Nagaprakash Gude
Montreal,Quebec
Summary
- IT Management Professional with 20 years of progressive experience as QA/Sr QA Analyst (ISTQB and Scrum Alliance certified)
- Extensive experience in business verticals like Finance Sector, Online Banking, Mobile Banking, Direct Investing, Capital Markets, Rail road, Energy Sector, Public Sector.
- Performed multiple roles like Test Lead, Test Coordinator, Integration Test Analyst, Scrum Master, Test Manager, SME & Business Analyst with a solid conceptual understanding of Information Technologies and demonstrated ability skills to identify problems, research for solutions, and evaluate alternatives.
- Extensive experience in coordinating multiple teams, project planning, project estimation and schedule management, requirements analysis, project management infrastructure development, IT life-cycle development process, project leadership and best practices, project diagnosis and recovery.
- Experience in driving project transitions from Onshore to Offshore/Nearshore. Experience in Planning, Executing, Managing, and controlling all software testing phases of the project. Experience in creating and managing Test Center of Excellence (TCoE).
- Experience in creating Test Strategies/Plans covering Functional, SIT, Regression, Performance, Accessibility and (UAT) phases.
- Experience in KPI set up for the project in Power BI.
- Experience in working with different system architectures like Mainframe Legacy systems, Client-Server, Web based and Mobile applications
- Extensive Experience in core Mainframe technologies like JCL, COBOL, DB2, VMS, MFT, CICS and IBM tools and utilities.
- Mainframe Testing skills which includes modification of prod JCLs for running in the test environment, creation of batch test files, querying of DB2 and IMS tables to identify the records that can satisfy the conditions needed for the testing the application using AQT/SPUFI, strong debugging skills for fixing JCL abends and knowledgeable in execution of mainframe jobs using scheduler
- Extensive Experience in conducting different type of Testing like – Sanity/Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Non-Functional Testing, Cybersecurity Testing, Regression Testing, multi-platform Testing, Ad hoc Testing, Integration Testing, Interoperability Testing, Performance Testing, UI Testing, Accessibility Testing, Operational Testing, User Accessibility Testing, End to End Testing and PIV (Post Implementation Verification).
- Extensive experience in the implementation of Computer Aided Dispatch System in the Railway industry.
- Extensive experience in handling the Data Maintenance and Desktop Migration projects.
- Expertise in Mobile Application Testing includes Device (Android and IOS), Tablet and App Testing.
- Experience using Rally/Jira/Azure Dev ops Tools for managing Agile projects.
- Experience in creating Jira Dashboards, Involved in all agile meetings like product backlog, Sprint Grooming, Daily Scrums, Sprint Closing Ceremony and Sprint Retrospective. Creating Agile reports (sprint burn down, sprint velocity, release burn down, earned value, scope change, defect trend & team capacity load).
- Experience in mentoring and supporting Business teams to complete UAT/BAT testing.
- Experience in creating and maintained the RACI matrix (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed).
- Experience with BDD and TDD framework using cucumber.
- Well adept with SDLC, Iterative and Agile methodologies.
- Possess strong leadership skills. Managed multiple QA streams, cross-functional teams (Onsite-Offshore).
- Creating forecasts, estimation for budgets, resources, and timelines.
- Identifying and managing the critical path, dependencies, and resource assignments.
- Expert in developing Java Selenium Web Driver/RC/IDE/GRID test scripts using Java, JavaScript and Test Frameworks using TestNG/JUnit, ANT/MAVEN and JENKIN build tools.
- Experienced with SOA, Web Services, SOAP, REST Assured, Soap UI, RESTFUL, technologies.
- Experience in designing the Frameworks as Maven project.
- Experienced in White Box testing by authoring python Codes in Selenium WebDriver and maintained server-side integration testing.
- Automation experience using HP Tools. Functional Automation Testing Tools like Win Runner, Quick Test Pro (QTP/UFT), Ranorex, Robot Automation Framework, Performance/Load Testing Tools like JMeter, Defect Management Tools like Jira, HP Quality Center and HP ALM.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Consultant – Testing
Hydro Quebec
04.2023 - 12.2023
Sr Consultant - Mobile and Web Application Testing
Canada Border Service Agency
01.2022 - 03.2023
Sr Tester - IBM Curam
ESDC
07.2021 - 12.2021
System Integrator and Integration Testing Lead
Canadian National Transportation Services
06.2016 - 06.2021
Sr. QA Lead, Project Coordinator, Business Analyst, Scrum Master and Test Manager
Royal Bank of Canada
06.2007 - 05.2016
Software Test Engineer
MISYS International Services LTD, India
01.2005 - 01.2007
Data Analyst
CADSYS Technologies, India
01.2003 - 01.2005
Education
Bachelor of Science - computer science and engineering
Madras University
Chennai, India04-2002
Skills
- LANGUAGES: C, C, Pascal, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VMS, MFT and TSL
- DESIGN: UML (Use cases, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams)
- RDBMS: DB2, Oracle8i, MS-Access, SQL server
- OPERATING SYSTEM: UNIX, DOS, Microsoft Windows365
- TOOLS: IBM Curam, X-RAY, QTP, Ranorex, Robot Automation Framework, Jira, RALLY and HP ALM, Confluence, SOAP UI, Oracle PeopleSoft, Eclipse, Wireshark (messaging), AQT (Advance Query Tool), Simulators, XML and JSON messages
- FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE: Banking, Capital Markets, COTS applications, People Soft, Transportation (Railroad Domain), Mobile Testing on IOS and Android
- TRAINING UNDERGONE: ISTQB Certified, Scrum Master (RBC Internal)
- SECURITY CLEARANCE: RELIABILITY, Secret Level II
Timeline
Sr Consultant – Testing
Hydro Quebec
04.2023 - 12.2023
Sr Consultant - Mobile and Web Application Testing
Canada Border Service Agency
01.2022 - 03.2023
Sr Tester - IBM Curam
ESDC
07.2021 - 12.2021
System Integrator and Integration Testing Lead
Canadian National Transportation Services
06.2016 - 06.2021
Sr. QA Lead, Project Coordinator, Business Analyst, Scrum Master and Test Manager
Royal Bank of Canada
06.2007 - 05.2016
Software Test Engineer
MISYS International Services LTD, India
01.2005 - 01.2007
Data Analyst
CADSYS Technologies, India
01.2003 - 01.2005
Bachelor of Science - computer science and engineering
Madras University
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