PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 12 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Application Support, Development and Leading the teams.
• Complete understanding of Quality Assurance Life Cycle QALC , QA Methodology and QA Strategy including Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Experience in Agile/Scrum, Waterfall and Iterative Software development methodologies.
• Experience in developing Test plans, Test scripts, Test cases and tracking them in a Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Proficient in Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and System testing.
• Proficient in Manual and Exploratory testing.
• Expertise in developing and executing SQL queries, CohQL queries and Stored procedures as a part of the back end testing and comparing the results with GUI and Web Service results.
• Experience in bug reporting tools like BMC Remedy, Bugzilla, Test Director and Quality Center.
• Possess strong analytical and communication skills and ability to work in a team as well as independently.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts and technologies.

WORK PUBLISHED:

• Published White Paper on 'Exploratory Testing an Agile approach' in STC - 2009.
• My Blogs on Testing were published on

Technical Skills:

MANAGEMENT

Project, Client Management, People Management

TESTING

Blackbox Testing, Automation Testing

LANGUAGE

COBOL, JCL

DATABASE S

DB2, SQL Server

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Unix, MAC- 10.4,10.5, iMac, Windows All Flavours

TOOLS

MTM, TFS, ADEPT Selenium, Mercury Test Director, AAT, Snapshot ting, Watson, TCM Test Case Manager, QTP and Excel.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Received 'Star Performer' at Tech Mahindra Pvt. Ltd.
• Received 'Cookies' award by Tech Mahindra Pvt. Ltd.
• I was acknowledged and rewarded for the social activities by Adobe Systems Incorporated.
• Awarded bonus for the Best Performance from SPI OFFSHORE Pvt. Ltd.

Confidential

Project Transformers Premier Plus SDET

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managing process with stringent timelines
• Metrics and status reporting.
• Planning and estimation of various aspects
• Writing and maintaining the test cases.
• Doing estimation for test cases, execution and milestone certification for team.
• Handling and testing for all the related areas in the sprint.
• Functional, Integration, Regression and System Testing.
• Manual Testing
• Automation Testing ADEPT .
• Evaluating test executions.

Confidential

Project BBNMS LS Defect Manager

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Process Management, Defect Management, Client Relations Management and other stakeholder management in Offshore-Onsite model.
• Environment Management for E2E environments
• Risk Management, Issue Management and SLA Management.
• Interviewing the new candidates, both from campus and off campus, for the entire IDU.
• Avid trainer, for the co-workers and Team members.
• Has a good command over Excel.
• Maintain tool licenses and manage allocations to users and servers.
• Archive requirement documents, deliverables, and baseline data.
• Administer user accounts and provide support for local and remote connectivity to hosting environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project
• Coordinate all technical support requests and deliverable review comments relating to tools.
• Liaise with offshore counterparts to synchronies environment changes and tool artifacts.
• Regression, Integration Testing, System Testing, and Database Testing.
• Reporting and validating Defects.
• Reviewing of the test cases written by the QA India team.
• Scheduling and giving the trainings sessions.

Confidential

Project: NeXt Editor Web based application Team Lead Testing

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managing process with stringent timelines
• Metrics and status reporting.
• Planning and estimation of various aspects
• Writing and maintaining the test cases.
• Doing estimation for test cases, execution and milestone certification for team.
• Handling and testing for all the related areas in the sprint.
• Functional, Integration, Regression and System Testing.
• Evaluating test executions.

Confidential

Project: UPS Team Lead Testing

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Setting the KRA's for the team member's and evaluating them every quarter for the incentives and appraisals.
• Metrics and status reporting.
• Interviewing the candidates and their induction.
• Assigning the tasks to the QA India team.
• Resolving the professional as well as personal issues of the team, if any.
• Writing and maintaining the test cases for the different modules.
• Doing estimation for test cases, generating project schedules such as execution and milestone schedule for the team.
• Regression, Integration Testing, System Testing, and Database Testing.
• Reporting and validating Defects.
• Reviewing of the test cases written by the QA India team.
• Scheduling and giving the trainings sessions.

Confidential

Project: InDesign Sr. Software Quality Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leading and mentoring the production support and testing team.
• Assigning the tasks to the team.
• Resolving the professional as well as personal issues of the team, if any.
• Writing and maintaining the test cases and support to prouction appliations.
• Doing estimation for test cases, execution and milestone certification for the team.
• Handling and testing all the Color and Quark Conversion related areas in InDesign.
• Unit, Integration, Regression, System Testing, Performance, Interoperability, Installer Testing Localization Testing.
• Logging Defects.
• Creating, Running and modifying the automation scripts using Action Automation Tool In-house tool of Adobe for my features.
• Evaluating test executions.
• Developing small utilities for the team to help them in daily work.

Confidential

Project: PMHS, USA Software Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Coding: As a team member I was involved in the Enhancements and working on Modifications for the respective clients.
• Writing and maintaining the test cases.
• Writing Unit Test Cases.
• Unit, Integration Testing System Testing.
• Logging and Solving Defects.
• Maintenance of the change log for programs.

Confidential

Project: Inventory Management for JCPenney USA Software Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day production support
• On-call activities.
• Log, correct and migrate production fixes
• Update production system documentation for changes
• Maintenance of the change log for programs