MALA PUNYANI

San Francisco Bay Area 650-***-**** acwnko@r.postjobfree.com

A technocrat with over 9+ years of rich experience in testing with an outstanding record of achievement in validating enterprise level, desktop, web-enabled applications, and database systems for large, and mid-sized, organizations. Experienced in end-to-end management of QA tasks in different SDLC (Agile, Iterative, and Waterfall) and concurrent enterprise level system development. Proficient in execution of System testing, DR testing, Automation testing using Junit, Selenium 2.0, Selenium Grid, Jenkins, Maven, TFS, SOAPUI, SOAtest, Java, C++, Python, STF, Win Runner, ePal, testing tools and editing of automated scripts by inserting logical commands to handle complicated test scenarios.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

•Testing Tools: JUnit, SOAPUI, SOAtest, Structure Testing Framework (XML based technology, executed via Unix command), Jira, Rally, SVN, Advanced ALM, QTP/UFT, Selenium 2.0, Webdriver, Eclipse IDE

•Languages: JAVA, C++, Python,ASP.NET, C #, VB.NET, VB Script.

•Build Manager: Maven, TFS, Artifactory

•Bug Tracking – Jira, Rally, TFS, ClearQuest

•Continuous Integration - Jenkin

•Mobile test framework - Keynote's Device Anywhere, iOS and android platform

•Internet: JavaScript, Perl, HTML.

•Web & App Servers: IIS.

•Browsers: IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox.

•Exposure to XML, JSON, HTML, CSS,

•IDE: Visual Studio.NET, Visual Studio.

•GUI/Front ends: Visual Basic 5.0/6.0.

•Version Controls: SVN,Visual SourceSafe 6.0, Clear Case.

•RDBMS: MS SQL server, DB2, MySQL.

KEY STRENGTHS:

•Automation Building

•Java and C++

•Relationship Building

•Strategic Partnerships/Alliances

•Leading Onshore Offshore team

•Scrum Master

•Project Management

•Execution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VISA Inc. Foster City, CA 02/2011~ Current

Lead Quality Assurance(Loyalty Platform)-Agile

I am a key member of the VOP/RTM Delivery and specialize in software quality and test automation. In addition to these duties, I fulfill many additional responsibilities including organizing multiple knowledge transfer sessions and software boot camps. Furthermore, I continually seek opportunities to allow the team to benefit from my leadership, professionalism, and attention to detail. Examples of this include mentoring the VOP/RTM team’s interns, regular contributions to the ProdDev-driven UAT test cycles and acting as a key resource during production deployments. Since our migration to Agile, I have demonstrated excellent technical skills by implementing and maintaining automation suite for projects. My approach has become the reference architecture for further development. I was key contributor in Building Java Drools Engine from Design to shipped. I have worked closely with dev for designing Java based Drool Engine. I have played key contributor role for testing and automation strategy for Java Drool engine

Environment: Junit, Selenium 2.0, Selenium Grid, Jenkins, Maven, TFS, Java, C++SOAPUI, SOAtest, HP Quality Center, QTP, Groovy Script, MS SQL, DB2, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Unix, Android, Apple, WebSphere Suite (Business Events, Message Broker, MQ, etc.)

Responsibilities:

Setup automation framework

QA and dev coordination between internal and external teams

Experience with mobile test framework such as Keynote's Device Anywhere,ios and android platform

Work on mobile applications on iOS, Android and Kindle platforms in an extreme Agile environment with continuous integration and daily deployments

Manage on site and offshore teams and overall expectations pertaining to setting accurate schedules, identification of resource needs, and overall project plan addressing all phases of product development

Test case development and review, Functional testing, Regression testing, Bug tracking, Smoke testing, and helping UAT teams

Hands on leader of a group of software QA Engineers testing leading edge technologies in e-Commerce. Testing is conducted in an Agile (Scrum) environment

Responsible for all new functionality that requires UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with internal and external partners both domestic and in other countries across the various Symantec offices worldwide

Report software defects using JIRA bug tracking system. Perform extensive bug analysis with development and our business partners during scrum meetings

Notable Accomplishments:

•Joined the group in its infancy and helped develop an e-commerce platform for Visa Inc. Played a key role in developing test cases, analyzing existing systems, and performing over 2K+ functional tests using both automation and manual testing over a period of two months

•Played a key role in developing the QA organization – Hiring QA Engineers, developing an efficient QA process, analyzing and implementing tools for defect tracking, test case management, and automation

•Played Key role for successful DR testing created test plan, strategy coverage and automation.

•Created test strategy for manual and automation test cases. Achieved release millstones in a timely manner and discovered most defects in early cycle of release

•Created Framework work for UI automation. This Framework helped us run UI testing cycle with least number of resources which is a key win in Visa’s ‘Do more with less resources’ goal

•Learnt new automation tools like Selcuke and Ruby which would help us while creating new automation framework

•Created automation framework knowledge document which helped cross functional teams reuse automation suite for unit testing and regression testing. It has helped cut down on unnecessary emails as well as improve response times of teams since the information is available at fingertips

PayPal (An eBay Company) San Jose, CA & Scottsdale, AZ 08/2007~ 12/2010

Software Quality Assurance Engineer II

Environment: Python, C++, UNIX, STF (XML based framework), Oracle, Clear Case, and Clear Quest.

Responsibilities:

oLed complete development cycle of the project, test case reviews, White box, Gray box and Black box testing of the application

oResponsible for testing PayPal's core money movement architecture which moves millions of dollars between

PayPal accounts and banking institutions

o Performed validation testing for real time messages through logs and also validated database

o Daily use of Linux machines as test environments with Oracle 10 as the backend database used to store transaction volume. PayPal’s C++ and Java web based applications were then tested for integrity and functionality on the backend. VMware was used to access these machines to better utilize our existing Linux servers

oPerformed 3rd party integration testing UAT with different PayPal Vendors

Notable Accomplishments:

•Led several high stakes projects with high emphasis on immediate infusion of revenue for PayPal and growth into the European and Asian markets. Contributed to significant reduction in time to market for PayPal’s products

•Met goal of achieving 100% automation during each release for each of the features tested using various tools such as Python, STF during extremely tight schedules

EDUCATION

oM.S. in Software Engineering CITY University, London, UK 2007

oCertified Scrum Master

oStanford Advanced Project Management

o Diploma in Information Technology NIIT, India 2001

oOther Certifications o Certification in Crystal Report 11.0

oMicrosoft Certified Product Specialization (MCP), Microsoft, India

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Other coursework:

•I have also achieved certification for Behavior Driven testing using ‘Ruby’

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