Rama Kishore Kanagarla
QA Manager / Test Lead | Driving Quality Engineering & Automation | API, Functional, Performance Testing | Agile | CI/CD | Selenium
Bengaluru
12+ years of work experience
Sep 20241 yr 9 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Lead and manage QA teams, including task planning, mentoring, and performance reviews.
• Define and implement comprehensive QA strategies, test plans, and testing frameworks.
• Oversee testing phases including functional, regression, integration, API, performance, and UAT testing.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, and stakeholders to clarify requirements and ensure quality delivery.
• Manage defect lifecycle using DevAzure and coordinate with development teams for resolution.
• Implement test automation using Selenium and API testing tools using Postman .
• Establish QA standards, testing processes, and best practices.
• Monitor QA metrics, defect trends, and release quality reports for leadership.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and continuous testing strategies.
• Reduced regression testing effort by 40% through automation.
• Improved defect detection rate by 30% before production release.
• Successfully led QA for multiple enterprise releases with zero critical defects in production.
Sep 20231 yrAug 2024
India
• Led multiple cross-functional Agile teams delivering enterprise and mobile applications in SAFe and Scrum environments.
• Supported ART-level planning, dependency mapping, and feature delivery synchronization.
• Coached Product Owners and team members on Agile best practices and backlog prioritization.
• Implemented Agile metrics dashboards in Jira to monitor PI progress and delivery health.
• Facilitated stakeholder communication between business, leadership, and delivery teams.
• Enabled CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Bitbucket to support continuous delivery.
• Drove process improvements resulting in improved sprint predictability and reduced defect leakage.
Aug 20221 yr 2 mosSep 2023
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
● Managed project delivery lifecycle including planning, risk tracking, and milestone governance.
● Conducted regular stakeholder status reviews and governance meetings.
● Acted as single point of escalation between business, development, and QA teams.
● Produced executive status reports covering progress, risks, dependencies, and mitigation actions.
● Ensured delivery aligned with organizational quality and compliance standards.
● Coordinated cross-functional teams across locations.
Feb 20193 yrs 7 mosAug 2022
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
● Directed and organized test process development work in order to rollout across the enterprise.
● Directed the staff in implementing, maintaining, rolling-out, and enforcing a formal, consistent and well-defined/standardized test processes for all test phases across the enterprise including:
● Develop test strategies, plans, and maintain automation test data
● Develop and continuously improve automated tests as new system features and enhancements are developed
● Execute automated tests and manage the resulting defect log through the point of defect fix validation
● Regression and Automation test execution in each test phase with set targets and governance guidelines
● Document and mentor QA engineers in the use of the testing framework
● Formal entrance and exit gates and ensured stakeholder sign-off occurs before the start of each testing phase
● Gating criteria specific to testing involvement for each phase in the SDLC and ensured appropriate testing criteria are met for test strategy, test data plans, etc.
● Formal requirements traceability process across all application groups and all phases of testing
● Guidelines and policies around testing with vendors and assigned specific IT resources to manage and coordinate testing activities
● Developed and maintained a career development program for testing resources including implementing a detailed in-house training program that leverages materials from past programs
● Developed and maintained training curriculums and materials for all facets of testing in alignment with the enterprise release and project strategies including training to enable support from business users
● Incorporated training goals in the overall performance evaluation criteria for all testing resources and provide incentives to complete training goals
Aug 20144 yrs 7 mosFeb 2019
Bangalore
● Involved in different phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle SDLC , such as requirement gathering and analysis, design, development, and testing.
● Lead a team of BA's and assigning new project to them looking at the bandwidths of each individual.
● Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications
● Prepared user stories for DOD Department of Defense F14 portal for gathering the requirement.
● Manage the online Master Data Management request tool for new requests ensuring proper decision-making on master data creation, data standardization, duplication checks, data field accuracy and completeness while meeting acceptable turnaround time. Complete large database cleanup projects to insure data integrity.
● Managed the team and tasks as well as schedule using Team Foundation Server
● Conducted JAD sessions, communicated and maintained strong working relationship with various business groups and owners in preparing the user Story.
● Conducted technical training session regarding Agile development methods.
● Participated in meetings, technical discussion, reviews and release planning.
● Provided technical assistance during project planning and demonstrations.
● Formulated, implemented and maintained tools and practices.
● Prepared and coordinated project proposals and schedules.
● Evaluated information radiators and Scrum issues on daily basis.
● Prepared High Level and Detailed level requirements for Select Solutions
● Worked with the cross functional teams in gathering the requirements.
● Scheduled meetings to review the Detailed Level Requirement with the cross functional team for approvals.
● Created Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the detail requirements, design and test cases to the HLR to track the requirements
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science
Magnus School Of Business
20073 yrs2010
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