Silja Vinu

Experience

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  HP

  Sept 2001 - Aug 2007

  Client: HP Digital Media Solution (Product – HP CME)Responsibilities:  Responsible for understanding and analyzing Requirements for the product. Involve team in understanding impact analysis, Prepare Test strategy, Test Plan, Test estimation. Delivering System Testing, Integration Testing, Migration Testing, Automation testing using QTP, UAT testing between all impacted applications. Writing Test Scenarios/Conditions/Test cases, preparing RTM, Daily/Weekly/Monthly Test Report, Reporting Test Metrics, Defect Reports etc Show less

  • Senior Software Engineer

    May 2004 - Aug 2007

  • Software Engineer

    Sept 2001 - Apr 2004
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  Accenture

  Sept 2007 - now

  Currently leading a test team of highly qualified Functional, AI Model, Automation and Performance Testing professionals that have been instrumental in testing a flagship program of Accenture - myWizard AIFuSion, an intelligent automation platform with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and NLP at its core. Accenture collaborates with different clients on their automation and Analytics journey and help them stay competitive in the digital world.Also lead a team of test automation in the program which is responsible for Automated testing using Automation Anywhere (RPA), Selenium, TestNG and also un-manned test execution through implementation of various devOps tools (Jenkins, Maven, Git, TFS)As a Program manager, my key responsibilities are as below -• Leading a test team of size ~60 resources• Leading multiple teams/projects, including AI testing, Test Automation team, Functional testing and Performance Test teams (using LoadRunner)• Drive AI model testing for the Program across 24+ AI driven applications • Drive Automation Testing (Test Driven Development) for the Program• Drive continuous improvement• Scope, Cost, Estimation, Test strategy, Schedule, Stakeholder, Risk-Issues, People management, Staffing Show less Responsible for E2E testing of HPDP platform (renamed to myWizard). Lead a team of 30+ testers responsible to do E2E testing and performance testing of highly integrated HPDP platform (Integrated with AD, AM and Agile platform) and data flow from multiple Agile, AD and AM tools.Responsibilities included -1. Preparing E2E Test strategy, Test estimation, staffing, understanding functionality and requirements of all 4 platforms - HPDP, AD, AM and Agile platform along with its integrations and data flows2. Status Reporting, review with leadership, Defect reporting and analysis, TFS dashboard3. Manage the Performance Testing team to successfully complete APT for around 50+ integrated apps in myWizard using LoadRunner and prepare Heatmaps and status reporting. Show less Client - STARWOOD (Diamond client)- Starwood QA offshore test manager for capital projects- Reviewing the Test estimations/Test Approach prepared by Test leads for multiple projects/releases - Connecting with onshore client teams and BRMs to drive the capital projects - Driving the complete staffing/demand management for all capital testing projects- Preparing Test plan, test strategy for Agile and Quarterly capital releases. - Managing the overall Capital project QA resources and projects (50+ resources, 10-12 simultaneous projects)- Accountable for successful completion of capital projects.- Driving continues improvement across Test projects. - Successfully completed Six Sigma Green Belt project to improve the overall Test productivity across test projects in Starwood. Won the Best CI award at Products IDC out of 205 nominations and received the Starwood Executive award (2015). Show less Client - Cisco- Cisco QACC offshore test manager and Cisco xRM CTB CITS TACTICALS Test lead role.- Driving the Test plan for CITS TACTICALS projects/releases - Connecting with vendor QACC teams and Cisco Service Managers/Leads and driving the Test plan/Test Estimations- Preparing effort estimates for different releases using ADM Test estimator. - Preparing Test plan, test strategy for releases - Agile and Quarterly release. - Driving the complete staffing/demand management for all Testing projects under QACC - Managing the overall QACC resources (35 resources, 6 projects) Show less Client - TeliaSonera- Joined as a Test process SME to standardize the Teliasonera Testing process and to setup a Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) for Teliasonera. - Updated the existing TS Test strategy document with existing and proposed Test processes. - The Test team was setup to cleanup the existing Test case repository as [art of TS Phase A and to automate the regression suite across different SAP modules using SAP TAO and QTP in Phase B- TS delivery model was setup for TCoE and prepared a new contract (RFP) on the existing contract to setup a Run team which would support the testing activities for all future TS releases. Contract was won for next 5 years.- Built a strong relationship with client and this was the first ADM 100 project to be successfully completed ahead of time with a cost saving of approx. 1 million dollars. CTSS score on project was 7/7- Won the ACE Team award for delivering the ADM 100 project with cost saving and winning the contract for next 5 years. Show less Client - EMC2- Test Manager for EMC PRM and SFDC CRM (Client EMC2) - Salesforce projects- Managing the entire Test Management cycle which includes test planning, highlighting/mitigating risks and Issues, timely escalations, grooming/mentoring the team etc- Backup for the Project Manager. Have been submitting the EBS, mDART, SSR and all other project related metrics for EMC PRM since June 2010 - Involved in CMMI level 5 appraisals (spot check and final appraisal). Represented EMC PRM project to the QA lead assessor during the Final Appraisal and also spot check. Prepared all the documents required for CMMI level 5 appraisals.- Prepared all the documents required for EMC PRM Project Initiation which includes DCSO, WP, PMP, CMP, QMP, BCP, Blue Book etc. Show less Wyeth/Pfizer client - projects -> GMAD, GPD, GECS, Metastorm Application, GRAMRT, Claims Approval - Involved in estimation of Test task effort, Test planning, Review of Test scripts, Testing process improvement and interacting with client and the team in Accenture US. - Managed 2-3 projects in Pfizer WDC at the same time. Overall responsibility for Testing/Quality of project.- Proposed a Tailored Testing process which was in-line with the ADM Testing process to the client which resulted in reducing the Testing effort by 40%. - Was rewarded with Accenture Celebrates Excellence (ACE) award for streamlining the Testing process and presenting it to client during their visit- Gave a presentation to the client on the Testing process and this resulted in increasing the confidence of the client team on the Offshore Testing team and aligning client team to Accenture testing process- Played the role of Project manager for a time span of 5 months. - Played the role of People Tower Lead and also was part of the Value Creation Team Show less Test Accelerator using HP BPT for SAP-- Coordinated well between 3 different teams (SAP, CNR and Testing Capability) for the development of the Asset "Test Accelerator".- The Asset was developed using the latest Mercury tool "HP BPT for SAP", QC 9.2 enterprise edition and QTP 9.5 with SAP Add-ins.- Prepared SRS, Product Test Plan, User Guide, Status Report, managed the team activities effectively.- Conducted almost 6 workshops on HP BPT tool for SAP in Accenture. We trained almost 40 people on this tool.- Received the Asset Management - Idea award in June 2008. Show less

  • Presales Solutions Architect

    Aug 2021 - now

  • AI and Analytics Test Manager

    Dec 2018 - Jul 2022

  • E2E Test Manager

    Sept 2016 - Dec 2018

  • Test Manager - Capital Projects

    Jan 2015 - Aug 2016

  • Test Manager - QACC Tower

    Nov 2013 - Dec 2014

  • Test SME - Associate Manager

    Sept 2012 - Oct 2013

  • Associate Test Manager

    Jun 2010 - Aug 2012

  • Test Lead

    Jul 2008 - May 2010

  • Test Lead

    Sept 2007 - Jun 2008