Summary:

• Four years of experience in IT Industry working as a Software Test Engineer creating Test Plans, Test Strategy and Requirement Traceability documen, testing software applications and creating test cases, analyzing Business Requirements Documents and conducting impact analysis.
• Experience working as JAD facilitator and meetings coordinator with excellent inter-personal skills.
• Expertise in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft Project, MS Access, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
• Experience in conducting Requirement Analysis, Use Case Design, Stakeholder Interviews, Focus Group Discussions, Brainstorming Sessions and JRD Sessions
• Good knowledge in STLC and SDLC processes
• Good knowledge on Defect Management
• Experience working on Agile and Waterfall projects.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. A motivated learner and capable of working equally well in teams and as an individual.
• Excellent written and communication skills in English and as a business analyst used this skill to communicate directly with the client and gather details of requirements.
• Experience in writing Test Plans, Test Strategies and detailed Test Cases (positive, negative, boundary, etc.)
• Experience working on Agile/Scrum projects in multiple roles.
• Ability to manage small to medium sized projects from inception to roll-out
• Handled projects in GIS and Industrial Automation verticals
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, decision-making and organization skills
• Experience in managing and working with distributed team members
• Strong analytical skills in assessing user, functional, and technical requirements and documentation and identifying high risk and key test areas

Education:
Bachelors of Technology - (Electronics and Communication)

Technical Skills:
Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP, UNIX.
Methodologies: SDLC, RUP, Agile, Scrum
Modeling Languages & Tools: UML, Visual Case, Microsoft Visio
Graphic Design Tools: Snag IT, MS Visio.
Change Management Tools: IBM Rational Change, Rational Clear Case
Testing Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Bugzilla

Areas of Expertise:

• Enterprise Test Planning.
• Project Management and Co-ordination
• Customer Management and Relationship building
• Domain Expertise in GIS and Industrial Automation

Professional Experience:

Confidential, India Apr 2010 Mar 2011
Designation: Associate

Through Cognizant Technology Solutions worked at Confidential,, as a Test Engineer.

Project Summary:
Confidential, is an industrial automation company supplying solutions and services, software, consultancy, and equipment to monitor, control and automate industrial processes across a wide range of domain and applications that include environments such as oil refineries, power stations, railways, and domestic appliances.
Documentation activities for Confidential, involve working on multiple business verticals within the company. These verticals include Supervisory platforms, Advanced Applications, and Control and Safety applications.

Responsibilities:

Test Planning and Management

• Perform detailed analysis of the application architecture and propose an approach for end to end testing.
• Create and maintain Test Plans for new and existing business software.
• Design, develop and execute test plans and test cases. You will be expected to contribute to functional, integration, certification, and regression testing, and work closely with specialists in areas such as accessibility, security, and performance.
• Utilize knowledge of software design and work closely with engineering team to continually reassess risk and update testing strategies appropriately.
• Work with Product Development, Product Management, Performance Engineering, and Operations teams to develop innovative testing solutions that meet market and business needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Scope and estimate testing effort, help plan projects, track progress to schedule, and report status including mitigation and remediation plans for project risks.
• Work with business to identify success and failure factors for new and existing services or products
• Create and execute manual black box test plans and test cases for the Confidential, application based upon functional and software design specifications.
• Perform ad-hoc and Regression testing of system components under aggressive release schedules.
• Interact with and train new customers who enroll into the platform.
• Provide detailed regression test case documentation for Automation Team.
• Be responsible for following through and making sure defects are reported and escalated appropriately.
• Create and update Requirement Traceability matrix.
• Create test data for System/Functional testing.
• Perform system testing with the help of functional testers using test data.
• Review Design specifications and Test Plans to ensure that business requirements are accurately represented.
• Define implementation and deployment tasks for the new software as per the requirements.
• Involve and participate in UAT for new customer implementation and platform migration for existing customers.
• Perform Solution Assessment and Validation for proposed solutions and services
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• Involve in Defect Triage meetings with the PM and Architect
• Analyze new production defect to determine root cause and assign to development team.

Achievements in Project:

• Successfully implemented gray-box testing methodology in current project.
• Created standard templates for RTM, Test Plan, Test Strategy and Defect Tracking Sheet.
• Created SharePoint workspace for knowledge sharing among multiple testing teams.
• Part of the pilot scrum team involved in a major product redesign.

Confidential, July 2007 Apr 2010
Designation: Workflow Lead

Through Rofous and Crux worked at Google India Private Ltd, as the Business Analyst and Documentation Specialist, for the product Google Mapmaker.

Project Summary:
Google Maps is an existing initiative by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), it is a product designed to depict the satellite images and maps for any location on the globe.
Google’s Map Maker is a tool designed for users to add content on to the map to expand the current service offered by Google Maps.

Responsibilities:

Test Management:

• Analyzing Business Requirements Documents and Use Cases.
• Allocating tasks and test activities to Offshore team for every project undertaken by Cognizant Test Team.
• Working with the Project Manager, System Analysts, Project Architect and Test Lead for proper execution of the project.
• Perform test case reviews.
• Perform and co-ordinate UAT for major product releases for mapmaker.
• Design, execute and manage test cases/test scripts using Test Director and provide time lines, estimates and accurate status updates.
• Involve in Defect triage meetings with the PM, BA and Architect and Test lead.
• Analyze defects from customer and internal teams, and provide solutions and recommendations to developer.
• Participate in defect triage to prioritize and recommend solutions for new defects.
• Developed test log and test case templates.
• Developed Test cases based on product specification.
• Creating Test Cases, testing and defect Logging using Mercury ITG Governance Tool
• Creating application operation documents and test requirement documents
• Working on occasional production calls with the support team to resolve or provide workaround for critical production issues
• Involved in Functional and Regression testing of the application using both manual and automated test approach
• Creating and executing test cases in Test Director
• Perform peer review for test cases
• Creating and maintaining test data
• Reporting and tracking defects with Mercury Test Director
• Updating the Team Lead with the status on a daily or as-needed basis

Documentation:

• Organized and Prepared documents for technical processes of the product.
• Coordinated with the Engineering team in Mountain View and prepared documents based on product requirement.
• Prepared training manual for the new members of the team.
• Involved in updating the policy documents.

Team Management:

• Was a Single Point of Contact for the Google Earth Bug Scrapping Team.
• Lead a team of six members for answering queries by users about the product using a tool \'Trax\'.
• Was a part of the Hiring Team for about a year. Interviewed candidates for various processes in the company.
• From November 2009, I was promoted as a Team Lead handling a 36 member team.

Defect Management:

• Reported bugs and followed up with the Google Earth development team in Bangalore for bug resolution using Buganizer.

Achievements in Project:

• Appreciated by my manager for my commitment and dedication towards my work, and was sent on training to Bangalore office for a week.
• Trained fellow team members on GIS mapping.
• Consistently met the deadlines of all the projects handled and received appreciation from the Product Manager.
• Awarded the best performer of the month.