SUMMARY

• A result - focused IT professional with more than 10 years experience in Testing/QA, Change & Deployment Management and Production Testing Management.
• Currently based out of Bentonville,Arkansas,USA. Holding valid H1B status.
• Working as Principal Consultant/Test Architect,for overall portfolio within a Retail group
• Experience in working on Telecom and Retail Domain.
• Extensive experience in ITIL process and Test Environment Management Services for Retail Domain Poftfolio’s (TEMS)
• Previously worked as Solution Architect providing end customer solutions/consultation for their Telecom Network Management system implementation in US,Middle East,South Asia & Latin America
• ISTQB/ITB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) Certified(ITB-CTFL-59116)
• Extensive Onsite exposure of over 5 years working for Major customers in Europe,Latin America,US,Middle East, South Asia’
• Have played multiple role as a Test Lead, Project Lead, Solution Architect, Test Architect, Scrum Master, Test Manager
• End-to-End project management involving full scale testing Lab setup for testing of all critical application from functional delivery to post-production delivery support, act as Single Point of Contact between Customer and Test Management support.
• Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Creation of Epics, Backlog Grooming, Creation of User Stories, User Stories Prioritization.
• Organize and facilitate Project Planning, Daily Scrum Stand-up meetings, Reviews, Retrospectives, Sprint and Release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Work with Product owner in understanding the Applications impacted in the flow, work with applications delivery team and identify the resources so as to align to the project accordingly.
• Coach, Train / mentor Agile team members and enforce the rules of Scrum, remove impediments from team while promoting self-management and constantly improving standards of work.
• Reporting and discussing with stake holders the status of the Sprints via burn-down / burn-up charts and the health of the Project overall.
• Project Life Cycle Management, Strategic Planning, Requirements Traceability, Status Preparation and Reporting.
• Inter-Project Co-ordination, Overall Project Oversight, Cost Estimation, Financial Tracking, Risk and Contingency Planning, and Quality Assurance.
• Managing Time, Scope, Quality and Finance of projects and work with stakeholders for Risk Management, Issue Management and Dependency Management.
• Project level reporting, executive summaries and interacting with the international Clients on a daily basis for the status calls, tracking the progress on the projects. Coordinating with the Non-IBM application vendors.
• Planning - Review and approve all Project plans and identify weak points and potential points of failure.
• Requirement Analysis - Gathering in conjunction with Wipro and Customer System Engineers, driving the collaboration effort for baselining various software requirements for the projects, as well as follow change management process for change requests to baselines, scope etc. Understanding the flow of the project and preparing the Test plans and requirements. Conducting the Test Readiness Review and Joint Testing Workshops. Work closely with applications System Engineers to ensure that the agreed requirements are transformed into the high-level and detailed design properly and are developed as per the design.
• Status Reporting - Publish project level UAT/Ext UAT Status after analyzing the same from the delivery management.
• Stakeholder Management - Manage peer-level client relationships. Act as single point of contact between Customer and the project delivery from Wipro. Managing and maintaining high level of Client relationship and satisfaction on the managed projects.
• Human resource management - Functionally managing various technical resources during the course of all the projects, simultaneously running across each release.
• Assuring timely delivery of milestones.
• Extensive experience in working for different platform for Application, Load, Automation System Testing of OSS,NMS,EMS,Datacom,Mobile Tracing,Web,Windows,Unix and Java based Applications.
• Experience in working with different Test Levels (System Component Testing, Integration, System Testing, Performance Testing, Acceptance Testing)
• Extensively involved in End customer deployment in Europe, Asia, Latin America & USA for Pilot/Acceptance testing.
• Earned multiple accolades/certifications in Wipro Technologies & Ericsson India as well from end Customers while on deputation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Quality Center 10, STEFA, PRONTO, IBM MARS, IBM Rational, MH Web, Selenium IDE, QTP, VMWare ESX, MPP, Toad, Python Basic,MDeploy,TeamForge,HPALM,JIRA,MySQL,DBviewer,SQl Workbench, LISA,SOAP UI,XMLTesting Function: Manual and Automation testing

Test Platform: Client Server and Web based

Operating Systems: Window, UNIX, Solaris, HP-Unix, Linux

Storages: EMC Clarion CX120, 240, VNX-5100, 5500, Oracle Storage Edge

Database: MS SQL, Sybase IQ

Big Data: Hadoop Administration/Setup

Virtualization: VMware ESX I (vSphere)

Languages: TCL

Hardware’s: HP Blade G6, G7, G8, Oracle Sparc & X86 Arch hardware’s,Piarisc

Backup/Restore: Semantic NetBackup, HP & Oracle Tape Robot

Technology: GSM,WRAN, LTE,Datacom,Middleware

Domain: Telecom OSS, NMS, EMS,Banking,Consultancy,Retail

Agile: Wipro Scrum Master Certified

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Lead and Manage the QA and Test Environment Management Team for development of all required documentation, Test Procedure, traceability and Test readiness in accordance with customers Approval-For-Use purpose
• Understanding the Business requirements and Solution design thoroughly and mapping these requirements to the Test cases
• Formulated project strategy, objectives, scope, goals, and deliverables collaborating with stakeholders. Planned, coordinated, and established operating procedures for accomplishments of project goals.Ensuring availability of UAT,E2E Test environment on time with co-ordination with stake holders
• Environment provisioning, Asset management,TE readiness.
• Review static testing of the business requirements and solution design
• Analyzes test results to ensure existing functionality works and recommends corrective action
• Implement Governance and Tracking model in the project
• Identifying the gap and look for automation solution and implementation using open source or existing tools in place
• Preparation of test reports and test artifacts
• Establishing the acquired knowledge on knowledge base management Tool
• Demo’s to Business customers

Test Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities

• The project involves testing of software for its performance impact with a load of 30K GSM network and over 12500 core/IMS node deployment.
• Responsibility includes Planning, requirement study, Quality Mgmt,Stake Holder reporting.
• Provide engineering services to assist the testing of the OSS product E2E.
• Analyzes test results to ensure existing functionality works and recommends corrective actions
• Need to drive regular daily standup meetings and be proactive in resolving blockers
• Provide technical support to other projects working on similar technology
• Have every close co-ordination with end customer on the day to day progress.
• Responsible for E2E delivery and ownership of the testing phase for the release
• Responsible as a Lead to drive the day to day team activities
• Responsible to deliver the Test Plan, Test Bed Diagrams, Test Execution, effort estimation and Test report
• Lead and Manage development of all required documentation and procedures consistent with Ericsson’s Approval-For-Use purpose.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to collect requirements from Customer units in the region
• Design Solutions for customer deployment, including hardware, network parameters, Installation & Integration, UAT and live network deployment.
• Plan post deployment support as per customer requirement.
• Effort planning, costing, resourcing either through PO/T&M.
• Plan any required training for resources
• Do required solution analysis for the customer deployment
• Conduct regular follow up meetings with customer for successful deployment.
• Identifying strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning
• Tracking the key project/product parameters timely for corrective and preventive actions
• Track CSR/Bugs found during deployment.
• Plan UAT/ORT for Acceptance
• Gather SSAT and closure report.
• Well versed with OSSRC Architecture for Rack (Sparc,X86) & Blade system (X86)
• Preparing SED as part of deployment
• Installation/commissioning for OSSRC on Sparc or X86 Architecture
• Doing Large or Small upgrade of OSSRC/ENIQ
• Worked on Cominf,PKS,OMSAS,UAS,WAS/OIS,BIS,PEER server
• OA,VC,cabling setup for X86 deployment
• EMC clarion storage setup with OSS & ENIQ statistics.
• EMC clarion CX4-120/240,VNX 5300 configuration. Creation of RG, LUNS,SG, Host connection.
• NAS configuration for Blade setup
• OMBS Backup & restoration on Tape Robot (BMR & SRT)
• Troubleshooting in case of issues found. Raise CSR in case needed for resolution
• Expected co-ordination between different functions (PDU,GSC)

Confidential

Asst Manager/QA Lead

Responsibilities

• Transfer of Maintenance activities from Ireland to India
• Setting up a new team for Customer interface
• Responsible for EU & EC deliveries after I&V completion
• Responsible for smooth Piloting at customer site and get UAT closed
• Responsible in preparing the Test strategy, Test Matrix, Test Description, Test Equipment requirement, Test stability report
• Resource and line management activities
• Usage of Selenium IDE automation tool for Functional tests
• Responsible to handle all customer queries from the time deployment is completed
• Responsible in driving the design team to fix & deliver high priority customer bugs
• Co-ordination between other functions of the Project and with GSC and SI
• Resource Management and other line management activities
• Managing a group of around 40 hardwares,including SUN X86 and sparc machines,HP blade hardwares,simulations for operator and network load
• Setting up of SSH/TXF/SNMP based simulation for Charging system (ESA/N-ESA based) Network elements

Project Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Was working as a Project Lead from the last 4 months managing a 12 member team
• Responsibility includes taking status update for the India team and be in sync with the team in China.
• Responsibility includes also driving and testing the L3 integration testing. Also leading the SCT team of RF,DSP,O&M and TRS modules of the 3G BTS
• Update MPP, Capex, Test Matrix, TC Review, TMT, Lap setup, Appraisal review, Team meetings,L3 and SCT team ramp up and testing, Complete software team lab infrastructure setup and procurement of servers and test equipments..etc

SPOC and Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Test lead/management activities related to the module handled like; Fault status analysis, TC description document preparation, Test matrix preparation, weekly meetings with the team and client, Test strategy preparation, update of test plans and cases, Testing plans and responsibilities.
• Handling the SPOC activities at onsite for the entire team. Responsibilities included handling the team’s day to day requirements at offshore, interacting with clients to resolve any outstanding issues, making sure that offshore team activities are progressing smoothly and on schedule, etc
• Extensively testing during NPT Classic of Cominf Deployment (Infra and Bi-SMRS) servers both on Sun Solaris X86 and SPARC servers. Also the OAP,WAS,OIS server and its migration to Windows 2008.
• Extensively testing the OMBS Semantic Netback implementation. Testing the OMBS on OSSRC, ENIQ Statistics, Infra servers, Windows, OMSAS, UAS servers as well as support for NPT X86 program.

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Extensive test activity of verification of all FCAPS functionality of Nokia NetAct deliverables
• Preparation of test Plan,test artifacts,test cases,Mapping user stories and raising defects
• Utilizing the existing Automation in place and look for delta for automation activities for improvements
• Playing the role of Test Lead and supporting the delivery of the product for the team in Wipro Offshore.
• Network verification, System Integration verification, Integration of Network Elements like BSC, SGSN, HLR, MSC,RNC, AXC, PaCO NE's
• Worked as a Linux administrator for the System Test labs..
• Was the only point of contact from Wipro for any requirement.