Kanika Mittal

 Kanika Mittal Phone: (-) Email:- Summary Having 13+ years of working experience in Software Testing. Lastly, was working as Test Lead in Mexico City from past 4 years. Hands on experience in various software testing models including Agile. Experience in test management of medium to large size projects, covering Functional, System Integration, data warehouse and automation testing aspects. Excellent test management, team management, multi-tasking, communication and problem solving skills. Good mentor and a Strong team player, possess capability of raising project risks timely and in the correct forum and providing solutions as well. Detail oriented, hardworking and goal oriented; quick to learn new procedures and methods. Onsite Experience of testing in US, UK and Mexico. Experience working closely with business development teams and managing teams across time-zones. Possess Good business and domain knowledge. ISTQB and NCFM Certified. Conducted various trainings as Scrum Master as well. Core Competence and Selective Achievements Core Competence: Rich Test management experience, Can manage projects and teams independently and across time-zones. Hands-on experience in Software Development Life Cycle including Agile. Hands-on experience in Creating Test Plans and Test Strategy. Maintaining Test Scripts, Preparing Test Cases. Publishing Test Reports and test statistics to Management. Full knowledge on testing tools Quality Center,(HP ALM), JIRA. Done Web Based, Desktop based and Database Testing. Business development skills Analytical & Logical Skills. Selected Achievements: Received appreciations in form of rewards, emails and verbal from management. Both development team and business teams show great amount of trust. Often seek advice, accept suggestions. Strong Team player, good mentor to the team. Can handle multiple projects simultaneously. Participate in team bonding, extracurricular activities at times. Always a high rater in appraisals. Work Experience Global Systems Outsourcing, Mexico - May 2015 till date as Sr. Test Lead for Credit Suisse Bank. GrupoBMS,Estado de Mexico – Feb 2014 till March 2015 as a Test Consultant FIL India Business Services Pvt. Ltd. – June 2007 till October 2013 as Test Lead Global logic India Pvt. Ltd. – October 2006 - June 2007 as Sr. Associate QA Intersolutions Pvt. Ltd (Deploy group) – February 2004 – October 2006 as Senior Member Technical Staff I.E.C College of Engg. & Technology – August 2003 - February 2004 as Lecturer Name of Current Employer : Global Systems Outsourcing, Mexico Dates of Employment:From May 2015 till date Job Title: Test Lead Project Description Global Systems Outsourcing, Mexico is an outsourcing company providing software development solutions to IT Leaders. Assignments Handled: Credit Suisse Client Projects Role Working as Sr. Test Leader. Responsibilities Requirement understanding of Credit-Suisse products in Equity business. Responsible for Test Strategy and Test Planning. Test execution and reporting defects using JIRA, ALM on Daily basis. Coordinating with the Dev/QA/Test teams across time zones and organizing work among my team. Using in-house tool to create automation Test cases for Credit-Suisse equity platform. Recognising automation capable requirements for optimal use and getting that done from automation experts using QTP, inhouse Data validation tools. Provide Status to management in Credit Suisse, NY office and Globant office at Mexico. Technologies/Apps Oracle 11G+Java, Unix, SQL, Tectia, Putty, HP ALM, JIRA Name of Previous Employer : GrupoBMS, Estado de Mexico Dates of Employment:From Feb 2014 till March 2015 Job Title: Sr. Tester (Freelancer) Project Description GrupoBMS is a 100% Mexican company with over 10 years experience in the IT Solutions Development for Media and Multimedia Content Management. Assignments Handled: Media Admin 2 and MADS Projects Role Worked as a Sr.Tester. Responsibilities Requirement understanding of Media Admin 2 and MADS. Responsible for Test execution and reporting defects using JIRA. Coordinating with the Test team and organizing work. Tested Media Admin 2 application on tablets as well. Also, worked with Syncfusion development team in India. Responsible for testing their work, reporting issues and coordinating with them. Provide Status to management team at BMS office. Technologies Oracle 11G+ASP.net, HTML 5 Employer : FIL India Business Services Pvt. Ltd Gurgaon, India. Dates of Employment:From June 2007 till October 2013 Job Title: Test Lead Project Description With Fidelity India Business services, worked in Pensions domain in Defined Contributions and Defined benefits areas. Also, worked in Data ware housing projects. Assignments Handled: DC Area: Pensions Reforms Releases, MBS, PlanViewer Upgrade, DC QIRs, DB Admin, SSE’s Role Worked as a Test Lead. Responsibilities Test estimation, requirement understanding and SDS reviews. Resource planning and test plan creation. Responsible for Test strategy, test coverage and test data creation and test execution. Walkthrough’s of test scenarios. Mentoring of resources, bringing them upto speed, resolving their issues/queries. Managing conflicts within team/ with dev team. Building the trust of stakeholders/ keeping them informed. Provide accurate statuses, defect tracking & reporting. Keeping the morale high & motivating the team to deliver continuously and tirelessly even with complex work and hard dates. Preparation of RCA packs for the projects and presenting the same to stakeholders. Giving Automation requirement whenever needed. Technologies Oracle 10G+ Sybase +JDK 1.6 + Weblogic 9.1 on Solaris 10, VC++ desktop based apps. DB Area: DC QIRs, Ishares Reporting, FV Upgrades, Gambit suite – Upgrade and Enhancements Role Worked as a Test Lead. Responsibilities Test estimation and requirement understanding. Resource planning and test plan creation. Responsible for Test strategy, test coverage. Automation of the data loading part. Mentoring of resources and supervising them, validating test results. Participated in test execution, bug reporting, generating daily test reports Preparation of RCA packs for the projects and presenting the same to stakeholders. Technologies Oracle 10G+ Sybase + Informatica + Vermilion Reports + Powerbuilder based desktop applications + Java Apps running on WAS on Solaris 10 Enterprise Area: Bulk Switching (EDW Project) Role Worked as a Tester. Responsibilities Responsible for Test coverage and test data creation. Responsible for test execution, bug reporting and generating daily test reports Technologies Oracle 10G + Webfocus Reports. Employer: Global Logic Pvt. Ltd, [Formerly Induslogic] Noida, India. Dates of Employment:From October 2006 till June 2007 Job Title: Sr. Associate QA, member of Mantas project Project Description Mantas project handles a suite of web-based applications handling bank transactions of customers and keeping a gauge on the anti-money laundering cases. Various financial reports and record details are generated from these applications. Assignments Handled: Mantas Project Role Test team member Responsibilities Review of test cases Test case execution, bug reporting using Clearquest Generating test reports Technologies Oracle 10G +JDK 1.5.3+ Weblogic 9.1 on Solaris 10. Employer: Intersolutions Pvt. Ltd (Deploy Group), Noida. Dates of Employment:From Feb, 2004 till October 2006 Job Title: Sr. Member Technical Staff, QA Project Description Deploy Solutions, was the leading provider of industry best practice solutions to meet specific needs to recruit, develop, and retain top performers. The projects done during the tenure were, widely in three categories: Customization Projects Production support - Patch handling and delivery Deploy Best Practices suite of applications – upgrades and refinement Assignments Handled: Project - Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA), PepsiCo, Xerox, Charming, Reebok Role QA Lead Responsibilities Contribution to pre development i.e.; requirement clarification and design phase. Designed, created the entire QA strategy from ground till end including test plan, test scripts. Setting up test environment, testing and recording defects. Lead weekly bug triage meeting. Perform integration and regression testing. Provide weekly updates to the upper management and generate final test report. Technologies Oracle 9.2.0.4 +JDK 1.4.2_02 + Web sphere 5.1/Weblogic 8.1 on Intel/Sparc Solaris Deputed To Deploy US for Onsite assignment Role Customer escalation (maintenance) team QA Responsibilities Test urgent Patches from onsite at tight time deadlines Understand, analyze and resolve customer’s queries in production environment. Understand customer’s requirements and expectations for enhancements/new functionalities. Help Tech Support team to answer customer’s queries. Help development team to replicate problems reported by customer’s and identify the cause of problem (Install related/ Fix related/ determining the actual problem). Interact with customer’s at times to help them with issues faced by them (environment or workflow related). Technologies Oracle 9.2.0.4 +JDK 1.4.2_02 + Web sphere 5.1/Weblogic 8.1 on Intel/Sparc Solaris Project - Deploy’s Best Practices Suite (RAH, CWS & CP) Role Team member. Responsibilities Development & Execution of new functionality test cases. Tracking and recording bugs, Carrying out regression tests. Participated in requirements and design discussions as well. Technologies Oracle 9.2.0.4 +JDK 1.4.2_02 + Tomcat 4.1.29 on Windows 2000 Academic Record B.Tech. (Hons) in Electronics and Communications from Haryana Engineering College, Jagadhri, Kurukshetra,India in June 2003.