Scrum Master Quality Assurance
Resume:
Subrahmanyam Bathala
Test Lead ScrumMaster Automation Testing Expert
CONTACT
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Hyderabad, Telangana, India
KEY SKILLS
Functional, Automation, API,
DB, Security, and Mobile
Testing
Automation:
Selenium, Appium,
Playwright, Java, Python,
TypeScript, JavaScript
API & Security Testing:
Bruno, Postman, REST
Assured, Acunetix, Vega
DB & Query Language:
MySQL, SQL Server, SQL
Test Management:
TestRail, Jira, Confluence,
Git, Jenkins
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
Agile Methodologies:
Scrum, Kanban, SAFe
Documentation: BRD, FSD,
Use Cases, User Stories
OBJECTIVE
I bring over 16+ years of experience as a dedicated Test Lead and Scrum Master from top IT firms (Bank of America, Saggezza, Aclara) in Web, Mobile, API, Security, and Automation testing. Proven track record in leading distributed teams, optimizing performance, and delivering precise and productive software testing results.
WORK HISTORY
MAY 2006 – DEC 2009
SR S/W TEST ENGINEER Merrill Lynch Mumbai, IND
JAN 2010 – JULY 2013
SR ANALYST APPS-PROG I Bank of America Chennai, IND JUNE 2014 – MAY 2018
TEST LEAD, SCRUM MASTER Saggezza Chennai, IND
MAR 2019 – MAY 2024
QUALITY ENGINEER-SENIOR Aclara Hyderabad, IND
EDUCATION
SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY, TIRUPATI
• MCA: Master Of Computer Applications (Master’s)
• BCA: Bachelor Of Computer Applications (Bachelor’s) CERTIFICATIONS
• ISTQB-CTFL v4.0
• PSM I
• SAFe PMPO
• AWS
• C-WAST
• Generative AI
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Over 9+ years of people management expertise encompassing onshore and offshore collaboration, demonstrated through leadership of a 9-member QA team
• Over 7+ years of SME experience in dealing with different products and having great expertise in providing training, support, and guidance to internal teams and customers.
• Spearheaded the adoption of a test automation framework that reduced manual testing effort by 60% accelerating release cycles
• Managed UAT environment setup and facilitated UAT sessions with end users, collecting feedback and ensuring their requirements were met before production release
• Coached development teams as scrum master on Agile principles and practices, fostering a self- organizing, high-performing team.
• Collaborated with Product Owners to manage the product backlog, ensuring that all items were clearly defined and prioritized.
• Substantial hands-on experience with test planning, design, execution, and reporting through a combination of structured testing techniques and practices
• Improved software quality and customer experience by implementing efficient processes, driving towards consistency, leveraging tools, using industry best practices, and regularly measuring and improved
• Facilitated meetings, workshops, and interviews with key stakeholders to refine requirements and drive consensus
• Led initiatives to decrease production defects by 90% through the implementation of improved testing strategies and early-stage defect detection.
• Expertise in mobile app testing on different mobile platforms such as Android, Windows, and iOS devices.
• Strong aptitude for functional software testing, reporting, and root cause analysis
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
• Over 6 months of working Experience at Client location (London, UK) PROJECTS
• ProField SnoPUD, CONED, PSE Aclara Mar 2019 – May 2024
• P.F Chang’s Bistro/Peiwei P.F Chang’s Saggezza July 2016 – May 2018
• TruVantage Standard Bank Saggezza May 2015 – June 2016
• Lube Insights CALERO Saggezza June 2014 – Apr 2015
• CCM-Client Charging Module Bank of America Jan 2011 – July 2013
• TESS, MEDUSA Bank of America May 2009 – Dec 2010
• CTM/CBAR Regression Merrill Lynch June 2008 – Apr 2009
• COGNOS – EMEA Weekly Report Merrill Lynch FEB 2007 – May 2008
• GPB - Global Pitch Book Merrill Lynch May 2006 - Jan 2007 PROJECT ANNEXURE
Project 1: ProField
Client: SnoPUD, Austin, PEC, SALEM, DEF, CONED, PSE Role: Quality Engineer-Senior, ACLARA India Pvt Ltd Dates: Mar 2019 – May 2024
Technologies: Selenium Web driver, Playwright, JavaScript, TypeScript, POM, Appium, Python, Postman, REST Assured, Acunetix, DevOps-CI/CD, Jira
Key Responsibilities:
• Participated in pre-internal technical review meetings, integrated product team, technical overview, product enhancement, and engineering, representing the test team and providing test schedule input for the presented impact assessments.
• Responsible for product backlog prioritization and owns product commitments and outcomes
• Working successfully with people within and across the teams to build agreements, guidelines, and standards to resolve issues and create consistent practices
• Communicate with management all test issues, including cost, timing, success, and failures
• Working effectively with remote teams across geographical boundaries in a fast-paced, diverse, agile environment
• Responsible for environmental management. Creation, upgrade, and maintenance of test environments, creation, and maintenance of test data.
• Provide Inputs and review the design, development, & execution of manual and automated test solutions.
• Ensuring visibility, traceability, and control of the testing process to deliver high-quality software
• Complete ownership of writing Selenium web & mobile automation scripts and running them on real Android devices
• Review and Maintenance of existing automated test solutions. Project 2: P.F Chang’s Bistro/Peiwei Mobile apps
Client: P.F Chang’s, Peiwei
Role: Test Lead, Saggezza India Pvt Ltd
Dates: Nov 2017 – May 2018
Technologies: Selenium Web driver, Java, POM, Appium, Jira, Confluence, Charles Proxy, JMeter, SQL Key Responsibilities:
• Led a team of senior QA resources in assuring the overall quality and integrity of multiple applications throughout the SDLC
• Responsible for test plan, test case, and test tool design, implementation, and organization for enterprise security data collection, monitoring
• Taken ownership of test assets, tools, and best practices to ensure a smooth testing cycle and compliance.
• Provided training to all new testers starting from test tools employed to setting up the same, and guided the team in understanding the requirements and developing test cases to cover testing of the functionality.
• Working on Android & iOS app testing for P.F. Chang’s, Peiwei
• Review and Maintenance of existing automated test solutions.
• Working effectively with remote teams across geographical boundaries in a fast-paced, diverse, agile environment
• Responsible for environmental management. Creation, upgrade, and maintenance of test environments, creation and maintenance of test data. Project 3: P.F Chang’s Bistro/Peiwei
Client: P.F Chang’s, Peiwei
Role: ScrumMaster, Test Lead, Saggezza India Pvt Ltd Dates: July 2016 – Oct 2017
Technologies: Selenium Web driver, Java, POM, Appium, Jira, Test rail, SQL. Key Responsibilities:
• Building and managing a team of engineers to develop and execute the test plans that meet
• Provide leadership in the definition of validation requirements and testing strategies
• Communicate with management all test issues, including cost, timing, success, and failures
• Environment management. Creation, upgrade, and maintenance of test environments, creation and maintenance of test data.
• Provide Inputs and review the design, development, & execution of manual and automated test solutions.
• Ensuring visibility, traceability, and control of the testing process to deliver high-quality software
• Drive for continuous improvement of QA process and tools.
• Good Understanding of SDLC and STLC.
Project 4: TruVantage
Client: Standard Bank
Role: Test Lead, ScrumMaster, Saggezza India Pvt Ltd Dates: May 2015 – June 2016
Technologies: Big Data, Manual and database testing, JIRA, SQL Server, Hadoop, HBase, HDFS Key Responsibilities:
• Communicating scrum progress, risks, and issue analysis to stakeholders
• Business unit management to recommend and implement changes to product, business practices to drive continuous improvement.
• Successful experience in managing all aspects of cross-business unit programs.
• Active participation in requirement gathering and creating test plans for various phases of testing.
• Test case review with business owners and getting the test cases signed off.
• Writing automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver.
• Working on HBase using the Phoenix JDBC library to validate data in TruVantage.
• Ability to effectively communicate plans, proposals, and results.
• Managing the QA team.
Project 5: Lube Insights
Client: CALERO
Role: Test Lead, Saggezza India Pvt Ltd
Dates: June 2014 – Apr 2015
Technology: Manual and database testing, JIRA, Confluence, SQL Server, Hadoop, HBase, HDFS Key Responsibilities:
• Helping onshore ScrumMaster as proxy ScrumMaster from offshore.
• Involved in requirement gathering, data analysis, and enhancement of the existing product.
• Writing automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver.
• Handling testing activities and tracking bugs for different phases of testing.
• Testing the whole application and monitoring production during the up hours.
• Write complex SQL queries and stored procedures to generate test results/reports.
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