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Kirankumar Bhavimani

Sydney,NSW

Summary

  • Dynamic leader of application testing teams offering 18 years of experience in managing high revenue, mission-critical projects, overseeing teams/projects application testing activities.
  • Experience in Project and Resource management.
  • Certified in "Agile Scrum Master" from International Scrum institute. Having 10 years of working experience in managing Agile projects.
  • Good experience in software testing in the Telecommunication, Banking, Insurance, Retail and Media & entertainment domain.
  • Experience in both Pega and IBM BPM Application Testing.
  • Experience in API/Web Service Testing using SOAP UI and Postmaster tool.
  • Experience on Finacle (Banking CRM) Application Testing.
  • Experience in Multilingual or Globalization Testing i.e. I18N (Internalization Testing) and I10N(Localization).
  • Experience on Accessibility(A11Y) testing.
  • Experience on AS/400 Application testing.
  • Performed Scrum Master role.
  • Provide end-to-end testing support for time and business critical projects by leading test strategy, plan, execution, documentation,defect management and status reporting.
  • Worked as lead for UAT testing, worked closely with business team.
  • Good experience in testing co-ordination between offshore and onshore, multiple vendors in larger projects, worked as escalation point of contact.
  • Knowledge of automation testing using tools like Selenium, Postman and SOAPUI.
  • Good experience in handling multiple projects simultaneously and interacting different stake holders
  • Worked with and managed geographically distributed team across Ireland, Australia, UK and USA.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Manager /Test Lead

Wipro Technologies Ltd
02.2020 - Current

Project: Google ChromeOS Applications


  • Responsible for Resource management, Project management, requirement analysis, Test planning, Test estimation, test execution and defect management.
  • Performed Feature level and regression testing to verify software quality and function before it was released.
  • Working as a Test Co-coordinator between onshore and offshore team.
  • Responsible for defect management.
  • Working in Agile environment/methodology.
  • Review and approves all project test deliverables.
  • Kept test cases updated with current requirements.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
  • Co-Ordination between different stake holders/multiple lines. handing multiple testing projects.
  • Working closely with Business team as part of UAT testing.
  • Presenting reports & software application information to the clients, stakeholders and key business representatives.
  • Trained new test employees on applications and company guidelines to promote productive and high-quality work.

Test Lead/Test Delivery Manager

Wipro Technologies Ltd
10.2018 - 02.2020

Project : SingTel Optus Pty Ltd.


  • Responsible for Requirement gathering and analysis
  • Developed Test Plan, Estimation & Test Scenarios/Scripts.
  • Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Co-Ordination between different stake holders/Multiple vendors.(Offshore and Onsite)
  • Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.
  • Directed teams completing regression tests to support successful product development stages.

Test Lead /UAT Co-ordinator

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
11.2015 - 09.2018

Project : Allied Irish Bank(AIB)


  • Involved in Test strategy and Test Plan document release level and Sprint level.
  • Prepare, review, and walkthroughs System Testing (ST) and End to End (SIT) test cases.
  • Execute System and End-to-End test cases per the project schedule.
  • Identifying or setting up Test data.
  • UAT Co-ordination.
  • Assist the Business users in performing the UAT.
  • Data preparation for Business to execute UAT Test Cases.
  • Execution of subset of UAT Test Cases and advise on the test results to UAT Team so that they can take the decision if the actual UAT can be performed or not
  • Identify the Regression Test pack for the Automation team.
  • Co-ordinate with the offsite counterpart and dev team to help progress the task on time without any slippage of deliverables.
  • Organize and chair UAT Defect triage meeting.
  • Tracking all the defects in Jira until closed.
  • Followed Agile Methodology.
  • Mentor the junior resources, conduct trainings, perform annual appraisals, request and provide feedback.
  • Acting and closing all the action items recorded during retrospective meeting.
  • Performed Scrum master role during his absence.
  • Conducting Test cases review meetings with the BA in order to make sure all the requirements are covered.
  • Provided SIT and UAT Test Summary Report

Test Lead

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
01.2015 - 10.2015

Project: Deutche Bank


  • Involved in Test Estimations, Test Planning, Review, Defect Management and Test environments set up.
  • Responsible for Test Approach documents, Test Scenarios/Scripts, Test Execution Cycle Plans.
  • Conducting Test cases review meetings with the BA in order to make sure all the requirements are covered.
  • Resource management.
  • Worked on identifying Test Automation and maintained regression suite.
  • Performed Scrum master role during Scrum master absence.
  • Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.
  • Review and Approve all project Test Deliverable.
  • Responsible for Test Closure Memo’s, Status Reports.
  • Co-Ordination with the development and Testing Team both offshore and Onsite.

Test Lead

Wipro Technologies
08.2010 - 12.2014

Project: JP Morgan Chase


  • Leading the team of 5 members.
  • Involved in requirement walkthroughs with the Development team and Business Analyst.
  • Involved in Reviews and walkthroughs of test cases.
  • Assigning task to team members and monitoring their work.
  • Test data preparation.
  • Preparing and executing the test cases against the functional specification.
  • Involved in AS/400 Testing.
  • Reviewing test cases prepared by team members and given the appropriate comments
  • Defect walk-through with the developers and Business Analyst. Appropriate actions taken for the defects based on the suggestion by the Business.
  • Circulating Daily and Weekly Status report to management
  • Preparation and Circulation of Signoff document.

Senior Test Analyst

IBM India Pvt Ltd.
03.2007 - 07.2010

Project: Prudential Financial


  • Requirement gathering and Analysis.
  • Estimation of testing efforts based on the scope of testing.
  • Assigning task to team members and tracking their work
  • Reviewing test cases prepared by team members and given the appropriate comments.
  • Assisting test team members during execution System Test Cases execution using SOAP UI tool.
  • Involved in Database Testing.
  • Execution of Test Cases (System Test Cases execution using SOAP UI tool
  • Logging/Closing/Reopening bugs in the test management tool i.e. Quality Center.
  • Involved in sending Test Summary Report on daily basis.
  • Involved in Testing Signoff.

Senior Test Engineer

OAK Systems Pvt Ltd.
01.2006 - 02.2007

Project - Infosys Finacle CRM


  • Requirement gather and Analysis.
  • Multilingual or Globalization testing) of Finacle CRM.
  • Internationalization(I18N) Testing and Localization(110N).
  • System testing, Functionality testing, and Sanity testing.
  • Recon (ticket) testing.
  • Prepared and documented the test conditions and test cases.
  • Responsible for running test cases and reporting defects.
  • Maintenance related Testing for Finacle CRM clients which involved- new setups and tight deadlines.
  • Maintaining Traceability of Tickets Raised by Customer and Patches provided for our Testing setups.
  • Maintenance of Testing Setups for Various banks.

Senior Test Engineer

OAK System Pvt Ltd.
08.2005 - 12.2005

Project - Infosys Herbal life.


  • Collected and analysed the functional specifications.
  • Preparing and Execution of test cases.
  • Performed in Database testing/backend testing.
  • Tracked the results in HP ALM and reported the system defects and bugs.
  • Prepared status summary report with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
  • Responsible in providing regular reports to the management.

Test Analyst

OAK System Pvt Ltd.
12.2004 - 07.2005

Project - Royal Sundaram.


  • Collected and analysed the functional specifications.
  • Preparing and Execution of test cases.
  • Tracked the results in HP ALM and reported the system defects and bugs.
  • Prepared status summary report with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
  • Responsible in providing regular reports to the management.

Education

Bachelor of engineering - Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Kalaburgi, Karnataka, India

Skills

  • Test Management Tools - JIRA, HP ALM, BBU, Radar, Test tracker
  • Project Management Tools - Confluence, SharePoint
  • API/Web Services Testing Tools - SOAP UI, Postman
  • Automation Tools - Selenium Webdriver, JMeter, TestNG, Assure NXT,
  • Programming / Scripting Languages - Core Java
  • Databases - Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Oracle 9i, TOAD
  • Operating System - ChromeOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS

Employment Summary

  • Test Manger/Test lead ( Wipro Technologies Ltd.) - August 2010 to till date.
  • Test Lead(IBM India Pvt Ltd.) - March 2007 - July 2010.
  • Senior test Analyst(OAK Systems Pvt Ltd) - December 2004 - Mar 2007.


Certification

  • SCRUM MASTER ACCREDITED CERTIFICATION™ from International SCRUM Institute.
  • ORACLE SQL Certified.
  • Wipro People Manager Certified.

Achivements

  • Received Inspiring Performance recognition award for good work in Google.
  • Received twice Victory League award for extraordinary commitment in Optus Project.
  • Received Feather in Cap award for quality deliverables in JP Morgan Project (Wipro).
  • Received cash award and Star Performance award for outstanding performance and project delivery in IBM.

Timeline

Test Manager /Test Lead

Wipro Technologies Ltd
02.2020 - Current

Test Lead/Test Delivery Manager

Wipro Technologies Ltd
10.2018 - 02.2020

Test Lead /UAT Co-ordinator

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
11.2015 - 09.2018

Test Lead

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
01.2015 - 10.2015

Test Lead

Wipro Technologies
08.2010 - 12.2014

Senior Test Analyst

IBM India Pvt Ltd.
03.2007 - 07.2010

Senior Test Engineer

OAK Systems Pvt Ltd.
01.2006 - 02.2007

Senior Test Engineer

OAK System Pvt Ltd.
08.2005 - 12.2005

Test Analyst

OAK System Pvt Ltd.
12.2004 - 07.2005

Bachelor of engineering - Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Kirankumar Bhavimani