Deepti Debnath has over 8 years of experience in software quality assurance. She currently works as an Application Expert at Principal Financial Group, where she is involved in test management, test case creation, defect tracking, and ensuring quality delivery in Agile projects. Previously, she has worked on projects involving web applications, mainframe systems, and testing tools like Selenium and Quality Center. She holds an M.Sc. in Electronics and is ISTQB certified at the foundation level.
8 years of experience in Software testing and Quality Assurance.
Rich professional experience with clients across Retail, Consumer Goods, Telecoms while leading/supporting testing activities, test management and QA implementations from offshore and well as from onshore.
Key Focus Areas : Big data Testing in Hadoop, enhancing data quality in a continuous delivery model by strategizing and performing data validation facilitating client data analytics and business report generation
Key Capabilities : Software Development Lifecycle including Scaled Agile Framework and Waterfall model, Test Strategy and Test Management, Test Execution, Project Management, Establish effective onshore-offshore delivery model, Process Implementation.
8 years of experience in Software testing and Quality Assurance.
Rich professional experience with clients across Retail, Consumer Goods, Telecoms while leading/supporting testing activities, test management and QA implementations from offshore and well as from onshore.
Key Focus Areas : Big data Testing in Hadoop, enhancing data quality in a continuous delivery model by strategizing and performing data validation facilitating client data analytics and business report generation
Key Capabilities : Software Development Lifecycle including Scaled Agile Framework and Waterfall model, Test Strategy and Test Management, Test Execution, Project Management, Establish effective onshore-offshore delivery model, Process Implementation.
An Introduction to Software Performance EngineeringCorrelsense
Software performance engineering is becoming increasingly important to businesses as they look to improve the non-functional performance of applications and get more out of IT investments. By leveraging performance engineering techniques, IT professionals can be indispensable in building and optimizing scalable systems. This
introductory course will teach you the essentials of software
performance engineering including :
• The performance challenges faced by Enterprise IT today
• What is software performance engineering (SPE)?
• Best practices for building scalable software systems
• The approaches to integrating SPE into IT project lifecycles
• Common frameworks for measuring application performance and service levels
• The impact of SPE on software developers, testers, capacity planes,
and other IT professionals
• Case studies from the finance, retail, and insurance industries
Instructor: Walter Kuketz, SVP and CTO, Collaborative Consulting
This training is sponsored by Correlsense, Collaborative Consulting,
and New Horizons
IBM® Rational® Quality Manager is a collaborative, Web-based, quality management tool for comprehensive test planning and test asset management throughout the software lifecycle. It is built on the Jazz™ platform and is designed to be used by test teams of all sizes. It supports a variety of user roles, such as test manager, test architect, test lead, tester, and lab manager, as well as roles outside of the test organization. This article explains how to set up a new project in Rational Quality Manager and reviews several of the basic things that you can do with it in your projects.Strongback Consulting helps organizations get started automated their test environment and improving the quality of the quality management process.
Required to work on Budgeting and Forecasting project where there is a short release cycle of 2-3 months we created multiple review cycles that assured that there was no requirement miss for testing. This further helped in reducing production issues, which needed patch releases, saving both time and cost for the client.
Ta3s, headquartered out of Bangalore and has partners in Middle East, Americas, APJ and Europe, is a specialized next generation independent testing services and solutions company providing unit, functional, integration, regression, automation, performance and mobile testing services. Ta3s has strong competency and experience in delivering testing projects in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Ecommerce, Healthcare, Pharma, Games and Education domains. Our experience in SAP and Oracle has helped customers gain immediate insight into implementation of quality deliverables and seamless deployment. Be it a product on premise or on cloud, we have the best resources to address customer needs.
Led by experienced, committed and dynamic test professionals, Ta3s is fast establising itself to be one of the leading independent testing services company offering test consulting, staff auggmentation, outsourced testing, managed services and BOT services.
Customers today are not just looking for augmenting human resource but are looking at service companies that can deliver outcomes, assure and ensure quality. Ta3s, divergently, provides good customer satisfaction by taking the time required to map key internal and external customer deliverable pain points and correlates the same to bring forth a strong customer centric UFP (Unique Fitment Proposition). Ta3s studies each issue and approaches them accordingly. Unlike approaching every company with a legacy solution or a single value template, UFP enables to understand issues and address with a customized as well as customer centric solution.
Employee Vision:
While we pledge to provide our customers the best return on investment, it is our mandate to build, nurture and elevate the quality of our employees by providing the most challenging work environment, mentoring and training. We will recruit employees who have the drive to learn, grow and build Ta3s as the best in the business Testing Services Organization.
Corporate Values:
4D’s – Different, Discipline, Dedication and Delivery matters the most to us. Successful delivery of projects needs discipline and dedication while using different innovative methods to ensure faster quality delivery while reducing costs and increasing ROI for our customers.
Aastha is a Consultant having 5years of experience working as a functional expert. Aastha has been involved in understanding functional requirements from business owners, mapping functional requirements with product suite implementation design, customization & configurations. Her core expertise lies in designing & planning System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing for functional validation. Her in-depth understanding of the product functionality & the Oracle Utilities Application Framework (OUAF), has helped clients in converting data from legacy system into RMB data model, customizing test environment.Aastha has hands-on with the Test Automation suite & has been instrumental in designing, planning functional validation test and implementation of the same within deadlines.
She has also lent her expertise & experience in developing training manuals & carrying out training workshops for junior employees.
An Introduction to Software Performance EngineeringCorrelsense
Software performance engineering is becoming increasingly important to businesses as they look to improve the non-functional performance of applications and get more out of IT investments. By leveraging performance engineering techniques, IT professionals can be indispensable in building and optimizing scalable systems. This
introductory course will teach you the essentials of software
performance engineering including :
• The performance challenges faced by Enterprise IT today
• What is software performance engineering (SPE)?
• Best practices for building scalable software systems
• The approaches to integrating SPE into IT project lifecycles
• Common frameworks for measuring application performance and service levels
• The impact of SPE on software developers, testers, capacity planes,
and other IT professionals
• Case studies from the finance, retail, and insurance industries
Instructor: Walter Kuketz, SVP and CTO, Collaborative Consulting
This training is sponsored by Correlsense, Collaborative Consulting,
and New Horizons
IBM® Rational® Quality Manager is a collaborative, Web-based, quality management tool for comprehensive test planning and test asset management throughout the software lifecycle. It is built on the Jazz™ platform and is designed to be used by test teams of all sizes. It supports a variety of user roles, such as test manager, test architect, test lead, tester, and lab manager, as well as roles outside of the test organization. This article explains how to set up a new project in Rational Quality Manager and reviews several of the basic things that you can do with it in your projects.Strongback Consulting helps organizations get started automated their test environment and improving the quality of the quality management process.
Required to work on Budgeting and Forecasting project where there is a short release cycle of 2-3 months we created multiple review cycles that assured that there was no requirement miss for testing. This further helped in reducing production issues, which needed patch releases, saving both time and cost for the client.
Ta3s, headquartered out of Bangalore and has partners in Middle East, Americas, APJ and Europe, is a specialized next generation independent testing services and solutions company providing unit, functional, integration, regression, automation, performance and mobile testing services. Ta3s has strong competency and experience in delivering testing projects in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Ecommerce, Healthcare, Pharma, Games and Education domains. Our experience in SAP and Oracle has helped customers gain immediate insight into implementation of quality deliverables and seamless deployment. Be it a product on premise or on cloud, we have the best resources to address customer needs.
Led by experienced, committed and dynamic test professionals, Ta3s is fast establising itself to be one of the leading independent testing services company offering test consulting, staff auggmentation, outsourced testing, managed services and BOT services.
Customers today are not just looking for augmenting human resource but are looking at service companies that can deliver outcomes, assure and ensure quality. Ta3s, divergently, provides good customer satisfaction by taking the time required to map key internal and external customer deliverable pain points and correlates the same to bring forth a strong customer centric UFP (Unique Fitment Proposition). Ta3s studies each issue and approaches them accordingly. Unlike approaching every company with a legacy solution or a single value template, UFP enables to understand issues and address with a customized as well as customer centric solution.
Employee Vision:
While we pledge to provide our customers the best return on investment, it is our mandate to build, nurture and elevate the quality of our employees by providing the most challenging work environment, mentoring and training. We will recruit employees who have the drive to learn, grow and build Ta3s as the best in the business Testing Services Organization.
Corporate Values:
4D’s – Different, Discipline, Dedication and Delivery matters the most to us. Successful delivery of projects needs discipline and dedication while using different innovative methods to ensure faster quality delivery while reducing costs and increasing ROI for our customers.
Aastha is a Consultant having 5years of experience working as a functional expert. Aastha has been involved in understanding functional requirements from business owners, mapping functional requirements with product suite implementation design, customization & configurations. Her core expertise lies in designing & planning System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing for functional validation. Her in-depth understanding of the product functionality & the Oracle Utilities Application Framework (OUAF), has helped clients in converting data from legacy system into RMB data model, customizing test environment.Aastha has hands-on with the Test Automation suite & has been instrumental in designing, planning functional validation test and implementation of the same within deadlines.
She has also lent her expertise & experience in developing training manuals & carrying out training workshops for junior employees.
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.