Qa Lead Project Management

GOWRI GANESAN

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

● QA Lead with expertise in all phases of testing for Windows, Web and Mobile applications, ethereum DAPPs and Services

● Seeking a QA Lead / Manager Position with responsibilities including Test planning for test case design, Test Execution, Reporting, and Test project management. TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Ethereum: Geth (Mainnet, Ropsten), TestRpc, Ganache, Truffle, Metamask Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro 10.0, Test Director, Test Complete, TFS, Trello, ManuScript Platforms: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, 8, 10/Azure, Ubuntu Bug Tracking Tools AXOSOFT on Time, Evaluated FogBugz, Trello, Bugzilla, Mantis Software: Microsoft office 2007 Suite, QTP Defect Tracker, Microsoft Dynamic CRM, Oracle 11i, Sharepoint 2007, SQL Server, GIS, iOS, Visual Studio, Git, Node,Teams./ Dev Azure

OTHER SKILLS:

● Effectively manage a test team (Usually 5 or more)

● Understand the testing process

● Implement the Testing Process.

● Define scope of testing in projects

● Deploy and Manage test frameworks

● Implement and record QA Metrics

● Manage and select QA Tools & Processes.

● Creative thinking and organizational skills

● Effective listening skills

● Decision making and negotiating skills

● Determination and Diplomacy skills

● Team Management skills and retaining skilled resources by instilling leadership in them and provide guidance to junior resources as and where needed which would help them to grow

● Ability to learn new technologies in fast pace.

● Dynamic in adapting to project needs and proactive in nature.

● Established the fun and conducive environment for all resources to make sure they have maximum throughput.

CERTIFICATIONS:

● Training: GNIIT – Software Engineering, NIIT, India

● MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)

● MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist-ASP .Net) certified PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lloyds Register,Houston,TX June2018- Till Date

Sr.QA Analyst / Functional Analyst

Partial Product Owner

Domain : Oil & Gas/ Asset safety and Inspections

Accomplishments :

● Two times in a year Awarded for the best performer .

● Given more challenging responsibilities often

● Used to manage QA testers and guided /Managed them to complete the sprint successfully

● Learnt and trained the Automation tool (Selenium ) Quickly and awarded with quick learner Award

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Document, tracks, and communicates test results, analysis, and unresolved problems.

● Attended scrum meetings with Business Analysts and Software Developers.

● Served as lead project team manager and quality assurance (QA) lead for the Employer-Sponsored Products line.

● Used Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) /Dev Azure to create QA Tasks for the bugs created.

● Worked on distributed test automation execution on different environments by using Selenium Grid, Continuous Integration Continuous Development- Jenkins.

● Collaboration with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements .

● Defining vision for the team’s product

● Create a product roadmap based on this vision .

● Managing product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements .

● Overseeing all the stages of the product development

● developing user stories

● Liaising between stakeholders and dev team

● Participating in everyday scrum meeting

ObjectWin Technologies Houston, TX Jan2018- June2018 QA – LR Software

Domain: Oil and Gas

Client: Lloyds Register

Lloyd’s Register Energy focuses on safeguarding people, assets and operations on land, sea and in the air across the Energy industry. Through five groups, they deliver independent assurance and expert advice to companies operating high-risk, capital-intensive assets, from power plants to offshore drilling rigs.

At Lloyd’s Register my primary responsibility was to Plan and design detailed, well-structured test cases and to generate test scenarios based on functional specifications and technical requirements, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Backend testing (SQL), Integration testing, User acceptance testing, and was also helping with Requirements gathering.

Roles and Responsibilities::

● Expanded the regression test cases to be more comprehensive.

● Prepared a lot of knowledge documents about their new system and features, capabilities, permissions, security.

Primary Roles/Responsibility:

● Identified the scope of the testing required for a particular release based on the requirement documents.

● Understand the business requirements clearly and create Test Plan after discussions with the test team and have it reviewed and approved by management /development team.

● Identified the required metrics and work to inherent goal for the test team as well as what is being tested.

● Identified the needed testing effort by calculating the sizing needed for the given release and plan the effort needed for the same.

● Identified any delays in achieving the schedule and hold discussions with testers to figure out the issues they may be facing and strive to resolve them Consurgo Inc., Houston, TX Oct 2015- Dec 2017

QA Lead

Domain: Energy Trading Risk Management –Oil and Gas Client: Sinclair, NGL.

Web Site: http://www.Consurgoinc.com/

Role Description:

Consurgo Inc offers a tools to provide the benefits for ETRM (Energy Trading Risk Management) domain by decision matrix that is tailored to each of the decision point along the position lifecycles that could be engaged easily, rapidly and accurately.

TMS is a powerful cloud based tool used to make the Investigative level – Audit and accounting investigative activities, Trade lifecycle level – Individual transaction / Individual strategy management / controls, Trading Desk Management level – Aggregate transactions / Long term planning and hedging management / Performance management. Group/Division level – Capital utilization / group performance management Board level – Capital Allocation / risk adjusted rates of return Consurgo Apps Tickets/ Nomin App Cloud and Mobile app allows users to access transaction data via mobile App/GUI as well as archived Data over a period of time. This policy helps to maintain strict guidelines for allowing users to access and utilize data while also helping Consurgo manage database size and efficiencies.

At CONSURGOINC my primary responsibility was to manage and perform Test planning (prepare estimates, timelines), Test case preparation, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Backend testing

(SQL), Integration testing, User acceptance testing, and was also helping with Requirements gathering, creating user stories and managing the onsite QA Team. Accomplishments:

● Established the QA processes and implemented various best practices working with Development, Build/Release teams,

● Expanded the regression test cases to be more comprehensive.

● Prepared a lot of knowledge documents about their new system and features, capabilities, permissions, security.

● Managed and Coordinated with 4 member development team.

● Co-Ordinated with 3 member QA team to get daily updates on bug Fixes and deployments Primary Roles/Responsibility:

● Identified the scope of the testing required for a particular release based on the requirement documents in TFS.

● Understand the business requirements clearly and create a Test Plan after discussions with the test team and have it reviewed and approved by the management /development team.

● Identified the required metrics and work to inherent goal for the test team as well as what is being tested.Identified the needed testing effort by calculating the sizing needed for the given release and plan the effort needed for the same.Identified the skills are needed and balance the test resources accordingly with those needs based on their own interests as well.

● Identified the resource’s skill gaps and plan training and education sessions for the identified test resources.

● During the Testing Cycle monitor the test progress by consistently assessing the work assignment to each of the resources and rebalanced or re-allocate them as required.

● Identified any delays in achieving the schedule and hold discussions with testers to figure out the issues they may be facing and strive to resolve them

● Conducted the meetings within the test team to make sure everyone is aware of what fellow team member are doing.

Precision Document Solutions, Carrollton, TX Oct 2014 – Oct, 2015 QA Lead

Domain: Health care

Client: Major Hospitals.

Web Site: http://www.pdsnow.com/

Accomplishments:

● Improved the QA processes, implemented various best practices working with Development, Build/Release teams

● Expanded the regression test cases to be more comprehensive.

● Prepared a lot of knowledge documents about existing system features, capabilities, permissions, security.

● Evaluated two testing tools, Telerik and Test Complete, and recommended Test complete as the preferred automation testing tool

● Co-ordinated with 8 member development team.

● Co-Ordinated with 4 member offshore team to get daily updates on bug Fixes and deployments Primary Roles/Responsibility:

● Understand the business requirements clearly and create Test Design, Test cases, user story based on the requirement, and creating the functional test plan covering all user scenarios to validate the Acceptance criteria for the core functionality or a feature of an application.

● Actively Participated throughout the SDLC process team starting from requirement gathering to User Acceptance testing.

● Participated in Daily scrum (Agile-Stand-Up) and raised the impediments and the status of the QA Team status

● Responsible for accurate internal application test planning, design, execution, issue tracking, review, issue resolution and communication of related status.

● Participated in the Client demo and meeting with the End-users (Actual user) to understand the accuracy of the functionality and the clear requirements for that functionality.

● Tested Individual modules as stand-alone applications, and then deployed to the existing system to do the integration testing .After the successful integration testing, performed the regression testing on the application.

● Responsible for effectively communicating and tracking issues discovered during testing and working directly with application developers towards issue resolutions and report to the manager about the bugs through the TFS bug tracking or in Excel report.

● Setting the real time test data using the scripts from the development team or sometimes manually adding to the Database using the Insert statement in SQL.

● Responsible for testing the support issues from after Deployment, Hot-Fixes, bugs reports from the implementation team within the promised timeline.

● Responsible for efficiently communicating test status, risks, mitigations and assessments to co-workers and management.

● Work with other members of the department to understand user issues and develop solutions both as bug fixes and enhancements.

● Write SQL with JOINs to query data and research issues in relational databases.

● Delivered the completed product on time, on schedule.

● Conducted Performance test, and analyzed and presented the results.

● Provide end-user technical support and troubleshooting as needed.

● XML, CSS testing.

Contract Land Staff, Sugarland, TX Jan 2013 – Sep 2014 Senior QA Analyst

Domain: Right of Way

Client: Contract Land Staff, Spectra, Keystone, Enbridge Web Site: http://www.contractlandstaff.com

Role Description:

CLSLiNK® is a powerful Web-based, GIS-enabled solution for successfully managing land assets. CLSLiNK’ s robust Right of Way records and project management database links finance, engineering, surveying, GIS, legal, operations, and other functions within an organization, thereby streamlining the entire Right of Way lifecycle.

I tested ASP.Net based web applications, GIS applications, JavaScript (Bootstrap) based applications, iOS apps, and SQL backend / data migration projects. Accomplishments:

Improved the QA processes, implemented various best practices working with Development, Build/Release teams

Expanded the regression test cases to be more comprehensive. Prepared a lot of knowledge documents about existing system features, capabilities, permissions, security.

Evaluated two testing tools, Telerik and Test Complete, and recommended Test complete as the preferred automation testing tool

Co-ordinated with an 8 member development team.

Primary Roles/Responsibility:

● Understand the business requirements clearly and create Test cases, user story based on the requirement, and creating the functional test plan covering all user scenarios

● Actively Participated throughout the SDLC process. Starting from requirement gathering to User Acceptance testing.

● Responsible for accurate internal application test planning, design, execution, issue tracking, review, issue resolution and communication of related status.

● Tested Individual modules as stand-alone applications, and then deployed to the existing system to do the integration testing .After the successful integration testing, performed the regression testing on the application.

● Responsible for effectively communicating and tracking issues discovered during testing and working directly with application developers towards issue resolutions.

● Responsible for efficiently communicating test status, risks, mitigations and assessments to co-workers and management.

● Work with other members of the department to understand user issues and develop solutions both as bug fixes and enhancements.

● Learn to utilize basic SQL to query data and research issues in relational databases.

● Delivered the completed product on time, on schedule.

● Conducted Performance test, and analyzed and presented the results.

● Provide end-user technical support and troubleshooting as needed.

● XML, CSS testing

● Mobile application testing.

Universal Weather & Aviation Inc., Houston, TX Apr 2012 – Dec 2012 Senior QA Analyst

Project: Core Connections – CRM Implementation

Domain: CRM

Client: Universal Aviation, Houston, USA

Project Description:

For 50+ years and more than 2.5 million trip legs, Universal Aviation has delivered solutions to meet Aviation clients' unique requirements around the world, including Trip Support, Fuel Programs, Ground Support and Flight Scheduling. Core connections – CRM Implementation project aims at replacing Oracle 11i applications with Microsoft Dynamic CRM to handle the Customer Info, Contacts, Billing, and Credits. This will enable Universal Aviation to better serve their Customers, and will act as a one-stop solution for all Customer information. The testing project involves requirements review, test planning, test case design, and testing of the Data Migration and the CRM System. Primary Roles/Responsibility:

● Reviewed Requirements and Design documents in testing perspective as well as coordinated with analysts for clarifications and issues.

● Creation of test scenario, test cases, test data, and maintain them in QC

● Participate in Release walkthroughs with Vendors/Implementation team

● Executed the test cases and tracked, reported the defects according to the defect status.

● Participate in Triage meetings with Development team for issue isolation and Root cause isolation.

● Work with Project Manager and assist with Test Cycles Planning, Defects Prioritization

● Responsible for writing User Acceptance tests, review with Clients.

● Working with the Traceability Matrix

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