PAYEL KAR

E-Mail: acob9v@r.postjobfree.com Mobile No:

425-***-****

Summary of Skills

. 7 years of work experience in the software industry, focused on software

testing and quality assurance.

. MS in Computer Science from State University of New York.

. Experience in managing live site incidents.

. Experience in working on-site and remotely with the management team to

define business and system requirements for successful

deployment of solution and services.

. Proficiency in HTML/DHTML, JavaScript, PHP & MySQL, Perl, UNIX, C,

Oracle 9i/8i, Microsoft Access and Excel.

. Expertise in QA Methodologies, Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC), Test

strategy, Test metrics, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

. Ability to manage relationships and expectations of the customer and

work with staff at all levels.

. Reliable team player experienced in working with multiple products

simultaneously, in multiple team environments.

Education

Binghamton University, State University of New York

Master of Science (M.S); Major: Computer Science

Bachelor of Science (B.S); Major: Information Technology

Experience

ComScore Inc, Quality Assurance Test Lead

[April'12 - Present]

ComScore is a leading internet technology company that measures what people

do as they navigate the digital world. ComScore's AdEffx is an end-to-end

advertising effectiveness solution. AdEffex is used to plan, test, validate

and evaluate advertising success with a single, comprehensive solution

designed for today's cross-media world.

. Participated in scrum meetings with product management and engineering

teams to discuss customer issues, customer needs and new feature

Implementation plans based on customer needs.

. Worked closely with product management and engineering team to define

technical milestones and ensure on-time deliveries of new product

features in each Sprint in an agile environment. Define and execute

manual test cases for new feature.

. Improved defect detection rate by writing automated test scripts in Perl

and shell scripting in UNIX.

. Mock up test data, execute manual regression test regularly prior to

release to production.

. Mentor and manage other QA Engineers.

. Develop test plans and test cases.

. Introduced a new process of developer test case sign off prior to release

code to production.

. Improved performance by conducting user acceptance tests (UAT) and end to

end tests.

. Debug and RCA customer reported issues in a regular basis.

. Query MySQL DB using PGIADMIN tool for backend testing.

. Track defects in JIRA.

. Worked on Amazon AWS console, a simple and intuitive web-based user

interface for cloud management for all aspects of AWS account, including

monitoring monthly spending by service, managing security credentials.

Empower Software Solutions, Quality Assurance Analyst

[Sep'11 - Feb'12]

Empower Software offers an enterprise web based human resource payroll,

time management and workforce management software.

. Worked in a fast paced Agile/Scrum environment having interaction with

the developers and the business teams.

. Represented Empower product capabilities to our customers using an

understanding of the customer systems and business need to create a

comprehensive solution.

. Applied software development principles, concepts and techniques with a

focus on business analysis, requirements definition.

. Worked closely with product management to convert custom features into

product enhancements.

. Involved in UAT testing for verifying employee's access to various

security templates for various pay entities.

. Involved in generating data on the backend by writing PL/SQL queries,

stored procedure using SQL Server Management Studio to run employee's

payroll reports, generate paystubs, on demand checks, etc.

. Worked on QTP automation tool to automate payroll web application.

. Worked on Quality Center (QC) management tool for writing test cases and

logging defects.

Volt Technical Resources, Software Test Engineer at Microsoft (client)

[Aug '10

- August'11]

. I worked for WPC Engineering Service team under Windows Mobile 7 at

Microsoft.

. The main focus was to run manual/automated SHA (Self Host acceptance)

and SHER (Self Host Extended/Experience Rating)

tests on mobile applications.

. Involved in running test automation using AutoSelfhost tool and analyzing

test failures.

. Responsible for writing and updating test cases based on any new feature

change request.

iFusionIT, Software Test Engineer at Microsoft (client)

[Nov'08 -- July'10]

. Conducted Hands-free profile tests on Mobile phones using SMRP 2443

toolkit and Windows CE through automated tests using Platform

Builder. Conducted Human Interface device tests on Windows CE.

. Responsible for writing test automation code using C# for Bluetooth API

Tests.

. Responsible for White-Box testing in C# on Bluetooth API applications.

Involved in testing the new functionalities based on test cases and

coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.

. Executed Code Coverage test pass using MAGELLAN Code Coverage Reporting

Utility on Bluetooth.

Excell Data Corp, Software Test Engineer at Microsoft (client)

[Jan

'08 -- Oct '08]

. Worked with Job-TEU-Converter tool using C#, XML.

. Responsible for creating XMLs to schedule test runs in TERRA (Test

Execution Reporting website).

. TERRA website displays unresolved test failures assigned to a particular

alias, resolved failures by test run based on Branch, date and total

number of test runs which are selectable by users.

. Developed toolbar gadget for TERRA test runs using JavaScript, PHP, HTML,

CSS and PL/SQL.

. Involved in building Test Run Definition for each component to be

executed and tested in TERRA, which includes creation of a setup workflow

and marking of the WTT Jobs that contain the tests via Job Categories.

. Coordinated and maintained long-term (months) and short-term (daily) test

projects between teams.

. Led cross-team collaboration effort to solve issues before they are

released to production.

PERI Software Solutions Inc., Programmer Analyst Intern

[Feb '07 --

Dec'07]

. A leading ecommerce and web service provider supporting Multi-store

Multi-shop systems and online shopping for various clients worldwide,

especially for the online sales, E-commerce web solutions and secured

payment checkouts.

. Performed key role in cross-functional teams through development,

testing, and product launch.

. Involved in application design, site architecture design, using PHP, CSS,

JavaScript and HTML programming to meet validation requirements.

. Created the User Management for different user administrators such as

Site Administrator and Site Users.

. Provided "Due Date" functionality, added delivery date for products and

dynamically updated price based on selected dates, provided the price

break facilities contribution.

. Worked in a group of 10-15 people, developing key functions such as

customers' login details, contact information, credit card details and

inventory management of shopping cart with order details, possible

bargain price available, online support, etc.

Education

Related Projects:

. Implemented Voronoi algorithm using Java programming.

. Implementation of a decision tree induction method in Data Mining using

the information gain to select an attribute (implemented in Java).

. Implementation of two reduction methods in Data Mining: Principal

components analysis and singular value decomposition using Java.

. Development of a technology news website that combines social

bookmarking, blog-ging, and non- hierarchical editorial control, using

PHP/MySQL.

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