Desired employment IT Qualification Manager/ Test Analyst - Mercury Tools based Automated Testing with Quality Centre, QTP, BPT and LoadRunner.(English or International environment preferred)
Work experience 10 Years - Software Development and Testing (India, USA, Europe, Brazil and Singapore)
Core skills International work experience with Offshore Management skills, Quality Assurance and Software Testing Tools and Application Development on J2EE platform.
Functional skills Banking and Assurance, Mortgage, IT/Telecom Hardware Software testing and Medical insurance.
QA skills and competences Test Process I have experience of Test Planning, Budgeting and Team structuring with Offshore implementation. I have working knowledge of taking a project from initial Requirements stage through to the Release Stage. I have experience of preparation of Master Test Plan, Test Strategy documents, Test Director Customisation, user guidelines and import existing testing asset to Test Director
Defect Management I have defined the Defect Management process for a multi geography Insurance project for a large Banking and Insurance client. Used a number of Defect Tracking packages including MS Excel (as a temporary Solution), Mercury Test Director and Project Tracker to track issues/defects from detection through to closure.
Configuration Customized Test Director 8 SP2 for BNP Cardif project PIMS requirements for first implementation in Brazil.
Technical skills and competences Test Director, ColdFusion, JAVA, XML, XSLT, DTD, JavaScript, SQL, PL\SQL (Oracle), Business Objects, and MS Office, Excel macros. Epic editor, XML SPY, TOAD. Windows NT/ 2000, UNIX and Solaris.
Dates 16/02/1998 - 30/11/2006
Occupation or positions held IT Qualification Country Coordinator, Defect Manager, Lead QA Test Analyst, Senior Software Engineer
Roles and responsibilities IT QA Manager with Insurance Experience, UAT implementation of an international insurance product in Brazil, Plan test strategy, resource allocation, team management skills, work on stringent deadlines, Defect Manager, Test lead, Software tester, IT consultant. JAVA, ColdFusion, XML Web development, Document conversion engineering, Development and Project management.
Name and address of employer IACP Informatique, Paris, France. (Sep 2006- Mars 2007) As IBM Consultant for BNP Paribas-CARDIF.TATA Consultancy Services, India. (Feb 1998- Dec 2005)
Type of business or sector IT consultancy and System Integration service providers.
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Dates 25/08/2006 to 30/03/2007.
Occupation or positions held IT Qualification Testing Manager for Brazil UAT, Defect Manager and TD Administrator
Main activities and responsibilities Plan Test Strategy, Test Execution for UAT, Implement and Training of the team in Brazil office with Test Director Processes and Practices followed from HO.Coordinate with various functional teams, Solution providers, and outsourced offshore test execution team that geographically and culturally different.Responsible for defining the Defect Management process for tracking defects in International Protection Management System (PIMS) system developed in J2EE and Oracle in Venezuela, outsourced test execution in India, UAT and implementation in Brazil with control and Central Qualification team in Paris, France.Developed the Test Director guidelines to be followed by various teams and the testers for working with TD in defining the Requirements, creating the Test Cases in Test Plan, importing already existing data from Excel sheets to TD and Defects in Test Lab. Training the different Functional and Technical teams with their role in updating TD.Customized Test Director project and migrated already available Excel Testing content to TD and making it to be the only tool for the End-to-End Test Management process. Few specific reports were also generated outside the available TD reports to cover the needs of the client.Created the Test Execution Dashboard to report the Offshore Test Execution progress status.Design and Document a Disaster Recovery process for the Testing content in TD.Ensuring that the software delivered is fit for purpose and meets the needs of the business by defining a checklist of processes that must be followed.Responsible for working with the business and IT teams to create a Test Strategy and Process.Communicate with Solution suppliers to track and fix Defects/ issues on time.
Name and address of employer BNP PARIBAS – CARDIF Assurance.Rueil Malmaison, Paris, France.
Type of business or sector Banking and Assurance with International presence.
Dates 21/01/2004 - 20/12/2005
Occupation or position held Document Management and Testing Engineer
Main activities and responsibilities Content management with XML authoring tools (Epic Editor, XML Spy), XML Conversion of Mortgage and Home equity documents, Development of an in-house ExpereIE document management system, Testing and generation of dynamic documents through rules and user data.
Name and address of employer Bankers Systems Inc. (Wolters Kluwer, Netherlands),Sauk view Dr, Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA 56303.
Type of business or sector Bankers Systems delivers compliance and work flow solutions to over 12,000 financial organizations, including banks, thrift institutions, credit unions, mortgage lenders, finance companies, and mutual fund and brokerage companies.
Dates 01/06/2002 - 20/01/2004
Occupation or position held ColdFusion web applications support engineer
Main activities and responsibilities Project Lead for India based offshore team in production support of ColdFusion and other web applications, Business Object reporting of Telecom invoicing and billing data, Microsoft Excel reports, CFML, JAVA, TOAD, Oracle database. IIS, Weblogic and ColdFusion application servers.
Name and address of employer GE Health Care,Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Type of business or sector Health care Information Technology.
Dates 01/08/2001 - 31/05/2002
Occupation or position held System Tester
Main activities and responsibilities Automated and Manual testing of software applications, Reverse Engineering and regression testing of warehouse application and Radio controlled scanning device.
Name and address of employer Target Corporation, Minneapolis, USA.Offshore development centre based in TCS, Chennai, India.
Type of business or sector Mega retail stores in the USA.
Dates 01/01/2001 - 30/07/2001
Occupation or position held Software Tester
Main activities and responsibilities Testing of services provisioned on Motorola and Ericsson telecom switches. Development of interface to input, validate and provision test data into switches. Actual phone line lab testing.
Name and address of employer Q-west, Denver, Colorado, USA. Offshore testing centre was in TCS, Tidal Park Chennai.
Type of business or sector Local and International phone service and Internet/DSL VOIP service provider.
Dates 01/05/2000 - 15/12/2000
Occupation or position held Developer and Test Engineer
Main activities and responsibilities Requirement collection, Design, Development, Testing, Documentation and implementation of e-Order system and intranet. Netscape application Server and Builder, JAVA 1.1, JSP, HTML and Oracle.
Name and address of employer GE Plastics, Singapore.GE Bayer Silicones, Netherlands.TCS-GE Offshore Development centre, SEEPZ, Mumbai, India.
Type of business or sector Plastics, Lexon, Resins, Polymers, Silicones, film and sheets.
Dates 16/02/1998 - 30/04/2000
Occupation or position held Software Engineer
Main activities and responsibilities Consultant, Training and Development, Object Oriented design and UML design. ColdFusion, JAVA GUI and application development.
Name and address of employer Tata Infotech Ltd., (TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.)Bangalore, India.Client: HTH Worldwide, Radnor, PA, USA
Type of business or sector International Insurance medical providers.
Education and training
Dates 01/07/1996 - 15/02/1998
Title of qualification awarded Master of Science & Technology (Electronics and Communication)
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered Electronics and Communications Engineering. Wireless, Satellite and digital communication, DSP, Antennae and wave propagation, RF and Microwave.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry University, India.
Level in national or international classification Post Graduate in Engineering
Dates 01/07/1992 - 30/06/1996
Title of qualification awarded Bachelor of Science & Technology (Electronics and Communication)
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered Electronics and Communications Engineering. Mathematics, Physics, Wave modulation and digital communication, Networks, Microprocessor, RF and Microwave. Fibre Optical communication.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry University, India.
Level in national or international classification Bachelor Degree in Engineering.