Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Achieving excellence is what drives me most. I take great pride in describing myself as a results-driven and dedicated professional with wide-ranging experience and knowledge in software development life cycles and software development processes with additional exposure to Project Management and Program Management. Comprehensive knowledge of software development and software Quality Assurance. Extensive knowledge of software quality development and implementation, software inspection and testing. Possess excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills. Excellent communicator with good management and organizational skills. High level of initiative with ability to self-manage. Confident with excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, I am a positive team player with ability to work towards achievement of organizational goals. Detail oriented and methodical, I possess superb time management skills, including multi-tasking and prioritizing ability. I have acquired excellent organizational and presentation skills. The type of role, which excites me most, is a challenging position, which will benefit from my skills and experience whilst providing me with the opportunity for further professional and personal development. I am conscientious, reliable and driven to achieve results and I am sure that I will prove to be a valuable asset. If you are interested in discussing further the benefit that I can bring to your organization, don’t hesitate to contact me at [email protected] and I’ll get straight back to you.
Team Collaboration, Communication, Liasoning with external teams, Agile Management, Budget Management, Communication with Senior Executives, Report aggregation and presentation
Resource Planning, Quality Engineering, Project Management, Short to Medium term planning for prduct
-Worked with global stakeholders to build the product strategy and operational execution strategy for next 1-3 years. -Participated in planning and risk management meetings and proactively raising the risk and providing solutions for mitigating the same from Software Quality perspective. -Worked with the subject matter experts, application architects, application developers, and the business side users to develop the use-case scenarios and effectively implementing changes in the testing process to ensure full coverage -Ownership and Accountable for Software quality assurance of the Software enterprise product and responsible for driving the QA methodologies throughout the lifecycle of the product, while leading a team of engineers working on Black Box, Gray Box and Automation methodologies. -Assisting the team create automation frameworks in different technologies as per the product architecture to automate the testing process and test coverage.Implemented automation in a complex architecture through different approaches for Database, UI based, Service based automation using different tools. -Transformed the team from task based to ownership based model resulting into increased productivity and better quality through an effective change management process -Looked after team development, resource management, training, hiring and skill requirement for the team -Reviewed product design documentation to ensure that requirements stated are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable -Defined test methods and got test plans created for new or updated software requirement to determine if the software will perform accurately and reliably according to documented requirements as well as established standards under -Recommending design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout the development process. -Maintaining effective communication with the project software engineers on project limitation, capability, performance requirement and hardware interface changes.
- Worked on actively in Adobe RoboHelp 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0. Adobe Technical Communication Suite 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. and a 1.0 Enterprise Product consisting of a Server, Client and Portal -Worked in an Individual contributor capacity in the domain of Product Quality Assurance, Customer training and support, Feature Designing, mentoring fellow team members in one of the market leading software product -Worked as Program Manager (Intern) for Adobe RoboHelp patch 9.0.1 for successful release of the patch with full responsibility of its planning and execution during Feb 2011 – May 2011. -Oversaw the Quality procedures related to the project and performed quality audits to ensure templates, procedures and methodologies are adhered to International standards. -Provided leadership to assigned employees including motivation, delegation, team building, conflict management, and coaching which helped in establishing a strong team with good knowledge base -Responsible for ideation, shaping and quality of many important features in different releases as Unicode, XHTML, Master Pages, Dynamic Publishing, Review Workflow, Spell Check and Dictionary, etc. -Involved in design discussions and implementation issues in the ideation phase of various features. -Defined various processes for early bug detection, automation, and increasing the reliability of the product. -Imparted Product Training to Sales Force, Vendors, Partners, team members and intermediate users. -Interacting with Customers, Pre-Release Partners, Beta Testers for their early feedback and resolution of issues. -Understood various customer workflows and defining various methods to get them tested for the product. -Appreciated across the group for suggesting/ defining new processes and bringing the team onboard. -Assessed continuous improvements for various work scenarios and suggest them to management for adopting them to improve overall productivity and efficient utilization of various resources.
- Worked on actively in Adobe RoboHelp 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0. Adobe Technical Communication Suite 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. and a 1.0 Enterprise Product consisting of a Server, Client and Portal -Worked in an Individual contributor capacity in the domain of Product Quality Assurance, Customer training and support, Feature Designing, mentoring fellow team members in one of the market leading software product -Worked as Program Manager (Intern) for Adobe RoboHelp patch 9.0.1 for successful release of the patch with full responsibility of its planning and execution during Feb 2011 – May 2011. -Oversaw the Quality procedures related to the project and performed quality audits to ensure templates, procedures and methodologies are adhered to International standards. -Provided leadership to assigned employees including motivation, delegation, team building, conflict management, and coaching which helped in establishing a strong team with good knowledge base -Responsible for ideation, shaping and quality of many important features in different releases as Unicode, XHTML, Master Pages, Dynamic Publishing, Review Workflow, Spell Check and Dictionary, etc. -Involved in design discussions and implementation issues in the ideation phase of various features. -Defined various processes for early bug detection, automation, and increasing the reliability of the product. -Imparted Product Training to Sales Force, Vendors, Partners, team members and intermediate users. -Interacting with Customers, Pre-Release Partners, Beta Testers for their early feedback and resolution of issues. -Understood various customer workflows and defining various methods to get them tested for the product. -Appreciated across the group for suggesting/ defining new processes and bringing the team onboard. -Assessed continuous improvements for various work scenarios and suggest them to management for adopting them to improve overall productivity and efficient utilization of various resources.
-Involved in the automation of Testcases and workflows for the Software Product of QuarkXpress and have done automation both in SilkTest (for Windows) and EggPlant (for MAC). -Maintained the framework of automation and gave training to people for the same. -Managed the automation of testcases provided by feature teams in Silktest on Windows and Eggplant on MAC. -Managed the execution of automation suite of huge number of testcases on various platforms and reported to relevant stakeholders almost on a daily basis. -Automated the customer workflows for the publishing domain and executing them on Windows and MAC. -Devised testplans for features and executing the test scripts. -Performed memory leak testing and code coverage through automation script and reported issues accordingly. -Received QuarkXPress “Best Beta performer” Award for better execution and effective implementation for QuarkXPress 7.0. -Appreciated for taking lead for the changes introduced in automation and improved the productivity of the team. -Became QuarkXPress Certified Expert. -Received pre-timed promotion due to extra ordinary performance in the group.