Ramprabhu Rajasekar
Staines,Surrey
Summary
A dynamic and results driven senior software professional with more than 14 years of professional experience in Digital Transformation Project across all Portfolios including mobile and web application integration with Hardware and Cloud services in Agile and waterfall models . Good track record and proven ability in adopting and innovating testing techniques in UK’s leading companies in partnership with Meta ,Centrica ,Network Rail and connect homes . Delivered more than 100 digital transformation/ IOT projects into the market with utmost quality. Having strong communication, planning and interpersonal skills,. Professional project management specialist with experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs. Detailed orientated individual experienced in administrative procedures. Oversees day-to-day duties with strong planning and organisation skills to delivers projects in timely manner. I am driven by roles that will leverage my strengths for a mutually rewarding experience.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work history
Manager Quality Engineering
Meta via Qualitest
Kings Cross, Camden
2021.04 - Current
- Handled negotiations with outside vendors and service agencies to meet group needs.
- Designed and implemented training to further develop staff based on business goals.
- Identified project blockers and acted as driver to overcome obstacles and achieve deadlines.
- Designed long-term business strategy to guide leadership decision-making.
- Addressed customer issues with compassion and professionalism, ensuring swift, successful resolution.
- Introduced new opportunities for team building and communication, resulting in better team performance.
- Maintained smooth-running business operations by delegating priorities to staff abilities.
- Monitored health and safety measures for guaranteed compliance.
- Applied expertise in team leadership to address productivity and performance issues, motivating staff to achieve KPIs.
- Established clear budgets and cost controls strategies to meet objectives.
- Upskilled staff through targeted training opportunities, enhancing team capabilities.
- Developed strong teams by skilfully recruiting, orienting and training loyal, hard-working employees.
- Conducted audits and risk assessments to achieve regulatory compliance.
- Helped to reduce staff turnover rates by driving improvements in team culture, transparency and cohesion.
- Analysed and resolved complex resource management issues for optimised scheduling.
- Acted as point of contact for high-level queries and represented team at senior leadership meetings.
- Planned and managed resources and budget to support and deliver objectives.
- Assessed knowledge and skills gaps, creating opportunities to fuel improvement.
- Represented organisations at seminars, conferences and business events.
- Designed digital and print materials to engage audiences.
- Developed plans and strategies to promote continuous improvement.
- Delivered high-quality results within budget and timeframe targets.
- Completed duties to deliver on targets with accuracy and efficiency.
- Engaged with stakeholders to build relationships and brand awareness.
- Generated Key Performance Indicator reporting to drive better performance.
Manager Quality assurance and Engineering
Centrica Connected Homes
2016.09 - 2020.03
- Test Manager for one of the major migration projects (Native to Reactive native migration)
- Created and presented testing strategies for Digital Transformation Projects to business stakeholders, helping them to adopt in their respective modules
- Managed estimation, forecasting, invoicing, and pricing
- Created test document and co-ordinated UAT activities for dissemination and discussion with project stakeholders
- Organised hackathon across different streams and actively participated in business ideas presentation
- Involved in serenity automation framework setup which resulted in 20% cost reduction
- Prepared test cases, automation test scripts and performed functional testing for new features as well as regression scenarios
- Responsible for setting up offshore lab, managed and mentored a 20-member team
- Managed relations and liaised with internal and external customers, third party services and suppliers
- Was part of the weekly and monthly services review meetings with stakeholders.
- Managed staffing schedules for high numbers of employees, delivering operational efficiency whilst remaining under budget.
- Handled negotiations with outside vendors and service agencies to meet group needs.
- Coordinated hiring, recruitment and training strategies to build successful administrative team.
- Organised financial and operational data to help with yearly budgeting and planning.
- Conducted periodic performance reviews for direct reports.
Senior Test Lead
Centrica Connected Homes
2015.09 - 2016.08
- Test lead for mobile native applications (IOS & Android)
- Controlled defect management and organised daily defect calls
- Acted as a gatekeeper in delivering Hive products to the market
- Delivered crash-free app by continuously monitoring and adopting latest testing techniques
- Executed manual test cases as a part of regression cycle for both manual and automation scenarios.
Senior Test Lead
Network Rail
2014.06 - 2015.08
- Created test strategy, test plan and requirement traceability
- Involved in requirement analysis, functional studies, quality reviews and application maintenance
- Managed estimation, forecasting, invoicing, and pricing
- Created test document and co-ordinated UAT activities for dissemination and discussion with project stakeholders.
Test Lead
Centrica British Gas
2013.04 - 2014.05
- Managed QA delivery of the mobile and web application projects
- Played key role in project planning, requirement gathering, resource planning, project delivery, risk management, stakeholder management and defect metrics
- Involved in functional studies, quality reviews and application maintenance
- Co-ordinated interactions between a 10-member offshore team, on-site team, and clients
- Involved in sprint planning, sprint retrospective and sprint demos with business stakeholders
- Functional and regression testing for digital application integration with SAP CRM and ISU.
Test Analyst
Centrica British Gas
2010.04 - 2013.03
- Analysed and created test cases based on requirements from clients
- Executed the test cases and tracked defects in HP Quality Centre till closure, ensuring defect free product delivery to the clients
- As a point of contact for the project, headed a module of 4 members and co-ordinated the test process for the entire release
- Performed root cause analysis for defects in every release.
Education
B Tech – Information Technology -
Crescent Engineering College, Anna University
Skills
- Javascript
- SQL
- Python
- Salesforce
- AWS
- Postman
- Serenity BDD/ Java/ IntelliJ IDE
- Playwright and Cypress
- Appium
- Test Rail
- PyCharm/ Eclipse/visual studio
- JIRA
- Charles Proxy
- Figma
- Google Appscript
Accomplishments
- Supervised team responsible for executing well on projects, leading to 2% increased revenue due to Quality assurance strategy in Meta Product areas.
- Implemented automation strategy , streamlining work and increasing efficiency 18%
- Involved in writing a White paper about Mobile and Hardware testing which won the TESTA award for best mobile and innovative project award of the year.
- Collaborated with team of 100 in development of Ads Product and delivered successful results over 2 years with more than 300 experiments in live with impactful revenue.
- Expertise in finding the right automation framework for Mobile , web and enterprise level.
- Completed Agile scrum master certification.
- Completed ISTQB certification.
- Documented and automated invoicing in meta for vendor management, contributing to complaince.
- Created a Dashboard for meta leadership to see the impact of Quality assuarance team on all supported product areas.
- Created a wesbite using google script for internal employees to track the learning skills and progress based on ranking which created a major impact for meta to identify and place the resources in right areas based on upskilling.
Timeline
Manager Quality Engineering
Meta via Qualitest
2021.04 - Current
Manager Quality assurance and Engineering
Centrica Connected Homes
2016.09 - 2020.03
Senior Test Lead
Centrica Connected Homes
2015.09 - 2016.08
Senior Test Lead
Network Rail
2014.06 - 2015.08
Test Lead
Centrica British Gas
2013.04 - 2014.05
Test Analyst
Centrica British Gas
2010.04 - 2013.03
B Tech – Information Technology -
Crescent Engineering College, Anna University