OBJECTIVE
An experienced software Testing and Development professional who loves to work in an innovative and challenging environment. Looking forward to secure a challenging job as QA consultant or Lead. I look forward to utilize my several years of experience in web/windows application Testing and development, Banking Domain knowledge and rich experience in QA processes , planning and strategy.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• SDET(Role - Developer and QA Lead) – March 2011 – Till Date Confidential,North West
• Consultant (Role – Developer and QA Lead) - Feb 2008 – Sep 2010
  Confidential,New York
• Sr Software Engineer (Role – Developer and Tester) – Feb 2006 – Dec 2007
  Confidential,Bangalore Confidential,
• Software Engineer - April 2005 – Jan 2006
  Confidential, (India and China)
• Software Programmer – Nov 2002 – Apr 2005
  Confidential,

Summary: Total 8+ years of work experience which primarily includes Testing and development in web based and windows based enterprise applications. I also have rich experience in implementing quality processes. I have experience of leading a QA team located multiple geography, involved in testing customers Quality website(s). I have done project tracking and monitoring including task allocation of team members and overall status reporting. I have knowledge and hands on experience in preparing Test plan, Testing procedures, Test metrices, system/integration test cases, executing automation testing, manual testing, white box testing, user acceptance testing support etc. Good knowledge in tools like Quality Center (QC) and JIRA. A good part of my experience also involves software development that includes coding, installation, problem solving and troubleshooting. I am skilled in VB 6, SQL, Crystel Report and have some knowledge in C#.NET.

Project: Confidential, (March 2011 – December 2011)
Role:Developer and QA Lead
Confidential, is a major Technology Upgrade project for adding new events , updating and displaying events on the websites. This is implemented in several media houses including Mcgraw Hills, Meredith etc using Cloud computing technology. The earlier existing technology which was primarily on Drupal was replaced by .Net framework. Doppio is a differentiated version of LocalNet that allows DataSphere to expand market presence in areas where LocalNet is already sold.
Roles and Responsibilities:

• Created Test plan and Test metrices for the project.
• Day to day work allocation in the team
• Tracking and monitoring of team’s work
• Acted as a Test Lead and provided leadership to testing team in daily Scrum meeting.
• Created automation test tool using PHP for monitoring the websites
• Created UI testing Framework using C# and Selenium for automation of testing websites
• Automated the defects and event update scenarios along with the smoke tests thus providing value – adds to the client.
• Created and ran manual test cases.
• Defect tracking using Pivotal Tracker and Bugs database

Project: Confidential, (Oct 2008 – Sep 2010)
Role: Sr. Software Developer/QA Lead
Confidential,is a collection of various applications that Morgan Stanley uses for Asset allocation, Risk assessment, Client management, Account management etc. Project involved development and maintenance of these applications in technologies like C#, SQL Server 2000 ,VB 6, COM and socket programming using Agile methodology. All the projects that were involved dealt with complex schema of data and millions of records.
Roles and Responsibilities:

• Did requirement gathering and analysis, prepared Business Requirement, Functional and Technical Specification Documents, prepared time estimates
• UI Coding and implementing Business Logic using VB6 and COM.
• Responsibility of developing/modifying stored procedures, complex sql queries for database SQL Server 2005 using T-SQL.
• Created unit test cases and did unit testing, system testing and integration testing (frontend + backend), provided user acceptance testing (UAT) support for business users using JIRA tool. In short was part of whole SDLC.
• Defect tracking using Jira tool
• Quality process implementation.
• Metrics generation and status reporting
• Work allocation, tracking and monitoring of team members

Project: Confidential, (Feb 2008 – Sep 2008)
Role: Software Developer
This tool is a web application for an intranet, developed for taking the backup of important system files on a periodic basis using technologies like C#, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, SQL Server 2005. The time interval and the files for which backup had to be taken could be specified through the frontend of the application. This tool was a combination of web application and windows services. Once the user has created his account in the application and specified the required details, a windows services was installed on the users machine which used to take the backup of files in the specified location and intervals. It was being used organization wide by number of teams in headstrong.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Designed the frontend application UI - Web pages, business layer and database access layer of the application.
• Coding and Implementing Business Logic using C#
• Designed the SQL Server database – created tables using normalization, created sql queries and stored procedures using T-SQL
• Prepared unit test cases and system test cases, did unit testing, system testing and integration testing(frontend + backend)
• Was part of deployment of the application as well.

Project: Confidential,
Role: Software Developer and Tester (July 2006 – Dec 2007)
Confidential, is customer facing web based online applications developed for applying for credit card applications, personal Loans and opening accounts. OLA applications are developed in ASP, COM, XML and Sql Server 2000. OLA communicates with the host system via the messaging service called CIM. The host system is the Decision making system (CDM or CAP) developed using Mainframes. OLA converts the application data into XML which uses CIM services to pass the data to host system where the decision is taken based on the application data provided. A response is given to the customer within 60 seconds and an email is sent giving the intermediate or final decision within few minutes of submitting the application.There is another application called Eadmin which is not customer facing developed for Customer support purposes. It is used only by Customer Service Executives for Customer support.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Designed , developed and maintained web pages using ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML for the bank website.
• Created/changed Stored Procedures, Sql Queries using T-SQL,DML and enhanced DLLs(COM) for implementing new Business Logic
• Interaction with client/business for requirement analysis.
• Attending status calls with the client for giving regular project updates.
• Contribution in CMM 3 process Implementation in the project.
• Involved in end to end system testing and have done Whitebox Testing and Functional/Integration Testing using test scripts for few months for the same project using Quality Center.
• Reviewed test plan

Project: Confidential,

Role: Software Developer, Tester (July 2006 – Dec 2007)
Confidential,is a sophisticated web application developed using C#,ASP.Net ,XML which provides entire vehicle information including design, safety, technical specification, overview, online test drive booking etc., from all over the world. Moreover this provides online vehicle shopping and buying solution for the clients. The main objective of this project is to get the vehicle Accessories data, convert in appropriate format and display for various brands on GM Middle East websites. The Accessories information is stored in excel file. This excel file is used to generate XML using excel Macros. The generated Accessories XMLs are used as data files for displaying accessories information in websites.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Made changes to the UI of the web application and also did content management of the website.
• Involved in creating few Excel Macros for converting data from Excel to XML format.
• Database testing using SQL queries
• Involved in unit testing, system testing and end to end testing of the web application.

Project: Confidential,
Role: Developer (April 2005 – Jan 2006)
Confidential,is a huge LAN based project developed to automate insurance company activities throughout their branches developed using technologies like ASP, VB6, COM, SQL Server 2000 and crystal reports, XML. E-SEg uses the combination of a policy-centric and customer-centric model, rather than exclusively on a policy-centric model. This model relates all information about customers and policies to the customer who owns them and has the ability to enable customer-focused and location-independent relationship management with access to complete customer information including face amount ,policy term, claims payment history of existing policies It involves premium calculation, generation of reports like reminder letters for premium payment with the help of schedulers, initiation of cancellation in case of policy lapse, data transfer between different modules in XML format.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Coding and Implementing Business Logic using COM and UI changes in ASP,Visual Basic 6.0
• Prepared Stored Procedures, complex Sql queries and views
• Preparation of complex Crystal Reports using stored procedures and views.
• Documentation of technical details which involved writing psuedocode based on business requirements.
• Testing of the peer code

Project: Confidential,

Role: Sr. Software Developer ( Nov 2002 - Apr 2005)
The main aim of this project - Evaluation of Management information System is automation of entire College activities.It was developed using technologies like Visual basic 6.0, MS Access, SQL Server 2000 and COM. This project is now in use with many reputed Colleges in all over Karnataka. The main complex area was that it had various versions for Engineering, Medical and Veterinary College with few common modules and other College specific modules which were very difficult to maintain and enhance.
The different modules were - Admin Module, Master Module, Admission Process, Teachers Entry Module, Examination Module, Fees Module, Hostel Management Module, Reports Generation

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Designing the frontend application, Debugging, Coding and Implementing Business Logic.
• Designing and creating database using normalization concept, created tables, stored procedures, views etc.
• Prepared complex crystal reports driven by stored procedures and views.
• Did unit and system testing with actual production data.

Skills:

• Test Plan, Test cases, Test execution
• Testing Automation (Tools – WATIN, SELENIUM, Jmeter)
• Defect management ( Tools – Jira, Quality Center(QC)
• SQL queries, Joins, triggers etc
• Work allocation, tracking, monitoring and reporting as a lead
• Quality process implementation, Metrics generation, Status reporting
• VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, XML
• Visual Basic 6.0, COM, VBA
• MS Access, Excel Macros
• Crystal Reports
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Visual Studio

EDUCATION
Bachelor\'s Degree, Electrical Engineering