A versatile and positive individual bringing 13+ years of experience whilst achieving ambitious goals in a emerging environment. Diligent, adaptable, highly organized, detail oriented Test Manager, skilled in Test management working with multiple stakeholders/projects/teams, also holding a valid British passport.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certificates
Work History
Quality Assurance Manager
Sogeti
London
2021.05 - Current
Responsible for framing Test Strategy of cloud migration programme for leading legal and public sector clients, whilst delivering E2E testing working with multiple stakeholders and 3rd party teams.
Test Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
London, United Kingdom
2015.07 - 2019.09
Responsibilities:
Directed a major SAP Automation transformation project delivery for a team of 30, where 2400+ functionalities were automated using SAP CBTA tool.
Successfully managed End-End delivery for cloud implementation of International Range planner application used in E commerce business, whilst working with Dev partners for continual delivery.
Interacted with business/project teams right from requirement gathering, estimations, planning, delivery and managed all stakeholder communications single handed for the retail (web/mobile) projects delivered.
Planned and devised cohesive project plans for 50+ Strategic downturn Integration projects that involved WMB Messaging, Datastage ETL Services and XB60 transfer mechanisms. Facilitated stand up meetings and tracked burn down charts for the same.
Managed End-End delivery of a legacy to strategic technology transformation project involving 6 critical applications in the IT landscape of a leading UK based retail client. More than 1300 interfaces were delivered on time and budget.
Trained 40+ resources on planning tools, web technologies and agile methodologies.
With optimized resource utilization, facilitated savings of nearly 10% from the project budget and effectively tracked/reported metrics.
Achievements:
Awarded the best performer consecutively for three years with a customer satisfaction index more than 8.5 in all projects delivered.
Projects in critical RAG status Red were diligently handled and delivered without major production incidents.
Release Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
London, United Kingdom
2013.06 - 2015.07
Responsibilities:
Planned and orchestrated End-End processes for 12 major SAP releases and 36 minor releases into Testing and Production Environments.
Chaired daily project meetings/cut over meetings with the Project and Test Managers initially and later implemented agile methodologies - Jira to track progress.
Coordinated the dress rehearsal and actual cut over for 50+ releases that included major upgrades as well.
Achievements:
Effectively administered project budgets and achieved 9+ customer satisfaction index on a scale of 10.
By meticulous planning, reduced the number of Fire Fighter IDs from 20 to 4 during deployment and thus enabled more secure deployments.
Functional Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
London, United Kingdom
2010.01 - 2013.06
Worked on an E commerce project implementation and responsible for web based Test Scenario creation / Test Data generation. Owned entire scope involving 130 interfaces and met 100% quality standards within stipulated timelines.
Java Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai, Tamilnadu
2007.12 - 2010.01
Designed, developed and implemented website based on the requirements of an UK based retail client.
Created 250+ middle-ware interfaces that involved remote file transfers, data transformation, data retention, scheduled transfers and later recognized as subject matter expert in Datastage ETL.