Qualified Test Manager seeking work in Auckland | SHARAD K. GARG
E-mail: sharadgenius@gmail.com
Cell : 022-1543745
Address: 119, Puhinui, Auckland (New Zealand)
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Profile & Achievements:
A highly dynamic Agile Test Lead with over 5 years of experience in leading day to day operations & handling customers including Marks & Spencer, Coke, Vodafone, Johnson & Wales University, Telecom New Zealand, Cetera Financial Group etc.
Extensive work experience in testing & maintaining windows & web applications using Java, J2EE, JSP, Flash, Javascript, Ajax, ASP.NET, C#.NET, Web Services, Oracle 10g, WCM, ECM etc.
Experience in product development & Service related projects. Project Management experience include team handling responsibility, project and program management.
Establish time phased schedules including budget constraints, cross-functional integration and product launches. Determine key project milestones, identify risks and organize support groups to focus on common goals to ensure schedule integrity. Research, develop and implement appropriate innovations and resolutions to increase efficiency throughout all phases of development.
Functionally competent in delivering test plans and test strategies across programs, set-up test data, Client Interaction & negotiation. Good experience of E-learning, LMS based ILT courses, Content Management (Alfresco and Stellent), Retail, and package software (CRM) through implementation and enhancements along with business applications (Word, Access, Excel, power point, project, visio, reports, etc.)
Experience in SDLC Waterfall and STLC in Agile work environment. Exposure to SEI CMM Level 5 standards and processes.
Have followed OOP’s concepts and coding standards in building of Automation frameworks for ease of maintaining the project & code reliability. 1.5 years experience in QTP 9.2.
Have used Quality Center 9.2 with all its features. Have led a small team of developers & testers through release cycle & helped deliver test code while, maintained integrity of software development database ensuring good development practices.
Extensive experience of functional, regression, system & integration testing, Test Management, Test scripting, Test Data creation, Test case writing & reviewing, Test results reporting, regression testing, system and Integration testing through all phases of development.
Extensive experience in Defect Management - JIRA, Bugzilla, Quality Center, Resultspace, Rational Portfolio, clearcase and Configuration management tools including VSS, SVN.
AUTOMATED a manual application with reconciliation of system data with market data resulting in task being completed with 100% accuracy in 1 minute as opposed to 3 hours.
Good exposure on QTP 9.2 and frameworks.
Experience writing SQL to test database entries on Oracle, SQL Server, IIS
(2000/XP/2003/2008) has run commands in Unix/Linux.
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
Manage own learning experience individually and within a group.
Self-starter and takes initiatives.
Work successfully within a team and as a team player.
Present results effectively both verbally and in written form including business reports.
Excellent Analytical skills, sharp intellect & verbal communication.
PROJECTS:
MBA (Marketing) from Royal Business College, Auckland
8/2011- till date
Father was hospitalized, so I have taken a break from job
10/2010-7/2011 (10 MONTHS)
NIIT Technologies for Cetera Financial Group, USA
12/2009-9/2010, 12/2006-12/2007 (21 MONTHS)
Project(s) handled:
Stellent to Alfresco migration of content management back end for two of the ING Advisors Network Broker-Dealer Centre dynamic websites. These websites serves dynamically selected content based on role as prompted by hyperlinks on the ING Professional site with one section of Smartworks, and one section of Envestnet serving up published pages. The back end is designed to allow configuring content for different modes of display on the website in different categories, including promotional materials, forms, and news. The Broker-Dealer site is composed of portlet that interact with the content repository. The user’s profile drives what links are presented in each portlet, installation & setup of alfresco components. Used some automation (keyword-driven and data driven framework) for regression test cases.
Key facts and achievements:
• Helped the business to grow by $1.2 million in one year.
• Dropped the number of defects to 12% per release through an innovative test plan.
• Successfully organized many brainstorming sessions.
Steria India Ltd for Marks & Spensor, UK
11/2008-10/2009 (11 MONTHS)
Project(s) handled:
M& S and Wall-Mart. Designed a retail application and product flow for a complete e-fulfillment warehouse capable of handling 1500-2000 transactions, 3000-3500 users with constantly changing requirements, received accolades from client in tough market
conditions. Worked on BPM SOA project in TWS transformation (Telecom transformation project).
Key facts and achievements:
• Increased the efficiency of web pages through average response time from 10 sec. to 5 sec in UAT.
• Client reported 5/5 CSS (Customer Satisfaction Survey) during product launch. Helped the business to grow from 4.3m to 4.9m unique users.
• Turnover grew 21% to 23% in tough market conditions. This includes successful product launches, increased download by +40% within one release.
• Successfully completed project on time with appreciation from manager.
• Set up centre of excellence in automation testing.
Sapient, Coke, USA
12/2007-10/2008 (10 MONTHS)
Project(s) handled:
Front-end designed to display content lifecycle, interfaces to web pages and administration, publish, author and expire content on web pages, out-of-the-box dashlets, layout templates,Multi-column layout templates, workflow tasks, My Workspaces, Hierarchical (Tree) folder navigation.
Key facts and achievements:
• Independently created training documents and bug triage meetings.
• Helped the business to pull all CMS features from stellent portal.
• Increased revenue by $1.8 million a year.
3G Soft Solutions, Samsung, India
07/2004-12/2006 (30 MONTHS)
Project(s) handled:
An ecommerce B2B portal application with various modules like Add to Cart, My basket, product checkout, Buy Now, Bid corner etc. A self registration module where consumer can register themselves for various promotional offers discounts & track the status of their purchased commodities.
CERTIFICATION(S):
ISTQB/ ISEB - (with ‘’85%" marks) Information System Examination Board, UK certifying test takers in best practices & foundation knowledge in Software Testing.
QUALIFICATION(S):
Bachelor in Technology degree in Computers (2004) from state-of-art U.P. Technical University (India).
XIIth in Science (2000) from C.B.S.E, India.
Xth in Science (1998) from C.B.S.E, India.
EXTRA- CURRICULAR:
Active member of renowned web discussion groups such as Retail Test Professionals UK, Global Testing Professionals, Modis, People Co Test Forum. Member of business networking websites such as LinkedIn, siliconindia.
Winner of national level talent search exam (Lion Pratibha) three times.
Actively participated in English News Bulletin competition organized by High-school & won 3rd Prize.
Actively participated in state-level Painting Competition organized by High-school & won 1st Prize.
Worked with project manager to communicate KPI targets, client handling.
Trained and Mentored junior team members resulting in significant productivity rate increase & less time to market. Increase in speed of development enabled IT to become more responsive to client demands for change & enhancements. |
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