Srinivasa Rao Kota

Srinivasa Rao Kota

• 15.9 years of Testing and Quality Assurance experience, in a variety of industries and environments
• 7+ years as a Project Manager and QA Manager, managing teams up to 25 members in size
• Experienced people manager of on-shore and off-shore teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance appraisals
• Extensive experience in SDLC process development and implementation
• Experienced in multiple domains including Healthcare, Web2.0 B2B, Social Networking, E-commerce and utilities; Environments include web, Client/Server, Enterprise applications

Managerial

• Managing the team throughout the Software Testing Process i.e., Requirements Gathering, Test Planning, Test Estimation, Reporting involving creation of Test Plans/ Scenarios/ Cases and ensuring smooth Test execution
• Guiding team members throughout the assignment/ project lifecycle, ensuring all parameters, timelines and performance benchmarks are met; allocating tasks as per project requirements and skill set
• Documenting, tracking and communicating bugs, enhancements, analysis & unresolved problems.
• Hands on experience in providing Estimates and allocate resources effectively in an agile and multi-tasking environment

Functional

• Interacting with clients for requirement gathering, system study & analysis; designing & coordinating implementation and availability of QA test environments
• Providing scope, resource and time estimates for projects presented to QA for testing & analysis and furnishing regular project status reports to the seniors relating to test scenario writing/ test case writing
• Working with business analysis function to ensure QA testing requirements are appropriately identified and included in the requirements
• Working the capacity of Environment Manager and Defect Manager; identifying, analyzing defects, questionable functions, errors and inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs, online screens and content
• Extensively Involved in Agile methodologies (SCRUM, TDD and agile planning)
• Experience in mentoring and leading team members and experience in providing the necessary evidence to support evaluations & Conduct technical testing activities