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Bangalore

• Handled release plan, execution, and delivery• Involved in Activplant product raodmap• Worked on BI solution for Manufacturing domain • Reduced gap between R&D and support team• Defined product related milestones for Dev Ops • Mentored business analysts for the product• Handled product documentation• Defined mobile testing guidelines for the team• API automation for Activplant product• Handling the overall test direction for Activplant product• Defining automation and security testing aspects of the Activplnt product line• Automation of Factory product using page object framework with Selenium for object recognition

Bangalore

• Handled the release test plan and executions• Handled ERP and MES product integration• Worked on BI Solution using QlikView• Defined automation framework using Coded UI• Handled automation activities for Factory product using Coded UI• Guided creation of the whole test suite for Factory product line • Involved in migration of test artifacts from Quality Center to Team Foundation Server• Involved in Team Foundation Server requirement analysis and its implementation• Mentored the team on manufacturing domain• Handled testing activities of Factory MES product.

Bangalore

• Technical voice of the QA team in defining the technical track for the test team.• Provide technical solutions for projects and to the team members.• Implemented an internal project “Expense Claim System” by customizing our complaint management product “Respond”.• Used QTP for regression activities.• Helped the team in doing API testing.• Evaluated various test tools and drove Proof-of-Concept projects.• Selected test architecture, tools and technologies for the product QA.• Virtualization – Implemented using VMWare. Defined the guidelines, brought in best practices and centralized the system.• Cloud Testing - Planned the testing activities during the movement of one of the Pivotal CRM module to Cloud using VM Roles in Windows Azure.

Bangalore

• Testing in Agile environment – Handling co-located and cross-geographical Agile teams. Work as consultant to QA members in different Agile teams. Scrum is the methodology used and Rally is used for tracking progress.• Large Scale Deployment Testing – Defined, implemented, trained and troubleshoot test environments on Citrix, ADS, SMS and MS Terminal Server.• Knowledge sharing session done at Vancouver, Canada for one of the modules of Pivotal CRM.• Work with product managers and provide subject matter inputs to help develop product vision and roadmap of Pivotal CRM.• Support incidents process – Formulated the process to handle SIs. Responsible for analyzing data weekly and providing reports with inputs on improvement.• Compatibility testing – Defined a compatibility matrix to have maximum test coverage in less time. Helped product management team in defining future compatibilities.• Project planning – Responsible for defining the overall test strategy of each suite release. Handle the test design and risk factors. Worked with stake holders to identify inter-dependency between various teams to do a timely and quality release.• Release management – Responsible for final checks before the release is ready to go to the customers and then upload it on the general availability site.• Building up team – Responsible for mentoring over 20 members (including team leads) on the product as well as on technology to make them Subject Matter Expert.• Vendor management – Served as a liaison between development teams and third party vendors such as Citrix, IBM and Oracle.• Maintenance releases – Defined the maintenance process, streamlined it and executed it for all service pack and hot fix releases.• QC implementation – Played a crucial role in defining the work flow and basic parameters for the new defect tracking tool replacing the previous tool.

Bangalore

• Talisma CIM/CRM Testing – Responsibilities included preparing test plans, requirement review, design review, bug reporting, writing test cases, UI testing, usability testing, functionality testing and regression testing.• Coordinated the testing activities between India and USA teams.• Automated Talisma CIM smoke test using Compuware’s Test Partner.

Bangalore

• Mentored the team members on different modules of Talisma CRM.• Automated Talisma CRM smoke test using Rational Visual Test.• Conducted Stress Test for Talisma CRM using Rational Visual Test. Responsible for data gathering, it’s analysis and report generation.• Created the framework for efficient hotfix and service pack builds using installshield. Reduced the patch build turnaround time drastically.• Configuration Management of Talisma CRM– Responsible for the complete build process namely daily build, intermediate build, database build, hotfix build & VSS administration.

Bangalore

• Developed an in-house Time Sheet project using JSP and Oracle.

Bangalore

• Completed the Business Management program• Managed a team of 20 people • Handled electrical and electronics maintenance activities of the Aircraft division.• Responsible for maintenance of Computerized Numerically Controlled machines.• Handled material procurement and inventory of the maintenance department.• Established a Printed Circuit Board repair cell.

Master Of Technology - Mtech, Software Systems, Cgpa 8.39/10

Activities and Societies: Project on Android E-learning application. Major in Data Analytics

Post Graduate Diploma In Information Technology, Information Technology, Cgpa 2.9/4.0

Activities and Societies: • Member of IEEE student chapter • Winner in collage making in the cultural fest at IIM Bangalore held in 2002 •.

Engineering, Electronics And Communications, First Class With Distiction

Activities and Societies: • Presided as Secretary of Rotaract Club of Sindri – 1995-96 • Presided as Vice president of Arts Club –.

Aisse, Science, First Class

Activities and Societies: • Certificate by National Talent Search in Mathematics Quiz • Certificates in Athletics, Painting, Debate.