Technical Test Lead

Tina Vallabh Kande

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Technical Test Lead

Objective

To work in a challenging environment that provides opportunity to learn key technologies, be an effective team player in Testing, managing projects and to be an asset for the organization by delivering to the best of my capabilities.

Professional Summary

Working as a Technical Test Lead at Infosys Limited since July 2014.

More than 8 years of experience in software testing.

More than 7 years of experience in testing of retail, manufacturing, financial and insurance domain.

Proven ability to successfully test and deliver complex projects within the stipulated time.

Experience to work under global delivery model with onshore offshore coordination.

Working experience in functional testing (web based, post order), regression testing, smoke testing, black box testing, Back end testing (Database testing), integration testing, user acceptance testing.

Extensive exposure to client, business and customer interaction.

Working knowledge of defect management process.

Technical Skills

Operating System : Windows98 / XP / 7 / 8/10, UNIX.

Languages : C, C++, Java, SQL, HTML, RDBMS.

Database : DB2, Oracle.

Testing Tools : JIRA, Quality center 12.01, VSS, Clear Quest, Clear Case, UFT, SOAP UI.

Scripting Language : VBscript.

Professional Experience

Test Lead, Harley Davidson Financial Services, Chicago, US Sep ‘12 – Till Date

Maintaining and leading a QA team for 5 - 8 members.

On an average delivered 2 large projects, 4-5 medium and 10 small projects a year consistently without any slip in dates due to testing .

Provide support additional projects not included in the plan and align the schedule to deliver a good quality project on time.

Implemented the RCA process to prevent production defects leading to improvement in testcases, requirements, project and process based knowledge of the team and code quality.

Added value by improving defect management process and achieved a low production defect percentage..

Provide production implementation support on a regular basis.

Work on test plan creation and reviews with business.

Coordinate between stakeholders, vendors and end-users to provide inputs and plan the overall testing scope to align with the schedule and requirement coverage.

Maintaining effective coordination between onsite and offshore.

Created excel vba tools for reducing execution time, data analysis and comparison required during the project.

Work with Business to prepare UAT scenarios.

Work on requirement management, traceability, release planning and maintenance .

Wok on integration testing of various financial, insurance, customer facing, bureau applications.

Prepare weekly and monthly test reports to present the monthly progress and achievements to client.

Received multiple appreciation and awards for excellent contributions to the project and team.

Test Analyst, Toyota Motor Sales, Infosys Pune,India Dec’11-August ’12

Worked on initial setup of the Project with effort estimation, resource requirements, requirements gathering and transitioning the project to Infosys from a different company.

Prepared test scenarios for a new version of Dealer daily application which could in addition to its current capabilities supporting TMS/USA Dealer operations in Mexico for the Lexus brand, and support the installation of access to the same base code, to the extent possible.

Conducted walkthrough of the requirements with the team.

Mentored team members and transitioned the project responsibilities before moving to a new assignment at client location overseas.

Test Engineer, Cummins, Infosys Pune, India Aug ’11-Nov ‘11

Worked on two projects power suite and Extended warranty simultaneously with the development team to unit test the two applications.

Created a unit test plan and guided the development team on better testing practices such as use of defect reporting tool, test planning and test reporting.

Used clear quest for test execution and clear case for test repository .

Reviewed unit testing testcases to create a fine test suite.

Test Engineer, John Lewis, Infosys Pune, India Jan’11-July ’11

Worked on testing the multi-channel Order management (MCS OM) programme in John Lewis to implement a multi-channel fulfilment order management system (MCF OMS) as the common platform to manage all customer orders.

Worked on RTM and testcases creation, test execution with a comprehensive coverage of requirements.

Owned and maintained the regression suite.

Reviewed testcases written by the team members and contributed towards creating a robust test case suite.

Performed data driven post order flow testing.

Assisted in training new members of the team and leveraged them to contribute towards project execution.

Worked as an active member of the team building group by conducting various activates to help the team work efficiently like brainstorming activates, conducting review sessions.

Used SOAP UI for validating various post order sales data.

Test Engineer, Sears Holding Cooperation, Infosys Kerala, India Jan ‘09- Dec ‘10

Lead the content management testing team and coordinated with onsite for daily execution and reporting.

Worked with senior testing team and contributed to the project by reducing test execution time by clustering testcases and rewriting exiting testcases providing greater value in less time.

Developed and executed testcases for Sears, Mygofer,Kmart, Kenmore.com and thegreatindoors.com retail web application.

Worked on regression, functional and smoke testing and provided detailed test execution reports and accurate analysis of failures.

Setup test data, scheduled and executed batch jobs using Unix and validated the database against the batch job test results.

Prepared requirement traceability matrix and provided test execution estimate.

Trainee, Infosys Limited, Mysore July’08-Dec ‘08

Extensive training in Java.

Completed development training project in JAVA.

Trained in QTP and testing methodologies

Certifications

Internal

IVS Technical Foundation

IVS Technology-JEE Elective

Introduction to Retailing

Basics of CPG Retailing.

RETL - Basics of CPG retailing

Infosys IQ Foundation

External

ISQTB Foundation Certified

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering May 2008

Goa University, Goa-India

Achievements

‘Best Rookie Award’ received in Q1 2009 ‘R&R awards’

‘Certificate of appreciation’ for Cross format project.

Project team award for consumer online application project

5 first gear awards received for Harley Davison project

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