1. SAKALESWAR PANDA
(M)+91 9910622522
Sakaleshwar.panda@gmail.com
Passport No – L1912440
CAREER OVERVIEWCAREER OVERVIEW
 9 years and 8 months of experience in Manual Testing, Database testing, SOA Automation testing and Non-Functional
Testing.
 ISTQB Certified Tester.
 Working as a Team Lead and leading a team of 8 members.
 Hands on working experience in ALM 11.0, JIRA. 4 years of experience in service automation testing using SoapUI Pro.
 Created automated test suits for web services in SOAPUI Pro 4.5.0.
 Extensive hands on experience in requirements Gathering/identification, Software Testing Life Cycle processes ,Test
estimations, Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test scenario preparation, Test case design, execution, QA metrics, , defect
management, status reporting, implementing risk based testing techniques and industry best practices.
 Expertise in complete Test life cycle management.
 Excellent ability in managing the deliverables, Milestones and test coverage.
 Requirement Gathering and analysis by working closely with business owners.
 Monitoring and controlling the project status to avoid slippage.
 Close interaction with the Client on daily/Weekly basis to measure work progress and to discuss Challenges or
bottlenecks, to ensure timely delivery.
 Prepare QA Metrics, Test Completion Reports and publish it to all stakeholders
 Ability to handle small / large teams and to keep them focused on the same objectives.
 Mentor the team members on best practices and work standards to be followed.
 Successfully managed projects on multiple technical platforms and functional domain, Worked on onsite-offshore model
for various projects from client site and offshore, also worked independently on the projects with direct interaction with
the client.
 Worked on Development and Maintenance software projects, have worked with premier clients across from different
Business areas and Verticals.
 Well versed in Test Life Cycle & Bug Life Cycle.
 Working experience of UNIX.
 Good knowledge of Selenium.
 Effective communication, analytical and team handling skills.
ACADEMIC DETAILSACADEMIC DETAILS
MCA (Master of Computer Application)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORYEMPLOYMENT HISTORY
NIIT Technologies Ltd., Noida Test Consultant Jan’11 till date
Pyramid IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Noida Sr.Software Engineer - QA Oct’06 – Jan’11
SKILL SETSKILL SET
Skill Manual Testing, Database testing, Non-Functional testing
Operating Systems MS-DOS, Windows 98, Windows XP, UNIX
RDBMS/DBMS Oracle, SQL Server
Tools ALM 12.0, TFS (Team Foundation Server), Putty,
SharePoint, SOAPUI Pro 4.5.2, WinSCP and JIRA.

2. PROJECTS HANDLEDPROJECTS HANDLED
NIIT Technologies Ltd.
Client: SITA (UK)
 HIAS - INVENTORY
Team : 9
From : December 2012 till date
Tools : QC 11.0, SOAPUI Pro 4.5.2, Putty, Gigaspace 9.5
Database : Oracle
Description:
SITA Voyager Program is replacing the existing mainframe based reservations, inventory and departure control systems
with systems based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. As well as the hosted services in the data Centre
Voyager is responsible for delivering a scalable and robust Enterprise Business Intelligence and Reporting (BI&R) platform
whose architecture, integration, and simplicity permeate all applications and services
HIAS: Horizon Inventory Availability Schedule. The Business module is enabling the system to create sync between the
Inventory Records & the Availability with the Schedule in the database. Taking this into consideration the project is
designing a Service Oriented Architecture to cater the need of Customer.
Key Responsibilities:
 Preparing test estimations for user stories.
 Preparing Test plans and traceability matrix.
 Created test data for performance testing.
 Co-coordinating among testing, development and BA team.
 Attending Triage meetings to set the severity of defects.
 Task Prioritization & allocation.
 Walkthroughs of Test Scenarios, Test cases & Test Plan with team and BA.
 Created and automated test suits using SoapUI Pro.
 Coordinating with Client & offshore Team.
 Reviewing Offshore Test Cases, Defect Reports.
 Perform End to End Testing, Regression Testing and database testing.
 Creating SQL queries for database testing.
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging using ALM 12.0.
 Created Test Report, Test Plan and Test metrics.
Client: Virgin Australia (Australia)
 UNIFY
Team : 6
From : July 2012 – November 2012
Tools : JIRA, SOAPUI Pro, SABRE Interact, ALM 12.0
Database : Oracle
Description:
Virgin Australia has migrated to Sabre GDS. Current project UNIFY – KIOSK is an application that is used in Kiosk devices at
different locations of departing port for the ease of customer check-in. It is another convenient mode of customer check-

3. in queue based check-in counters at the airport. This is service based architecture and SOAPUI was used to test the web
services.
Key Responsibilities:
 Preparing estimations using WBS.
 Preparing Test plans, Test strategy and traceability matrix.
 Preparing Root Cause Analysis of issues rose.
 Track project milestones and deliverables.
 Task Prioritization & allocation.
 Walkthroughs of Test Scenarios, Test cases & Test Plan with client.
 Created test suits in SOAPUI tool and added different types of assertions.
 Coordinating with Client & offshore Team.
 Reviewing Offshore Test Cases, Defect Reports.
 Perform End to End Testing, Regression Testing and database testing.
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging through JIRA tool.
 Participated in Defect triage meetings.
 Generating Test Exit Reports.
 Preparing & discussing weekly/daily status with client.
Client: Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong)
 PSS (Passenger Service System)
Team : 11
From : January 2011 – June 2012
Tools : Quality Center 10.0, Putty, Amadeus DCS, Amadeus 1A Inventory, 1A RES, SoapUI Pro and
Winscp
Database : Oracle
Description:
Cathay Pacific Airways (CPA) is currently using in-house systems CUPID and CUPAC. CUPID is used for inventory control,
passenger reservation and distribution to GDS/other airline. CUPAC is used for departure control, passenger acceptance
and load planning. In PSS Phase I, Cathay has decided to migrate the legacy systems to the community based systems
provided by Amadeus – the Altea suite which comprises of Altéa RES, Altéa INV and Altéa DCS.
Key Responsibilities:
 Preparing test estimations.
 Preparing Test plans, Project metrics and traceability matrix.
 Preparing Root Cause Analysis of issues rose, providing complete information to the developers, taking backups and
restoring backups of Databases.
 Handling responsibilities of leading projects and teams.
 Track project milestones and deliverables.
 Task Prioritization & allocation
 Walkthroughs of Test Scenarios, Test cases & Test Plan with client
 Coordinating with Client & offshore Team
 Reviewing Offshore Test Cases, Defect Reports
 Perform End to End Testing, Regression Testing.

4.  Creating SQL queries for database testing.
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging through bug logging tool.
 Participated in Defect Review meetings
 Generating Project Status Reports and Test Exit Reports
 Preparing & discussing weekly/daily status with client & offshore team.
 Escalating issues and resolving action items in a timely manner.
 Continuously follow up on the issues with Amadeus on the setup of Database, Business Rules and Messenger.
 Arranging and taking Knowledge Transfer sessions for the new joiners and the other testing teams in Cathay
 Supporting the other teams to carry out their respective testing activities
Pyramid IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Client: Time Warner Cable, USA
 KEY (Knowledge Empowers You) http://www.twcable.com
Team 4
From April 2010 – January 2011
Description:
KEY is a web based application, a knowledge portal developed in Share Point portal Server. Different categories of
articles are posted to the portal for the intended recipients (Agents and Customers).Content creators (Author,SME,Editor)
is having different level of privilege create and manipulate and publish those contents. Contents created at different
levels have to go thru a different workflow to which they are assigned.
Key Responsibilities:
 Requirement analysis and time estimation.
 Designing test cases.
 Creating test cases from Use case document in Quality Center.
 Defect creation, defect testing and executing regression suit in Quality Center.
 Generating Project Status Reports and Test Exit Reports
 Task Prioritization & allocation
 Coordinating with Client & offshore Team
 Knowledge transfer to new team members.
 Participated in Defect Review meetings
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging through bug logging tools
Client: Alere Health Care, USA
 Genentech http://www.matria.com/
Team 3
From January 2010 – April 2010
Description:
Genentech is a Web base application which actually deals with Cancer patients. There are various cancer medicines for
which the patient is enrolled and each having a different workflow. On a specific time interval different call tasks trigger
for which the clinician calls the participant. There are different educational topics, Reviews, on the basis of what clinician
accesses the participant.

5. Key Responsibilities:
 Blackbox testing for validating Functionality.
 Involved in Regression testing, Integration testing and Smoke Testing.
 Creation and execution and Updation of Testcases.
 Test, report and verify bugs in Quality Center 9.0.
 Planning of QA activities, task allocation, monitoring and reporting to client.
 Project status reporting to client (weekly and monthly).
 Requirement analysis and time estimation.
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging through bug logging tools
Client: US Med Equip, USA
 PCMS (Patient Care Management System)
Team 5
From May 2009 – December 2009
Description:
Women's and Children’s Health division delivers a total spectrum of obstetrical care services, ranging from a risk
assessment to identify women at risk for preterm birth to a neonatal program for early infant care management. In
between are home-based obstetrical programs to manage and monitor pregnant women who have medical or
pregnancy-related problems that could harm their pregnancies. This is a web base application.
Key Responsibilities:
 Blackbox testing, GUI Testing.
 Creation and execution of test cases in Quality center.
 Logging, testing and tracking of defects in TFS (Team Foundation Server).
 Test key functionalities, report and verify bugs.
 Planning of QA activities, task allocation, monitoring and reporting to client.
 Knowledge transfer to new team members.
 Project status reporting to client (weekly and monthly).
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging through bug logging tools
 Generating Project Status Reports and Test Exit Reports
Client: Alere healthcare, USA
 TRAX CS
Team 5
From February 2007 – March 2009
Description:
This project is a desktop-based application on HealthCare domain. The project focus on the pregnancy as well as the
General health related issue, this project is for the client MATRIA healthcare, main users of this application are the nurses
Who perform call to the patient or their healthcare provider now according to their level of care they perform
Assessments and the interventions, all the data for the respective patients maintained in the form of web reports, which
Is known as TRAX CS Web reports. It has a big enhancement Called TRAX CARELINK, which is developed as a separate
Project and integrated with TRAX CS.TRAX CARELINK focuses on the diabetes patients.
Key Responsibilities:
 Regression testing, Blackbox testing and GUI testing.

6.  Test case creation, execution and updating in Quality Center.
 Logging, testing and tracking of defects in Quality Center.
 Knowledge transfer to new team members.
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging through bug logging tools
 TRAX DM
Team Size 3
From October 2006 – January 2007
Description:
This is a web-based application for the client Matria Health Care. The users of this application are the Participants. This
Project actually focuses on Asthama, Low back pain, CAD, CHF and COPD.It has three sub clients like Shearing, Non-
Shearing and Novartis. There several Private label sites available for the participants to participate in any program.
Key Responsibilities:
 Regression testing, Blackbox testing and GUI testing.
 Test case creation, execution and updating in Quality Center.
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging through bug logging tools.

7.  Test case creation, execution and updating in Quality Center.
 Logging, testing and tracking of defects in Quality Center.
 Knowledge transfer to new team members.
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging through bug logging tools
 TRAX DM
Team Size 3
From October 2006 – January 2007
Description:
This is a web-based application for the client Matria Health Care. The users of this application are the Participants. This
Project actually focuses on Asthama, Low back pain, CAD, CHF and COPD.It has three sub clients like Shearing, Non-
Shearing and Novartis. There several Private label sites available for the participants to participate in any program.
Key Responsibilities:
 Regression testing, Blackbox testing and GUI testing.
 Test case creation, execution and updating in Quality Center.
 Bug reporting, assigning priority & severity to bugs, logging through bug logging tools.