♦ Experience in software development industry & comprehensive understand-ing and exposure to all phases of the SDLC.
♦ Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple challenging roles till date in my career – Test Manager, Project lead, SQA SPOC.
♦ Ability to handle work well under pressure. Identify opportunities and consistently achieve objectives. Forward-thinking, outcome-oriented, energetic with technical prowess and strong communication skills.
♦ Hands on experience with Agile methodologies of product development life cycle.
♦ Primary areas of expertise include Software test management (manual as well as automa-tion), extensive knowledge of Rational suite of automation tools, reliability (i.e. subset of performance) and functional testing and delivery/release management.
♦ Have experience in preparing iteration plans, test plans, test cases, articulating defects and test reports.
♦ Awarded with Bravo Awards and Quality recognition at India Software Lab by VP ISL IBM for the excellence of work done in testing domain with RAD – Portal Tools team.
Experience
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
IBM
February 2005 – Present (10 years 8 months)Gurgaon, India
Test Manager & Project Lead
♦ Project & Test Management for IBM Rational Application Developer.
♦ Creation of development Iteration plans using Rational Team Concert.
♦ Creation of Test plans, Test cases in Rational Quality Manager
♦ Conducting review of iteration plan and test plans with partner labs
♦ Review of test and iteration artifacts created by the other members in team and partner labs
♦ Defect administration in Rational ClearQuest and Rational Team Concert
♦ SPOC to Level 2 team for customer escalations related to Portal Tools.
♦ Weekly review calls with senior manager and architects from partner labs
♦ Conducting weekly interlocks with distributed teams.
♦ Managing resources for project activities.
♦ Automation of test scenarios using selenium, Rational Functional Test and Rational Performance tester
♦ Mentoring other members in same brand products with automation tasks
♦ Publishing and review of technotes related to known issues for a milestone
♦ Authored developerworks article to share knowledge with wider community
♦ Conducting release kickoff and retrospection meetings
♦ Identifying training needs for project team
♦ SQA SPOC for all products in ICS (IBM Collaboration Solutions) brand at Gurgaon location
♦ Facilitating quality processes in projects
♦ Preparation of Quality Matrices
♦ Management reporting on quality issues
♦ Managing team dynamics
Member - QE
Quark Media House
2003 – 2005 (2 years)
Jr. MTS
Netwrok Programs
2001 – 2003 (2 years)