Usha Rani Balyam

Project Management Professional (PMP)

#***, ‘Ratna Nest’ Obamma Lane, S.R. Layout, Bangalore

Mobile: 974******* Email: acpj55@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Over 13 years of total experience, mainly with software product companies. Have been involved in software

development and quality assurance. Experience in developing large enterprise products with good understanding of

agile methodology and complete product life cycle.

Certifications

1. Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, Project Management Institute

2. Scrum Training from Intel Security Agile Coach (Rajan Seriampalayam)

Skills

• Experience in certifying quality of large scale enterprise products – process; estimates; test plans; release

activities; automation; manual and exploratory testing; product life cycle activities; planning and managing L10N

testing for the releases

• Development experience in Java, python and MS-SQL server database

• Expertise in agile methodologies; scrum – have been a scrum master for the releases; active participant in

in-house scrum master forum

• Experience in working on, Windows, Unix and virtualization platforms

• Experience in automation, database testing and performance/scalability testing

• Expertise in security domain and related technologies/standards in risk and compliance - Good knowledge of

NIST SCAP, XCCDF and OVAL

• Security champion for the risk and compliance product group – monitoring and mandating security practices

throughout PLF phases; monitoring product code, libraries for ongoing vulnerabilities in technologies

• Other key responsibilities are –

o Trouble shooting and resolving customer issues,

o Managing beta programs and interacting with beta customers

o giving demos, walk through to customers, sales, support teams, stake-holders for the releases

• Experience in working with cross-functional and cross-site teams

• Experience in people management - Mentoring and coaching; hiring; performance appraisals (direct and matrix)

Education

Degree: Masters in Computer Applications

Institute: Sri Padmavathi Viswavidyalayam, Tirupathi, AP

Year of Completion: 1995

Degree: BSc. (Maths, Physics, Chemistry)

University: Sri KrishnaDevaraya University, Anantapur

Year of Passing: 1992

Experience

1. Intel Security: 6.5 Year (May 2007 to Feb 2014)

Sr. Tech. Lead – QA for products like Policy Auditor, Risk Advisor, McAfee Vulnerability Manager

Products: These products are vulnerability and compliance assessment products in Risk and Compliance group. These

products integrate with ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform. Risk of end points is managed by monitoring

compliance and vulnerability status. Risk is determined based on audits/scans results on individual systems, raw data

of scans are communicated back to server; results are processed and reported from a single console. Reports are

generated through queries and dashboards in the product. These solutions are web based enabling users to manage

from anywhere. These products support work flow management and automation.

Java and C++ is used for server and agent side code, MS-SQL server is used for storing the data.

Policy Auditor: Policy Auditor is an agent-based IT audit solution that leverages the Security Content Automation

Protocol (SCAP) to automate the processes required for internal and external IT audits. Policy Auditor supplies

templates for compliance controls, executes these benchmarks on individual systems.

Risk Advisor: McAfee Risk Advisor takes the guesswork out of protecting critical assets by proactively correlating a

threat feed with vulnerability and countermeasure information to pinpoint at-risk critical assets that require

immediate attention. Risk Advisor helps determine what countermeasures you need, and when you need them,

enabling businesses to defend against the very real threats faced daily, including malicious hackers, viral malware,

and other emerging dangers. McAfee Risk Advisor integrates with 4 MacAfee countermeasure products; 2

vulnerability detectors and 2 application inventory collectors.

McAfee Vulnerability Manager: Vulnerability Manager enables user to quickly find and prioritize vulnerabilities, with

deployments ranging from a few hundred nodes to one continuously scanning more than four million IP addresses. If

it has an IP address or is using your network, Vulnerability Manager can discover and assess it, automatically or on a

schedule, revealing the compliance of all assets on your network.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Complete release responsibility of multiple releases of Policy Auditor and Risk Advisor

• Estimation and planning testing efforts. Creating testing strategy, test plan, use case document and test

cases. QC champion for the team. Planning and executing test automation.

• Planning and execution stress testing. Involved in performance and scalability testing.

• Involved in designing database test framework

• Driving testing activities throughout life cycle, managing milestones. Managing and executing testing

through manual, exploratory and automation testing.

• Implementation of QE processes and test methodologies – guidelines for defect reporting; conducting defect

prioritization, triage, bug scrubs; reporting and tracking of defects, defect metrics

• Reviewing requirements, design and user interface specifications and other documents

• Beta, L10N testing other certifications point of contact in various releases

• Conducted sessions on agile development, exploratory testing, product knowledge and tools that are used in

project.

• Conducting and participating retrospection sessions for releases; analysis on reasons for invalid defects

• Helping to define quality goals for each release and achieving them

• Part of backline team to resolve customer issues

2. Quark Media House: 3 Years (Feb. 2004 to April 2007)

Senior Software Engineer – QA for product QuarkXPress

Product: QuarkXPress is the #1 page layout software used by publishing industry. It handles text and graphics as

different objects which can be reshaped and layered in quite complex ways, QuarkXPress is a Unicode application

that supports and is localized in most languages including English, European, East Asian and Middle Eastern

languages. It has three types of layouts – Print, Web and Interactive. XPress allows users to add layout elements like

text, line, tables, images etc. and is capable of WYSIWYG output to Print, PostScript, PDF, EPS, HTML, SWF, XML

and supports DOM interface.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Involved in various releases of QuarkXPress as Team Lead and release owner.

• Involved in Quality Assurance of most important features of the product, print and graphics

• Estimation and planning testing efforts. Creating testing strategy, test plan and test cases development,

creating integration maps.

• Driving testing activities throughout life cycle, managing milestones, reporting and tracking of defects,

defect metrics.

• Reviewing requirements, design and user interface specifications and other documents.

• Customer Interaction - Handling and resolving customer issues through emails and phone. Working with

support and sales to resolve and finalize deals; conducted beta program

• Participated in project retrospective after release – include analysis of a release and root-cause analysis of

problem areas.

3. Net4Gains, Chandigarh: 1.3 Years (Nov. 2002 to Feb. 2004)

Senior Programmer for product EasyDeal (Client: ARITAS, Australia)

Product: EasyDeal is a client/server application developed to carry out the day-to-day activities of dealers and regional

office in automobile industry. It is used to connect dealers with central office. This was developed in Visual Basic.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of Parts, Warranty, Vehicles and mail client modules.

• Development of websites using technologies like PHP and ASP.

4. Raffles Software Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore: <1 Year (8 Months) (Dec. 1998 – Aug. 1999)

QA Analyst, Client: St Computer Systems & Solutions, Singapore

Raffles Software Pvt. Ltd. is a Singapore based company, which caters to many clients in the area of client server

applications development.

Worked on e-commerce application in health care domain. It is a B2B application for Point-of-Service Settlement of

healthcare claims. Helps handling health care claims, checks claims, repository for claims, generates reports.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Involved in design and development of HealthCare Application

• Communication with customers, Mentoring and coaching team.

5. Kirloskar Multimedia, Bangalore: 2.5 Years (Mar. 1996 – Sep. 1998)

Software Engineer

Joined as programmer analyst and was leading a team at the time of leaving the company. Involved in design and

development of various IT projects – some of them include OLE server to play animations in Windows applications, Human

Resource Information Management System (HRIMS), Computer Based Training (CBT), Multimedia products Knights of the

Grail and Mahabharata and development of games to embed in the multimedia products.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Development of the projects (games, CBTs, HRMS) using Windows SDK, Visual Basic, Macromedia

Director

• Developed OLE server in C which plays animations in any windows applications.

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