Sambit Pahadsingh

Phone: 813-***-****- e-mail:acn3rp@r.postjobfree.com@gmail.com

SUMMARY

. Have a total of 11+ years of QA experience out of which 7 years with

QA management and 4 years with QA lead and Analyst experience.

. Extensive knowledge & experience in testing Front end, Back end

applications and BI reporting applications.

. Experience in managing new client integration and setting up testing

center of Excellence based on organization test standard and also

improving the maturity level of the organization by implementing

various process and techniques.

. Talented and accomplished Quality Assurance management professional

with an extensive background in quality assurance.

. Manager with proven ability to direct and improve quality programs,

reducing defects and improving overall efficiency and productivity.

. Highly adept at developing and implementing test strategies,

operational procedures and quality methodologies to support

development and release of business applications.

. Knowledge in creating test frameworks, with familiarity in multiple

programming languages.

. Able to train, lead, and motivate effective cross-functional teams.

. Experience in the integration and testing of third-party software.

. Excellent presentation and communication skills.

. Experience in testing and managing Mobility testing.

. Experience working in onshore-Offshore model.

. Key contributor and involved in establishing Testing Center of

Excellence

. Multiple achievement awards from Nielsen, CTS and IBM for management,

training and automation.

. Attended Training on Hadoop Framework Concepts, Python

Certifications Attained

. Certified Brainbench Intermediate Level Testing

. Certified Foundation level in ITIL.

Educational Qualification - Bachelor's degree in Electronics and

Instrumentation, GHITM Puri - 2002

Professional Experience -, Yodlee India 2003-2005, IBM 2005-2006, CTS 2006-

2007, TATA Consultancy Services 2007 - Till date,

QA Program Manager (2011 - Till date) - Client: The Nielsen Company - Tampa

FL

. Managing major programs which involve multiple groups such as

development, UAT & end users to test & deliver Business intelligence

application

. Managing a test team of 80+ onsite/offshore testing professionals

including FTE's, responsible for daily operations and overall delivery

of program which included Hadoop testing, Data Science Testing, ETL

testing (Oracle Data Integrator) and BI testing.

. Hands on experience in creating test scenarios & test cases and also

test executing on ETL testing.

. Implemented various automated data validation techniques in Backend

and Data warehouse areas with reporting of trends and validations

using Spotfire and excel which increased test coverage and decreased

cycle time

. Managing, Coordinating, Planning and Monitoring for all ETL Testing,

Manual testing, Data Science Testing, Automation Testing and Hadoop

Testing.

. Involved in defining/reviewing test strategy, test process, templates

& checklists on a portfolio level.

. Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as

per standards defined by the organization.

. Handling all operational activities of the team which includes

resource management, billing, invoicing clients, budgeting the

projects, reviewing the estimation, identifying suitable candidate and

inducting them to the team.

. Identify and implement process improvement plan to increase the Test

Maturity of the team.

. Driven major initiatives to increase the profit margin of the

organization.

. Worked on multiple business proposals and successfully executed.

. Involved in proof of concepts for test data management tools like GRID

and informatica tool

. Involved in Risk Management, Defect Management.

QA Program Manager (2009 - 2011) - Client: The Nielsen Company -

Bhubaneswar India

. Managed major programs which involve multiple groups such as

development, UAT & end users to test & deliver Business intelligence

application

. Managing, Coordinating, Planning and Execution for all Tibco GI and BW

Testing, Manual testing, ETL testing and Automation Testing

. Coordinated QA efforts of multiple projects that resulted in

consistent on-time and efficient test deliverables of the program.

. Defined and implemented Overall program Test Strategy & Test Project

Plan.

. 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 on a program level.

. Handling all operational activities of the team which includes

resource management, billing, invoicing clients, budgeting the

projects, reviewing the estimation, identifying suitable candidate and

inducting them to the team.

. Define program level test estimates and made sure the program is

within the budget.

. Coordinated post implementation testing process for each release.

. Involved in HP Quality Center Customization for the testing projects.

Project Manager (2008 - 2009) - Client: CIMB Bank - Kualalumpur Malaysia

. Managed major programs which involve multiple groups such as

development, UAT & end users to test & deliver Business intelligence

application

. Managing a project team of professionals with appropriate skills,

attitudes and motivation.

. Handling all operational activities of the team which includes

resource management, billing, invoicing clients, budgeting the

projects, reviewing the estimation, identifying suitable candidate and

inducting them to the team.

. Managed individually all implementation work for all the

implementation across Retail, Investment banking

. Supervised senior software engineer and junior engineers in direct

testing of applications, development of test methodologies, and

preparation of test-related documentation.

. Formulated project management plans and measured and monitored actual

results against plans.

. Involved in various requirement, process improvement and product

improvement discussions with client

. Trained the end users on how to use the AML applications in there day

to day operations.

. Involved in proof of concept to other clients

QA Lead (2007 - 2008) - Client: TCS Bancs (SEI Investments USA, Bank Of

China, CIMB Malaysia, CBI, PNB UK, CUB) - Bangalore India

. Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of

project.

. Defining & Implementing Test Strategy

. Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager

(Technical and Soft skills).

. Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them

have sufficient work in the project

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

iterations testing and deployment activities.

. Status Tracking and reporting all testing activities using HP Quality

Center

. Involved in Risk Assessment and provided risk mitigation solutions

. 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.

. Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at

the completion of project.

. Involved in designing Automation framework using Win Runner.

. Involved in Performance testing using load runner

. Involved in Bugzilla Customization for the testing projects for defect

tracking

QA Automation Lead (2006 - 2007) - Client: TRG - Kolkatta India

. Review and understand project requirements.

. Framework Analysis & Design

. Automating framework implementation

. Review Unit Test cases and test results

. Defect management process which includes Defect logging tracking and

status reporting

. Involved in review of System and UAT test cases

. Record & Report the results of the tests conducted.

. Prepared Traceability Matrix and Test Coverage Matrix and status

reporting

. Involved in Performance Testing using load runner

QA Automation Lead (2005 - 2006) - Client: Prudential - Bangalore India

. Review and understand project requirements.

. Framework Analysis & Design

. Automating framework implementation

. Automating the Test Cases Using Win Runner Tool

. Defect management process which includes Defect logging tracking and

status reporting

. Involved in review of System and UAT test cases

. Record & Report the results of the tests conducted.

. Prepared Traceability Matrix and Test Coverage Matrix and status

reporting

. Involved in Performance Testing using load runner

. Worked closely with the on-site Project Manager for estimation and

scheduling

QA Manual Tester (2003 - 2005) - Client: Yodlee - Bangalore India

. Review and understand project requirements.

. Conducting tests that include Functionality testing, Regression

testing, UI Testing

. Automating framework implementation

. Identify tests to be executed based on the requirements of the system

. Defect management process which includes Defect logging tracking and

status reporting

. Involved in review of System and UAT test cases

. Record & Report the results of the tests conducted.

. Plan the tests to be executed based on the identified test strategy,

schedule and execute the tests as per the schedule

. Automating Test Cases using Win Runner

Skills Profile

Test Management HP Quality Center 10.0 & HP ALM

tool

Technologies Java, UNIX, SQL, Tibco BW,Python

Databases Oracle9i,DB2,Oracle 10.g,Netezza,Oracle 11i,CIM

Framework Knowledge on Hadoop Framework, Data Driven Framework

for Win Runner

BI Tools Spot Fire

Connectivity Tools VNC, F-Secure SSL client

SDLC Waterfall & Agile

Project Management Microsoft Project Plan

SCM Tool MS Visual Source Safe, PVCS

Automated Testing Mercury Interactive Win Runner 7.5,7.6, 8.0,8.2 Load

Tools Runner 8.2,Spotfire,Grid Tool.

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