Ade Oshin
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Technical Test Lead --- Infosys Public Services
Top-performing and results-driven management professional with experience
in the areas of end-to-end testing, consulting testing, test plan
development / strategy development, project implementation and delivery,
risk mitigation, issue management, project phasing and methodology, team
management, and vendor management within the IT industry. ISEB Certified
Professional with domestic and international exposure to multiple
industries, including government, banking, travel, retail,
telecommunications, and research & development. Skilled in software
development life cycle (SDLC) such as Agile, Waterfall, V-Models and RUP.
Extensive experience in facilitating requirements and analysis, designing
and test planning with respective stakeholders. Adept in identifying and
flagging cross-project or cross-team dependences impacting project
timelines. Functional understanding of IT domains/industry. Skilled in
managing; participating in an overall auditing process while contributing
to tactical and strategic planning for future quality programs and
monitoring applicable business unit work, ensuring consistency and
compliance with standard processes.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Manual and Automation Testing ? Function Testing ? Integration Testing ?
System Testing ? UAT ? Regression Testing ? Estimation and Planning ?
Knowledge Share Workshop Organization and Execution? Lead and Mentor QA
teams ? Auditing
Technical Skills - HP Load Runner 8.0 ? HP QC ? HP QTP ? SQL ? ETL ? TOAD
? VB, Java, JSP ? Rational ClearCase ? Green Hat ? ProStar ? Remedy ?
Visual SourceSafe ? Unix ? Telecom billing ? CRM ? Siebel ? EDI 186 for
insurance underwriting was tested ? MS Team Foundation Server ? .Net
framework. ?Mainframes
Standards - TMM ? CMMI ? ISO9001
KEY SKILLS
. End-To-End Software Testing - Hands-on experience in effectively
conducting new end-to-end testing of integrated solutions on multiple
implementations while ensuring accurate results and assisting lower-level
programmers with programming standards. Proven ability to test all the
programs for field size increase.
. Project Management - Expertise in project planning and managing multiple
full cycle implementations with multiple phases; successfully developing
project test plans and test strategies for all phases i.e. from
functional to UAT testing and sign-off of the project.
. Client Relationship Management - Extensive exposure in managing clients,
understanding project requirements or specifications, facilitate client
interaction, and managing client expectations while ensuring smooth
execution of test projects.
. Resource Planning and Management - Skilled in efficiently identifying
resource requirement for the project, planning and managing the resources
such as financial resources, inventory, human skills, production
resources, or information technology (IT).
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS / PROJECTS
. Successfully delivered on time within budget quality software for the UK
wide bus ticketing project, benefiting 800 buses.
. Successfully delivered on time within budget quality solutions for Sogeti
Customers from Catlin Insurance Underwriter to the Government Defra
Animal Health Program.
. Test Consultant - Guided and delivered quality solutions for United
Nation's ERP, used for their resource planning, central support, finance
and budget, supply chain and other cross-functional areas.
For detailed list of projects handled, please refer to appendix.
Career History
Technical Test Lead Dec
2013 - Mar 2015
Infosys Public Services is a new generation consulting & IT services
company, focused on delivering business value to healthcare & public sector
organizations
Worked for and responsible for testing BCBS healthcare products with their
eSales.
Test Manager
Oct 2011 - Dec
2013
HCL -AXON/First Group UK, Surrey
HCL AXON, a wholly owned subsidiary of HCL Technologies, a $6 billion
global technology leader with over 85,000 employees combining unrivaled
experience in deploying the world's leading, SAP, ERP platforms with huge
industry experience.
. Responsible for ensuring retail business software applications and
hardware's in all UK locations are completely tested, functional and
deliver as per requirements / specifications.
. Defect tracking used Rational Clear case with SQL commands as query
language.
Managing Consultant / Test Manager Feb 2009 - Feb 2010
Sogeti UK Ltd., London
. Responsible for project test plan and developments for all test phases.
. Successfully delivered program/s in adherence to company policies,
standards and best practices in support of delivery, finance, human
resources, operations and sales; supported development and management of
staff in line with company objectives as well as managed all the
stakeholders' expectations.
. Defect tracking used Rational Clear case with SQL commands as query
language
. EDI 186 for insurance underwriting was tested.
. Carried out project management of all the testing phases, developed
project test plans and test strategies for all the test phases from
functional to UAT testing and signs off of the project.
Test Consultant Jun 2008 - Aug 2008
(ICC) International Computing Centre, Brindisi, Italy
ICC, established in 1971 as a common service, providing a wide range of
information and communication technology and services, on a cost recovery
basis to its users' world wide.
. Provided test consultancy including use of LoadRunner for performance,
test the UN developed application used world wide (an ERP application
based on SAP and Oracle implementation).
. Worked on the project wherein the ERP handled most of the resource
planning requirement such as central support, finance and budget, human
resource, supply chain and other cross-functional areas.
. Developed modeling performance test document for the ERP effort including
other software test consultation effort required by the customer;
reviewed the test plans, test cases for ERP and SAP performance testing
goals.
. Defect tracking Bugzilla was used with Sql query language used.
Associate Manager Mar 2007 - Mar 2008
Accenture, London
Accenture, a global management consulting technology services and
outsourcing company committed to delivering innovation.
. Reported to senior manager and client management while demonstrating
operational effectiveness and development of people; created values in
addition to good interactions with clients.
. Carried out other responsibilities such as preparing test strategies,
master test plan documents and performing review of documents such as
plans, test conditions, test scripts and data.
Senior Test Analyst / Test Manager Apr 2004 - Mar 2007
Atos Origin, London
. Ensured adherence to project life cycle quality management including
greater emphasis on V-Models; software change management; ISO 9001; ITIL
and CMMI; specification of information flow, processes and procedures and
data structure.
. Reviewed and ensured correctness of functional and non functional
requirements and documentation and signoff.
. Carried out interviews and conducted workshops.
. Responsible for project test plan and development of all test phases,
project test strategies, estimation and planning, team leadership,
stakeholder and vendor management; applied best practices in support of
delivery.
. Delivered projects while planning timelines, budget, margin and quality
specifications.
. Established and managed project plans; assigned and reviewed delegated
tasks, performance and resourcing requirements.
. IBM mainframe was used as a server and storage see resume's appendix.
Quality Assurance Leader Sep 2003 - Feb 2004
GE Energy, Denver Colorado USA
GE Energy Network Reliability Services provides an expanding portfolio of
innovative product and service solutions for the utility, communications
and public system industries.
. Reported to pre-release QA leader and development manager.
. Responsible for overall quality of release throughout the lifecycle for
the project team.
. Managed and mentored outsourced team based in Hyderabad, India and 4
others based in Denver office.
. Developed quality plans for project and prepared detailed test plans for
covering functional and non functional tests.
. Identified resource requirements for QA and testing tasks and established
test team with appropriate skill-sets.
. Ensured adherence to project life cycle quality management including
emphasis on the V-Models, software change management, ISO 9001 and CMMI.
. IBM Mainframe system\360 was used as a server
. Assigned and scheduled test tasks to test team members including test
designing, implementing, execution and maintenance, as well as managed
onshore and offshore project team members.
. Design Manager, an application developed for utilities companies such as
energy business, electricity, water etc.
. In charge of project life cycle work products, requirements and technical
specifications and design models.
. Undertook detailed test design, test case development and implementation
and execution of manual and automated test scripts.
. Contributed to work of QA CoE, recommended process improvements and
identified through six sigma projects.
. Ensured all defects detected by the project team were reported in the
defect tracking systems.
. Participated in the project change control board; prioritized and tracked
reported defects and worked with the project team members to ensure
timely closure.
Senior QA/ Validation Engineer May 2001 - Mar 2003
Intel, Lafayette, Colorado USA
Intel Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturer supplying technology
solutions for the computing and communications industries.
. Reported to the engineering director and responsible for writing and
executing test plans, strategies and procedures on telecommunication
equipment to validate products as per design specifications.
. Documented and analyzed test results including bug reproduction,
validation and resolution.
. Remedy was used for defect tracking with SQL as query language.
. IBM Mainframe system\360 was used as a server.
. Mentored junior staff members and staff from Bangalore, India while
assisting developers with test requirements and supervising four direct
reports.
. Reduced bug counts for VoATM and VoIP products to an absolute minimum as
agreed by the customer by developing and implementing improved test
processes and plans including defect management tool (Tibet) used to
track bugs and their resolution.
. Completed all projects on time and within budget post managing project
activity schedule, milestones and release calendars and notes; delivered
periodic reports regarding project milestone to engineering senior
managers.
. Enabled on time project delivery after tracking test time per project and
adjusting according to priority, severity and necessity.
. Continuously improved the validation process by ensuring a cohesive team
approach with developers by effectively liaising to create and run
system, functional, system and regression test plans and test cases.
EARLIER CAREER
Senior Member of Technical Staff 1997 - 2001
Nortel, Simi Valley, California USA
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Communications and Network Sep 1988 - Sep 1989
Systems
Metropolitan University, Leeds UK
Post Graduate Certificate in Management Mar 2010 - Jun 2011
Northampton University UK
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Sep 1982 - Jul 1986
University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK
PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
. ISEB Software Testing Certificate (Foundation and Intermediate)
. Project Manager School - Internal Training
. Requirements Analysis using UML
. Siebel 7.7 Core Consultant Internal Training
. Siebel Analytics: Data Warehouse Developer Training
. Mercury: LoadRunner for the Web Training
. Solution Delivery School - Internal Training
. IBM e-business solutions internal training
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
. Member, British Computer Society (MBCS)
. Chartered Engineer of Engineering Council
. Chartered Information Technology Practitioner
. Registered Chartered Information Systems Engineer