Tanuja K.N., CSM

Experience

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  Wipro Technologies

  Apr 2006 - Feb 2008

  Senior Engineer Software

  Key Result Areas:• Actively involved in various projects in different domains like health care, embedded, industrial automation, and insurance.• Managed teams in different geographies as an acting test lead.• Creating test plans, test cases, estimated testing efforts, test metrics, test status reports, release reports, and templates.• Active involvement in Sanity, functional, regression, system, compatibility and UAT testing.• Actively Involved in Using DSM for identifying the Testing dependencies between different states.• Active involvement in reviews and walk troughs.• Gathering requirements and Preparation of tool validation plans and validated different tools for qualifying compliance used to develop a healthcare application.• Effective defect tracking and management using the Quality center and Bugzilla.Accomplishments:• Reduced the setup time for multipurpose printers for testing by incorporating lean initiatives• Active Participation in a SIX SIGMA project for MHR as a Green Belt which aimed at “reducing High Severity Bugs” and focused on “ON Time Delivery”. Show less

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  Cambridge Solutions through Test Yantra Solutions

  Mar 2008 - Oct 2008

  UAT Engineer

  Key Result Areas:• Effective UAT test plan and test case development and reviews.• Defect tracking using Bug Central.

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  Health Asyst Pvt Ltd

  Oct 2008 - Feb 2011

  Sr Test Engineer

  Key Result Areas:• Created and reviewed functional test cases and audited the functionality on the quality of deliverables at intervals.• Developed Test Plans and estimated test efforts.• Contributed for DNH process.• Actively participated in hotfixes and testing PPS issues.Accomplishments:• Improved hotfix process which yielded in timely delivery of Hotfix releases. • Mentoring new joiners.• Effective defect management using Quality center 9.2.

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  STAG Software Pvt Ltd

  Mar 2011 - May 2015

  Test Lead

  Key Result Areas:• • Managed a team of 25 people at multiple client locations for various projects.• Managed, coached, and motivated a 10 member team at VeriFone India PVT Ltd (Client location) for 3 years.• Facilitating requirement Analysis which facilitated the identification of cadence test cases for automation.• Conducted daily stand ups, reviews, retrospect's and performed root cause analysis.• Conducted trainings and monitored implementation of HBT methodology, Agile at the client location. • Increased the revenue for the parent company by growing the team size by 20% at the Client location.• Transformed the team from waterfall to Agile.• Optimization of test cases and customization of defect tracking tool Clear quest for better metric collection.• Implemented Metrics collection and better analysis of the status of the project to Management.• Delivered corporate training to SASKEN from STAG Software on Testing concepts and HBT methodology.• Contributed for interviews and recruitment both in Client place and Parent company. Show less

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  HackerEarth

  Oct 2017 - Aug 2018

  Subject Matter Expert- Technical content creation for Software Testing (Freelancing)

  Working on Technical Content Creation for Software Testing to enable corporate to assess their employees for testing skills and enable certifications.

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  Freelancing

  Jan 2018 - Aug 2018

  Freelancer

  Freelancing for Technical Content creation for Automation testing training manuals for Eggplant, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and API testing.

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  Accolite Digital

  Sept 2018 - now

  Managed 3 different projects with 25+ team members across geographies.• Managed the Core QE (UAT) team with 25+ quality releases for differentproducts in 1 year. • Effective Client interaction/communication on day to day basis for Core QErelated projects. • Effective Stake holder Management – Product Managers, product architects,client QA manager and Engineering Managers • Contributed for an effective Regression test strategy. • Contributed for effective analysis of Dev partner's work on the developmentprojects and identified the gaps. • Prepared presentations for potential new customers for upcoming newprojects and won the projects. • Involved in Bidding for the new projects and we won couple of projects aswell.• Managed the automation teams for development and UAT projects. • Worked on training initiative of the BU as a key member, identified, organizedand coordinated for the training needs of the BU.Accomplishments: • Standardized the QA process across the BU in both QA and UAT teams andalso to some come extent with the customers.• Implemented new Test Plan format in the BU and reinforced to be used for allthe projects which lead to beer test coverage. • Identified the need for and delivered QA concept Training in Bangalore,Hyderabad locations and remotely to Delhi QA folks which standardized theQA process. • Implemented effective test coverage techniques across the projects in theBU. • Anticipated the risks ahead in the UAT team and communicated it to thecustomer.• Effective Test Effort estimations for UAT projects. • Organized 6 walk-in drives across locations – Delhi, Hyderabad andBangalore. • Stabilized the Core-QE team which had lot of escalations from thecustomers. • Created QE exit report to assure the customer that the product can bereleased to market when the customer was not confident enough for therelease.• Contributed increased quality of trainings and teams were able to understandand delver better.F Show less Key Result Area:• Managed 3 different projects with 25+ team members across geographies. • Managed the Core QE (UAT) team with 25+ quality releases for different products in 1 year. • Effective Client interaction/communication on day to day basis for Core QE related projects. • Effective Stake holder Management – Product Managers, product architects, client QA manager and Engineering Managers • Contributed for an effective Regression test strategy. • Contributed for effective analysis of Dev partner's work on the development projects and identified the gaps. • Prepared presentations for potential new customers for upcoming new projects and won the projects. • Involved in Bidding for the new projects and we won couple of projects as well. • Managed the automation teams for development and UAT projects. • Worked on training initiative of the BU as a key member, identified, organized and coordinated for the training needs of the BU.Accomplishments: • Standardized the QA process across the BU in both QA and UAT teams and also to some come extent with the customers. • Implemented new Test Plan format in the BU and reinforced to be used for all the projects which lead to beer test coverage. • Identified the need for and delivered QA concept Training in Bangalore, Hyderabad locations and remotely to Delhi QA folks which standardized the QA process. • Implemented effective test coverage techniques across the projects in the BU. • Anticipated the risks ahead in the UAT team and communicated it to the customer. • Effective Test Effort estimations for UAT projects. • Organized 6 walk-in drives across locations – Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore. • Stabilized the Core-QE team which had lot of escalations from the customers. • Created QE exit report to assure the customer that the product can be released to market when the customer was not confident enough for the release.• Contributed increased quality of trainings and teams were able to understand and delver better. Show less

  • Technical Delivery Manager

    Aug 2018 - now

  • Technical Delivery Manager

    Sept 2018 - now