MITTAL SAGLANI

Personal Information:

Current Location:

The Flatiron District at Austin Ranch

**** ******** ****** ***** ****, Plano- Dallas

TX 75056

E-mail : acylxo@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile :979-***-****

Objective:

Interested in a challenging job where my skills and abilities will be fully utilized. I would like to lead /be part of a team for challenging projects that would improve my skills in software testing/quality assurance would and like to work in diverse fields acquiring new skills.

Career Profile:

Over 10+ years of experience in a Quality Assurance and Software Testing of various applications in multiple domains- Advertising, Commerce, POS, Financial services, Security, Messaging, Banking, Data Warehousing and Market research.

Self-managed team lead with strong interpersonal, communication, problem solving and decision making skills. Ability tolead and motivate teams; drive projects to successful completion and ensuring client expectations are met with high quality software solutions. Easily collaborate with developers and project managers to accomplish milestone.

Specialties/Personal Strengths:

Having excellent knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC)

People Management - Managing a strong & successful team across locations while keeping a keen eye on the timelines and the quality of the deliverables.

Detailed understanding of QA methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) to ensure quality of the product.

Strong experience in Manual Testing execution for Integration, User Acceptance, Positive and Negative, Functional, Regression Testing,Smoke testing.18N/L10N testing, trouble shooting and problem solving abilities.

Experience in analyzing and reviewing complex Business Requirement Document and Technical Specification Document to understand the scope of testing and develop Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Traceability Matrix, Risk Analysis, Test Effort Estimation and Acceptance Documents.

Experience in ETL testing- Informatica connectors

Performed UAT and provided customer support by recreating customer-found problems.

Familiar in data testing using SQL queries.

Identifying, analyzing, prioritizing and documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using Jira, Rally and Bugzilla.

Possesses good communication and interpersonal skills.

A good team player who also have an ability to work as an individual contributor as well.

Result oriented, committed and hardworking professional with a quest to learn new technologies and undertake challenges. Work well under deadlines and extreme pressure

Conducted entry level training program on software testing concepts for new joinees in the organization.

ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) Certified (Foundation level).

Professional Experience:

TitleMax, Inc (Carrollton-Dallas, USA)-October 2016 to present (QA Analyst)

TitleMax is one of the title lending companies. TitleMax helps people get the cash they need with a title loan or title pawn.

Responsibilities:

Understanding the user stories and preparing test cases.

Execution of functional and regression test cases.

Identifying .reporting and verification of defects in defect tracking tool ( Team foundation server)

Participation in smoke testing on production.

Working closely with development teams in order to provide stable software releases

API testing using JSON data formats(REST Client)

Providing test execution status report to the team/manager

Followed Agile Process.

Software tools/Skills:

Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Manager, SQL Developer tool, Postman REST API Client

Persistent Systems Ltd (Goa, India) - April 2006 to April 2016 (Software Engineer to Senior Team Lead)

Persistent Systems Ltd is a global company specializing in software product development services. Persistent has 350+ customers spread across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Major Clients/Customers:

Marin Software, United Sample, Trend Micro, Informatica, Wells Fargo

Responsibilities:

Managing and monitoring QE team members (~ 8 members).

Coordinated resource allocations, created work assignments for team, maintained timelines / milestones, and ensured compliance with quality standards.

Creating detailed Test plans to check the functionality of Application.

Developed Tractability Matrix which is a proof of document to ensure that all the specifications are been tested and has no defect

Understanding the requirements and preparing test cases on the client application (Integration, functional, UI,Regression, Smoke test cases)

Preparing and execution of i18N/L10N test cases

Test case reviews and test case analysis for maximizing test coverage

Identifying reporting and verification of defects in defect tracking tool ( Jira, Bugzilla)

Analysis of Customer Found Defects

Participation in smoke testing on production.

Working closely with development teams in order to provide stable software releases

As a QA Lead, participated in walkthroughs for the evaluation of the test plan with the design and development.

Experience in ETL testing-Informatica connectors

API testing using JSON data formats(REST Client)

Security Testing: Testing manually for different types of vulnerabilities, using various penetration testing tools to test the product for any known vulnerabilities.

Execution of test suite using pmatt automation framework (pmatt was in house client side automation framework)

Conducted daily scrum meetings for the team.

Driving/participating in SQA( Software quality assurance) meetings (organization process)

Communicated with Project Managers, Software Engineers to gather requirements for testing and develop estimates for testing execution.

Software tools/Skills:

Jira, Test link, Putty,MySQL workbench, Firebug, REST Client, Rallydev, SQL Server - TSQL, WinSCP,TestTrack,Clearcase, Linux,Open LDAP, RHEL,HP Unix, Solaris, IMAP, Active Directory, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Manager, SQL Developer tool

ControlNet India Pvt. Ltd (Goa, India) -August 2003 to March 2005

ControlNet India Pvt. Ltd. provides product-engineering services in the networking, ASIC design, and embedded systems space

Content Analyst

Responsibilities:

Quality check of catalogs (e- books).

Handling QA of outsource vendors.

Identification and submission of commercial shopping websites for crawling

Categorization of catalogs.

Updating the details of the catalogs in CMS (Content Management System).

Importing of the catalogs on the server.

Managing a team, assigning various tasks to them.

Software tools/Skills:

MySQL and Linux basic commands.

Academic Profile

Qualification

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, April 2000

Institution

Smt. Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science

University

Goa University

Professional Certifications

ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) Certified (Foundation level).

Reference’s &Recommendations

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References would be made readily available upon request.

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