Experience Summary

• Experience of 11 years in IT Industry
• Above 7 yearsof experience in Software Quality Assurance
• Experience in setting up QA teams from scratch. Good Team player as well as individual worker.
• Expertise in manual testing.
• Exposure in Automation Testing using HP tools such as QTP, Load Runner, C#, Java, Selenium Web Driver, Firebug and Apache JMeter.
• Experience in Requirement Analysis, understating design specification and all type of testing (Unit, Functional, Integration, GUI, Regression, User Acceptance and Performance testing)
• Experience in testing on virtual testing environments such as VM Ware Lab Manager, VMware Workstation and VMware Player.
• Experience in using open source project Management solutions like Redmine.
• Part of AGILE s/w development pattern using SCRUM.
• Experience in using Defect Tracking Tools such as Foot Prints (By Numara), Bugzilla, JIRA & RAD Bug Report.
• Experience in using Version Control Tools such as Microsoft Visual Source Safe and SVN.
• 4 Years of experience in Network Management, Desktop Application Support & Online Backup Management
• Experienced in working on MS Windows & Open Source operating systems LINUX (Red Hat, Ubuntu etc)
• Good communication Skills, energetic & active team player.
• Experience in Database testing using sql queries on Database like SQL, MySql & Oracle.
• Experience in Web service based application (XML, XSLT etc.)

• Master of Science (Computer Science)
• 3 Year Diploma in Electrical Engineering.

• Testing Tools - HP QTP 9.0, Apache JMeter
• Web Technologies - HTML, CSS, C#, Java, XML, Dreamweaver, Jira, Java/VB Script, ASP
• Web Servers - IIS, Apache
• Application Software - MS-Office, Dreamweaver
• Versioning Software - VSS (Microsoft Visual Source Safe), SVN
• Operating systems - Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/Windows7, Windows 8 (Customer Preview), Ubuntu, Windows server 2003/2008
• Mail Clients - Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail
• LAN/WAN - Network Management, Network Storage Management, Active Directory, MS Exchange, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, L3 Switch Management, AD
• Backup Management - Online Backup Server Installation & Management

I am experienced in Product Testing and Website Testing. I have worked majorly on Enterprise Products (Multiple User-Server Client Architecture) and Home/Small Office products (Single User). Products were related to Internet Security, Insurance, Litigation Support, Network (ISP - WAN) and Inventory Control.
I have tested more than 50 projects. All these projects were in different technologies such as Java, Dot Net, VB 6.0, PHP etc. Websites tested were from different domains such as Telecommunication, Health, E -Commerce, Tourism, social Networking etc.

• Task prioritization and task Assignment to team members. To make sure that job is done within deadlines. Daily & weekly status reporting to QA Manager.
• Regularly conducting Knowledge Sharing Session to team to keep them up to date.
• Organizing conference calls for status calls, knowledge sharing sessions and Scrum Meetings.
• Setting up all the needed H/w, S/w setup and needed documentation prior to testing.
• Working on new projects before assigning to team members.
• Assessment of Team members for Quarterly performance review and Annual salary increment.

Project: Confidential
Client: Confidential, Lysaker, Oslo, Norway
Duration:Oct 2009 - current
Title:Sr. QA Engineer/Team Lead
Environment: Windows XP+, IE 7.0+, Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
Programming Language: C, LUA, CSS, Java Script
Project Description: Confidential is an IT security defense system that exceeds today’s security challenges and protects against tomorrow’s criminal attacks on laptops, desktops and servers. Setup consists of hierarchical End Point Managers and thousands of client machines. This powerful and unmatched security solution utilizes Confidential, the world’s most renowned proactive antimalware technology. Confidential provides protection against known and unknown threats such as viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, bots, zero-day threats and rootkits.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Plan and Test Scripts using QTP.
• Responsible for Update/Maintenance of existing Test cases against the Change requirements document using QTP
• Verified the front end GUI by inserting various Checkpoints and Synchronization points in the script
• Developing complex test scenarios
• Planning / Designing / Reviewing Test Cases.
• Keeping track of the new requirements
• Performing all type of testing in physical setup and Virtual environment.
• Reporting bugs, tracking defects, resolving issues with the developers.
• Conducting weekly meetings and actively involved in the meetings with the Development and Build Team every week and as necessary
• Parameterized test scripts for Data Driven testing in QTP using data table methods
• Performed Network Load testing

Project:Confidential
Client: Confidential, Lysaker, Oslo, Norway
Duration:Oct 2009 - current
Title:Team Lead /Sr. QA Engineer
Environment: Windows XP+, IE 7.0+, Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
Programming Language: C, LUA, CSS, Java Script
Project Description: Confidential rapid, accurate and secure patch management for applications and operating systems, allowing you to proactively manage threats and IT risk even in the most complex of IT environments.
It acts by Discovering network assets, assesses security risks, Prioritizes updates, Remediates vulnerabilities and reports for entire corporate network on a single console.

Responsibilities:

• Developing complex test scenarios
• Planning / Designing / Reviewing Test Cases.
• Keeping track of the new requirements
• Performing all type of testing in physical setup and Virtual environment on this portal application.
• Reporting bugs, tracking defects, resolving issues with the developers.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Plan and Test Scripts using QTP.
• Responsible for Update/Maintenance of existing Test cases against the Change requirements document using QTP
• Verified the front end GUI by inserting various Checkpoints and Synchronization points in the script
• Conducting weekly meetings and actively involved in the meetings with the Development and Build Team every week and as necessary
• Parameterized test scripts for Data Driven testing in QTP using data table methods
• Checking for vulnerability update from different vendor like Microsoft, Adobe, Firefox and applying remote patches to client machines.

Project: NETS (Navigators Engine & Transaction System)
Client: Confidential
Duration: Jun 2008 - Oct 2009
Title:Sr. QA Engineer
Environment: Windows XP+, IE 7.0+, Mozilla Firefox 3.0+, SQL Server, XML, XSLT
Programming Language: C#, CSS, Java Script
Project Description: The Navigators Engine & Transaction System (N.E.T.S.) Application is windows based Application. It provides a workflow solution that can support the business process of retrieving, processing and submitting Vendor Specific Feeds to GENIUS(Which runs on iSeries DB2) after Processing the transactions related to Insurance policies and claims. The workflow solution is intended to help the Navigators Insurance Group (NAVG) in managing these feeds. In addition the solution should also provide, The ability to handle multiple feeds simultaneously
Automate the workflow with minimal human intervention, A highly modular, scalable and high performance solution.

Responsibilities:

• Prepared UATtest plan and test cases based on the functional requirements and the business rules after analyzing specifications.
• Implemented High levelQA methodologies starting from planning, capturing, creating, executing, reporting, and tracking the defects.
• Communicated changes to requirements promptly and precisely to all personnel involved.
• Documented bugs with evidence and reported them with detailed information in Bugzilla.
• Documented, implemented, monitored, and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the organization.
• Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, defects discovered and their status.
• User Acceptance testing (UAT) with 100% compliance with all end-to-end test specifications.
• Validated XML files and XML Schema using XML SPY
• Worked on IBM DB2 Genius & SQL Server to verify the integrity & Correctness of data using SQL Queries.

Project: Confidential
Client: Confidential
Duration:Nov. 2007 - June 2008
Title:QA Engineer
Environment: Windows XP+, IE 7.0+, Mozilla Firefox 3.0+, Free BSD, MYSql Server, Jira
Programming Language: Java, HTML, CSS, Java Script
Project Description: Confidential delivers a centrally managed, integrated, best-of-breed messaging gateway security appliance for enterprises of all types and sizes.
Companies are Protected from both inbound and outbound threats in one integrated appliance. Confidential protects enterprise email systems from inbound (spam, viruses, phishing, and hackers) as well as from outbound threats (regulatory or corporate policy compliance violations or theft/leakage of confidential information or intellectual property).

Responsibilities:

• Developing complex test scenarios
• Planning / Designing / Reviewing Test Cases.
• Keeping track of the new requirements
• Performing all type of testing in physical setup and Virtual environment.
• Involved in analyzing the Functional specification documents (FSD) documents and the Use Casesto prepare Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Contributed to preparation of Test Cases as per the functionality
• Manually executed the test scenarios and verified the business functionalities
• Testing of portal application. Console is dynamic like iGoogle where user can customize different apps and utilize as per need.
• Performed Black Box Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional, Integration and Regression testing of the console.
• Tested GUI and Functionality of the application under test using multiple browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7+ and Mozilla Firefox on multiple platforms and interpreted the positive and negative results.
• Documented bugs with evidence and reported them with detailed information in Bugzilla.
• Performed Database Testing, created SQL queries to validate the business logic and the database.
• Actively involved in all phases of testing Including User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Project: Confidential
Client: Confidential
Duration:Mar 2007 - Nov 2007
Title:QA Engineer
Environment: Windows XP+, IE 6.0+, Mozilla Firefox 2.0+, Bugzilla, SQL Server 2005
Programming Language: VB.net, HTML, CSS, Java Script
Project Description: Confidential provided a managed ISP inventory control system. Database used was SQL Server 2005. It contained multiple flows based upon the customer connection needed.

Responsibilities:

• Writing and executing Test Cases.
• Manually executed the test scenarios and verified the business functionalities
• Performed Black Box Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional, Integration and Regression testing of the console.
• Documented bugs with evidence and reported them with detailed information in Bugzilla.
• Performed Database Testing, created SQL queries to validate the business logic and the database.
• Actively involved in all phases of testing Including User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Project: Confidential
Client: Confidential
Duration: Jan 2005 - Mar 2007
Title: QA Engineer
Environment: Windows 98, 2000, XP, Bugzilla, Oracle 8i
Programming Language: VB6
Project Description: Confidential was made for Confidential. It was a windows application with oracle 8i as backend database. On an instance 250 users were simultaneously logged in and entering data into the database.

Responsibilities:

• Writing and executing Test Cases.
• Manually executed the test scenarios and verified the business functionalities
• Performed Black Box Testing, Functional, Integration and Regression testing of the application.
• Documented bugs with evidence and reported them with detailed information in Bugzilla.
• Performed Database Testing, created SQL queries to validate the business logic and the database.

Client: Confidential
Duration: Mar 2001 - Jan 2005
Title: Network Engineer
Responsibilities:

• Desktop support in local LAN Network consisting of 500 machines/HP Servers/Linux Servers.
• Responsible for online data backup management for critical data like Emails, User documents etc.
• Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of problems coming on Windows 98, 2000, xp and all supporting software such as Microsoft office.
• Configuration of printers, scanners, switches, Firewalls & Routers.
• LAN planning and VLAN configuration
• User Management for Internet access across company. Role based permission. Monitoring usage reports to maintain data confidentiality and stopping illegal usage of resources.
• Organization wide Inventory control of available and in user resources
• WAN connectivity control, Connectivity switchover