Objective:
QA Lead Position that should provide leading opportunities and career development.

Education:
Bachelor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Professional Summary:
Quality Assurance Lead Engineer with more than eleven years of experience involved in all aspects testing of multiple product lines, Content Server, Module compatibility and integration, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Mobile Applications, graphical devices, Desktop Applications, Web Base Applications and services, Network Security Products and content management suite of products in Client/Server environment. Work closely with Customers, projects stake holders, business analysts, product teams to validate and enhance testing done within the scope of Test Driven Development. Develop Test plans, Test Strategies to Provides guidance in the development of comprehensive test approaches and scope. Oversees the execution of comprehensive testing strategies to include, but not limited to, functional, integration, regression, performance, user acceptance, Automation and release testing. Use Mercury Quality Center (MQC) and Hunter as test case and JIRA and Bugzilla as defect management systems. Lead in present and communicate a strategic program for the SQA methodology to the company’s executive team. Deliver SQA methodology trainings throughout the organization. Lead in defining the QA processes, driving test methods, risk analysis, QA metrics reporting, and resource planning. Evaluate software requirements to create comprehensive test plans, cost and time estimates, equipment requirements. Oversee to ensure the quality of test plans, test cases, test matrix, and bug reporting. Provide detailed status of each active project, including overall product quality, outstanding bugs, test progress, automation achievements, milestones achieved and upcoming milestones. Experience using Agile and Waterfall development processes. Experienced in testing entire product system with capability to understand technology details, Responsible for hands-on activities to execute test cases, report progress and defect status, identify opportunities for improving quality and efficiency, and participating in process improvement initiatives. Host and Drive bug triages Oversee Alpha and beta process, Perform in challenging situations, Strong problem solving skills, highly analytical, detail oriented.

Professional Experience:

July/2010 – Present SQA Team Lead Confidential,

• Manage project teams with Ten QA & Test analysts to carry out test efforts for multiple projects.
• Extensive experience in testing desktop applications, emulators, embedded software devices.
• Hands on functional, performance, integration, system, UAT, backend and regression testing.
• Involve in decision making process to choose appropriate test tools for effective test execution.
• Define and improve test process, test methodologies to provide coverage using best QA Practices.
• Write project test strategies, test plans to provide guidance in development of comprehensive testing

Scope for multiple projects.

• Use traceability matrices to track requirements to test cases and bugs to track project progress.
• Manage to work closely with automation team to define testing scope for product features.
• Work closely with product development managers, business analysts, and product designers to understand product design and test scope.
• Hands on in writing test cases, use cases, and logging issues in bug’s management systems.
• Analyze functional, system and design specification documents to understand customer’s requirements.
• Responsible for assisting in monitoring of project progress, ensuring new products function in accordance with specified requirements. Works according to AGILE principles and methodologies.
• Lead automated testing initiatives provide guidelines to setup test scripts using frame work for execution.
• Exceptional abilities designing/implementing test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• Increase initial quality and release quality of products.
• Experience and demonstrable success with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Feb/2008 – June/2010 Software Test Lead Confidential,

• Manages and monitors testing teams performing highly complex quality assurance projects.
• Monitor and Tested Content enterprise servers, enterprise Content management, and module compability products to ensure highest quality delivery of software.
• Manages and provides processes to ensure defects are identified, tracked, analyzed, corrected, and closed.
• Extensive hands on experience as QA representative on complex new and maintenance projects.
• Multitasking, manages multiple projects workload and act independently and under general direction.
• Ensures all testing processes are followed and provides metrics and reporting as requested.
• Mentors and trains teams on testing methodologies and procedures.
• Create a high performance Quality focused culture throughout software testing teams.
• Knowledge of user, Macro and Micro stories, and experience in web based application testing and web services.

April/2005 – Jan/2008 Team Lead, Software Verification & Validation Confidential,

• Manage blackberry enterprise server and handheld teams to test mobile applications, services and components.
• Tested and managed mobile applications, attachment, Collaboration, mobile data connection, synchronization services, IT policies, device manager using blackberry handheld devices.
• Lead QA teams, allocate resources, provide risk assessments and act as first point of contact for all projects.
• Experience in manage and testing blackberry device and security management, BB device and BES level projects.
• Oversee to ensure the quality of test plans, test cases, test matrix, and bug reporting.
• Provide detailed status of each active project, including overall product quality, outstanding bugs, test progress, automation achievements, milestones achieved and upcoming milestones.
• Initiate presentations to internal customers and external clients about QA processes and Requirements.
• Monitor, track, and report test status and bug statistics to Management on regular bases.
• Experience in web based applications and browser compability testing for product features.

Feb/2000- Jan/2005 Sr. Test Engineer Confidential,

• Extensive experience in testing security products using SSL and PKI functionalities.
• Experience is creating and managing Keys, certificates, dn-templates, trusted certificates, signing certificates, signing certificate-requests, trusted-certificates, and verify certificates.
• Managed testing in client/server environment and use CA’s VeriSign, Thawte, and Entrust for security testing.
• Responsible for testing on security product, configure test environments, writing test scenarios, test cases, test plan and strategies and generate traceability metrics to track project progress.
• Experience developing and testing entire systems, with capability to understand details of the technology.
• Communicative, detail oriented and manage large projects with multiple teams.
• Extensive experience in command line and graphical user Interface testing.

Technical Skills:
OS Platform: Linux, Window 7, XP, 2003/2008, Solaris 2.10.
Testing Tools: Dev Track, Bugzilla, JIRA, Huntar, HP Quality Center, CBR, RIDE, Robot FW
Databases: SQL 2005/2008 & Oracle 10g, UTF-8 DB Conversion.
Languages: C/C++, Java and .NET developed base project are tested.
Test Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile development.
Skill Set: SDLC, Leadership, Test coordination, Technical support, Change control, Tech writing, Web based testing,
Business Analyst, Process Improvement, project management and Test case management systems.