Quality Assurance Management

GAURANG M. PARIKH

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QA, SOFTWARE TESTING

PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT

Expertise across all phases of SDLC and STLC including requirement gathering, definition, analysis, designing, development, testing and implementation and agile methodologies.

Possess good leadership skills and ability to manage teams.

Advocate of QC and QA practice throughout the product and application lifecycle

Expertise in test strategy, planning, designing, developing and executing of test on systems under test and defect metrics and reporting.

Knowledge in planning, implementing & monitoring performance test scripts & troubleshooting issues with applications

Good Knowledge in Project Life Cycle Management including project planning, scheduling, project progress monitoring and delivery as per quality and time norms

Excels in liaising with clients to understand business goals and requirements, recommend appropriate business solutions and delivering successful results.

An effective communicator with exceptional analytical, technical, negotiation and client relationship management skills with ability to relate to people at any level of business and management CORE STRENGTHS

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Problem Analysis

End to end Testing

Business User Engagement Model

Quality Assurance

Quality Center

Quick Test Professional

Defect Life Cycle

ALM

Designing & Executing Test Cases

Defect Management

Risk & Change Management

Project Management

Requirement Gathering & Analysis

Client Relationship Management

Resource Management

Agile Methodologies, Waterfall Model

JAD

IT FORTE

Languages: Visual Basic

QA Tools: Quick Test Pro (QTP) 8.2, 9.0, 9.2, Quality Center, Test Director, Basic Knowledge on Jira Scripting Language: VB Script, Visual Basic

Packages: MS Word, MS Excel, Visio, Project

Applications: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, Outlook, Promation, Yardi, FileZilla 3.6.0.2, Procore Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Windows 98, XP, 7

Project Experience

Quality Assurance / Project Manager., Northern Contracting Corp. Canton, MA (May’11 Present) Significant Highlights:

Create test cases and scripts based on requirements of the clients and design documents and execute the test scripts

Perform testing for the company’s website software and find defects. (FileZilla 3.6.0.2) (Regression, Retesting, Exploratory)

Define document and execute test plans and test cases to ensure quality product and projects meet quality standards and delivery dates

Involved in database, functional, integration, load, security testing of the application

Raise a defect, log a defect report with details to ensure reproduction of defects

Review test cases and test steps and requirements.

Performed regression testing to check for defects in previous tested modules

Work and coordinate with the development team to recreate defect and find a solution.(Agile Environment )

Gather requirements, understand end to end functionality & technical specifications of projects build strategies depending on the projects needs and execute them

Co ordinate all activities, establish / maintain standards ensuring strict adherence to the same

Review business requirements and technical specifications for functional coverage

Research & Validate new government projects for bidding.

Identify, recommend and implement innovative solutions to ensure optimum use of resources and standards that improve the testing process.

Attend kick off meetings, walkthroughs and suggest a suitable strategy for the project

Participated in team meetings to discuss and retesting fixed bugs,

Communicate and coordinate with team, management and estimators regarding any amendments in the project

Maintain & update the company website with all projects & relevant information.

Build rapport and motivate resources at all levels in order to expand their capabilities to achieve individual as well as organizational goals

Integrate all the project requirements and then review with estimators.

Helped end users in performing UAT testing

Verify & Validate contract documents for subcontractor and contractors for audit purpose Assistant Analyst / Verification & Validation Department of Public Health Boston, MA (Feb’11 – May’11)

Verified, Validate & Maintained documents for hospitals & clinics.

Assisted Management Analyst in setting up meetings with clients for requirements

Perform Database Scan

Ensured there is no breach of data.

Verify and understand the core requirements of foster homes for Child Support. Sr. Master Control Engineer,/ Quality Control CNBC TV 18 Mumbai, India (Sep’04 – Sep’10)

Managed receiving, ingesting and transmission dept. for live shows/news and feeds.(Ensuring quality)

Coordinate with producers and schedulers for shows and commercials

Expertise in working on sea change server, having good operational knowledge on Saturn switcher (Grass Valley Group)

Handled all the errors and defects in transmission like play list (Harris Air Client), Saturn switcher (MCS 4000 Grass Valley), bypass router (Leitch) and image store (Miranda)

Managed and oversaw new employee training program. ACADEMIA

B Com from Mumbai University

Foundation Level training

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