• Managed agile testing team of 8 members & tools development team of 3 members including external staff

• Headed the Central system integration testing of various Mercedes-Benz car applications like navigation, media, tuner, telephone, browser, phone book, MB Apps & SDS

• Spearheaded the initiation of UI Automation for apps testing, thereby reducing manual testing effort, time & improving the efficiency & speed of testing

• Review of test plan, test reports, deliverables & reporting project status with defects count to management

• Hiring, training and mentoring new test engineers

• Staffed testing team of 16 members from scratch including external staff & technically managed the team

• Test effort estimation, test plan creation, test case designing, peer reviews, test execution, defect reporting & test report generation

• Testing, Monitoring & reviewingthe deliverables from the team and providingQA signoffs for prod releases

• Risk management and monitoring

• Lead, mentored & guided automation and manual testing teams

• Providing weekly/monthly status, defects & performance reports to USA (Sunnyvale) team

• End to end hardware/software and test bench procurement/setup for the apps testing lab

• Contributed as Quality Management Representative (QBA) for car electronics & infotainment department at Benz

CCE Mobile Merchandiser application & Management Center for Coca Cola Enterprises, Atlanta, USA (Worked Onsite in Atlanta)

• Blackberry app to assign routes, service outlets, update status, breaks, travel time, gps positions

• Lead a team of 5 test engineers & end to end responsible for STLC of the projects assigned

• Interacted with the customers for requirements gathering, requirement analysis, story board review & functional specifications

• Responsible for test plan creation, test case design, test environment setup, test data setup, test case execution

• Performed UI, functionality & integration testing between CRM systems (Siebel, netsuite, oracle e-business suite) & the mobile apps on various devices like iphone, ipad, blackberry, windows mobile & tablets

• Defect reporting, tracking & management using bugzilla, jira & quality center

• Overall responsible for certification of the applications on various smart phone devices

• Actively involved in the deployment of mobile device solutions to the customers

• Worked closely with customers during pilot/testing phases to ensure smooth deployment of the product/project

• Involved in production support to customers during UAT and field testing.

• Co-ordinated between client’s team & offshore team

• Coordinated with product management, release management & engineering teams to improve the product & resolve the issues

• Involved in project post mortem analysis

Have tested the internet banking and provided lot of suggestions for improvement.

Not only for LVB, I have reported issues and also provided suggestions for improvement for few more banks as a freelancer tester.