SRIMANTA KUMAR SAHU: srimant87@yahoo.in | : +91-8297008885

TESTING & QUALITY LEAD / TEST CONSULTANT PROFILE Expert In: Test Project Management | Establishing Test Environment | Software Quality Assurance (SQA) | Functional Requirements |

Team Leadership, Training & Coaching | UI & Compatibility Testing | Manual Testing & Methodologies | Software Implementation & Integration | System & Database Administration | Reporting & Documentation | Defect/Bug Tracking | Management & Support | Agile,

Waterfall, Scrum & V Model | Root Cause Identification & Troubleshooting | Resource Management | Stakeholder Management | R&D | Report Management & Analysis | Stake Owner Guide

- Experienced Senior Software Quality Analyst with a performance driven career of over 7+ years in IT / US Insurance and Healthcare / E-Commerce / Banking / Logistics / Travel Domain

Broad-based exposure in handling wide range of functions right from Project Management, Testing Lifecycle & SQA (Quality Assurance) Management to Release & Reporting Management and Database Management

~ Technical aptitude to learn and absorb project-specific approach, to bring in a significant benefit from testing value chain and strong exposure in driving business effectiveness both in team and individually

SKILLS OVERVIEW Strong exposure in developing, consulting, assessing, improving & tailoring test strategies, methodologies,

frameworks/approaches, defining test processes and designing test controls to implement and maintain a testing strategy that interlinks with day-to-day operations of the ongoing projects

Pioneering experience in spearheading projects including planning & progress monitoring, effort estimation, strategy preparation, defect management, reporting activities and delivery as per quality, time & budgetary parameters

Deployed efficient testing controls and exposure of testing software from inception, requirement specifications, planning, designing, configuration management, release management & documentation to roll out and post production support; handled Quality Assurance functions of web based and client server applications

Adept in different phases of testing like Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Black box Testing, Migration Testing, Server Side Testing, Database Testing, Performance Testing & User Acceptance Testing

Immense exposure to testing principles and practices, functional specification analysis with an ability to accurately craft well-rounded test plans, scenarios and execute test cases

Highly successful implementation and delivery of quality initiatives while providing inputs to product improvements as a test consultant, to help improve business efficiency and productivity

Personality Traits: Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and an ability to manage and prioritize diverse projects simultaneously Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams in multi-facility environments to maximize levels of productivity Effective communicator; dynamic team player, brilliant collaborative and interpersonal skills, ability to relate to people at any level

of business and management viz. clients, stakeholders, vendors, and multi-disciplinary teams

Professional Enhancement Six Sigma Green Belt Certification from TUV SUD Asia (TUVSA/2015/SSGB/0093/0001) in 2015 Certified in Digital Marketing from Shaw Academy 2015

CAREER FACETS Distinction of delivering & leading:

Major test solutions for “Order Manger PASSPORT eCN” product (wroth of $1.9 billion) on behalf of leading KLAS, Patient Access organization Experian Health

QA (Pilot & Existing) Projects and mentoring team of 4-9 members (in Experian Health- 2014 to 2016 and Reasoning Global eApplications over 2012); expertise in ALM & Bug Tracking tools; Bugzilla, TFS & Test Tracker)

Proven track record of successfully performing performance, disaster recovery and validation testing during the testing life cycle of the product release as well as in guiding end users with User Manuals for Projects/ Module level

Highest Scorer for Medical Billing and Test Case Report (in Inventurus 2011), Most creative Affiliate Advertising Test practice (in Reasoning 2012), Introduced advanced Build Cycle(Sprint) to reduce the Rework and Bugs (in Experian 2015)

Holds the merit of earning: Wall of Fame Award in INVENTURUS, in the year 2011 Various many R&R Awards in INVENTURUS, Reasoning Global in the year 12-13 Appreciations from mangers and seniors for excellent body Language at work

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Senior Software Quality Analyst Experian Health, Hyderabad Oct 2013 to Present

Career Progression: Joined as Software Quality Analyst and attained promotion as Senior Software Quality Analyst

Key Result Areas:

Strategic Inputs: Contributing towards estimating effort, planning number of resources and preparing execution plan for a project/release. Ensuring successful implementation & delivery of quality initiatives at corporate level and providing test consultancy. Analyzing formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws. Disseminating knowledge of quality assurance best practices.

Software Quality Analysis: Accountable to develop & establish quality assurance standards and cost-effective measures for the information technology services within the organization. Involve in tracking defects and fixes in product development, software application development, information systems, and operations systems; strong approach in planning & delivering system testing best practices and methodologies.

Requirement Gathering: Actively identifying & analyzing business & key system requirements as well as recognizing process loopholes. Accountable for of specifications development and detailed test plans implementation. Verifying bug fixes and related problems while harmonizing with partners at different geographical location

Testing: Contributions towards developing various testing/automation strategy and defining test processes. Responsible for planning & executing performance-driven test strategies that interlinks with day-to-day operations of the ongoing projects Creating Scenarios, Test Environment, Test Data, and Requirement Traceability Matrix. Delivering recommendations, or alternatives that address existing & potential trouble areas in testing

Solutions Delivery: Providing testing solutions to various enterprises by understanding business & IT strategy and then by aligning to them. Ensuring offered testing solutions allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals.

Team Coordination: Ensuring successful implementation of quality projects for US Health Care and UK Credit Services and transportation industry clients while playing a pivotal role as key member of software development team. Dealing with stakeholders, test-data management teams to make sure defect-free code release to production.

Team Leadership: Leading, mentoring & monitoring the performance of team members for meeting of targets; setting up test environment for testing the product; determining training needs of employees to enhance their operational efficiency & increase productivity. Scheduling process meetings and influence team to follow the process and generate improved metrics next time.

Highlights of the Role: 4 Supervised a QA team to ensure compliance with QA standards, over the period of 2014-2016 and worked as a QA representative;

leading a project on the testing front and managing onsite and offshore team4 Identified code overlaps and testing cycle overlaps by comprehending application code prior to test execution4 Imparted knowledge to new-team members about SDLC, Testing Methodology, and Application/Domain knowledge

Software Test Engineer Reasoning Global eApplications, Hyderabad Aug 2012 to Oct 2013

4 Acted as Module Lead to maintain quality-assurance testing for client software and systems development projects4 Pioneered in creating company’s first comprehensive E-Commerce web tool in a documented test defects 4 Accelerated average QA testing turn-around time by 25% or more, allowing company to accept more web-store projects 4 Diligently handled the tasks of functional testing end-to-end (SRD and Requirement study, Scenario creation, Test Scripting, Test

Data acquiring, Test Execution, Result Reporting, Review & Rework, Defect Prev. activities)4 Worked as the COE Anchor (Centre of Excellence) representing QA for the clients to minimize the process-level errors

Test Engineer Inventurus Knowledge Solutions, Hyderabad Apr 2010 to July 2012

4 Proactively worked with QA teams (offshore & onshore), accountable for providing software for Healthcare Application NEXTGEN Solution in the US involving analyzing requirements, conducting gap analysis and estimating project scope

4 Prepared test summary report, client status report, minutes of meeting, and defect management process

Initial Career Glimpse Microbiology Lecturer Nursing Collage, Rayagada (Nov 2009 to Apr 2010)SAP Consultant Unilogic Software, Bhubaneswar (Aug 2009 to Nov 2009)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

M. Tech. – Information Technology Karnataka State Open University 2015MBA (Human Resources) Sikkim Mannipal University 2013B.Tech – Biotechnology BPUT ODISHA 2009

Other Credentials (Certificates)4 Diploma in Microsoft Office Certification in 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio and Project)4 CPR/First Aid Medallion Certification (St. John Ambulance) and CPR/First Aid Trainer Certification (St. John Ambulance)

IT Skills: SQL Server, Atlassian Jira and Confluence integration, XSS and CSRF Testing, i18n & Localization testing, Mobile Testing, Installation testing, Cross browser testing, Cloud Testing, Virtualization testing. Followed Agile - Scrum methodology for the projects