Senior Test Engineer Resume

Title
Senior Test Engineer

Primary Skills
Manual Testing

Location
India-Chennai

Posted
Jul-31-09

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education
• Master of Computer Applications, Madras University
• Bachelor of Science in Computers from Madras University.

Professional Experience -- 6 years and 10 months in IT.
A Dedicated, Assertive and Qualified professional offering
diversified technical expertise in the field of Manual
Software Testing.
• Worked in CSC (www.csc.com) from Aug 2007 to Jul 2009.
• Worked in Digifour Technologies, Sharjah from Oct 2005 to Jan 2007.
• Break period: Aug 2002 to Sep 2005
• Worked in Covansys (formerly CBSI) from Sep 1998 to Jul 2002.

Technical Expertise
Hardware : IBM PC Compatibles ,PENTIUM III
Operating Systems : Windows NT, Windows XP
Software : JDK1.1.7, HTML4.0, JavaScript
NETDYNAMICS 4.X, Oracle
Forms6i , Oracle Reports 6i,
Developer 2000

Tools : Visual Source Safe, TOAD

DBMS : Oracle8i.

Areas of Interest
Manual Testing
Total Experience (Months) 81 Testing Experience (Months) 51

Experience Summary
• Senior Test Engineer, a Dedicated, Assertive and Qualified professional offering diversified technical expertise in the field of Manual Software Testing. 1 year and 4 months experience with Product specific client (PayPal), in the VPS (VeriSign Payment Services -- Payment Gateway) vertical, 1 and ½ years of experience in Child Care domain and 2 years of experience in development. An experienced, motivated, goal oriented and hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and undertake challenging multiple tasks.
• More than 4 years of experience in Manual Testing, with an exposure to Silk tool.
• Have performed consulting roles in my career including Senior Testing Engineer, Analyst and Developer.
• Good communication skills and ability to learn and master new technologies in a short span.
• Have good expertise in manual testing skills, PL/SQL and ORACLE.

Accomplishments
• Good knowledge in Software Test Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies.
• Written test cases based on Functional Specification and Test case Design Techniques.
• Good testing skills.
• Effective defect tracking.
• Prioritization of bugs.
• Have worked in both PDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Have an onsite experience of 10 weeks with PayPal client.
• Good design, analytical and programming skills.
• Excellent communication skills and leadership qualities with accent on constructive teamwork.

Onsite Experience
Was on a B1 from October 19th 2008 to December 23rd 2008 to San Jose, California for the client PayPal.

Responsibilities:
• Was the only QA resource in Red Bulls team which included 5 developers.
• Was the only QA resource to handle the new feature, International French VT, where MEPE applications were going global for the first time in French.
• Apart from the regular QA activities EBF LIVE push for 55 release was handled.
• Periodic demo of the application was presented to the product owner and the clients.

Achievements
- Was awarded for Performance Excellence as a Shining Star (Cosmic Kudos Award) for Q2 2008.
- Was awarded for Performance Excellence as a Rising Star (Planet Award) in the month of March, Q4 2007, within a
period of 6 months from the date of join in PayPal.
- Received Payments 101 Certification in PayPal with top score.
- Received appreciation emails for the features 20811 - RBS, 23021 - Isolation.
- Have given a training session on VPS applications to the New Hire Trainees.
- Have been to onsite on the 19th of October 2008 and was the sole QA resource for MEPE, co-coordinating with
offshore and performing activities required for the new feature handled only at onsite.
- Given demos on the new feature whenever required
- Took part in the EBF LIVE push
- Prepared presentations on SQL on both basic and advanced topics for the training department

Visa Information
Country Visa Type Valid Till
U.S.A Business Visa Sep 2018

Domain Expertise
Domain Specific Area in Domain Experience (Months)
Financial services Payment Gateway 16
Public Sector Projects Electronic Medical records, Child care 42










Technical Expertise
Technology / Classification Java / J2EE

Primary Skills Experience (Months) Secondary Skills Experience (Months)
Manual Testing 48 PL/SQL 6
SQL 48
Oracle 48

Technology / Classification C++

Primary Skills Experience (Months) Secondary Skills Experience (Months)
Manual Testing 16 Unix 16

Technology / Classification Oracle Applications

Primary Skills Experience (Months) Secondary Skills Experience (Months)
Manual Testing 32

Additional Skills • Automation using SILK.
• Worked in both PDLC and AGILE methodologies.
• Ecase - To track the test cases and their
results.
• EzTracker - To track the test cases and their
results specific to regression and
regression related Testing.
• ClearQuest - To track the status of bugs raised.
• Rally - A tool devised to facilitate tracking
of tasks in Agile methodology.
• Clarity - Timesheet and Resource
management tool.
• ICE - To deploy C++ builds to the testing
playgrounds.
• RE (Release Engineering) - To deploy Java builds to the testing
playgrounds.
• Genesis - For creation of test accounts, cloning
databases, execution of Silk scripts
without manual intervention.

Education
EDUCATION BOARD YEAR OF PASSING PERCENTAGE
M.C.A Madras University, Auxilium College 2001 75%
B.Sc. (Computer science) Madras University, Auxilium College 1998 79%
H.S.C Government girls higher secondary school 1995 83%
S.S.L.C St. Joseph matriculation higher secondary school 1993 79%

Professional Activities, Certifications and Training attended
Course / Certification Name Institution Year Duration
Payments 101 certification PayPal 2008 1 day
QMS Awareness Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 19 days
SQL Concepts Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 7 days
DB Concepts Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 4 days
DB2, CICS (Theory and Workshop) Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 18 days
COBOL (Theory and Workshop) Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 1 month
Testing Methodologies Computer Point 1997 3 months
Diploma in Multi -- User Programming Computer Point 1997 6 months

Engagement Overview
Project Name PayPal Start Date Aug 2007
Client PayPal, San Jose End Date Dec 2008
Project Location Chennai -- India
Project Description:
PayPal is the safer, easier way to pay and get paid online. The service allows anyone to pay in any way they prefer, including through credit cards, bank accounts, buyer credit or account balances, without sharing financial information. Located in San Jose, California, PayPal was founded in 1998 and was acquired by eBay in 2002.
On November 18, 2005, PayPal acquired VeriSign's Payment Services business. This was specifically targeted to facilitate small merchant business and with this acquisition both VPS and PayPal customers have access to a more comprehensive offering of online payment products.
Role Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:
• Worked for 7 releases beginning from 50th to 57th release.
• Preparation of Test plans
• Preparation and Execution of test cases.
• Preparation of test scenarios and test data.
• Review of test plans, test cases and scenarios.
• Performing Functional Testing (FQA), Regression Testing (RQA), Cross Vertical Testing (VXQA), Cross Vertical Regression Testing (TRQA), LIVE Testing
• Coordinating manual performance testing for the application.
• Testing performed with Automation tools like Silk.
• Modification and updation of Silk scripts done.
• Sending Daily Status Reports
• Updation of Release Management and Twiki sites

• Hardware
Pentium III

• Software
Windows XP, C++, Java, Weblogic, Unix, SQL, Silk

Project Name Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Start Date Nov 2006
Client Digifour technologies, Sharjah End Date Jan 2007
Project Location Sharjah, U.A.E
Project Description:
This is an internal project. It is meant for the automation of the human resources department, like submission of cv's, search for the required cv with relevant options, processing of the candidate, employee details, payroll details.
Role Senior Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:
• Preparation and Execution of test cases.
• Preparation of test scenarios and test data.
• Review of test cases and scenarios.
• Coordinating manual performance testing for the application.

• Hardware
Pentium III

• Software
Windows NT, Microsoft IIS, IBM WebSphere Application server 3.5, IBM WebSphere Studio 3.5, IBM Visual Age for Java, Oracle 8i, HTML, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JavaBeans, JavaScript, Oracle Forms6i, Oracle Reports 6i





Project Name Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Start Date Oct 2005
Client Digifour Technologies, Sharjah End Date Nov 2006
Project Location Sharjah, U.A.E
Project Description:
EMR deals with the automation of the Doctors job, like giving an appointment, alerting the doctors regarding other jobs like Operation timings, Appointment Timings, Medical Insurance dues and so on. There are 2 sections, one for the Administrators and one for the Users (doctors). The Admin contains the functionalities to give the Doctors permissions to only view certain screens, and have the permission to edit other screens. Admin can generate reports and can enter master data.
Role Senior Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:
• Preparation and Execution of test cases.
• Preparation of test scenarios and test data.
• Review of test cases and scenarios.
• Co-coordinating manual performance testing for the application.

• Hardware
Pentium III

• Software
Windows NT, Microsoft IIS, IBM WebSphere Application server 3.5, IBM WebSphere Studio 3.5, IBM Visual Age for Java, Oracle 8i, HTML, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JavaBeans, JavaScript, Oracle Forms6i, Oracle Reports 6i

Project Name Child Care Management Systems (CCMS) Start Date Jan 2001
Client Public Sector Project, U.S End Date Jul 2002
Project Location Chennai -- India
Project Description:
CCMS (Child Care Management Systems) is a web-based product developed by Covansys. It helps in integrating the Providers and the Agents who are geographically separated. Provider does the child care services. Agents help providers by allocating funds collected from the Funders. In order to facilitate proper allocation and utilization of funds, the Provider has to send the status such as the type of services provided, attendance report etc. to the Agent. Other important details about the Providers such as contact information, bulletin messages, registration etc. are also maintained with the help of this product. The System is in use in a few states in US.
Role Analyst / Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:
Participated as an active member, in a team of 30 people, I was involved in coding, testing, forms, reports, Forms, Reports in Developer 2000, Oracle Forms 6i, Oracle Reports 6i. Preparation of documents like Detailed Design documents, Unit Test Plans and those that are required by the project.

• Testing
Unit testing and Integration testing are done in order to test the proper validity of the system.

• Hardware
Pentium III



• Software
Windows NT, Microsoft IIS, IBM WebSphere Application server 3.5, IBM WebSphere Studio 3.5, IBM
Visual Age for Java, Oracle 8i, HTML, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JavaBeans, JavaScript, Oracle Forms6i,
Oracle Reports 6i.

Project Name Trackpro Start Date Nov 1999
Client Covansys Inc End Date Dec 2000
Project Location Chennai -- India
Project Description:
This is a product developed for “Tracking CBSI Projects on Internet”, so that, the vital information related to the project is available to the client anywhere in the world. This product comprises of following components

- An efficient Issue Tracking System
- An integrated Change Control Request Estimation and Tracking System
- Other Development Tasks Assignment, Schedule and Tracking
- Time Sheet Entry and Tracking
- Resource management system
- Well built Security to provide data and system access only to authorized users
- A variety of reports to view the task assignment, history, schedule, effort metrics, planned Vs actual data, resource history, resource availability, Issue pending, Delinquent issues, CCRs pending, CCR history etc.

This project is a full development life cycle project, involving Requirement Analysis, High level Design, Low Level Design, Coding, Unit Testing, Integrated Testing, System Testing and Implementation and includes development of User Manual and System Manual.
Role Application Developer

Responsibilities:
• As a Team Member in team of 15 people, I was involved in Analysis, Design, Coding (Preparation of Reports), Preparation of Unit Test Plans,
• Preparation of various tools required for the project in MS Access

• Hardware
PENTIUM PC, 64MB RAM, 4GB HDD

• Software
NETDYNAMICS 4.X, JAVA JDK 1.1.7, ORACLE 8.0, VISUAL SOURCE SAFE 6.0, RATIONAL ROSE '98 DESIGN TOOL, IE 4.0 UPWARDS, MICROSOFT IIS WEBSERVER FRONTPAGE '98

Project Name Board of Appeals Start Date Jan 1999
Client Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (DLLR) End Date Nov 1999
Project Location Chennai -- India
Project Description:
The Board of Appeals of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (DLLR) was using a FoxPro 2.5 based system for tracking and managing the details of Appeals relating to unemployment. The system was not Year 2000 compliant and hence it was decided to re-engineer this system into a Year 2000 compliant system on a Client / Server platform with enhancements. The new system is developed with Visual Basic 6.0 as front end and DB2 as back end.
Role Junior Application Developer

Responsibilities:
As a team member in a team of 28 people, I was involved in the following activities.

• Designing the screens in VB
• Specification preparation for the screens, reports and letters
• Preparation of the unit test plans
• Preparation of Letters.
• Maintenance of Timesheets and Issues of the Project.
• Tools were developed for the above requirements in MSAccess '97

Hardware:
Server
• Windows NT Server
• Pentium Pro Processor
200 MHz
128 MB RAM
• Windows NT 4.0 with SP 3 or higher
Clients
• Pentium PC
• Pentium Processor
133 MHz
32 MB RAM
• Windows 95/ 98

Software:

• DB2 Universal Database
• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
• Microsoft Office 97
• WinFaxPro 9.0
• Data Reports
• API for Barcode printing

Employment History
Company Name Designation Start date End Date
CSC, Chennai Senior Test Engineer Aug 2007 Jul 2009
Digifour Technologies, Sharjah Senior Testing Engineer Oct 2005 Jan 2007
Covansys India Ltd, Chennai Analyst Sep 1998 Jul 2002


Certifications
Course / Certification Name Institution Year Duration
Payments 101 certification PayPal 2008 1 day
QMS Awareness Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 19 days
SQL Concepts Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 7 days
DB Concepts Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 4 days
DB2, CICS (Theory and Workshop) Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 18 days
COBOL (Theory and Workshop) Covansys India Ltd, Chennai 1998 1 month
Testing Methodologies Computer Point 1997 3 months
Diploma in Multi ? User Programming Computer Point 1997 6 months


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