Role: Test Manager-Worked as Test manager in a Testing Center of Excellence setup involving multivendor and multicultural environment.-Managed team handling qualification of Marketing and Sales related applications needed for the Elevator and Escalator industry.-Managed vendor organization leadership relationship activities for the testing services.-Assessed Agile, DevOps ways of working and suggested improvement opportunities.

Role: Test Manager/Scrum Master -Owned responsibility for functional testing of APIs and web application related UI changes and new features testing for the EMEA region customization project of the existing NA region intrusion/security systems.-Driven Engineering testing activities for connected home software products based on Cloud (SaaS ,PaaS) and IOT platforms for web and Mobile Applications.-Managed Team of ET engineers and leads focused with On-time delivery to QA team with quality standards.-Managing End to End Engineering testing activities and Test Delivery within Product Development Life cycle for each and every targeted sprint cycle.-Collaborated, facilitated, lead the Scrum team responsible for developing API , Web interfaces for the connected home platform application named Total Connect 2.0 services.-Supported CI/CD implementation and DevOps, Drive agile test methodologies and engineering activities within the sprint cycles.-Upgraded and maintained hardware setups needed to drive manual and automation testing activities for both API and UI testing teams. -Enhanced collaboration and interactions with Developers, ET testers, QA testers, PO, Architects, Scrum Master, Engineering manager for continuous improvement within engineering testing cycles.-Assisted Product Owner/Product Manager in gathering the requirements with the Product and domain knowledge gained.-Assisted product team in prioritizing and managing the product backlog items.-Managed the scrum team, performed agile project management activities like planning, execution, tracking and reporting in a systematic way using Agile methodologies/SCRUM framework.-Experienced in Leading teams, Planning, controlling schedule, Configuration Management, Change Control Management, and Metrics management.-Facilitated and co-ordinated scrum events :Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospection.

Role: Test Manager -Owned responsibility for system and functional testing of Honeywell/Resideo Total Connect 2.0 web application and related Connected/Smart Home/Home Automation products/services.-Handled Clients/Partners communication through regular exchange of emails and weekly telephone calls.-Acted as an effective coordinator between development team management and test leads.-Lead and tracked test leads and their teams comprising both manual and automation test team members in all their testing assignments.-Lead and tracked team performing automated API/UI tests for client/server/Windows, API, Web, Mobile app(IOS and Android) environments.-Involved in various technical interview and recruitment events for the team and organization.-Involved in AOP projection, CAPEX/OPEX Projection and procurement function meetings for test projects.-Coordinated with Engineering Manager, Program Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Scrum Team members for proactive project planning and smooth test execution activities.-Performed Goals and Performance management discussions, Compensation Planning and Development needs -capturing sessions for the team. -Provided leadership to the testing team members in skills assessment and career roadmap guidance.-Demonstrated experience in building test teams from scratch to seasoned execution.

Role: Test Lead -Configured security panels, RF sensors like door contact/Smoke/heat/panic/temperature/Fire/Siren and z-wave devices like Binary switches, Dimmers, Locks, Thermostats, Garage doors and other home automation products and cloud devices like video doorbells, chamberlain garage door etc.-Determined testing scope, defined test coverage and schedule/release coverage aspects, test approach, entry and exit criteria.-Developed and executed software testing project plans using tools like Postman, JMeter, Ready API, Katalon, managed schedules and resource allocation.-Managed projects on a day to day basis to ensure project outputs are being delivered on targeted schedule and to the required quality.-Reviewed detailed test plan documents from test leads and filled gaps if any.-Tracked test leads, monitored & controlled testing life cycle activities as per plan on deviations.-Ensured partner/customer satisfaction on field issues/queries support activities by the team and ensured formal closure.-Identified test process improvement areas and implemented within planned schedules.-Analyzed requirements/user stories and reviewed for clarifications with stakeholders.-Tracked test teams on various test metrics and their trends on need basis.-Participated in management review (MR) meetings and updated on project status and risks.

Role: Test Lead -Owned responsibility for qualifying various software applications used at the shop floor sections of car manufacturing plant/factory. -Determined testing scope, defined test coverage, test approach, entry and exit criteria.-Prepared detailed Test plan and maintained as a live document for the team.-Allocated tasks to the Testers, Monitored & controlled testing life cycle activities as per plan.

Role: Test Project Lead-Owned responsibility for system and functional/Product testing and qualification of Rapid Eye Multi Media - a Honeywell video surveillance device as well as configuration and testing of other video surveillance products like DVR, NVR, Analog and digital IP cameras.-Prepared detailed test plan and ensured approvals from stakeholders for execution.-Allocated tasks to the Test team, Monitored & controlled testing life cycle activities as per plan.-Involved in Field Issues/Queries support and closure towards partners/customers satisfaction.-Involved in capacity as a test team lead in identifying automation/simulation/penetration/performance testing opportunities in all SDLC/STLC phases.-Planned test project and further tracking activities of the team.-Involved in project needs wise test lab setup and maintenance as per 5S conceptual framework.-Reviewed Test Report document from team and shared with stakeholders..-Acted as an effective coordinator between development and testing team.-Lead and tracked a team of testers in all their testing assignments.-Mentored testing resources about the testing process and products.-Participated in process audits with the process team and worked for the closure of Non Conformance items.-Identified and implemented improvement opportunities in test cycles using test metrics .

Role: Senior Test Engineer -Analyzed requirements/use cases/SRS/marketing requirements document and reviewed them.-Identified and reported missing use cases/scenarios for the real world product usage topology.-Involved in setup and maintenance of test bed/environments.-Involved in maintenance of test project inventory items and knowledge items using confluence.-Created and maintained requirements traceability matrix (RTM).-Designed test cases for functional tests.-Involved in formal technical review (FTR) of test design artifacts from team.-Performed smoke test, installation test, functional end to end system test, backward compatibility test, system integration testing (SIT),UI test, regression tests on need basis.-Prepared and reviewed test report document.-Detected and reported defects/change requests and verified them after fix & tracked towards closure.-Analyzed defects/anomalies and categorized between HW and SW defects.-Assisted the tech support group in issues reproduction and clarified their doubts on product features.-Facilitated test management team by providing the test metrics on need basis.-Involved in review of user manuals/installation manuals etc and ensured its correctness.

Role: Test Engineer -Reviewed requirements and performed analysis for further refinement. -Prepared and executed test cases.-Maintained test execution logs and logged defects and categorized them for triage. -Analyzed test results and logged them in test reporting/management tools like JIRA.

Role: Test Engineer -Owned responsibility for testing Various desktop based software applications and delivery to customers. -Prepared test cases and performed test execution for small to medium sized software applications. -Reported issues to the development team and getting them fixed on priority.