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Kumutha Reddy

Chennai

Summary

  • Dynamic leader of application testing teams offering 13 years of experience in managing high revenue, mission-critical projects, overseeing teams/projects application testing activities.
  • Efficiently handled and head various teams (up to team of 10-15)including providing trainings,co-ordinating team meetings and preparing reports.
  • Having 7 years of working experience in managing Agile projects.
  • Having good experience in setting up larger agile team and co-ordination between offshore and onshore.
  • Provide end-to-end testing support for time and business critical projects by leading test strategy, plan, execution, documentation,defect management and status reporting.
  • Worked as lead for UAT testing, worked closely with business team.
  • Good experience in testing co-ordination between offshore and onshore, multiple vendors in larger projects, worked as escalation point of contact.
  • Implements core project management tools, methods and best practices to assemble testing .plans that align with the project/release and with expectations of sponsors and stakeholders, and meets business needs.
  • Good experience in handling multiple projects simultaneously and interacting different stake holders

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior QA Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2020 - Current

AstraZeneca:

  • Responsible for test planning, test estimation, test execution and defect management.
  • Responsible for offshore set up, ramp up, testing team set up. Managed a 15 member project testing team.
  • Working as a UAT Test Lead
  • Prepared validation (IQ, OQ and PQ) protocols and reports
  • Responsible for defect management, status reporting.
  • Prepared Test Plan Document, Requirement Trackability Matrix Document
  • Review and Approves all project Test Deliverable.
  • Co-Ordination between different stake holders/multiple lines. Handing multiple testing projects with in the Line.
  • Working closely with Business team as part of UAT testing.

Test Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2015 - 03.2020

Trafigura:

  • Responsible for Test Approach,Planning,Estimation, Test Scenarios/Scripts, Test Execution Cycle Plans.
  • Core domain knowledge on Commodity, Refined Metals, oil and gas trading Domain through multiple applications
  • Co-Ordination between different stake holders/Multiple vendors.(Offshore and Onsite)
  • Involved in System testing, Mobile Testing-MAC Pro, Cross Browser Testing
  • Played the role of Defect Manager in Offshore, discussed and validated the same with Clients and Developers for getting the right fixes in the Next release.

Functional Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2011 - 01.2015

GlaxoSmithKline :

  • Involved in Test Estimations, Test Planning, Review, Defect Management and Test environments set up.
  • Responsible for Test Approach documents, Test Scenarios/Scripts, Test Execution Cycle Plans.
  • Responsible for Functional, System Testing and regression testing.
  • Training New team members on business and process flow.
  • Co-Ordination with the development and Testing Team of different Application. Co-Ordination between different stake holders/Multiple vendors.(Offshore and Onsite)
  • Preparation of computer system validation, process validation, & software quality assurance as per FDA regulation, documentary validation protocols.

Education

Masters in Computer Applications - Computer And Information Sciences

VIT University
Vellore
07.2011

Skills

  • Agile,Waterfall and Production support
  • HPALM Quality Center
  • JIRA
  • Browerstack
  • Service Now
  • Testing Applications

Timeline

Senior QA Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2020 - Current

Test Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2015 - 03.2020

Functional Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2011 - 01.2015

Masters in Computer Applications - Computer And Information Sciences

VIT University
Kumutha Reddy