Responsibilities of a Test Manager / Lead

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Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.

Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform
the testing.

Organize the testing kick-off meeting

Define the Strategy

Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.

Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills).

Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to
system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.

Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.

Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the
project.

Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by
the organization.

Check / Review the Test Cases documents.

Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.

Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project
Manager / Sr. Test Manager.

Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client

Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.

Communication with the Client (If required).

Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.

Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage,
required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.

Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.

Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.

Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project

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Experience Summary
8.6 Years of experience in IT industry with QA, Test Management, Test Planning and Leadership activities along with
Test Execution
Well versed in End to End Test Management, creating Test Plans, Configuration Management, Tracking Testing
Process, Defect Management, Preparing various project related Reports and Metrics like Traceability Metrics, Defect
Metrics, PL to PM Reports, Weekly and Monthly Status Reports, Risks and Issue Logs, Consolidating Test Results,
Reviewing Test Scenarios, Test Data Preparation & Configuration, Test Environment
Skill Set
Skill Set Quality Assurance, Test Management, Configuration Management, Delivery, Estimations, Reviews, Metrics,
Reports, Manual Testing
Domains worked on SCM, Retail, FSS, Insurance, Healthcare, Travel & Distribution, Public, Automobile, Designing,
PLM, CAD CAM
O. S. Platforms Windows XP, Windows 7
Testing Tools Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester
Defect Mgmt. Tools Rational Clear Quest, Bug Zila, Rational Team Concert
Other Tools Rational Clear Case, Rational Portfolio Manager, IBM Team Room
Work Experience
Company Latest Designation From To
IBM (India) Pvt. Ltd., Pune Team Lead : Testing 24/ 11/ 2008 Till Date
Harbinger Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune Senior Software Testing Engineer 04/ 09/ 2008 31/ 10/ 2008
PTC Software (India) Pvt. Ltd., Pune QA Engineer I 16/ 04/ 2007 23/ 05/ 2008
Geometric Software Solutions Co. Ltd., Pune Test Engineer 29/ 01/ 2007 11/ 04/ 2007
Multitech Engineers, Pune Engineer 19/ 06/ 2005 20/ 06/ 2006
Project WEBSHOP : End to end Supply Chain Management Application
Employer IBM (India) Pvt. Ltd., Pune
Technology Cloud, J2EE on platform Windows XP & Windows 7
Duration From 17th Aug 2009 to 30th June 2013
Team Size Testing 5 + 12 Others
Designation Team Lead : Testing Team
Roles
And
Responsibilities Description:
Application is basically the End to end Supply Chain Management system and online shopping for Customers to
Purchase the Hardware, Software and apply for Services internally in the organization. This application comes in total
13 international Languages.
Roles and Responsibilities: (As a Team Lead)
Creating various Weekly & Monthly Effort Details, Metrics, PL to PM Reports, Defect Metrics, Risk and Issue Logs
Configuration Management of the Testing part of the Project
Communication with the Client, Development, Hosting and Management Team
Handling Quality related activities of the Project
Involved in the Project Quality Assurance meetings related to the Project Health Checkup and Quality of the project
Project Status and Client Deliverables for every release
On-Boarding & Off-Boarding formalities of the resources, Access Management, Assets Management, Mandatory
Training Compliance
Analyzing the new Requirements or Change Request and giving High Level and Low Level estimations
Creating Test Estimations, Test Plans, Test Strategies
Taking care of getting all the Test Environment and Test Data ready before starting the Testing Execution phase
Reviewing the Requirement Documents, Test Execution Results by the Team, Use Cases, Test Scenarios
Roles and Responsibilities: (As a Senior Test Specialist till 2011)
Involved in UI, Functional, Regression, CAT, PAT Testing
Writing, Updating and Executing Test Cases (UI, Functional)
Executing Automated Test Scripts using RFT, Selenium
Bug Tracking and Maintaining Issue Logs by exporting the Defects data from RCQ and keeping track on the same

Creating monthly Defect sheets for getting the exact count of Opened Defects, Resolved Defects, Closed Defects,
Fixed Defects, Assigned and Analyzed defects
Creating Test Summary Report and Monitor Testing Progress
Interacting with Testing and Development team for fixing bugs after successive iterations and getting the defects fixed
and tested as per the estimated times and Change Requests
Giving KT sessions to the new Test Team Members
Project 2: IBM (India) Pvt. Ltd. (Pune) Client: IBMs Client, Australia
Project MARS : Roadside assistance and insurance
Employer IBM (India) Pvt. Ltd., Pune
Technology SAP GUI on platform Windows 7
Duration From 25th July 2013 To 28th Feb 2014
Team Size Testing 10 + 40 Others
Designation Individual Contributing Owner for a Module
Roles
And
Responsibilities Description:
Application is the online Roadside assistance system, Non Life Insurance creation, Car Insurance and Home
Insurance
Roles and Responsibilities:
Module Owner for testing sub modules under the project
Involved in UI, Functional, Regression, Backend Testing
Communication with the Client, Development, Hosting and Management Team
Creating various Weekly & Monthly Effort Details, Metrics, Maxpro Sheets, Defect Metrics, Risk and Issue Logs
Changes in Use Cases and modifying them accordingly
Writing, Executing and Updating Test Cases (UI, Functional and some part of Backend)

What are the roles and responsibilities of a Test Leader?

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Test leaders tend to be involved in the planning, monitoring, and control of

the testing activities and tasks.

At the outset of the project, test leaders, in collaboration with the other
stakeholders, devise the test objectives, organizational test policies, test
strategies and test plans.

They estimate the testing to be done and negotiate with management to

acquire the necessary resources.

They recognize when test automation is appropriate and, if it is, they plan the
effort, select the tools, and ensure training of the team. They may consult
with other groups e.g., programmers to help them with their testing.

They lead, guide and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and
execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites.

They ensure proper configuration management of the testware produced

Test leaders tend to be involved in the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing
activities and tasks.

At the outset of the project, test leaders, in collaboration with the other stakeholders,
devise the test objectives, organizational test policies, test strategies and test plans.

They estimate the testing to be done and negotiate with management to acquire the
necessary resources.

They recognize when test automation is appropriate and, if it is, they plan the effort,
select the tools, and ensure training of the team. They may consult with other groups
e.g., programmers to help them with their testing.

They lead, guide and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the
test cases, test procedures and test suites.

They ensure proper configuration management of the testware produced and traceability
of the tests to the test basis.

As test execution comes near, they make sure the test environment is put into place
before test execution and managed during test execution.

They schedule the tests for execution and then they monitor, measure, control and report
on the test progress, the product quality status and the test results, adapting the test plan
and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions.

During test execution and as the project winds down, they write summary reports on test
status.

Sometimes test leaders wear different titles, such as test manager or test coordinator.
Alternatively, the test leader role may wind up assigned to a project manager, a
development manager or a quality assurance manager. Whoever is playing the role,
expect them to plan, monitor and control the testing work.