Anand Amalan

Accountable for defining the strategy to ensure that DELL products and solutions adhere to the specified Performance requirements and to identify performance efficiencies. Set long term plans and strategies to ensure the tools, skills and processes used for performance testing meet the needs of the project teams consistent with the overall test strategy. Assess and mitigate any risks or issues that threaten the achievement of the testing deliverables.

Administered best-in-class tooling support such as JIRA, Confluence, Test Link, Top Team, Perforce, Swarm, Coverity, Jenkins, Black-Duck, and SonarQube. Accountable for escalating Incidents, supervision of service requests, supporting CMMi SVC process audits and ensure all audit requests are successful and completed within set deadlines. Responsible for internal and external quality tools technical expectations.

Developed and managed a test organization consisting of over 40+ testers on a large Healthcare (CIGNA/AMGEN-USA), Telecom (Vodafone UK/Telstra Australia), ERP (KITS UK) and HP Finance projects. Led Component, Regression, E2E testing, UAT ensuring the overall quality of the products and approve completion of the SYT/SIT/UAT. Coordinated test strategy development, project planning, scheduling, allocation of test engineers to programs.

Understanding/Reviewing of Requirement Specifications and Design documents. Developing/Reviewing Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Test Plan. Execution of Functional, Integration, and System/End to End Test cases. Create and ensure the adherence of defect logs and follows up for closure.

Developed, modified, and / or executed software Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Strategies and ensure they comply with QA standards. Conducted Functional, Smoke, Sanity, BVT, Integration, and System E2E Test cases, handling customer escalation and testing hot fixes. Increased testing, quality assurance, configuration, build release artifact documentation more than 100% across all applications supported

Interacted with Product Management Team for Product Requirement Analysis Developed of Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Reports. Conducted Product functionality testing, Usability testing, and Regression Testing. Create and ensure the adherence of defect logs and follows up for closure.