A technically sound and hands on QA and Project Manager with excellent leadership skills and technical skills, thorough business/functional knowledge, adept Project Management, People Management and Communication skills. Proven ability to take on multiple roles and to fulfil them successfully. Passionate about contributing to the development and growth of organisations by building efficient QA and BA/PM teams and processes. Driven by the urge to deliver projects efficiently with high quality, within time and schedule and to provide exceptional value. Like to work in customer focused and value based companies.
Specialties:
• Devising organisational product development and testing strategies
• Heading an IT Department
• Software Test Management
• Hands on End to End Functional Testing Skills – right from responding to RFPs to test completion and software delivery and maintenance
• Hands on End to End Performance Testing Skills – specialize in Performance Requirements Gathering and Workload Modelling, Performance Test Planning and Strategizing, Performance Test Design, Scripting and Development, Performance Test Data Setup, Load, Stress, Volume and Endurance Test Execution, Monitoring and Bottleneck Analysis, Performance Results Reporting, Tuning and Defect tracking
• Hands on Tools and Utilities development
• Hands on Project Management and Product Delivery Management
• Hands on Business Analysis
• Implementing Agile Practices
• Expert knowledge of Forex/Metals/CFD Trading and SpotOptions
• Advanced knowledge of Metatrader4 and MT5 platforms and related plugins/gateways, Currenex and ECN
• Excellent working knowledge of multiple areas within the Finance-Forex Trading, Oil Trading and Risk Management, Retail and Banking domains
QA Manager @ Heading a large Matrix style QA department comprising onsite and offshore, permanent, contract and consultancy QA Analysts.
Responsible for Software Testing Processes, Tools, Environments, Automation, Hiring & Firing, Vendor Management and Production Change Request processes. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) London, United KingdomHead of Quality Assurance @ From May 2014 to June 2014 (2 months) London, EnglandHead of Product Development @ Heading the Product Development Department which is responsible for Project Management, Business Analysis and Quality Assurance in Alpari
Recruitment, Training and setting up a team of Business Analysts and Project Managers and implementing relevant processes
Allocating Projects to Project Managers, Business Analysts, QA Leads and QA Engineers and overseeing the timely and quality delivery of projects
Project Management for projects and at the same time playing several other roles that of Product Owner, Scrum Master, QA Manager, and Defect Manager as required. From October 2013 to May 2014 (8 months) London, United KingdomQA Manager @ Managing the QA teams and ensuring quality of Alpari UK's IT applications
Executing Functional and Non Functional Tests on complex applications
Recruiting, Training and Building the QA Team
Implementing QA processes From October 2012 to September 2013 (1 year) London, United KingdomSenior QA Engineer @ Taking care of Quality Assurance needs of Alpari UK. From November 2011 to October 2012 (1 year) London, United KingdomPerformance Consultant @ Provided end to end performance testing services to AXA Wealth as a Capita consultant. From October 2010 to November 2011 (1 year 2 months) Bristol, United KingdomSenior Performance Consultant @ Providing End to End Performance Testing Consulting services to Capita's clients in the UK. From July 2010 to November 2011 (1 year 5 months) UKPerformance Test Specialist @ Worked for the Non Functional Testing Center of Excellence at Dell Services, responsible for coming up with innovative services and solutions in the Non Functional Area, with focus on growing the practice and the subsequent Business. Role also entails assisting critical projects, resolving issues faced by performance testing teams, training people and also to work as Performance Test consultants for clients.
Evaluated tools, provided training, developed an open source service offering.
Worked as a Test Specialist in a major programme for Travelex in the UK.
Tools:
Selenium and Concordion for component test automation and business signoff
Others: JMeter, Idea IntelliJ, Maven, Sub Version, Bamboo, Clover From November 2009 to July 2010 (9 months) Performance Test Engineer @ Provided End to End Performance Testing services to a number of clients including Tesco, Boots, Argos, Gap, ABN Amro, Dow Jones, British Petroleum and Southern California Edison.
Proficiently handled Clients and offshore teams. Participated in a number of Organizational initiatives like Web mastership, Trainings and HR initiatives.
Highlights:
1. Designed and filed a Patent for an End to End Testing Solution. It can be accessed at http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090083325
2. Received Star Awards and a Strategic Partnership Award
3. Received appreciations from clients
Technical Skills:
HP Load Runner: Worked in Installing, designing tests, developing scripts, executing tests under various scenarios and conditions, resource monitoring, result capture, analysis and reporting. Worked on HTTP/Web, Webservices and Java RMI Protocols
HP QTP, Borland Silk Test, GH Tester, Citra Test, Quotium QTest: Worked on these tools for both Functional and Performance testing in various projects.
HP Quality Center: Used Quality center for managing functional and performance test artefacts and defects
Performance Monitoring and Analysis Tools: Foglight, Spotlight, AppWatch, PerfMon, Unix Utilities, IBM Heap Analyzer and IBM Heap dump Analyzer
Configuration Management Tools: Used Tortoise SVN, Microsoft VSS, Rational Clear Case & Microsoft Sharepoint in various projects
Defect Tracking Tools: Used Atlassian Jira, Rational Clear Quest, HP QC and Radar (a Proprietary tool)
Familiar Commercial Application products: Sterling Order Management, Oracle Retail Application Suite, PkMS, JDA, GTx, iGrasp, Unica Affinium, SPSS Clementine, Microsoft Content Management Server, ATG Commerce, ATG Merchandising, Oracle
PIM
Familiar Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, C# Dot Net, VB, HTML, DHTML, SQL
Familiar Platforms: IBM Websphere, IIS, IBM Websphere MQ, Tibco ESB, Vitrea, Oracle DBMS, SQL server From November 2004 to November 2009 (5 years 1 month)
BCA, Computer Software, Hardware and applications @ Osmania University From 2001 to 2004 Intermediate, Maths, Physics, Chemistry @ New Science College From 2000 to 2001 Intermediate, Maths, Physics & Chemistry @ Gautami Academy From 1999 to 2000 School @ Spring Dales From 1991 to 1999 Vasu Belide is skilled in: Test Management, Test Planning, Project Management, Load, Project Estimation, Customer Service, LoadRunner, Quality Center, Performance Testing, QTP, Test Automation, Test Strategy, Regression Testing, System Testing, Stress, Requirements Analysis, JMeter, Testing, Non-functional Testing, Functional Testing, Quality Assurance, Selenium, Web Services, Oracle, SQL, HP QTP, HP Quality Center
Websites:
http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20090326ptan20090083325.php