SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of IT experience which includes 8 years of Software Testing Experience(Manual as well as Automation Testing) and 1 year of experience in Build and Release Management.
• Experience includes Mobile Application Testing in Motorola and Intel Mobile Communication for 4.5 years.
• Expertise in testing & setting up test labs for Confidential - Tetra Radio Services.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), having thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Development, Testing and Production Support.
• Extensive experience in facilitating meetings with clients for gathering requirements, documentation of scope, functional and non-functional specifications, development of deliverables such as Use Cases, Change Requests, Traceability Matrix, Test Cases, Test Plan and Test Summary Reports.
• Expertise in performing Black box, White Box, System, Functional, Unit, System Integration, Regression, Ad-hoc, End to End, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing, (ORT) Operation Readiness Testing and bug tracking system on both Windows and UNIX environments.
• Expertise in Designing Test Strategies, QA Methodologies and QA guidelines in concurrence with Industry Standards, Methodologies and Best Practices.
• Expertise on Agile Environment and tested the application under SCRUM (Agile) Methodology and attended Daily Scrum meet for status reporting.
• Ability to understand the functional/technical aspects of the product being tested in addition to quickly getting adapted to the domain.
• Experience in Test/Defect Management Tools: - Test Central, JIRA, Bugzilla, Clear DDTS, UTP, Rally, QC(ALM)
• Worked on devices like 3G phones, Android phones, Tetra Radios.
• Extensive experience in setting up test labs and tool configuration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Testing: Manual and Automated Testing

Mobile Platform: P2K(Motorola), Android, Confidential Radios

Tetra System: NEBULA

Scripting Languages: Perl, Python

Database: SQL

Configuration Management Tool: Clear case

Defect Tracking Systems: Bugzilla, Clear DDTS, UTP, JIRA

Test Management Tool: Test Central, QC(ALM)

Project Management: Waterfall, Agile methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Travelled onsite twice to Cambridge, UK to gain knowledge of Tetra system, Radios and testing environment and done the lab set up in offshore.
• Reviewed requirements, functional and technical Design Documents.
• Creating manual test cases in test management tool to test the newly developed features.
• Peer review the test cases of the team member and maintained the review logs .
• Worked in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings.
• Flashing the build using Radio Manager tool and perform basic power up and sanity test on the Radios for new builds.
• Used Network Management system to configure and manage Tetra system, to configure different access privileges to subscribers and also manage them.
• Reporting bugs and tracking them using JIRA tool.
• Organized Defect Reviews and coordinated with QA team and development teams to ensure timely resolution of defects.
• Leading the testing activities by planning regression activities for each release.
• Reporting the daily activities including creation, execution of test cases and related defects.
• Rerunning the tests for debugging purpose.

Environment: Nebula Tetra System, Switch control node, base stations, Network Management system, Tetra Radios, Radio Manager Tool.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

• Analyzed the business requirements and documented them into test cases and imported them to Quality Center.
• Performing basic power up test on flash files and do sanity testing.
• Sanity tests consist of spot-checking and basic functionality testing like calls, messaging, camera, browsing, .
• Reporting Bugs (Raising SMS in UTP) and tracking them.
• Reviewed requirements, functional and technical Design Documents.
• Test cases Development for newly integrated features.
• Created Test Metrics and worked on gathering Test Input Data.
• Interacted with Developers and QA team members, TL in different defect raising situations.
• Reporting the daily activities including creation, execution of test cases and related defects.
• Rerunning the tests for debugging purpose.
• Involved in automating the sanity test cases using Comneon Live Auomation tool.

Environment: ClearCase, Unified Tracking Platform(Bug tracking tool), Quality center,Comneon Live Automation Tool,OS: ThreadX, Android

Confidential

Test Engineer

• Analyze the business specifications documents and use cases and prepare the high level scenarios, test cases and test data.
• Created the Test Execution Plan enlisting the testing activities, schedule and test cycles details
• Clarifying and following up on issues with onshore business analysts to resolve queries related to business requirements.
• Performing basic power up test on flash files.
• Performing sanity and Integration testing manually and updating the results in test central.
• Reporting Bugs(Raising CR in DDTS) and tracking them.
• Performing Current Drain test for specific builds.
• Testing effort consists of verifying code for both WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) and GSM technologies.
• Executing the Integration test cases through proprietory perl automation tools.
• Involved in test metrics Collections.
• Developed automated scripts and frame works using Python Scripting.
• Modifying test cases to suit different platforms and update the test central.
• Rerunning the tests for debugging purpose.
• Reporting the daily activities including creation, execution of test cases and related defects.
• Involved in escape defect analysis.

Environment: Anritsu(3G Network simulator), Clearcase, Proprietary (Flashing and flexing)tools, Test Central, DDTS, 3G mobile phones.OS:Proprietary

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepare build
• Peer double check config spec so that all required files and dependencies will be included.
• Compile platform and product from development configspec
• Request platform and product sanity test
• Label platform source
• Compile product from new platform label
• Label library (archiving) Stage internal and request 1FF/monster file generation
• Release platform Brs
• Close Crs Post process build
• Troubleshoot builds
• Audit Brs
• Notify BR submitter and BR approval mailing list of problems (unlock BRs if necessary)
• Mark BRs approved
• Fill in for Build Team Coordinator when necessary
• Monitor the build activity to identify problems and document errors.
• Maintain policy and procedure documentation.

Environment: Clearcase, Proprietary (Flashing and flexing)tools, Test Central, DDTS, 3G mobile phones, Unix, Perl scripts.

Confidential

Test Engineer

• Understanding of Jsync Application and SyncML Protocol and study of requirements.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts to create the test plan to outline the test approach, types of testing, scope, dependencies.
• Designed test cases for System Testing.
• Involved in System Testing and Regression Testing.
• Involved in SyncML Protocol Testing.
• Defect reporting and tracking using Bugzilla.
• Sending the test reports on a daily basis.
• Interaction with developers regarding project related issues.
• Excellent experience with source version control tools such as Subversion (SVN).
• Created and tested Positive and Negative Test scenarios to test the functionality and the error handling capability of the application.
• Rerunning the tests for debugging purpose.
• Review of test cases and modifying them.
• Identified the test cases which can be automated.
• Actively participated in the Weekly Project Meetings.

Environment: Windows XP, Mobile emulator, Bugzilla, SVN, XML

Confidential

Test Engineer

• Understanding of Application and study of requirements.
• Assisted in preparing Test plan.
• Designed test cases for System Testing.
• Involved in System testing and Regression testing manually.
• Experience in database testing by writing SQL queries for Oracle, MySQL.
• Defect reporting and tracking using Bugzilla.
• Sending the test reports on a daily basis.
• Interaction with developers regarding project related issues.
• Review of test cases and modifying them.
• Actively participated in the Weekly Project Meetings.
• Rerunning the tests for debugging purpose.

Environment: Windows XP, Bugzilla

Confidential

Test Engineer

• Understanding of application and study of requirements.
• Assisted in preparing Test plan.
• Involved in System Testing and Regression Testing
• Defect reporting and tracking using Bugzilla.
• Sending the test reports on a daily basis.
• Interaction with developers regarding project related issues.
• Review of test cases and modifying them.
• Identified the test cases which can be automated.
• Actively participated in the Weekly Project Meetings.
• Rerunning the tests for debugging purpose.

Environment: Windows XP, Bugzilla