PARTHA SARATHI SAMAL

Email: aby6j0@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: +1-818-***-****

IT PROFESSIONAL - OVERVIEW

V Over 9+ years of years of extensive experience in Information

Technology in Software Testing Life Cycle and Quality Assurance

Engineering in Mobile handset -GSM/GPRS/3G/CDMA WAP Applications.

V Expertise in manual testing & Mobile Application Testing.

V Good knowledge in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC) such as Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and

Deployment.

V Experience in Black Box Testing (Equivalence partitioning & Boundary

Value analysis), Integration Testing, Usability Testing, Smoke

Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Batch Testing, Regression

Testing, Database Testing & User Acceptance Testing in mobile handsets

and web-based applications.

V Expertise of testing the application developed using

various mobile technologies including J2ME, Blackberry, Android,

Symbian, .Net Technology etc.

V Very good exposure of testing applications on wide range

of Mobile handset of different vendors which includes Nokia, Samsung,

Google, Sony Ericson, Motorola, Windows Mobile, HTC, LG, IPhone and

BlackBerry.

V Solid understanding of Agile Scrum model that allows us to focus on

delivering the highest business value in the shortest time.

V Experience in identifying bugs, analyzing, prioritizing and generating

reports by creating queries using defect management tools like Mercury

Quality center and Rational Clear Quest.

V Experience in creating test plans, designing test cases covering all

test conditions and eliminating redundancy and duplications.

V Experience in Test Effort Estimation, Executing Test Cases, Recording

Test Results, Reporting defects and Test Metrics and handling multiple

projects within the timelines.

V Experience in maintaining all the documents in centralized repository

called as MS-Share Point.

V Demonstrated ability to quickly identify and evaluate viable

alternatives to resolve issues and mitigate risks in a logical manner.

V High level of work commitment, ability to handle multiple tasks and

work independently as well as in a team.

V Worked on varied domains and projects notably being SOA, CEP, APM,

Capital Markets and Banking..

V Strong problem solving & technical skills coupled with confident

decision making for enabling effective solutions leading to high

customer satisfaction.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: WinRunner, QC, QTP, IBM-RFT, Bugzilla, Clear Quest, Team Foundation

Server, CVS, WinCVS, Junit, BIRT

Language: Java, HTML, Ant Script, Java Script, Shell Script, VB Scripting

Database: SQL Server, MySql, IBM DB2, Derby, Oracle, SAP Net Weaver, MS

Access

Process: Agile, Waterfall, V-Model

Operating System: Windows 9x/XP/NT/Vista/7, Linux Redhat/Suse/Fedora/Ubuntu

Office Tools: MS-Office, MS-Word, MS-Excel, Power Point, MS Visio and MS

Project

NOTEABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

Participated in the Grand-Finale of Accenture Software Testing Challenge

2007.

Nominated for top 10 QA professionals (Bangalore) - Siliconindia.

Yellow and Green Belt certified in Six Sigma.

ISTQB and CSTE certified professional.

Agile Scrum Master certified from Accenture.

Certified in Financial Services i.e. Banking and Capital Markets (NCFM).

ASDA certified-Testing from Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, USA

CAREER CONTOUR

Dec'09 till date Test Lead

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.

Oct'07-Dec'09 Sr. Software Test Engineer

Proteans Software Solutions

Aug'06-Oct'07 Sr. Software Test Engineer

Caravel Info Systems

Apr'04-Aug'06 Software Test Engineer

Stex Software Pvt. Ltd.

Projects Undertaken:

Farmers: Sync e-mail feature, useful for synchronization of Contacts,

calendar events and emails from Microsoft Exchange server vice versa. This

feature helps the user to take his personal data like contacts, emails, and

calendar events and store in the server. Sync transfers the data from the

mobile to the exchange server. Here the end user can perform the back

ground automate synchronization and he can operate the client. This feature

is mainly useful for the Microsoft exchange server to send and receive the

data from the mobile to the Exchange server.

Client : Farmers Insurance (May 2012 till date)

Tools / Technologies Used : iOS, Android, J2ME, Samsung,

IPhone, Nexus, Perfecto Mobile

Anritsu Network Simulator, Quality Center

Key Responsibilities:

V Reviewing and updating Test Cases as per requirement for different

releases.

V Involved in project from the kick off phase

V Involved in the end-to-end testing of the Mobile Applications.

V Attending the client calls to gather project testing requirement.

V Testing of the chat conversations, Send Receive Picture messages, MMS,

sending SMS from the chat, calling from the conversation

V Testing all the other functionalities which PC versions of the respective

messenger have like Blocking/Unblocking a contact, adding, deleting a

contact, Display of the groups etc.

V Involved in Gap Analysis Testing, Sanity/Smoke testing, Integration

testing, Port Testing, Localization Testing (Repository Testing),

Regression Testing, Performance testing and Network Simulation testing

V Automated test cases for Image & text comparison

V Bugs reporting on bug tracking tool & updating the status of the bugs

V Involved in the user acceptance testing to make sure that the application

should work according to the client requirements.

Hitachi: The push messaging service is enhanced performance on both message

delivery/sync and push management. Unlike other solutions in the market

place created real push-event technology, in which synchronization occurs

only on incoming and outgoing events, rather than via periodical checks for

change.

Push E mail client application is developing for all J2ME supported,

Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 supported devices. With the help of this

application end-user will be able to receive emails on his/her mobile from

Varity of data sources.

Client : Hitachi (May 2011 till Apr 2012)

Tools / Technologies Used : J2ME, Nokia, Sony Ericsson,

Samsung, LG, MS-Excel

Key Responsibilities:

V Involved in in-depth analysis on requirements and identifying business

gaps.

V Coordinating with the development team to fix the issues which was

reported in the Integration testing.

V Involved in ensuring the Workflow and Counterparty Workflow

functionalities are implemented as per the requirements.

V Involved in validating the functionalities in the different mail folders.

V Involved in Functional Study of application and preparation of Test

Cases from Use Cases.

V Involved in Test Case Reviews and test case execution.

V Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing,

Integration Testing, Regression Testing.

V Preparation of defect report and test summary report and sharing it with

requisite stakeholders.

V Coordination with the project manager and managing a leading a team of

15 members

JPMC: The leading treasury system in market that covers all aspects of

treasury operations - from deal inception through to settlements and

accounting. This system brings derivatives trading and processing under the

cross-asset processing standard for position management, workflow, trade

confirmation, accounting, and settlement.

Client : JPMC - USA (Dec 09 till date)

Tools / Technologies Used : Oracle, Mainframe, UNIX, Clear

Quest, Java, QC,

Clear Case, BPT, QTP, SAP BO, SQL Server.

Key Responsibilities:

V Responsible to understand and document testing requirements, provide

test estimates, create and review test cases, execute and review test

results, create and submit test reports to stake holders.

V Provide Test Estimates for the types of testing carried out i.e. for

APT (Application Product Test) and IPT (Integration Product Test).

V Worked with Application, Technical Architects, Business Analysts and

other project stake holders to estimate, plan and execute APT

(Application Product Test) and IPT (Integration Product Test)

V Ensured team is following testing standards, guidelines, and testing

methodology as documented in Test Approach.

V Created Test Strategy and Test Approach document for releases, getting

it reviewed by required stake holders and kept updating these

documents as and when the changes are required.

V Create reports (daily status reports and weekly reports) and create

testing metrics as requested by senior management.

V Manage Testers work (during test plan and test execution), ensure

testing is completed on time and within budget, resolve conflicts

arising between team members or with external team members, keep team

members motivated.

V Identify risks and provide mitigation plan. Escalate issues on timely

manner to management.

V Ensures deliverables are created as per Quality Management practices

followed by the company or as outlined for the project/release.

Participate in QA (Quality Assurance) reviews and provides required

support and clarifications as need for the reviewers.

V Ensures all the testing deliverables and reports are version

controlled and are accessible for testing team and other privileged

users.

Meridium: The world's most successful Oil and gas companies have chosen

Meridium, the leader in asset performance management (APM) solutions to

improve profitability and drive regulatory compliance by reducing

production losses, optimizing maintenance costs and decreasing the

potential for undesirable incidents.

Client : Meridium - USA (Oct 07 - Dec 09)

Tools / Technologies Used : QTP, Oracle, SQL, Clear Quest, TFS,

Quality Center, C#, .Net, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, Crystal Reports

Key Responsibilities:

V Active participation in client meetings for functional requirement study

and analysis.

V Gathering a Requirement, and Review the SRS and Design Document.

V Design and development of Master/Iteration Test Plan.

V Design and development of test case list, individual test cases to

minimize the bugs.

V Maintaining Defect, Report Defect and Problem Register using Quality

Center.

V Creating Scripts Using QTP, and performing Manual Testing for various

Modules.

V Held KT sessions for new joiners and also been an SME for Reliability,

RCM/FMEA and Metrics modules.

V Sole contributor for a module involved in agile based testing, giving

feedback to the developers for prototypes and discussing the same in

client calls.

V Preparing the test environment whenever new build is available i.e.

Database environment for Oracle and SQL and getting the Application

Server ready.

V Performing sanity test and reporting results. Worked on automating Test

cases in QTP using Meridium framework.

Corona: The Corona Enterprise suite is aimed at helping enterprise manage

their Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy. It manages different

layers of Enterprise IT Architecture. The Corona enterprise suite allows

users to monitor and manage applications in a distributed environment.

These applications can be within the enterprise or across enterprise. The

applications can be on any platform and infrastructure as long as they can

be instrumented.

Client : Redrabbit Software (USA) (Aug 06 - Oct 07)

Tool / Technologies Used : LINUX, Shell scripting, VB Script,

Ant Script, SQL, Oracle, Bugzilla, CVS, WinCVS, BIRT,

Java, JBoss, Tomcat, QTP

Key Responsibilities:

V Client (CTO) meetings, Functional requirement study and analysis.

V Trigger the build download process using FTP and getting the Application

and the Database Server ready.

V Scripting based on Keyword Driven framework.

V Performed Smoke Testing, Module Testing, Ad hoc Testing, Regression

Testing,

V Preparation, execution and updating of test cases.

V Coordinating with developers for bug fixes and issue resolution.

V Tracking and maintaining known bug list

V Allocating branches to developers and keeping a track of the CVS changes

PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS - Software Test Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

V Understanding the application and preparation of test scope, Test

scenarios and test cases.

V Performed Smoke Testing, Functional testing, and System integration

testing, Regression testing, Database testing, and black box testing at

various Phases of the development and test cycles.

V Analyzed requirements, functional design and detail design documents.

V Involved in developing the Test Plan based on Functional Specification

and Technical Specification of the application.

V Working as a team member in requirements mapping and preparing a

Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

V Involved in developing the test Cases, test data, and test scripts.

V Performed query operations on Oracle to do database validation.

V Used Test Director for requirements management, planning, running tests,

defect tracking and manage the defects and executing the test cases.

V Created security access matrix and tested the user privileges.

V Verified if the application is installed correctly on windows, and UNIX.

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

International Executive MBA from United Business Institutes, Brussels

securing 70% marks

Diploma in Project Management-Alison

B.E. (Electronics & Telecommunications) in 2004 securing 76.4%-BPUT

10+2 in 2000, securing 80%- ISCE, MGM English School

10th in 1998, securing 79.4%- ICSE, MGM English School

PERSONAL VITAE

Date of Birth : 28th May, 1983

Passport Details : H6262987

VISA Details : H1B Valid till March 2014.

Address : 22122 Victory Boulevard, Woodland Hills, CA 91367.

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