Project Manager Quality Assurance

Kayur Shah abnsmi@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 469-***-**** Home: 703-***-****

U.S. Citizen, Active Security Clearance - Confidential 6C

Summary:

• Over 8 years experience in software testing including software testing best practices,

software test automation management; test management, test planning, execution and

reporting.

• CMMI knowledgeable and trained; Rational Unified Process, experience with Waterfall and

Iterative development lifecycles, familiar with Agile methods. Strong aptitude and

experience in software quality process, change management and release management.

• Experience with implementation of Agile Testing Methodology.

• Extensively involved in Preparing Test reports, Defect Summary report by using the bug-

tracking tools like Rational ClearQuest, Test Manager, HP TestDirector, and MS Excel.

• Proficient in both Manual and Automated Testing using Mercury interactive products like –

HP/Mercury Suite (Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Test Director and IBM Rational

Products (Rational Robot, Rational ClearQuest, and Rational TestManager).

• Experienced in various types of testing such as Functional Testing, Regression, GUI,

Compatibility Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke testing and Automation Testing.

• Reviewed and designed Test Scenarios and Test Cases in full Software Development

Life Cycle (SDLC) model

• Expertise in reviewing requirements for their correctness, completeness, consistency and

testability. Test Designing, Execution and maintaining Traceability of requirements to test

design to ensure completeness of requirements.

• Worked under SDLC models like Agile (current), Waterfall, Iterative Model and V-

Model.

• Good exposure in writing SQL Queries.

Personal Strengths:

Provides direction and leadership with strong interpersonal and team building skills

Successfully works with people within and across organizational boundaries to build

agreements, guidelines, and standards in order to resolve issues and create consistent

practices.

Ability to accept & adapt to changing priorities.

Technical Expertise:

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Employment Experience:

2020 Company, LLC Falls Church, VA

Test Manager, November 2008 – Present

Project: Department of Commerce, NOAA Web Application

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Testing activities for Software Development Projects.

• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate

the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.

• Involved in requirements gathering process to get early start with test process setup

and documents.

• Implement Agile Testing Methodology for the project utilizing scrum testing for

daily deployments.

• Work in agile environment with requirements and development is in Spintels

(usually 2 weeks) rather than traditional waterfall method.

• Train and Mentor test team with Agile testing process.

• Utilized Agile methodology to develop Test cases and condition in parallel to

Requirements gathering process to help execute test execution in parallel to

development.

• Develop Test Plans for various testing, like functional, system, regression,

integration, automation and User Acceptance Test.

• Planning Resources for Test Phase by building a testing team of professionals with

appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.

• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and

maintained.

• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per

standards defined by the organization.

• Check / Review the Test Cases documents.

• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project via

Change Control Board (CCB) process.

• Prepare weekly and monthly status dashboards reports for client and project management.

• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to

Project Manager.

• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the

Client.

• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.

• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.

• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case

coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance

baselines, etc.

• Analyze and communicate qualitative and quantitative data to development and

project management teams for purposes of impact awareness, prioritization, and

team performance.

• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.

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2551 Chase Wellesley Drive, Herndon, VA 20171

Kayur Shah abnsmi@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 469-***-**** Home: 703-***-****

U.S. Citizen, Active Security Clearance - Confidential 6C

Environment: Windows XP, MS Project, Oracle Forms, Oracle Application Server, Oracle 10g,

J2EE Spring Framework

2020 Company, LLC Falls Church, VA

QA Test Lead, June 2005 – October 2008

Project: Dept. of Education, Federal Student Aid (FSA) Web Application

Responsibilities

• Oversee and direct the daily operations of the Quality Assurance Team.

• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to define and implement quality assurance

practices and procedures to ensure high quality web applications and products.

• Oversee functional, performance, regression and automated testing activities.

• Mentor team members on planning, test case development, methodologies, and tools.

• Plan and manage personnel and external resources as needed.

• Review plans, requirements, specifications, and release schedules to identify gaps or

inconsistencies.

• Develop and document test plans and test cases.

• Assess and offer strategies to mitigate project risks. .

• Facilitate bug scrubs with development, project management, and other project

stakeholders.

• Coordinate with clients, project managers, designers, software developers, and systems

operations teams to ensure successful deployments.

• Develop and maintain testing standards and procedures according to the industry SDLC

and work with the Configuration Management team to develop test documentation.

• Automate application using Rational Robot to speed up Regression test.

Environment: Windows XP, Seibel 7.8, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Test Manager, Oracle

10g, MS Project.

ACCENTURE Technology Solutions Irving, Texas

Portal Design/ Senior Test Consultant, October 2004 – May 2005

Project: Blockbuster Integrated Subscription

Responsibilities

• Developed Functional Design and Use Cases from the Business Requirements.

• Developed Technical Design from the Use Cases and Change Requirements.

• Developed test plans for one or more of the following: system, integration, performance,

user acceptance, and operational readiness tests.

• Developed SQL scripts and test data for testers to help out in Back End testing of the web

application.

• Developed and utilized Mercury QTP for Regression testing of the web application.

• Helped in Test Execution for one or more of the following: system, Integration, user

acceptance, and operational readiness tests.

• Developed test plans for Blockbuster Web Application for one or more of the following:

system, integration, performance, user acceptance, and operational readiness tests.

• Worked with development teams to understand application requirements and designs

• Documented test scenarios, detailed test conditions, and expected results based on

business requirements and designs.

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2551 Chase Wellesley Drive, Herndon, VA 20171

Kayur Shah abnsmi@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 469-***-**** Home: 703-***-****

U.S. Citizen, Active Security Clearance - Confidential 6C

• Utilized scripts JUnit scripts to Unit Test the Code for front end of the web application.

• Developed tests scripts utilizing designated testing scripting tool (i.e., QuickTest Pro)

and define test data requirements.

• Performed test execution for one or more of the following: Unit, system, integration, user

acceptance, and operational readiness tests to ensure application satisfies all business

requirements.

• Identified applications defect and work closely with the Fix Team to drive defect

resolution.

• Documented test execution & validation results.

Environment: Windows XP/2000/98, JUnit, Mercury QTP, Mercury Test Director, Oracle 8.0.

ALCATEL Plano, TX

Software/Systems Test Engineer, January 2001 – May 2003

Responsibilities

• Executed test scripts manually and recorded the same in Win Runner. All the issues that

came up during this process were logged in Test Director as a defect.

• Develop and maintain functional test scripts using Mercury Win Runner.

• As a QA analyst carried out testing, to check whether the application is functioning as per

the design documentation and functional requirements.

• Prepared Test Plan and Test Cases.

• Closely worked with developers and System Engineers to nail down the technical

problems.

• Involved in various testing types like GUI testing, User acceptance testing, Integration

testing, Navigation testing and Regression testing on the application.

• Designed software applications for Optical/Digital NE (SX, OADM) using MS Visio,

and integrating on various platforms.

Environment: Windows 2000/98/ME, UNIX, Linux. Sun Solaris, HP UX, Mercury QTP,

Mercury Test Director, Oracle 8.0.

NORTEL NETWORKS Richardson, TX

Software Test & Automation (Co-op), April 2000 – December 2000

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Black box Test & Verification of software for Carrier Network Product

solutions (SNM, SDM) for VoIP and VoATM products.

• Developing the automated tests wherever necessary and save the Win runner test scripts

in Test Director.

• Regression testing of the system and defect reporting to the development team.

• Performed stress testing and user acceptance testing.

• Developed and executed several test cases for application testing.

• Test Real-Time Billing Application (SBA) for SDM on Nortel switches (DMS-500

switch).

• Automated testing procedures using tools like WINRUNNER, TEST DIRECTOR.

Environment: UNIX, Mercury WINRUNNER, Mercury Test Director

EDUCATION:

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2551 Chase Wellesley Drive, Herndon, VA 20171

Kayur Shah abnsmi@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 469-***-**** Home: 703-***-****

U.S. Citizen, Active Security Clearance - Confidential 6C

University Of Texas

B.S. Computer Science, May 2001. GPA: 3.1

CERTIIFCATIONS:

Introduction to CMMI and ISO 9001 Training

Course Completion Certificate 2008

Siebel CRM Business Analyst Training

Course Completion Certification 2008

Mercury Suite and Automation Tools Training

Course Completion Certification 2004

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