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Saraswathy Samivelu

Waterloo,ON

Summary

QA Delivery Manager with 19 years of professional work experience having a proven history of successfully leading teams and delivering complex projects on time and within budget. Adept at optimizing processes, managing stakeholder expectations, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Seeking a challenging position to utilize my skills and experience in driving operational excellence and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Professional with strong background in managing delivery processes and driving successful project outcomes. Skilled in coordinating teams, optimizing workflows, and adapting to evolving project requirements. Known for fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Adept in problem-solving, resource management, and maintaining high standards in fast-paced environments.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Delivery Manager

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
05.2023 - Current
  • Accountable for Portfolio QA deliveries of Scotiabank - Retail Lending and Borrowing (Automotive)
  • QA Governance reporting and tracking
  • Test strategy planning and reviews
  • Analysis, design, and review of test automation frameworks
  • UAT testing to assist Go/No-Go decisions for the release
  • Review bugs and assist team with re-test
  • Periodic Product demo to customers at the end of every sprint
  • Providing QAT signoff approvals for production releases
  • Quality and process improvement tracking via QA audit
  • Periodic review of QAT Regression baselines and application knowledge documents
  • Operations management and resourcing
  • Responsible for Portfolio knowledge base tracking

Portfolio Manager

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
07.2017 - 04.2023
  • Managed QA deliveries of various agile teams and vendor releases
  • Streamlined QA process and ensured teams to adhere to the same
  • Resource management and tracking
  • QAT functional and regression testing with bug reporting and tracking to closure
  • Facilitated and assisted with accessibility testing across projects via JAWS
  • Ensure tracking and monitoring of QA signoffs with required evaluation procedures
  • Publish project status dashboard and detailed status to stakeholders
  • Organize and conduct QA reviews
  • Report release management team with portfolio release status
  • Assist teams with process guidelines, risk/mitigation plans and cross training

Test Lead/Manager

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2011 - 06.2017
  • Analyze the requirements and scope of the release
  • Interact with client to clarify the requirements and dissipate the same information to the offshore team
  • Plan the scenarios for test case preparation using HP Quality Center
  • Allocate the tasks for the team on par with test case preparation and execution
  • Plan the scenarios for test case execution and schedule for the QA team
  • Review the test cases prepared by QA team
  • Provide information required for data conditioning using DB Visualizer
  • Perform System testing for the project using HP Quality Center
  • Prepare the automation regression scripts for the current release items using HP QTP
  • Run the Automation scripts for Regression testing
  • Report the defects in HP Quality Center
  • Co-ordinate with client on a day-to-day basis to report status of the project
  • Report Test Execution results and Defect metrics daily
  • Report weekly status of the project to client
  • Report current week activities planned for the project

Test Lead/On-site Co-ordinator

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
06.2010 - 03.2011
  • Analyze the requirements and scope of the release
  • Interact with client to clarify the requirements
  • Co-ordinate with offshore team to clarify the requirements
  • Plan the scenarios for test case preparation using HP Quality Center
  • Allocate the tasks for the team on par with test case preparation and execution
  • Plan the scenarios for test case execution and schedule for the team
  • Review the test cases prepared by the team
  • Provide information required for data conditioning using DB Visualizer
  • Perform System testing for the project using HP Quality Center
  • Prepare the automation regression scripts for the current release items using HP QTP
  • Run the Automation scripts for Regression testing
  • Report the defects in HP Quality Center
  • Co-ordinate with client on a day-to-day basis to report status of the project
  • Report Test Execution results and Defect metrics daily
  • Report weekly status of the project to client
  • Report current week activities planned for the project

QA Tester

Tech Mahindra, formerly Satyam
05.2008 - 05.2010
  • System Understanding of application under test
  • Preparation of System Test Cases and Regression Test Cases in Quality Centre
  • Performed System and Regression Testing
  • Only QA responsible for the project to coordinate with the Client - QA and Development teams
  • Report the Defects in Quality Centre
  • Submit Weekly status report, Weekly Metrics and Current Week activities to the client
  • Report the status of day-to-day QA activities

QA Tester

Tech Mahindra, formerly Satyam
06.2006 - 04.2008
  • System Understanding of application under test
  • Preparation of System Test Cases
  • Execution of System Test Cases, Regression Testing
  • Coordinating with Onsite team to report the defects in the application
  • Prepare Defect reports to report the Bugs to client for future analysis
  • Uploaded the System Test Cases in Test Manager and Rational Clear Case
  • Preparation of Metrics for the application
  • Report daily and weekly status reports

Trainee

Tech Mahindra, formerly Satyam
10.2005 - 05.2006
  • Underwent Training in .Net and Quality assurance testing

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology -

01.2005

Skills

  • Portfolio management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Demand and forecast
  • Strategic partnership
  • Budgeting and resourcing
  • Transition
  • Test Automation
  • Agile transformation
  • Operations management
  • ADO
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • TFS
  • BDD
  • MS SQL
  • HP ALM
  • JAWS
  • HP UFT
  • Rational clear case
  • Rational test manage
  • MS office
  • Banking and Financial services
  • Automotive Retail lending
  • Borrowing
  • Insurance
  • Fund Management
  • Credit ratings
  • Indices
  • Risk evaluation
  • Investment research
  • Data
  • Documentum
  • Credit risk ratings
  • Capital Markets

Certification

  • CSTE
  • HP AIS – QTP & QC

Training

  • PMP
  • Agile
  • SAFe
  • Accessibility

Domain

  • Banking and Financial services covering Automotive Retail lending borrowing and Insurance
  • Portfolio management
  • Fund Management
  • Credit ratings
  • Indices
  • Risk evaluation
  • Investment research and data
  • Documentum related to credit risk ratings
  • Capital Markets

Accomplishments

  • Received Associate Center of Excellence (ACE) award four times for being an exceptional STAR performer in the consecutive years (2017 – 2021). ACERs are Tech Mighties who constantly excel at work and be a part of this elite group by successively being assessed as an ‘eXcellent’ performer (the highest rating) in the Annual Appraisal Process at Tech Mahindra. (Yearly only 6-7% have been rated 'X' successively)
  • Received six “Pat on Back” awards and one “Bravo” award to recognize and manifest the endeavors to excel consistently.

Timeline

Delivery Manager

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
05.2023 - Current

Portfolio Manager

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
07.2017 - 04.2023

Test Lead/Manager

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2011 - 06.2017

Test Lead/On-site Co-ordinator

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
06.2010 - 03.2011

QA Tester

Tech Mahindra, formerly Satyam
05.2008 - 05.2010

QA Tester

Tech Mahindra, formerly Satyam
06.2006 - 04.2008

Trainee

Tech Mahindra, formerly Satyam
10.2005 - 05.2006

Bachelor of Information Technology -

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