SRIDHAR PANDA, MSc (Tech), ISTQB, CSM & CSTM

912-***-**** adsof3@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridharpanda

Delivery Manager & Scrum Master

Budget & Planning Product Strategy Project Management Quality Delivery Customer Relationship Positioning Delivery as a Business Delivery for Excellence My truthful and trustworthy qualities benefit the teams. I am responsible for by large this will enable transparency to the overall Goals, Vision, Mission of the organization. Having lead large and diverse teams, my project management and keen detail to the quality will always benefit to the organization Being an extravagant, I have the acumen to honor the skills of the juniors and openly participate for constructive changes from the senior leaders. Signature Delivery Qualifications

Products Strategy Product Budget Planning & Estimation Best Practices Automation Team & Change Management Employee Retention Trainings & Mentoring Communication Analytics & Reports Demo’s & Sessions Customer Relationship Scrum Master Implementation Quality Delivery Services & Support Disciplined and trust worthy approach that balances business delivery goals with customer expectations. TECHNICAL AND DOMAIN EXPERTISE

• Business Domains Exposure:

o Warehouse Management Systems (Supply Chain), eCommerce, Wealth Management Products

(Banking, Finance, Insurance, Securities), Telecom, Human Resources Management (HRM), Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Sales Force, Health Care, eLearning, DMS, ERP’s – E1, SAP,M2M, PRMS) ETL, Blockchain, Automation, etc

• Software Expertise/Skill set/Tools Used:

o Win Runner, QTP, UFT, Selenium, JMeter, Xenu, QATT, TOAD, VSS, CVS, MPP (MS Project), Visio, PMD, JIRA, BugZilla, MS SQL Server, MS Access, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, X TML, Java Scripts, XML, AZURE, Rave tree, Orient DB, Hasura, MiniO, SOAP UI,AWS, PostGre, Jenkins, GraphQL, etc

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RippleNami Inc, Carlsbad,CA - rMATCH, rCAPTURE,rWAVES,rANALYZE,rBLOCK Manager IT&QA Jan 2021 to till date

• Sprint Planning & Grooming for each sprint

• Daily scrum meetings with the teams

• Managing multiple projects, automation teams and on shore -Offshore teams

• Budget Planning, Time sheets approval for offshore vendor teams

• Understanding various Business Specification documents

• Review / Create, design and execute test plans, test harnesses and test cases

• Test Scripts Review and provide feedback to team

• Maintain RaveTree Artifacts for Sprints

• Kick off meetings and Support team for the testing cycles

• Testing applications, Logging defects and Tracked defects using ‘RaveTree’ tool

• Defect review meetings with IT & Business teams regularly to track the defects and provide required inputs to fix defects

• Create QA Process documents and training to cross functional teams

• Identify, troubleshoot and provide solutions for potential issues

• First point of escalation on any Functional issues in Prod reported by Business

• SQA Acceptancy Criteria for the planned sprint tasks

• Project Risk Planning, Mitigation and escalations.

• Project Go to Green planning and implementation with teams

• Weekly management meetings

• Active QA participant in all QA activities, trainings, and meetings

• Support VP of Projects with QA artifacts for project quality delivery

• Traceability Matrix and Daily Testing reports publish to stake holders and top-level management.

• Conducting meeting with teams on the project deviation and Go to Green Plan

• Automation for Functional, API’s and PostGre Database(QATT) ThermoFisher, Carlsbad,CA – GDR, EPBCS,ASCP, IXI (Integen X), Apple, Service Marketplace, Advanced BioProcessing QTC,eCommerce Project’s

QA Manager Jan 2018 to Dec 2020

• Understanding various Business Specification documents

• Create, design and execute test plans, test harnesses and test cases

• Test Scripts preparation, update and review

• Maintain HP ALM QA, JIRA and Teams Artifacts

• Testing applications, Logging defects and Tracked defects using ‘HP-ALM’ tool

• ETL Database testing, analysis, profiling, and validation

• Database Retesting, Regression testing on newly released builds

• Write / Assist SQL Queries to validate data across layers

• QA Kick off meetings and Support users for UAT cycle

• Create/Track Access Requirements for each system under test for the QA Testers and Business UAT Users

• Identify, troubleshoot and provide solutions for potential issues

• Defect review meetings with IT & Business teams regularly to track the defects and provide required inputs to fix defects

• First point of escalation on any Functional issues in Prod reported by Business

• Participation weekly status calls with stake holders

• Active QA participant in all QA activities, trainings and meetings

• Support Project Manager & QA Manager with QA artifacts for project quality delivery

• Traceability Matrix and Daily Testing reports publish to stake holders and top level management.

• Conducting meeting with teams on the project deviation and Go to Green Plan

• Automation (UFT and Selenium) & Performance Testing

• Validation Testing

• Test ETL Datawarehouse components

• Executing backend data-driven test

Disney, Los Angeles - Ultimate’s Project

Onsite Manager Oct 2016 to Nov 2017

• Understanding various Business Specification documents and from clients

• Co ordination with Offshore delivery team for the development and requirements

• Co ordination with Offshore QA team for the Testing (QA) activities and updates

• Test Scripts review, preparation and execution

• Tracked defects using ‘HP-ALM’ tool

• Retesting and Regression testing on newly released builds.

• Database testing

• UAT sessions for Planners of Disney

• Participation in daily, weekly status calls with stake holders

• Active QA participant in all QA activities, Trainings and meetings Medtech India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad

Medtech is evaluated as a product and services development organization in the space of Health Care IT Solutions Sr. Manager Mar 2015 to Sept 2016

• Customer Engagement and Account management across Indian customers

• Driven and delivered a basket of projects that are key part of Medtech India Product Roadmap

• Involved in each stage of product life cycle development and works closely with cross functional teams from pre-sales, market analysis, sales & marketing, design, testing, implementation to support to get customer insights that translates to product enhancements.

• Effectively handled key clients/prospects like Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Continental, Kalinga Hospitals, Krishna Institute of Medical Science.

• Provided excellent Leadership in the areas of Product Delivery, Testing.

• Have been instrumental in defining and laying down the processes, procedures and a culture of innovation

• Implemented a flavor of Agile processes for successful product delivery Implemented Quality Process for the better quality deliverables

• Automation (UFT and Selenium) & Performance Testing (JMeter) Dhanush InfoTech Ltd, Hyderabad

Dhanush InfoTech is evaluated as a product and services development organization in the space of Health Care, eLearning, Human Resources Management, JJ Richards, JM Poles QA Manager and Project Manager Jul 2013 to Oct 2014

• Spearheaded the efforts of setting up a focused software testing services unit and grew it to individual service unit

• Built a team of technical members from scratch, and led them to success in a high pressure startup environment

• Driven and delivered a basket of projects that are key part of Dhanush Product Roadmap

• Effectively handled key clients/prospects like HIMS (NWH), IFMIS(DMS), JJR etc.

• Provided excellent Testing Leadership in the areas of Product Manual Testing, Automated Testing.

• Have been instrumental in defining and laying down the processes, procedures and a culture of innovation

• Implemented a flavor of Agile processes for successful product delivery

• Implemented Quality Process for the better-quality deliverables

• Automation (Selenium) & Performance Testing (JMeter) Cura Technologies Ltd, Hyderabad

Cura Technologies is evaluated as a ‘Visionary’ product development organization in the space of GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance Management) Software by Gartner. QA Manager and Services Manager Aug 2011 to Jun 2013

• Spearheaded the efforts of setting up a focused software services unit and grew it to revenues of the order of 120,000 USD per annum

• Built a team of technical members for Services from scratch, and led them to success in a high pressure startup environment

• Driven and delivered a basket of projects that are key part of Cura Product Suite and Cura Product Roadmap

• Effectively handled key clients/prospects like Coca Cola, Vodafone (UK, India), Con Edison, Harman etc.

• Provided excellent Leadership in the areas of Product definition, Solution and Automated Testing. Have been instrumental in defining and laying down the processes, procedures and a culture of innovation CONFERENCE TOOK PART IN: GRC Conference 2012, Mumbai and 2013, Abu Dhabi, and UAE High Radius, Hyderabad

HighRadius empowers corporations to modernize receivables in order to lower Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), minimize write-offs, and reduce operating expenses. We offer two product lines as well as implementation services. Receivables OnDemand is a cloud-based suite of solutions that automates and improves cash application, invoicing, and credit, collections, and deductions management. HighRadius Accelerators are certified solutions for SAP that enhance the automation available in the Receivables Management modules and reside natively in the application. We provide the most highly specialized expertise in SAP Receivables Management (formerly FSCM) and offer services to implement or optimize each of its modules. QA Manager Oct 2010 to Jul 2011

• Responsible for driving QA activities like quality delivery, People Management, Customer meetings.

• Responsible for all Products reporting, metrics collection and reporting, Products risk identification, mitigation and reporting and overall successful delivery.

• Managing Support teams for the customer change requests and escalations.

• Effectively handled key clients/prospects like Adidas, vTech, Carolina Pad, D&H, Coleman, Intuit, etc.

• Built a team of QA members for Services from scratch, and led them to success in a high pressure startup environment

Prime Technologies Ltd, Hyderabad

Prime Technology Group, Inc. a Global Software Engineering firm that offers a wide range of consulting and software development services that help our partners maximize their productivity in a cost-effective and flexible approach.

Prime offer solutions to clients in the following industries: Healthcare

Insurance

Enterprise Software Development

Senior QA Lead / Associate Manager May 2008 to Feb 2010

• Managed Team activities and delivered several complex enhancements to the flagship projects of Prime

• Effectively handled key clients/prospects like Sun Rx, Reveal Discovery, Con Edison, Harman etc.

• Built a team of QA members for Services from scratch, and led them to success in a high pressure startup environment

• Trainings on various tools and certifications

• Defect review meetings with client and verifying defect documentation to ensure standard procedure and description is maintained

• Attending conference and SCRUM stand up calls

• Assisting QA Director with communicating and achieving the company’s goals for product quality

• Keeping schedule awareness to Tester so that daily business targets can meet without risk

• Preparing documentation for Tasks and Goals to agree upon that

• Comparing each individual’s performance against established tasks, goals and schedules to measure effectiveness.

• Interacting with project team to address all critical requirements which could be any

• Monitoring/analyzing test results, collecting test metrics, conducting test reporting, implementing and conducting the performance test process

• Conducting team meets to discuss criticalities and to know the status

• Preparing of reports like (Bug report’s, Team, Metrics, Test Execution status (DSR, MSR), Resource and Compliance)

Virtusa Ltd, Hyderabad

Virtusa provides a broad range of IT consulting, systems implementation and application outsourcing services through an optimized global delivery model. Through our industry leading platforming process, Virtusa focuses on delivering business results by modernizing, rationalizing and consolidating the critical applications that support our clients' core business processes. We employ advanced processes like Agile to insure the right system is delivered the first time. This approach enables Virtusa to serve industry leaders as they seek to improve their customers' experience, expand market reach, and improve time to market and lower costs. QA Consultant / Associate QA Manager Jun 2006 to May 2008 Mar 2010 to Aug 2010

• Effectively handled key clients/prospects like British Telecom, JP Morgan Chase, Aetna, Metavante etc.

• Understanding various Business Specification documents

• Allocation of work and tracking

• Tracked defects using ‘Quality Center’ tool

• Retesting and Regression testing on newly released builds.

• Database, XML testing

• CIT support for ADLI UII

• Participation in daily, weekly status calls with stake holders

• QA POC for one of Virtusa location and handled 75 QA resources for that location

• Active QA participant in all QA activities, Trainings and meetings

• Automation (QTP)

NuNet Technologies Ltd (formerly Wapnet), Visakhapatnam NuNet is rapidly emerging as the outsourcing partner of choice for several Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Our focus on process, quality, range of service offerings and the proven track record in managing such engagements are some of the reasons, which have helped us to serve our customers better. NuNet is an ISO 9001-2000 certified company adopting SEI CMM Level 3 practices for software development. Our delivery centers in India, USA and New Zealand.

Software Engineer/ Team Lead Dec 2000 to May 2006

• Joined WapNet (then called as NuNet Technologies) as a Software Engineer. Within a year's time, I was in the top performers of the company for the quality deliverables .100% customer satisfaction on the quality of work, functional aspects of the projects.

• Joined as a .Net developer, but moved in to testing practices and started testing practices with a team of 6 members and groomed them for the quality of deliverables

• Mentoring teams, Trainings & K Talks on QA

• Participated in Testing and development of all application

• Implementation Knowledge of CMMi Level 3

• Worked as ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditor

• Experience in SQA Plans, reviews and Auditing and Internal Audits

• Effectively handled key clients/prospects like WizOffice, Hyper Factory, Mahi Ora(DMS), MedTech, Saint Colomban Sante, Real Smart, ThinQ, DCM Solutions etc.

• Automation (Win Runner, QTP, Xenu) & Performance Testing (Load Runner) CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS

• 2016: ISTBQ-ISEB Certified Software Test Manager

• 2016: ISTBQ-ISEB Certified Tester

• 2010 : Certified Scrum Master® certification with high grade

• 2008: Completed PMP internal certification from Virtusa

• 2008 : Awarded Best Resource at Prime Technologies

• 2007 : RAVE award from Virtusa

• 2004 : Received many appreciation mails from Customers for the Quality of work and deliverables

• 2002: Brain Bench certified Software Testing and Software Quality Assurance

• 2000: Certified Application Developer from IBM Authorized Center for Education, Visakhapatnam

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