V Navin Kumar Raju

V Navin Kumar Raju Lead - Quality Assurance at Tavant Technologies- Summary A software professional who has got groomed both technically and process-wise through the software project life cycle and is all set to take up greater roles and responsibilities. A post graduate in management that empowers me to explore newer horizons, to make a difference by adding a unique value to business, to the people associated and to the society. Experience Lead - Quality Assurance at Tavant Technologies August 2014 - Present Client project - A) Dollar Financial Group - Loan Products 1. To understand the business/functional requirements for different US and Canada projects on business critical high net worth loan products; identify the possible use cases/test scenarios; convert them into potential test cases by deploying the team with feature ownership. 2. Proposing the effort estimates for each of the initiated projects 3. Reviewing the test scenarios/test cases documented by the fellow team members under Team Foundation Server and ensuring maximum coverage. 4. Identifying the automation feasibility of the test scenarios/test cases documented and coordinating with the framework driven automation script base that would reduce the manual effort under regression levels of testing. 5. To cater to adhoc client requests to verify certain product modules based on requirement changes/ production issues/client legal and compliance team feedback. 6. To provide timely updates on the quality of the software being developed to the relevant stakeholders and the client using certain metrics. 7. To handover a comparatively bug-less and high quality software for deployment into production environments for initial field trials(beta) followed by global releases. 8. To extend support towards testing on production environment and also towards the bugs raised by the business users during production phase. 9. To provide maintenance support for the software released. 10. To archive all the test artefacts developed during the project time. 11. To perform RCA on the areas which were of concern and that need to be taken care of, in the next project release and sharing the same to the management and to the client. Page 1 12. Building the team of 12 (spanning across offshore and onshore) in such a way that there is high competency level in terms of accountability, quality, critical thinking and result orientation. Particular team members are mentored for next levels to ensure mutual career growth. Engineer.II.Quality.Engineering at Cisco March 2011 - July 2014 (3 years 4 months) Client projects - A) CANAL Digital(France) ; B) Product developed on Agile process model 1. Assisting the Lead in Test plan creation. 2. Analyzing the Jira stories for the requirements and checking their alignment with Product Specifications document. 3. Analyzing the head end dependencies for the requirements and tests. 4. Performing Integration testing for the Jira stories developed within Scrum team. 5. Test designing using Black box design techniques, deriving the test cases and updating them in HP QC. 6. Publishing the test design on Confluence page(internally maintained web space for tracking purpose). 7. Mentoring the peers in terms of the domain, hardware setup, test process and test designs. 8. Performing the Sanity testing and then, the System testing for the whole application. Assisting the Lead in designing test strategies and test campaigns. 9. Logging issues in the Issue tracker tool, attending the defect triage meetings, following up, retesting the fixed issues and closing the issues if fixed as expected. 10. Generating the Test reports in the HP QC project dashboard based on various test metrics. 11. Contributing towards framework enhancement and automation of the sanity test suite and the sprint user story test scenarios using Cucumber framework. Senior Software Engineer at Wipro January 2008 - March 2011 (3 years 2 months) Client projects - A) Motorola LTE ; B) BestBuy for Business(B2B App) ; C) Apple (B2C App and Internal Patent Submission App) A) Motorola LTE ; B) BestBuy for Business(B2B App) : To begin my IT career, have worked as a Developer on bug fixes and enhancements on Core Java 1.4 version for these two prominent client accounts for a period of about 2.5 years. C) Apple (B2C App and Internal Patent Submission App): 1. Walking through the Business requirements, functional specifications and supporting presentations/ documents. 2. Analyzing the feature requirements and preparing the Test suite module wise. 3. Getting the draft version of Test suite approved by Onsite Test consultants. 4. Performing the Sanity testing and then, the feature functionality testing for the build deployed followed by System testing of the whole application. Page 2 5. Logging issues in the Issue tracker tool, following up, retesting the fixed issues running the regression test suite in parallel and closing the issues if found fixed as expected 6. Finally, performing validation using an identified test suite complemented by Exploratory testing to confirm the application is ready for production and raising any issues, if so, for high priority fixes. Education Alliance Business Academy Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing/Marketing Management, General, 2014 - 2015 Activities and Societies: > Presented my analysis on some business case studies to the class > Participated in the discussions on the various business case studies. > Did a Project on how marketing is benefited with Analytics using my Company website traffic data. Maharishi vidyamandir 12th or HSC in CBSE board, Science with Computers, 2011 - 2013 Activities and Societies: Inter-School Quiz representing group. Ball-Badminton team. Science Club President. Anna University Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2003 - 2007 Activities and Societies: N.C.C Air Wing['B' and 'C' certificate holder], participated under N.C.C Air Wing in the Tamil Nadu Republic Day 2006 parade, Cricket, Ball Badminton, Athletics(Sprints, High jump). Kola Saraswati SSLC or 10th, General Science stream, 1994 - 2001 Activities and Societies: Karate Ball Badminton Captain Cricket team player Athletics Quiz competition, featured in Raj TV twice Honors and Awards Spot awardTo master in all my competencies in which I am a jack already, playing Cricket, Table Tennis, Working out for body-building, listening to and singing songs, dancing, reading nice stuff, listening to good speakers. Wish to do many adventures, planning has commenced. 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