1. Deepti Debnath
(Application Expert)
Flat: A-303, Shanti Niketan
MAGARPATTA Road
Hadapsar, Pune Contact: +91-9823779945
India deepti.debnath@gmail.com
deepti_ac@yahoo.co.in
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Currently working with Principal Financial Group as an Associate QA since May’08.
• Worked with Pune IT Labs Pvt. Ltd, Pune as Software test Engineer from Feb’07-Apr’08.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
• 8 yrs. of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance.
• Got elevated to ‘Application Expert’ in year 2011.
• Extensive experience in US Specialty Benefits-Group Insurance for Principal Financial Group.
• Strong work experience in Agile SCRUM methodology and Waterfall Model of Software Development Life
Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong knowledge of Defect Management Tools Quality Centre 10.0 & 11.0 and Bug Tracking Tools like
Mantis.
• Knowledge of QA practice.
• Good experience in Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing
and mainframe testing.
• Basic working knowledge of Automation tool - Selenium Web driver
• Managed various team activities like Task Allocations, Task estimations , mentoring new team members
during projects
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Electronics from University Campus, Nagpur University in 2004
CERTIFICATIONS
ISTQB Certified for Foundation Level.
Quality Center 8.0.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Test Management Tool: QC 11 (ALM)
Automation Tools: Selenium Webdriver
Operating Systems: Windows 7 / XP
Languages: SQL (Basic)
Business Intelligence Tools: SharePoint, Track Record, Compass 6.8
Key Achievements:
• Got the “Best Delivery Project of the Year” award for COMPASS Pain Points project in
2012.
2. PROJECT EXPERIENCE DETAILS
Project 1
Organization Principal Financial Group
Title (Duration) eAdmin – Member Transaction Automation (Current Project – since 1 Years)
Environment Java, Web Services, Oracle, DB2
Testing Tools Automated using selenium webdriver, Quality Centre 11 (ALM) for Test Management,
Win SQL for Database Testing.
Description: This project expanded on the core functionality of the existing eFile system,
improving the users’ interaction with the system and reducing the business teams’
dependency on the IT staff to manage the eFile processes. While we made progress
to transact business automatically and electronically with outside entities, we still
need to enhance our ability to automate for new-case installation which involves
enrolling new members, updating existing members, dependents, address,
maintaining member benefits and salary. Many employers use brokers, vendors, or
software to manage their member data. With this project we are providing them a
platform to independently send/automate transactions to our administration system -
compass.
We are successfully delivering with Agile methodology on this project.
Responsibilities: • Report to the Scrum Master for overall QA delivery.
• Participate in the Sprint backlog grooming meetings to plan/size for future
sprints.
• Participate in Sprint Planning Meeting every 2 weeks a sprint to allocate and
estimate QA work.
• Involved in sizing of the user stories and decomposition of Epics with Product
Owner and Scrum Master to deliver best velocity in a sprint. Work with the QA
team to provide estimates for QA tasks in a sprint.
• Mentor QA team members on project objectives and system definition. Train new
testers to speed them up on agile methodology for the project.
• Accountable to the Scrum Master for Daily QA status, highlight risks and issues
and provide QA mitigation plans as and when needed.
• Collaborate with Scrum Master to monitor progress of the testing tasks within the
plan. Identify and inform the Scrum Master and Delivery Manager of
inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and resource conflicts.
• Provide inputs for burn down chart from QA standpoint.
• Participate in requirement walkthroughs to identify gaps and get them corrected
before starting the testing effort.
• Perform Impact analysis of user stories with business and BA during the backlog
grooming. Sizing the stories and reviewing the team velocity for each sprint.
• Review/Analyze/Approve tester artifacts. Assist in evaluation and use of
automated testing tools as appropriate.
• Involved in Test case creation, executing test cases and reporting defects using
QC in every sprint.
• Perform unit testing, system and integration testing, automated testing,
regression testing and retrofit testing. Assisting business folks with User
Acceptance testing and Production Validation.
• Participate in the team retrospectives and perform root cause analysis of issues
and defects.
Project 2
Organization Principal Financial Group
3. Title (Duration) COMPASS Pain Points (1 Years)
Environment Java, Oracle, COMPASS, Oracle, Mainframe
Testing Tools Manual Testing, Quality Centre 10.0
Description: This project will improve the speed and quality of the administration process to
install and service schemes on the COMPASS platform by reducing/eliminating
issues that require (or that cause) additional manual work.
In addition, COMPASS Pain Points project will also provide some customer
functionality that is currently available on the CGS platform and that is needed in
COMPASS prior to moving the remaining SBD business from CGS to COMPASS.
Responsibilities: • Understanding the Business Requirements and Rules, Functional
Requirements, Use cases and Process Flow.
• Involved in Functional testing, User Interface testing, regression testing
and retrofit testing.
• Involved in backend testing using COMPASS and Mainframe and Win
SQL.
• Used select query to fetch the data from ODS and verify the results in
different COMPSS forms.
• Involved in Test scenario identification and reviews.
• Involved in the designing of test cases using BPT components and
parameterization in QC.
• Involved in execution of test cases using Quality Centre.
• Defect tracking and prioritizing them using QC.
• Involved in Daily Status Reporting using standard templates using in
PFG.
• Reporting the project test status to Home Office (US) and Business Unit.
• Involved in maintaining Project Work Plan as well as Test Estimation.
• Coordination with developer and Home office (US) for queries.
• Working on controls.
• Coordinate with BA for requirement clarifications.
Project 3
Organization Principal Financial Group
Title (Duration) Vision on COMPASS (1 Years)
Environment Java, Oracle, COMPASS, Oracle, Mainframe
Testing Tools Manual Testing, Quality Centre 10.0
Description: Build the Vision product on the COMPASS administration platform. From a
customer service perspective, it is important that we have all SBD products built on
the COMPASS administration platform. This will enable us to provide a seamless
solution for customers seeking vision as part of their overall benefit package,
decrease the number of additional cross-platform cases sold, reduce the number of
customer frustrations, and maintain (or increase) profitability of our vision product.
4. Responsibilities: • Understanding the Business Requirements and Rules, Functional
Requirements, Use cases and Process Flow.
• Involved in Functional testing, User Interface testing, regression testing
and retrofit testing.
• Involved in backend testing using COMPASS and Mainframe and Win
SQL.
• Involved in Test scenario identification and reviews.
• Involved in the designing of test cases using BPT components and
parameterization in QC.
• Involved in execution of test cases using Quality Centre.
• Defect tracking and prioritizing them using QC.
• Involved in Daily Status Reporting using standard templates using in
PFG.
• Reporting the project test status to Home Office (US) and Business Unit.
• Involved in maintaining Project Work Plan as well as Test Estimation.
Project 4
Organization Principal Financial Group
Title (Duration) Employer Website (1.5 Year)
Environment Java, Oracle
Testing Tools Manual Testing, Quality Centre 10.0
Description: Employer Website is a web application developed to facilitate member and benefit
level management for the clients (Employers) who buy Group Insurance product
from PFG. This facilitates Adding new members, terminating existing members,
viewing details of the added/existing members, adding and removing coverage
(benefits) to the members that PFG provides and viewing bills run through
COMPASS. The backend for Employer Website is COMPASS.
Compass is a core administration system that helps enable PFG to manage
solutions for group and individual insurance and benefit lines of business. Compass
provides administration in areas from member enrollment, member level
administration, policy maintenance and workflow.
Responsibilities: • Understanding the Business Requirements and Rules, Functional
Requirements, Use cases and Process Flow.
• Involved in Functional testing, User Interface testing, regression testing and
retrofit testing. Involved in Test scenario identification and reviews. Involved in
Test case designing for all modules and their review. Involved in execution of
test cases using Quality Centre 10.0. Defect tracking and prioritizing them using
QC 10.0
• Involved in Daily Status Reporting using standard templates using in PFG.
• Reporting the project test status to Home Office (US) and Business Unit.
• Involved in maintaining Project Work Plan as well as Test Estimation.
Project 5
Organization Pune IT Labs Pvt. Ltd
Title (Duration) Mintshot. (www.mintshot.co.nz) (6 month)
Environment Java, MS SQL Server 2000, 2005
Testing Tools Web Development kit, Selenium IDE ,Mantis
5. Description: Mintshot will provide a web based vehicle that delivers highly engaged and involved
communication for advertisers in a format where consumers are entertained and
rewarded for their involvement.
Actively involved in preparing and executing Performed GUI Tests, Regression
tests, Functionality testing, Usability Testing, Security Testing and Adhoc Testing.
Executing Test cases manually
Responsibilities: • Understanding the business requirements and analysis of SRS.
• Involved in the preparation and execution of test cases.
• Involved in Functional testing, User Interface testing, Security testing and
regression testing.
• Involved in database testing.
• Analyze the results and prioritizing software bugs.
• Defect tracking, review and analysis using Mantis.
Project 6
Organization Pune IT Labs Pvt. Ltd
Title (Duration) GNU library suit for ABACUS processor. (8 months)
Environment C, Linux
Testing Tools Mantis
Description: The compiler suites of this processor consist of C cross compiler based on GCC
2.95.3, Assembler, Linker, Disassemble. The entire suite is available on Linux. To
evaluate compiler tool chain for possible bugs by running test suite on both native
and target, by using static/dynamic libraries and to fix the bugs. My role at this
phase is to make a descriptive study regarding gcc and to execute test cases and
report bugs.
Responsibilities: • Involved in the preparation and execution of test cases.
• Involved in white box testing.
• Involved in debugging and optimizing.
6. Description: Mintshot will provide a web based vehicle that delivers highly engaged and involved
communication for advertisers in a format where consumers are entertained and
rewarded for their involvement.
Actively involved in preparing and executing Performed GUI Tests, Regression
tests, Functionality testing, Usability Testing, Security Testing and Adhoc Testing.
Executing Test cases manually
Responsibilities: • Understanding the business requirements and analysis of SRS.
• Involved in the preparation and execution of test cases.
• Involved in Functional testing, User Interface testing, Security testing and
regression testing.
• Involved in database testing.
• Analyze the results and prioritizing software bugs.
• Defect tracking, review and analysis using Mantis.
Project 6
Organization Pune IT Labs Pvt. Ltd
Title (Duration) GNU library suit for ABACUS processor. (8 months)
Environment C, Linux
Testing Tools Mantis
Description: The compiler suites of this processor consist of C cross compiler based on GCC
2.95.3, Assembler, Linker, Disassemble. The entire suite is available on Linux. To
evaluate compiler tool chain for possible bugs by running test suite on both native
and target, by using static/dynamic libraries and to fix the bugs. My role at this
phase is to make a descriptive study regarding gcc and to execute test cases and
report bugs.
Responsibilities: • Involved in the preparation and execution of test cases.
• Involved in white box testing.
• Involved in debugging and optimizing.