Professional Summary

Competent, diligent & result oriented Software Test Engineer with 6 years

of experience in analysis, requirement gathering, project coordination and

system testing.

. 6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing which

includes Functional Test, System Test, Regression Test, User

Acceptance Test, System Integration Test and Performance Tests

. Experienced in both manual and automated testing of various web-based,

client-server, and distributed n-tier applications deployed on

multiple platforms.

. Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and the

role of QA including requirements understanding, risk analysis,

project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management,

and reporting

. Expertise in preparing test strategy, creating effective test plans

and defining test procedures

. Creating test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective

actions, significant cost savings and fault-free audits on the basis

of product release features and client's requirements

. Proficient in GUI, Database, Functional, Negative, Positive,

Regression, System Integration (SIT), Performance (using RPT),

Security and Browser Compatibility Testing

. Automation test experience using Quick Test Professional (QTP) for

functional and regression tests.

. Experience in testing Oracle products like Retek Management System

(for inventory, purchase order and warehouse management), Point of

Sale systems for retail domain and Amdocs Billing system for telecom

domain

. Maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the

deliverables for a project

. Experience and understanding of Waterfall and Agile models of system

development

. Trained in IBM Cognos BI suite for testing and analysis purpose.

. Experience gained as a team leader role managing a team of 8-10

testers

. Comfortable working in a team environment as well as independently,

and possess a sense of accountability and urgency in completing

assignments

. Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills, Multi-tasking abilities

driven by creative ideas

. Independent, self-motivated, detail-oriented, Logical thinker, team

player, open mind set, mobility, proactive and organized

. Ability to coordinate multiple projects and meet deadlines under

pressure

. Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Educational Qualifications

. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from St. Xavier's College,

Calcutta University, INDIA

Technical Skills

. Test Management tools - QA Director, Test Director, HP Quality Center

. Defect reporting and management tools - Bugzilla, JIRA

. Performance testing tools - IBM Rational Performance Tool, NMON, Topas

etc.

. Automation test tools - HP Quick Test Professional using VB scripts

. Operating Systems - Windows 95/98/XP/NT, 2003/2008 Server, UNIX, WEPOS

(windows embedded POS)

. Backend testing - MSSQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MS

Access, DB2

. Other Tools - MS Project, TOAD, Microsoft Visio, MS Office Suite

(Word, Excel, Access, Power Point), Visual Source Safe, IBM Cognos BI

suite

. Languages - Java C, C++, C#, Visual Basic 6.0, VC ++, SQL, PL/SQL, XML

Professional Experience

Bridgetown Consulting Group (BCG)

Project 1 - System, Functional and end to end testing for the BCG Job

Miller (web application testing)

Sr. Software Engineer BCG, Piscataway (NJ)

Jan-2014 till Date

Responsibilities:

. Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test

reports, opening and verifying work requests/bug reports.

. Cross browser testing across different browsers like Internet

Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome.

. Work with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug

resolutions.

. Participated in daily Scrum meetings to update the daily status.

. Integration testing to verify the data interface between various

application modules.

. Perform Unit, System and Integration tests.

. Perform Regression tests.

. Track, update and report project status

. Maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the

deliverables for the project.

Environment: J2EE, Java, Windows, Oracle 9i, TOAD, XML, Visual Source

Safe, SQL, Microsoft Office Suite (excel, word, power point, Visio, MPP)

Infinite Computer Solutions (ICS)

Project 1 - Amdocs Billing system testing for performance

Performance Tester IBM for Vodafone India Limited, Pune

(INDIA) Jun-2012 till Feb-2013

Responsibilities:

. Work closely with the application owners to understand the NFRs

. Work with the IBM and Amdocs performance testing team to gather NFRs

and user load scenarios and analyze the systems for performance

. Write test plans, test case scenarios, identify load models and metrics

to be collected

. Plan and track test execution preparedness

. Perform Test Execution for network bottlenecks by carrying out volume,

system and database load tests, bulk API tests etc.

. Collect and organize Performance Test metrics in graph forms and

reports

. Report status to test management and project team stake holders,

analyze and deduce solutions for performance leaks

. Write Performance Test analysis documents highlighting key findings and

recommendations

. Compute and submit performance reports and execution summary.

Environment: Rational Performance Test (RPT), NMON, Oracle 9i/10g, TOPAS,

TOAD, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, Apache Tomcat, Visual Source Safe

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)

Jul'2005 - Sept'2010

Worked with clients like Family Dollar Stores, Brinker's International and

Cendant-GTA (Travel bound). Core domain skills include Point Of Sale,

Retail, Travel and Hospitality.

Project 1 - Point Of Sale Testing, Retek Merchandising System Test

Test Lead Family Dollar Stores Inc., Kolkata

(IND)/Charlotte, NC Jul'2006 - Sept'2010

Project Description:

Family Dollar is a discount supermarket dealing in food items, clothing and

assorted household products. The engagement was to work in an onsite-

offshore model to provide complete solutions for multiple applications. It

involved maintenance and certifications for the Store Operations business

area, mainly the Legacy POS and the Triversity GM POS Projects. The project

also involved testing the change requests implemented on the Retek

Management System from Oracle which included Inventory, Purchase Order,

Vendor and Warehouse management related data validations

Responsibilities - Onsite Test Lead:

. Involved in entire Project life Cycle from requirement gathering to

development and testing of POS application and successful Go Live

. Backend testing for data validations by writing complex SQL queries

using TOAD

. Run Unix commands to execute batch programs and verify data flow from

multiple systems to test the integration

. Understanding and analyzing the application dealing with the

client/server based system and its implementation integrated into a

complete system

. Develop test strategies based on analysis of requirements and

translation into a test plan

. Executed test scenarios for system, functional, regression,

integration and end to end testing of the application

. Plan and track test execution preparedness, manage test data, test

execution and test infrastructure and logistics

. Complete testing for the change requests on daily basis

. Participate in Project Management Reviews and provide periodic status

reports

. Report defects, deliver defect metrics and execution summary

. Identify areas to optimize test team performance and efficiency

. Involved in deployment from Development to testing and Testing to

Production environments

. Assisted users and resolved issues resulting from User Acceptance

Testing (UAT).

Responsibilities - Offshore Test Lead:

. Understand and assist the network team in building an offshore Test

LAB for testing the POS systems and certifying the pilot roll out and

maintenance releases of the same.

. Plan and track test execution preparedness, manage test infrastructure

and logistics

. Manage and perform test execution, defect reporting and tracking to

closure

. Provide periodic status report

. Deliver defect metrics and execution summary

. Identify areas to optimize test team performance and efficiency

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Visio, MS

Project Plan, QA director for test case management, QTP, JIRA for defect

tracking, Java, J2EE, Visual Basic, Windows Embedded POS, Triversity GMPOS,

POS express, POS Manager, Visual Source Safe, SQL, Server 2008, Toad 9.1

Project 2 - Web application and backend data testing

Application Tester Cendant - GTA Travel Bound,

Kolkata (INDIA) Dec'2005 - Jul'2006

Responsibilities:

. Participated in the workshops for gathering requirements

. Prepare Business Requirement Documents and Use Cases

. Involved in Unit, System, Regression, and Integration testing and

backend validations of the applications under test

. Plan and track test execution preparedness

. Provide periodic status report

. Understand test scope

. Execute test cases and maintain traceability matrix

. Report defects and track the same to closure

. Communication of status reports, defect metrics and execution summary

to the client

. Involved actively in deployments across environments (DEV, SIT, UAT

and Prod).

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Visio,

Bugzilla, Prolite, Java, XML, HTML, Windows 2000 Server, Visual Source

Safe, SQL, Server 2008, Toad 9.1

Project 3 - Point of Sale and EDI Testing

Functional Tester Brinker's International Inc., Kolkata

(INDIA) Jul'2005 - Dec'2005

Responsibilities:

. Test Case Inventory preparation

. Test Case Design

. Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and Back office

data validation

. Defect tracking and reporting

. Communication of status reports, defect metrics and execution summary

to the client.

Environment: Prolite for Defect tracking and reporting, WEPOS (Windows

Embedded Point Of Sale), Oracle 10g, TOAD, Windows 2003, Visual Source

Safe, SQL.

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