Gayathri Venkateswaran

Quality-driven Test Lead with expertise in team management, project planning and customer-relationship management. Meticulous and skilled test specialist exceeding customer expectations bringing 10+ years of IT experience in both manual and automation testing. Self-motivated professional effective at providing innovative cost effective solutions to ensure value added product delivery.

• Managed 25 member team and providing successful project releases with 0% production fall out.
• Developed Automation Scripts, Automation Frameworks, Script Maintenance and Execution using HP Quick Test Professional(QTP) , TestComplete and Selenium
• Introduced and championed process improvements and evaluated existing process
• Designed, developed, monitored and executed manual test cases using the HP Quality Center (QC) test management tool. 
• Recorded identified defects in ALM and JIRA tools.
• Expertise in scripting languages like VBScript, Python, VBA and application development using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
• Trained employees on Automation scripts, defect management, advanced excel with macros and status reporting and received BEST Trainer award from the Testing COE.
• Recruited for team's and Company's manpower requirements 
• Conducted performance appraisals for my reportees 
• Performed skill gap analysis and orientation for team skill building 
• Groomed and motivated next in line leaderships 
• Accomplished rapid resource ramp up and ramp down as required within a short span

Masters in Computer Applications