Quality Assurance Engineer

KAPIL N. SUTHAR Ph#732-***-****

Princeton, NJ ***40 *******@*******.***

SUMMARY PROFILE

IT professional who specializes in IT Auditing, Quality Assurance, Validation engineering

and systems administration. Experienced in planning, designing, developing and deploying

risk assessment methods, and testing strategies for enterprise level applications. Familiar in all

stages of audit including planning, study, evaluation and testing controls, reporting findings, and

follow up audit. Experienced in system testing including integration, acceptance testing,

regression testing and functional testing. Strong experience in SDLC (Software Development

Life Cycle) from user requirements to implementation, and post implementation. An active team

player who consistently contributes to the company bottom line and objectives. Seeking a

position in IT Auditing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HARDWARE: IBM and compatibles, Compaq, HP, Toshiba, Dell, 3Com, Hubs, Switches,

Routers, Firewall

SYSTEMS: Windows 2008 and 2003 Servers, Microsoft windows7, Vista, XP, Linux, Unix

WEB TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, JSP, ASP, XML, Java, J2EE, .NET, Internet Information Server

DATABASES: MS SQL 2005, 2008, Oracle 10g, MS Access

PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP, NetBeui, IPX/SPX, and DLC, SNMP

SOFTWARE: MS IIS, MS Office Products and Outlook, MS Project, MS visual studio, MS Visio,

VMware ESX Server 3.5, HP Quality Center (Mercury Test Director), Putty.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

CISA INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUDITING

• Worked closely with IT Management and staff, external auditors, Business Unit QA, IT

Operations, IT Architecture, and HR organizations.

• Planned, scheduled, conducted, and analyzed audit results for both internal and external

audits of information technology (IT) platforms, and operating procedures in accordance

with established standards for information security, data integrity.

• Evaluated IT operations, SDLC including design, testing/QA and implementation of

systems and upgrades in terms of risk to the organization and assist in establishing

controls to mitigate loss.

• Prepared Audit Scopes, reported findings, and presented recommendation for improving

physical and logical security, data integrity and operations based on risk analysis.

• Conducted reviews of Information processing facilities, computer labs, and

telecommunication equipments, intranets to assess controls and ensure availability,

accuracy, and security under all conditions.

• Managed the audit plan, prepared reports, communicated audit finding to Senior/Lead

Auditor, as well as responded to external audit finding/observations.

• Developed and suggested creative approaches to resolving technical issues, and

maintained business needs with business requirements.

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• Communicated and clarified audit requirements, Maintained confidentiality of the audit.

• Possess working knowledge of SOX 404 and COSO Integrated Internal Control

Framework.

QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEERING

• Reviewed product requirements, design document and specifications and writing test

cases accordingly using HP Quality Center (Mercury Test Director).

• Involved in integration, installation, acceptance, functionality and regression testing and

end to end testing including stress testing.

• Worked closely with Customer support engineering and development team to reproduce

the customer issue found in the field and resolve the issue as early as possible.

• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements, defects and

test results during the QA Testing Phase and documenting procedures.

• Prepared test plans and test cases, identified software defects in the defect tracking

system, and review all the major deliverables by following the strict quality procedures.

• Conducted manual, functional and GUI testing included both client server

• Review product requirements and specifications to identify ambiguities and omissions,

make suggestions to improve requirements and ensure testability.

• Involved in GUI, acceptance, regression and functionality testing including ad hoc testing

and load testing.

• Followed Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) of the company in documenting Test

Plan, Test Cases and Test Procedure using Business and Functional requirements

document of the system.

• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements during the QA

Testing Phase.

• Strictly followed Technical Writing Procedures while formulating and executing of

IQ/OQ/PQ protocols and performed formal execution of Test Scripts.

• Performed complete unit, integration, regression, functionality and user acceptance

testing.

• Wrote and executed SQL statements, queries and stored procedures for data verification

and grey box/backend testing.

SYSTEMS/NETWORK ADMINISTRATION

• Troubleshoot and resolved network connectivity issues for enterprise and business

applications

• Designed, tested and managed disk/tape Back ups and Recovery strategies.

• Experienced in Network components including Cisco routers, switches using different

protocols such as TCP/IP and other routing protocols.

• Setup of Windows Servers, configured DHCP pool, print servers, file and application

servers.

• Setup Desktops and troubleshoot of network connectivity issues.

• Configured and maintained Network Switch for local network site.

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Commvault Systems., Oceanport, NJ Jun 07 – Dec 09

• MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF

Telcordia Technologies Inc., for Ensemble Workforce solution

Piscataway, NJ Aug 06 – Mar 07

• SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

Elephant Group, South Plainfield, NJ Apr 06 – Aug 06

• NETWORK ADMINISTRATION AND JUNIOR DBA

Bristol Myers & Squibb., for Spherion Consulting Services

Skillman, NJ Jan05 – Mar 06

• VALIDATION ANALYST

Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ Aug 00 – Dec 04

• QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

Lucent Digital Video & AT&T, Bridgewater, NJ Jan 97 July 00

• NETWORK ENGINEER/TEAM LEAD

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

AVTECH Institute of Technology, South Plainfield, NJ Nov 2009

• Certificate of Completion CISA IT Auditing Course

• Certified Information System Auditor from ISACA Dec 2009

• Certified Information System Security Professional In pursue

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ Jan 1995

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering

• Certification: Microsoft Certified System Engineer 2000

• Cisco Certified Network Associate 2000

Training: IT auditor for CISA Certification, Data Warehouse tools including Informatica, Cognos

(BI Tool).

Status: US Citizen

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