S SRIPAL +** - 901*******
Test Lead
acerio@r.postjobfree.com
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SEEKING ASSIGNMENTS IN SOFTWARE QUALITY WITH AN ORGANISATION OF REPUTE
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Sripal is a competent leader with 8 years of offshore/onsite experience in
testing of client/server, web applications, enterprise business
applications and Quality management. He has Strong experience in Functional
and Automation Testing of Software Applications.
Experience in Defect Management, Functional, Performance Testing, Data
Migration Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration Testing and UAT
on Windows, UNIX, Mainframes and SAP.
He has experience in Telecom, BPM, Automobile, ERP and E-Governance
Domains.
Software Testing
0. Test planning, test designing, test cases and execution (complete
testing cycle).
0. Functional, black box, Regression testing and PRISM Testing.
0. SME: Designing and Extracting the Test data to test in Stage server.
0. Team handling: Lead teams and ensured timely completion of the
project.
0. Defect Management using Test Director, Quality Centre to ensure the
defects are fixed within the Turnaround time, Providing Defect Summary
Reports periodically.
0. Experience of Working in Waterfall / Agile Development (Scrum)
Environment.
0. Expertise in managing entire Testing life cycle (preparing Test Plan->
Test Strategy-> Test Estimation, Test execution-> Test Signoff
documents etc.
Process Improvement (SQA)
0. Ensuring compliance with CMM standards by process monitoring and
audits. The standards include - Documentation Standards, Design
Standards, process related.
0. Drive the Metrics initiative - publish all kinds of Metrics to
Onshore/Offshore management - Test
case/Defect/Schedule/Productivity/Utilization.
0. Prep/Execution Metrics, Summary Reports for TCoE.
0. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification with implementation of two six
sigma projects.
0. Improved Offshore Review Efficiency to 70% and Reduced Test
Preparation Effort.
Performance Testing
0. Performance Test Planning, Test Design & Execution using HP Load
Runner.
0. Experience in preparing complex scripts using Load runner in multiple
protocols including SAP Web, SAP GUI and Sitescope.
0. Able to design, build, execute and monitor performance tests.
0. Analyzed performance results to identify performance bottlenecks along
with Dev team, system and network team and recommended enhancement
options
0. Managing resource planning, allocation, multi-project administration
and QA Documentation as per the requirements.
Technical
Testing Tools : HP-Load Runner 9.5, Quality Centre, TestDirector,
Test Data Management 1.1, Application Lifecycle Management
(ALM) 11, JIRA and Winrunner.
Operating System : WIN2K, Windows XP, Windows 7, Free BSD UNIX 4.5,
OS390
Databases : Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MS SQL Server 2000, IBM-DB2.
Languages : SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX shell scripts, C, XML, HTML.
Packages/Tools : SAP R/3, ECC5.0 (HR, PS), VSS 6.0, Share Point,
CaliberRM, StarTeam, MKS toolkit, IMS Online, Spufi, CA-
View, Smarterm, Toad, TFS, Rumba 7.2,
Training & Certification
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified from ASCBE (UK) in Sep, 2012.
Brainbench Software Testing Professional in 2011.
Certified ISTQB Tester from Indian Testing Board in Nov, 2005.
PGDSE (Associated Diploma Course in Systems Engineering) in 2000.
EXPERIENCE DETAILS
Duration Organisation Designation
Apr'10 to Aug'13 Mphasis, an HP Company, Pune Lead-
Testing Practice
Jul'06 to Mar '10 Mphasis, an HP Company, Pune
Sr. S/W Engineer
Dec'05 to Jun'06 Second Foundation Ltd, Chandigarh QA Consultant
KEY PROJECTS HANDLED
At Mphasis an Hp Company, Pune
Location : Mphasis, Pune
Projects : JSAPS-JSA, JSPAS-ESA
Clients : Department for Work and Pensions- UK Govt (From Jan
2010 to Aug13)
Role : SME/Team Leader-Mainframe Testing
Environment : VME, ICL Mainframe, IDMS/X, Starteam, TDM1.1, ALM 11.0
Responsibilities : Creating Test plan and approach documents on Data
Migration Testing.
Delegating the Tasks to the Respective Cycle Leads and
Monitoring weekly Project status.
Designing and Extracting the Test data using Test Data
Management tool.
Conducted Brainstorm sessions to define problem statement
and implemented Six sigma projects.
Defect Classification - root cause analysis, evaluation of
defect metrics.
Conducting Onsite- Offshore meetings.
As Frontline Manager, Approving Leave Plans,
Performance/Appraisal
discussions and preparing Mitigation plans for the
short term and Long term Risks.
Monitor and Close tracking the testing cycles on target and
support employees achieve their day to day tasks.
Conducting Walk through/testing for
Different Cycles on Payment Engine.
Preparing Prep/Execution Metrics, Summary Reports and white
papers for quarterly presentations to TCoE.
Project : SAP CIO Enterprise System
Client : EDS CIO (From March 2008 - Dec 2009)
Role : Team Lead (SAP)
Environment : SAP R/3 (PS, HR) Sharepoint, Quality Center, Oracle.
Responsibilities : Recruited & Trained Offshore Testing Team of 8
Members
Maintained HR modules: Payroll, Time management,
Organization management, Personnel Administration,
Benefits and Event management and Personal
Development.
Responsible to carry out SIT of PS/CATS module for BCPs
which consists of Creation of Project, Basic CATS
Functionality, MSPS Process, WFA, Capital Forecasting,
Activity allocation.
SIT for Rollout of New Legal entities, Support Packs which
involves Execution of the BCPs, Document Results, and Log
Defects.
Prepared complex scripts using Load runner in multiple
protocols including SAP Web, SAP GUI.
SIT of CSR for HR and PS/CATS modules.
Environment built up in Q10 for Rollouts and CSRs. This
involves creation of Organizations & Positions, hiring, Set
up rates for activity types.
Successfully acted as QA Team Lead in addition of HR and
PS/CATS testing, for SIT of new LEs MX03 & MX04, where he
was responsible to liaise with Project Manager and
Developers of MX03 & MX04, running statistics in QC,
following up on defects, SIT sign off in SC.
Project : Fastlane
ROC-COCI
Client : Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group.(From Dec 2006 - Feb
2008)
Role : Test Lead
Envirment : COBOL, Unix, Windows XP, Load Runner, Telnet, Toad, .Net,
TFS Suite.
Responsibilities : Discussing and gathering requirements from the
client
Onsite Co-ordination
Formation of Offshore Team and Transfer the Knowledge on
applications
Reviewing the Functional Requirements
Preparation of Test Scenarios and RTM's for the system
using Use Cases.
Setting-up the initial IT infrastructure in offshore and
support Test environment for DTAG-ROC.
Reviewing Test Cases
Performing quality assurance verifications
Running Unix Shell scripts to perform Batch jobs.
Executing Test Cases, Defect tracking, analysis and
reporting
Created Performance Test scripts using Load Runner VUGen,
controller and Analysis for Analyzing Performance issues.
Prepared performance test approach, plan, strategy and
work load model.
Experience in monitoring and Analyzing stats using server
monitoring by using Sitescope.
Project : BARS - Rental Car
Client : General Motors (From Jul 2006 - Nov 2006)
Role : Test Analyst
Environment : OS370, IMS Online, CA-View, Spufi, File-Aid, DB2, Test
Director.
Responsibilities : Effort estimation and resolving the Test related
Issues.
Designing and Execution of the Test Cases and generating
Reports Contributed in Test Plan Preparation
Studying requirements and designing Test Cases, Collecting
and Analysing Metrics.
Prepared Requirements traceability
Executing Test cases in Mainframe Environment.
Defect reporting and tracking
Attending Client on 24x7 for support.
At Second Foundation, Chandigarh
Location : Second Foundation, Chandigarh.
Project : Interstage Business Process Manager (IBPM)
Client : Fujitsu Software Corporation (From Feb 2006 - Jun
2006)
Role : QA Consultant - QTP
Environment : Windows XP, Java, Unix, IBPM, Sybase, Oracle, QTP 8.2 with
Java Add-in.
Responsibilities : Effort estimation and resolving the Test related
Issues.
Designing the Automation Test Plan Approach.
Contributed in Automation Framework.
Studying requirements and Identifying Test Cases for
Automation.
Creation and Executing QTP Scripts and Library.
Involved in preparation of Automation test reports
Defect reporting and tracking
Resolving Automation Challenges with Mercury team.
Project : MAX CCF Contact centre
Client : BellSouth Communications (Now AT&T) (From Dec
2005 - Feb 2006)
Role : Test Analyst
Function : Functional Testing.
Environment : Windows XP, .Net, Oracle, Mainframe, RUMBA, TOAD.
Responsibilities : Identify and isolate Test Bed issues and make
recommendations.
Define, design and execute Test
Plans and Test Scenarios.
Created E2E Testing Strategy by
interfacing key Stakeholders.
Manual Testing on Legacy Data systems
including Mainframes, Siebel
Participated in Defect management
using Test Director and ensured BAU.
Attending Client calls for immediate support.
ONSITE/OFFSHORE EXPERIENCE
Country Time period
Offshore India 7.7 years
Onsite USA 3 Months
Other Experience:
Duration Organisation Designation
From Nov 2002 to Jul2005 Technotec IT Solutions, Hyd Quality
Trainer.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Master of Business Administration(EMBA) in Project Management from
IIBMS.
Bachelor of Science from Kakatiya University.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Permanent Address : FNo.3A, Sankaraj Vastu, Survey No.5, Keshva Nagar,
Mundwa, Pune.
Linkedin : in.linkedin.com/pub/sripal-s/51/72b/123/
E-mail : acerio@r.postjobfree.com
Visa Status : US B1/B2 valid till December 2016, H1B
Approval.