Quality Assurance Engineer

Seema Kalwani

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

. Principal Quality Assurance Engineer with 11 + yrs. of professional

experience in Information Technology with extensive experience in

performing Quality Assurance and Manual Testing

. Technically Highly experienced IT Professional offering a gratifying

career span of over one decade primarily in the areas of end-to-end

Project Management, Global Business Delivery, Testing & Quality

Assurance, People Management on storage and security projects with

Computer Associates, spearheading functions as Principal Quality

Assurance Engineer with CA (India Technology Center), Hyderabad.

. Working experience on implementation and deployment of CA Control

Minder and integration of CA Control Minder with other products like

CA Site Minder, CA Auth Minder including the third party Business

Objects for report generation.

. Good exposure of Selenium and web service testing

. As a Scrum Master, Responsible for integrating the testers in the

development teams, Use risk based testing and have the testers

reviewed the unit test cases.

. Responsible for maximizing the throughput and assisting team members in

adopting and using Scrum

. Responsible in adding a test scrum, Implement test retrospectives,

Plan for open problems, create a Burn Chart and helps in preparing

the product backlog.

. Good knowledge on various Testing Methodologies such as

Agile, Waterfall, Prototype and Spiral.

. Has the commitment to the project and the goals of the current sprint as

the team members do

. Conversant with all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC),

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Req. gathering, Analysis,

Design, Development, Implementation, Testing

. Expert level knowledge on HP Quality Center/Test Director

. Excellent Analytical, Problem Solving Skills and a Motivated Team Player

with good communication and inter-personal skills.

. Expertise in developing and maintaining overall testing

methodology and strategy, documenting Test plans, creating

Test cases and executing Test Scripts based on baseline

requirements.

. Proven success in multi-tasking, handling multiple

projects, responsibilities, involved in hiring, conducting

technical interviews and in conducting trainings

AREAS OF EXPERISE

Operating Systems IBM-AIX 5.3, Sun Solaris 8,9,10, Linux (Red

Hat/SUSE), HP-UX, Linux390, Windows NT/2000/XP

Languages C, C++, HTML, XML, SQL, Korn/Bash Shell

Scripting, Perl, TCL, Expect

RDBMS Oracle 9i/10g,Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2007

Microsoft Visual Basic, VB.NET, ASP.NET

Technologies

IDE / Other Tools Eclipse, MS Office

Scripting Language VB Script, Java Script

Testing Tools HP Quality Center, Selenium and Database

testing.

Version Control CVS

Tools

Bug Tracking Tools CA Star,HP Quality Center

Project Management Version One, IBM Rational Team Concert

tool

App/WEB Server Apache, Tomcat, JBoss

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Science - Kakatiya University, Warangal, India

CERTIFICATIONS / ACHIEVEMENTS

. Trainer for Wipro in Access Control Implementation and administration Dec

2010

. Outstanding contribution to the Best team of the quarter Jul-Sep 2010

. Awarded Leading Successfully @CA 2009

. Completed Official (ISC)2 CISSP CBK Seminar, 2007

. Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA)

. Certified Scrum master (CSM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPRERIENCE

CA Technologies, Hyderabad

Jan '05 - Jan '15

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer/Scrum Master

Description: CA Control Minder is part of the CA Data & Resource Protection

solution family. It provides a complete solution for host access control

and privileged user management (PUPM). It protects critical servers,

applications, and devices across platforms and operating systems by

controlling access as well as secure auditing and reporting. The solution

also uses policies to ensure regulatory compliance by controlling

privileged user access to system resources and tracking their activity

while clearly defining the circumstances under which access is permitted.

And, with its new UNIX Authentication Broker (UNAB) feature, UNAB lets you

manage UNIX users in Microsoft Active Directory (AD), which allows the

consolidation of authentication and account information into the enterprise

AD as opposed to having UNIX credentials on various systems.

Responsibilities:

. As a Scrum Master, I was responsible for conducting Sprint plan

meeting, Preparing Product backlog, and Preparing Sprint burn down

chart and Sprint Retrospective meeting.

. Responsible for running the Daily Scrum meetings and Shields the team

from external interferences.

. Responsible for facilitation of meetings, resolving team member's

impediments and understanding team member's issues & protecting teams

from product owner/management.

. Responsible for preparing minutes of meeting, follow up the Action

items(if any) and ensured that the Action items are completed on time

and if not completed, took the responsibility of meeting the concerned

resource to know about the hindrance and helped in overcoming that.

. Worked across functional business units, Product Management,

Development and QA teams to provide solutions for various business

requirements.

. As a Quality Analyst, Involved in taking the ownership for Gordon

upgrade project release

. Efficiently handling day-to-day activities covering wide functional

areas include designing & developing the workflow program, debugging

and troubleshooting of the application.

. Accountable for providing quality standards for operational areas &

ensuring adherence to quality standards.

. Extending technical leadership involving analyzing & resolving service

requests developing application & unit, integration & system testing.

. Leading efforts across understanding requirements, creating test

strategies and prioritizing the test cases.

. Actively participating in meetings for discussing the status & issues

governing project deliverables.

. Carrying out detailed planning and scheduling and provide technical

support to ensure seamless delivery of the project within time &

budgetary parameters and with optimum utilization of resources.

. Built and maintained healthy business relations with clients, thereby

enhanced client satisfaction matrices by achieving delivery & service

quality norms.

. Actively involved in testing, test case generation and execution for

given requirements

. Gained experience in tracking and reporting defects. Identified,

classified and reviewed the defects

. Actively involved in framework setup for creating test strategy, test

plan, test scenarios and scripts.

. Involved in review meetings & documentation review. Analyzed bugs &

resolved issues reported by clients

. Meticulously reviewed & prepared the test cases and coordinate the

testing activity with the development team.

. Executed test cases, diagnosed and resolved problems and generated

problems reports.

. Led efforts across understanding the requirements, creating test

strategies and prioritizing the test cases.

. Proactively worked on multiple projects ensuring Quality Assurance &

Testing of integrated circuit products.

. Generated advanced level designs while tracking, testing and

applications programming along with the validation & verification of

complex software applications, maintaining & validating coding &

software standards

. Liaised with the Management team while testing the projects and

applications & work on their implementation requirements

Environment: IBM Rational Team Concert, Linux, Windows XP/2000/2008,JBOSS,

Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2008/2012, Active Directory, HP Quality center9.0

NIIT, Hyderabad

Jan '04 - Dec '04

Faculty

Description: NIIT is a leading Global talent development corporation,

building a skilled manpower pool for global industry requirements to help

the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges

[pic]Responsibilities:

. Worked with NIIT's training solutions in IT, involved in imparting

training in various subject matters including .NET, JAVA, C, and C++.

. Handled the lead role in training and mentoring individuals to get

expertise on different subject matters.

. Acted, as a teacher and project contributor in facilitating the

curriculum needs.

. Provided hands on training in solving crucial software and hardware bug

thus making the team members subject matter experts.x

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