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Anirudh Boini

Mississauga,ON

Summary

Creative professional offering 7+ years of IT industry experience working in IBM for Bell Canada client (DCX space) with focus on Project management, Quality Assurance, Business and Systems Analysis. Experienced in complex project management, QA Life Cycle which includes Designing, Developing and Execution of the entire Process and Documentation of Test plans, Test strategy, Test Cases, Test Procedures, Test Scripts and managing user acceptance testing (UAT) by performing various types of testing such as Integration, System, Functional, End to end, Security, Black Box, White Box, regression. Specialized in leading both onshore/offshore teams and also a Certified SAFe Practitioner.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Test Manager

IBM Canada
Markham, ON
12.2019 - Current
  • Build testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
  • Understand testing effort by analyzing requirements of project.
  • Estimate and obtain management support for time, resources and budget required to perform testing.
  • Define overall Strategy and organize testing kick-off meetings.
  • Develop test plan for tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
  • Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by organization.
  • Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in project.
  • Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
  • Check / Review Test Cases documents.
  • Keep track of new requirements / change in requirements of Project.
  • Prepare report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
  • Organize status meetings, send Status report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to Client.
  • Proficient at preparing and presenting executive level decks for overall status of program.
  • Attend regular client calls and discuss daily status with clients.
  • Ensure timely delivery of different testing milestones.
  • Prepares / updates metrics dashboard at end of phase or at completion of project.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
  • Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
  • Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
  • Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
  • Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
  • Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
  • Skilled in handling multiple projects simultaneously with good success rate.

Business Domain Expert /Sr. Test Lead

IBM India
Bengaluru, Karnataka
05.2018 - 12.2019
  • Acted as POC for project assessments under DCX program.
  • Responsible for analyzing requirements and provide Impact and Effort Analysis.
  • Preparing Assessment and SOW documents for client communication and follow up on approvals through RTC tool.
  • Negotiate with Program Managers (PGM), Project managers (PM) regarding project pricing and test coverage/strategies.
  • Conduct hand-over sessions to Test Leads/Managers for approved projects on Test scope and Automation strategy as part of delivery readiness.
  • Collaborate with Bell Canada Associate Director in preparing monthly Browser strategy.
  • Create and Publish weekly CTD and Automation Savings reports to IBM Leadership team which helps them to track CTD penetration and Automation progression of Monthly/Quarterly savings targets.
  • Worked with Senior Test Manager & Portfolio Manager to plan on resource management based on the Project Pipeline for future.
  • Continuously working with TCOE Front door team to ensure assessments uploaded in RTC are communicated in timely manner.

Sr. Test Specialist

IBM India
Bengaluru, Karnataka
02.2016 - 05.2018
  • Scheduled and driven kick-start calls with PM, BA, and SA for requirement understanding and finalize testing scope based on SRS /BRD documents.
  • Prepared test strategy for Test Execution (Manual and Automation) based on project testing milestones.
  • Prepared Test scenarios through CTD IBM Focus tool and conduct review calls with BA/SA to secure sign offs.
  • Identify and Prepare scenarios for automation to be tested using CTD feature file as input for OFTA.
  • Prepared automated Test Scripts for regression and functional test cases by using SELENIUM Remote web driver, APPIUM and Perfecto Mobile cloud.
  • Raised bugs in Microsoft Team foundation server (TFS) and ALM (Backend Issues). Also interacted with Developers for Bug fixes and problem resolution.
  • Responsible for preparing daily status report and schedule daily status calls with PM and other Vendor team to discuss on project status and progress.
  • Identify risks and propose mitigation plans to Project stake holders which impact test quality and project timelines.
  • Maintain ALM tracking to confirm Test cases are properly updated and in sync with TFS defects.
  • Perform project closure activities like preparing RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for Bugs which were raised during PIS (Post Implementation Support) period.
  • Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
  • Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently.
  • Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
  • Offered friendly and efficient service to customers, handled challenging situations with ease.
  • Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
  • Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.

Test Specialist

IBM India
Bengaluru, Karnataka
02.2015 - 02.2016
  • Refer BRD/SRS documents and create test scenarios using CTD.
  • Participate in scenarios review calls with BA/SA for test scenarios and secure sign offs.
  • Upload test cases in ALM thru CTD plug-ins and maintain proper status for test cases throughout project phase.
  • Request & manage the new data in IBM PIT tool.
  • Participate in test strategy calls to identify automation test scope and feasibility based on project timelines.
  • Prepare Desktop automation scripts for Test cases using OTFA (Cucumber).
  • Prepare Mobile automation scripts through Auto run to be executed in Perfecto Mobile Cloud and Real Devices.
  • Track and update Automation scripts regularly for E2E, Functional, Regression suites.
  • Automated Daily Sanity suite to run them after each code build.
  • Raise defect in TFS / RQM and conduct working sessions with development and environment teams to reduce defect turnaround time on critical defects.
  • Handover automation scripts for regression test cases to Release regression team which will be used to run in subsequent releases.
  • Used Soap UI for stimulating responses based on requests for scenarios which can’t be done through GUI.

Customer Service Representative Specialist

Amazon India
Hyderabad, Telangana
06.2014 - 02.2015
  • Review and respond to customer escalation mails for refunds and replacement of any retail order using internal Kaizen systems.
  • Demonstrated excellent customer service skills, including maintaining focus on customer issues in fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated interpersonal skills with diverse customer base.
  • Demonstrated conflict resolution, negotiation, and de-escalation skills.
  • Demonstrated ownership to resolve challenging customer issues.
  • Understood customer needs and provided appropriate solutions.
  • Demonstrated problem-solving skills including decision making, time management and immediate prioritization of tasks as assigned.
  • Was able to prioritize work time quickly and effectively in various departments to meet business need
  • Maintained composure in highly escalated situation.
  • Delivered high quality test solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
  • Responded to customer requests for products, services and company information.
  • Collected customer feedback and made process changes to exceed customer satisfaction goals.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, Telangana - India.
04.2014

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Security Testing
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Defect Tracking, Reporting and Resolution
  • Highly Flexible and Adaptable
  • Results and Deadline-Driven
  • Decision Making
  • Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
  • Time Management and Prioritization
  • Effective Communication
  • Test Program Development
  • Client Requirements
  • Workload Prioritization
  • Software Development Tools: JIRA, Confluence

Certification

  • SAFe 5 Practitioner
  • Telecommunications Industry Foundations
  • Cloud Application Developer Certification Preparation V2
  • Cognitive Practitioner



Timeline

Technical Test Manager

IBM Canada
12.2019 - Current

Business Domain Expert /Sr. Test Lead

IBM India
05.2018 - 12.2019

Sr. Test Specialist

IBM India
02.2016 - 05.2018

Test Specialist

IBM India
02.2015 - 02.2016

Customer Service Representative Specialist

Amazon India
06.2014 - 02.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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