Mohan Gummadi
Dayton,NJ
Summary
With a proven track record, I spearheaded the launch of Enterprise Quality Engineering, revolutionizing quality assurance through automation and strategic leadership. My expertise in Test automation and team leadership reduced resource costs by 40% and accelerating testing cycles, showcasing my ability to merge technical skills with managerial acumen to drive efficiency and innovation.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Quality Assurance
Verisk Analytics Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
03.2020 - Current
- Enterprise Quality Engineering (EQE) Launch: Pioneered the development of EQE, establishing a comprehensive vision, strategy, and direction. This effort standardized and elevated the quality management processes across the organization.
- Quality Engineering Overhaul: Spearheaded the revitalization of the company-wide QE by replacing outdated technologies and practices. This initiative not only updated hardware and software, but also involved rebuilding teams and eliminating wasteful processes.
- Cost Reduction: Achieved a 40% reduction in resource costs through strategic restructuring and enhanced collaboration efforts, streamlining processes, and improving the utilization of resources.
- Automation of Test Processes: Streamlined testing by automating test processes, which significantly improved the time to market for new products and services.
- Enhanced Metrics and Reliability: Leveraged cutting-edge technologies, tools, and frameworks to improve the visibility and reliability of metrics and results. This initiative fostered a more transparent and consistent approach to quality across the enterprise.
- Cultivating Innovation: Instituted a variety of events and activities, such as Idea Time, Test-a-Thons, roundtables, and crowd automation. These initiatives revolutionized the approach to nurturing creativity and innovation.
Manager, Quality Assurance
Verisk Analytics Inc.
Jersey City, New Jersey
09.2014 - 02.2020
- Provided technical leadership and strategic direction to the Testing Organization (TO).
- Planned and developed effective test architecture per organizational needs.
- Responsible for the overall quality of deliverables across all parameters, both functional and non-functional, including performance, security, usability, and automation.
- I have been involved in driving organization-wide quality process initiatives and their implementation to ensure the quality of deliverables.
- SME for software testing standards, processes, methodology, and tools.
- Created a Testing Center of Excellence, which includes automation and manual testing with popular automation testing tools like Selenium, Cucumber, JMeter, UFT, JIRA, and test strategies like TDD, ATDD, and BDD.
- Development of a robust automation framework, as per the organization and nature of applications.
- Managing QA teams and counterpart to the development architect.
Test Automation Architect
Techno-Comp Inc
Somerset, NJ
06.2012 - 08.2014
- Worked with the Product Manager and the Business Analyst to develop the Automation Test Plan.
- Providing project estimates.
- Managing the automation development team.
- Providing knowledge transfer to the automation team.
- Designed an automation test strategy and a hybrid-driven framework using various automation tools, like Selenium and UFT.
- Review of the automation scripts to ensure all the manual test cases and requirements are covered in the regression suites.
- Best practices implementation and ROI calculations.
- Performed regression testing using QTP and Selenium WebDriver on every new build of the application.
- Identification of defects, Defects creation and Tracking using HP Quality Center
- Generating daily test execution status reports and reporting to the project teams.
- Prepared status reports and dashboards to report the project status.
- Participated in business review meetings to report the project status and planning the upcoming automation development projects
QA Test Lead
Wipro Technologies
New York, NY
06.2008 - 06.2012
- Worked with Product Manager to develop Test Strategy and Test Planning.
- Worked on Agile Environment with daily defect review meetings, stand up meetings, burn-down charts presentations and reviews.
- Peer review test cases developed by other QA team members, and advise, point out, and discuss possible complex scenarios to ensure that requirements are completely covered.
- Conducted periodic review and status meetings with PMO and Test Manager.
- Assisted in defect investigation and escalation. Prepared defect reports as per severity and priority.
Senior Test Engineer
Aon Hewitt
Mumbai, India
03.2003 - 06.2008
- Developing test scenarios based on business requirements.
- Preparation of automation test scripts using QTP and linking of Test Cases / scripts in the Quality Center with the Requirements
- Execute test scripts for SIT, and validate the results in QC.
- Performed bug reporting and tracking using TestDirector.
- Active participation in bug resolution calls with the on-site development team and business analyst.
Education
Experienced Leader Program
Harward Business School
02-2022
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
Hyderabad 04-2002
Skills
- Testing Center of Excellence (COE)
- Team leadership
- Test Automation
- Selenium, Cucumber, Java, and BDD/ATDD
- Agile Scrum
- Mentor and QA coach
Accomplishments
- 2016 Env Award winner for establishing Testing COE
Timeline
Director of Quality Assurance
Verisk Analytics Inc.
03.2020 - Current
Manager, Quality Assurance
Verisk Analytics Inc.
09.2014 - 02.2020
Test Automation Architect
Techno-Comp Inc
06.2012 - 08.2014
QA Test Lead
Wipro Technologies
06.2008 - 06.2012
Senior Test Engineer
Aon Hewitt
03.2003 - 06.2008
Experienced Leader Program
Harward Business School
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
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