Engineer Project Manager

ARAVINDAN R

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Senior QA Professional with 17 years of experience in Software QA & Networking seeking challenging Technical /managerial assignments in QA

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Extensive experience in Security Domain, Business application products, hardware & networking, Automation, Agile Scrum, Functional/ Non-functional Testing, QA metrics and task estimation.

Well versed in Test Planning, Test Development, Test Execution, Test Auditing and Implementation of Agile Process.

Skilled in planning & design of Automation Test Rigs, setting up new Test Labs for Integration, Performance & soak Tests.

Adroit in vendor management, conducting periodic reviews, identifying & mitigating risks, measuring metrics, tracking project progress and submitting status reporting

Highly organized, disciplined and task focused with fine-tuned analytical, troubleshooting and administrative skills.

Career Graph

McAfee Software India Ltd, Bangalore May 2002 till date

Senior QA Technical Lead [Grade 9]

Accountabilities:

Involved in planning & coordination of project deliverables in compliance to QA and other SLA parameters.

Planning & implementation of McAfee Scrum / Agile process apart from creation of QA Plan, Quality Metrics and Test Plans.

Provide leadership to the QA, Development & Research teams of 10+ members besides reviewing PRDs, functional specifications, design & test plans and setting up goals for team engineers in quarterly MBOs.

Involved in resource allocation, task estimation for various modules/ projects and assigning roles to team members based on individual skill assessment. Optimize resource utilization based on delivery milestones.

Grooming & mentoring of team members based on project requirements.

Assist team members in test automation of new anti-spam engine.

Focus on cross functional team coordination across diverse geographical locations in liaison with Director and Project Manager.

Conduct Weekly Health Check meetings with Dev, QA, Researchers, Support and Infrastructure teams from different locations besides conducting daily scrum meetings and weekly project meetings.

Achievements:

Successfully delivered major releases of Anti-Spam Engines Camelus & Hydra and incremental releases of the same.

Played key role in Integration Testing with McAfee Total Protection, Email & Web Security Products and delivery of Command line Anti-Virus engines on new platforms and GetSuspect tool to detect new malware threats.

Delivered major release of CleanBoot (An emergency Anti-Virus Tool for infected computer) and MCST (McAfee Spam Submission Tool and Incremental releases).

Conducted training sessions for Point Product Development, QA and Tech Support teams pertaining to new engine releases.

Maximized customer satisfaction through prompt resolution of issues in coordination with tech support teams.

Successfully coordinated the Beta programs.

Acknowledged for implementation of process improvement initiatives in QA teams.

Projects:

Camelus 64 for Linux – Feb 2012 to till date

Hydra Anti-Spam Engine –2010 May to 2012 Jan

Camelus Anti-Spam Engine -2008 to 2010

McAfee Customer Submission Tool – Nov 11 to Feb 2012

Anti-Spam SDK and Engine releases May 2003 to 2007

McAfee CleanBoot Manager – May 2002 to April 2003

Previous Assignments in Brief

Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Ariba Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, Sept 2001 – Mar 2002

o Project – Ariba NetBuyer 7.1 Automation of various functional features using WinRunner. Setup a QA team and trained them in QA and Automation.

o Environment - Oracle, SQL, WebLogic and IIS used.

Software QA Engineer, Calico Software India Ltd, Bangalore, Jan 2001 – Jul 2001

o Project - Calico Suite 3.5 is a new version with added features in PricePoint and Market Maker. PricePoint is the tool used as pricing engine in e-Commerce Portals

Quality Control Engineer, Visesh Infosystems Ltd, Bangalore, Jul 1997 – Dec 2000

o Project – ViseshBusinessoft (an ERP product consists of HRMS, Sales, Purchase, Inventory, MRP-1 and MRP-2 modules using VB6, Developer 2000, Oracle 8x, VC++6, Crystal Reports 7, ASP, JAVA, HTML, Oracle Application server, WinRunner, Astra Load Test and Astra Quick Test

Customer Support Engineer, Silicon Smith Automation Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, Jul 1995 – Jun 1997

o Networking, assembling and servicing PC’s & Servers

Educational

Pursuing M.S. Computer Science from Manipal University

Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering (D.E.C.E), Sri Nallalaghu Polytechnic Madras, 1994

Diploma in Computer Hardware and Network Technology

Trainings/ Certifications:

o Agile Scrum Training

o Certified Novell Administrator

o Ariba Buyer Features & Functions

o Sniffer Certified Network Engineer.

o CSTP – Certified Software Test Professional

o Project Management Fundamentals

Technical Skills:

o Testing Tools/ Methods/ Levels:

Methods – Exploratory Testing, Risk Based Testing, Black Box Testing

Levels - Product Functional Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Soak Testing, Security Testing, Interoperability testing, GUI Testing, Installation Testing Regression Testing, Compatibility Testing, Web Application Testing, Live Virus Testing, Live Spam Testing and SDK Testing

Performance Monitor, Iometer, Wireshark, BinScope Analyzer MS Application Verifier, Altiris and Norton Ghost

Planning/Execution – Testability requirements derivation, Test analysis techniques, Preparation of Quality Plan, System Test Plan, execution of manual & automated Test Cases execution, Test Auditing and Retrospective

o Domains: Security - Malware, Spam & other security products, Virtualisation, Virtual Products – ESX 5.0, vSphere and VM Work Station

o Project Management Tools/Techniques: Agile/Scrum Process, V&V model, Estimation techniques, Costing, resource allocation, project planning and project plan preparation

o Scripting: Unix Shell scripting & Perl Scripting

o Operating Systems: Linux, Windows server 2008, Windows 7 & Windows 8 Beta and NetWare

o Defect Management Tools: Bugzilla & Clearquest

o Metrics: Tiki

o Test Case Management: Quality Center, Testlink

o Programming Languages: C

Personal Details

Date of Birth: 27th May, 1974

References: Furnished on Request

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