SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of experience in IT industry with 4.5 years in Software Quality Assurance (QA) working with Web, Client/Server including manual and automation testing.
• Experience in Selenium IDE, Selenium Web driver , Firebug , Framework , Fire path , CSS , Xpath .
• Expertise with Iterative development methodologies such as Agile Scrum and Waterfall .
• Proficiency in TestNG and JUnit
• Extensive experience in developing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Matrixes, Test Reports, and documentation of Manual and Automated Tests .
• Expertise in analyzing and reporting bugs as well as supporting team members with fixing errors.
• Proficiency in Defect management, including Defect creation, modification, tracking, and reporting using Industry Standard Tools such as Test Complete, ALM/QC , Jira , Bugzilla and Excel.
• Worked extensively on Confidential Multimedia Software Framework
• Proficiency in SVN and CVS repository.
• Over 8 years’ experience in the field of multimedia embedded system design, implementation and optimization of Confidential codec (H.265, H.264, MPEG - 4), audio codec (AMR, G729b), image codec(PNG, WBMP) on various DSP processor(CEVA, ARM).
• Proficiency in C and C++.
• System level testing of Audio/ Confidential Codecs for use in various Confidential products.
• System Integration of Multimedia Codecs with Confidential Software Framework.
• Team functioning in agile methodology to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Led day to day monitoring of the progress of project and gave inputs for possible corrections.
• Developed and execute user acceptance/regression test plans. Testing includes all phases related to system configuration that support human resources functionality.
• Experienced in working with Internal/External vendors, and Custom applications.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding application analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment with resource constraints.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing: Quality Centre / Application Lifecycle Manager (QC/ALM), Selenium WebDriver.

Version Control Tools: CVS, GIT, SVN

Methodology: Agile Scrum, Waterfall.

Languages: C, C++, Java.

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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QA ANALYST

Technical Environment: Selenium 2.3, Java, Git, TestNG, JIRA. ALM, Confluence

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Document, System Requirement Specifications and Use Cases in the initial phase development
• Automated manual Test Cases using Selenium 2.53
• Reporting the defects using ALM.
• Participating in Sprints, Planning, Showcase, Retrospective and Daily Scrums.
• Understand the business goals & requirements of the project.
• Analysing requirements and developing requirements traceability matrix.
• Design test approach and scenarios by Preparing for Smoke testing, Regression, Integration testing, Functional testing, End to End System testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Coordination with Business for deliverables and technical queries
• Designing test cases based on the scenarios documented.
• Analysing the test cases written to devise test coverage metrics so as to improve the test effectiveness.
• Conduct peer review for test cases and bug reports developed by other team members.
• Planning for the test case execution, as the testing is completely data driven.

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QA ANALYST

Technical Environment: Confluence, JIRA, HP ALM

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Sprints, Planning, Showcase, Retrospective and Daily Scrums.
• Understand the business goals & requirements of the project.
• Design test approach and scenarios by Preparing for Smoke testing, Regression, Integration testing, Functional testing, End to End System testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Designing test cases based on the scenarios documented.
• Conduct peer review for test cases and bug reports developed by other team members.
• Data Creation and basic data setup for Sanity, Functional and Regression testing.
• Execution of test cases and maintaining regression test scripts.
• Work on timelines required for the project/job.
• Analysing test reports and identifying the defects.
• Defect Analysis and Defect Tracking through Quality Centre
• Maintain log of test Results / Defects using Quality Centre and interacted with developers to resolve issues.
• Generation of daily reports, metrics collection and performing audits on timely basis
• Documenting the best practices, learning’s, risks, review logs, clarifications.
• Provide resolutions to the team as and when needed.
• Daily tracking of the system for its availability and also maintaining the downtime.

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Senior Software Engg

Technical Environment: C

Responsibilities:

• Development of various modules involved in parser and packaging

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Senior Software Engg

Technical Environment: C

Responsibilities:

• Ported and tested different audio codecs across the windows desktop and windows Confidential .

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Senior Software Engg

Technical Environment: C and Assembly CEVAX1620

Responsibilities:

• Proper organization and management of code and data memory of all the codecs.
• Implemented efficient memory management scheme for stack, state and table memory.
• Resolved discrepancies in codec MCPS and memory requirements between standalone version and after integrating with the system.

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Technical Environment: C and ARM

Responsibilities:

• Perl scripts were generated for automating the entire validation process.
• All the unit tested and optimised codecs were integrated with the MMF and tested in real-time on the ARM Development Platform.
• All the components of the MMF were tested using numerous real life scenarios that will be encountered in a typical Confidential device.
• Documentation and reporting the bugs indentified during testing.

Confidential

Technical Environment: C and CEVAX1620

Responsibilities:

• Hand-coded time critical functions such as Motion compensation and VLD functions in assembly.
• Optimization was done using the special Confidential acceleration instructions of CEVAX1620.
• Tested the decoder on CEVA Dev board for real-time decoding and display.
• Various memory transfer functions in the code were replaced using the 2D DMA support of the DSP Subsystem.

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Technical Environment: C and CEVAX1620

Responsibilities:

• Hand-coded large wrapper functions in assembly for PM optimisation.
• Kept code memory size as low as possible helped in better cache performance and also reduced the overall size of the image to be loaded in the Confidential flash memory