Karthik Medcharla

Profile Summary

Seasoned Project Manager with 15 years of experience in Quality Engineering management, known for driving projects to consistent success through delivery excellence, continuous improvement, and innovative solutions. Adept at leading multiple teams as both a Scrum Master and Project Manager, with a proven track record in converting prospects into long-term customers through effective Proof of Concepts and Pilots.

Key expertise includes:
- Managing and building Centers of Excellence focused on Security and Performance.
- Engaging in prospect calls, creating RRFs, and collaborating with HR for talent profiling and position closures.
- Driving customer requirements, project coordination, and business relationship management.
- Mentoring teams, allocating and monitoring tasks, providing feedback, forecasting leave, guiding, and motivating team members.
- Identifying training needs to bridge skill gaps and supporting recruitment drives for fresh talent and lateral entrants.
- Proficient in Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall methodologies.
- Extensive experience in creating test plans, preparing weekly and monthly status reports for stakeholders, and executing performance tests.
- Specializes in Functional, Security, and Performance Testing, including black box testing methods such as Functional, Integration, Accessibility, Regression, End-to-End, and User Acceptance Testing.
- Expertise in installation, firmware upgrade testing, API/Web Service Testing, and performance testing using JMeter.

A results-driven professional committed to delivering high-quality solutions and fostering strong team dynamics to achieve project success.

United Airlines, US, Project Manager - QE

• Managing offshore team of 5+ engineers
• Service delivery of functional testing, test automation, performance and security testing
• Rapid recruitment of skilled professionals
• Prepare responses to proposals

Proofpoint, US, Project Manager - QE

• Managing offshore team of 15+ engineers
• Test management of threat response and threat intelligence products
• Plan and drive test automation using Selenium based framework
• Building a managing a team whose each team member is a full-stack tester (with knowledge of networking, security, functional testing, web services testing and automation)

Mazda, US, Project Lead - QE

• Preparation of Test Plan, Test Scenario and Test execution report
• Execution of test cases for Web and Mobile applications
• Responsible for analyzing the Software requirements and preparing understanding or clarification documents
• Preparation of application security assessment report
• Performing security scan for web and mobile applications and APIs using different tools
• Identifying false positives and analyze the vulnerabilities

Centre Of Excellence - (Coventry, Prorisk, NGC, AIA, Rightship), Project Lead - QE

• Managing team of 5 engineers, which will work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Preparation of Proposals, Test Plan and Test Estimates
• Running security scan for the application, Identifying false positives and analyze the vulnerabilities
• Involved in Execution of Security Test Cases
• Preparation of application security assessment report
• Sharing the work status to stake holders on regular basis

Benefitfocus, US, Senior Analyst - QA

• Responsible for analyzing software requirements and preparing detailed understanding and clarification documents
• Creating QA test plan and Test scenarios
• Preparation, Execution of Test Cases
• Reporting the bugs in the Jira

Andromeda & Kurtosys UK, Module Lead - QA

• Creating QA test plan and test scenarios
• Preparation of test cases, test data for POS application and Androweb, MyAndromeda web sites
• Setup test environment with POS, electronic payment controller
• Perform functional, web services and accessibility testing
• Test REST services using REST client

eInstruction , US, QA Engineer

• Test planning and execution of multiple applications smart school applications
• Test bed configuration for test hardware and software
• Functional testing, localization testing

Gogo In Flight Internet, Aircell LLC, USA, Programmer Analyst

• Functional testing of web & mobile applications and business workflows
• Design test scenarios and cases, report defects and maintain traceability

ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) Foundation level Certification

• Supervised team of 18 staff members.
• Improved customer satisfaction ratings by 40% by automating more than 80% of Test cases.