YAMINI THAKUR
Contact No.: +1-224-***-****~ E-Mail: ***********@*****.***
Seeking middle level assignment in Software Testing / Quality Testing with a leading organization of repute in IT / Telecom industry
PROFILE SUMMARY
A seasoned professional with nearly 6 years in Manual and Mobile Application Testing:
Software Testing
Quality Control
Mobile Applications Testing
Web Service Testing using SOAP UI
Test Planning and Execution
User Acceptance Testing
Good knowledge of Selenium and Core Java
Team Management along with Onsite and Offshore coordination
Client Relationship Management
Requirement Gathering
Adroit at executing various software quality control activities for enhancing the effectiveness of the application in multiple domains using .Net and java languages
Deft at conducting Functional, Manual, Defect Analysis, GUI, Regression, System testing, End to End Testing, Localization Testing, Adhoc and Exploratory testing, Usability Testing, compatibility Testing, Installation Testing, Smoke and Sanity Testing
Expertise in analyzing Business Specifications (BRD), Functional Specifications (FDD) and develop and execute Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts.
Well acquainted with Test case design using various designing techniques
Good in Preparing checklist for accessibility Testing
Creation of Test data wherever applicable and Test data management
Hands on Exposure to various expects of Mobile Applications Testing and Installation Uninstallation Testing
Well versed in Testing of application in various devices like IPhone, Android, IPad, Thermostat and simulators and emulators
Technical expertise in all aspects of the SDLC, STLC, Test Plan Documentation and RTM, Preparation and Execution of Test Cases as well as UAT scripts
Conversant with Iterative Model, Waterfall Model, V Model, Agile Model & Testing of POCs (Proof of Concept) and other best practices followed across the industry
Exposure of working in different Test Engagement Models and successfully completed Test CoE Projects
Skilful in performing various activities pertaining to report preparation (weekly, monthly status report, defects reports)
Very well managed metrics collection, scheduling and business presentations, internationalization and localization testing
Proven skills in collaborating & liaising with Cross functional Team, Stakeholders, Business Analyst and Managers and Development Team about the status, prospect issues or expected roadblock
Taken training in Selenium & Core JAVA from Qspiders, Bangalore
Good understanding of Selenium IDE, WebDriver and TestNG
Exposure of using Mercury Quality Center for writing Test cases, executing Test cases and defect reporting and JIRA for Defect Reporting
Resourceful in carrying out Fishbone analysis, applying VSM, assisting in estimation as well as Delphi Test estimation techniques and creating defect life cycle for new project
An effective communicator with proven mentoring, coordination, problem solving and analytical skills
Mapping business requirements and providing customized software solutions, involving finalization of test methodologies and selection of appropriate techniques along with preparation and execution of test cases
Involved in Test Bed setup and managing and coordinating to create various Repositories, Test Data preparation
Coordinating various project related activities involving project planning, execution and management in tune with the core business objectives
Designing test strategy, developing test plans and approving and review of test cases and scheduling project for releases in coordination with project managers, clients and Development Teams
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages
SQL, JAVA
Operating Systems
WINDOWS XP/2000/98,Win 7/8
Database
Oracle, SQL Server
Version Control
VSS, CVS, Tortoise SVN,git
Testing Tools
Selenium, Jenkins
Standards and Methodologies
Waterfall, Agile, V, SCRUM, Spiral
Planning and Design
MS Office, MS Project
System Development
Analysis, Testing and Documentation
Domain
Telecom, Ecommerce, Retail, Mobile Apps
Compatibility Tool
SortSite
Test Management Tool
JIRA, QC, Contour
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ju’11-Mar’13 with Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore India as Senior Engineer
Jul’10-Ju’11 with Megna InfoTech, Bangalore as Software Engineer for the client Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore India
May’07-Jul’10 with Pearl Soft Technology, Bangalore(India) as Testing Engineer
Role:
Handling the customization, testing, training, support and the generation of new change request by proactive process improvement
Planning and executing complex projects in close collaboration with management, customers and stakeholders
Managing manual & automated test execution, analyzing all the reports and identifying/ reporting defects
Attending requirements gathering discussions and managing relationship with project stakeholders, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements & deliverables
Accomplishments:
Attained an average PVI rating is 8.5 for the involved projects & No “Post Release Defects” and “Non Conformance” for the same
Achieved maximum productivity savings using different Test design techniques (Decision table, Function Based, Orthogonal Array, Test Matrix)
Instrumental in automating traceability mapping & results displaying for Test Design & Test Result process improvement
Implemented VSM in one of the projects to save the time and it has shown huge productivity.
Worked in varied domain and projects like Reengineering projects, UOP, TS, ACS Domain projects of Honeywell
Recipient of:
oSpot Award for Quick Learning and commitment towards System Testing activities of Key Mechanical Equipment Application.
oIndividual Excellence Award for Delivering Third Eye application to Production
oCustomer Champion for the Quarter 2 of FY-12
oSix Sigma Green Belt Certification
Served as a Co Author for paper presented in Step in Summit conference in 2011 on Test Design Technique
Merit of initiating several Kaizens for the testing process and project improvement
ACADEMIC DETAILS
Currently studying MS in Comp Sc. From Sofia University Palo Alto, CA
B.E. in Electronics & Communication from R.G.P.V. Bhopal (M.P.) with 68% in 2006
Visa Status: F1- Full Time CPT
Note: Refer to the annexure for projects
ANNEXURE
Senior Engineer – Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Project Synopsis: FX Service Centre users who manage and support field service organizations from the office or service centre. This includes call takers, dispatchers, service managers, accountants, purchasers, and others who need to keep their fingers on the pulse of their business.
Role: Senior Engineer
Team Size: 35
Client: Honeywell Inc.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Testing carried out for FX Service centre in Web, Mobile and using Emulators including Functional, regression, smoke, sanity, Installation and uninstallation testing.
Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
Involved in System and End to End Testing and End to end support for various regions
Recorded KT for the Project and recorded each possible workflow and key tips and Tricks which helped in developing KM index repository for the project.
Carried out Mobile Applications Testing with devices like Motorola MC 70 and Dolphin 900 and exposure of Testing Hot fixes
Worked in close coordination with the vendors, TCS- Testing team, HBS IT Team MN
Handled the customer calls on Agile environment on daily basis
Involved in Test Data Management, Test Bed setup and Test Reporting on daily basis on Quality Centre
Prepared a complete reference document based on the knowledge transfer which consists of the functionality of application in detail, Installation details, question and answers log, basic terms used in the application.
Involved in preparing the high-level Test Plan and developed Test Cases in accordance with the functional specifications.
Tested the application under Scrum (Agile) Methodology
Given production support for testing wherever applicable
Identified Test case for automation
Involved in end to end automation using selenium WebDriver
Developed Generic and Project Specific Methods
Converted Test case to scripts using TestNG framework
Experience in identifying object locators and creating PageFactory for all the pages.
Performed Batch execution using Jenkins
Experience in working on Page Object Model Design pattern with Hybrid framework.
Data driven test scripts using POI
Web Service Testing using SOAP UI
Received appreciation from the client as “Customer Champion for the Quarter 2 of FY-12”
Handling the customization, testing, training, support and the generation of new change request by proactive process improvement
Planning and executing complex projects in close collaboration with management, customers and stakeholders
Managing manual & automated test execution, analyzing all the reports and identifying/ reporting defects
Attending requirements gathering discussions and managing relationship with project stakeholders, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements & deliverables
Applied VSM (Value Stream Mapping) to the project which has shown a huge productivity
Senior Engineer – Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Project Synopsis: The purpose of this application was to maximize productivity. As per the business needs SmartTags are developed and released to production. Working on MS Office applications - manipulating information in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint then copying and pasting it into enterprise applications to access details and answer questions. Smart Tags enable that information to be just one click away. Smart Tags appear on data that is recognized and labelled as a particular type. Smart Tag recognizes text patterns (e.g. a Part Number) and tags the text in Office document. It associates actions to the tag. Smart tag Actions can be customized to pull / push information from / to disparate enterprise systems.
Role: Senior Engineer
Team Size: 14
Client: Honeywell Inc.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Involved in Requirement Understanding, Test Planning, Test Case Writing using various test case design techniques, execution and reporting
Involved in Functional, Regression, Integration Testing along with Mobile Applications Testing
Involved in Installation, Uninstallation Testing with compatibility Testing and usability Testing.
Carried Mobile application Testing, Testing in I Pad, IPhone and Blackberry devices
Leveraged Productivity Savings, Reuse, Different Test Design Techniques and Early Warning Indicator
Raised risks proactively
Successfully completed the GB Project which resulted in less time from total Testing Life Cycle
Involved in Sending and creating request and testing from various Participating channels like SAP
Coordinated with the development team on a daily basis regarding bugs and issues.
Responsible for test planning, analysis and designing the test cases.
Testing and UAT.
Perform responsibilities of writing test plans and testing complex software on both
Wrote Complex SQL queries to retrieve the data from various tables and to test the database.
Handled multiple projects for the same client at the same time
Developed Test Cases, Test Scenarios for Web Based Applications
Updated Test Plans and Test Cases for Manual and Automation Testing
Converted Test case to scripts using TestNG framework
Involved in end to end automation using selenium WebDriver, TestNG
Experience with TestNG Annotation, Grouping and Parallel execution.
Senior Engineer – Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Title: HGFT
Description: These are two different projects running parallel for HBS Business. The scope of HGFT Tool was to develop and deploy a web-based graphical user interface to be used by the HBS Project Leaders to plan and forecast the financial performance (margin and revenue) for the projects business. The forecasting tool was utilized to report the financial commitment of projects through the end of job.
Role: Senior Engineer
Client: Honeywell Business Solutions MN
Team Size: 20
Role:
Highlights:
Involved in Requirement discussion Phase, catching the flaws for missing requirement, reporting and recording them
Involved in STLC from staring to end
Collected and created Metrics enthusiastically and reported to the client
Involved in preparation of UAT Scripts for the project
Involved in recording Testability of requirements
Defined Test strategy and circulated into the team
Created documents for the future users
Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
Involved in Functional as well as UAT testing
Software Engineer – Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Title: Zoomba
Description: The main objective of Alert Notification Platform is to create an Alert Notification Platform that facilitates requests raised in participating applications to the decision maker in Blackberry and helps in communicating back the decisions to the respective participating applications. Alert Notification Platform will handle most of real life complex scenarios and provide functionalities like showing to the users only those requests against which the user has not taken any decisions. Blackberry mid-let will be user interface application, which will consolidated alerts from different participating applications and provides options to take decisions. This also provides the facility take offline actions and synchronizes them to the Alert Notification Platform once the user comes back to network coverage and then the Alert Notification Platform updates the user action back to the Participating Application.
Role: Senior Engineer
Client: Honeywell TS Team, Honeywell Mobility Team
Team Size: 30
Highlights:
Accountable for various test case design based on requirements
Participated in multiple levels of discussion for Requirement Gathering with Project Manager, Business Analyst and Users from across domains and leaders from various participating channels to make its more user friendly and productive for the users.
Merit of creating Umbrella Test Plan for the project
Tested application as Desktop application, Mobile Application, Android and IPad and blackberry devices along with RIM(Research in Motion ) Simulators
Involved in Installation Testing, Uninstallation Testing, Usability Testing with System Testing and Functional Testing.
Organized survey for the Clients, End Users, stakeholders for reserving and procuring the device and where or which device the testing should be focus upon
Successfully handled Third Eye as POC, which has been awarded for Individual Excellence and converted as a FLC project
Software Engineer – Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Title: Total Connect
Description: This application was developed to control the temperature of HVAC systems remotely. This is mainly to connect to thermostat, which measures the HVAC temperature through gateway, and web application or any mobile devices can control the same remotely. The main scope of testing is to test the web application developed using flash with gateway & thermostat. This project belongs to Test only model and client is Honeywell International.
Role: Senior Engineer
Team Size: 40
Client: Honeywell Automation and Control Systems, MN
Highlights:
Worked and taken whole responsibility to complete and report the functional aspects along with test execution
Test execution carried out in Thermostat device and gateways along with web application
Played a major role in giving Business Proposal for the Project for various expects of TCOE
Started off as a POC at the end of this got as a Full project for 2 years of chargeability
Capably used Sort Site Tool for Compatibility Testing, which has helped us in 80 hours of productivity in Execution Time and Contour for Test Runs and Test Execution
Tested Web version along with configuration, Installation and testing of Thermostat Device, Gateways
Organized survey and questioner for the Clients, End Users, stakeholders for reserving and procuring the device and where or which device the testing should be focus upon and to get understanding for the various region
Ensured coordination among Onsite (US) Testing Team, CZ Republic Dev Team
Client Interaction for requirement understanding and test planning
Participating in Project Review Meeting, Test Team Meeting and Defect Check point meeting.
Using Mercury Quality center for moving the test cases from Test plan module to Test Lab module for effective testing in various releases.
Create Test cases for new scope requirements.
Perform end to end system testing
Execute Regression Test cases.
Software Engineer – Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Title: KME
Description: The scope of the project was to create a central repository of KME data, which can be accessed using pre-built, as well as ad-hoc reports, by various user groups in UOP. Created auto-generate reports or facilitates on-demand reports for users resulting to productivity increase. The major aim of the project was provide data entry for KME information and facilitating the generation of reports based on project related data
Role: Senior Engineer
Client: Honeywell UOP
Team Size: 9
Highlights:
Involved in Requirement understanding, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke and sanity testing
Involved in Report comparison for Testing
Involved in understanding of clients procedure of workflow and spotted several compatibility issues which leaded to whole compatibility testing timeframe and approval for various software and hardware configurations
Involved in preparation of RCA for the project, ensured coordination and attended customers calls
Recipient of Spot Award for Quick Learning and commitment towards System Testing activities of Key Mechanical Equipment Application
Accountable for writing test cases, reviewing the test cases and executed test cases
Designing of test cases are appreciated by client side
Involved in Functional, Integrassion and System Testing phases
Ensured Test Coverage using RTM
Accountable for Test reporting on weekly basis
Title: Contract Management System (CMS)
Description: The Contract Management System (CMS) provides Document Management feature in simplest form. The CMS allows you to administer its contract information. CMS contain so many features like User authentication, creating new contract, managing time records of the employees. Pretime is a module to Evaluate check in time and check out time of each and every contract employees.
Role: Test Engineer
Client: Pearl Soft Technology, Bangalore / IT Giant, U.S.A
Team Size: 15
Duration: 15 Months
Highlights:
Accountable for writing test cases, reviewing the test cases and executed test cases
Ensured Test Coverage using RTM