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Ramesh Kumar Podilapu

Rosemount

Summary

  • With 18+ years of experience in QA, I have held roles as QA Manager, Salesforce/AEM QA Lead.
  • I have 6 years of onshore IT experience in the U.S., leading QA processes in SCRUM, and partnering with product owners.
  • Expertise in Salesforce and AEM(Adobe Experience Manager) testing.
  • Expertise in Salesforce Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, mobile testing, multi-browser testing using Sauce Labs, and Salesforce application testing.
  • Skilled in Creating Test Plans, Selenium, System Testing, Database Testing, API Testing, Regression, and Integration Testing.
  • Proficient in QA tools (ADO, JIRA, ALM), API tools (SoapUI, Postman), and defect management tools (ADO, JIRA). Experienced with automation tools like Selenium and Worksoft, expertise in Unemployment Insurance and the Legal Domain.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quality Assurance Manager

Tata Consultancy Services Client : Kansas DOL
Rosemount
11.2023 - Current
  • Expertise in Unemployed Insurance Domain
  • Delivered end-to-end testing capabilities for tax, benefits, and claimant portal projects in unemployment insurance.
  • Creating the QA strategy for every release for the entire QA deliverables and presented to Client
  • Managing JIRA tool for QA Activities and created the test metrics
  • Resource planning and management
  • Train and Mentor QA members establish a culture of testing efficiently and effectively, critical thinking and problem solving
  • Leads QA engineers in developing new processes, tools and technology capabilities
  • Involved in estimating QA work, traceability matrices and final quality assurance reports
  • Investigate and recommend new methodologies and tools that allow the team to become more efficient
  • Drive testing methodology and tools to support agile development lifecycles
  • Experience in working Selenium BDD Automation framework
  • Involved in creating estimate for test automation

Quality Assurance Manager

Tata consultancy services Client : Florida DOL
Eagan
04.2023 - 10.2023

Creating the QA strategy for every release, for the entire QA deliverables, and presenting it to the client.

Managing the JIRA tool for QA activities and creating the test metrics.

Resource planning and management.

Train and mentor QA members to establish a culture of testing efficiently and effectively, critical thinking, and problem solving. Leads QA engineers in developing new processes, tools, and technology capabilities.

Involved in estimating QA work, traceability matrices, and final quality assurance reports.

Investigate and recommend new methodologies and tools that allow the team to become more efficient.

Drive testing methodology and tools to support agile development lifecycles.

Involved in creating an estimate for test automation.

QA Manager

Tata Consultancy Services Client : Thomson Reuters
Eagan
05.2019 - 03.2023
  • Delivery of End-to-End Digital capabilities for Digital commerce platform, customer success program
  • Creating the QA strategy for every release for Digital and presenting to Client
  • Offshore / On-Site coordinate and work assignment review
  • Managing ADO/JIRA tool for QA Activities in the Rapid Board
  • Resource planning and management
  • Developed Test Plans/E2E test cases to validate key business requirements
  • Train and Mentor QA members establish a culture of testing efficiently and effectively, critical thinking and problem solving
  • Leads QA engineers in developing new processes, tools and technology capabilities
  • Experience estimating QA work, developing test strategies, test plans, traceability matrices and final quality assurance reports
  • Investigate and recommend new methodologies and tools that allow the team to become more efficient
  • Drive testing methodology and tools to support agile development lifecycles
  • Experience in validating sales cloud and service cloud applications in Digital
  • Experience in working Selenium BDD Automation framework
  • Involved in creating estimate for test automation
  • Assigning task to offshore team members and reporting deliverables and status update to Client

QA Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Client : Thomson Reuters
03.2017 - 05.2019
  • Delivery of End-to-End Digital capabilities for Digital commerce platform, customer success program and CXDigital
  • Creating the QA strategy for every release for Digital and presenting to Client
  • Responsible to educate the team to automate all the user stories using Worksoft scriptless automation
  • Managing QA deliverables for onsite and offshore
  • Streamline the process and involve in various calls like Daily stand up, Sprint planning, Backlog refinement, Sprint review and Sprint Retrospective as a part of Agile
  • Monitor and control the quality of deliverables
  • Close coordination with customer by stringent quality assurance checks
  • Experience in working with Selenium TestNG framework
  • Managing JIRA tool for QA Activities in the Rapid Board
  • Resource planning and management
  • Developed Test Plans/E2E test cases to validate key business requirements
  • Train and Mentor QA members establish a culture of testing efficiently and effectively, critical thinking and problem solving
  • Leads QA engineers in developing new processes, tools and technology capabilities
  • Experience estimating QA work, developing test strategies, test plans, traceability matrices and final quality assurance reports
  • Investigate and recommend new methodologies and tools that allow the team to become more efficient
  • Drive testing methodology and tools to support agile development lifecycles
  • Experience in validating sales cloud and service cloud applications in Digital

QA Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Client : Thomson Reuters
03.2014 - 02.2017
  • Managed the team from taking the transition from Perficient team
  • Lead the Testing Team in Daily Scrum and Client calls
  • Involved in understanding Adobe CQ5 Technology and provided the KT sessions to the team
  • Understanding the User stories in JIRA and providing the inputs to the team for Preparing Test cases
  • Involved in Functionality Testing
  • Review and select test cases that can be automated
  • Preparing automated scripts using Selenium with Java
  • Involved in Mobile testing using Perfecto Tool
  • Reviewing the Test Cases, User Manual, Defects and addressing the team concerns in Scrum calls
  • Involved in Authoring the Pages in AEM

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Thomson Reuters
03.2007 - 03.2014
  • Taken the ownership of the project and lead the team with 6 members
  • Provided the estimation for the project
  • Involved in Database Testing
  • Involved in resolving the connectivity issues
  • Involved in setting up QA environment
  • Involved in Functionality Testing, Smoke testing
  • Identifying, reporting and tracking bugs
  • Trained 3 members to understand the system
  • Involved in Integration testing and replication process
  • Coordinated with QA Live Team to setup the UAT environment
  • Involved in Preparing Test cases and Test Data
  • Automated the application using QTP
  • Review and select test cases that can be automated
  • Modifying test scripts, Analyzing test results

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Information Technology

Andhra University
India

Certification

  • Certified Salesforce Admin
  • Certified in PSM I
  • Certified Safe 4 Agilist
  • Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner

Personal Information

  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian

Timeline

Quality Assurance Manager

Tata Consultancy Services Client : Kansas DOL
11.2023 - Current

Quality Assurance Manager

Tata consultancy services Client : Florida DOL
04.2023 - 10.2023

QA Manager

Tata Consultancy Services Client : Thomson Reuters
05.2019 - 03.2023

QA Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Client : Thomson Reuters
03.2017 - 05.2019

QA Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Client : Thomson Reuters
03.2014 - 02.2017

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Thomson Reuters
03.2007 - 03.2014

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Information Technology

Andhra University
Ramesh Kumar Podilapu