Suresh Penugonda

About Suresh Penugonda

More than 20+ years of experience and success leading test transformation programs in the Financial Services, Insurance, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, and Life Science domains.I have implemented many comprehensive engagements in US & Europe in the planning and design of the Test Center of Excellence (TCoE), maturity and capability assessments in traditional & agile methods, and establishing governance and audit teams to transform Quality Engineering. I have expertise with many New Account Openings (NAO) for my organization with successful maturity assessment and transformation roadmaps. Served as a trusted and respected consultant with top clients such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), DTCC, Ergo Insurance, Barclays Capital, Truist Bank (BB & T, SunTrust), DNB Bank, Guardian Insurance, Oracle (Siebel Systems) and Merck.Extensive experience living and working in the US and India. Fluent in English, Hindi and Telugu.

Experience

1. Principal Consultant, Infosys Validation Solutions (Ivs)

   Infosys

   Sep 2015 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US

   Principal Consultant, 1/2013 – PresentPart of Deutsche Bank Quality Control team in creating QC Governance Framework and Test Transformation Process. Key Engagements:• Deutsche Bank, Management Consultant (04/13-Current): Part of Global Test Transformation team program. Established Testing Minimum Standards to standardize and improve IT delivery and comply with audit requirements. Prepared test planning tools and templates to help test teams in adopting and adhere to testing standards. Trained the test teams and monitored the adoption and compliance of each application towards minimum standards. Created Test Metrics and KPI’s framework and designed metric reporting dashboard. Created test glossary-of-terms, RACI charts and TMP (Test Management Process).• Deutsche Bank, Management Consultant (01/13-3/13): Part of Global Quality Control team engaged in Transformation program. Defined a governance model to enable adherence against the Quality Control guidelines/operating model for Test Process and Automation, Build and Deploy Automation, Release Management, Access Management. Developed a sample dashboards to collect and display compliance measures in support of compliance management

Education

• Central Michigan University

  SAP Software, IT

  1999 — 1999

• Acharya Nagarjuna University

  Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Statistics

  1989 — 1992

• PMStudy

  Project Management Professional, IT Project Management

  2010 — 2011

• Siebel University

  Siebel 7.0 Certified Professional, Siebel Life Sciences

  2002 — 2003

• Utkal University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Management Information Systems and Services

  1993 — 1995

Skills

• Pmp
• Sdlc
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Business Analysis
• Software Project Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• User Acceptance Testing
• Test Management
• Integration
• Test Planning
• System Testing
• Test Automation
• Loadrunner
• Hp Quality Center
• Data Modeling
• Test Strategy
• Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Sybase
• Data Warehousing
• Business Requirements
• Business Process
• Qtp
• Agile Methodologies
• Etl