Vidhya Madhavan Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California

Foster City, Ca

- Leading a team of 6-8 QA engineers on exploratory, manual and automated testing of web applications.- Mentoring and coaching of QA engineers on defining test process, approach, practices, tooling to be used and risk vs. rewards based testing.- Provide constructive, and timely performance feedback- Actively involved in hiring and growing the team to handle future goals- Plan and coordinate testing efforts for sprints and releases (new features, configuration, upgrades, i18n, regressions, usability, compatability, etc)- Responsible for the quality of all major and minor releases. Plan releases in conjunction with stake holders

- Agile methodologies- Insurance domain knowledge - PolicyCenter, BillingCenter- Work closely with Product Management and development engineers to understand features and create robust comprehensive test plans to verify functionality- Do exploratory testing and acceptance of new features as part of a story-driven Agile development process- Develop automated tests in partnership with developers for continuous regression testing- Identify bugs through systematic testing, help developers reproduce errors, and ensure that defects are fixed- Participate throughout the design and development process, analyzing features to point out weaknesses or inconsistencies- Perform sanity testing on major features when performing new releases of products

* Worked for clients like AstraZeneca, Abbott Labs & Quintiles Transnational* Worked in multiple locations- UK, Sweden, US, India* Roles played: Business analyst, Onsite lead, project lead* Responsibilities:Project Management:1. Coordination between clients & offshore team2. Liaison between the business users3. Schedule/ allocation of work to team & status tracking4. Served as a focal point to communicate & resolve issues with client5. Ensuring successful knowledge transition of applications6. Prepare estimates & KT plan for new applications & resource planning7. Providing monthly status reports Technical activities:1. Provided transition of multiple applications running on ASP, VB, SQL & Oracle to teams2. Review of deliverables -design documents, unit, system & integration test case documents3. Responsibility of all maintenance activity deliverables including development, testing & implementation4. Responsibility of all incident & problem management activities5. Providing estimates to the clientBusiness Analyst:1. Requirements gathering from clients & analysis & converting them to use cases2. Involved in release planning & feature prioritization activities3. Facilitated Bug Triage meetings4. Involved in writing test scripts based on use cases5. Preparation of traceability matrixQA Lead:1. Estimate the timelines for QA activities2. Preparation & review of test strategy for test planning activities3. Coordinate & perform test execution (Operational Qualification, Performance Qualification, & Integration Qualification) & planning activitiesModule lead:1. Design & development of ASPX pages & C# components2. Perform design, code & OQ scripts reviewTraining:1. Coordinate & provide team trainings (Life Sciences trainings like CSV, GxP, 21CFR Part 11 Constraints & project related)* Achievements:- Streamlined the knowledge transition activities- Stream lined the test planning & execution activities

* Worked for clients like Dupont Textiles, Microsoft and HUD* Worked in multiple locations - US and India* Role: Module Lead, developer Responsibilities: 1. Participated in user requirements gathering. 2. Involved in the high level design of the system, which included database design, identifying business classes, class diagram and component design. 3. Development of components and web pages. 4. Performed code reviews for code elements. 5. Development of SQL DTS packages to transform data from the existing Lotus Notes application to SQL and to transform data from SQL to other Lotus Notes applications. Role: Developer Responsibilities: 1. Development of ASP.NET pages with the code behind as VB.NET to subscribe users in SQL NS. 2. Component development to check user authentication in Active Directory. 3. Development of a VB.NET application to create users and configure exchange properties for the user in Active Directory.