QUALIFICATIONS AND CAREER OBJECTIVES:

• Seeking a challenging Manager, Software QA position.
• 14+ years of experience in Software Industry with 4+ years of experience as a QA Manager developing enterprise class applications.
• Seasoned in combining technical leadership with people management.
• Process oriented with very good leadership and project management skills.
• Passionate about QA process, testing strategies and quality control.
• Expert in preparation and reviewing of various test documents such as, test plans, test cases, test scripts, test matrix and product certification documents.
• Managed End to End testing of the product (including Functional, backend/UI automation, manual testing, regression testing, release testing, patch testing, etc.)
• Experienced in working closely with cross functional teams such as Product Development, Product Management, and documentation and Internal IT groups to deliver a quality product.
• Experience in hiring, mentoring and retaining resources.
• Have strong inter - personal and communication skills and take pride in being a good team player.
• Received several Excellence@Confidentials Awards for effective leadership.
• Member of Corporate Social Responsibility at Confidentials and Confidentials.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• C
• SQL
• Perl
• Shell scripting
• XML
• Winrunner 9.2
• QC
• HP ALM 11
• MS Office suite
• JIRA
• testlink.

OSes & Platforms:

• VMware vCenter server
• VMware ESX
•  Windows Hyper-V
• Windows and Linux

. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: EMC2 Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functional testing ownership of Block Storage, File storage, Object storage, OpenStack Cinder Driver, UI catalog services, CLI.
• Test planning, estimation, test spec review, automation, and bug triaging and making decision regarding test completion.
• Managing automation suite by triaging test runs, enhancing test coverage.
• Hands-on knowledge of JIRA/testlink and various test/lab management applications.
• Hands-on technical manager providing troubleshooting tips and helped in root cause analysis.
• Tracking status, resolving issues and prioritizing tasks.

MTS4/Lead QA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead QA efforts among geographically distributed teams constituting of 13 members.
• Worked closely with manager to deliver High Quality Product.
• Actively participated in design discussions and proposed functionality/UI changes.
• Gathering and analyzing of feedback from initial beta users.
• Point of contact for any issues, bugs, how-to’s.
• Built a QA team in Bangalore by reviewing resumes, short listing, interviewing.
• Task breakup, aligning QA efforts towards releases, prioritizing.
• Track status and action items, publish weekly minutes.
• Bug analysis, prioritizing, closure and coordinating with development team.
• Prepared step-by-step instructions for the team members and for product support.
• Designed Winrunner framework and flow for Basic Build Acceptance.
• Demo products to external companies and for I18n and L10n.
• Maximum bug creator among the entire team.
• Whitebox testing
• Performed complete functional testing of the product.
• Executing Data ONTAP API’s to compare GUI behavior.
• Wrote perl scripts to perform scalability testing.
• Blackbox testing
• Wrote Winrunner automation suite from scratch to automate sanity tests.
• Manual Testing of product features thru GUI.
• Installation/Regression/Qualification testing on all Windows OSes including GuestOSes.
• Performance testing of UI pages.

Lead QA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on key contributor to the integration and functional testing of Oracle collaboration Suite and Oracle Files, an Enterprise Content Management solution.
• Test matrix design, publish, review, execute, and automate.
• Identify, analyze, and document/report defects, errors, and inconsistencies. Escalate enhancement possibilities.
• Enhanced FTP Server test matrix to increase code coverage.
• Tested Xythos client with webdav protocol and reported defects.
• Implemented, maintained winrunner based tests for ftp client.
• Focused testing on Protocol servers (HTTP, HTTPS, DAV, SMB, FTP, NFS, NTFS), File operations, browser and platform certification.
• Designed and automated test cases based on RFC for DAV Server implementation.
• Added tests to improve code coverage for ftp implementation.
• Automation using winrunner, perl and other oracle automation tools. Test results presentation in excel, html formats.
• Monitoring regression tests and analyzing any issues as defects or changes needed to test matrix.
• Create documents for the team reference on issues or procedures supporting QA efforts.
• Tested and certified following protocol clients against different Windows OS flavors,
• Actively involved in the design and planning of automated test architecture and implementations.
• Organized bug blitzes, managing data pertaining to the same including features list, new bugs filed, severity and feasibility to fix.
• AS and DB Security patch certification on Collaboration Suite, feedback on patch application procedure.
• Installing, Sanity testing, hosting, maintaining environments for different Collaboration Suite QA teams Email, Calendar, Files, Ultra search, Web conference and Instant messenger.
• Co-ordinate with offshore QA team for better turn-up time and increase productivity.

SQA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Exhaustive design of test suites and Manual test execution of different features of the product Confidentials Online Order Routing and Management System.
• Performed system testing, multithreaded functionality, fault tolerance, load balancing and message interface among all the servers.
• Detection of problems and escalation of those problems to the responsible people.
• Worked closely with developers to resolve issues related to functionality.
• Responsible for Bug reporting, Bug verification and Spot-checking.
• Responsible for Automating Java Interface with Winrunner and designed different suites for different users.
• Automated entire Confidentials Product feature testing using JavaScript and shell scripts.
• Trained team members on automation tool usage and to write JavaScripts for new feature testing.
• Wrote shell scripts to analyze the logs.
• Wrote and maintained generic functions to perform standard events of Confidentials.
• Provided a detailed document on automation tool, which served as reference for integration, development team.
• Responsible for installation and configuration of Confidentials online for testing.
• Tested database migration and backward compatibility of both front end and backend.
• Configuration of TIBHawk for the backend server monitoring.
• Creation, execution and updation of Perl scripts to Automate Confidentials Product feature testing.
• Wrote Perl scripts to do image validation to check any release related problems.
• Developed perl and shell scripts for startup, shutdown and current status check of all Confidentials Online backend servers.
• Enhanced automation scripts to provide detailed error reports to assist regression testing.
• Reproduced all errors and message structures generated by servers to verify against the Confidentials, an XML based online document source.
• Participated in test design reviews.