Durga Sankar S.

ABOUT ME

11 Years and 3 months of experience in Software Testing, Test Management, SIT, UAT, End-to-End Testing, Quality Assurance Process, Process Governance in Delivering & implementing Projects including Driving requirements discussions from Business, Features, User Stories/Requirements with Agile Practices. Seeking Roles in Agile Test Management as a Test Manager or Senior Test Lead positions.
Domain Expertise: Telecom (OSS/BSS), L2C, T2R, B2B & B2C, Mobility.

• Driving E2E Testing Process including Functional Testing, Non-Functional, Performance Testing, API Testing, SOA Testing, Mobile App Testing, Application Security Testing, Environment Setup in support of business goals in full life cycle Project Management.
• Extensively worked on Agile Scrum Methodology includes backlog/sprint grooming, planning and managing Stories & Features, successfully set up JIRA & Trained Team on Agile Scrum, Kanban, Lean, V-Model principles and various delivery life cycles including CI/CD, DevOps.
• Developed Test Strategy, Test Plan, QA Checklist for both functional and non-functional requirements of Projects.
• Define and standardize QA Strategy for product teams & flexible to individual team needs & drive QA Technical Reviews, Meetings
• Measure and report QA metrics & responsible for Defect analysis with Dev team, BA, replicating issues for analysis & resolution.
• Expert in Tracking & measuring Testing Productivity on periodic basis, Mentoring & recommending CDP for team members.
• Involved in authoring Test Cases, Test Reporting, Metrics, KPI’s for various Products & Applications reporting in HP QC/ALM, JIRA & Testlink.
• Exposure of OSS/BSS stack, NMS/EMS (OSS RC), FCAPS, Virtualization (ESXi), Cloud Computing, Siebel CRM/vTiger CRM, Order Management, Provisioning by using AIA/MOM & OSM, Number Portability, Oracle Billing and Revenue Management (BRM), Ericsson IN CS 2.0.
• Familiar with Automation Tools; QTP, JMeter and Postman.
• Responsible for the Test Management of project once software delivered to in country environment until Go Live including estimation, planning, execution, defect creation & coordinating triage, reporting metrics to business and closure activities.
• Proactively identify dependencies and collaborate with cross functional teams, other Programs teams to manage dependencies & risks. accounts for Project Management.
• Facilitating project organization, Employee Dialogue (ED) by project implementation teams, roles, responsibilities, accountabilities, workflow. Manage both dependencies & interfaces between projects, third party within a program & outside to ensure successful project execution by technical leadership and guidance to project team.
• Worked as Senior Tester at Client-side BT Radianz-NJ-USA for 3 months and as Test lead at BATELCO-Bahrain for 1-month Pre-paid phase 1 UAT.

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