International Software QA Engineer

Sep’12-Feb’13:  NESS Technologies, Mumbai - Sr. QA Engineer and Test Lead

• Leading project with Task allocation, Knowledge Sharing, Mentoring and Training new team members
• Carrying out Functional, Regression and Integration Tests, GUI Testing at various stages in the SDLC
• Domain worked on is e-learning domain .

Nov’09-Sep’12:  IGATE Corporation, Mumbai - Sr. QA Engineer and Test Lead                        

• Preparing Test Estimates, Report and Test Plans while coordinating with Team, Weekly Team Meeting, arranging daily calls with client and onsite coordinator to streamline the onsite-offshore coordination efforts.
• Task allocation to team, Monitoring, Progress reporting and Coordinating with  the Client, Manager & Leads
• Received multiple client appreciation and Pat on Back for effective test deliverables

Sep’08 – Oct‘09:  College of Engineering, Orissa - Senior Lecturer

• Conducting classes for Final year B-Tech students (Embedded System, Telecom Switching Networks)
• Coordinating with Placement Department to place the students in reputed companies
• Assigning, supervising and supporting students with projects and conducting Seminars

Oct’04 – Jan’06:  Krupajal Engineering College, Orissa  - Lecturer 

• Conducting coaching classes for B-Tech students (Electronics & Telecommunication)
• Mentoring and Motivating the students to enroll themselves for good career options

Jul’97 – May’99:  Jagannath Clinic, Orissa - Public Relation Officer

• Organizing campaigns for “Blood Donation, Polio Vaccination and HIV awareness programs
• Coordinating between Medical teams and Management
• Assist and Provide arrangements for Doctors to conduct seminars

Achievements:

• Selected as a member of ISEEE on 2001
• M-Tech project published in “IEEE International Microwave Photonics” on 26th may 2011

Qualifications:

• M-Tech (Electronics and Telecommunication) from BIJU PATNAIK University (India) in 2008 with CGPA 7.57 and GATE Score as 330 & All India Rank as 678
• Certification course in Embedded System Design from Pune University with 64.67 %
• B-Tech (Electronics and Telecommunication) from BIJU PATNAIK University (India) in 2004 with 67.30 %
• HSC in Science from CHSE board (India) in 1997 with 66.77 %
• SSC from CBSE Board (India) in 1995 with 60.77 %
  

IT/Computer Skills:

Operating Systems:  MS Windows (98/XP/7)

Software & Testing Tools:  QC, AQT, IBM RTC, FPRS, SQL, TOAD, BO, FDOT, INFORMATICA, Agile Testing, Manual Testing, Web service testing using parasoft 9.0, Data warehouse testing, mobile testing.

Configuration Management:      SVN

Key Projects Handled:

1) Finance Projects.

A)  Income Strategy Evaluator (ISE)                 

ISE is a “Retirement Planning Tool” where it suggests different products to the users so as to meet their Life time income. The primary objective of ISE is to help identify and analyze investment characteristics and risks with possible income portfolio strategies that can be modeled adjusted. Testing includes Functional & Integration Testing, Web service Testing, SEC/DM, Seibel injections.

B)  Guidance Portfolio Summary (GPS)

Guidance Portfolio Statement encapsulates analysis & associated guidance performed on customers portfolio in various dimensions such as “sectors”, ”ratings” ,”tax”, ”risk” and “plan” either quarterly or on a demand. Based on the portfolio, a user can analyze his asset allocation and based on which sectors and concentration can be decided.

C)  Maintenance Projects

Data Loads, Income Planner (RIP, RQC, FRIE {FRIAG, FIIS, NFPA}), PR, ISE, MF charting, ETF, PA, PASW, PASIPQ, Manage Dashboard, WEBCALC, Power Tools); Testing includes Functional / Integration Testing, Web service Testing using Para soft 9.0, Report Validation. All types of enhancements & bug fixes come under maintenance projects.

2) Motorola Enterprise Mobility Business Services Project

Trackers handling, Blank Page RMA confirmation, Bulk upload, Multilingual, GAP Requirement

3) Data Warehouse Project:

A)  NETEZZA Data Retention, Back-Up and associated housekeeping

Automated data movement for fact tables take place which form part of the overall data retention strategy for the DWH. As part of the retention strategy, data move from VOLATILE to STATIC areas.

B)  Category Phasing in Budget

The business sends two types of files – data files and control files and amends the daily allocation control file so that it is phased by individual product categories also. The project requirement is to upload and process this amended file in DWH.

C)   Advanced Fraud Control

This project replaces CPW’s existing fraud checks, including Retail Decisions, with a single fraud tool, ACCERTIFY. ACCERTIFY accepts transaction details such as customer and product data, and uses rules to determine if the transaction is fraudulent. Testing includes Functional, Integration, BO validations, INFORMATICA and Compliance Regression Pack.

Profile:  Sr. QA Engineer and Test Lead

Max Team Size handled: 9

Roles & Responsibilities for above projects:

• Analyzing the Business document and Functional Requirement document; Interacting with client and development
• Performed Black box testing on the application and reported all issues
• UI, Functional, compatibility, regression ,mobile testing, web service testing & End-to-end testing of all newly developed modules and data mining
• Creation of Dashboard, Quality Report, Status reports and providing testing signoff
• Production Validation Planning, Install Support and Documentation for project support and maintenance
• Play major role and SPOC for all groups from QA end ; Individually handled testing activities for all releases

4) E-Learning domain Projects:

IML Project (International My Labs): Two types of role were being handled: Teacher & Student Role. The grading scheme was being implanted and tested for different types of students (Self Study and Teacher Graded Students). There was a complete flow of assigning the task to the students by the teacher, submission of completed tasks by the students and grading by the teacher.

Profile: QA Lead

Max Team Size handled: 5

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the release document; Interacting with client and development
• Creation of Test Plan, Strategy, Estimations, Dashboard, Status reports and providing testing signoff
• Task allocation to team and monitoring progress; mentoring tem members
• UI, Functional, compatibility, regression , testing & End-to-end testing
• Coordination with different stakeholders, development and management teams