Working at Contour (Pvt) Ltd as Manager Software Quality Assurance.
A highly driven IT and Telecoms professional with masters Degree in Mobile Computing from the United Kingdom, having 16 years of experience in information technology and technical support for the progress of leading multinational telecoms, Automotive, and IT organizations.
Experience in ConceptWave Order Care Development Framework (ConceptWave Velocity Studio) for Testing and Quality Assurance of Order Care systems.
Experience in End Users Trainings.
Experience in making Test Plans.
Experience in Test Design.
Experience in Test Documentation and Execution in HP Quality Center.
Experience in Defect Management in HP Quality Center, Mantis and RTH Turbo.
Experience in Load and Performance Testing using HP Load runner.
Experience in Test Automation using Selenium.
Objective
To share, gain knowledge, experience and eventually guide and assist the Company to its highest level of performance, particularly in the field of Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
In achieving this, I have shown myself to be self-motivated, committed and determined in achieving my goals, come what may. I possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, a firm sense of responsibility and capacity to work hard under pressure.
Responsibilities • Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
• Organize the testing kick-off meeting
• Define the Strategy
• Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
• Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills).
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
• Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Check / Review the Test Cases documents.
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
• Communication with the Client (If required).
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.
PROJECTS & HIGHIGHTS:
1. Designed and Tested several application which were designed both in house and externally.
2. Designed and executed test cases for the container product, which had several sub projects. The objective of container project is to design a customized home screen on Symbian OS for Orange network.
3. Assisted in all the detailed design and development of the Mobile testing Tool kit Application for the France Telecom R&D UK, Orange UK. This is designed for Symbian operating system which is based on Symbian C++.The objective of the kit is to populate the SMS, MMS , Emails, Notes, Images, Bookmarks And calendar Entries pro-grammatically for purpose of stress testing, load testing and Performance Testing.
4. Performed Quality Assurance of the Music Store project. This application is about enabling users to download music from orange stores directly.
5. Performed Quality Assurance of the Opera Mini on Nokia devices.
6. Performed Quality Assurance of the Mobile TV application. This application is about enabling users to view 360 channels on mobile device in France.
7. Designed an application which is capable of taking screen shot in different formats.
8. Performed Quality Assurance of the projects by testing and writing reports and executing the criteria for Quality testing.
9. Performed Symbian C++ Mobile Application Development, Quality Assurance and Testing.
10. Thorough understanding of GSM, GPRS and IMS Network Architectures.
11. Modified existing programs to add or change features; analyzed program crashes to correct and reduce future failures; supported users through training, tracing software reports; and fixed Software & hardware problems.