MEDHA KELKAR

**+ Yrs Exp Mob No: - 1-203-***-****

I am on L2 visa with a valid employment authorization –EAD.

Career Summary

A quick and forward thinking, capable & committed team lead with a proven ability for on timely delivery, effective co-ordination and successful project completion. Focus on results and able to utilize project management skills, new techniques, methodologies in project completion. Capable of handling large system test.

Professional and Leadership Strengths

Over 12 years of experience in System and software verification and validation activities by participating in project planning, system design, leading test strategies, request for change & support plan for system stability.

Strong technical experience of 9+ years in Product Quality Assurance, UAT, Software and application patches, fixes implementation and upgrades.

Diverse and extensive experience in Black box, Manual, Regression, Functional, System testing, User acceptance, load and performance testing.

Experience in all aspects of test management test estimation, test cycle planning, and test case design and test execution with hands on experience using test management tools like Quality center and JIRA

Experience in Test documentation & review – Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case, Defect report, bug lifecycle.

Hands on experience conducting beta tests, evaluating beta issues, post production issues, carrying out RCA and improving quality verification plans to tackle these issues, performance issues.

Experience in design & executing test cases based on business & technical requirement.

Have good knowledge and working experience in Vendor Packaged solutions for Legal, Law, Enterprise risk & Asset protection and data driven testing for integrations through SOAP calls APIs, XML, MB/MQ and ETL Datastage from data driven testing

Hands on experience on CI/CD pipeline

Experience in handling PCI data and HIPPA data

Strong experience of 4+ years in project management with Test management and leading small – medium team.

Strong experience in Agile Scrum practice and Waterfall flow for product development.

Experience of working on CMMi, six sigma tools, SDLC and Testing Life Cycle.

Led and managed multiple projects of 3 - 10 members in Onsite-Offshore delivery model

Excellent interpersonal, Communication and Analytical skills

Educational Qualification

B.E (Instrumentation) - 2002

Vidyavardhini College of Engineering & Technology, University of Mumbai

Experience Summary:

Jan’11-May’17 with Target Corporation India, Bangalore, as Lead Engineer

Nov’04 – Dec’10 with Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as Senior Engineer

Feb’03 – Nov’04 with Technical Trade Links Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai as Project Engineer

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems : Win XP/ Windows 7/ Windows 8/Windows 2008/

Windows 2012/ Unix

Testing Tools : Selenium, SOAP UI

Testing frameworks: TestNG

Test Management and

Bug Tracking Tools : HP Quality Center 10.0, Bugzilla, JIRA

Scripting Languages : XML, HTML, Javascript

RDBMS : SQL server 2008, SQL server 2012, Oracle

Platform/System : JAVA, ASP, Dot Net

Programming language: Java, C++

Web Servers : IIS, Apache Tomcat

Application Server : Windows

Environment : Web based, Client server, ODBC based, Desktop,

Embedded application

Packages : MS-Office

Trainings:

Intermediate Project Management - DRIVE

Agile 101

DevOps training Basics ( Dojo for 8 weeks)

Six Sigma green belt (Honeywell)

Professional Experience & Profile:

Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. (January 2011- May 2017)

Worked with Target as Lead Engineer as part of Corporate systems- Asset protection portfolio

Visitor Management and server monitoring

November 2016- May 2017

Review the business and technical requirements and provide an estimate for the testing timelines and schedules.

Involve in the Project Cost Estimate, Schedule, Control, and Risk Analysis, Hours allocation for individual resources

Coordinating with vendor and onsite team members to ensure timely deliverables.

Tracking Project status and submitting weekly Dashboard metrics to Stakeholders

Review Weekly QA test status reports and take necessary actions.

Provide technical support to the onshore/ offshore testing team.

Attend standups, sprint planning and backlog grooming of projects and provide inputs from offshore team.

Timely escalation of issues/risks to Project Manager/ Scrum master.

Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.

Develop the knowledge base within the project for a quick reference.

Initiated use of selenium for verification.

Technologies, process and platforms used: Windows server 2012, Linux servers, Oracle 12G, Java 8, Agile, Jira, Chef, Git, Jenkins, Sensu monitoring, ServiceNow

Legal Applications- New software implementation, patch updates and upgrades for Sotware version and production infra

June 2013- May 2017

Co-ordinate with Users and Onsite team for requirement gathering/issue resolution.

Analyzing user raised request; Work with Business Analyst in translating business requirements into Functional Requirements Document.

Review the Business Requirements and provide an estimate for the Design, testing and deployment

Coordinating with Offshore and onsite team members to ensure timely deliverables.

Prepare design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including testing that culminate in end user acceptance of the results.

Reviewing the Design Documents and present the design to the design review board

Handling queries and defects from system testers, end users

Schedule, prioritize and distribute the work to the offshore and onshore team.

Technologies and platforms used: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows server 2008, Windows server 2012, Unix servers, Oracle 11G, Oracle 12C, ETL Datastage, JSON, XML, SQL server 2008, SQL server 2012, SOAP, REST, SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, Jira, Windows Hyper V, clustered environment, Dell storage, file storage, ServiceNow

VMS and Access Control System Integration

October 2013 – May 2017

oCo-ordination with different stakeholders like Vendor, Project Management, Business & Testing team for successful test and verification of the solution and Implementation.

oDeveloping project plan, resource plan, estimation & risk mitigation plan.

oDeveloping test strategy, test plans, and test reports

oReviewing test scenarios and test cases.

oMonitor the test execution to be the timelines.

oMentoring & training the team on technical aspects of the Domain.

oPrepare system integration design documents, review with review boards.

oEnsure timely implementation and deployment on production.

oProvide support post production, document the issues and hand over the details and train L2 support

Access Control System Upgrade (Team size 5)

May 2011 – August 2013

oCo-ordination with different stakeholders like Vendor, Project Management, Business & Testing team for successful implementation of patches & changes.

oDeveloping project plan, resource plan, estimation & risk mitigation plan.

oMentoring & training the team on technical aspects of the Domain.

oLeading test phase during upgrade like test plan, test management & execution.

oParticipated in design document creations & design review

oDefine System maintenance parameters.

TVS and related tools

January 2011- April 2013

oDeveloping project plan, resource plan, estimation & risk mitigation plan.

oMentoring & training the team on technical aspects of the Domain.

oLeading test phase during upgrade like test plan, test management & execution.

oDefine System maintenance parameters.

oMentoring team on test methodologies.

Technologies and platforms used for all above projects Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows server 2008, Windows server 2012, SQL server 2008, SQL server 2012, Quality Center, Windows Hyper V, clustered environment, Dell storage, ServiceNow

Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (November2004- December 2010)

Worked with Honeywell as Senior Engineer

Mainly responsible for product qualification of Honeywell Security and bulding solutions applications as part of quality assurance and large system test team.

Product Quality Assurance of full SDLC and Test-only projects.

Provided inputs for System integration lab designing.

Industry driven large enterprise system application testing and testing of system for UL, SIA and EN standards.

Customer support for pre & post product release.

Complete ownership of test management, QA validation process and documents.

Bring in the process improvement in the project to show improvements in productivity, reuse & reduced rework.

Get involved in requirement phase and conduct SGR & RCA at different phases to improve upon the product quality to minimize the field issues.

Metrics collection & analysis during test cycle & closure of action items.

Coaching & mentoring the team for high throughput.

Initiatives like automation (Winrunner) to reduce test cycles and simulation to mitigate infrastructure limitations.

Building positive and negative test cases

Preparing test results and matrices.

Perform Black box, Functional, Regression, Performance, Stress and Integration Testing for software and hardware (embedded applications)

Re-testing of the fixed defects.

Coordinating and communicating issues; causes to developer.

Lead rout cause analysis and QA release procedures.

Improve test plans and test coverage based on beta testing and production issues.

Technologies and platforms used: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows server 2003 Windows server 2008, SQL server 2003, SQL server 2008, Winnrunner and QTP basics, CVS, Bugzilla, Jira, Lean, Kanban, Process improvement, Six sigma

Technical Trade Links Pvt. Ltd. (February 2003 to November 2004)

Employed with TTL Pvt. Ltd. as a Project Engineer for 1.9 years in Electronics Security Systems:

Involved in Sales, Marketing, Fire System Layout Design & Technical Support

Represented the company in Fire exhibition.

Preparing quotations & bids.

Project Management: Project Planning, Material Procurement & Monitoring.

Carrying out Inspection & Training of Client for handling ‘Smoke Detection Fire Alarm System’.

Involved in creation of user manual & complete project documentation.

Maintained ISO9000 documentation for projects

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