PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of total experience which includes Test Management, Project Management, System Integration, Release Management and Test environment management.
• Excellent working knowledge of all phases of software test life cycle - Requirement gathering and Analysis, Test Planning, Test Case Design, Test Data Creation, Test Scheduling, Test Script Execution, Defect Management and Test report generation.
• Expertise in performing various types of testing - Smoke, Component, Integration (SIT), Regression, User acceptance (UAT), E2E and performance testing.
• Good working knowledge of various SDLC methodologies including 8 years’ experience in Agile methodology.
• Excellent communication skills, strong analytical and problem solving skills and ability to quickly adapt to new environment and technologies.
• Experience in Telecom domain (BT - Confidential, UK; SFR- Société française de radiotelephone, France; NBN - National Broadband Network, Australia), Advertising domain (Verizon, US and Telenet, Belgium), nPVR (Netia, Poland and BT- Confidential, UK), Mortgage domain ( Confidential, US)
• Industry Expert with a vast amount of real-world experience in Web Services (SOAP & REST) testing, IPTV, OTT Client & STB testing, Adaptive Bit Rate Video steaming technologies (HLS, HDS, Smooth streaming, DASH), nDVR/Time-shift/Start Over TV, Dynamic Addressable Ad Insertion technologies (SCTE 35, 104, and 130, VAST schemas), Alternate Content, DRM (SecureMedia, PlayReady, Verimatrix, Adobe, Widevine, etc.), Video Encoding/transcoding, CableLabs metadata ADI 1.1 and 3.0 specs, and Test Automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Soup UI, Load UI, HP ALM (HP QC), HP QTP (Mercury), JIRA, Grinder, Intelle Test, Altassian Confluence 3.0.2(wiki), SQL Developer, TOAD, Clarify CRM, IBM RTC, IBM QM, Sharepoint, Green hat (IBM Rational Test Workbench)

Scripting: UNIX shell scripting, PL/SQL, SQL

Database: SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g, Mongo DB, MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Lead/Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate business requirement and technical specification documents to craft test strategies, test plan and sprint plan, tracking the test activities to its completion and highlighting any hurdles and issues.
• Coordinating between test team, designers, system engineers, 3rd party vendors and business team across locations (US, India, Poland, France, Australia and UK).
• Lead and participate in the creation, distribution, and walkthrough of test cases, scripts and other testing artifacts.
• Design test scenarios, test cases, scripts and other testing artifacts for System functional, integration business flow and acceptance testing.
• Manage, Assign and track testing tasks and activities within SI test team.
• Validate product so that it meets all the business and technical requirements and integrate into existing architecture.
• Testing nPVR solution involved - testing of STB, custom developed SW widget and its integration with Netgem STB, integration with Anevia Viamotion plus (Edge, packager, streamer and recorder), integration with NetApp NAS, integration Insys admin panel (UI) and Rest web services.
• Test execution included web services testing, UI testing, backend testing, database synchronization, remote VPN communication testing.
• Thoroughly tested of web services (SOAP and REST) and tested integration of KMS with encryptors and license servers.
• Validated the system for high availability, scalability and inter-site redundancy - It involved extensive back-end testing - database synchronization, database conflict resolution.

Pre-Sales Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing consulting services to customer in the area of Targeted Advertising Technology
• As a System Integration Lead, understanding the product and business requirments to design the solution for this platform and laying out technical requirements.
• Assisting the customer with the creation of their RFI, RFI response evaluation, and consulting them regarding vendor selection based on the best technical and financial submission.
• Building use cases, call flows for identified scenarios using technical requirements, in conjuction with design documents.
• Support solution architet to deliver high level design document.
• Produced Work Breakdown structure, RACI for the project

Project Manager/ System Integrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Estimate the efforts and crafted project plan, test plan and sprint plan.
• Tracked the project completion by addressing any deviation from plan, hurdles, issues and having mitigation plan to achieve the target dates.
• Assign tasks and tracking of daily testing activities within SIT team.
• Manage testing team which consisted of team members form multiple location (US and Bangalore, India)
• Run daily scrum calls, track and update tast/actions status of all vendors invloved in platform.
• 3rd-party vendor management for advertising vendors - This Technology, mDialog.
• Integration of advertising platfrom to existing VoD CMS workflow and vendor products from IBM, OpenText, Cisco, Verizon, Oracle, etc.
• Coordinating between deployment teams, development team, test team, designers and business team across locations.

Tools: /products used: ServAssure, Dataminer, E6000, Incognito, Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, JIRA, Sharepoint, Microsoft Visio, Enterprise Architect, SOAPUI, Anevia Viamotion Plus, Netgem STB, Putty, Microsoft Project, Toad, SQL developer, PostgresSQL, HP ALM, IBM RTC.

Test Lead

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Test Management for system testing and integration testing.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements/specification in order to craft test strategies and estimation
• Review and validate design specifications so as to ensure requirements traceability.
• Create and maintain test plans that define test objectives, methods and tools to be employed.
• Create and contribute to the define project schedules, milestones for all stages of testing and deliverables.
• Design of ‘test harness’(stub) to test the policies before integration with webservices/applications.
• Logging, retesting and tracking defects.

Tools: /Products used: SOAP UI, HP ALM, IBM RTC, IBM RATional tester (formerly Green Hat tester), Putty, TIBCO HAWK, Crystal reports, GEMS, Sharepoint

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis and define scope of manul and automatino testing.
• Breaking down business requirements to test requirement documents and use cases for test team.
• Involved in Test Planning, tracking and review of test design, test execution.
• Performed Web UI, web service (SOA) and batch (UNIX) testing for the application.
• Back End Testing using complex SQL and validating for data integrity.
• Batch testing of various data migration and other functionality.
• Coordination between test team, functional team (designers), development team and client across location.
• Drive ‘Show and tell’ sessions at the end of each cycle to the business customers.

Tools: /Products used: SOAP UI, HP ALM, Putty, Clarify CRM

Confidential

Release Management/PMO

Responsibilities:

• Drive weekly Critical Path Testing (CPT) calls for Open reach releases and maintaining CPT documents.
• Maintenance of Risk and Issues records.
• Design, Develop, Maintain and administrating wiki-confluence pages used for documents sharing.
• Involved in Test Planning, tracking and review of test design, execution in accordance with acceptance criteria.
• Perform user acceptance testing (UAT) and interacted with users for execution of test cases in UAT.
• Coordinating between test team, designers and business team across locations.
• Reporting and tracking testing status, highlights and issues.
• Validated and verified data stored in database using SQL queries.
• Deployment of STAA application on more than 56 WLS domain on WLS 8.1 and resolve environment issue.
• Coordination with the support teams of components interacting with STAA
• Maintaining the Deployment scripts (Unix Shell script) and Oracle schemas (Oracle-8i) for Test servers.

Tools: /Products used: Altassion Confluence, livelink, HP ALM, Intelli test, Grinder, TOAD, HP QC, JIRA