JOHN P J

Experience

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  IT Company-Chennai

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  Sr Manager
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  Indsoft Infotek

  Dec 1999 - May 2001

  Software Engineer

  • Clients Global Net Relations, Management Development Institute Singapore

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  Protonweb

  Jun 2001 - Feb 2007

  Sr Manager

  • Worked as Implementation Team Leader at Singapore for 1.5 years.• Involved in Implementation, Functional Verification, UAT, Data Migration• Development and testing of web based application using J2EEWorked as Sr Manager for BPO DivisionWorked as General Manager Implementation for Real Estate Projects

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  MAMSYS KOCHI

  May 2007 - May 2010

  PM Testing

  • Managing projects and Testing Activities in Waterfall development environments.Keeping the team together all the time to ensure quality product release.• Developed Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Execution at various Phases of Development

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  Emergys

  Nov 2010 - Feb 2014

  Test Lead

  • Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.• Working with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown.• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.• Managing projects in both Agile and Waterfall development environments.Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.• Developed Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Execution at various Phases of Development• Manage all test phases including functional testing, failover testing and UAT.• Develop and manage detailed test requirements for hardware/software integration and system testing to include integration, system, validation and user acceptance testing.• Develop and manage formal system test procedures and reports.• Document and manage all test anomalies and actively support the investigation and resolution of all anomalies.• Maintain performance metrics and report daily status to PMO• Develop and track closure plans for issue closure and risk mitigation.• Manage test program compliance with applicable policies and procedures and all contract requirements.• Introduced Test Automation and proved testing time can be reduced up to 20 to 30 percent Show less

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  Group10 Chennai

  Feb 2014 - now

  Test Lead

  SCRUM Master• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress• Primary owner of testing plan, tasks, milestones and deliverables• Single point contact for Offshore and Onsite team• Manage the test execution schedules • Prepare Review UAT Test case and manage UAT Process.• Approve / sign-off test scenarios/cases as defined by client • Develop the Automation Framework using Selenium for Functional and Regression Testing• Decreased test time by 30%, collaborating with Test Automation to plan effort for each release• Improved software quality and reduced defects via introduction testing best practices, root cause analysis and via creation of standardized tools, processes and methodologies. Show less