efficiency of Infosys Finacle e-Banking Solution.

Proven Expertise in the following areas

●Cost Control ● Test Management

●Inventory Management ● Test Leading

●Process Optimization ● Product Implementation

●Staff Development ● Requirements Gathering

●Quality Assurance ● Test Planning

●Goal Attainment ● Testing

WORK EXPERIENCE

No of Years

Period

Organization

Role

5 Years

2014-Till September 2020

General Manager & Managing Partner

Footwear Manufacturing firm, Gallant, Kerala.

General Manager

3 Years

May 2011 –

Jun 2014

Mind tree Limited, Bangalore

Test Manager

3.5 Years

Aug 2007-

Apr 2011

RM Educational Solutions India Ltd ( MNC

,Technopark,Trivandrum)

Senior Test Lead/Test Manager

6 Months

Jan 2007-

Aug 2007

CA ( Computer Associates,Hyderabad)

Senior QA Engineer

3 Years

Jan 2004 –

Jan 2007

Infosys Technologies, Bangalore

Test Lead

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

Period

Qualification

Institution

%

2010-2012

PGDBA -Operations ( Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration)

Symbiosis, Pune (Distance Education)

A - Grade

1998–2002

B.Tech [Electronics Engineering]

Model Engineering College,Cochin

70.4

1996-1998

12th

Technical Higher Secondary School,Puthuppally

82.9

1994-1996

10th

Technical Higher Secondary School,Puthuppally

78.8

Work Experience

Gallant (Footwear Production Company)- experience

Production of PU Footwear

Description

Responsible for planning, implementing and successfully running a job work footwear

production unit in Kerala.

Role

GENERAL MANAGER

Account/Progra m level responsibilities handled

•People management in all levels-manager, supervisor and worker levels.

•Inventory Management techniques applied in raw materials purchase.

•Efficiently managed costing of the company by applying new costing template which was transparent to the clients.

•Client Management –maintain a good relationship with the client by helping them manage their supply chain more efficiently.

•Applied Lean principles in production floor.

•Machinery Procurement

Mindtree - Project experience

Project Name

Silicon Valley Bank – Managed Test Function Projects

Description Of Project

•Managed function models projects (Outcome based), complete delivery from Assessment, estimation, defining test scope, Test Strategy, planning and execution while ensuring projects get executed under release management process.

•Manage billing for the team in outcome based model handling team size of 55

•End to End management of S1 Project for SVB

•Management of Data warehouse Migration projects and ETL testing

•Setup environment for mobile banking testing team

•Pat on Back Award winner from Mindtree for the exceptional Test Management capabilities demonstrated in handling all Silicon Valley Bank testing projects done in Mindtree.

Role

TEST MANAGER

Account/Progra m level responsibilities handled

•Defines and institutionalizes the quality methodologies, standards and procedures in partnership with IT and business group leadership.

•Assesses adequacy of existing tools and techniques to support an effective QA program

•Assign an SQA resource to all Project/CR/Work effort and ensures that the SQA resource manages quality control in all phases of the project lifecycle.

•Develops test plans that consider business use and infrastructure support requirements, oversees the Test Plan execution and authorizes implementation.

•Facilitates risk and business impact assessment for software defects and establishes prioritization for resolution.

•Audits compliance with standards and recommends corrective action

•Makes the decision to go live with the release based on the known issues.

•Assigns and Manages the Quality Assurance staff

RM ESI ( MNC –Technopark Trivandrum )- Project experience

Project Name

Connect Plus ( RM ESI ) and Learning Products Development

Description Of Project

Advanced Test Delivery System – This project uses the Agile methodology for Development and Testing

a)Planning and Estimation for Each Sprint

b)Sprint review Meetings

c)Test Charter Preparation and Execution

d)Reporting to stake holders

e)Test Automation

Learning Products –Includes the Testing and Validation for Following Products

Fuse Creator 1.2- Fuse Creator is an authoring program which allows teachers quickly and easily to create interactive activities, such as drag and drop, ordering and fill the gap etc.

Textease 6.5 – Textease is a Word Processor and Desktop Publisher which is fun and easy to use.

HoneyComb – an integrated set of online creativity and collaboration tools that work through the Internet

Nelson Thornes Content Testing - Estimated for the Multi Browser testing for the new contents created and successfully conducted the full test ( For Batch 1 and 2)

Becta Viewer ( Board Viewer )-Common Interactive Whiteboard Viewer

Easiteach Translation Testing - Easiteach is a suite of software programs mainly used in conjunction with interactive whiteboards in schools. The project is to do a testing on the Spanish/French/ and Dutch translated version of Easiteach.

Easiteach 3.5 – New version of Easiteach Windows Box Worlds - RM Window Box is curriculum software for primary schools, from a range of educational publishers, bundled together to offer cost and time savings as well as curriculum coverage

Windows Box Worlds - RM Window Box is curriculum software for primary schools, from a range of educational publishers, bundled together to offer cost and time savings as well as curriculum coverage

SCORM player – A player to load and view all SCORM compliance packs, a product fully developed and tested from LPD team in RM ESI.

Role

SENIOR TEST TEAM LEAD

Responsibility

Prepare test estimate for all the work done from Light box test team ESI

Prepare test plan for projects allocated to ESI

Understand ( In case of Test Strategy prepared from UK )and make the team understand the test strategy that needs to be followed in a Project.

Ensure that test strategy is followed and deviations are properly communicated and escalated with the Project Managers.

Updates on the Project progress to the UK/ RM ESI Project Managers on a regular basis.

Task allocation and monitoring of the task till the completion.

One point contact for all the testing activities conducted in Lighbtbox team ESI.

Test Environment setup and ensure that test assets are well maintained.

Ensure that the test process setup with in the team is followed by all team members with out fail.

Test report on completion of a project/phase.

Highlighting the risk/assumptions involved in a project to the PM well in advance.

Coordination with UK test team in case of testing done from both locations.

Review of the work done by the team members.

Ensure the completion of project with in the time and any changes has to be communicated to the stake holders of projects in advance.

Coordination with the development team till the closure of the project.

To see that sharing of knowledge happens with in the team.

To motivate the team members to achieve the project goal as well as individual goals.

To solve any technical/environment issues faced by the team.

Coordinate with other departments.

Conduct technical round of interviews and find the apt person for the team.

Environment

Testing of Web based and desktop applications are required for this project

Windows, MAC and CC3/CC4 networks

CA (Computer Associates) - Project experience

Project Name

Testing of Autosys Product

Description of the project

Complete testing of the Job scheduling product ( autosys) in windows xp sp2.

Certification of the autosys product in HP UNIX Itanium V3 machines along with SAP adaptor.

Certification of R11 Autosys Product in Windows 2003,64 bit machine and RHLinux.

Role

SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

Responsibility

Handling the env setup for autosys 4.5 in Windows and UNIX platforms and get it ready for testing.

Coordination with US team for getting more clarification on the SAP adaptor setup and testing.

Verification of defects and Reporting.

Data Based Used for the certification

SYBASE and ORACLE 9i/10g

INFOSYS - Project Experience

Project Name

Project Tiger, ANZ Bank, Australia

Description of the project

ANZ Australia migrating from the existing system (Edify) to Finacle e-banking application for the retail users this was the first phase of the project after successful implementation of this phase Bank had a requirement to utilize finacle e-banking for their corporate clients.

This involved development of new module based on the new bank requirement.

Role

Team leader in testing

Responsibility

Discussions with PMG (Project Management group) in relation to the enhancements to the base project for catering the customer requirements.

Participation in internal and Group reviews for the requirements and High-level designs.

Managing and mentoring the testing group in activities related to Test Planning and test plan reviews.

Setting Quality Goals and CMM Levels

Assigning responsibilities and taking then to closure.

Keeping Track of the Project, Getting Milestone Reports and providing Status Reports.

Interaction with the engineering team and conducting internal team meetings.

Reviews for test planning and testing progress and reporting.

Mentoring and Knowledge sharing with new members.

Migration of the existing data

UAT support

Change request management

Effort estimation

Management of live data for testing

Preparation of periodic status report of the project.

Challenges

Aggressive time lines and little turn around time.

Keeping up with the processes of CMM level 5, even in short time available

Team distributed geographically (Bangalore and Melbourne)

Management of later changes in the product was challenging.

Duration

14 months

Software

Finacle e-CeC, SQL, Websphere,IIS.

Project Name

FINALCE e Banking AUTOMATION

Description of the project

Automation of Finacle e Banking, to achieve new efficiencies and accelerate the testing cycle and promote software quality.

Role

Automation Tester

Responsibility

Creating a Frame work for the automation of the Product.

Interacting with the vendor (Compuware) to best harness Test Partner’s ability and suit our requirement.

Trouble shooting and path breaking for creating better solution.

Keeping Track of the Project, Getting Milestone Reports and providing Status Reports.

Mentoring and Knowledge sharing with new members.

Challenges

Creating a robust framework to suit the product usage.

Being a financial product, the calculations are complex and validations need high precision.

Ability to be run on any version with minimal changes

Ability to compare the results between two versions, helpful during migration.

Duration

4 months

Software

Winrunner, Finacle e Banking, MS SQL

Project Name

Internet Banking Ver 6.4 For ABN Dubai, Retail and Corporate Finacle e-banking 6.7 version for Uralsib Bank Russia

Internet Banking Ver 6.23 For ICICI, Retail and Corporate

Description of the project

Finacle e-Channel (Retail) and e-Corporate (corporate) version 6.4, web based banking application caters to the internet banking users, both retail and corporate.

Role

Test planner and Tester

Responsibility

Discussions with PMG (Project Management group) in relation to the enhancements to the base project for catering the customer requirements.

Participating in internal and Group reviews for the requirements and High level designs.

Keeping Track of the Project, Getting Milestone Reports and providing Status

Reports.

Interaction with the engineering team and conducting internal team meetings.

Reviews for test planning and testing progress and reporting.

Mentoring and Knowledge sharing with new members.

Testing of various modules in the application.

Conducting porting testing in various platforms

Challenges

The Payment system, which had been maintained in a separate DB, was merged into a single DB.

Extensive changes to the UI, to promote the product in new markets.

Application ported on several platforms

Software

Finacle e-CeC, Oracle 9i,Websphere,IIS,iPlanet.

Project Name

Alert system

Description of the project

Testing of the various alerts, supported for the retail and corporate users of internet banking through delivery channels like SMS, Mail, Voice.

Role

Test planner and Tester

Responsibility

Participating in internal and Group reviews for the requirements and High-level designs.

Co coordinating testing and test planning activities for the Alert system project.

The quality of testing for the module was well appreciated by the client.

Integration and System testing activities.

Challenges

Integration with many other products, as the source of the alerts was different systems.

Co-ordination with multiple Teams.

Software

Finacle Core, Finacle CRM, Finacle e-Channel e-Corporate, Oracle 9i,MS SQL, Jatayu, SMTP server

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Functional Areas

Education domain Products, Internet banking, Enterprise Systems management, Manufacturing

Types of Projects

Testing, Test Planning, Implementation, Project Management.

Language Exposure

C,C++,VC++, PL /SQL; Pro*C

Scripting/ Mark up

HTML,XML

Web Servers

Apache, IIS

App Servers

Websphere

Database Exposure

Oracle 9i,MS SQL Server 2000,Sybase

Operating Systems

MS DOS, WINDOWS(All),MAC and in all UNIX flavours

Testing Tools

Mercury Quality Center, Mantis, Testlink,Redmine,Problem Tracker, Bugzilla,Jira,Rational Test Management, Win Runner 7.x. and other internal bug tracking tools like BBU Tools and star track.

Tools

MS SQL Server - SQL Query Analyzer, SQL Profiler, TOAD,VMWares

, MS Project, MS Excel, VSS,SVN

TECHNICAL TRAININGS IN INFOSYS:

1.Training on Computer Basics, C, VB, ORACLE, UNIX, etc. for 3.5 months

2.Training on FINACLE® for 3 months

3.Implementing Defect Prevention.

4.Software Testing

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