ARINDAM SARKAR, ISTQB CERTIFIED TESTER FOUNDATION LEVEL
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SENIOR SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER EXPERT IN MANUAL TESTING
JOB OBJECTIVE: Searching for an opportunity to maximize my skills as a Senior Software Test Engineer with well-organized and growing company.
SUMMARY:
Total experience of 8+ Years
Total 7+ Years of experience in Software Testing / Quality Assurance
Sound in Functional testing & Black box testing
Sound in STLC & SDLC (Agile Scrum (sprint) process, V-Model, Waterfall).
Experience in writing test cases and maintaining test scripts as per the business specifications/ functional requirements & maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
Domains Experienced: Print & Electronic Media, Financial Mortgage Banking Solutions, Insurance, Hospitality, Media & Entertainment, e Learning, Document search engine, S1000 D, Content Management.
Familiar with SQL commands, Agile methodology and Agile Environment
Familiar with Mobile Application Testing using various Mobile (Apple iphone, htc, Samsung, Sony, .ect…)
Decent knowledge of SQL
1+ Year of experience in Educational Industry
1+ Year of experience in Guidewire Policy Center Testing for IBM
Knowledge in Analysis of Defect severity, Defect tracking System and Defect reporting.
Skilled in analyzing and testing complex engineering software products
Ability to prioritize and conduct multiple tasks under deadline and budget constraints
Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills with ability to multi-task, work in a team as well as individually
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Testing Skills: Functional, Integration, Regression, System, Usability, GUI, Black box, Localization, Smoke, Sanity, Retesting, Browser compatibility, Cross Browser, Database (db), XML validation with Databases (db), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Navigation, Exploratory Accessibility, Migration Testing, Log analysis.
Functioning Skills: Test Plan Creation, Estimation, Assignment distribution, Daily Reporting, Test Bed Setup, Test Case Creation, Test Case Execution, Test Log, and Bug Reporting in Bug Tracking Tool.
Automation Tool: Guidewire Policy Center, Parasoft Webking
Assistive Technologies:JAWS 9.0 (Windows XP),JAWS 13.0 (Windows7),JAWS 14.0
Operation Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/7, Linux, CentOs 5, Dos
Bug Tracking Tools: IBM Rational Clear Quest, Scrum Works, Bugzilla, Mantis, Atlassian JIRA .
Application Lifecycle Management Tool: hp Quality Center 11.0
Test Management Tool and Quality Management Tool: IBM Rational Quality Manager
Database : SQL Server 2008 R2, Oracle 9i/10g, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL queries
Test Case Management Tool: QaTraq
Collaboration, file sharing and Web publishing tool:Microsoft SharePoint Knowledge and Testing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Organization: Political & Business Daily, Kolkata, India
Duration: November’2014 – till date
Designation: Senior Software Test Engineer Projects Handled:1
Client: Political & Business Daily Domain: Print & Electronic Media Team Size-15
Team Lead activities.
Perform reviewing of business and functional specs to create comprehensive test plans and test cases
Handle the tasks of executing test cases, report and track issues through resolution
On time delivery, ensuring quality, status reporting.
Responsible for preparing software test status reports and update the status to management and customers.
Identify software requirements from customer specifications to test cases.
Organization: Nexval InfoTech Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata., India
Duration: February’2014 – October’2014
Designation: Senior Software Test Engineer Projects Handled:2
Client: Prospect Mortgage (U.S.A.): Domain: US Mortgage Banking Solutions (Financial): Team Size-25
Team Lead activities.
On time delivery, ensuring quality, status reporting.
Coordinate with management to develop software testing concepts and objectives
Interact with software developers in areas of creating software test work products including test cases, test plans, test procedures, and test reports.
Responsible for preparing software test status reports and update the status to management and customers.
Identify software requirements from customer specifications to test cases.
Handle responsibilities of providing technical guidance and training to lower-level software test personnel
Responsible for developing and managing software test budgets and schedules
On time delivery, ensuring quality, status reporting.
Organization: IBM India, Kolkata, India
Duration: January’2011 – April’2013
Designation: Senior Software Test Engineer Projects Handled:4
Client: Amica Mutual Insurance Company (USA PolicyCenter: Domain: Insurance: Team Size-70
Client: ProQuest (USA/U.K.):Domain: e Learning, Document search engine: Team Size-50
Team Lead activities.
Perform reviewing of business and functional specs to create comprehensive test plans and test cases
Handle the tasks of executing test cases, report and track issues through resolution
Play an active role in project lifecycle, from reviewing requirements through release and post-launch support
Coordinate with the development team during and after development to ensure full test coverage
Responsible for reproducing production bugs and validate bug fixes
Handle the tasks of providing accurate and timely estimates for QA timelines and effort.
Organization: Inmedius Software India Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, India
Duration: April’2010 – August’2010
Designation: Software Test Engineer Projects Handled:2
Client: Inmedius (U.S.A Domain: S1000 D, Content Management: Team Size-15
Analyzing and understanding the Business Requirement provided by the client for the project and preparing test scenarios for the same.
Creating and executing complex scenarios.
Test Requirement, Test Scenarios identification, Test case preparation, Test data preparation, Test case reviews and approval etc.
Analyzing work requests from Onsite.
Reporting the progress of the Project on a Daily/ Monthly basis to Team Leader and Onsite Counterparts.
Raising the defects, tracking for its closure and preparation of defect report.
Attending weekly project checkpoint meetings and addressing issues related to test activities
Organization: MSR IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, India
Duration: October-2007 – April-2010
Designation: Software Test Engineer Projects Handled:5
Client: Quadriga (U.K.): Domain: Hospitality,Media & Entertainment: Team Size-25
Reviewed the business required documentation and Wrote Test Plan for the Project
Entered business and functional requirements into the Quality Center Requirements Repository.
Developed Positive and Negative test cases and executed manual test cases using QualityCenter.
Analyzed, reported and tracked defects through Quality Center.
Involved in Net Meetings, phone conferences and close interaction with software developers to understand application functionality and performance issues.
Organization: Webteklabs Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, India Duration: April’2007 – September’2007
Designation: Software Test Engineer Trainee Projects Handled:1
Organization: Techno India Group, Teledata Ltd, India Duration: May’2006-March’2007 Designation: Technical Assistant
ACADEMIC/ PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION/CERTIFICATION:
Master of Computer Science M.Sc. (CS) from Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar in June-2006
A-LEVEL (PGDCA) & O-LEVEL (GDCA) from DOEACC Society, New Delhi in June-2005 & April-2001
B.Sc.(Pure Science) from University Of Kalyani in July-2002
Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) from International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB) in August-2008
Online Short Course on Agile Project Management from Charles Sturt University, Victoria, AUSTRALIA in September-2013
PERSONAL SNIPPETS
Passport Number : K7621123 (Date of Expiry 18/04/2023) PAN Card Number: BLYPS0172H