VIJAY KRISHNA SONI Phone: +919*********

A*-**,Sidheshwar Nagar Hsg society,VishrantWadi,Pune. Email: actldk@r.postjobfree.com

Career Objective

To pursue a challenging career in an organization that utilizes my knowledge and skills to the full extent and provides a platform for career growth and learning.

Profile Summary

8.3 years of experience in Enterprise Level Product Testing including 6 Months internship experience at Symantec.

Currently associated with Qualys Security Software Pune as SQA for Policy Compliance a Systems/Servers/DB Compliance monitoring product.

Possess B1 VISA valid for 10 years to USA.

Proficient in Mercury test suite – Quality Center 10.0

Good Understanding of Oracle Architecture, Windows, Linux and Compliance and Security Domain.

Knowledge of working with AGILE methodologies.

Strong Communication and Analytical Skills

Active roles in the execution of testing processes, test strategies, bug documentation and regression testing.

Experience in Test Planning, Defect Tracking and Bug Reporting using JIRA, E-Track [In House defect tracking tool].

Exposure of working on customer specific scenarios.

Skill Set

Tools

Mercury Quality Center, JIRA, E-Track, VMWARE, Accept 360.

Databases

Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g

Operating Systems

Windows 7, 2003, 2008, Linux

Analysis and Design skills

Understanding Functional Specs, Test Planning, Designing Test Cases and Software Testing

Project Details

1. Project

Policy Compliance Qualys Guard.

Organization

Qualys, Inc.

Team Size

7

Duration

June 2013 till Date.

Module

Policy Compliance on Qualys Guard Cloud based Platform

Role

Team Member

Responsibility

Testing the Compliance of Operating Systems, Databases and Applications.

Analysis of newly added platforms and verification of the Controls for the platforms.

Working on Customer enhancement requests for the product including customer specific scenarios. Collaboration with Development, Audit and Support teams.

Description

Qualys Guard is a cloud based product with Policy Compliance as the Compliance offering. As the product is growing, there is a growing support for new Platforms, OS and Applications in the product. Have worked on Windows 7, AIX, RHEL, Cent OS and Oracle modules. Performed verification of the full support for the platform and final release to production.

2. Project

Control Compliance Suite Overall

Organization

Symantec Corporation.

Team Size

10

Duration

April 2011 till May 2013.

Module

New Technologies Compliance testing for CCS 11.0, Customer Scenarios Testing

Role

Team Member

Responsibility

Analysis of Customer issues, creation of complex scenarios and testing the fixes.

Description

The customers have varied scenarios depending on the Organizational structure, restricted privileges and product configuration. There are many enhancements that customers request and are very specific to particular customer. Thus there are fixes delivered to the customer so as to fulfill specific requirements. So the testing includes creating the scenarios to simulate the customer’s environment and test the required fix on that scenario.

3. Product

Control Compliance Suite 10.50

Organization

Symantec Corporation.

Team Size

10

Duration

June 2010–March 2011

Module

SCAP Standard Evaluation Testing.

Role

Team Member

Responsibility

Analysis of the SCAP Content architecture, Designing of test Strategy and test planning, Execution

Description

Worked on support the of SCAP 1.0 standards in CCS to enter in the federal market. SCAP standard is supported for Windows. The product reports the COMPLIANCE of the Windows systems based on the SCAP standards. A new evaluation engine is designed to support the SCAP. Working on the basic analysis of the SCAP content and the testing strategy for the same.

Also involved in the design discussions of the Evaluation engine.

Control Compliance Suite (CCS) helps enterprises to measure, report and increase IT GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) using configuration standards. CCS collects live data and provides precise reports about how and to what extent an organization does or does not comply with CIS specified technical specifications and industry regulations . This it does with an Asset Management System on top of a schema that can be customized and configured. It has a pluggable architecture and uses data providers. CCS reports IT compliance on Windows, UNIX, Oracle databases and MSSQL Server.

4. Product

Control Compliance Suite 9.00 and 10.00

Organization

Symantec Corporation.

Team Size

12

Duration

October 2008 – May 2010

Module

CIS Oracle Standards for 9i, 10g and 11g.

Role

Team Member

Responsibility

Analysis of the Oracle Content, Designing of test Strategy and test planning, Execution.

Description

Worked on the Oracle compliance components starting from the data collection, chaining of the queries, the evaluation and evaluation verification for different flavors of Oracle.

The data was fetched from WIN and UNIX servers as well, thus have hands on the UNIX and WIN data collectors as well. Was involved in the analysis of the content and development of the checks.

5. Product

bv-Control for Oracle, bv-Control for Windows

Organization

Symantec Corporation.

Team Size

5

Duration

January 2007 – September 2008

Module

Data Collector for Oracle, Windows

Role

Team Member

Responsibility

Analysis of the Oracle and Windows Data collection, Designing of test Strategy and test planning, Execution.

Description

Bv-Control for Oracle, Windows serves as a data-provider from Oracle Database Servers and Windows in Control Compliance Suite. It’s a standalone product too. bv-Control for Oracle and Windows are comprehensive security and configuration management solution for Oracle Database servers supporting oracle 9i, 10g and 11g versions for UNIX and WIN platforms.

Worked on the Agentless feature support for UNIX platforms and 11g support for bv-Control for Oracle. Also was part of the customer interaction sessions for enhancements and escalations of the product.

Certifications and Accreditations

Won ‘A’ Certificate in NCC.

Achieved the Symantec applause award for solving customer issues.

Achieved the Symantec Applause award for the CCS 10.50 release.

Extra Curricular and Soft Skills

Client interfacing skills.

Presentation and Communication skills.

Quick adaptation skills.

Organized Intra-college fest annual fest ‘Xpressions’ held at IIPS DAVV, Indore.

Participated in ‘Xpressions’ annual fest.

Attended Annual Training Camp as NCC Cadet.

Educational Qualifications

Year

Institution

Degree/Certificate

CGPA/%

2007

International Institute of Professional Studies

(DAVV, Indore)

Master of Computer Applications

8.00 / 10.00(75.30%)

2004

International Institute of Professional Studies

(DAVV, Indore)

Bachelor of Computer Applications

8.13 / 10.00(76.39%)

Personal Profile

Date Of Birth

July 19th 1982

Hobbies

Painting, Kite flying, Listening to Ghazals.

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