Ranganathan Ponkumar

Experience

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  Accenture

  Jul 2013 - now

  Roles and Responsibilities:• Completely responsible for preparing test automation solution, designing automation frameworks and lead the implementation of test strategy, test plans & test execution of the product• Supports automation script development and the optimization of those scripts• Recommends new tools, techniques and methodologies needed to enhance productivity and quality• Collaborate with product teams to strategize & align long term solution for test automation including roadmap, tools, framework & approach• Evaluate, select, and formulate best usage of test automation tools and future alignment for different products and applications• Develop automation strategy to support regression testing based on the technical analysis, complexity, and reusability Show less Roles and Responsibilities:• Ultimately accountable for all test related activities and overall project quality• Create and maintain Test Management plan in accordance with overall project schedule• Prepare test estimations and schedule for STLC phase and get business approval• Establish testing tools and standards• Ensure Risks and issues are identified, reported, and tracked for closure• Daily/Weekly status reporting to all stakeholders on timelines, schedule, budget, Quality, risk/issues, daily progress, and team concerns etc.• Monitor test progress on daily basis and resolve the dependencies in achieving intermediate milestones• Monitor the Defects and patterns associated and then establish appropriate defect resolution process• Design and review the test approach defined at individual module/application level• Author Test Closure documents and get sign-off from business• Provide support to business or stake holders during User Acceptance Testing• Author UAT Closure documents and get sign-off from business for project go-live• Monitor post go-live issues and identify plan for resolution by coordinating the business, Development, and external integration teams Show less Roles and Responsibilities:● Feasibility analysis of Test Scripts and segregating Automatable and non-automatable scripts● Analyze the compatibility of the application by doing Proof of concept using Worksoft certify and provide demo to the Clients● Completed the analysis for 20 client Critical applications and provided the automation solution for Web and SAP based applications ● Driving a Worksoft automation team of 4 - 15 members● Status reporting on ROI of the automation work to stakeholders on weekly basis and weekly leads connect with offshore/onshore management● Analyzing and Debugging the issues in automation scripts● Preparation of best practice documents and reference documents for Worksoft certify tool● Conducting training sessions on Worksoft certify and train the team in automation Show less Roles and Responsibilities:● Acted as Testing SME for a Client Critical application and lead the testing for 10 different releases of the application around the year● Conducted sessions with SME/Business owner to understand the requirement (New Scope or Change request) planned for upcoming release and prepare testing estimation● Prepared the Testing artifacts like Test plan, Test scope and scenarios, Requirement tractability matrices, Defect Summary report and Root cause Analysis report● Drive a functional testing team of 2-6 members● Status reporting to stakeholders in daily basis weekly release meeting client, daily scrum meetings (in projects following Agile SDLC) and weekly leads connect with offshore/onshore management● Coordinated user acceptance testing for client critical applications● Created reusable regression scripts using Worksoft certify which had saved 80% of the Regression execution efforts and completely eliminated the preparation efforts for the upcoming releases● Created reusable automation components using Worksoft tool which had reduced 50% of the script preparation efforts● Conducted sessions and trained resources on testing process Show less Roles and Responsibilities:● Analyze Requirements and Functional Specifications documents of the application● Involved in Test design including test scrip and test data preparation ● Executed Tests scripts and reporting defects using HP ALM/HP QC and JIIRA● Performed Smoke, System Integration, Functional, Regression, Cross browser and Mobile Testing Web based and Standalone applications for various systems in Life Sciences domain● Prepared Requirement Tractability Matrices for the requirements● Automated manual test scripts for regression functionalities using Selenium ● Created user manuals for the application which helped the end user during UAT Show less

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