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Venkata Naga Amrutha Charan Daruvada

Parramatta,NSW

Summary

Overall experience of 12 years in software industry and extensive Onsite/Client facing experience (Sydney, AU) with multiple commendations from each of the past and current clients. Adept at Test environment management, functional testing, infrastructure management and release management for a variety of applications. Specialized in software development lifecycle with extensive knowledge in agile and waterfall methodologies and fundamental knowledge in Cloud concepts.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Manager

Ariston Partners Pty Ltd
11.2021 - Current
  • Working as business test manager (UAT) for all major insurance projects.
  • Defined testing and acceptance strategies and determined quality assurance benchmarks.
  • Reviewed bug reports and error logs, translating data into digestible reports for senior leadership personnel.
  • Analysed historical testing results to isolate failure patterns for long-term investigation into possible development protocols improvements.
  • Maintained bug reporting system for logged faults, delegating issues to development personnel for remediation.
  • Mastered several insurance programs.
  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.

Test Environment Manager

Infosys Technologies
08.2014 - 11.2021
  • Worked as test environment manager for Westpac Bank in Australia with vast experience in handling complex environments. Sound knowledge in all phases of end-to-end execution.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in team environment
  • Capable of working with business, tech and BAs and providing customized solutions resulting in achieving client satisfaction for all projects that I have handled in environment portfolio.
  • Handled major migrations in BT area from legacy systems to Composer in Superannuation, finance areas (TRUST, Capital, CLOAS and Asgard) and managed entire environment landscape for various phases of project that included ST/IAT/SVP/Technical dry runs/Business dress rehearsals/Production fixes.
  • Troubleshooting issues at first level for upstream and downstream systems in environments during different phases of business and IT testing.
  • Sound knowledge in providing solutions in locking down lower environments and mimicking prod like controls and thereby complying with ISG related requirements for migration programs.
  • Coordinated with dev and infra teams in re-pointing environments and ensured that workflow of applications is seamless.
  • Coordinated with infra teams in uplifting environments according to business and testing needs.
  • Proficient knowledge in ITIL processes such as Incident, Change, Environment and Problem management processes.
  • Coordinated with dev and infra teams and provided first level support in troubleshooting environmental issues.
  • Coordinated with multiple teams in renewing certificates for non-prod environments.
  • Effective in handling wide landscape of environments and managing their utilization and availabilit.
  • Performed health checks of applications in different environments and providing timely reports to all environment stakeholders.
  • Anchored environment meetings on issues, environment contentions and allocations and thereby resolved issues between multiple projects in organization.
  • Effectively implemented best practices of ITIL in managing and coordinating environments.
  • Performing shakedown testing, coordinating integrating testing for newly built applications with help of infra and dev teams for all programs.
  • Worked with infra and dev teams in setting up alert mechanisms for all critical applications.
  • Communicated downtime to business users, testing community and all relevant stakeholders for environments and helped them to manage their execution and thereby effectively driving change management practices.

Test Lead

Sombansi Enviro Engg Pvt. Ltd
02.2011 - 06.2014
  • Testing application changes and supporting UAT (Functional manual testing) environments for all projects.
  • Worked as team lead and provided test support and hands on experience with test execution of complex requirements under waterfall model.
  • Delivered projects by supporting end to end testing for business and IT teams.
  • Monitoring team performance and responsible for integrating their efforts and optimize team productivity.
  • Sound knowledge in providing end user trainings to all business stakeholders for all releases.
  • Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects
  • Conducted regression testing of existing products.

Education

Bachelor of Technology -

Regency Institute of Technology
India
05.2011

Skills

  • Test Environment Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Project Management
  • Application Test Management
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Team Coordination
  • Software Development Tools: JIRA, Confluence

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified Product Owner

Timeline

Test Manager

Ariston Partners Pty Ltd
11.2021 - Current

Test Environment Manager

Infosys Technologies
08.2014 - 11.2021

Test Lead

Sombansi Enviro Engg Pvt. Ltd
02.2011 - 06.2014

Bachelor of Technology -

Regency Institute of Technology
Venkata Naga Amrutha Charan Daruvada