Uday Kumar

QA Lead

Apporchid India Inc.•  January 2022 - May 2025•  Hyderbad

Project involved defining and implement QA processes, test strategies, and best practices to ensure full coverage of functional and non-functional requirements. Collaborate with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to understand business needs and define test scenarios. Oversee the testing process, guiding test engineers and analysts to ensure end-to-end testing across different environments. Align test execution with sprint goals, ensuring timely releases without compromising quality. Actively participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives as part of Agile workflows. Manage defects using Jira, conducting triage meetings to prioritize and escalate critical issues. Provide detailed bug reports and weekly status updates to higher management. Lead and mentor the QA team, fostering skill development and performance optimization. Conduct training sessions on QA methodologies, best practices, and tools while assigning and tracking QA tasks to align with project timelines and quality objectives.

Test Analyst

Infosys Technologies Limited•  August 2016 - January 2022

Analysis and understanding of Test Requirements based on the business context from key stakeholders. Defining test cases from technical specifications and User Stories. Preparing Test Scripts based on the service/operations. Maintenance and Execution of API Test Scripts of SOAP and REST Web services using SOAP UI, UFT and Selenium Framework as well as preparing the Defect Reports and retesting meticulously and generating reports. Working on Test Management Tools like HP ALM. Manage Test team by allocating the operations to team and ensuring testing to be completed within Time lines, ensuring the team follow Defect Life Cycle in correct manner. Organize meetings with required Module Teams to provide knowledge transfer and make sure understanding level of Dev Team and Test team is same. Attend Standup calls with the client on to provide status updates, raise concerns, Issues/risks on daily basis. Working knowledge on VersionOne application as part of Agile Methodology.

Test Engineer

Infosys Technologies Limited•  January 2010 - July 2016•  Hyderabad

Involved in various projects including functional testing, regression testing, database testing and UI testing along with raising and tracking the bugs using Bugzilla and JIRA, for different clients and domains. Mentoring newcomers and freshers into the project. Coordinating with Onsite Team.