Quality Center Administrator

Milind Joshi

Phone – +91-904-***-****

E_mail – ***************@*****.***

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Experience and Interest

Objectives

• Be a strong leader in HP Quality Center Application Administration and concorently utilize that knowledge for common goal with the organizational benefits.

• Effectively manage software Testing and Deployment teams while improving development and testing processes to efficiently deliver products and services which meet customer expectations

• Improve software quality, meet customer expectations and reduce defects by supporting proven software quality practices and implementing practical and effective process improvement methods

• Plan and perform effective software testing through a combination of familiar structured test techniques, rapid test practices and test automation where beneficial

Technical Skills and Tools

HP QC/ALM 11.0

Quality Center 9.2

Test Director 8.0

TeamCenter Engineering, V9.1, 2007, Tc8.0, Tc8.3

Unigraphics V18, NX3, NX5, NX7.5

Windows 7/XP/98/ Vista/ Unix/Solaris

Strengths

Software Quality Assurance: Knowledgeable with training in ITIL and Project Management Practice Process. Strong aptitude and practical experience in managing and implementing continuous software quality process improvement with small to medium size teams as a test team manager/lead.

Software Quality Control: About six years experience in testing. Also working as Quality Center Application Administrator since 4yrs. And involved in activities like Project and User Administration for QC Application and installation and migration of QC Application including, test management, test planning, execution and reporting.

Personal Strengths:

Provides direction and leadership with strong interpersonal and team building skills

Successfully works with people within and across organizational boundaries to build agreements, guidelines, and standards in order to resolve issues and create consistent practices.

Strong practitioner of clearly written purposeful communication and direction

Developing solutions to deliver quality products to clients through people and processes.

Accomplishments -

• Certificate of Recognition for continuous service more than 3 years to GM

• Monthly Summit Awards - Cash Reward for Best Performer in the Month

• Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI)

• Certified in ITIL Foundation

Trainings Completed –

• PMP Preparatory Training – 4 Days (35 PDU’s) – SEED Infotech, Pune

• Skills Enhancement Program – 4 Days – MphasiS an HP Company

• Change Practitioner Workshop – 2 Days – MphasiS and HP Company

• Ignite Workshop for FLM’s – 2 Days – MphasiS an HP Company

• Certificate in CAD Software – 3 Mths. – Silicon Meadows, Pune

• Certificate in CAM Software – 3 Mths. – Silicon Meadows, Pune

• Certificate in AutoCAD – 1.5 Mths. – Starbase Academy, Pune

• Certificate in Programming Language “C”

Experience Details

Mphasis an HP Company (March 2007 – Till Date)

Current Designation - Module Lead

Current Roles – Application Administrator/VCOE/SME (Quality Center)

• Working as Application Administrator for Quality Center v11.0

• Managed and Successfully Implemented the migration of HP ALM/Quality Center v11.0 from HP Quality Center 9.2

• Responsible for master test plans, environment configurations, application installations and testing schedules for Quality Center application.

• Responsible for establishing consistent testing practices using standard tools across multiple projects while adhering to SLA and quality processes.

• Acted as consultant and reviewer for new standards and policies.

• HP Quality Center Administration includes installation and QC Server and user Administration, New and existing/on-going Projects Management, Tests Planning and co-ordination for Execution, Defects/Bug reporting and managing Metrics.

• Responsible for Creation and Remediation of Test Cases for UGNX.

• Responsible for requirement analysis, estimation and allocation of resources, KT, Query Resolution for post change Validation/Testing applications.

• Controlling the product revision deliveries, Review and Quality assurance of the deliveries.

• Mentoring, guiding and training for new talent in team.

• Project Estimation, Proposal and SOW, Matrices and Documentation.

• Project tracking using MS Office Tools and reports.

• Hosted and participated in review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule, and ensuring timely completion and delivery of the project to the client.

• Hosted and participated in BUG / Defect calls to monitor progress of new and existing defects and follow-up to get those fixed ASAP.

TATA Technologies Limited (Jan 2005 – July 2005) as Senior Engineer

• Functional Testing of CAD CAM Applications UG NX and Euclid.

• Pre implementation testing of CAM Code.

• Responsible for requirement analysis, estimation and proposals, KT, Query Resolution and smooth transfer of product design to Tool design and Manufacturing of Tools and trials and testing’s of Tools.

• CNC Tool Path Generation for Sheet Metal Tooling’s using CAM software’s Euclid and UGNX.

• 2D to 3D conversion of Sheet Metal Components Design using CAD software Euclid 3.

• Identified and deployed process improvements and standards for key practices.

Kalyani Forge Limited (Aug 2000 - Jan 2005) as Senior Engineer

• 2D to 3D conversion of forging Components Design using CAD software’s Auto CAD and UGNX.

• Tool Design for forging components using CAD software’s Tebis and UGNX.

• 2 and 3 Axis CNC Code Generation (Tool Path Generation) for Forging Components and Tooling’s using CAM software’s UGNX and Tebis.

• Project tracking using MS Office tools and reports.

• Lead a team of 05 CAD CAM Engineers.

Silicon Meadows Pvt. Ltd. (May 1998 - Aug 2000) as Design Engineer

• 2D to 3D conversion of Pressure Die Casting Components Design using CAD software Euclid.

• Tool Design for Pressure Die Casting Components using CAD software’s Euclid.

• 2 and 3 Axis CNC Code Generation (Tool Path Generation) for Casting Components and Tooling’s using CAM software Quantum Machinist.

List of Major Projects Handled in QA and Testing – Release Management

(Details can be provided on request)

Currently working on -

• Working as HP Quality Center 9.2 & ALM 11.0Application Owner / Administrator

• Create and Manage new and existing Quality Center Projects and users.

• Installation and upgrade/migration of existing QC Application

• Test Case Creation, Planning and Execution and Report Management using QC

• Defect Creation and management of Defect Lifecycle using QC

• Teamcenter Engineering 2007 to Tc 8.0 Migration project as Project Manager and Test Lead

• UG NX 5 to UG NX 7.5 Migration project as Test Lead

• TcVis 2007 to TcVis 8.3 Migration project as Project Manager

• Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Project as Test Lead for CADVis Applications.

• Alias Studio 2010 to Alias Studio 2011 Migration project as Test Lead

• Monthly Releases of MS Security Patches as Project Manager.

Successfully Completed –

• Successful Migration of QC V9.2 to V11 Migration project as Application Owner / SME

• Worked on Successful migration of Test Director 8.0 to QC V9.2 Migration project as Application Owner / SME.

• TcAE V9.1 to Tc 2007 Migration project as Project Manager and Test Lead

• UG NX 3 to UG NX 5 Migration project as Application SME.

• Windows XP to Windows Vista Migration Project as Test Lead for CADVis Applications.

• Dell Hardware Insertion project as Project Manager

• Java, Adobe and MS Internet Explorer update projects as Project Manager.

Academics

Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1998

HSSC from Maharashtra State Board in 1994

SSC from Maharashtra State Board in 1992

Personal Details

• Date of Birth : 19th July 1976.

• Nationality : Indian

• Passport No. : E3287814

• Sex : Male

• Languages Known : English, Hindi, Marathi.

• Present Address : Flat No.5, Vrundavan Hsg. Society,

D.P. Road, Kothrud,

Pune, Maharashtra, India. PIN 411028.

Milind Madhukar Joshi

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