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Islandwizards is an eCommerce agency that builds & optimizes customer experiences for high-growth brands.

London, London, Gb

Saral-IT Solution is a young IT company that specializes in providing QA consulting services to her clients.Responsibilities:• Lead Testing projects.• Participate in creation & review of client proposals.• Pro-actively project manage so that the deliverables are developed within a pre-decided time span and budget.• Manage the members of the Testing team based either Onsite or offshore.• Train students and IT employees on Manual & Automation testing.

Responsibilities:• Defining and leading the overall Test Design and Strategy for both manual automation projects in an Agile environment• Managing the governance of the overall Testing Phases to ensure quality of Deliverables.• Overseeing the implementation of Automation of Regression suite using Selenium.• Managing testing resources in-line with the upcoming delivery deadlines.• Test documentation, planning details and execution following the various processes. • Weekly reporting to Test Manager on current progress of the team on various projects and resource allocation for the next sprint. • Raising risk, issues and dependencies in the project meetings.

Dallas, Tx, Us

As of December 2011, Jacobs Technology bought Unique World and as part of this role I am working for the Information Management division of the company. This role reports directly to the head of Program Management Office of the IM division within Jacobs Tech.Responsibilities:1) Resource Management for the IM division of Jacobs Technology.2) Prepare weekly Billability report as well report the Monthly revenue forecast..3) Provide Governance control and help shape and advise on processes4) Track financials for multiple projects and prepare monthly timesheets.5) Review and report progress of projects against schedule and budget6) Provide assistance to project teams including administrative tasks.

This role was about coordinating and managing multiple stakeholders i.e. the SIT and UAT teams in an Agile environment. Projects undertaken were mainly for business units within Telstra.Responsibilities:• Define the Over-all Agile Test Strategy for the upcoming share-point release in Telstra involving Unique World.• Managing the governance of the overall Testing Phases to ensure quality of Deliverables in an Agile environment.• Participate in manual, automated and Performance testing of Share point 2010 customised solution .• Co-ordinate with Telstra Business teams during the UAT and SIT phases of the release.• Provide daily updates to Project Manager and Telstra Business Owner on the status of testing.• Raising risk, issues and dependencies in the project stand-up meetings.

South Brisbane, Queensland, Au

As a Test Manager, I was expected to provide guidance and direction in areas of manual and automation testing and to introduce some quality checks in their development process so that the overall product would be of a better quality. Responsibilities:• Defining and managing the overall Test Design and Strategy for both manual automation projects in an Agile environment.• Managing the governance of the overall Testing Phases to ensure quality of Deliverables.• Participate in scripting using C# and Coded UI.• Test documentation, planning details and execution following the various processes. • Weekly reporting to Development Manager.• Raising risk, issues and dependencies in the project and management meetings.• Organising Test Environments.Achievements:• Successfully introduced procedures in order to manage testing artefacts.• Successfully introduced templates for Test plan and Test cases to be used in manual projects.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

This role was based at Qantas in a multi-vendor environment. Through this role, TCS wanted to develop their automation capabilities in order to bid for the upcoming automation projects at Qantas. Also, there was an expectation to mentor the offshore team at India in the art of automation so that the projects could be offshored in the future.Responsibilities:• Manage the onsite and offshore automation teams working for Qantas.• Understand scope of automation at Qantas.• Demonstrate the advantages of automation through POC and presentations .• Participate in scripting in Java using Rational Functional Tester• Manage the teams to achieve deadlines.• Mentor the members of the team in use of automation tool.• Raising risk, issues and dependencies in the project and management meetings.Achievements:• Successfully fixed the existing automation at one of the business units as a result of which the time taken for regression testing was reduced from 3 weeks to 4 hours. This helped to gain the trust of the client and opened up various other automation opportunities within Qantas.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

This was a senior role meant to positively contribute in the overall development of the testing team. Along with taking leadership on multiple manual testing projects, a major expectation of this role was to develop and manage Test Automation at ASIC.Responsibilities:• Actively participate in various testing projects at ASIC.• Create Master Test Plan/Strategy for various testing projects.• Test case writing, execution and logging of defects.• Manage and deliver the automation at ASIC.• Scripting in VB using Test Partner.• Train the other of testing team in use of Automation tools.• Try and achieve end-end automation capability at ASIC.Achievements:• Successfully developed end-end automation capability on several interlinked systems.• Successfully introduced the concept of automation to the UAT testing team.• Made the automation robust enough so that it can be executed on different environments.• Reduced regression testing effort by more than 50%.

As part of this role, I was required to work at the client site of Testpro as a Test Analyst and deliver either automation or manual projects.Responsibilities:• Participate in delivery of manual and automation projects for Testpro's clients.• Create and maintain automation scripts using the available automation tool at the client site. e.g. QTP, RFT etc• Create manual test scripts and participate in project meetings.• Able to start work at a new site with a minimal training.• Mentor staff at client sites in using of automation tools.Achievements:• Participated in delivery of several fixed-priced projects for Testpro for its customers in Sydney and Brisbane.

Au

This was a short-term contract role involving duties of a Test Analyst.Responsibilities:• Assist in creation of Keyword driven automation framework using RFT• Participate in creating of test scenarios and test cases

This was a Test Analyst role with some experience of automation.Responsibilities:• Creating Test scripts and Test scenarios.• Hands-on testing in System, integration and regressions phases of software cycle.• Understand scope of automation on various client systems.

Responsibilities:• Creating Test scripts and Test scenarios.• Hands-on testing in System, integration and regressions phases of software cycle.• Creating automation scripts using QTP.

Lincoln, Rhode Island, Us

This was short term contract involving the duties of a software tester.Responsibilities:• Creating Test scripts and Test scenarios.• Manual testing for System, Integration and regression phases of Software cycle.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Software Engineering

High School, Secondary Education And Teaching