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Lavanya Ballurgi

Lake Mary,FL

Summary

Senior QA/Test Lead with 15 years of experience in testing software applications in Manual, Automation and SOA Testing. Experience in leading/managing a team of 10 resources on the project. Experienced in leading testing efforts with the Product team, Development team, onshore and offshore QA team. Managing design, development and execution of the entire test process, track and report the progress of test execution, document and coordinate the detailed execution plan for all cycles to support testing.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Lead

Synechron
02.2022 - Current
  • Leading the testing team involving activities starting from requirement gathering, design discussions, test planning, execution, and defect management.
  • Coordinating between the onsite and offshore teams
  • Client facing and acting as a single point of contact to the all-stake holders from client side
  • Collaborating with multiple stake holders like developers, Product owner, Scrum masters, Product manager to plan test schedules, resources, and deliverables.
  • Everyday touch base with the clients to communicate the progress of the project for all 5 different boards.
  • Managing and monitoring the offshore team working on multiple scrum boards
  • Daily connect with offshore team to get the project updates and clarify/address the issues which they may face
  • Mentoring and guiding the new team members to ramp up quickly to contribute effectively and efficiently.
  • Creating the test plan, identifying risks, and working on mitigation plans.
  • Coordinating with Test data management team to provide the test data to different stakeholders.
  • Coordinating the releases happening across different boards and involve in production validations
  • Demoing the iteration output to clients
  • Preparing and sharing the WSR, Execution status reports, Release reports and Downtime time tracker across the ART
  • Identify potential risks in the testing process and develop mitigation strategies
  • Managing and maintaining the test automation scripts developed using Selenium web Driver
  • Industry: Payment

Test Lead

Deloitte consulting LLP
05.2019 - 01.2022
  • Lead the testing team involving activities starting from requirement gathering, design discussions, test planning, execution, and defect management.
  • Having a thorough understanding of the Integrated Eligibility and childcare applications.
  • Working on Providing and refining the testing estimates.
  • Coordinate test design and test execution activities (communicate overall schedule, track status, etc.)
  • Identify process gaps and implement various solutions to overcome challenges faced and the lessons learned.
  • Prioritizing the testing areas, test objectives, creating traceability matrix, test reports, and test calendar.
  • Creating the test plan, identifying risks, and working on mitigation plans.
  • Coordinate with the environment support team to ensure environments are ready and dates are established for test runs.
  • Provides technical and process leadership for the test team.
  • Monitor test preparation, execution rates of tests, and adherence to defect SLAs to drive quality and speed to market.
  • Support all quality initiatives that are implemented during each Sprint.
  • Assist in the development of quality assurance and testing policies, standards, and procedures.
  • Adhere to QA & Test processes to support global QA Testing activities.
  • Work closely with off-shore employees and 3rd party vendors to deliver projects to time, cost, and quality requirements.
  • Proficient at scheduling testing and meeting delivery deadlines
  • Preparing Test Strategy and Test PLanning documents
  • Industry: Integrated Eligibility; Service Area: Technology

Solution Specialist

Deloitte Consulting LLP
05.2017 - 04.2019
  • Executed end to end functional system and Integration testing of Optum 360 with different Ancillaries
  • Executed integration cases on mainframe applications to test Ancillary systems for multiple hospital facilities.
  • Responsible for creating test data for multiple projects.
  • Operating on near-shore team to coordinate with Clients and off-shore team to 6. complete testing.
  • Create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • Involvement in meetings right from the requirement phase
  • Coming up with analysis document and providing test estimation for the same.
  • Conducting the daily QA sync up meetings
  • Conducting Knowledge Transfer sessions for the new scope items
  • Delegating the work to testing team and tracking the same
  • Reviewing of test scenarios, Test cases prepared by team
  • Coordination between the onsite and offshore team to manage and address the defects
  • Demonstrating the iteration output developed and tested in each iteration
  • Delegating the work to the testing team and tracking the same
  • Establishing communication between different stakeholders by scheduling the meetings
  • Preparation of Test plan, Test execution and Defect reports
  • Industry: Healthcare & Insurance; Service Area: Technology

Test Specialist

Mindtree ltd
02.2016 - 04.2017
  • Executed end to end functional system and Integration testing of Optum 360 with different Ancillaries
  • Executed integration cases on mainframe applications to test Ancillary systems for multiple hospital facilities.
  • Responsible for creating test data for multiple projects.
  • Operating on near-shore team to coordinate with Clients and off-shore team to 6. complete testing.
  • Create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • Involvement in meetings right from the requirement phase
  • Coming up with analysis document and providing test estimation for the same.
  • Conducting the daily QA sync up meetings
  • Conducting Knowledge Transfer sessions for the new scope items
  • Delegating the work to testing team and tracking the same
  • Reviewing of test scenarios, Test cases prepared by team
  • Coordination between the onsite and offshore team to manage and address the defects
  • Demonstrating the iteration output developed and tested in each iteration
  • Delegating the work to the testing team and tracking the same
  • Establishing communication between different stakeholders by scheduling the meetings
  • Preparation of Test plan, Test execution and Defect reports
  • Industry: Health care and Insurance; Service Area: Technology

Test Specialist

Mindtree ltd
07.2010 - 01.2016
  • Executed end to end functional system and Integration testing of Optum 360 with different Ancillaries
  • Executed integration cases on mainframe applications to test Ancillary systems for multiple hospital facilities.
  • Responsible for creating test data for multiple projects.
  • Operating on near-shore team to coordinate with Clients and off-shore team to 6. complete testing.
  • Create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • Involvement in meetings right from the requirement phase
  • Coming up with analysis document and providing test estimation for the same.
  • Conducting the daily QA sync up meetings
  • Conducting Knowledge Transfer sessions for the new scope items
  • Delegating the work to testing team and tracking the same
  • Reviewing of test scenarios, Test cases prepared by team
  • Coordination between the onsite and offshore team to manage and address the defects
  • Demonstrating the iteration output developed and tested in each iteration
  • Delegating the work to the testing team and tracking the same
  • Establishing communication between different stakeholders by scheduling the meetings
  • Preparation of Test plan, Test execution and Defect reports
  • Industry: Travel & Transport Sector: Airline

Test Engineer

iGATE Global Solutions
06.2007 - 07.2010
  • Executed end to end functional system and Integration testing of Optum 360 with different Ancillaries
  • Executed integration cases on mainframe applications to test Ancillary systems for multiple hospital facilities.
  • Responsible for creating test data for multiple projects.
  • Operating on near-shore team to coordinate with Clients and off-shore team to 6. complete testing.
  • Create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • Involvement in meetings right from the requirement phase
  • Coming up with analysis document and providing test estimation for the same.
  • Conducting the daily QA sync up meetings
  • Conducting Knowledge Transfer sessions for the new scope items
  • Delegating the work to testing team and tracking the same
  • Reviewing of test scenarios, Test cases prepared by team
  • Coordination between the onsite and offshore team to manage and address the defects
  • Demonstrating the iteration output developed and tested in each iteration
  • Delegating the work to the testing team and tracking the same
  • Establishing communication between different stakeholders by scheduling the meetings
  • Preparation of Test plan, Test execution and Defect reports
  • Industry: Banking; Service Area: Technology

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications

Visveswaraih Technological University
01.2006

Skills

  • Strong leadership skills and experience in managing teams (10people)
  • Excellent client-facing skills
  • Demonstrated ability to multi-task and work independently, self-starter
  • Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Demonstrated capability to lead a team ranging from entry through senior level SE and/or SME to accomplish a technical function being supported
  • In-depth knowledge and experience with Agile software development methodologies

Certification

Certified Scrum Master, ISTQB, CSTE, UI Path, Comptia Cloud Essentials

Domains

Payments, Integrated Eligibility, BSFI, Travel & Transport, Healthcare & Insurance, Hospitality

Tools

Jira, Jama, Selenium webdriver, Soap UI PRO, UI Path, Qualitia, ALM, Altova, VSTS, Appium, SQL, Octane Developer, Robo 3T, Eclipse, Saucelabs, Power BI

Timeline

Test Lead

Synechron
02.2022 - Current

Test Lead

Deloitte consulting LLP
05.2019 - 01.2022

Solution Specialist

Deloitte Consulting LLP
05.2017 - 04.2019

Test Specialist

Mindtree ltd
02.2016 - 04.2017

Test Specialist

Mindtree ltd
07.2010 - 01.2016

Test Engineer

iGATE Global Solutions
06.2007 - 07.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications

Visveswaraih Technological University

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