Engineer Project

Neelkanth Nidgundi

Phone: 704-***-********

email: ****@***************.***

OBJECTIVE:

• To utilize my skills and experience in Mobile Application Testing domain and contribute in

the success of an organization.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS:

• A Competent Professional with 8+ years of experience in Product/Software Testing;

currently associated with Client “Bank of America” as Technical Test Lead.

• Demonstrated excellence in working on Android, IOS operating system Mobile Applications

and J2ME Games applications using Manual and Automated testing techniques.

• Excellent track record of managing the Test Project Management activities like Estimation,

Planning, Scheduling & Tracking, Reporting and Metric collections.

• Expertise in testing activities like Test case Development and Reviews, Test Execution and

defect reporting.

• Experience in Software Development life cycle (SDLC), agile and scrum (scrum works

pro/sprint) environment.

• Expertise in Error Management.

• Solid management skills, demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individuals to

maximize level of productivity while forming cohesive team environment.

CARRIER HIGHLIGHTS:

• Working as Technical Test Lead from March 2013 to Till date (For Clients Bank of

America, Charlotte, NC)

• Worked as Quality Assurance Engineerfrom July 2012to Feb 2013 (For Clients Samsung

Telecommunication, Bridgewater, NJ)

• Worked as Senior Mobile Test Engineerfor MATR solutions, East Lansing Michigan from

March 2011 to April 2012 (For Clients T-Mobile Seattle, WA and Toyota USA, Torrance,

California)

Worked as Senior Test Engineer inNokia from Oct 2008 to Feb 2011.

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Worked as SeniorSoftware Engineer inMotorola from April 2006 to Oct 2008.

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• Worked for Vista InfoTech Pvt Ltd, Bangalore as Test Engineer as a Consultant Engineer for

SAMSUNG INDIA SOFTWARE OPERATION (SISO) from April 2004 to April 2006.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP

Workflow Management Tools / Environments: Test Central, HP QualityCenter and Software Metrics

Testing tools: QPST, QXDM, Moto Explorer, Black Tusk, PEK_3.1.4.61 and Memory Leaks testing

– Valgrind, Nokia Energy Profiler.

Error Management Tools: Clear DDTS, Bugzilla, JIRA, Sales Force and Rational Change

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Instrumentation from PDAC Engineering

Gulbarga, Karnataka, India.

ACHIEVEMENTS IN MOTOROLA:

• Bagged “BRAVO” award for excellent performance in the project.

• Received a cash prize for the giving 2 Ideas to FM Radio Application and implemented in

L6i Motorola mobile which are as follows.

FM Radio Alarm: This feature gives user a choice to choose FM radio

playing as alarm clock activation. FM Radio will play the last station set by

user FM Radio will play in speakerphone mode.

Sleep Timer: This feature gives the user a choice to set timer for FM radio

playing. FM Radio will auto turn off after the set duration

ANNEXURE

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Current Client: Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Role: Technical Test Lead/Test Engineer.

Period: March 2013

Responsibilities:

• Complete understanding of the "Bofa" mobile application functionality.

• Test Plan/ Strategy Development to capture functionality to be tested, target devices, effort

estimation, number of test cycle.

• Actively participated in all SCRUM meeting so as to review and finalize requirement and

Wireframe.

• Scripting of functional, UI, regression, performance, boundary value, error conditions

related test cases.

• Test Execution (Functionality Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Progression

Testing).

• Testing the application over Wi-Fi and 4G network.

• Stress testing of the application using Android Monkey Tool

• Testing status reporting to all project stakeholders.

• Defect Management - Defect Logging/ Review and tracking using Quality Center.

Client:Samsung Telecommunication, Bridgewater, NJ

Role: Quality Assurance Engineer

Period: July 2012

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering, analysis, and planning for QA Activities.

• Writing test plans and test cases.

• Testing execution on different future Samsung devices for new requirements of OMA-

DM/FOTA

• Testing on EHRPD/LTE technology for OMA-DM/FOTA application on Samsung Android

devices.

• Analysis of log files to find out the defect root cause and communicate with

client.

• Defect Management from start to closure in Redmine tool & participating in requirement

reviews.

• Automating the UI Regression test cases by using Android UIAutomator.

Client: Toyota Torrance, USA.

Period: Oct’11- Feb’12.

Projects: Testing Interactive Vehicle Applications Based on Telematics and Microsoft

Azure Cloud Environment and Entune EV Applications on Android and

iPhone Devices.

Environment: Android (SDK V 2.2, 2.3), iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, Prius Car.

Defect Tracking: Salesforce.com.

Stress Testing: Monkey Testing, Cygwin.

Role: Functionality Owner and Test Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Formulated the Test Plan for Functional Testingof Entune EV applications.

• Develop / Review the Test Cases document using the Behavioral model.

• Execute the Functional test cases on Android and iPhone Devices with Prius Electric Car.

• Developed the test result.

• Involved in collaborating the Product Status and Project Hygiene Reports (Daily, Weekly

etc.).

• Played a key role in setting up of the test environment and test bench for monkey test.

• Managed the tracking/reporting of the activities, including test results, test case coverage,

defect discovered, performance baselines, etc.

• Hold the distinction of logging the Project Related defects in the Salesforce.com bug

tracking tool.

• Involved in the error management actives triaging, analysis, moving to correct stake holder.

• Setup the Stress testing Cygwin tool for Monkey Testing and run the required seed values

and generate report.

• Involved in performance testing of an applications on Android and iOS devices.

Client: T-Mobile Seattle, WA.

Period: May’11-Oct’11.

Projects: T-Mobile Mall, VVM Application and My Account.

Devices: Samsung Galaxy, My Touch Slide 4G, Nexus S, HTC MyTouch 4G,

Samsung Galaxy 10 inch Tablet &Huwaei 7 inch Tablet.

Testing Tools: HP Quality Centre.

Stress Testing: Monkey Testing, Cygwin.

Role: Senior Test Engineer.

Responsibilities: Senior Test engineer.

• Prepare the Test Plan for Functional Testing.

• Prepare the Functional Test Design through Behavioral Modeling

• Develop / Review the Functional Test Cases document using the Behavioral model.

• Execute the Functional test cases and prepare the test result.

• Collaborate Product Status and Project Hygiene Reports (Daily, Weekly etc.).

• Setting up the test environment and test bench for monkey test and execution for the

required seeds.

• Tracking and reporting activities, including test results, test case coverage, required

resources, defect discovered, performance baselines, etc.

• Log project related issues in the QC tool identified for the project.

Nokia Work Experience: (Oct 2008 to Feb 2011)

1. As an Module lead Responsibilities:

a. Was involved with the functional testing of s60 browser apps to the Qt platform

applications (like Download manger, Album Download, Text Wrapping and

widgets)

b. Tools used: HP Quality center, Back Tusk, TSW, Bugzilla, Jira, Rational Change

and Scrum work.

c. Nokia Energy Profiler: Used to monitor the power, current, processor, signal

levels and RAM consumption,

2. As an Error Manager:

a. Involved in the error management activities for QtWRT 1.0 and Maemo –

Harmattan program (triaging, analysis, moving to correct stack holder, publish

weekly statistics report to management etc.

Responsibilities: As Test Lead & as Test engineer.

• Study the user story/Requirements for Feature testing.

• Prepared the estimation for testing activities.

• Check/Review the user cases and test scenarios.

• Check / Review the Test Cases document.

• Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.

• Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work

in the project.

• Organize the meetings and Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with

the client.

• Send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client.

• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers for iterations, Testing

and deployment activities

• Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage,

required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.

• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and

maintained.

• Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.

• Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.

• Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft

skills).

• Check for timely delivery of different milestones & Motivate team members.

Motorola Work Experience: ( April 2006 to Oct 2008)

Projects : L6i, Pianosa and ELBA (GSM) phone, Razr2 V9m (CDMA) phone

Client : Reliance India Infocom, Motorola India and Motorola China

Testing Team : 6

Testing Tools : Test Central, Moto Explorer, DDTS, PEK Tool, RDS Lite

Responsibilities: As Module Owner responsible for

• Prepared Test Plan for Feature testing and Brew PEK Testing.

• Prepared the Test scripts for Functionality of Feature.

• Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.

• Organize the meetings and attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with

the client.

• Send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client.

• Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.

• Involved in the test cases execution.

• Run the required modules using PEK tool and generate the report.

Samsung Work Experience:

Project - 1: CCB - SAMSUNG, SCH-E159 & Samsung HERO Color Display Mobile

with Camera, BOSS - SAMSUNG CDMA-SCH-N380 Mobile, SAMSUNG

MONOCHROME Mobile (CDMA-SCH-N356).

Client : Indonesia, Reliance India Infocomm Limited TATA Indicom.

Testing team : 4

Duration/Period: April 2004 - April 2006

Location : Samsung (South Korea), SISO-Bangalore and Indonesia.

Environment : The handset is based on Qualcomm’s MSM chipset with REX OS.

Responsibilities : As Team member responsible for

• Prepared the Test scripts for Functionality of Feature.

• Executing the Functional Test cases.

• Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.

• Testing of Native applications on live network.

• Capture the Logs using the QXDM.

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