Jagan Thimmannagari

• IT professional with 14 years on-site client experience with strong technical profile combining programming, quality assurance and design experience with exceptional problem solving skills.
• Adaptable, quick learner with demonstrated understanding and experience in all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) process.
• Able to operate effectively in both managerial, technical roles and, lead high performing QA teams to deliver high quality products and achieve project goals. 
• Demonstrated successful leadership in strategy, delivery and consulting practices.
• Proven ability to achieve and influence in diverse working environments through effective leadership, communication and teamwork.
• Proven ability to develop and execute comprehensive test plans and test automation strategies to enhance product quality, implement QA best practices, collaborating closely with scrum teams to deliver exceptional user experiences, and optimize testing processes for improved efficiency. Expertise in automation and manual testing techniques, and cross functional team leadership

• A Dynamic Hands-On QA Lead/Manager of management – Varied, Multi-Locations and Multi-Cultural Teams.
• Experienced in coordinating QA activities of geographically dispersed technical teams located in the USA and Offshore locations
• Full Product Life-Cycle Development and Analysis (SDLC/Waterfall, Agile, Scrum variations).
• Proven proficiency in Manual and Automated test automation framework and customized test scripts for parameterization using UFT, Selenium WebdriverIO, Node.JS, Visual Studio Code, Pycharm IDE, Pytest framework, Python, and Git/GitHub automation tools for web and mobile applications.
• Requirement Analysis: Work with the product owner, dev team members, QA, and business analysts for gathering, understanding, analyzing and participating in requirements reviews discussions, prioritize the requirements and guiding test team members for test case/use case creation.
• Defect Management and Tracking: Track QA progress, ensure adherence to established QA best processes and methods, tracking defects raised by QA team members and retesting and seamless communications to the management for Escalations, risks and issues.
• Planning: Participated in QA effort estimation, prepared test execution, determined resource requirements, identifying project dependencies and Risks Assessment.
• Documenting: Participated in software documentation process by writing all the Test planning activities to the Defect management to the Production release versions. Review and verify processes have been followed prior to Production/Staging release. 
• Mentoring: Successfully trained, mentored and motivated in-house, nearshore and offshore QA Lead engineers and team members in areas of domain expertise and internal procedures.
• Process Improvement: Enhance the project capabilities by continuous improvements and innovation and providing regular feedback to the senior management on the effectiveness of the QA process.

BS in Engg & MBA - PM