SUMMARY:

• Experienced Professional with 16+ years in Information Technology with focus on testing of business applications under Semiconductor and Retail domains
• Wipro certified Project manager with extensive experience as a Techno QA manager and as a Domain Consulant for Pharmacy
• Proficient with development of Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Cases and executing them and have experience with development of Test Cases from Use Cases
• Extensive working experience in White - Box, Sanity, Black box,, System, Integration, Front-End, GUI, End-to-End, Regression, SIT & UAT testing under STLC
• Involved in complete software testing lifecycle owning the test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC and experienced in methodologies like Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM)
• Strong experience in functional testing that includes native desktop applications, mobile applications and SoCs
• Experienced in analyzing Business Requirements and Specifications. Worked with Development team and Business Analysts to analyze the test scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete
• Written and maintained Requirement and Test Documentation as per high level testing standards, Attended review meetings and Quality Control board meeting for continuous improvement of Software Quality
• Experience in testing services in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Identified training requirements and organized internal training sessions by motivating the team
• Excellent problem solving skills with a strong technical background, good interpersonal skills and immense experience, Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure
• One of the four owners of the US Patent 7389404 (Apparatus and Method for matrix data processing)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/XP/2000/2007/NT, LINUX, UNIX

Database and Tools: DB2, Informix, DBeaver, SQL Assistant

Technologies/ Languages: C, VB Script, ARM Assembly, Matlab, Simulink

Web services: SOAP UI, CA LISA/DevTest

Bug Tracking Tools: ALM, JIRA, VSTS, Rational ClearQuest

Test Management Tools: ALM Quality Center

Project management Tools: Leankit, JIRA, TFS (Team Foundation Server), MS Project

Source Control Tools: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Rational ClearCase, SVN, GIT

Testing Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall model

Domain Experience: Semiconductor, Retail, Healthcare

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Portfolio Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played multiple roles starting from a Test lead, Release lead and Portfolio lead/Test Manager
• As a Portfolio lead, I am managing/guiding a team of leads and driving the delivery of multiple modules within the project.
• Drive career aspirations, organize trainings for up-skilling and motivating team members as a Manager
• Conduct effective 1-on-1 meetings to address concerns and provide feedback
• Top talent retention with effective evaluation process and salary increments
• Understanding the Business requirements and solution design thoroughly and mapping this requirement to the test cases.
• Drive creation of hybrid automation frameworks using UFT & test scripts in Selenium (Java)
• Drive performance testing & monitoring for enhanced End User Experience
• Monitoring of overall quality and timeliness of testing deliverables. Ensuring that the Overall process of testing is documented.
• Involved in system, SIT & Regression Testing
• Testing different internal and external system of organization.
• Creating test plan and test cases for testing of application
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported development team.
• Actively participated in defect triage meeting for defect remediation
• Responsible for KT (Knowledge Transfer) to the Team and New Joiners
• Prepare Status report and send to managers on a Daily and Weekly Basis

Environment: VB.Net, Informix, Hadoop, Hive, HP UFT, HP Loadrunner, Splunk, TestNG, Selenium, Angular JS, LINUX, Win 7/2008 Server, Cassandra, Kafka, DB2, VSTS, JIRA, HP ALM 12.0, SOAPUI, DevTest, Agile Methodology

Confidential

Test Lead

• As a lead, managed/guided a team of testers for delivering multiple modules within the project.
• Understanding the Business requirements and solution design thoroughly and mapping these requirements to the test cases.
• Preparation of test plans and test scenarios.
• Monitoring of overall quality and timeliness of testing deliverables. Ensuring that the Overall process of testing is documented.
• Creation of automation test scripts in SOAPUI using assertion and property transfers for End to End testing of REST APIs
• DeviceAnywhere that allows you to use actual mobile devices through a virtualized model was used to validate iPhone 3, 4 & Android 2.2 devices
• Creating test plan and test cases for testing of application.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported development team
• Actively participated in defect triage meeting for defect remediation.
• Responsible for KT (Knowledge Transfer) to the Team and New Joiners.
• Prepare Status report and send to manager as Daily and Weekly Basis.

Environment: REST APIs, HP Quality Center 11.0, SOAPUI, DeviceAnywhere, JSON, Waterfall Methodology

Confidential

Solution Design Lead

• Created Proof Of Concepts with automation tools like Eggplant & Rational Functional tester
• Test Management system integration with requirement management tool, source control & automation framework for a leading health care provider
• Utilizing the bench strength to create reusable test cases for device drivers, cable Set Top Box, Electronic dictionary and generic IDE features
• Enabling certification for standards and participating in reviews.
• As a lead, mentored the resources in the bench to upskill for getting billable positions in projects
• Understanding the Business requirements and solution design thoroughly and mapping these requirements to the test cases.
• Maintained all the test artifacts created in a shared location that can be accessed by any employee across the organization
• Prepare Status report and send to manager on a Weekly Basis.

Environment: Rational Functional Tester, Eggplant, AUTOSAR, TTCN3.3, Windows XP, MAC Snow Leopard

Confidential

Project Manager

• As a Project Manager, I managed/guided a team of leads and drove delivery of multiple modules within the project.
• Project planning including risk identification and tracking the deliverables.
• Mitigation & contingency plans for the risks identified & tracking them to closure
• Creating test plan and test cases for testing of application
• Drive career aspirations, organize trainings for up-skilling and motivating team members as a Manager
• Conduct effective 1-on-1 meetings to address concerns and provide feedback
• Drive creation of automation for updating the datasheet with performance figures
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported development team.
• Actively participated in defect triage meeting for defect remediation
• Responsible for organizing trainings to the team and New Joiners
• Prepare Status report and send to managers on a Daily and Weekly Basis
• Received CSAT rating of 7/7 for project management

Environment: C, Device Driver, RTOS, Code Composer Studio, MS Excel, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, MS Project, Waterfall Methodology

Confidential

Test Lead

• As a lead, mentored the team for delivery of multiple modules within the project.
• Understanding the Business requirements and solution design thoroughly and mapping these requirements to the test cases.
• Preparation of test plans and test scenarios.
• Monitoring of overall quality and timeliness of testing deliverables. Ensuring that the Overall process of testing is documented.
• Pre-Silicon validation was carried out on Quickturn (QT) from Cadence which is a hardware emulator
• Post-Silicon validation was done on EValuation Modules (EVM) which is a board that comprises of the System on Chip (SoC) along with the peripherals
• Creating test plan and test cases for testing of application.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported development team
• Actively participated in defect triage meeting for defect remediation.
• Responsible for KT (Knowledge Transfer) to the Team and New Joiners.
• Prepare Status report and send to manager as Daily and Weekly Basis.
• Thanx A Zillion award presented for the outstanding contributions in the CSL validation program

Environment: C, Code Composer Studio, Cadence Quickturn, MS Excel, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, MS Project, Waterfall Methodology

Confidential 

Project Lead

• As a Project lead, guided the team of developers and drove delivery of multiple modules within the project.
• Involved in requirement analysis, planning and tracking of tasks.
• Preparation of technical specification document, developed test plan and test data, Involved in Coding, unit testing and review of programs.
• Preparation of detail design document based on the requirement.
• Unit testing of the modules were done by writing extensive test benches in HDL to test the corner conditions and using the waveform viewing option of the simulator
• Validated modules were synthesized using the synthesizer tool

Environment: FPGA, Verilog HDL, C, MS Office, ModelSim Simulator, Xilinx ISE 6.2i, Waterfall Methodology

Confidential

Developer

• Study of ARM architecture, ARM co-processor interface and instruction set
• Design and development of block level model of ARM & co-processor. 5.
• Implementing and validation of the ARM instructions and coprocessor instructions developed in MatLab and C
• As a Project lead, I managed/guided a team of leads and drove delivery of multiple modules within the project.
• Involved in requirement analysis, effort estimations, planning and tracking of tasks.
• Preparation of technical specification document, developed test plan and test data, Involved in Coding, unit testing and review of programs.
• Testing the pipeline with the handshaking signals using a combination of ARM and coprocessor instructions
• Preparation of detail design document based on the requirement.
• Automated tools for generating Test Plan
• Understanding the Business requirements and solution design thoroughly and mapping these requirements to the test cases.
• Creating test plan and test cases for testing of application
• Conducted peer testing and unit testing

Environment: C, Matlab, Simulink, ARM, Assembly Language, Visual SourceSafe, MS Office, Waterfall Methodology