Engineer Management

Varsha Desai

Test Lead Email: *********@*****.*** Contact : 732-***-****,

Iselin NJ

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

o 9 years of core testing experience in test management, strategy,

planning and test process establishing.

o Independently managed end to end deliveries for large testing

accounts.

o Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies

like Agile, Waterfall.

o Lead large teams of multiple skills resources and complex

automation project.

o Automation testing using different tools like QTP, Fitnesse,

Selenium Web driver

o Experience in resource forecasts, capacity planning, estimation,

resource planning and fulfillment.

Domain

o Led dynamic and large teams for customers in HealthCare, Telecom

and Trading and copyright domain.

o Exposure to Web Application Testing.

Achievements

o Defined testing metrics for the organization to help them

review the test cases and test scripts.

Proficiency

o Managed projects involving automation and manual testing.

o Efficiently handled manual testing team.

CERTIFICATION

Certified ISTQB and ISEB Foundation exam (Sept2008).

HP certified in QTP 9.2

Certified Scrum Master[CSM] (July 2014)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Test Documentation Design, Preparation and Review of test cases.

Reporting, Status tracking and Categorizing of

Defects.

Defect Verification

Automation Approach document

Automated Testing Implementation Process document.

QA Skills Smoke Testing

Regression Testing

Automation Testing

Functional Testing

Integration Testing

Database SQL

Testing Tools QTP9.2

Quality Center

Fitnesse

Selenium Web Driver

Jira - Defect Tracking tool

HPQC

Specialist Test Management

People Management

Risk Management

Test Strategy and Planning

Quality Assurance

Cross trainings

CAREER PROFILE

Mar 2012 - Sept 2014 SQS India Pvt. Ltd., Pune India

Dec2010 -Feb 2012 Mphasis an HP company, Pune India

Aug2008 - Nov2010 : Synechron Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India

Mar 2007 - Aug 2008 : Sungard Technology Services, Pune, India

May 2005 - Feb 2007: Verisoft Info Services Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India

(ISO 9001:2000 Organization)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

For SQS India Pvt. Ltd (from 2012- Sept. 2014):

Test Lead (from 2012- Sept. 2014)

Team Size :12

Applications : 3

1 Client : Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)

Contribution:

. Accountable for the overall test delivery including involvement and

responsibility of the end-to-end lifecycle from the project initiation

to the sign-off

. Provide ongoing coaching, support and advice the core team member on

project related issues

. Analyzing the tests and preparing the estimations

. Managed the entire offshore testing teams with respect to task

tracking, report generation tracking and metrics collection.

. Handling multiple projects and there different types of activities,

releases in the timeline

. Analyzing the project risks and escalating to the management

. Provide timeouts feedback and maintain professional communication to

related stakeholders of the project

. Preparation and review of Test Estimates, Test Plan and Test Strategy.

. Efficient defect management and tracking.

. Monitor and resolve testing issues.

. Study of the Functional Specifications for the application.

. Design and writing test cases in HPQC

. Automating the scripts of PRM tests

. Communicating with onshore team lead

2. Client: ABN AMRO, Amsterdam (Mphasis: 2010-

2012), Pune

QA Team Size: 3 (Offshore)

Module Lead (Aug 2008 - Apr 2010)

Applications: 1

- Accountable for the overall test delivery including involvement and

responsibility of the end-to-end lifecycle from the project initiation

to the sign-off.

- Preparation and review of Test Estimates, Test Plan and Test Strategy.

- Expertise in Financial securities and Investment banking domain.

- Involve in all facets of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

- Brought in efficiency in the usage of Quality Center for Test

Management.

- Maintained test plan and test case review checklists.

- Responsible for the entire SDLC phases for metrics reporting like

phase containment, defect density, requirement volatility, etc.

- Maintained test artifacts like peer review comments, external review

comments. Tracked those to closure.

- Generation and review of project metrics including both development

and testing metrics.

- Managed the entire offshore testing teams with respect to task

tracking, report generation tracking and metrics collection.

- Ensured maximization of the usage of Quality Center.

- Efficient defect management and tracking.

- Monitor and resolve testing issues.

3. Client: LOCALMATTERS, US

(Synechron), Pune

Synechron Technologies Pvt. Ltd

QA Team Size: 10 (Offshore)

Duration: Jan 2009 - Nov2010

Testing Process: Manual and Automation

Description: The Local Matters Quality Assurance organization has combined

FitNesse and Selenium Remote Control to form the foundation of their

automated smoke and regression approach. Each automated test is created by

generating XPath expressions. All the test cases are written in the

FitNesse wiki, using an automated format, regardless of whether individual

tests are to be executed manually or automated. Thus, converting a test

from manual to an automated one requires very little work. Local Matters

helps Yellow Page publishers and local portals with creation of custom

content in regional languages, hence the focus remains on automating the

sites created in regional languages instead of the English version.

Senior Test Engineer (Jan 2009 - Nov 2010)

- Introduced quality aspects in testing activities like conducting

reviews, look-ahead meetings, kick-off meetings and monitor minutes

of the meetings.

- Contributed to the Test Plan design.

- Provided inputs for defining Test Strategy.

- Implemented test case optimization technique called orthogonal array.

- Test case design, peer reviews, external review follow-ups, test

cases execution, defect tracking and analysis.

- Maintained test case review checklists.

- Defect tracking to closure.

- Change request management.

- Test reporting using Quality Center.

Test Engineer (May 2005 - Dec 2008) Sungard Technology Services

& Verisoft Info Services Pvt. Ltd

Automation test engineer:

- As an automation test engineer, designed automation scripts and

executed the same using 'QTP' tool.

- Also performed the regression testing using Automation tool as QTP, a

Mercury Interactive tool. Running of the automation scripts and

reporting defects using QTP and 'Test Director'.

- Create automation scripts using Test Director and execute the same.

- Integrate QTP with the defect management tool to execute the test

cases from Test Director.

- Created and updated regression test packs.

- Analyzed the enhancements to the applications for script creations.

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Manual testing:

- Responsible for the system study, analysis, design, development of

test case/scripts.

- Analyzed Software Requirements documents and Business Requirements

documents to get a better understanding of the system on both

technical and business perspectives

- Created and executed regression test cases.

- Designed and Executed Test Cases and Test Procedures using BRD and

FRD.

- Designed and Executed Test scenarios and test Cases using Excel and

HPQC for trading and MIS projects.

- Had thorough understanding of the database tables and fields.

- Maintain requirement traceability.

- Found the Defects when running the test cases and assigned to

Developers using Defect Tracking tool.

- Tracked down the root cause of a defect identified; till the database

values.

- Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.

- Designed and documented all the issues and defects to ensure

application software functionality for present and future builds.

- Exposure to Web applications.

- Regression testing.

EDUCATION

Sr. Exam Institution Year Of

No. Passing

1 Master of Pune University 2013

Commerce

2 Master In Bharati 2000

Computer Vidyapeeth's

Management I.M.E.D (Pune

University)

3 Diploma in I-People 2004

Software

Testing

4 Bachelor Garware College Of 1998

Of Commerce

Commerce

INTERESTS

Reading, Traveling and Music

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