Santosh Srinivas

About Santosh Srinivas

Seasoned Quality Assurance Leader with 20+ years of experience as a QA specialist in various technologies - Cloud/SaaS, Web Technology, CRM technology, E-commerce, Telecom, Devices testing(Tablets/Mobile/TV), Appstore- Have varied experiences in testing domain including Telecom - Interoperability testing, Siebel CRM Ondemand testing,HCM cloud testing, Social Media Management testing,E-commerce- Experience in leading and managing teams to the size of upto 200 members and been manager of managers- Rich experience in Agile Methodologies and Project planning, co-ordination and implementation- Strong functional skills on the areas worked upon.Individually contributing in testing the product apart from leading the team. Well versed with Test Planning, Test Design, Test Case execution and bug tracking tools- Rich experience in UI and API Automation - Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, Taiko. Building framework from scratch in collaboration with Dev team. Integration with Jenkins as part of CI/CD pipeline- Exposure to Mobile Testing- Also have good knowledge on Accessibility (508) compliance testing- Experience in Release Management activities - release planning, co-ordination b/w Dev/QA/PM, status tracking, implementation, release closure- Working exposure on different Test Management tools like Jira, BugDB,Moztrap, Testlink for requirements, Traceability, Defect Tracking, Organizing, Managing, Planning and Executing the Tests- Responsible for QA planning, effort optimization, defect prevention, defect prioritization, root cause analysis and product delivery every release- Vivid experience in planning, strategizing, executing QA actions across variety of web applications, server applications, framework development and mobile applicationsLeadership Skills: Test Strategy/Planning, Capacity Planning, Hiring & Recruitment, Mentoring and Managing junior/senior engineers,Release planning and execution, Automation scoping and implementation (UI and API), Annual Appraisals, Motivator and above all a Team Player

Experience

1. Senior Quality Assurance Manager

   Amazon

   Aug 2020 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Part of Devices org in Leadership RoleLeadership- Leading QA team and experience managing upto 100+ team members- Strategizing and planning team\'s deliverables- Aligning team\'s priorities with business goals- Driving Release Planning to decide on the timelines of Sprint deliverables- Individual contribution toward test activities apart from managing the team- Managing automation requirements.Leadership Skills: Test Strategy/Planning, Capacity Planning, Hiring & Recruitment, Mentoring and Managing junior/senior engineers,Release planning and execution, Automation scoping, Annual Appraisals, Motivator.

Education

• K.S Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science

• Saint Paul's English School,Bangalore

  High School Diploma

• National College Basavanagudi, Bangalore

  Pre University, Computer Science

Skills

• Regression Testing
• Agile Project Management
• System Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Qtp
• Clearcase
• Test Planning
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Vbscript
• Jira
• Test Automation
• Project Management
• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Cases
• Process Improvement
• Sql
• Manual Testing
• Java
• Siebel
• Microsoft Office
• Unix
• Hp Qtp
• Version One
• Testing
• Accessibility
• Crm
• Microsoft Excel