Vinay Babu

Vinay Babu Gutta Hyderabad | 500049 | - |- Experienced Associate Manager with over 17 years of experience in Software QA and Testing. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Focused on any task at hand and able to utilize existing test knowledge and experiences to come up with practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes. Having first class executive leadership, negotiating and communicating skills and capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and third party test teams. Education  B.TECH, KLCE / NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY Work History [October 2021 – Current Date] HCL [January 2004 – May 2021] Associate Manager: Application Delivery, DXC (Formerly CSC / Formerly Applabs) Professional Summary         Experienced leader of application testing teams offering experience in managing high revenue, overseeing teams/projects application testing activities. Having good experience in setting up agile team and co-ordination between offshore and onshore. Provide end-to-end testing support for time and business critical projects by leading test strategy, execution, documentation, defect management and status reporting Worked as a Lead for UAT testing, worked closely with business teem. Experienced in core project management tools, methods end best practices to assemble testing plans that align with the project expectations of sponsors and stakeholders. Experience in Selenium Automation tool using Java, TestNG, Maven and Jenkins. Experience in Webservices Automation using Soap UI and RestAssured. Experience in Performance testing using open source Apache JMeter. Skills Manual Testing  Airline Applications  Identity Management Applications  AntiMalware Applications (****Excellent) (****Excellent) (****Excellent) UI Automation  UFT  Selenium Java  Selenium Python (**Good) (****Excellent) (***Very Good) Web Services Automation (****Excellent)  Soap UI (***Very Good)  RestAssured Performance Tesing  Apache JMeter (****Excellent) Automation Support Tools  Test NG  Maven  Extent Reports  Allure Reports (****Excellent) (****Excellent) (****Excellent) (**Good) CI   Jenkins TeamCity (****Excellent) (****Excellent) Project Management  HP ALM  Microsoft TFS  Jira  Bugzilla  Change Synergy (****Excellent) (****Excellent) (***Very Good) (****Excellent) (****Excellent) Role - Experience Associate Test Manager – 9 Years Test Lead – 6 Years Senior Software Engineer – 2 Years Work Experience Associate Test Manager - August 2012 – May 2021 2  Management of weekly and ad hoc reporting pertaining to activities.  Working with internal business partners to understand and fine tune the upcoming product features. Assist the Senior Manager with other projects.  Handle escalations from team and escalate as needed to upper management and senior leaders.  Provide SME level guidance to QA teams during test and deployment phases to non- production environment.  Participate in production release validation to ensure successful deployments of products.  Facilitation of inter-team communication across many agile projects within an organization.  Ensure all deadlines are met when it comes to submitting daily and weekly reports.  Implemented a system where a test case / bug is reviewed by another tester/lead and it has proven to be incredibly advantageous and has made team understand the functionality of the product and test effectively.  Work with the team during the design phase of the automation and performance scripts.  Work with the team during the review of the automation and performance scripts results before sharing it to the stakeholders. Test Lead - November 2005 – August 2012  Development and use of automation frameworks  Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated)  Conducted compatibility tests for network environments, various operating systems, and software programs.  Updated automation test scripts to ensure they were running most current version of software.  Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally  Extensively worked on JMeter to create Thread Groups and test Web Application for various loads on key business scenarios  Created and executed JMeter scripts for performance testing of portal  Good experience in using the tool Appdynamics in monitoring business transaction across all tiers (web/app/DB) of the applications. Senior Software Test Engineer - Jan 2004 – November 2005  Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver, core JAVA, Maven, & TestNG.  Extensively automated regression and functional test suites.  Implemented the hybrid framework from scratch to represent web pages.  Used Maven to execute automation suites on different platform, browser combinations in parallel.  Direct communication with client on testing activities and coordination with offshore team.  Performed defect tracking & management in JIRA. Projects Johnson&Johnson – Currently Working Role: Test Manager 3 United Airlines - August 2016 to May 2021 Role: Associate Manager Wontok SafeCentral - August 2012 to July 2016 Role: Associate Manager ActivId Card Management System - November 2005 to July 2012 Role: Test Lead Authentium ESP - January 2004 to November 2005 Role: Senior Software Test Engineer 4