Kripa Sampath Kumar Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Acted as liaison between business, sales, customer success and IT teams to refine the product and incorporate features based on market demands• Partnered with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the solution development process and ensure the product team understands the direction and vision• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories• Translated features into user stories and articulated product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to development teams• Created and maintained the solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the development life cycle, while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholder’s requirements• Established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams• Created Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams• Fostered open communication between executive stakeholders, engineering, sales and marketing to produce training content and align on roadmap at the end of release cycles

Montreal, Canada Area

• Led on shore and off shore teams while managing project planning, assigning duties appropriately to the team and coordinating project releases during QA Sprints• Developed the test cases and test matrix by collaborating with the development and product teams• Contributed to business requirements and functional requirements for new features and enhancements by working closely with product specialists and subject matter experts to understand product requirements• Implemented test case repository tool Xray and migrated the test execution process from Excel to Xray• Performed manual and automated testing on the HR & financial application using SAP tcodes, and debugged issues using BAPI calls/transactions and SAP GUI analysis• Gathered test data executing SQL queries using SQL Server 2012 and Oracle• Identified critical functional gaps while increasing test coverage and improving the quality of our products• Automated test cases using Cucumber and Galen, with Java and JavaScript and implemented via GIT and SourceTree• Executed performance testing using test automation and JMeter; and security testing using VeraCode and OWASP• Deployed builds on AWS and local environments using Linux & Docker scripts• Documented release reports per release and generated QA reports to increase visibility to upper management

Montreal, Canada Area

• Designed test plan and test cases by collaborating with the development team and the project management team for requirements• Implemented the test case repository tool QMetry and migrated the test execution process from Excel to QMetry• Performed functional testing, system testing, regression testing, cross browser testing and automation testing on web applications and iPad using GIT and Webstorm• Improved the usability and performance of the supply chain management software Rebus• Orchestrated Rest API testing using Postman and monitored application and network calls for back-end testing• Executed SQL queries using Mongo DB and MySQL Workbench to retrieve backend information and performed database testing• Led the defect management process using Jira and utilized Confluence for document repository• Performed internal vulnerability testing using Ironwasp• Created security policies for SOC 2 compliance• Implemented policies and strategies within the organization to ensure SOC 2 principles are met as a security measure and vendor compliance• Performed internal SOC audit as an internal auditor to ensure policy and program compliance• Trained employees on policy compliance and general security standards to be followed• Collaborated with third-party security consultant to ensure the 5 trust principles of SOC 2 are met and partnered with the team in obtaining the SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 report for the organization

Montreal, Canada Area

• Developed test plans and test cases using the requirements documentation and traceability matrix using TestLink• Performed manual testing, GUI testing, functional testing, performance testing, smoke testing, system testing, regression testing, cross browser testing and mobile device testing on the rTEM portal, wireless expense management applications WEM, GAMA and mobile applications using iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile platforms and emulators• Led the QA team for the GAMA/WEM project ensuring the successful execution of test scripts• Enhanced the usability and performance of the in-house real-time expense management applications Tangoe rTEM, SmartUsage and Tangoe Mobile • Single-handedly ensured the quality check of the Bell API application• Executed performance testing using Gatling, Scala scripting and JMeter on the Matrix application and utilized Firebug for backend testing• Retrieved the backend information for various applications using SQL Server 2012 and SAP Hana Studio and worked with SVN for version control• Implemented the defect management processes using Mantis, Rally, Soffront and Trac• Facilitated the automation of test cases using Java and Selenium WebDriver

Montreal

Supervised University exams by adhering to the protocols defined by the University

Master Of Engineering, Information Systems Security

Bachelor Of Technology, Information Technology