Ravi Shankar
Principal Consultant @Mercedes-Benz Research And Development India
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Consultant @Mercedes-Benz Research And Development India
Bangalore, IN
Responsible for creating detailed project plans and work breakdown structure plans to illustrate resource allocation and scheduling tasks using MS Excel.• Participate in requirements review sessions with Business Analysts and product owner to provide test estimation and scoping. • Creating test plans, test environment requirement plan, traceability matrix, test summary report, daily status report, and other necessary artefacts for all QA projects.• Expertise in developing test strategies, review requirements, writing test plans, optimise test coverage and reviewing test cases, and discussing risks, issues with stakeholders.• Experience with effective implementation of Test Automation using Open Source tools (Selenium) with Python.• Working closely with Project Managers and Engineering Managers to ensure best quality products are released to end customers.• Implementing, maintaining and improving QA best practices including automation.• Worked as a Defect Manager for Core of Excellence portfolio by Conducting Defect Board.• Track record of implementing continuous improvement cycle and improving performance of agile teams.
EDUCATION
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science
ABOUT RAVI SHANKAR
Holds Master degree in Computer Science from PES College of Engg, VTU, India, and have over 13 years of experience working with or as clients across NAFTA, Europe and APAC regions, primarily on Test Management, Automation Testing, Rollout Management, Test Planning, Test Strategy, Agile Methodology.* Experience in managing large Testing and Application Roll out Projects. I have worked for around 3 Fortune 500 Companies in my IT experience.* Design, Develop and implementation of test automation framework using Python UnitTest Framework for Selenium.*Proficient in Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Effort Estimation, Test Process Implementation.* Proven competency in handling entire project lifecycle from inception to delivery viz. requirement gathering, project management, quality assurance and implementation in both waterfall and agile frameworks.*Interacting with leads across different projects, identifying scope for automation andProviding automated solutions to help increase productivity in the project.Industries worked for :* Automobile (Suppliers, Retail)- Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Pvt. Ltd,* IT Services –Hewlett-Packard, Ness Technologies, Thought Focus Information TechnologyTechnical Expertise: Selenium, Core Java, Python, SQL - DB2, iCON 1.0 / 2.0 (Web service), iQUOTE, SIRIUS, ALM, JIRA, Confluence, Kibana, PostgreSQL etc
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