Senior Test & Quality Assurance Manager

Skills:

Senior Test & Quality Assurance Manager:

. Majorly responsible for Test scope management, stakeholder management, time & quality management, cost management and change management

. Manage the quality of the system developed by enforcing quality checkpoints using SDLC (Waterfall & Agile) framework, across multiple testing phases.

. Analyzed data and identified areas for improvement in the quality system, leading to the implementation of corrective actions that resulted in a 30% increase in identifying defects.

. Conduct assessment on the quality of testing carried out by various checks (initiation, health checks, conduct, sign-off, etc).

. Analyzed requirements, process flows, documents (business requirements documents, functional and technical documents) and work closely with the various track Delivery Managers to define test scenarios across all test phases.

. Ensure pre-testing readiness: conduct sanity/smoke testing, production data restoration (if required), test plan, test environment, test data, test IDs, test scenarios, test cases across all test phases

. Enforce expected project deliverables with the vendor team via established & agreed process, compliance enforcement.

. Presented the risks, issues, and various options/mitigations proactively with transparency and seek help from PSC (Project Steering Committee) to make informed decision.

. Coordinate with development team members for the running of batch jobs, perform end-to-end test executions, document test results and log defects where necessary to facilitate UAT.

. Defined Entry/Exit criteria, test metrics, configure test management tools e.g. Jira, HP-QC or other tools and produce test reports across all test phases

. Carried out Defect management across all test phases (SIT, UAT, Performance, Automation, Security, Operational Readiness Test.

. Prepared detailed testing reports with findings and recommendations to the Project & Program managers.

DevSecops, Change & Release Co-ordinator:

. Played a key role in chairing the Change Advisory Board Meeting for issue resolution, across different Test environments.

. Lead the release planning meetings for multiple platforms to improve the release planning process and facilitate process improvement.

. Involved in discussions related to security measures for the CI/CD pipeline to ensure code is scanned and secure at every stage of development.

. Implemented Continuous improvement on the tools used - Tosca, Jira, Confluence to necessitate the set of deliverables and set processes.

. Conducting regular security audits and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and compliance issues within applications and infrastructure.

. Developing and enforcing security best practices and policies among the development team to promote a culture of security awareness.

Project Management:

. Manage client relationships and engage key stakeholders, both externally and internally.

. Manage testing related risks, issues, and changes, ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and successful project completion.

. Build cross-functional teams and assign tasks, monitoring team member performance.

. Utilize project management tools and techniques to ensure objectives are met in a timely and cost effective manner.

. Establish clear lines of communication between stakeholders and ensure all stakeholders are informed of project status.

. Participated in workshops which focused on using Agile Methodologies, Scrum-led ceremonies.

Environment: Tosca, Jira, Confluence, LoadRunner, Cloudbees, Jenkins, Gitlab, SonarQube