Amarnath Vivekanandam
London,ON
Summary
Experienced with Agile methodologies, including Scrum framework. Utilizes effective communication and leadership to guide teams toward successful project delivery. Track record of fostering collaborative and productive team environment, ensuring project goals are met efficiently.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
QA & Scrum Master (Contractor)
TELUS
12.2020 - Current
- Expertise as a Quality Assurance methodologies like Waterfall, V-Model, Kanban, Agile methodologies.
- Leverage my role as scrum master and handing the Salesforce related deliverables.
- Extensive Experience on creating test strategies, planning and estimation for overall project.
- Worked on web services using SOAPUI & POSTMAN tool for sending and receiving the response.
- Developed best practices and procedures to be used by the entire team which spanned various internal projects.
- Responsible for sending daily, weekly & Monthly status to teams & Managers Provide expertise and guidance to the team implementing test automation.
- Managed the offshore team and support them as onshore coordinator to deliver the high quality product.
- Takes full responsibility for all phases of testing and the management of the testing activities within development and complex project.
- Extensive knowledge on JIRA and MQC.
- Coordinated test strategy development, project planning, scheduling, allocation of test engineers to programs, ensuring test environment availability, generation of test reports, communication of test status and networking to coordinate test activities.
- Demonstrated understanding of Test design/ strong functional knowledge on telecom domain.
- Experience in providing Test Automation Services to Telecommunications services.
- Good knowledge on RDBMS concepts and advanced SQL.
- Excellent Communication Skills and analytical thinker that consistently resolving issues arising during various work related procedures.
- Worked as a incident monitor role as part of ITIL delivery team.
- Responsible for creating detailed project plans and work breakdown structure plans to illustrate resource allocation and scheduling tasks.
- Exposure to banking domain knowledge.
QA Lead
Accenture
11.2019 - 08.2020
- Facilitated seamless integration of new team members into ongoing projects through comprehensive training programs and documentation support.
- Standardized bug reporting methods for better communication between QA and development teams.
Lead/QA Prime
Accenture
07.2018 - 11.2019
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
- Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
- Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.
Test Architect/QA Prime
Accenture
09.2017 - 06.2018
- Supported incident management efforts by providing expert guidance in troubleshooting and resolving production issues.
- Managed end-to-end testing projects from inception through delivery, ensuring timely completion within budget constraints.
- Designed comprehensive test plans to cover functional, non-functional, regression, and performance aspects of software products.
- Enhanced team efficiency by providing technical guidance and mentoring junior team members.
- Teamed on planned tests and time-sensitive ad hoc requests.
Senior Quality Analyst/QA Prime
Accenture
07.2010 - 08.2015
- Streamlined quality assurance processes through the development of comprehensive test plans and checklists.
- Implemented metrics-driven approach to measure process effectiveness, enabling data-driven decision making in pursuit of superior product quality.
Tester/ Team Lead
Kliotech Pvt LTD
06.2007 - 06.2010
- Collaborated with development teams to resolve defects and improve the overall stability of applications.
- Increased product reliability through continuous monitoring of production environments, identifying anomalies indicative of potential issues before they impact end users.
- Ensured compliance with industry standards by rigorously following established testing methodologies and best practices.
Education
Master of Philosophy - Physics
Bharathidasan University
Trichy, TN, India03.2007
Skills
- Sprint planning
- Software development lifecycle
- Agile coaching
- Retrospective analysis
- Scrum framework expertise
- Agile best practices
- Team facilitation
Certification
- Scrum Master, SSGI - Sep 2022
Cerificate logo
https://www.credential.net/ecd9be10-e109-4296-9096-e53f3153e7a0#acc.kmPgirHE
Timeline
QA & Scrum Master (Contractor)
TELUS
12.2020 - Current
QA Lead
Accenture
11.2019 - 08.2020
Lead/QA Prime
Accenture
07.2018 - 11.2019
Test Architect/QA Prime
Accenture
09.2017 - 06.2018
Senior Quality Analyst/QA Prime
Accenture
07.2010 - 08.2015
Tester/ Team Lead
Kliotech Pvt LTD
06.2007 - 06.2010
Master of Philosophy - Physics
Bharathidasan University
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