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THARAKESWARAN JAGADEESAN

OVERLAND PARK,KS

Summary

Results-driven software engineering professional prepared for challenges of high-stakes development environments.

History of impactful contributions to test automation and quality assurance.

Known for collaborative approach and reliable adaptability to changing project demands.

Expertise in quality assurance, and agile methodologies.

20+ years’ experience in Telecom Domain Testing.

Experienced in functional testing of AMDOCs telecom billing applications and Web applications.

5+ years of experience as Test Lead.

4+ years of experience in iOS mobile application testing.

Tricentis Certified Automation Specialist.

Test automation using Tosca.

Test management, Defect management, Test data management.

Test resource planning and assignment.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Owner

T-MOBILE US
United States
10.2025 - Current

Project name: Retail Service Experience

  • Development and testing for iOS based mobile application, Tapestry. This application runs on iPad that is used by the T-Mobile's retail store representative and Managers to support their customers visiting the store.

Contribution:

  • Work with the Product Manager to plan the road map of the product.
  • Work with Agile team on the Sprint planning.
  • Create technical design documentation in Confluence, update the development, testing and deployment strategies.
  • Participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings with other agile teams and discuss on the dependencies, project timelines and risks.
  • Clarify the queries raised by development and testing team members.
  • Plan and track the team efforts, create and update the user stories in JIRA tool.
  • Work with business stake holders to clarify their queries, discuss the new requirements and ensure they are developed, tested and deployed as scheduled.
  • Involve in production validation during alpha and beta testing.

Senior SDET

T-MOBILE US
United States
06.2024 - 10.2025

Project name: Retail Service Experience

  • Development and testing for iOS based mobile application, Tapestry. This application runs on iPad that is used by the T-Mobile's retail store representative and Managers to support their customers visiting the store.

Contribution:

  • Lead the testing teams of two agile lanes.
  • Analyze the requirements, identify test scenarios and build test cases.
  • Lead automation of Tapestry application using XCUI and Tosca tools.
  • Test management using qTest tool.
  • Defect management using Jira tool.
  • Testing using Splunk, Postman and Bruno tools.
  • Identify data requirements and work with Test data team to get the required data.
  • Performed system level progression and regression testing on UI and backend API changes.
  • Co-ordinated with other testing teams for integration and production testing.
  • Clarify the queries from other testers.

Senior Consultant - Production Support

T-MOBILE US
United States
10.2023 - 05.2024

Project name: CAMO and North Star Operations

  • Customer billing system migration from Sprint to T-Mobile system.
  • Implementation of North star architecture for the below systems.

- Catalogue one

- Samson to Data one DB migration

- Subscription billing

- Digital billing

- Hierarchy Management for T-Mobile’s business customers

Contribution :

  • Coordinated and executed customer data migration from Sprint to T-Mobile system, maintaining data integrity throughout the process.
  • Assessed migration-related issues and coordinated with appropriate fix agents to facilitate timely resolutions.
  • Analyzed subscription billing data to identify and rectify issues, preventing ticket generation in production.
  • Designed and implemented Splunk queries to ensure effective oversight of production dashboards.

Product Owner

T-MOBILE US
United States
07.2022 - 09.2023

Project name: Retail Alerts

  • Retails Alerts is an iOS based mobile application used to notify the Retail Store Representatives about the known critical issues.

Contribution:

  • Work with the Product Manager to plan the road map of the product.
  • Work with Scrum team on the Sprint planning
  • Clarify the queries raised by development and testing teams
  • Plan and track the team efforts, create and update the user stories in JIRA tool.
  • Work with business stake holders to clarify their queries, discuss the new requirements and ensure they are developed, tested and deployed as scheduled.
  • Involve in production validation during alpha and beta testing.

Technical Analyst

T-MOBILE US
United States
08.2019 - 06.2022

Project name: Retail Management System

  • Technical Analysis and Design for desktop based Retail Management System and mobile based Guided Sales Tool.

Contribution:

  • Review and analyse the Business requirements and identify the impacted areas of the application.
  • Create Technical Design Specification document based on the new business requirements.
  • Work with development team to implement the new business requirements
  • Work with Testing team to ensure the test coverage and quality of the deliverables.
  • Work with production support team to understand the current challenges or issues with the software and resolve their issues.

IT Specialist, Test Specialist

Sprint
09.2017 - 07.2019

Project name: Retail Management System

  • System level testing of Sprint Retail Management System and mobile based Guided Sales Tool.

Contribution:

  • Gained good understanding of Sprint Retail Management System and GST functional flows and their architecture.
  • Work with the scrum team on daily basis to derive test cases from Test Design Specification document.
  • Performed test planning and execution tasks for the new functional implementation.
  • Defect management.
  • Generated release level execution status reports on daily basis.
  • Analyzing the production defects and support the development team in fixing the same.
  • Test data management.
  • Provide training to the newly joined team members.

Integration Test Analyst, Test Manager, Requirement Analyst, Offshore Test Lead

Sprint
India
12.2009 - 09.2017

Project name: Sprint Enterprise Testing

Contribution:

  • Test Project Management.
  • Good understanding of different applications developed for Sprint.
  • Test Planning and Execution.
  • Trained the new team members on the applications and the processes.
  • Created Test Strategy document, review the deliverables with business stake holders, get the deliverables signed-off
  • Reviewed the project requirements, created high level test cases, reviewed the test cases with business stake holders
  • As a defect lead, I have followed up on defect status with the submitter and the resolver group and get it to closure so that project is delivered in time and defect KPIs are within the limit.

Test Analyst

Telstra
06.2009 - 12.2009

Project name: Telstra R&E - Testing

  • Enhancement release for Telstra Registration and Enrollment system.

Contribution:

  • Good understanding of the R&E application.
  • Extract test cases from use cases.
  • Map the requirements with the tests cases.
  • Create and update Test strategy, Master Test Plan and Test Summary Report.
  • Identify & execute regression test cases.
  • Involve in daily status meetings and clarification meetings with the BAs, Architects and onshore test team.
  • Knowledge sharing with the team members of offshore and onshore.
  • Execute test cases and update the results in HP Quality Center tool.
  • Update the status of defects after retesting.
  • Update the status to the onshore test manager
  • Clarify the queries of the team members.
  • Co-ordinate with the development team in fixing the defects.
  • Help other test teams in reviewing their test cases and clarifying their queries.
  • Provide support to other test teams during Combined Acceptance Test phase.

Test Specialist

Nortel
08.2008 - 05.2009

Project name: Nortel CDMA Product Verification

  • CDMA Core & Access Testing

Contribution

  • Involve in creating, reviewing and updating the Product Verification Information Document.
  • Regression, Sanity and Interoperability testing.
  • Mentored the new team members to make them learn about the Nortel CDMA system.

Education

M.Tech - Communication Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology
IN
01.2004

B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering

University of Madras
01.1997

Skills

  • Testing Tools: Postman, Bruno, Splunk, App Dynamics, Putty
  • Test automation: Tricentis Tosca, Soap-UI
  • Database: Oracle 10g, MySQL, Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD, RobotMongo
  • Development Tools: XCode, Eclipse, NetBeans
  • Operating Systems: Mac, iOS, Windows 9x/2000/2003/XP, UNIX
  • Tracking Tools: Tricentis qTest, JIRA, HP ALM, HP Quality Center, Test Director, Change Synergy
  • Programming Language: Java Web Technologies : HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Ajax
  • Release planning, Feature definition
  • Backlog prioritization
  • Acceptance criteria development
  • Story planning
  • Risk assessments
  • Agile methodology
  • Time management
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Team leadership
  • Functional Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Post Production Validation
  • Develop test strategies, test plans to ensure that the application meets new requirement specifications
  • Test planning, Test execution, Defect tracking and reporting
  • Test case creation in HP-ALM using BPT components
  • Exposure to SQL queries, SQL Developer, SoapUI and Test Harness tools

Languages

English - Fluent
Tamil - Fluent

Industry Experience

Telecommunications - Experienced

Key courses and training

  • Automation Specialist 1, Automation Specialist 2 - Tricentis Academy.
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level (TA)
  • Certified Software Test Manager (CSTM)

Timeline

Senior Product Owner

T-MOBILE US
10.2025 - Current

Senior SDET

T-MOBILE US
06.2024 - 10.2025

Senior Consultant - Production Support

T-MOBILE US
10.2023 - 05.2024

Product Owner

T-MOBILE US
07.2022 - 09.2023

Technical Analyst

T-MOBILE US
08.2019 - 06.2022

IT Specialist, Test Specialist

Sprint
09.2017 - 07.2019

Integration Test Analyst, Test Manager, Requirement Analyst, Offshore Test Lead

Sprint
12.2009 - 09.2017

Test Analyst

Telstra
06.2009 - 12.2009

Test Specialist

Nortel
08.2008 - 05.2009

M.Tech - Communication Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering

University of Madras
THARAKESWARAN JAGADEESAN