Senior Manager Resume
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Baltimore, MD
SUMMARY:
- 14+ Years of overall experience in IT Quality Assurance and Testing services with 8+ years of comprehensive experience in QA projects management.
- Spanning development, enhancements, re - engineering, maintenance and migration requirements.
- Proficient in business process analysis, defining testing scope, delivery roadmaps, test strategy, test plans, test schedule, test estimates and test cases.
- Managing budget, schedule and work plans; strong prioritization skills.
- Testing status tracking and metrics based reporting to stakeholders.
- Proven experience in leading a 40+ globally spread team (onsite-offshore model) in successfully executing testing strategies to increase resolution rates and reduce testing costs.
- Managed SLA driven multi-projects program delivery within budget and schedule.
- Established and managed constructive business relationships with key clients.
- Major clients: HP, Ally Financial, Intuit, McAfee, Cadence, eBay, CareFirst, Horizon, Anthem.
- Industries: Healthcare, Retail, Financial services and online technology.
- Proficient in agile and waterfall SDLC methodologies.
- Control over QA strategy and testing, defect management, UAT management, change release processes and production deployment.
- Proven experience in Test consulting, QA transformation & TCoE implementation.
- Proficient in testing proposals, RFP solutions and presentations to client VP/Directors.
- Comprehensive experience in developing, implementing and managing software quality assurance testing processes, procedures, systems, workflows, metrics and implementation/delivery roadmaps.
- Automation delivery using QTP and Selenium tools; Performance testing solutions.
- Proactive in identifying, managing & mitigating risks/issues impacting testing cost, scope, schedule & quality.
- Diligently engages in comprehensive KPI based program and project reviews to exercise control over budget, schedule and quality.
- People and resource management, knowledge management and trainings.
- Proficient experience in hiring, mentoring and performance review of team.
- Optimum resource allocation and utilization.
- Encourages innovative, creative practices to facilitate project delivery.
- Result oriented, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proficient in customer engagement; presentations to client sponsors, partners & senior management.
- Strong coordination and effective communication with multiple stakeholders including, business owners, IT technical teams, PMO & 3 rd party vendor teams and consultants in a matrix environment.
- Interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- Global Delivery (onsite-offshore model) QA & Testing Management SDLC Methodologies
- Test Consulting & QA Transformation Test Architect Thought Leadership
- Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) Managed Test Services Test Automation
- Client Relationship Management Executive Presentations Capacity Planning
- Risk & Issues Management Change Release Management SQA Metrics
- Project Reviews & Governance People & Resource Management Knowledge Management MS Project, Visio, SharePoint SQL, ALM/QC, JIRA UFT/QTP, Selenium
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Senior Manager
Confidential, Baltimore, MD
Responsibilities:
- Successfully managed highly visible multiple projects ranging from budgets of $2M to $6M, staying within 7% of budget.
- Attained less than 3% schedule variance through last two releases by establishing control over change management, requirement clarity and test data management.
- Achieved 12-16% year on year increase in revenue in last 3 years by creating additional business opportunities.
- Achieved 30% reduction in rework of testing efforts compared to previous release by ensuring an early and recurring involvement of business/product owners and SME’s during test design phase to get a more granular clarity on requirements.
- Succeeded in reducing staff transition costs by 25% by instituting continuous cross-functional training and certification programs. This also resulted in a 40% increase in domain and technical expertise for both onshore and offsite teams.
- Reduced attrition rate from 8% to 3% through continuous team mentoring, training and career guidance.
Manager
Confidential, San Jose, CA
Responsibilities:
- Achieved 0% defect leakage to UAT phase of testing by establishing a communication framework between business, technical and testing teams for better requirements clarity and change management by attaining comprehensive test coverage.
- Achieved positive ROI for an automated regression test suite by its 4th cycle through an increase in the scope of automation from 40% to 50%.
- Built a data management framework to maintain the integrity and availability of test data. This approach saved 60% of test data creation & 10% reduction in overall testing effort.
Team Lead
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- An IT services, business and technology consulting and IT outsourcing provider.
