Brajesh Kumar Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Transformed Company from waterfall to adopt Agile process.• Key contributor on assessment and improvement of QA processes in agile/scrum module for completeness, maturity and quality of product by leveraging industry standards.• Develop the overall quality assurance program and change management process for internal and external issues to achieve higher customer satisfaction.• Manage geographically distributed quality engineering teams in 2 countries USA and Costa Rica to oversee software testing of complex, multi-tier Software. Also, participate in product design and project planning to provide input on scope, schedule and resources.• Worked on Budget Management,Recruitment Process,Team Retention,Resource utilization, Performance management,Career growth and team building for QA teams.• Collaborate with Product Management, Product Development, Professional Services, Performance Engineering, Security Teams and Customer Support to meet business goals for quality, time-to-market and ROI.• Work closely with various technology teams such as Front end, Backend group, API dev, Core Platform, Performance and Security group to build testing strategies and execution plans to support a combination of production support releases and new development project activities. Also, responsible to publish,communicate,track and manage test execution, test coverage and defect analysis.• Manage Automation and performance testing efforts, Tools used Selenium web driver to test UI layer, API layer and service layer.• Manage multiple software project deliverables at the same time, understanding all underlying dependencies• Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problem, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness

Tokyo, Jp

Supervisor• Develop the overall quality assurance program and change management process for internal and external issues to achieve higher customer satisfaction.• Manage geographically distributed quality engineering teams in 2 countries USA and Russia to oversee software testing of complex, multi-tier Network platform's Customer Management Tool. Also, participate in product design and project planning to provide input on scope, schedule and resources.• Worked on Budget Management,Recruitment Process,Team Retention,Resource utilization, Performance management,Career growth and team building for QA teams.• Key contributor on assessment and improvement of QA processes in agile/scrum module for completeness, maturity and quality of product by leveraging industry standards.• Collaborate with Product Management, Product Development, Professional Services, Performance Engineering, Security Teams and Customer Support to meet business goals for quality, time-to-market and ROI.• Work closely with various technology teams such as Front end, Backend group, API dev, Core Platform, Performance and Security group to build testing strategies and execution plans to support a combination of production support releases and new development project activities. Also, responsible to publish,communicate,track and manage test execution, test coverage and defect analysis.• Manage Automation and performance testing efforts, Tools used Selenium web driver to test UI layer, API layer and service layer.

Tokyo, Jp

• Served as Lead QA for eBook Reader Store eCommerce platform that serves the ebookstore.sony.com site. Also supported various Reader Store clients like mobile apps (iOS and Android), desktop apps and reader devices to integrate with the Reader Store with focus on Customer satisfaction.• Collaborating with Product Management, Marketing, Product Development, Professional Services, Pre-Sales, Content ops, Performance Engineering, Security Teams and Customer Support to meet business goals for quality, time-to-market and ROI.• Lead global (UK, Russia and India) QA teams to ensure proper testing and timely release of the eBook Reader Store; Ensuring high Quality metrics to achieve customer satisfaction.• Driving development and implementation of testing strategy, methodologies, and vision and continuously assess them against industry standards.• Handling major releases every 3 months and minor release after every sprint. Working with global QA manual and automation teams to Identify and mitigating risks and issue. Implementing testing road-map for various product lines/Devices on platform.• Drive Test Automation using Selenium web driver, Tested Mark-logic Rest API (web Services), API load Runner.• Achieved high percentage of automation of structured test cases and customer patches. Also, ensured re-usability of test and automation suites in other product, which reduced development effort tremendously within the teams.

Reston, Va, Us

• Joined Headstrong - USA as a QA Lead and later promoted to Technical Manager- QA. Main role was to work with client and offshore teams. Managed a functional and automation QA team (offshore and onsite). • Responsible for evaluation and selection of automation test tools suited to various software products, developing automation test plans which include automation framework and scripting guidelines.• Setup, Hired, Led, Manage and mentored the HeadStrong QA team in Noida India office. Short listing resumes, taking interviews, training and mentoring the team.• Worked with test teams by defining, planning, implementing, and maintaining consistent, progressive testing for products and performed hands-on-testing.• Performed periodic risk analysis to ensure testing focused on critical areas; and during internal product reviews, used QA metrics/test plan to assess risk severity associated to defects and endorse QA production readiness.• Designed test automation framework for UI test automation using QuickTest Pro. Defined and designed Load/Performance testing scenario for Load Runner.• Did process gap analysis for different groups in Chevron and led effort to setup QA best practices and processes. Maintained consistent QA Standards and procedures, communicate Best practices, and QA specific presentation.

Reston, Va, Us

• Worked as software consultant with various clients as a part of offshore team. Main responsiblility includes cummunication with client, Helping offshore team for effective and timely delivery of quality work/product, provide Test Estimation, Test Planning, Test Environment Setup, Test Creation, Test Data Setup, Test Execution, Test Results Reporting, Logging/Tracking/Reporting Defects, Test Coverage Analysis and coordinating the testing efforts for onsite-offshore model.• Worked on preparing a proposal for clients, estimation, methodology, solution, process definition.• worked on Automation and Performance testing using tools like winrunner, QTP, Load Runner.• Worked on Test Automation Framework for testing different application, so that same framework can be used accross the organization.• Completed performance testing using Loadrunner, Controller, Virtual User Generator and Load Analyzer on the distributed environment. Identify scenario and number of VU for Perfornance Test, Load Test, Benchmark Test, Scalability Test.• Traveled to client site for Requirement Analysis for client. CapitalOne, Richmond VA Covisint ,Southfield MI

• Joined Team as a Automation Engineer to automate QuarkXPress desktop application.• Interacted with Business Analyst, Developers to better understand the product and it's needs.• Executed automated Smoke test and regression on weekly builds.• Fixed automation script for any funcationality change and raised defect found by script.• Actively participated design discussion for automation.• Added more framework to existing framework.• Tested for 12 supported languages for QuarkXPress.• Performed automation of test cases using SilkTest tool, assessed the coverage of the code by running the automated test developed with SilkTest tool.

• Worked for company's products in publishing domain as JAVA developer• Worked as product development team outsourced by clients Adobe using C++.• Fixed bug found by QA team.• Wrote Unit Test with JAVA.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business/Commerce, General

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics And Telecommunication