Shalini Kamalakannan

Bangalore,India

About

Title: QA Manager

Shalini Kamalakannan • 12 years of total IT industry experience • Good experience in working with startup projects with unclear requirements and undefined processes, in both product and services based companies • Experienced at managing projects right from the requirements gathering/needs identification phase (POC) through to completion and delivery • Proven ability to building and retaining a solid QA team, creating reliable testing strategy, automation for regression, feature, E2E testing and reporting • Highly effective at working with geographically distributed cross functional teams • Strategic thinker, with the ability to dive into details, unfazed by technology complexity • Good understanding of the IT services delivery and agile software development • Able to communicate with both technical and business teams to understand product vision • Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment • Involved in analyzing business and technical requirements and documenting functional flows, use cases based on discussions with the onsite BA team • Established, implemented, and improved QA infrastructure and quality standards in accordance with overall development and product releases. • Defect tracking using Bugzilla, Testopia and Jira • Requirements tracking in Doors. Use of MS Visio for functional workflow diagrams • Test planning using Target Process, Zephyr and Test Link • Passion for customer/user experience and quality • Sharp, experienced people manager with good analytical skills • Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills • Excellent leadership and management skills • Certified Internal Quality Auditor • Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrum Alliance)  •Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)