IT&V involves testing a product for its proper/ improper functionalities against customer requirements. These projects are mainly focused on testing, validating and realizing the SW quality through manual & automated testing of the headunit firmware using test benches for different variants. The regular activities include requirements analysis, functional test procedure(FTP) creation, FTP execution, failure analysis, test report generation and reporting the defects found during testing into IBM RTC tool. Functional testing & CAN/Diagnostics are the main focus for testing.

• Managed agile testing team of 8 members & tools development team of 3 members including external staff

• Headed the Central system integration testing of various Mercedes-Benz car applications like navigation, media, tuner, telephone, browser, phone book, MB Apps & SDS

• Spearheaded the initiation of UI Automation for apps testing, thereby reducing manual testing effort, time & improving the efficiency & speed of testing

• Review of test plan, test reports, deliverables & reporting project status with defects count to management

• Hiring, training and mentoring new test engineers

Central System Integration is mainly focused on testing, validating and realizing the SW quality through automated non-functional testing of Headunit firmware using Test Rigs/Racks. Various components like head unit, display, hermes, instrument cluster, sound ECU, fond unit, rear seat entertainment displays, CCE controller, multimedia boxes, bluepirat, phones for BT, CP & AA are connected to the test rack. Checks are done for system resets, freezes & black screens by inducing min to max stress under various conditions of voltage level & to actively influence, manipulate CAN, MOST and Ethernet buses to simulate vehicle conditions. To check for influence of other on-board applications like navigation, media, fm radio, online internet services, player, browser on the stability and performance of the system. The tests are run overnight and analyzed using logs, videos & graphs. The defects along with the BP logs & HU logs are entered into HP ALM (DanTe).

• Staffed testing team of 16 members from scratch including external staff & technically managed the team

• Test effort estimation, test plan creation, test case designing, peer reviews, test execution, defect reporting & test report generation

• Testing, Monitoring & reviewingthe deliverables from the team and providingQA signoffs for prod releases

• Risk management and monitoring

• Lead, mentored & guided automation and manual testing teams

• Providing weekly/monthly status, defects & performance reports to USA (Sunnyvale) team

• End to end hardware/software and test bench procurement/setup for the apps testing lab

• Contributed as Quality Management Representative (QBA) for car electronics & infotainment department at Benz

Mercedes-Benz Applications are part of the high end multimedia system of MB Cars (COMAND Online) & also available on the rear seat entertainment. COMAND Online system is a infotainment system which delivers list of latest apps which includes social networking apps, search apps, news apps directly to the COMAND screen. User/customer can access the apps while driving (with driver distraction enabled) and also when parked. Since Mercedes-Benz in-vehicle apps are designed (for 19 languages) to function exclusively with the COMAND® navigation system, customers can enjoy the benefits of a larger display screen & stay connected. Digital drivestyle is an iOS based app designed to interact with COMAND systems using Drive kit plus interface & iPhone connected which gives users access to the key content of the users phone. Through social, user can stay connected with facebook, twitter and google+. User can also access to smartphone contacts & share location. Through media, user can search and listen music from the smartphone. Through Places, user can receive real time traffic information, use navigation functions & POIs search.

CCE Mobile Merchandiser application & Management Center for Coca Cola Enterprises, Atlanta, USA (Worked Onsite in Atlanta)

• Blackberry app to assign routes, service outlets, update status, breaks, travel time, gps positions

• Lead a team of 5 test engineers & end to end responsible for STLC of the projects assigned

• Interacted with the customers for requirements gathering, requirement analysis, story board review & functional specifications

• Responsible for test plan creation, test case design, test environment setup, test data setup, test case execution

• Performed UI, functionality & integration testing between CRM systems (Siebel, netsuite, oracle e-business suite) & the mobile apps on various devices like iphone, ipad, blackberry, windows mobile & tablets

• Defect reporting, tracking & management using bugzilla, jira & quality center

• Overall responsible for certification of the applications on various smart phone devices

• Actively involved in the deployment of mobile device solutions to the customers

• Worked closely with customers during pilot/testing phases to ensure smooth deployment of the product/project

• Involved in production support to customers during UAT and field testing.

• Co-ordinated between client’s team & offshore team

• Coordinated with product management, release management & engineering teams to improve the product & resolve the issues

• Involved in project post mortem analysis

Have tested the internet banking and provided lot of suggestions for improvement.

Not only for LVB, I have reported issues and also provided suggestions for improvement for few more banks as a freelancer tester.

iPhone & iPad application for tracking the service requests

Tablet(on Dell Duo device) application for tracking the jobs/service requests

Blackberry application for Sales team to create new customers & tracking

Web based application for deploying the mobile solutions to the devices over the air

Blackberry app to assign routes, service outlets, update status, breaks, travel time, gps positions

Real Application Cluster (RAC) is a component of the Oracle database product that allows a database to be installed across multiple servers. According to Oracle, RACs shared disk method of clustering databases: increases scalability because servers can easily be added or subtracted to meet current needs, lowers costs because companies dont have to buy high-end servers, & improves availability because if one server fails, another can assume its workload. Roles & Responsibilities: My role as a Consultant was testing the CRS & Database installation manually on Real Application Clusters, with the various shiphomes for WIN64 (X64 & IA64) platforms & reporting the bugs Installation & testing of Oracle Secure Backup Product, with various shiphomes with single server & various clusters serving as clients & reporting the bugs Involved in successful releases of ORACLE 10.1.0.5, ORACLE 10.2.0.2, ORACLE 9.2.0.8 for Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Environment: Visual C++, MFC Web application to take care of end to end requirements management.