Rajesh Pothina (Certified In Project Management Essentials) Email & Phone Number

Senior Delivery & Quality Engineering professional with 17+ years of a successful career in large engagements entailing Delivery Management, Client Servicing, Team Leadership, People Management, Software Testing, QA Process, Automation, Mobile Apps Testing, Embedded Device Testing, Project Estimation & Management. Led various projects (Agile) encompassing the development of project plans, defining of SOWs, schedule creation, and adherence, cost control measures, quality assurance, resource procurement, change management, risk management, and meeting of PMI standards. Delivered products & projects with hands-on-management of Software Development, Quality Assurance, Performance & Tools, Program Management & including end-to-end testing and Software Process Management. Managed multi-cultural global teams from India, Canada, Japan & USA.Directed Continuous Improvements & Operational Excellence, through the reinforcement of Automation & Performance Tools, skills & infrastructure to attain faster & quality releases. Developed testing strategy, plans, estimates, and schedule, to support projects and product releases, provide documentation to management and project teams to determine release readiness of products/features. Optimized development/maintenance of Quality Control Standards/Metrics to determine improvement areas. Contributed to efforts to standardize the QA Toolset at Active, including Defect Tracking, Test Case Management, Resource, Dependency Tracking. Examined team reports, bugs on regular basis, performed RCA on End-user Bugs & provided regular feedback towards the improvement of Quality of Bugs & Test cases. Proven capability to effectively coach, develop, retain, train, hire, and build a successful team. Experience in handling cross functional and multi sited teams across the globe to streamline operations. Worked on different Domains like Enterprise, Banking, Security, Construction, Embedded and Health. Holding active B1 US Visa.