Nishad S. Vaichal

F-***, Dreams Rhythm, Bavdhan Budruk, Mobile:

098********

O/p Bavdhan Talathi Office, Bavdhan Email:

acgho4@r.postjobfree.com

Pune - 411 021

Objective:

Looking for a challenging position in the reputed organization with a view

to use my wide experience for the benefit of the organization. Willing to

work as a key person in challenging, creative environment and value based

corporate.

Summary:

. CSTE Certified from Quality Assurance Institute (QAI), USA.

. 10.1 years of experience which focus on effective use of QA, testing

practice. Good knowledge of all phases of SDLC & STLC and strong

working knowledge of Software Testing (System Testing, Web-based,

Black Box, Regression, Functional Testing and User Acceptance).

. Having knowledge and work experience of Agile scrum development

lifecycles.

. Extensively involved in Test Plan, WBS and Metrics creation and

review.

. Having 4+ years of experience in test Management tool. (HP Quality

Center)

. Exposure to Automation Testing Tools (QTP and Win Runner).

. Proficient in all stages of test life cycle from test planning to

defect tracking and managing defect life cycle.

. Exposure in test automation and framework.

. Strong experience in working, coordinating and communicating with

Development, Testing and Client Teams to resolve technical &

functional issues towards the end-user satisfaction.

. Extensive experience in E2E testing of business scenarios, co-

ordinating testing efforts, responsible for test deliverables, Defect

reporting and tracking, Document Review, status reporting to

management and onsite Managers, issue escalations.

. Having good experience with SQL database.

. Allocating tasks to resources, managing compliance to timelines

specified and ensuring team members adhere to quality process

guidelines.

Achievements:

. Obtained Company Spot Award for continuously giving outstanding

performance for the project.

Software Skills:

. O. S.: Windows XP, Windows NT

. Software: Visual Basic 6.0, SQL, PL/SQL

. Database: Oracle 8i/9i, MS-Access

. Business Domains: Health Care Insurance, Benefit Administration and

Security

Academics:

. B.Sc. with Physics as principal subject from Abasaheb Garware College,

affiliated to University of Pune in 1995

. "Diploma in Software Testing" from Seed Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

Experience:

Company Faichi Solutions Pvt ltd

Duration August, 2013 to till date

Client Narus

Project Name Andromeda

Team size 5

Platform & Tools Windows 8, Java 8 & TestLink

Database MemSQL, Bigdata & Hadoop

Testing Type Functional, Regression and UAT

Role QA Lead

Synopsis:

Narus, a wholly owned subsidiary of "The Boeing Company" & having

corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale. It is Cyber security and R&D

Software Company based in Silicon Valley. It includes incisive ways of

applying big data analytics and visualization solutions to the ever-

evolving security landscape. Andromeda is the Enterprise application for

networking security allows advanced analytics and monitoring of

networking security threats, quick and efficient track of threats &

alerts, access to thousands of application and application content to

build resilient policies for the enterprise, Allows advanced reporting

and scheduling capabilities

Responsibility:

. Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of

project.

. Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware,

Resources) to Project Manager.

. Actively involved in effort estimations, risk identification and

mitigation strategies, communication plan, resource management plans,

training plans

. Involved in Sprint Planning, Test Plan, Traceability Metrics and

Efforts Estimation Creation.

. Developed Test scenarios and detailed Test cases based on Business

requirements and functional specifications. Identify missing scenarios

and prepare/update test cases accordingly.

. Guiding team members throughout the assignments, ensuring all

parameters and performance benchmarks are met.

. Involved in Functional, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.

. Track and report upon testing activities including test results,

defects reporting & tracking (using Jira) and identify the root cause

of the defect by doing root cause analysis.

. Keep track of new requirements for the project, preparing agenda for

the meeting, chairing meetings with Business Analysts and co-

ordination with Onsite team.

. Review test cases & various reports prepared by Test Engineers and

check for timely delivery of milestones.

. Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly

etc.) to the Client

Client Stanford University (HighWire)

Project Name JCore (Drupal Journal Core Template)

and CCT (Custome Collection Toolkit):

Individual

Team size 15

Platform & Tools Drupal 7, JIRA, Qmetry, Apache 2.x, My

SQL 5.5, PHP 5.3

Database MySQL

Testing Type Function, Regression and UAT

Role QA Lead

Synopsis:

JCore (Drupal Journal Core Template : JCORE is a Drupal Journal core

template that allows creating the core of a journal site. Main idea

behind creating this template site is to allow site builder to create a

Drupal based journal site with minimal efforts and time. The tasks of

launching Drupal based journal site would be reduced using such template

site.

CCT (Custom Collection Toolkit): Custom Collection Toolkit (CCT) is a new

administrative tool that will allow publishers to produce new types of

collections in a very custom fashion in order to drive new revenues and

support a range of new products. Journal issues are the oldest form of

collections of articles, and for years publishers have been building

subject collections as another way to slice their journal article content

with the primary purpose of driving discoverability and traffic.

Responsibility:

. Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of

project.

. Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware,

Resources) to Project Manager.

. Actively involved in effort estimations, risk identification and

mitigation strategies, communication plan, resource management plans,

training plans

. Involved in Sprint Planning, Test Plan, Traceability Metrics, WBS

(i.e. Work Breakdown Stricture) and Efforts Estimation Creation.

. Developed Test scenarios and detailed Test cases based on Business

requirements and functional specifications. Identify missing scenarios

and prepare/update test cases accordingly.

. Involved in Smoke, Functional, Regression, System testing and User

Acceptance Testing.

. Track and report upon testing activities including test results,

defects reporting & tracking (using Jira)

. Review test cases & various reports prepared by Test Engineers and

check for timely delivery of milestones.

. Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly

etc.) to the Client

Company Syntel Ltd

Duration June, 2011 to October, 2012

Client Humana

Project Name 2012 New Business / Gaps in Care

Team size 5

Platform & Tools Silver light, Dot Net, SQL Server 2008

Database MySQL

Testing Type Functional, Regression using QTP

Role Project Lead

Synopsis:

Humana Inc. is the largest health care insurance company in USA and with

total revenue of approximately $ 45 billion. In this mainly, Humana is

providing Insurance to mainly Groups & customer belonging to these

groups. Providers provide the services to all customers of Humana &

Humana pays for the service provided by Provider. These services includes

Medical, Dental, Vision. Also insurance includes family members. CCA

application developed by Trizetto, USA.

Responsibility:

. Involved in Test Plan, Traceability Metrics, WBS (i.e. Work Breakdown

Stricture) and Efforts Estimation Creation.

. Developed Test scenarios and detailed Test cases based on Business

requirements and functional specifications.

. Guiding team members throughout the assignments, ensuring all

parameters and performance benchmarks are met.

. Involved in Smoke, Functional, Regression, System testing and User

Acceptance Testing..

. Actively involved in effort estimations, risk identification and

mitigation strategies, communication plan, resource management plans,

training plans.

. Revise current test cases to reflect changes made to the test plan

documentation for new functionality.

. Track and report upon testing activities including test results,

defects reporting & tracking (using HP Quality Center)

. Keep track of new requirements for the project, preparing agenda for

the meeting, chairing meetings with Business Analysts and co-

ordination with Onsite team.

. Review test cases & various reports prepared by Test Engineers and

check for timely delivery of milestones.

. Status Reporting - Creating weekly productivity & status report with

respect to the task/activity of each team member

Company Mphasis an HP Company

Duration August, 2007 to June, 2011

Client United States Government (MetaVance

Health Care and Insurance Financial

Product)

Project Name MetaVance

Team size 15

Platform & Tools Java, Oracle, Unix

Database MySQL

Testing Type Functional, Regression, UAT

Role Senior Software Engineer

Synopsis:

MetaVance Administration and Finance System is the ideal solution for

payers Core claim platform. It helps to gain speed to market for new

products and services including consumer-directed health plan through

user defined configuration. MetaVance uses scalable, platform

independent, web-enabled, n-tier client server technology and a member-

centric data model for a complete view of each individual member across

all products and services.

Responsibility:

. Involved in Test Plan, Traceability Metrics, WBS (Work Breakdown

Stricture) and Efforts Estimation Creation.

. Developed Test scenarios and detailed Test cases based on Business

requirements and functional specifications.

. Guiding team members throughout the assignments, ensuring all

parameters and performance benchmarks are met.

. Involved in Smoke, Functional, Regression, System testing and User

Acceptance Testing.

. Actively involved in effort estimations, risk identification and

mitigation strategies, communication plan, resource management plans,

training plans.

. Revise current test cases to reflect changes made to the test plan

documentation for new functionality.

. Track and report upon testing activities including test results,

defects reporting & tracking (using HP Quality Center)

. Design and execute test cases as per the test strategy, identify

missing scenarios and prepare/update test cases accordingly.

. Status Reporting - Creating weekly productivity & status report with

respect to the task/activity of each team member

Project Name MMIS-Interchange

Platform & Tools Java, Oracle, Unix

Database MySQL

Testing Type Functional, Regression, UAT

Synopsis:

The InterChange Pharmacy Eligibility Assistance Program (iPEAP) is a

state funded program created to assist in providing prescription drug

benefits to senior citizens and disabled persons. Residents in the state

over the age of 65 and disabled persons over the age of 18 are eligible

to participate in the program if they meet program requirements for

residency, age, income, and insurance coverage.

Responsibility:

. Review of High Level Requirements

. Involved in Functional, Regression, System testing and User Acceptance

Testing..

. Participate and Contribute during development and review of Test-

Scenarios and Test-Case

. Plan and conduct Test-Scenarios and Test-Case reviews at best shore.

. Participate and Contribute in Test Execution.

. Track and report upon testing activities including test results,

defects reporting & tracking and identify the root cause of the defect

by doing root cause analysis.

. Worked in Member and Claims subsystem.

. Status Reporting - Creating weekly productivity & status report with

respect to the task/activity of each team member

Company Mphasis an HP Company (Worked through

Melstar Information Technology limited)

Duration February, 2006 to August, 2007

Client Towers Perrin, US

Project Name Health & Welfare

Platform & Tools Dot Net,

Database MySQL

Testing Type Functional, Regression, UAT

Role Senior Software Engineer

Synopsis:

Towers Perrin is a US based organization which helps their registered

members to know the post-retirement benefits. The software stores all

information about the registered members and enrolled for the benefits

desired. The software calculates the benefit expected by the member

according to the age of retirement. A Fund program or plan established or

maintained by an employer and/or union to provide specific types of

benefits to employee and their eligible family members.

Project Name Define Benefits

Platform & Tools Java 2.0

Database MySQL

Testing Type Functional, Regression, UAT

Synopsis:

Towers Perrin is a US based organization which helps their registered

members to know the post-retirement benefits. The software stores all

information about the registered members and enrolls for the benefits

desired. The software also calculates the benefit expected by the member

according to the age of retirement.

Responsibility:

. Track and report upon testing activities including test results,

defects reporting & tracking and status reporting to management

. Keep track of new requirements for the project, preparing agenda for

the meeting, chairing meetings with Business Analysts and co-

ordination with Onsite team.

. Involved in Functional, Regression, System testing and User Acceptance

Testing.

. Review test cases & various reports prepared by Test Engineers and

check for timely delivery of milestones.

. Design and execute test cases as per the test strategy, identify

missing scenarios and prepare/update test cases accordingly.

. To test the application as per the specification. Conduct System

Testing, GUI testing, Regression testing for different subsystem.

. Testing of Batch programs in different environment and End to End

testing of business scenarios.

Company Digital Publishing Solutions Private

Limited

Duration December, 2003 to February, 2006

Client Pearson, Taylor and Francis & Lightning

Source

Platform & Tools VB 6.0, Java 2.0

Testing Type Functional, Regression

Role Software Engineer

Synopsis:

Pearson / Taylor and Francis / Lightning Source are the leading

Publishers in United States. OEB & Glass Book / Palm book & LIT / Rocket

book & Glass book are the applications/products mainly used for E-books.

User is able to access any E-book with the help of these applications.

Responsibility:

. Design and Execute test cases as per the test strategy, identify

missing scenarios and prepare/update test cases accordingly

. Planning capturing and conditioning test data.

. To test the application as per the specification. Conduct GUI testing,

Regression testing for modules.

. Defect reporting and Tracking.

. Maintain Test Reports for the project.

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