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SESHU CHEVENDRA

Edison,NEW JERSEY

Summary

Certified Software Test Professional with 16 years’ experience in Test Process, Management and Execution. Test Process Streamlining in line with project requirements. Initiate Test activities kick off, timelines, efforts estimation, status reports and risk assessments. Excel in creating Test Strategy, Test plans, Release Notes, pinpoint software defects, Defect triaging, close open defects and validate functionality. Selenium and Web Services automation experience for Web applications and Interface (API) testing. Close monitoring on Quality deliverables and sign off. Involved in Test Plan and Test case Reviews. Defined Hours Estimations for each stage of Testing from Requirement Analysis to Delivery Testing. Exercising Defect prevention and corrective action. GAP/Root Cause analysis report generation. Defined and maintaining Traceability Matrix, Test Metrics to ensure the test coverage and Product Quality and Resource Productivity on regular basis. Hands on Agile Scrum Projects – proficient in Conducting Backlog refinement, planning game, Task Execution, Task handover to business, Retrospective sessions, Involved in Go/ No Go decisions, UAT and Live Support. Proficient in SDLC and STLC, Presentation Skills and Effective communicator with strong relationship management, coordination, and analytical skills. Involved in Local, Integration, Functional, Regression, System and Delivery Testing offshore. Have onsite experience for UAT, Pre- Production and Production testing at Customer End. Environment readiness for application / feature validation, Onshore – Offshore Co-Ordinator for status updates on work completion, defects status, risks, and mitigations. Scaling up resource’s skills in line with project goals by Skill Analysis, Technology Trainings, Task delegation, completion, and feedback reports Managing multiple Teams and monitoring day to day testing activities. Regular updates to respective stakeholders on testing activities through Daily and Weekly reports. A result-oriented collaborator and skillful in coordinating with development team and problem-solving abilities. Given product training to peers, Demo’s to Customer on developed application for awareness of working functionality. Capable of working independently under time constraints in a target-oriented environment. Initiative-taking, Pro- Active and Quick learner of new concepts and technologies. Having hands on Experience on Manual / Database / Automation /SharePoint / API / Performance / ADA Compliance Testing. Has worked on Functional Software Testing (Finance, Tolling, Wealth Management, Retail, Banking, E-Commerce & Manufacturing Domains), Bug Tracking, Quality Assurance & Project Management in IT sector. Have valuable experience of Database Testing and writing queries. Well versed in automation testing using tools such as Selenium Web Driver/IDE. Excellent experience in writing Selenium / Playwright test scripts using C# programming language. Comprehensive knowledge of database management systems, SQL Queries. Have valuable experience on AWS Testing and debugging the issues. Expertise in preparing Effort Estimation, Resource Loading, Project Schedule, and Project Plan Documents. Dedicated Project Manager successful at work flow planning and staff retention strategies. Boosts productivity through innovative management and mentorship. Keen to apply new and emerging project organization techniques to increase overall performance.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager

Birlasoft Inc
Edison, USA
05.2022 - Current
  • Team Setup, Team mentoring, Effective Communication, Governance and Reporting
  • Prepared Automation Frameworks reviewed the automation scripts written by the Team to ensure the team automation scripts are updated on regular basis without conflicts
  • Established End-to-End Quality Gates review model by setting up Entry and Exit criteria for deliverables across program
  • Leading diverse teams to work together effectively, ensuring projects stay on schedule and within budget
  • Keeping a close eye on project progress, regularly checking it against our established goals, and giving stakeholders the updates they need
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to understand underwriting functions and requirements
  • Oversaw the implementation of Rest API automation for rigorous API testing, verifying the functionality and reliability of the library management system's underlying architecture
  • Review the functionality being added or defect fixes to maintenance the automation test scripts
  • JMeter for verifying the performance of UI to identify the requests made to web service
  • Worked on Web services using POSTMAN & SWAGGER exclusively on obtaining the needed information using the URL approach
  • Heavily used SQL to verify the backend processes
  • Reviewing business requirements and technical specification documents and Analyzed use cases, functional requirements to write detailed Test plan document and creating Test Scenarios based on Functional Specification Document
  • Reviewing the Test Results Document for getting Signoff the Requirements from the Client
  • Assisting Product and Business Team as part of Requirements and upcoming projects
  • Identifying and Implementing Value Add-Ons based on Client Requirements
  • Participate in Scrum Grooming, Scrum Planning, Demo & Scrum Retrospective Meetings
  • Participate in Scrum Backlog Prioritization meeting for upcoming sprints and gathering information and giving high level testing efforts
  • Created Automation script using Selenium WebDriver
  • Executed scripts on different browsers and different platforms
  • Reviewing ADA Compliance and Security Test Results and giving Signoff using Axe Dev Tool and SonarQube
  • Implemented simulator for Mobile App Testing in Android Platform using Appium / Mobile Simulator
  • Experience in Selenium IDE (HTML, C#.Net scripting methods) for Regression Test Suites
  • Conducting Review Meetings within the Team and with Client
  • Conducts research to identify tools, automation frameworks and methodologies
  • Collaborating cross functionally with Test Architects and Test Leads to proactively analyze current processes and practices and defining improvements of test strategy, test frameworks, infrastructure, tools, and test coverage
  • Mentoring new QA resources / Onboarding and Offboarding to Client based on requirements and assigning tasks to Team Members based on client requirements
  • Environment: Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, Playwright, C#.Net, project object model (POM), SQL, Axe Dev Tool, Postman / Swagger, Mobile Simulator, JMeter, Microsoft DevOps, MS Office 2022

System Analyst

Birlasoft India Limited
Chennai, India
04.2016 - 02.2018
  • Write detailed Test plan document and create Test Scenarios based on Functional Specification Document
  • Writing Test cases Creating Test Scenarios, Test Data and Test Cases based on Functional Specification Document
  • Participate in Scrum Grooming, Scrum Planning, Demo & Scrum Retrospective Meetings
  • Involved in System, Functional, End-to-End, Regression, Integration, UAT, Black Box, Ad-hoc, Risk based, Usability testing and retesting
  • Implemented simulator for Mobile App Testing in Android Platform using Appium / Mobile Simulator
  • Generating Basic Test scripts using BPT Framework or Descriptive programming
  • Experience in QTP / UFT (HTML, VB Script scripting method) for Regression Test Suites
  • Involved in SOA Web Service Testing using Postman
  • Involved and assisting Customer Care / Finance / Business / Product Team as part of UAT Testing
  • Defect Tracking and Preparing Test Execution Summary Reports in Excel Format
  • Apply, design, and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks
  • Deriving Test Automation Scenarios
  • Develop and execute test automation
  • Environment: SQL, Axe Dev Tool, Postman, Mobile Simulator, JMeter, Microsoft DevOps, MS Office, HP UFT, HP ALM

Senior Software Engineer

Birlasoft India Limited
Chennai, India
10.2013 - 05.2015
  • Write detailed Test plan document and create Test Scenarios based on Functional Specification Document
  • Writing Test cases Creating Test Scenarios, Test Data and Test Cases based on Functional Specification Document
  • Participate in Scrum Grooming, Scrum Planning, Demo & Scrum Retrospective Meetings
  • Involved in System, Functional, End-to-End, Regression, Integration, UAT, Black Box, Ad-hoc, Risk based, Usability testing and retesting
  • Implemented simulator for Mobile App Testing in Android Platform using Appium / Mobile Simulator
  • Generating Basic Test scripts using BPT Framework or Descriptive programming
  • Experience in QTP / UFT (HTML, VB Script scripting method) for Regression Test Suites
  • Involved in SOA Web Service Testing using Postman
  • Involved and assisting Customer Care / Finance / Business / Product Team as part of UAT Testing
  • Defect Tracking and Preparing Test Execution Summary Reports in Excel Format
  • Apply, design, and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks
  • Deriving Test Automation Scenarios
  • Develop and execute test automation
  • Environment: SQL, Axe Dev Tool, Postman, Mobile Simulator, JMeter, Microsoft DevOps, MS Office, HP UFT, HP ALM

System Analyst

HCL Technologies (IOMC) Limited
Chennai, India
09.2012 - 02.2013
  • Write detailed Test plan document and create Test Scenarios based on Functional Specification Document
  • Writing Test cases Creating Test Scenarios, Test Data and Test Cases based on Functional Specification Document
  • Participate in Scrum Grooming, Scrum Planning, Demo & Scrum Retrospective Meetings
  • Involved in System, Functional, End-to-End, Regression, Integration, UAT, Black Box, Ad-hoc, Risk based, Usability testing and retesting
  • Defect Tracking and Preparing Test Execution Summary Reports in Excel Format
  • Apply, design, and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks
  • Preparing Knowledge Base Document
  • Migration of Web sites / Web Application from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
  • Migration of Web Sites and Web Applications from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010
  • Preparing Summary Reports
  • Conducting Review Meetings within the Team
  • Preparing Knowledge Base Document
  • Environment: SQL, MS Office, SharePoint 2007 / 2010 / MOSS 2003, HP QTP 10.0, Quality Center 10.0

SQA Engineer

ZenBridge Infotech Private Limited
Chennai, India
02.2008 - 09.2012
  • Write detailed Test plan document and create Test Scenarios based on Functional Specification Document
  • Writing Test cases Creating Test Scenarios, Test Data and Test Cases based on Functional Specification Document
  • Participate in Scrum Grooming, Scrum Planning, Demo & Scrum Retrospective Meetings
  • Involved in System, Functional, End-to-End, Regression, Integration, UAT, Black Box, Ad-hoc, Risk based, Usability testing and retesting
  • Defect Tracking and Preparing Test Execution Summary Reports in Excel Format
  • Apply, design, and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks
  • Preparing Knowledge Base Document
  • Migration of Web sites / Web Application from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
  • Migration of Web Sites and Web Applications from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010
  • Preparing Summary Reports
  • Conducting Review Meetings within the Team
  • Preparing Knowledge Base Document
  • Environment: SQL, MS Office, SharePoint 2007 / 2010 / MOSS 2003, HP QTP 10.0, Quality Center 10.0, WCF (API Testing)

Education

M. Phil - Computer Science

Madurai Kamaraj University
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
01.2009

M.C.A. -

Acharya Nagarjuna University
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
01.2005

Skills

  • Agile (Scrum/Kanban)
  • Selenium IDE
  • Selenium RC
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Selenium Grid
  • HP QTP 115
  • HP UFT
  • Manual Testing
  • Browser Stack
  • Microsoft VSS
  • Tortoise SVN
  • Perforce
  • Data Driven
  • Keyword Driven
  • Hybrid
  • Page Object Model (POM)
  • HP ALM
  • Bugzilla
  • Microsoft DevOps
  • Soap UI
  • Postman
  • Swagger
  • SharePoint Foundation 2010
  • MOSS 2007
  • SharePoint Server 2010
  • C#
  • VB Script
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • Browser Developer Tools
  • On premise
  • Cloud Software
  • Windows
  • Android
  • IOS
  • Project tracking
  • Resource allocation
  • Team collaboration
  • Agile methodology
  • Staff training and motivation

Certification

  • CSPO Certified, Scrum Alliance Inc, 05/01/22, https://bcert.me/seikbamqh
  • Project Management: The Basics for Success, University of California, Irvine, 05/01/22, https://www.coursera.org/verify/H6H8QEZEWV5T
  • ISTQB - Tester Foundation Level Certification, 01/01/13

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Project Manager

Birlasoft Inc
05.2022 - Current

System Analyst

Birlasoft India Limited
04.2016 - 02.2018

Senior Software Engineer

Birlasoft India Limited
10.2013 - 05.2015

System Analyst

HCL Technologies (IOMC) Limited
09.2012 - 02.2013

SQA Engineer

ZenBridge Infotech Private Limited
02.2008 - 09.2012

M. Phil - Computer Science

Madurai Kamaraj University

M.C.A. -

Acharya Nagarjuna University
SESHU CHEVENDRA