John Amalraj, Senior QA Team leader

John Amalraj

Senior QA Team leader

Al Rajhi Takaful

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, MBA - System
Experience
17 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 6 Months

Senior QA Team leader at Al Rajhi Takaful
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since November 2013

 Playing a role of QA & testing lead, Program Coordinator, Change Manager, Incident Manager, Service Desk Lead and Release Manager
 Acting as SPOC for all the QA Activities for all the IT program and IT Support activities.
 e2e Test Delivery responsible for both Support and Development projects.
 Managing the different Vendors for both development and testing day to day activities.
 Active member of Alrajhi IT Management -Strategy / Planning and Steering committee
 Managing, monitoring and tracking the Alrajhi Service tickets with L1, L2 and L3 team
 Validate, Review and finalizing the proposals/cost /vendors for the testing activities.
 Coordinates and directs systems/projects verification activities within IT to ensure the division consistently delivers quality services.
 Walkthrough, Review and Signoff of test artefacts, review design documents with the stake holders
 Identifying, managing and mitigating project risk throughout Project life cycle / Post Live environments
 Actively managing scope to ensure that only what was agreed to is delivered, unless changes are approved through scope management
 Defining and collecting metrics to give a sense for how the project is progressing and whether the deliverable produced are acceptable
 Mentoring, troubleshooting, and working closely with the Delivery Team
 Validating Entry criteria and Accepting the changes/Projects to UAT
 Coordination with Business team for Testing and Acceptance
 Obtaining the Sign off on critical milestones of the Project Delivery

Senior Test lead at Cognizant Technology solutions
  • India - Chennai
  • December 2009 to November 2013

Life Sciences Quality engineering & Assurances - Worked with top pharmaceuticals customer’s like AstraZeneca, GSK, Biogen, and Abbott in many R&D, Manufacturing system and implementations.

Worked in UK and India.

• Responsible for the e2e Test delivery Excellence and Quality of various programs/projects
• Manage and drive the test team for delivering quality product which meets customer expectation
• Leading testing on streams of business areas in coordination with the PM’s, BA’s, SME’s and test analysts
• Ensure testing adheres to software development methodologies including V-model/Agile
Management of testing risks and issues
• Provision of test estimates, RFP's & resource planning across the program of work
• Liaise with IT Project Managers and Programme Manager to define High level Estimate and agreed commercials for the testing projects.Grooming team members with the current trends

SQA at Virtusa India Pvt ltd
  • India
  • February 2008 to December 2009

1. involved in all the QA activities of creating Test plan, test cases, test results, test reports and defects metrics.
2. Worked in both stand alone applications and web applications

Test engineer at Lason Technologies
  • India
  • December 2007 to February 2008

Project Description:

Medical Claims from all Insurance companies will be sent to India from US in a scanned format. We will Test the claims in UNIX environment and then we need to resend to US. It involves 36 processes in between it. The first process name is Image upload and the last process is Shipment to US. We need to test all the process from the beginning to till end. Fiserv is a customer name and project name is Single HCFA, Multi HCFA.

My Contribution:

 Preparing Software Requirement Document for each Process.
 Preparing Test cases for the scripts
 Execution of Test cases.
 Involved in Triage call with the Dev team on a daily basis
 Guided and leaded 3 fresher's to get familiar with this process
 Involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings
 Reported the defects and validated defects

Test engineer at HCL Technologies
  • India
  • October 2006 to October 2007

 Downloading the Application Builds from FTP Server and Installing in Network Drives.
 Preparing Test Execution Plan & executing the same.
 Guided and leaded 4 fresher's to get familiar with the Tax prep and involved them to execute the test scripts.
 Reviewing the Clarifications of the bugs for a Five member Team
 Performed Smoke Testing and Ad-hoc testing.
 Performed Regression testing.
 Involved in Functional testing and System Testing.
 Reported the defects and validated defects.
 Performed regression testing to validate the resolved defects on every build.
 Involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings.
 Undergone training to work in Quick Test Professional (9.0)
 Reporting Bugs through Lotus Notes.

Education

Master's degree, MBA - System
  • at Madras university
  • May 2009
Bachelor's degree, Computer science
  • at AIHT
  • May 2006

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer science

High school or equivalent, Computer science
  • at Model matriculation higher secondary school
  • May 2002

Secured 86% with a good marks in all the science subjects.. Partcipated in many school level volleyball and chess tournaments

High school or equivalent, Computer science
  • at Model matriculation higher secondary school
  • May 2002

Secured 86% with a good marks in all the science subjects.. Partcipated in many school level volleyball and chess tournaments

Specialties & Skills

PeopleSoft CRM
Ad Hoc Reporting
Lead By Example
Insurance
Testing
Datawarehouse testing
Sharepoint
Delivery Excellence
People Management
Project Management

Languages

English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

ISTQB (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2007
Valid Until:
June 2007

Hobbies

  • Networking and Adopting to new trends.
    Networking and Adopting to new trends.