Samson Suresh Mathias

About Samson Suresh Mathias

Quality Manager | Product Owner and Scrum Master at Tata Consultancy Services. Former Senior SDET Associate in Amtex Systems Inc and Former Senior Test Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions. Holding 16 years of experience in IT Industry playing multiple roles as Project Manager, BA-QA (Business Analyst - Quality Assurance) and Product Owner including 5 years service at client places, USA. Being Scrum Master, experienced in SAFe Agile and Agile Methodology, leading the Scrum Calls, Product Back Log Meetings, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings. Profound knowledge on STLC, SDLC, Requirement Analysis, Functional Studies, Test Designs, Application development / Maintenance phases, Test Automation using Selenium TestNG, IDE as Eclipse and JBehave, IDE as IntelliJ, Test Execution process, Defect Management and Quality Assurance throughout the project lifecycle on different domains namely Banking and Finance, Information Media and Entertainment, Retail, Healthcare, Insurance, Man Log Energy and Utilities, etc. Being Product Owner and Business Analyst, involved in developing the Application Products by getting the requirements from the stake holders, Prioritizing the product Backlogs, drilling down the Business Requirements into smaller modules and units, detailed business analysis, identifying areas of improvement, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the business, sharing end-to-end system and business knowledge to the Development Team and other team members. Being Test Lead and Test Manager at Onsite Counterpart (USA), plays vital role in understanding the Business and Project FRD, transferring the knowledge to the offshore team members, reviewing the Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test cases, Sharing daily status reports and status of the project to clients. Involves in Scrum meetings, Defects management and defect tracking with the Client / Tech team. Involves in many Business-critical situations with clients / Stake Holders in order to provide Mitigation Plans, Project Go / No Go decisions for production releases. Being Test Lead at offshore, involved in project management activities like Task splitting, Tasks Consolidation, Sharing daily status reports and status of the project to onsite coordinators / Managers on daily basis through status calls. Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, quick learning, multitasking abilities, profound knowledge to work and manage team without any issues as a Single member or as a Team player.

Experience

1. Quality Manager

   Tata Consultancy Services

   Nov 2021 — Present · IN

Education

• SRM IST Chennai

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Requirements Analysis
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Test Planning
• Agile Methodologies
• Manual Testing
• Web Services
• Testing