SUMMARY

IT Quality Assurance / testing leader with more than 16 years of experience focused on end - to-end testing of complex software systems across all phases of the SDLC, both in Agile and waterfall mode. Prasad has successfully established and led Testing Center of Excellence. His work includes leading testing efforts within Insurance, Financial, Manufacturing and Life Sciences Health Care industry. Prasad is also an ISTQB certified Test Manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management & test planning: Merant Tracker, HP Quality Center, Project-By-Net

Automated Testing Frameworks: Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP, Selenium

Project Management: JIRA, Microsoft Project, MS Office

Application Development: VB, ASP, Com, D-Com, HTML, VB Script, Java Script, IIS

Databases: Access 2000, MS SQL, Oracle 9i, ETL Informatica, IBM WebSphere, Kalido

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Manager (Digital QA)

Responsibilities:

• Defined mobile testing strategy for a Property & Causality Insurance system
• Currently leading testing efforts for a digital technology implementation program. The technology involves Sencha with Guidewire systems in the backend. Jira is the tool for agile lifecycle management

Confidential

QA/Testing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities for a State's HBE (health benefit exchange) IE (integrated eligibility) system at various field offices
• Defined test strategy for system (SIT) and performance testing of a new Loan Origination System implementation and new TRID regulation capabilities for the mortgage division of a bank
• Managed testing efforts for an Investment Management Data warehouse program
• Test planning and coordination during end-to-end test cycle of an ICD-10 implementation program for one of the largest Health Care Service Provider.
• Assessed the ADLC (Application Development Life Cycle) of a Pharmaceutical REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) system in line with FDA's GMP Validation guidelines and recommended a roadmap / validation strategy to address certain production challenges
• Defined Testing Strategy, Roadmap for Testing Center of Excellence and Automated Testing Rollout Plan for a leading Private Equity and Alternative Asset Management client

Confidential

Director-QA / Testing Services Manager

Responsibilities:

• Built & led a team of 25 testing specialists (4 leads & 21 engineers) as direct reports. Prasad was responsible for forecasting and managing budget / finances based on anticipated resource utilization.
• Conducted Test Maturity Assessments and defined Test Approaches to build product specific Testing Solution Accelerators by partnering with Professional Services divisions of Confidential Business Units (Brokerage & Clearance, Capital Markets and Insurance)
• Participated in pre-sales discussions, worked on RFPs, estimating efforts, deriving costing models, writing proposals and SOWs to help Clients implement scalable QA programs
• Directed design & development of 20+ test automation frameworks built on HP-ALM and QTP for various Confidential business units and customers
• Led product release testing cycles following waterfall and agile development methodologies
• Defined KRAs, mentored QA teams & conducted performance appraisals in line with business goals. Achieved recognition on hiring and retention of testing talent.

Confidential

SQS Group Head (Testing)

Responsibilities:

• Managed software testing projects and teams. Supervised development of test plans, execution of test scripts, defect reporting and resolution.
• Worked on RFPs, effort estimation and proposal writing. Conducted Proof of Concepts (PoC) to demonstrate proposed testing approaches.
• Defined testing processes, reviewed requirements for testability and test cases for traceability
• Led following projects in a global delivery mode:
• Test automation of an Oracle Application using QTP for a US based client Functional & User Acceptance Testing of a gaming portal for an European client User Acceptance Testing of a web based system developed for the FDA to accept nonclinical data from pharmaceutical companies
• Functional & performance testing of an APPLET for a US based customer
• Lead testing of an enterprise SCM application (e-logistics) testing for a manufacturing client through 9 major releases and around 30 minor releases. There were around 2000 change requests and more than 3000 issues (defects / enhancements/ design defects) logged into Test Director (now Quality Center). Automated regression testing using Win Runner and load testing with Load Runner. Data Warehouse and ETL testing.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervised a highly motivated team of 4 software engineers & 3 test engineers
• Managed design, development & testing of customized ERP / CRM applications using Microsoft Technologies (VB, ASP and SQL) to ensure on-time delivery of regularly scheduled releases.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developed e-commerce solutions for following business needs on Microsoft platform (VB, ASP and SQL):
• a product intended for managing a patient universally.
• Travel Portal: developed for a European travel agency featuring customer management, supplier management, bookings and back office management.