Neelam Poddar, Manager at Capgemini

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Email: adcd4t@r.postjobfree.com

Profile:

10+ years of experience as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer in an agile environment with expertise on Manual and automation Testing.

Certified Scrum Master (Certificant ID : 000786182) with overall 5+ years of experience following scrum practices and ceremonies and around 2 years as a Scrum Master.

~4 Years of experience as Technical Lead - guiding and leading team on end to end QA activities.

Good understanding and experience in all stages of SDLC, STLC, and Bug Life Cycle.

Strong Experience in Functional, Regression, GUI, System and API testing.

Extensive experience in creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts.

Experience in the development of Data driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid Automation frameworks in Selenium.

Experience in Agile practices and Test Driven Development techniques to provide reliable, working software early and often.

Proficiency on Junit, TestNG framework for Unit testing, Maven for Project building tool, Jenkins for Continuous Integration.

Good exposure to Payment Gateway Testing. Have few months of experience performing test on Payment Gateway.

Good Knowledge on Cucumber.

Good Knowledge on Appium.

Good understanding of Object Oriented Concepts.

Expertise in Virtualization and Cloud technologies which includes VMware Horizon Air, VMWare Vsphere, Microsoft HyperV, VDI, Oracle VM VirtualBox.

Experience in deploying Horizon Daas and Vmware VDI Infrastructure.

Hands on Experience in Installing, maintaining MySQL DB and Testing Application on it.

Work Experience:

Company

Designation

Duration

Capgemini

Manager

November 2018 till Present

Harman (a Samsung Company)

Technical Lead

March 2014 to March 2018

Sun Microsystems( Now Oracle)

Sr Software Engineer

August 2011 to July 2013

Novell

Sr Software Engineer

January 2011 to June 2011

Infosys

Test Analyst

November 2010 to January 2011

Wipro Technologies

Module Lead

June 2006 to October 2010

Tools and Technologies:

Programming Languages: Java, Python, Unix Shell Scripting

Frameworks: Selenium Webdriver, TestNG

CI Tools: GitHub, Maven, Jenkins

IDE: Eclipse

Test Management Tools : HPQC, TFS

Defect Reporting Tools: Bugzilla, BugDB, Bugster, Jira.

Others: Postman, Rest API

Virtualization and Cloud: VMware Vsphere, ESxi, Horizon DaaS/View, Virtual Desktop Manager, VirtualBox, OVDC, Sun VDI, Microsoft HyperV

Operating systems: UNIX, Windows, Linux

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, MySQL

Authentication: Active Directory, RSA, Radius, SmartCard, CertSSO, CA, Access Point.

Storage and Servers: Sun Unified Storage, Kaminario Flash Storage, Sun x86 and Sparc servers, SunRay Thin Clients, SAN, NAS, DAS, FC, iSCSI, RAID

Trainings:

Enrolled for Certified AWS and Machine Learning course at Simplilearn.

Awards and Achievements:

Certified Scrum Master.

Customer Centric Award at Harman in year 2016.

Appreciation letter from Sun Microsytems in 2010.

Feather In My Cap for exceptional work as a Module Lead at Wipro in year 2010.

Thanks a Zillion Award in year 2009.

Feather In My cap(FIMC):For exceptional work in VDI at Wipro in year 2008.

Qualifications:

BE (2001–2005) From Utkal University in Electrical and Electronics.

Work Experience Summary:

T-Mobile, (From Capgemini), Bangalore 30th November 2018 till date

Domain: Telecom Domain

Designation: Manager

Role: SDET

Write, execute and maintain scripts for API testing of OMS.

End to end involvement in STLC life cycle.

Work in Agile environment.

Mentor and Manage offshore team.

VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd (From Harman), Bangalore 17th March 2014 to 12th March 2018

Domain: Virtualization and Cloud

Designation: Technical Lead

Role: QA Lead and Individual Contributor

Coached and taught teams on domain, Agile / Scrum.

Enabled team success, as a Scrum Master. Conducted Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog grooming, to deliver functional software on time.

Mentor the team, as and when required. Take a note of training needs of self and team and arrange for the same. Enabled Cross team knowledge sharing.

Defining Test strategies, planning, implementation, execution, QA activities. Automation and Manual Testing.

Test Planning, Test artifacts creation, participate in design meetings, code reviews, Test case design, Test Execution, reviews, test audits, logging of results, defect reporting, defect tracking, defect verification. Participated in Bug Triage Meetings.

Setting up of Test environment including installation and configuration of Linux and Windows OS and Virtualization Platforms like Vcenter ESX, Active Directory, DHCP server, VMware View, VMware DaaS, Access Point, CertSSO, CA, Radius, RSA server, Windows and Linux Platforms, Oracle DB.

Performed Manual and Automation testing of VMware View and VMware Horizon DaaS.

Performed Radius, RSA authentication Testing, CertSSO, Smartcard Authentication.

Performed Interops Testing of VIDM and Vmware View and Horizon DaaS.

Performed REST API testing using Postman.

Sun Microsystems, Bangalore 5th August 2011 to 12th July 2013

Domain: Virtualization and Cloud

Designation: Senior QA Engineer

Role: QA Lead and Individual Contributor

Worked as a QA Lead, building team, infrastructure from scratch, coaching the Team.

Implemented Automation framework from scratch using Selenium Webdriver and Java to reduce the manual efforts on executing regression test suites.

Created and implemented scripts for easy and fast creation of test environment.

Leading a team. Monitoring and controlling the test progress, identifying and addressing the issues.

Test Planning, Test artifacts creation, participate in design meetings, code reviews, Test case design, Test Execution, reviews, test audits, logging of results, defect reporting, defect tracking, defect verification.

Participated in bug triaging discussions.

Keep a regular track of the forums addressing customer issues. Resolved few of the customer issues by logging into their servers.

Helped the sales and support team.

Provided training to the team, on the product.

Novell, Bangalore 31st January 2011 to 29th July 2011

Domain: Systems

Designation: Senior Software Engineer

Role: Individual Contributor

Worked in SPRT team, which takes care of the customer issues, performance issues and feature enhancement requests.

Worked in Scrum Team, participating in scrum ceremonies.

Provide Demos to the Product owners and the whole team.

Test Planning, Test artifacts creation, participate in Scrum Planning Meetings,design meetings, code reviews, Test case design, Test Execution, reviews, test audits, logging of results, defect reporting, defect tracking, defect verification.

Setting up of Test environment including installation and configuration of Windows and Linux Platforms, Oracle DB, Sybase

Performing Functional Testing of ZenWorks.

Wipro Technologies 5th June 2006 to 29th October 2010

Domain: Virtualization and Storage and Systems

Designation: Module Lead

Role: Module Lead and Individual Contributor

Acquired, implemented and mentored new technology and created the team and the whole infrastructure.

Worked as module lead for team of 5 managing the progress, providing status, reporting and ensuring timely delivery. Monitoring and controlling the test progress, identifying and addressing the issues, coordinating with geographically distributed teams.

Participated in Audits.

Participated in Six Sigma Meetings and implemented six sigma to reduce the testing efforts using orthogonal array.

Headed the weekly meetings with the onsite teams from India. Coordinated with onsite teams located at different geographical locations and time zones.

Created scripts for day to day activities.

Maintained the Servers and the Infrastructure.

Automated using Unix Shell Scripting and Selenium IDE.

Test Planning, Test artifacts creation, participate in design meetings, code reviews, Test case design, Test Execution, reviews, test audits, logging of results, defect reporting, defect tracking, defect verification.

Participated in Bug triaging.

Setting up of Test environment including installation and configuration of Linux and Windows OS and Virtualization Platforms like Vcenter ESX, Active Directory, DHCP server, Windows and Linux Platforms, Oracle DB, CA.

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