CURRICULUM VITAE

SANTOSH PALLAE Mobile: - 0831411958

E-mail: - [email protected]

Career Objective:

Seeking a challenging position in Software Quality Assurance and Testing that lets me utilize my
Knowledge of business and software QA methodologies and provide Quality assurance in all aspects
test operations like requirement analysis, functional test design, Test analysis, management and reporting.

Educational Qualifications:

1. Graduation in Science Osmania University Hyderabad, India in 1998

2. Certificate in computing(MCA) foundation level Indra Gandhi open university
3. Diploma in Electronics and hardware Panorama Technical Institute 1999.
4. Programming in Network-Centred Computing NIIT in the year 2000.
5. Software Testing Mind Q Software Technologies 2007.

Software Proficiency:

Languages: SQL, PL-SQL, JAVA, C++.

RDBMS: Oracle, Sybase.
Operating Systems: MS-DOS, WindowsNT, 95/98, XP,Windows 8/10, Unix, Linux
Web Technologies: HTML.
Software CMS, Microsoft dynamics CRM, Microsoft 365
Quality Management Tools Mercury Quality Center, Jira, Lean Kit, Soap UI, Microsoft TFS
Automated Testing Tools Quick Test Professional, Selenium
Bug Tracking Tools Fogbugz, TestTrackPro, Clear Quest, Bugzilla, TrackIT ,Microsoft
TFS

Certification:

Certified in ISTQB (Foundation Level).

Professional Summary

 Having graduation and Diploma in Science and computers.

 Contributed services to the field of computers for a period of Ten+ years.
 Proficient knowledge in software development lifecycle and software test life cycle.
 Knowledge of Agile Kanban and Lean methodologies
 Experience in design and execute Test Cases.
 Experience in Automating tests with Selenium and Java.
 Knowledge of cucumber and Java script
 Proficient Knowledge in Sql and Database concepts.
 Knowledge of UNIX and Linux.
 Good understanding of project and product and Test lifecycles.
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Strengths

Strong organizational and analytical skills, Target Oriented, good communication, presentation
skills, results oriented and deadline driven with a high degree of accountability, commitment and
responsibility
Summary of Experience

1. Working as Test Manager in SGS Ireland March 2017 to Till Date

Project Details. BSP/CoVIS/OGC

Responsibilities:

 Building up and leading the Testing Team to the success of projects

 Managing the projects from requirement analysis, Test designing, Automation ,documentation and
to Reporting
 Defining the QA strategy tools and techniques, scope of testing within the context of each release /
delivery for all the products
 Deploying and managing resources for testing
 Fully involved in testing of the projects involved in and helping with some automation at times.
 Organising and controlling the releases by liaising with the IT team and deploying the builds using
the Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
 Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement.
 Liaise and work closely with the Project managers to ensure expectations are met.
 Provide status reports and updates to internal and external stakeholders
 Allocate and co-ordinate test schedules, work and resource plans, managing progress of all
activities against the plan, managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery
deadlines.
 Identify potential consequences, issues and risks and escalate it to the Liaise on board through the
PM’s.
 Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with all the stakeholders to ensure consistent
feedback, project delivery and priority management including maintaining UAT and UAT sign offs
 Managing the performance and career management process for the team, coaching and
mentoring to ensure they have clear objectives and are motivated to achieve maximum potential.
 ensuring the success of the team’s (Team of 15) manual and automation efforts.
 Hands on experience in manual testing and automation.

2. Working as Snr QA in SGS Ireland August 2016 to March 2017

Project Details. CoVIS

Client RSA

Responsibilities:

 Understanding the requirements of application.

 Prepare Test Plan and Test cases based on Functional Requirements
 Design, Develop Test Cases and analysed test estimates.
 GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Security Testing and Regression Testing.
 Perform Sanity Testing thereby releasing Build in the test envt.
 Logging & tracking defects using Defect Tracking
 Perform Regression testing.
 Assist the Business in UAT testing.
 Demo of the application client at the end of each Release
 Production Support
3. Worked as QA engineer in SQS LTD client as Paddy Power PLC from June 2011 to August
2016.

Project Details.
Client: Paddy Power PLC Ireland
Projects: Roller Casino, Paddy Power Vegas, Poker, Bingo,MAC,Tornado

Responsibilities:

 Working in Agile ,Kanban/lean ,Dev Ops environment

 Attend Daily scrum.
 Attend and interact in the weekly Collaboration and estimation sessions, understand the business
requirements based on the wireframes, designs and discussions for the backlog Items.
 Planning for the Sprint after prioritization by the BA, PO and PM adding the technical tasks for the QA
and their further time estimates.
 Updating all the scenarios to best suit automation that can be automated and move them into the
Living Doc on Jira.
 GUI, Functional, Exploratory and Regression Testing.
 Perform Backend validation testing using UNIX and sql queries.
 Automation of the Sprint Items using Selenium and Java in the Paddy Power in-house framework
built using Intellij.
 Creating Objects, business logic and candidate steps for the scenarios in the Living Doc in Jira and
also manage test runs on the VM’s and track the reports and diagnose issues found.
 Logging & tracking defects using bug tracker and now using Jira.
 Assist the Business in UAT testing.
 Create documentation in Confluence for the Sprint Items for the business and operations to use as
User guides.
 Perform Regression testing by scheduling all the automated tests and manual test the rest at the end
of each Sprint.
 Demo of the application and automation to the PO, PM’s and all the Leads after the end of each
Sprint for their Approval.
 Smoke testing the feature released to Production and its related functionalities and monitored the
feedback loop of any issues that arose in production.
 Actively participate in the retrospective sessions.
 Tested integration of Account Pages and Web views and full run trough of the native APP’s and Web
APP’s like Roller Casino, Paddy Power Vegas, Poker Web APP and Native APP.

4. Worked as QA engineer in Aamaga from September 2010 to June 2011.

Project Details.
Client: ICICI bank, India
Title: Document Management System

Responsibilities:

 Understanding the requirements of application.

 Prepare Test Plan and Test cases based on Functional Requirements
 Design, Develop Test Cases and analysed test estimates.
 GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Security Testing and Regression Testing.
 Perform Sanity Testing thereby releasing Build in the test envt.
 Logging & tracking defects using Defect Tracking
  Perform Regression testing.
 Perform Backend validation testing using UNIX and Oracle Database at the Backend.
 Attend and conduct project update meetings team lead about daily test status.

5. Worked as QA engineer in Mind Q Systems from January 2009 to September 2010.

Client: Retail Solutions Company
Title:
Responsibilities:
 Worked with development teams, system analyst group and business stakeholders to procure test
requirements
 Developed detailed system test plan and traceability matrices, test templates
 Developed and executed system test cases
 Executed various functional test cycles while developing the product
 Designed Regression suite and successfully executed the same.

6. Worked as QA in Ammeon Ltd from November 2007 to December 2008.

Project Details:
Client O2 Mobile networks, a telefonica company
Title Amdocs V11.

Responsibilities

 Experienced on V-Model Test Methodology.

 Prepare Test Plan and Test Scripts based on Functional Requirements.
 Record and run test cases using Mercury Quality Center.
 Validate and verify the results at the backend using oracle database (Toad) and UNIX servers
(Putty).
 Record Defects using proper Defect Tracking tools like Clear Quest.
 Report daily results to the team lead
 Peer Review
 Worked and designed Change Request documents

7. Worked as IT Support in IN-VIZ Ltd from September 2005 to July 2007.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Troubleshooting Hardware & Networking.

 Configuration and maintenance of red walls, infrareds, Fastrace, Monitors.
 Configuring and troubleshooting Ad-pro Routers (client side and CMS).
 Reviewing and maintaining the database in events triggered.
 Software installation and configuring the routers for the clients.
 Permitted repairs and replacements of different devices.

8. Worked as IT Technician in Dublin Business School from October 2001 to August 2005.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Administered an internal network of Windows NT 3.51 servers with Windows 3.11,

Windows 95 and Windows NT 4 workstations.
 Troubleshooting Hardware & Networking
 Permitted repairs and replacements of different devices, installing and supporting hardware
devices and software.
 Mobile and desktop PC support (50 PCs – IBM and Dell).
 General administration and preparing computer reports.
 Liaisoned with internal users/ external analyst/programmer on the running of a new
computer system.