Sathish K.

Sathish K.

QA Director

Bangalore , India

Experience: 10 Years

Sathish

Bangalore , India

QA Director

57600 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

10 Years

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About Me

QA Director with over 20+ years of extensive experience in the core area of Software Quality Control &Assurance, Project Management, Test Delivery, Team Management, Planning, Critical Analysis, Strategy thinking, Digital Transformation. Successfully ...

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Portfolio Projects

Directing QA organization into Automation & REST API

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Guiding and directing QA organization to move into Automation using Selenium Gaining domain expertise Improved & streamline QA standards and process Admin for Jira and confluence contributed in DevOps

Description

  • · Key driver in implementing Automation& Security testing, Improved Automation Test coverage from 0 to 70?ross all the product line.
  • · Successfully Reduced 75% of regression test effort, helped to reduce test cycle time and faster delivery to production.
  • · Primary Contact/SME &Admin for Jira (Bug Reporting tool), Spira Test (Test management Tool), Burp (Security Tool), Open Air (Attendance Management Tool).
  • · Reduced Tools cost by Implementing Jira tool across the organization
  • · Transformed Manual QA team into Automation team (Selenium) & Micros Services testing using REST API
  • · Driving Quality initiatives like Mentor & Mentee program, Brown Bag sessions, Quality & Process standardization across the organization.
  • · Supported in Digital transformation of Implementing Continues Integration & DevOps in our organization.
  • · Handling QA budget, forecast and maintained a minimal attrition in QA group.
  • · Managed E2E Delivery with a group of SDET engineers .
  • · Demonstrated ability to define QA Strategic Road Map, Goals and Directions for QA organization
  • · Transforming QA organization to use Digital technologies by taking up some POC on (Artificial Intelligence (ML) using Python & REST API Testing Using Jmeter)

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Driving eCommerce,Mobile commerce,social commerce product platforms

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Defined and maintained product Road map and vision for the group Prioritize product requirements and manage product delivery within the schedule Managed Product Delivery/QA, and collaborated with all

Description

We were building a e-Commerce platform to fullfill the fast growing ecommerce space. This platform has been builtwith latest techology and easily customizable as per clients need.

Below were my Responsiblity in this project

  • Responsiblilty includes of Review of requirements,collaborating with BA/Dev/QA team.
  • Defined and maintained product roadmap and vision for the group
  • Prioritizing requirements and manage product devlivery within the schduled timeline and cost.
  • Tracking the project progress(Metrics) and update periodically to all the stakeholders.
  • Driveand championed Agile scrum methodology in my organization.
  • Managed Agile process using Jira and expert in administrating this tool.
  • Understand project risk and escalate to the right stakeholders on time.
  • Hand holding QA team as well and made sure we are delivering very high quality products.
  • Interacted with clients and turned back their feedback into product requirements.

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Managed Automation, Manual Testing, OPS, IT support team for Airline domain

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Team management OPS & IT support Project Management Performance Testing Quality Improvement Initiatives

Description

  • Currently Handling and Accountable for all SEP division products like Air Canada, Mobile companion, Mobile SMS Traveler, Unitaid, E-Travel Management, E-Retail Management, PCI-DSS.SQL 2008 Server Migration & AMOR
  • Managing a team of 25-30 QA member team
  • Prepared Test plan & Test strategy for mobile applications(AMP, Merci, MCMT)
  • Applied orthogonal array technique to optimize test cases of mobile application
  • Guided in preparing white paper on Mobile application testing for Travel domain.
  • Involved in developing complex test plan & test strategies for all the application
  • Regularly interacted with senior management & Executive levels on matters concerning delivery of projects and customers needs
  • Ensure QA Test Case design and execution methodologies are technically sound.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentored QA team members
  • Contribute to projects through innovative and path breaking ideas and suggestions.
  • Efficiently did resource planning and utilized the team to its maximum potential.
  • Proactive in identifying the risks and the ultimate escalation point on all matters related to project deliveries and team Management.
  • Plan and direct the QA division to achieve defined targets
  • Prepared and published Weekly/Monthly quality metrics.
  • Review team performance with QA leads.
  • Instrumental in building QA team and QA department from scratch in SEP division
  • Responsible for quality delivery of all the products
  • Driving Testing council initiative
  • Responsible in preparing Test Plan & Test strategy document of different products
  • Interacting with client to get more business and update on current progress
  • Responsible in team performance and appraisal
  • Conducted many brown bag session on technical and management aspects in Ness testing council
  • Handling project and people issues efficiently and have 0% attrition in my team for the last 2 yrs
  • Managed Build & Deployment team
  • Managed Clear Case support team
  • Managed Platform support team

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Leading QA Team for Microsoft Partner products & Handling vendors

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• Responsible for developing Quality Standards, QA estimation and Schedule across different product lines. • Leading Test group of around 22 members & Internally leading 4 testing members group

Description

  • Coordinating with external vendor team & internally with project team members(Dev,PGM,SD) and communicating with Redmond peers.
  • Accountable for the quality of all deliverables made by the off shore team and meeting all the goals of the Test Function within budget and within scheduled time.
  • Developed and implemented a process improvement methodology(TFA) for test community, New joiner Induction document, SQA monthly Newsletter
  • Played key role in analysis, design and development of test plans on multiple mid-sized to large projects, Reviewed and given feedback on all major project documents.
  • Identified major risk in early stage of the project and escalated to concern team and manages technical and quality issues across the group
  • Collected and maintaining different quality related metrics to monitor the quality of all the application in partner COE.
  • Created and implemented new collaboration model between run management team and feature release team.
  • Guided in building automation framework and effectively utilized scripts across all the product release.

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