Quality Assurance Manager
Resume:
ANDREW ANTONEYPILLAI
*** ****** *** . ***** **********, NJ 07062 .
E-Mail: *******@*******.***
QA MANAGER . QA PERFORMANCE ENGINEER
Multifaceted, resourceful management professional with distinguished career
supporting Enterprise Quality Assurance, Software Life Cycle process for
Web based industry. Able to build solid relationships with strategic
partners as well as consensus across multiple organizational levels,
resourceful leader demanding and delivering excellence in building strong
teams and delivering consistent, high quality products while managing in
house and Offshore QA groups.
AREA OF EXPERTISE:
Software Development Life Cycle Startup and High-Growth Organizations
Technology Strategy, Direction and Strategic Planning and Organizational
Road-map Leadership
Team Development and Leadership Project Planning and Management
Business Process and System Process and Productivity Improvement
Integration
New Product Launch and Management Offshore and Near-Shore Expertise
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2 Archive Systems Inc, Fairfield, NJ 2007 - Present
3 QA Manager
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Managed all aspects of testing and quality assurance group for SAAS based
ASPEN flagship applications.
Established process improvements resulting from lessons learned and
benefits surveys; with focus on continual improvement and considerably
reduced production related defects.
Planned and built the QA department from scratch. Including VM ware based
QA lab to reduce hardware and maintenance cost.
Reduced QA test cycle and documented all testing processes to identify
areas of improvements to reduce waste. Our test cycle was cut down by 45%
and continued to deliver high quality products to our clients.
Implemented QA document traceability matrix for SAS 70 type 2 audit.
Involved in introducing SCRUM development methodology to technology group.
Introduced Microsoft Team Foundation Server to Technology group. The
technology group was able to accomplish all the tasks using one utility and
QA department was able to save $300,000.00 on QA automation tools.
Reduced customer downtime by 3 hours during monthly maintenance window.
This was accomplished by introducing TFS based automated scripts.
Established department-wide standards for functional test coverage
documents, QA cycle status reports, Stress/Load testing requirements and
considerably reduced customer support calls due to improved testing process
and coverage
Restructured the QA department after three rounds of layoffs to maintain
consistent work-flow
5 WebMD.com 2003 - 2007
6 QA Architect
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8 Oversaw all day-to-day operation of the QA consulting division,
coordinated all QA, performance requirement and build process activates.
Established and managed an offshore QA team which provided services to
multiple engineering organizations in the company and Implement off-shore
testing model to support multiple automation projects utilizing HP
QuickTest Pro and LoadRunner.
Designed and set up application monitoring systems to pro-actively alert
proper staff of production problems.
Formulated suggestions for defining, prioritizing, and completing projects
on schedule and within budget.
Established state-of-the-art QA testing lab to cut cost on the servers and
Co-location power consumption by 30%.
Conducted performance testing on all POC applications which include
implementing Mercury Deep diagnostic and LoadRunner tool to improve
performance testing, reporting and EMC Content Management System.
Responsible for gathering and analyze business requirement, Creating test
approach for performance testing and support Business Intelligent group for
integrating OMNITURE Site Catalyst BI beacons.
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10 G - Line Inc. 2001 - 2003
11 Project Leader
Directed design implementation of technology solutions for company's
clients.
Participated in entire Project Life Cycle, from assessment, documentation,
work-flow, system testing, post-implementation evaluation and follow-up.
Provided real time, practical consultation and guidance to project teams on
the implementation of SDLC processes and quality principles.
Enhanced systems effectiveness and provided information and reports for
management decisions.
Designed IT Infrastructure, Provided Technical support. Implemented EDI
Trading systems to connect with GM mainframe to Servers.
LNS Rubber. Designed and implemented Accounting Control System for LNS
Rubber LLC.
12 Eb2b.com 2001 - 2001
13 QA - Team Leader
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15 Managed all aspect of QA testing for B2B application based on Interwoven
Content Management System and Gentran EDI server
Identify application's high-risk aspects, set priorities along with
determine scope and limitations of tests
Identify Test approaches, methods and Identify test environment
requirements
Developed Schedule estimates, timelines, and milestones. Involved in
writing test plans and developing test cases from Business Requirements.
Interacted with developers, users and various members of my team to resolve
defects.
16 BN.com (Barnes and Noble) 2000 - 2001
17 QA - Automated Test Script Specialist
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Developed test plans and test cases for application browser compatibility,
e-book and hand-held devices.
Developed automated Win Runner test scripts, defining scenarios and
procedures for Barnes and Noble website.
Participated in Defect reviews with Team Leads and various team members to
resolve defects and their priorities.
Jcrew.com 1999 - 2000
QA - Senior Web Tester
Developed test plans and test cases for web based application.
Responsible for all black box testing.
Participated in defect reviews with Team Leads.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science (1996 - 1999)
Eastern University, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Advanced Computer Security Certificate (2009 - to date)
Stanford University, CA, USA
Diploma in Web Development and Business Programming (2001-2002)
Chubb Instituted, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Technical Training:
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA 2003), Site Catalyst V.11
User Training (March 2005), Mercury Load Runner Basic and Advanced Training
(September 2005), Mercury .Net Deep diagnostic Training (February 2006),
Microsoft TFS Server (June 2008), CORADIANT True Sight (August 2005)
Operating Systems: Windows server and workstations, Read Hat Enterprise
Linux, UNIX, Linux Sues and others, Novel Netware
Web/App Servers: Apache, Tomcat, Web logic, Microsoft IIS 6 and JBose
19 Search Servers: ENDECA, Verity Search engine
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Applications Technology: .NET, C#, XML, Ajax, ASP, FoxPro, VBScripts.
Testing Tools: Mercury Load Runner, QTP, Quality Center, Microsoft Team
Foundation 2005/2008, Silk
Test, Silk Performer and Silk Radar
Network Tools: Cisco, NETSCALER 6/7 CORADIANT, Site Scope and Mercury
Business Availability Center
Database: SQL 2000/2005/2008, Oracle 9i/10g
Content Management: EMC Documentum, Microsoft CMS, Interwoven CMS, Dot Net
Nuke (DNN)
Other: MS Exchange Server, MAS 90, Site Catalyst, Cordiant True Sight
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TECHNICAL SKILLS
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