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Denny Thampi
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Leeds, United Kingdom
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• ISTQB (ISEB) Advanced certified Senior QA Test Lead with over 14 years of experience in software Testing. • Highly experienced in software engineering methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall. • 3+ years of experience in Agile and DevOps model development which includes Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Continuous Integration (CI). • Highly experienced in Kanban techniques such as Static reviews, User story elaboration, Assurance and Release testing. • Experience in managing testing in multiple squads within and across tribes. • Experience in working with major clients such as JP Morgan Chase, HBOS, AEGON, Scottish Widows, Scottish Life and NHS Digital. • 10+ years of experience in Test Management and Stakeholder Management. • Highly Experienced in managing testing with 3rd party managed services and Onshore-Offshore model. • Capability of coordinating multiple projects and multiple teams across different locations. • Experience in System Testing, UAT and System Integration Testing. • Experience in mentoring Junior team members. • Familiar with Jenkins and GitLab. • Well versed with DevOps model, JIRA, Confluence and Slack. • Excellent hands on experience in Regression Testing, Report Testing (Testing figures and values), ETL, & Exploratory Testing. • Direct clear communicator and efficient team player. • Experience in various Test Improvement and process optimization activities.
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United Kingdom
Language
English
Fluently
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Ongoing relation / part-time
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My experience
2014 - 2020
job
Lead Practitioner/Test Lead
NHS DIGITAL.
Experience and Responsibilities:
• Manage overall assurance of sprints and weekly release testing.
• Provide assurance of individual tickets/stories by review, testing and witnessing.
• Provide inputs to the Continuous Integration (CI) feature tests and manage the integration suite.
• Contribute towards 4 agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily stand up, Sprint review and Retrospective meeting)
• Review individual tickets to ensure the ample information are captured.
• Work with Business Analysis, Product Owner and Development team to improve the coverage of testing and thereby quality.
• Prepare Test Strategy at the beginning of each project.
• Worked as a JIRA Admin.
• Manage Risks, Issues and Dependencies and implement solutions to overcome the risks to save time, money and effort for the customer.
• Manage overall assurance of sprints and weekly release testing.
• Provide assurance of individual tickets/stories by review, testing and witnessing.
• Provide inputs to the Continuous Integration (CI) feature tests and manage the integration suite.
• Contribute towards 4 agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily stand up, Sprint review and Retrospective meeting)
• Review individual tickets to ensure the ample information are captured.
• Work with Business Analysis, Product Owner and Development team to improve the coverage of testing and thereby quality.
• Prepare Test Strategy at the beginning of each project.
• Worked as a JIRA Admin.
• Manage Risks, Issues and Dependencies and implement solutions to overcome the risks to save time, money and effort for the customer.
Business Analysis, Jira, Agile, Product owner, Integration, Test, Testing, Development, Feature, UP
2014 - 2020
temp
Lead Test Analyst
SRFT - NHS (Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust).
Experience and Responsibilities:
• Overall Test Management including mentoring the team, Reporting and managing Test deliverables and schedule.
• Implementing Testing Process in the organization to ensure that entire team understand the importance of testing process and follow it.
• Requirement Analysis and Test Planning.
• Design of Test scenarios and test cases to ensure all requirements are covered in the test design.
• Execute Test cases
• Liaise with development team and business team on a daily basis to ensure their support during the test phase and to understand if any support testing team would require to provide to perform their job in the desired level.
• Manage Defects.
• Overall Test Management including mentoring the team, Reporting and managing Test deliverables and schedule.
• Implementing Testing Process in the organization to ensure that entire team understand the importance of testing process and follow it.
• Requirement Analysis and Test Planning.
• Design of Test scenarios and test cases to ensure all requirements are covered in the test design.
• Execute Test cases
• Liaise with development team and business team on a daily basis to ensure their support during the test phase and to understand if any support testing team would require to provide to perform their job in the desired level.
• Manage Defects.
Design, Mentoring, Test management, Management, Test, It, Support, Analyst, Testing, Development
2013 - 2013
temp
Test Analyst
Scottish Life.
Experience and Responsibilities:
• Requirement gathering and analysis.
• Design of Test scenarios and test cases to ensure all requirements are covered in the test design.
• Test data mining using PL/SQL developer.
• Execute test cases using Quality Center.
• Map Test cases to Requirements in Quality Center.
• Liaise with development team and business team on a daily basis to ensure their support during the test phase.
• Manage Defects in Quality Center to ensure that that the bugs are reported, fixed, retested and closed within the agreed SLA and evidences.
• Requirement gathering and analysis.
• Design of Test scenarios and test cases to ensure all requirements are covered in the test design.
• Test data mining using PL/SQL developer.
• Execute test cases using Quality Center.
• Map Test cases to Requirements in Quality Center.
• Liaise with development team and business team on a daily basis to ensure their support during the test phase.
• Manage Defects in Quality Center to ensure that that the bugs are reported, fixed, retested and closed within the agreed SLA and evidences.
Design, Sql, Data mining, Pl/sql, Test, Developer, Support, Analyst, Development
2005 - 2013
job
Test Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions.
Experience and Responsibilities:
• Overall co-ordination of System Testing, System Integration testing and UAT.
• Supervised up to 10 member Software test team and 14 member business team along with 3 project managers and multiple vendors.
• Successfully managed testing for more than 25 projects ensuring the desired quality levels are met. This was accomplished by implementing the defined processes to keep the entrustment of the customer.
• Trained offshore team during the requirement gathering and analysis phase and ensured knowledge transition is sufficient to deliver the project in the proposed timeline.
• Conducted formal and informal test design reviews during the test design phase to ensure that the end user is happy with the test coverage.
• Mentor and coach junior team members throughout the project phase for the successful project delivery.
• Set up Requirement Analysis meetings with business SMEs to ensure all the relevant requirements are captured.
• Liaise with development team and business team on a daily basis to ensure their support during the test phase and to understand if any support testing team would require to provide to perform their job in the desired level.
• Prepare test estimation for System Testing, SIT and UAT with details of effort, total budget and resource loading.
• Prepare Test Plan and Test Strategy for System Testing, SIT and UAT with details of what and how the testing will be performed.
• Conducted regular meetings with Project Managers, Business Analysts and Business team to share the progress and ensure the customer satisfaction is in the desired level.
• Manage test execution by preparing run plan.
• Produce Daily status report and Weekly status reports to the customer with details of Progress, Plans, Risks, Issues, Dependencies and defect details with the agreed metrics.
• Manage Risks, Issues and Dependencies and implement solutions to overcome the risks to save time, money and effort for the customer.
• Manage Defects in Quality Center to ensure that that the bugs are reported, fixed, retested and closed within the agreed SLA and evidences.
• Produced Test Summary Reports at the end of testing with the details of Items tested, Items not tested, Metrics, productivity, coverage, Test effectiveness and Defects details.
• Implemented Manage Test Centre model by documenting the metrics, productively, communication and reporting the test team would produce during the testing phase to set up the expectations upfront.
• Worked on SharePoint design to ensure a one process methodology and a single window access for any testing process documents deliverables.
• Active member of Testing Centre of Excellence team to ensure all the process are reviewed periodically and any improvements are adopted and communicated to the team.
• Overall co-ordination of System Testing, System Integration testing and UAT.
• Supervised up to 10 member Software test team and 14 member business team along with 3 project managers and multiple vendors.
• Successfully managed testing for more than 25 projects ensuring the desired quality levels are met. This was accomplished by implementing the defined processes to keep the entrustment of the customer.
• Trained offshore team during the requirement gathering and analysis phase and ensured knowledge transition is sufficient to deliver the project in the proposed timeline.
• Conducted formal and informal test design reviews during the test design phase to ensure that the end user is happy with the test coverage.
• Mentor and coach junior team members throughout the project phase for the successful project delivery.
• Set up Requirement Analysis meetings with business SMEs to ensure all the relevant requirements are captured.
• Liaise with development team and business team on a daily basis to ensure their support during the test phase and to understand if any support testing team would require to provide to perform their job in the desired level.
• Prepare test estimation for System Testing, SIT and UAT with details of effort, total budget and resource loading.
• Prepare Test Plan and Test Strategy for System Testing, SIT and UAT with details of what and how the testing will be performed.
• Conducted regular meetings with Project Managers, Business Analysts and Business team to share the progress and ensure the customer satisfaction is in the desired level.
• Manage test execution by preparing run plan.
• Produce Daily status report and Weekly status reports to the customer with details of Progress, Plans, Risks, Issues, Dependencies and defect details with the agreed metrics.
• Manage Risks, Issues and Dependencies and implement solutions to overcome the risks to save time, money and effort for the customer.
• Manage Defects in Quality Center to ensure that that the bugs are reported, fixed, retested and closed within the agreed SLA and evidences.
• Produced Test Summary Reports at the end of testing with the details of Items tested, Items not tested, Metrics, productivity, coverage, Test effectiveness and Defects details.
• Implemented Manage Test Centre model by documenting the metrics, productively, communication and reporting the test team would produce during the testing phase to set up the expectations upfront.
• Worked on SharePoint design to ensure a one process methodology and a single window access for any testing process documents deliverables.
• Active member of Testing Centre of Excellence team to ensure all the process are reviewed periodically and any improvements are adopted and communicated to the team.
Design, Budget, Software test, SharePoint, Mentor, System Integration, Integration, Test, Offshore, Support, Testing, Development, Coach, Software, Processes, UP
My education
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2004
Mahathma Gandhi University
BSc, Electronics
BSc, Electronics
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