SUMMARY
Around * years of experience in IT industry in Software testing. I have practical exposure on different types of testing techniques, testing methodologies and have sound knowledge on SDLC & STLC. I am self-motivated with good work ethics. Good time-management skills with ability to manage several tasks/projects simultaneously to meet deadlines. I am a team player with analytical, relationship management skills and good leadership qualities.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
FUNCTIONAL
Domains, mainly worked on are Bank & Insurance domains.
Sound knowledge on S/W Test life cycle methodologies.
Experienced in Agile testing.
Involved in requirements definition, functional specifications and gap analysis.
Thoroughly involved in projects starting from Test plan, till user acceptance testing.
Got exposure on Team management and Quality Assurance.
Acted as liaison among management, development and testing team for Requirements and QA.
TECHNOLOGY
Operating System
Windows 2K/ XP /Vista
Programming Languages
Java, HTML
Databases & Tools
SQL Server 2005, Access 2000, Oracle 8i
Other Utilities
Load Runner 8.0, Quality Center9.0, Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0, SOAP UI, Jira.
CERTIFICTIONS
ISTQB Foundation level.
TMAP Next Test Engineer.
Achievements
1st Project Star Award received in Q2-2011 for salient performance in Capgemini India.
2nd Project Star Award received in Q4-2011 for commendable handling of a sub project in Capgemini India.
MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.
Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, &Testing.
Well experienced in Agile Software Development Framework-Scrum.
Acted as liaison between testing and development team for Requirements and QA.
Rich experience in Testing effort estimation, Test Planning, Test case preparation, Test execution, Defect reports, Daily status reports. Managed reports, analysis and decision-making for testing a change request.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Nationality Indian
Work Permit H4-EAD
Email *************@*****.***
Contact number 973-***-****
Location New Jersey 07869, USA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Title: SKF (Website and Identity Management Tool)
Client: SKF Sweden
Organization: Capgemini Kolkata India (Sept 2014 to Sept 2016)
Role: Agile Test Consultant
Project Summary: -
SKF.com is website to access all SKF products online. It provides full information about SKF products and allows customer to buy product online.
SKF is a well-known ball bearing company having several products like Bearing and Units, Mechatronics, Lubrication Systems, Services, Seals.
SKF project is divided in sub modules handled by separate sub teams. I have worked on two of those SKF.com(website) & SAP IDM modules.
SKF.com is a website including several functionalities like any other sites. This is basically for end user where user can create account and access the application. This website has certain roles and privileges defined for accessibility of applications.
SAP IDM is an identity management tool which is mainly used to manage identity of SKF employees. This tool is integrated with different systems and directories to create, maintain, enable, disable, inactivate user’s accounts in different locations.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
In this project, I was responsible for:
Involving in daily stand-up meeting for status updates
Constantly interacting within the team and the product owner to clarify user stories and changes
Designing Test plan
Identify risks and share with team for early solution
Prioritizing testing task to meet the deadline for every sprint
Preparing Test Summary Report
Handling support tickets
Performing monitoring of Production servers
Project Title: Veda Advantage (Insurance Domain)
Client: Veda Advantage Credit Bureau, Australia & New Zealand
Organization: Capgemini Kolkata, India (April 2010 till August 2014)
Role: Test Lead
Project Summary:
Veda is one of the largest Credit Bureau in Australia and New Zealand. It tracks the credit histories and related information of individuals. Whenever a person applies for credit, housing, employment, or anything else that their credit history could have an impact on, their potential creditor, landlord, or employer can check the information on file with the credit bureau. Veda provides credit reporting, credit scoring, and marketing analytics services. It assists businesses of all sizes make decisions on credit provision, risk management, fraud prevention, customer acquisition and management. The Company was previously known as Baycorp Advantage, which was a merger of Australian company Data Advantage and New Zealand Company Baycorp. The name change was prompted by the sale of the Baycorp Collection Services which will retain the Baycorp name. The name change has already been applied to its listing on the Australian Stock Exchange.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a test team lead, I was responsible for:
Providing QA effort estimations
Interfacing with SMEs for walkthroughs and Requirement clarifications
Designing Test Plan, Test cases,
Performing backend testing & Grey box testing
Preparing Defect report
Preparing Test Summary Report
Issuing QA pass for release
Mentoring new joiners and other team mates for successful deliveries
As a PQL, I was responsible for:
Reporting Monthly Metrics in PMTS
Attending organizational PQL Training and Metrics Training
Validating data on efforts, size, schedule from Organizational Tools
Validating data on defects from Review Logs and Test Defect logs
Ensuring MSR (Monthly Status Report) is sent by Project Manager and CSA (Configuration Status Accounting) is done monthly by CM (Configuration Manager).
Participating in CAR activities: Ensure Causal Analysis is done
Ensuring that the Code Review Peer Logs, Unit Testing Checklists, Test Case Peer Review Logs and Test Case Peer Review checklists are filled in and available.
Ensuring that SM Review is conducted every Three months for the project using SM Review Checklist
Participating in internal and external audits.
Ensuring that the non-conformances are closed by PM/SDM raised in Audits.
Monitoring quality processes followed by team.
Project Title: Online Program Monitoring System
Client: State Govt. of Bihar, India
Organization: Deloitte Kolkata, India (Jan 2010 till March 2010)
Role: Test Lead
Project Summary: This was a domestic project and was aimed to develop an ‘Online Program Monitoring System’ for a proper data management of Education system in Bihar state of India. ‘Online Program Monitoring System’ was a web based application developed to provide a solution for the data entry of Government Education system in a state of India.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a Testing resource, I was responsible for:
Writing Functional Requirement Document
Participating in team meeting for task status and project details
Writing Test plan & Test cases
Test case execution
Performing Agile testing
Preparing Defect report & Summary report
Taking part in application presentation in front of client.
Involving in application deployment at client site.
Project Title: Zhiyog System
Client: RCSC Bhutan
Organization: Deloitte Kolkata, India (Sept 2009 to Dec 2009)
Role: Quality Analyst
Project Summary: A web based application to facilitate the human resource activities in RCSC and its Agencies. Zyihog system was developed to record all the activities of an employee from his/her recruitment to the retirement. It consists separate modules to perform all the employment activities separately. The application was divided in the six major modules like Recruitment, Training, Transfer, Promotion, Secondment, & Separation. The entire flow of the application was centralized to these modules.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a team member, was responsible for:
Interacting with development team for design specification
Writing test plan document
Writing & executing test cases for all functionalities
Performing functional & Regression testing
Preparing Defect Report and Status Report
Participating in Team Reviews
Project Title: Global web site WCPS
Client: PWC USIT
Organization: PWC Kolkata India (Oct 2008 till Sept 2009)
Role: Software Consultant
Project Summary:
The WCPS was intended to replace the currently used Shared Publishing Environment (SPE) system. The goal of the WCPS effort was to create an enterprise quality long-term content management and publishing system that provides a single application for managing the source Web content that was published to and consumed by the PwC.com external Web site.
RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Team Member, I was responsible for:
Requirement understanding & attending the meeting with BA for overview of the application
Writing & Executing the test case using Quality center
Performing functional Testing & Reporting the defects
Performing Retesting & Regression Testing
Project Title: My Client
Client: PWC USIT
Organization: PWC Kolkata India (Oct 2008 till Sept 2009)
Role: Software Engineer
Project Summary:
An audit tool globally developed to be used by PwC employees to audit the National & International client’s applications like financial year auditing. The audit process starts after the risk assessment by My Client. In this application, there are several modules for different functionalities like A&C and Team Find.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a Team Member, was responsible for
Executing the test cases using Quality center
Reporting defects, updating test cases in quality center and performing retesting.
EDUCATION
1.MSc IT (Master of Science in Information Technology) Sikkim Manipal University, India
2.MSc in Chemistry (Master of Science in organic chemistry)
CSJM University India.
Best Regards,
Kalpana Y Singh