Ashish Avasthi
Email: ******.************@*****.***
Contact me: +91 – 987*-***-***
Address: Gaur Green City, Indrapuram, Ghaziabad, U.P. 201010
Visa Available: US B1, UK, Australia
Passport No: M3960308
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Master of Computer Application 2002 with 76%
Master of Science in Math’s 74%
CERTIFICATION:
Rational Functional Tester Certified in Java
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Having 13+ years of progressive experience and proven record of significant, successful contribution in delivery of functional, automation and performance testing projects included NFR testing:
Onsite experience for USA, UK and Australia based clients to demonstrate testing solution and define delivery model; evaluate new business engagement from existing ongoing transition and for new customer.
Experienced in people management, scope management, time management, quality management, client interaction and executive summary reporting to management team
Domain knowledge of Airline including PSS migration for APAC and UK based customer, Retail domain for USA based customer, insurance domain for USA and UK based customer.
One point of contact for technical issues resolution, manage on-shore and off-shore team model.
Performed monthly quality audits on all team members to make sure CMM process should be followed through which consistently achieving a 99 percentage quality assurance.
Involved in Pre-Sales technical support customers of company; Prepare & review detailed request for proposals for foreign customers. Prepare technical presentation of proposals, manual and give demos.
Extensive experience manual testing project management, hand on experience in functional automation and performance testing. Ready to accept technical challenge with adequate solution and meet customer contentment is always in priority of deliverables.
Proven hands-on experience with quality assurance practices, including project plan development, test strategy development, test plan development, test case & test data review, and test automation.
Extensive experience in to identify performance bottleneck and cause analysis of database server, application server and BIZTALK by using PSSDiag, perfview and Ostress tool
Setup the process and guidelines of performance and automation projects. Coordination and management between different team like infrastructure team, BIZTALK team, development team of different modules, build team, CM team and DB team.
Infrastructure requirement analysis of performance testing and identify contentions in hardware using monitoring tools.
Successfully works with people within and across organizational boundaries to build agreements, guidelines, and standards in order to resolve issues and create consistent practices.
Has worked under Testing COE and Facilitate Testing offerings, Pre-sales, Case Studies and Create responses to proposals for clients
Experienced in Contract Review, Identifying & Defining Project Scope, Planning, Estimation, Recruitment, Executive reporting, Process analysis and improvement, Risk management
Experienced in testing & deployment of 25 Million USD Application development and support projects/sub-projects in one calendar year in current release model
Experience in iterative process: RUP, EUP
Tools:
Functional Testing
Visual Studio 2010 ultimate coded UI with CUITe
Rational Functional Tester 7.0.1, 8.0.1- IBM Certified
Rational Manual Tester 7.0.1
Eggplant on Mac OS
Performance Testing
LoadRunner 9.5, 11.0
HP ALM Performance center 11.0 and 11.52
Rational Performance Tester 7.0.1, 8.0.1
Visual Studio 2010 ultimate Load Test
JMeter
Web service performance testing
Online batch performance testing
Performance debugging tools: PSSDiag, Perfview, HP Site scope and Ostress
Test Management
PVCS Tracker, Bugzilla, JIRA, Team Foundation Server
Quality Center 11.52
Continuous integration environment for Jenkins, Sub version with JMeter
Development Technologies
SQL Server 2008R2, Oracle8i
BIZTALK
Mobile Testing
Demo and POC to airline customer on functional and performance testing of mobility apps using Perfecto for android and IOS device
Performance testing of mobility apps using loadrunner via http/https and trueclient protocol on android device on different networks
Performance testing of mobility apps using NeoLoad for android device on 2G, 3G and 4G networks for airlines application
Non Functional Testing
Offline batch performance testing on 500 mil of data size
Third party interface performance testing
Accessibility, usability, availability, cross browser compatibility testing
COMPANIES SERVED:
Company Served
Tenure
Designation
NIIT Technologies Ltd.
Oct 2010 – Till Date
Test Specialist
Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
Aug 2009 – Sept 2010
System Analyst
HCL Technologies Ltd.
Jan 2006 – July 2009
Lead Engineer
Quark Media House (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Nov 2004 – Dec 2005
QA Engineer
Aithent Technologies Ltd.
Jun 2004 – Oct 2004
Software Test Engineer
Pixeltech India
July 2002 - Jun 2004
Software Test Engineer
PROJECT DETAILS:
1.SITA Company: NIIT Technologies Role: Test Specialist
Tool: LoadRunner, Quality Centre
SITA is a multinational information technology company providing IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry. The company provides its services to over 430 members and 2,800 customers worldwide which is around 90% of the world's airline business.
SQACE team with AIP test process having standard process asset library for different products of SITA.
Discussion with customer and Draft NFR test strategy & test plan for different product
Manage functional testing of different products HIAS, Bag journey, world tracer
Manages NFR testing of different products of SITA: Worldtracer, Bag journey etc
2.PSS Migration tigerair airline Company: NIIT Technologies Role: Test Specialist
Tools: Functional Testing, VS2010 Premium CodedUI, Team foundation server, LoadRunner
Worked for Australia based client on airline domain – Reservation, Inventory, Revenue, Reporting, Finance & Utilities; PSS migration project in terms of data migration, infrastructure upgrade and pairing with new third party vendor systems.
Key third party vendors are Vedaleon, Levarti, JBA, Navitaire etc. and systems are IBE, MMB, Kiosk software, Automated Bag Drop, Mobile App - Booking and Check-in, Itineraries – Email, OTA, Staff Travel Portal, Travel Agency Portal, Skyspeed, Skyport, Skyfair, Skyutilities Skypay, Skyreport etc.
Propose risk based testing approach due to various business constraints which includes data validation, RBAC, system, integration, cutover support and performance testing; tool used TFS and LoadRunner
Project effort is approx. 2500 person days; Team size 10 has planned to complete in 3 phases
20% coverage of critical business scenario performance tested
95% test case are automated using codedUI and CUIte which reduced 30% effort for IBE and MMB
3.BA.Com Company: NIIT Technologies Role: Test Specialist
Tools: Functional Testing, Quality Center 11.52, Performance Center 12.0
Worked for UK based # 1 airline core functionality incident management & reservation system
Demonstrated & proposition for functional and performance testing of client application after demonstrated the NIIT testing capabilities. Engagement for functional and Nonfunctional testing; used quality center and Performance center 12.0
Continuous integration with Jenkins, subversion for build schedule and management
NIIT having 15Y of partnership with british airways with core size of 250 resource
Preparation of test schedule, strategy, test execution analysis and reporting to customer, executive summery reporting to management.
Achievements: transaction completed on time as planned with 0 defect in UAT Phase.
4.IMES NOVA Company: NIIT Technologies Role: Test Specialist
Tools: Functional Testing, VS2010 Ultimate CodedUI & Web Test, Team foundation server, PSS Drag, Perfview, ostress
Australia based client on travel domain for Victoria state of ANX which includes infringement, enforcement order and warrant management; 37 third party system and 250+ offline batches
Inherited three disparate cross-functional teams and through team-building, cross-training, and skills building, created a single team of professional testers in project team size 200+
Increased team size from 12 to 20 through a combination of on-shore and off-shore recruitment
Introduced and expanded the use of test management and test execution tools to improve tester efficiency, reliability, and repeatability
Understand the application architecture to do the performance testing feasibility criteria. Preparation of performance test schedule, performance test strategy, guidelines, executive summary reporting, workload model document, performance scripting, validation and execution.
Coordination between different group of teams, infrastructure management, identify bottleneck in data base, application server using monitoring tools like PSS diag and perfview.
Performance testing has done on synthetic data of DB size 500GB with millions of records for infringement, obligation, debtors, enforcement and warrants. 500 GB of data volume has generated using SP’s.
Has done performance testing profiling to collect SQL trace to identify which SP or command causes congestion the system.
There are approximately 34+ external interfaces though which data is either inbound or outbound. Has done performance testing of interface on technology SFTP, Web services and UI.
Performance testing of batches which schedule daily, weekly, quarterly, yearly. Tuned 123 batch execution time 7 days to 8 hr with in SLA.
VS2010 ultimate tool setup controller and agent’s for1400 to 2000 user load run.
Responsible for resource allocation and time estimation for projects
Infrastructure management including alignment of services
Automation testing feasibility identification for 5000 test cases. Preparation of automation test schedule and strategy, guidelines, executive summary reporting.
3000 Test cases are automated using VS2010 Ultimate codedUI and CUITe. Developed modular framework with different set of UIMap and functions.
5.Virgin Australia PPS Migration Company: NIIT Technologies Role: Test Specialist
Scope: Functional Testing
Worked for Australia based client on airline domain – Reservation, check-in, boarding & scheduling; PSS migration project in terms of data migration, infrastructure upgrade and replace existing shy’s system to sabre systems
Systems Skyspeed, Skyport, Skyfair, Skyutilities Skypay, Skyreport migrated to sabre systems like sabre-interact, sabre schedule manager etc
Proposed testing includes: data validation, RBAC, system, integration, cutover support, regression, sanity, and performance testing
Project effort is approx. 3500 person days; Team size 20 has planned
6.SIRIUS (Insurance Product) Company: NIIT Technologies Role: Test Analyst
Tools: Functional Testing and LoadRunner
Demonstrated & proposition performance testing of client application after demonstrated the NIIT performance testing capabilities. Has done technical analysis of application to identify compatible tool for PT. Understand the application architecture to do the performance testing feasibility criteria.
Preparation of performance test schedule, strategy, workload model, critical business flow and guideline documents
Creation of scripts for identified business processes based on client needs and executed as per workload model document
Executive reporting, defect management, milestone planning
Analyze performance test results to evaluate bottleneck either at infrastructure end and database issues using monitoring tool.
Planning of activities, monitoring, tracking daily status of team and status reporting to stakeholders
7.Ernst & Young Online Company: Hexaware Role: System Analyst
Tools: Rational functional tester and rational performance tester
Worked for USA based # 1 auditing company E&Y on automation and performance testing transaction in rational tools.
Had drafted the guideline document on rational performance tester and rational functional tester tools to setup process
Had drafted performance test strategy, workload model, executive summary, demo to client and bottleneck using monitoring tool.
Identification of creation business scenarios and scripts creation
Monitored applications resources using IBM Tivoli
Analyze performance test results to evaluate impacts on production environment
Identify bottleneck at database and application server mainly in memory leakage.
Had created model library automation framework using rational functional tester and do feasibility study of functional test cases.
Has automated 98% of functional test cases using RFT.
8.iLab® Ultrasound Imaging System Company: HCL Technologies Role: Lead Engineer
Tools: Rational functional tester, rational performance tester & rational manual tester
Worked for USA based healthcare product company Boston Scientific Inc. on automation and performance testing transaction in rational tools.
Identify/Establish test environment with NVIDIA GEFORCE 8400 GS video cards.
Prepare Validation and Verification document of US FDA which is required as evidence for FDA approval
Had done feasibility analysis of functional test case which can be automated using rational functional tester.
Had drafted automation strategy, schedule, executive summery and estimation plan of each milestone.
Had built up automation team of 4 with proven trainings, guidelines and set of demo
Had automated approximately 85% of functional test cases and meet all milestones.
Had coordination with client on day to day status, issues and solution.
OTHER PROJECT UNDERTAKEN
Project
Domain
Customer
Scope & Tool
Role
New Web Trade Engine
Trading
Sun Hung Kai Hong Kong
Functional & Performance Testing JMeter
Lead Engineer
Big Ticket Application
GERS Retail
Escalate Retail USA
Functional Testing
Lead Engineer
Multi-Channel Commerce
Retail
Escalate Retail USA
Functional Testing
Software Quality Engineering
STA Global- CS22
Demand & Supply
STA Global Japan
Functional Testing
Software Quality Engineering
QPS-Classic 3.5.2 & 3.5.3
Publication
India Today, Deccan Herald, National Geographic etc...around 900 customers.
Silk Test, Eggplant for MAC OS
Software Quality Engineering
Konesa 2.2 and 2.1
UML Product
Konesa 2.1Royal Bank of Canada, Konesa 2.2 OGIS Japan
Functional Testing
Test Engineer
Regards,
Ashish Avasthi