Suresh Kumar Atkuri

Mobile: +91 8919242182

Email: Sureshkumar.atkuri@gmail.com

16+ years of experience in Information Technology with Experience in End to End Delivery,
and expertise in domains like Banking, Insurance, Retail, Printers, Wireless etc.

Summary:

 Managed 50 + Member team and delivered 100 projects related to Manual Testing, Automation
– testing using Selenium with JAVA, UFT with VB, BDD with Cucumber, API Automation,
TestNG, Appium in a year with 95% CSAT and 50% ROI
 Worked as Automation architect for 8 years (4 years in Selenium with Java and 4 years in UFT
with VB Scripting) and having experience in defining automation test strategies for portfolio of
applications and program governance
 Develops and tracks implementation plans, schedules and risks and ensures alignment with the
program
 Hands-on experience in designing & implementing Automation Frameworks like POM, Hybrid
driven, Cucumber, based on the application technology stack and functionality
 Experience across Desktops, web, mobile, API and device test automation
 Expertise with testing processes and practices (BDD/TDD/ATDD, Risk based testing, CI/CD)
 Expertise with common testing tool stack (Selenium, UFT, Cucumber, Appium, TestNG)
 Well-versed in Agile, DevOps with continuous integration process and continuous delivery
 Expertise in providing all kind of technical support / guidance to the team as needed
 Results oriented, self-managing, motivated, self-starter, excel at organization, communication,
process and critical thinking, and cross-functional collaboration.
 CSM Certified and responsible for organization wide adoption of Agile and Devops in 4 months
by designing and developing trainings and certifications.
 Extensive experience in writing response to Request for proposals (RFPs), interaction with
clients, provided demos and won 12 projects and generated $10 Million revenue in a year.
 Expertise in project management activities, encompassing planning, design, scope definition,
estimation, resource administration, process management and compliance with quality standards,
ensuring project delivery within time, cost and quality specifications
 Experience in handling the teams and managing them (Interviewing, Recruiting, Mentoring,
Appraising, Promoting, handling increments etc.) and decreased attrition by 60% in a year.
 Responsible for competency building drive across the Testing Organization (training,
certification, etc. using skill Matrix, KPIs and increased productivity by 60% in a year.
 Mentored and trained team to design, develop and implement 8000 automated test cases of
selenium regression suite and decreased the defects leaked in production by 80% in 6 months.
 Heading Innovation team and implemented Functional Sanity testing of 30 applications using
Jmeter and selenium scripts and decreased the time of sanity testing by 90% (Awarded for this
innovation).
 Improved performance of the functional testing by 40% by migrating the automation scripts to
Chrome Headless Browser and saved $1 million in 6 months.
 Mentored and implemented Service Virtualization using Lisa tool and saved $2 million in Test
Execution costs in 10 months.
Technical Skills:

Selenium, Selenium Web driver, Appium, QTP (UFT), SOAP UI, Jenkins, Java, Python, C#,
TestNG, Cucumber, Hybrid, Keyword driven, Data driven, Devops, AWS, VB Scripting, Maven,
SQL Server, Oracle, SVN, Git, Data Science, Machine Learning.

Employment History:

Worked in Verizon Data Services Limited as Technical Manager for IT Quality Assurance from
June, 2017 to December, 2018 at Chennai
Worked in Indus Software Technologies PVT. LTD as Manager Product Assurance from August, 2015
to May, 2017 at Chennai
Worked in Coromandel InfoTech India Pvt. Limited as Lead QA from February, 2014 to July, 2015
at Chennai.
Worked in Photon Interactive Private Limited as Lead QA from February, 2014 April, 2013 -
January, 2014, at Chennai
Worked in HCL Technologies Limited as Senior Test Engineer from July, 2017 to April, 2013 - at
Chennai
Worked in Dell International Services Private Limited as Software Test Engineer from May 2006 to
June, 2007 at Hyderabad.
Worked in Semantic Space Technologies PVT LTD as Test Engineer from December, 2005 to April,
2006 at Hyderabad.
Worked in Nihar Info Global Limited, Hyderabad from August, 2002 to December, 2005

Education Qualification:
 M.B.A from Kakatiya University passed with 62.3%.
 B.Sc. (Computers) from Kakatiya University passed with 77.8%.

Projects (Only important one)

Projects # 1

Title: Point of Sale.

Client: Verizon Data Services Pvt Ltd
Role: Delivery Manager
Environment: Selenium, Appium, Selenium web driver, TestNG, Selenium Grid, Maven,
Eclipse, Cucumber, GIT, Mangodb, Devops, Jenkins, Java
Description: Verizon Wireless gets 93% of revenue from Point of Sale, where Sales
Representatives in retail stores use desktop and iPad applications to take orders related to wireless
service from customers.

Responsibilities and Achievements:

 Managed 100+ Member team and delivered 100 projects related to Manual, selenium
Automation, Appium Automation (Mobile testing), LoadRunner, Jmeter, SOAP UI tools, Data
Science, Machine Learning with 95% customer satisfaction Index.
  Involved in analyzing requirements, write Test Plans, Test Strategy, create and maintain test
deliverables and mentor team to reach team and organizational quality objectives consistently
 Planned, managed multiple stakeholders using Stake holder register which resulted in 95% CSI,
highest in the organization.
 Involved in Risk Management using risk register with probability – Impact Matrix and improved
in Mitigating risks by 60% in a year.
 Involved in project management activities, encompassing planning, design, scope definition,
estimation, resource administration, process management and compliance with quality standards,
ensuring project delivery within time, cost and quality specifications
 Involved in Devops and implemented CI and CD pipe lines using Jenkins and improved the
speed of release cycles by 60% using selenium grid in 3 months.
 Implemented Behavior / Test Driven Development (BDD, TDD) and decreased the testing life
cycle by 40% in 5 months.
 Proactively worked with the customers for new and expiring contracts, generated estimation
(using Fixed and T&M approach based on the needs), implemented Agile Contract methods like
Money without work and ensure new business and renewals of Business Sales Process.
 Involved in handling the teams and managing them (Interviewing, Recruiting, Mentoring,
Appraising, Promoting, handling increments etc.) and decreased attrition by 60% in a year.
 Owned for competency building drive across the Testing Organization (training, certification,
etc. using skill Matrix, KPIs and increased productivity by 60% in a year.
 Involved in Budget Management (Resource utilization, Tools, Training, Motivational activities,
etc.,) and delivered Projects in Budget and consistently achieved 50% ROI
 Mentored and trained team in using Selenium Grid and executed 11 scripts in parallel with
different OS and browser combination and decreased the test execution time by 60%.

Achievement: Initiated to develop a skill matrix for each of the 100-member testing team and
provided training on each of the functional areas. It resulted in decreasing the effort to test
implementation of the project by 60% in a year.

Project # 2:

Title: IDFC Bank Collections (Company: Indus software Technologies Pvt Ltd)
Role: Testing Head
Client: IDFC Bank: IDFC Bank wants to implement their Loan Management and collections from
Loan repayment using this project.
Tools: Selenium, Selenium web driver, Cucumber, TestNG, Maven, Selenium Grid, Eclipse,
Devops, Jenkins, Appium., Load Runner, Jmeter, Java
Responsibilities and Achievements:

 Designed and developed, Mentored team on various Automation Frameworks like Page Object
Model, Hybrid, Data driven, keyword driven, with Selenium WebDriver using Selenium tool.
 Head the Testing team of 50 members.
 Developed Automation Test Strategy encompassing all Test Phases for multiple projects across
various delivery models Agile, Waterfall and delivered 98% of projects on schedule
 Schedule assignments, monitor, review and report project status and ensure successful delivery
and implementation.
 Done Effort estimation using techniques like Poker.
 Prepared response to Request for proposals, Demos and won 12 new projects in a year
 Done Risk analysis and planned proper mitigation plans and delivered 5 projects on time with
95% customer satisfaction.
  Trained the automation team to release build using Maven with Jenkins and decreased the
average release time of the build by 40%.

Project #3

Title: NJM: (company: HCL Technologies)

Client: New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company: The project deals with Workers
Compensation Insurance.
Tools: UFT 11.5 using VB Scripting, Descriptive programming, Quality Center.

Responsibilities and Achievements:

 Mentored team to automate 800 manual test cases using QTP (UFT) tool using Descriptive
Programming.
 Mentored and trained the team to develop Hybrid Framework using QTP tool.
 Lead a Team of 10 Test Engineers.
 Prepared Test Plan and Test Strategy and implemented it successfully to complete the project on
schedule.
 Wrote Test Cases for Workers Compensation Insurance and executed it.
 Responsible for continuous service improvement and the implementation of transformational
activities
 Track, co-ordinate and resolve key client issues / concerns by continuously communicating with
clients
 Define the service obligations and ensure these are met through proper planning.
 Responsible for SLAs and KPIs across the Test Service.

Project # 4

Title : SPAR (company: HCL Technologies Limited)

Client : Xerox
Tools : UFT 11.5 using VB Scripting, Descriptive programming, Quality Center.

Project Description: Xerox has multiple models of Multi-Function Printer models. Each model has
different software to work. Xerox requires to test the defects fixed on these versions of software.
They call it as Software Program Action Request (SPAR). Developers fix the defects and the
testing team is required to test the software versions by installing them in MFP.

Role: Test Lead

 Prepared POC and successfully presented to customer.
 Developed Keyword driven framework & Automated 600 test cases using descriptive
programming.
 Implemented best coding standards while writing the vb scripts using QTP tool.
 Identify and create codes for reusable components
 Interaction with Client on understanding requirements for testing and prepare test plan and
Strategy.
Project# 5

Title : CHIP (company: HCL Technologies Limited)

Client : MICROSOFT
Tool : Q.T.P9.2, Quality Center9.0

Description: CHIP (Channel Incentives Program) drives to create a centralized, accountable

Channel Incentive Program with local flexibility to demonstrate Microsoft’s value transfer to
partners. CHIP’s goals are to improve compensation transparency, increase sales impact, drive
effective operations, and improve partner engagement across product types, segment and
geography.

Role: Module Lead

Responsibilities and Achievements:

 Lead Functional testing team and prepared Test Plan and Test Strategy.
 Used Q.T.P tool to convert 1000 regression test cases into automation
 Provided Trainings on Testing to 50 team members.
 Performed different types of testing Functional testing, Sanity Testing, Ad-hoc Testing,
Regression Testing.
 Preparation of Daily test pass execution report, Bugs status report and weekly status report
to track project activities and achieve
 Worked at onsite of Microsoft client and provided trainings to offshore team on projects in
10 days.

Project# 6

Title : GEARS. (company: Dell International Services Private Limited.)

Client : Dell International Services Private Limited.
Environment : Oracle Applications 11i, Windows XP, Oracle 9i.
Testing tool : Q.T.P 9.2, Quality Center

Description:
GEARS is a crucial system for Dell’s business. Customers order for Dell’s products either through
phone to sales representative or Dell’s website. Sales representative in DOMS application records
information of customers. He creates a quote about the products required by customer and send to
the customer. After agreement, sales representative creates an order for the product. The sales
representative progresses the order to invoice stage in DOMS.

Responsibilities and achievements

 Involved in preparing Test Plan.

 Involved in automating the 300 test cases using QTP tool and vb scripting
 Involved in Functional Testing, GUI and Regression Testing, System Integration Testing.
 400 Defects identified and reported which is highest in the team