Nehal Subhash Shah

Software Testing cum Release Manager (US B1 Visa Till 2022)

Objective:

I am looking for a more challenging and rewarding carrier in Software Testing / Release / Project Management as Team Manager / Project Manager / senior position.

Current Company :

Windowmaker Software Limited

Total Experience:

Around 16+ years of Commercial experience in Software Testing, Product, Build and Release management. With around 9+ years of experience as Project Manager in Testing cum Release Management.

Email:

nehal_s_shah@ yahoo.com

adite6@r.postjobfree.com

Contact No.:

#91-987*-******

® (026*-*******

Address:

6, “ASHISH”,

Chhotabhai Terrace Houses,

New Khanderao Road,

Baroda – 390 001

Gujarat.

Personal Data:

Sex: Male

Nationality: Indian

Marital Status: Married

Languages Known:

English

Hindi

Gujarati

Work Experience:

16+ years.

Current Location:

Baroda

Office Time:

Monday – Friday.

9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Pass Port details:

No: J5166063

US B1 Visa – Valid till 25 June 2022

Core Competence:

Passion to balance quality and delivery

Leading team

Good project, build & release management skills

Dynamic decision making & Innovative

Enthusiastic and quick learner

Good Analytical and logical skills

Take ownership and responsibility for quality

Good Communication skills at technical & non technical level

Good Ethics and Morals

Technical Skills:

Thorough knowledge and commercial experience in manual testing, automated testing, Build – Release management, project management and Software Development Life Cycle.

Main Testing skills: Identifying test conditions, Designing test cases and test scripts, designing and managing test strategy & plans. Test automation and Test team management.

Main Release skills: Planning & Management of Build & Release activity. Releasing code to different web servers, creation of new channels & their upgrades. IIS configuration.

Automation Testing Tools: Macro Express 3.0, QTP, Coded UI, Ranorex, Selenium, BDD and Load Runner.

Programming Knowledge: C, C++, VB.net, ASP.net, VB Scripts, Power Shell, MS Project, MS Build and SQL Server 2008.

Experience :

Thorough knowledge of Testing, Build - Release Life Cycle & Proj. manag. in accordance with ISO 9001:2000 procedures.

Experience comprises of managing multiple testing project as Project Manager and leading a team of 15 - 18 members.

Experience of almost all the types of testing at different levels. (Functional, Non-Functional, Manual and Automated Testing)

About 5 years of experience in Build and Release management of both client server and web based applications.

Present Employer:

Designation: Testing cum Release manager

Company Name: Windowmaker Software Limited (www.windowmaker.com)

Date Joined: November 2000 – January 2008 (7.2 years)

Date Rejoined: May 2017 – Till date

Company Information:

Established in 1983, Windowmaker is a world leader in providing ERP solution to door and window industries. Based in UK, with offices and Partners across many other countries, Windowmaker has sold more than 8000 programs in 18 language and 64 countries.

Product is very generic where user can program his requirements through the scripting language. (It can be compared with product like MS excel where one can design his requirement through scripting language)

Main Roles & Responsibility:

Managing a team of 15 members.

Responsible for the quality of product.

Planning & management of build & release activity.

Previous Employer:

Designation: Senior Test Consultant

Company Name: Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (www.allscripts.com)

Date Joined: December 2015 – April 2017.

Company Information:

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (MDRX-NASDAQ) is a publicly traded Healthcare Information Technology American company. Allscripts, founded in 1986, is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois having a team of 7000+ professional spread across 20 locations (U.S., Asia, Australia, Canada, India and UK).

Main Roles & Responsibility:

Responsible for the quality of product delivered.

Management of 2 test projects and team.

Active communication with various teams mainly to gather and finalize requirement, as both projects are of R&D nature.

Previous Employer:

Designation: Software Test Manager

Company Name: SFW Ltd Company (www.sfwltd.co.uk)

Date Joined: September 2014 – November 2015.

Company Information:

SFW is a British SME, established in 1992, that delivers Business Application Services, specifically Software, Management, Hosting and Cloud to Public and Private sector organizations, helping them transform, streamline and increase business efficiency. It’s ISO9001 and ISO14001 accredited company.

Main Roles & Responsibility:

Managing a team of 15 - 18 members based at different location.

Responsible for the quality of product delivered.

Management of multiple test projects.

Delivery of a consistent testing process across all projects where the Test Team are deployed.

Previous Employer:

Designation: QA Manager.

Company Name: C-Sam Solutions Pvt. Ltd (Now MasterCard)

Date Joined: May 2011 – September 2014.

Company Information:

C-SAM is a Telecom Solutions Company headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Tokyo, Singapore & India. C-Sam is a pioneer in secure mobile transactions technology offering a range of mobile phone based applications for financial as well as non-financial services. Company’s main objective is of recreating a leather wallet metaphor on mobile phones, and in turn focusing on finance, retail, health and government applications that will drive mobile commerce and payments. They work on Mobile Transaction Platform and the technology platform used are Java, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Windows.

Main Roles & Responsibility:

Managing a team of 15 - 18 members based at different location.

Responsible for the quality of product delivered.

Management of multiple test projects.

Previous Employer:

Designation: Testing cum Release manager.

Company Name: BIW Technologies (Now Oracle Corporation)

Date Joined: February 2008 – April 2011 (3.3 Years).

Company Information:

SaaS software pioneer BIW Technologies is a global leader in Web-Based business application, to support successful delivery & management of project for Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry.

Esteemed client list includes big names like:

Nakheel who had selected BIW for constructing world tallest tower (1 km high) and Palm tree shape water fronts in Dubai.

BIW software was used to build the 2012 London Olympic Village.

Strategic partner with “Sage (CRE)” for delivery in North America

Main Roles & Responsibility:

Management of build and release activities i.e. Planning releases, making builds and its deployment on different servers at different locations.

Mentoring testing team & managing build & Release team.

Responsible for the quality code released to various servers.

Project Management: Lotus Notes, Visual Studio Team System, MS Project, Jira

Project Technology: C#, ASP.NET, Java, Android, SQL Server 2008

Test Management Job Roles:

Following ISO Procedure for all the technical activities related to testing of product.

Creating Test Design/Strategy, its Planning and management.

Design: Analyzing different areas of testing and designing test strategy.

Planning: Time estimates of testing & test allocation to team members.

Management: Getting work done as per schedule.

Managing test cases, test data and test environment (continuous review and updating).

Approving work of tester (test result verification) - Test logs, Test Cases etc.

Taking part in Design Review of Project.

Preparing Release Test Plan. This includes deciding Testing areas, version labeling, code freeze date and release date.

Giving Test sign-off.

Periodic review and analysis of internally and user reported bugs. Accordingly updating ‘Test Procedure’ and conducting ‘Bug Analysis Meeting’ with Software Manager.

Updating Management and Software Manager about quality of product periodically.

Watch on Quality Assurance besides Quality Control.

Periodically reviewing the scope of test automation in order to increase productivity and authenticity.

Implementation of whole new automation process including evaluation of automation tool, selection, training resources and calculating ROI.

Recommending changes in Procedures, a continuous up gradation of procedure.

Design and manage different types of testing like module testing, integration testing, daily build testing, release testing, regression testing, UAT, performance testing and load testing.

Managing software & hardware requirement for the test team.

Periodically presenting K.P.I’s of Testing team to management

Building and Managing team i.e.

Taking interview for selection of new team member.

Conducting training for continuous up gradation of team.

Motivating team in achieving the target.

Conducting meeting – within team and between teams.

Conducting Line Manager Meeting and Appraisal.

Test team formation for projects.

Delivery of a consistent testing process across all projects where the Test Team are deployed.

Release Management Job Roles:

Preparing Product Specifications, publishing release dates, coordinating between development, testing, documentation and web team and periodically updating Sales, Support and Client about the status of the product to be released.

Manage build activity: Scheduling & making builds, creating build reports and updating business.

Working experience of Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) source code management system i.e. managing control branching, merging of code and change control management.

Deployment of new build to staging/testing and live environment.

IIS configuration and automating the build & release process

Creation of new web sites & Up-gradation of web sites from old versions.

Managing testing and live databases using tools like ‘SQL Compare 8’ & ‘SQL Multiscript’ from Red Gate.

Controlling Installation program for desktop application.

Responsible for:

Management of multiple of test project.

Quality of all the products.

Management of testing team.

Management of Build and Release activity.

Management of web servers.

Professional achievements:

Reduced the number of critical release from 7-8 to 1-2 per year.

Reduced the number of User reported bugs from 15-20 to 8-10 per month i.e. by 50%. Above resulted into a Good Quality Product, building reputation of company in the International Market and which was acknowledged and appreciated by Management.

Always assured an effective testing team by leading as well as being part of the team.

Automated many of the test, build & release process by creating Batch files, vbscripts, Automation tools.

Helped International Support team for 4 months in bringing Support department to India from UK.

Able to maintain balance between Quality and Delivery.

Have attended 5 days PMP (Project Management Proficiency) training program from SABCONS. Program number – 112*-****-**.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelor of Engineer (BE Textile) from M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara (India)

Educational Achievements:

Awarded “2 GOLD MEDALS” from M.S. University for securing first position in Degree exam.

Received “PRECITEX AWARD” for the best student at National level.

Stood first in all the 8 semesters of college.

I declare that the information provided by me is correct to the best of knowledge.

Regards,

Nehal Shah

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