Praveen Kumar Pv Email & Phone Number

Sharjah, Sharjah, Ae

United Arab Emirates

Certified Scrum Master with extensive experience leading Agile team in crew tracking project.Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development.Ensured cross-functional coordination between user's product Mangers, analysts, developers, and QA occurred early and often and removed barriers and blockers for the team.Managing software testing programs and designing/enforcement of software testing solutionsDrive QA strategy, approach, and execution.Own and drive the Quality and Automation strategyEstimate, Plan, Execute custom projects as per time and cost expectationsDefine and deploy scalable QA processes and metric-driven practicesUnderstanding customer expectations and derive strategies to meet itManage test teams and projects providing leadership and planningDetermine, monitor, and improvise automation practiceFormulate strategies to increase productivity and quality.Ensure adherence to quality, productivity, and predictability goalsLeading and Mentoring the testing team.Driving the QA weekly and Daily Status calls with onsite counter parts.Involved in creating Test Plan, Effort Estimation, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Defect Tracking and Management System.Involved in managing and troubleshooting of production tickets.Complete ownership of desktop and mobile product testing.Participated in all Phases of software life cycle (SDLC) starting with the business requirements gathering, business analysis, design, implementation, testing and support.Actively participated during the release of the product and provided go-live support during deployment.Working closely with the development team & service desk team to ensure that the testing issues are resolved.

United Arab Emirates

 Enriched experience in both Manual and Automation testing in Crew tracking system & mobile application Currently reporting to the Product Manager and feature file creation, integration test and system testing execution of the application Accountable to lead the team for resource optimization/allocation in the deployment tests for the customer release builds along with support activities for UAT. Conducting UAT. Involved in design meetings along with Business analysts & interaction with customers for understanding the business requirements for Functional, System and Performance Testing. Performing daily team administration routines as well as team development and people management activities to improve team productivities. Responsible for daily standup meeting, burn down chart creation, updating, user interaction, UAT etc…

Trivandrum

 Accountable to lead the team for resource optimization/allocation in the deployment tests for the customer release builds along with support activities for UAT. Managing various functions of test management including test estimation (effort/time) for the project along with development of test scenarios and execution planning. Responsible for identification of test automation scope in projects and suitably drive those initiatives by developing test cases/test scripts. Involved in design meetings along with Business analysts & interaction with customers for understanding the business requirements for Functional, System and Performance Testing. Spearheading verification in the database related changes as well as in the deployments, based on the release notes provided for while reporting issues based on diversion. Performing daily team administration routines as well as team development and people management activities to improve team productivities.o Involved in system testingo Involved in performance testing of the applicationo Executing the test caseso Reviewing the overall testingo Reporting issues in the QA listo Bug verification System testingo Understanding the Requirement and Functional Specification documents.o Identifying test conditions/test script as per the requirementso Handled re-usability scenario using user defined functions.o Handling the daily, weekly calls/meetings and discuss the project improvements and issues with clients.

Trivandrum,Kerala

• Manages a team scattered across different locations.• Verification of the Requirements: Understand the requirements and review its testability by participating in requirements review. Understand the scope of testing from functional perspective for each requirement.• Test Planning –Define the scope of testing, validate the test estimate, Identify and allocate resources, create the test schedule and prepare the Master Test Plan.• Test Planning - Update the Project Risk Tracker and the Project Training Plan with testing related items.• Design Test Cases against Specification, Review Test Cases, Log review defects in JIRA and Update the Traceability Matrix.• Integration/Functional Testing: Configure Test Environment, Perform Smoke/Sanity Test, Execute Test Cases, Report Defects in JIRA and Create the Test Report.• IVV (Independent Verification and Validation) Certification: Validate against the release criteria, Issue IV&V certificate with Go / No-Go status.• Ensure testing team is following testing standards, guidelines, and testing methodology as documented in Test Strategy.• Ensures all the testing deliverables and reports are version controlled.• Check for timely delivery of different milestones.• Understand the requirements and understand the scope of testing from functional perspective for each requirement.• Design Checklist for Test Case Review and UI Testing.• Perform Smoke Test.• Review Test Cases and Defects.• Create reference documents on business expertise areas of self.• Taken responsibility to plan and drive trainings for the team.• Taken Functional Domain Training to new members.• Mentor individuals within the project to develop skills necessary for the project.

Banglore

• Create Test Cases as defined in the Master Test Plan.• Configure Test Environment and Execute Integration/Functional/Regression Test Cases.• Report testing defects in Defect Tracking tool and follow defect life cycle to close the defects.• Create the Test Report.• Involved in creating the entire test environment setup for the testing team • Creation of areas in unix area for different workstations• Creation of different databases for different areas• Dump import and exports• Involved in the deployment tests for the customer release builds• Involved in design meetings along with Business analysts• Verification in the deployments based on the release notes given and reporting issues based on the diversion• Verification in the database related changes as part of the releases• Involved in regression testing of the application• Executing the test cases• Reporting issues in the Jira• Bug verification• Execution of test scripts using QTP

Trivandrum

Worked as a Sr. SQA Analyst

Technopark

Role: Test lead* Leading and Mentoring the testing team* Driving the QA weekly and Daily Status calls with onsite counter parts* Involved in creating Test Plan, Effort Estimation, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Defect Tracking and Management System.* Involved in managing and troubleshooting of production tickets.* Performed Functionality, Integration, GUI, Regression, Usability and System testing.* Tested the Applications compatibility in different browser versions of IE, Firefox and Safari.* Participated in all Phases of software life cycle (SDLC) starting with the business requirements gathering, business analysis, design, implementation, testing and support.* Actively participated during the release of the product and provided go-live support during deployment.* Working closely with the development team to ensure that the testing issues are resolved.

M.C.A, Computer Science, A

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Geology, A

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