Prakash GOVINDASAMY

Newport News,VA

Summary

Seasoned IT professional with exceptional STLC, leadership and project management skills. Dedicated Project Leader and Scrum Master with a 15+ year history of effectively leading and managing teams. Thorough knowledge of Scrum, project planning, implementation, and execution. Mastery of monitoring quality assurance measures and managing unexpected obstacles. Well-organized, systematic, and diplomatic in building consensus and spearheading teams.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certification

Work History

IT Project Lead /Agile Scrum Master

Wipro Technologies

Newport News, Virginia, USA

10.2013 - Current

Project Details: Ferguson Enterprises, TD Bank, Best Buy
Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
Promoted adoption of agile methodologies across the organization, resulting in improved flexibility and adaptability in response to changing business needs.
Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
Conducted sprint reviews and retrospectives, fostering a collaborative environment for feedback and improvement.
Implemented robust risk management strategies to identify, assess, and mitigate potential threats to project success.
Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
Facilitated cross-functional communication, enabling teams to collaborate effectively on project tasks.
Managed diverse cross-functional teams with effective leadership skills, fostering positive working relationships among team members for optimal performance.
Managing and responsible to achieve test execution productivity, ensuring defect management as per process and timely release of test dashboard.
Managing test management tools like JIRA, ALM for uploading requirements, mapping test cases, logging bugs/defects and reporting test executions.
Responsible and attended/provided inputs for RAID items on daily basis
Responsible for leading and Completing Integration testing with all downstream systems for the application functionality
Involved in various activities of testing including APT, IPT, UAT Lab validation and delivered successfully for the releases
Responsible for Pre-Production and Post-Production QA support
Create and maintain automated scripts to support regression test libraries.
Implementing Wipro IP solution tools such as Rapid Test Design, Easy Automate, Smart Data Optimizer and Smart Test Suite Optimizer for rapid, easy, and smart way of generating & automating the test cases.
Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CICD) server Jenkins/looper configuration and pipeline implementation.
Conducted thorough post-project evaluations to identify opportunities for process improvement and lessons learned for future initiatives.
Ensured quality deliverables by diligently monitoring project progress against established milestones, taking corrective action when necessary.

Senior Test Engineer/Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA

03.2010 - 09.2013

Project Details: Best Buy, Apple Corp
Involved in preparing Test Plan, design complex test cases, review the test cases and automate the test cycle process
Analyzing Functional Specification Documents (FSD) and Business specification documents (BSD)
Monitoring Test progress and preparation of Daily Execution Report
Synced with Onshore daily and planned task for each offshore resources with making sure everyone is occupied with tasks on priority bases
Daily synced with Dev team and Deployment team to make sure build is delivered with functionalities as planned for each Sprint
Prepared and Presented Weekly Status report meeting
Responsible and coordinated Brainstorming sessions for each release.
Creating detailed reports and metrics on the assigned test scenario execution completion, defects, and issues to the project manager
Design & Execution of functional and regression test cases manually and with automation scripts

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics

KEC - Anna University

Perundurai, Tamil Nadu

06.2009

Skills

Retail and ecommerce expertise
Skilled in managing projects using Waterfall and Agile approaches
Facilitating user acceptance testing
Business requirements analysis
Skilled in facilitating Scrum processes
Multidisciplinary teamwork facilitation
Comprehensive software testing lifecycle management

Mobile application testing proficiency
Experienced in testing Salesforce CRM functionalities
Skilled in utilizing accessibility testing tools for web applications
Good Experience with Sauce Lab, SOAP UI, Postman, SQL Testing
Very good hands-on Knowledge on testing tools like ALM, qTest, VersionOne, Bugzilla
Good experience in Test Automation Framework using HP UFT & Selenium

Accomplishments

Completed the Data Migration Project on time with stipulated budget.
Consistently received outstanding performance ratings over multiple years and awarded top performer accolades by several clients.
Presented with the "Feather in My Cap" , "Top Performer" Award for constant deliveries for consecutive months.

Certification

PMP - Project Management Professional (Wipro Certified)
HO EXT -Salesforce Platform Development L2
TCA BAS-TES-SELENIUM-L1

Timeline

IT Project Lead /Agile Scrum Master

Wipro Technologies

10.2013 - Current

Senior Test Engineer/Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies

03.2010 - 09.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics

KEC - Anna University