Kumar Akash

Experience

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  Convergent Software Ltd. Bangalore

  Sept 1999 - Aug 2000

  Software Trainee Engineer

  o Responsible for taking all user input from front end and send it back to Server side for doing computation, with reference to customer provided excel-sheet and again send back result to Front-end Side using Applet Servlets Communication. o Involve unit and Integration testing of the Application.

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  Soft Sol India Ltd. Hyderabad

  Aug 2000 - Dec 2000

  Software Engineer

  o Involve in Capturing of Client Requirements, Test Plan preparation o Involve manual testing of the Application.

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  Usha Comm India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore

  Dec 2000 - May 2003

  Associate Manager

  - Involved preparation of functional specification and Design Documents of System admin Module. Took Control of Complete Business Logic and Front-end Representation from Designing to Coding, Implementation and successful integration of the module with the other modules.- Involve unit and Integration testing of the Application.

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  HCL Technologies

  Jun 2003 - Mar 2009

  Test Lead
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  Dell

  Apr 2009 - Jul 2013

  Testing Engineering Advisor

   Managing a team of test engineers. SPOC for all the projects following Agile methodology (SCRUM). Test planning, Test execution, Defect Management, status reporting for all the projects.

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  Emids

  Feb 2014 - Aug 2016

  QA Manager

  • Setting QA practice line at organization for consolidating QA credentials and expertise to accelerate QA delivery• Conducting QA assessments to identify gaps in delivery, process and test artifacts followed by proposing short-term, mid-term and long-term milestones to fix the same• Creating QA roadmaps for projects for successfully delivering value driven QA output• Setting up metric driven QA delivery model for appropriate quality health check before releasing to production• Collaborating with product, development and release teams to define the QA dependencies and identifying risks and charting mitigation plan• Conducting quality reviews at organization level, documenting gaps and proposing solution Show less

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  Altisource

  Sept 2016 - Apr 2018

  Manager Quality Assurance

  • Managing QA activity for multimillion dollar releases from requirement to production with different phase of SDLC• Defined and Managed UAT process for one of the biggest program across the organization. Doubled the team output in 3 months. Build Integrated testing engineering team and process across different verticals. Implementation of Release Quality Management function.• Work on various matrix such as Defect Containment Rate, Defect removal efficiency to bring quality for products• Defined a new process for monthly releases with well-defined process for handing minor and patches releases in parallel.• Established and managed the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) team for production defects.• Developed environment strategy to better support release planning and automation testing.• Built an automation testing function to drive efficiency in the regression and function test phases. Show less

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  Simeio

  Oct 2018 - now

  Heading the Global Service Delivery team of QA/BA along with building and managing matured, scalable & strategic Practices Group across People, Processes, Tools, and Technologies in Identity & Access Management Domain. As AVP - Leading Global BA/QA function, responsible for developing Verification and Validation service offerings, Establishing and upgrading Scalable & Strategic TCoE (Testing Centre of Excellence).Responsible for supporting testing services delivery & developing service accelerators for IDM Domain across the services verticals. Heading the Global Quality Assurance team along with building and managing matured, scalable & strategic TCoE (Testing center of excellence) across People, Process, Tools and Technologies in Identity Management Domain. Building shared services delivery model with effective global QA team in identity and access management space, Instrumental in building strategic services road map, services offerings, right competency, capability & capacity to support testing activities globally.

  • Director

    Jun 2023 - now

  • Associate Vice President

    Jan 2021 - Jul 2023

  • Senior Manager

    Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

  • Principal Consultant

    Oct 2018 - Dec 2019