Quality Manager

Prasanna Dasari

Email: adlic5@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Accomplished and results oriented Quality Assurance management professional with 18 years of experience in quality assurance, design verification and system design in the software industry. Hands on manager with proven ability to direct and improve quality programs, reducing defects and improving overall efficiency and productivity. Highly adept at developing and implementing test strategies, operational procedures, and quality methodologies to support development and release of business applications for dynamic, fast-paced distribution industry leader. Able to train, lead and motivate effective cross functional team. Experience in waterfall and agile methodologies. Experience in the integration and testing of third-party software. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

PRODUCT EXPERIENCE

Testing Tools:

oMicrosoft Test Manager, HP Quality Center, Selenium, SOAP UI, Postman, Load runner, Jmeter, VersionOne

Automation Frameworks:

oCucumber BDD, API, Page object and data driven

Web/CRM Tools:

oSFDC, Hybris eCommerce, Custom IOS, SharePoint

Databases:

oAWS Redshift, SQL server, SFDC, MS access

ETL Tools:

oSSIS, Informatica

Mainframe:

oAS400

GUI: Visual Basic 6.0, JSP, ASP, .net

Operating system:

o Windows NT, Windows 2000, MS-WINDOWS 3.11, MS Dos, UNIX

Reporting tools:

o BO, Crystal reports, SSRS reports, Tableau

Application Servers:

oSOA web servers, IIS, Cloud based web services, IOS

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Company Name: Southern Glazers Wines and Spirits Sep.'04-Present

Location: Miramar, FL

Role: Quality Assurance Manager Commercial and BI (June 06 to Present)

Environment: C#, .net, SQL server, SOA, IOS apps, SFDC, Hybris eCommerce, AWS Redshift, BO, AS400

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits is the world’s largest distributor of beverage alcohol. The company has operations in 44 US state, Canada, and the Caribbean, and employs over 20,000 team members.

Responsibilities:

Built and managed a strong team of 10 QA leads and overall team of 40 QA analysts in the enterprise organization. Led multiple manual and automation QA teams across different projects Managed QA tasks in different SDLC (Agile and Waterfall).

Led tool selection and implementation of QA tools for automation and manual testing

Developed QA procedures and established quality assurance methodologies/standards in accordance with overall development and product releases.

Responsible for maintaining open communication with project leader and upper management to ensure that QA was informed of priorities, deadlines, project status and release plans.

Communicated with functional and technical stakeholders, to schedule system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and provide input on planned production deployed dates.

Planned and monitored execution of the work assignments for the Quality Assurance Team.

Defined testing strategies based on the due dates and project requirements.

Worked cross-functionally with other managers to streamline operations (Agile Integration Team).

Participated in Program meeting, devops improvements and PI planning Meetings.

Planned and coordinated resources needed to implement new test strategies (Safe Agile, Regression, etc.), resulting in development of best practice models

Successfully established GUI and API E2E testing automation frameworks using open source tools(Selenium and cucumber with JAVA) for SFDC, SAP Hybris and custom web applications. Integrated the same with the Dev pipeline (integration with Jenkins), with automated scheduling and reporting with email integration; over 90% tests automated

Apply testing methodologies, principles and processes to define and implement key metrics to manage and assess the testing process including test execution and defect resolution

Mentor team on technical, product- specific topics and methods to improve their test capabilities.

Externalized the test data for the automated scripts using SQL/Excel

Provided leadership, setting objectives/goals, performance feedback, mentoring, and effectively managed through a team merge, job and manager changes in the organization

Promoted holistic, end- to- end, customer driven approach to measuring and assessing quality

Hands on experience in ETL and Bigdata tools such as Hadoop

Managed data warehouse enhancements and defects (requirements, estimation, prioritization, development, testing, and implementation).

Good Expertise in creating complex SQL scripts for Data Validation, DataMart Testing, for complex business rules based on ETL mapping documents.

Coordinated efforts to validate SSIS reports after ETL and Cube deployments to make sure the values in the database tie out to the reports.

Planned ad-hoc data analysis to support BI reporting needs.

Schedule UAT readiness meetings and Production readiness meeting to mitigate issues and outline defect deferral process to facilitate progress.

Role: Senior QA Analyst (Sep 04 to June 06)

Responsibilities:

Developed scripts using business requirements and functional design document as inputs

Collaborated with development team to identify gaps in design and or code deliverables and agreed on best approach to closing the gaps.

Worked with business analyst to revise ambiguous functional and non-functional requirements.

Executes tests and analyzed outcome against expected results.

Identified and documented requirements, software, and environment defects.

Worked closely with developers to analyze and resolve defects.

Performed back-end testing by writing SQL queries

Company Name: Digimarc ID Systems - Consultant Feb.'04-Sep.'04

Location: Tallahasse

Client: Florida DMV

Role: QA Tester/Analyst

Environment: Rational, Defect tracker, oracle 9i, C++ and Toad

Digimarc ID Systems provides personal identification solutions. It produces driver license solutions in the United States. The company also offers identification documents for governments. In addition, it engages in applying security technologies with biometrics, imaging and data processing expertise, modular and integrated systems, and solutions, for central and non-central ID card issue projects.

Responsibilities:

Created test plans and test cases for various security modules

Involved in analysis and study of functional specifications to prepare test cases, test plans and understood the functionality of the system.

Involved in testing of the individual queues like process queue, print queue.

Also tested the process of records going from queue to queue.

Did complete testing of scanning and printing of Driver license cards with correct bar odes

Did unit testing of the major modules,

Have tested the batch scripts to upload the files

Did integration testing use different client interfaces and prepared test cases.

Performed unit testing, system testing, integration testing and performance testing throughout the life cycle of the project.

Using a defect tracker, bugs were tracked, assigned to the developers, reviewed, and analyzed.

Worked with developers to resolve issues and bugs tracked in Defect Tracker.

Inspira E-Solutions Feb ’01-Mar.’04

Deposits System

Environment: VB.net, oracle8i, SQL server

This involves defining of different schemes for a Bank those are time liable. This contains a Scheme generator that helps in defining parameters for a scheme like Interest details/calculation. The other modules

are account creation, Maturity Instructions, Document Maintenance, wizards for cash flow.

Responsibilities:

Involved in unit testing to check all field widths, tabbing order follow the standards.

Documented Test strategies, detailed test plans, test cases, and test summary reports.

Conducted test plan and test case walkthrough with business and technical teams.

Executed tests to certify the integrity of system upgrades and enhancements and produced analyzed test results.

Created user acceptance test plans to validate accuracy, reliability, and adherence to specifications.

Provided status updates and identified issues to management, developers, and thirst party vendors.

Involved in testing PL/SQL procedures. These are written to load the data from a temporary table to different tables based on the criteria given. Involved in testing different SQR load programs.

Involved in creation of snapshots to access remote databases

Developed and implemented a weekly, automated process using shell, SQL and PL/SQL to analyze tables and indexes, identify indexes that needed to be rebuilt.

Involved in testing the various reports includes Withdrawal, Customer balance reports

Responsible for documentation, Tracking and updating issues and bugs in the Test Director for Development and Management teams.

EDUCATION

1.Post Graduate diploma in advanced computing (CDAC), India

2.Bachelor of Engineering, India

Certifications:

SAFE AGILIST 4.0 Lead

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