www.voxta.com Communications Hyderabad : Lead Engineer, Test Lead

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Voxta Communications Hyderabad : Lead Engineer & Test Lead

Company Name : Voxta Communications
Company Location : Hyderabad
Designation (of vacancy) : Lead Engineer & Test Lead
Company E-mail ID : careers@voxta.com
Company Website : www.voxta.com

Job Description, Candidate Profile, Company Profile, Company Address :

1. Lead Engineers
Category : Java/J2EE
Specific skillset : JBoss, JMS, Linux
Exp :3 to 6+ years
EJB 3.0,JMS, Jboss clustering, Linux clustering, XML, Data structures/OOPS/JUnit/Eclipse. Excellent design skills.
Good to have skills : Have worked on complex scalable J2EE systems, Cloud computing / Distributed computing, Amazon EC2 and S3,Hadoop

2. Test cum Build Lead
Category : Maven/Ant/JUnit
Specific skillset : Maven, JUnit, CruiseControl or Hudson
Exp :5 to 6+ years
Mandatory Skills :Maven , Ant, JUnit, Java , Eclipse, Hudson or CruiseControl
Good to have skills : Build engineers in java domain , JSP/Servlet/Web-Services exposure is a big Plus.

Interested candidates can send their profiles to careers@voxta.com

Company Profile :
Voxta is a product development company based in Hyderabad.Voxta is working on machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing and secure transaction systems. Voxta is focused on developing speech based web & telephony applications. It is promoted by experienced entrepreneurs with experience of successful technology ventures in the UK and India.

Voxta has three main product areas :
Multi-channel communication & transaction management platform, to support biometric based user authentication and secure financial transactions
Natural language dialogue manager
Voice channel speech components, both speech recognition and text to speech, in multiple Indian languages.
The senior management has experience of working with leading technology companies like Microsoft, Motorola and Accenture as well as building businesses from the ground up, in the UK and India. The team comes with a rich academic background from Universities like BITS Pilani, IISc, IIIT and Cambridge University.

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Name : Yogender Sharma
Email : sharma_yogen AT yahoo.com
Designation / Skillset : Senior Test Resource
ITIL Crtifeid senior Test Resource

Resume :
- Highly qualified and skilled professional in the software field now seeking a position at a senior level in an organization to enhance my testing skill, ability and knowledge
- Having overall 12 years of experience in IT Industry out of which 10.1 years in Software Quality and Testing work
- Effectively manage teams while improving development and testing processes to efficiently deliver products and services which meet customer expectations
- Improve software quality, meet customer expectations and reduce defects by supporting proven software quality practices and implementing practical and effective process improvement methods
- Plan and perform effective software testing through a combination of familiar structured test techniques, rapid test practices and test automation where beneficial
EXPERTISE AND COMPETENCIES
- Extensive knowledge of software testing and management with several years of experience of the field
- Excellent written and oral communication skills along with business presentations skills
- In-depth knowledge of software testing skills
- Excellent managerial and people management skills
- Expertise in software quality assurance as well
- Experience in working on the client side directly with the clients in gathering requirements and estimations
- Knowledge of project management with good planning and organization skills
- Excellent Knowledge of testing life cycle, SQA methodology and test process automation.
- Extended work experience to develop and execute software test plan, test script/case and test specifications.
- knowledge on Object Oriented Programming languages such as Java, C++ and VB
- Familiar with automation tools such as Win Runner, QTP, and Microsoft ACT.
- Staff and manage various types of testing activities depending on the requirement (scripted/ exploratory, manual/ automated, functional/ performance/load/stress security etc.) and Ability to use various types of testing tools (test management/ automation/ defect reporting)
- Understand client specific requirements and create Solutions and Review plans, architecture and strategies
- Knowledgeable with training in CMMI, Six Sigma and ISO 9001 processes
- Strong aptitude and practical experience in managing and implementing continuous software quality process improvement with small to medium size teams as a development team manager, test team manager or test lead.
- Experience in software testing including software testing best practices, software test automation management; test management, test planning, execution and reporting.
- Provides direction and leadership with strong interpersonal and team building skills
- Successfully works with people within and across organizational boundaries to build agreements, guidelines, and standards in order to resolve issues and create consistent practices.
- Strong practitioner of clearly written purposeful communication and direction
- Developing solutions to deliver quality products to clients through people and processes
- Experience in testing solution definition, effort estimation, proposal pricing, proposal preparation and client presentation
- Hands on experience in various Test Management and Performance testing tools etc.
- Experience in testing solution definition, effort estimation, proposal pricing, proposal preparation and client presentation
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION :
- Bachelor’s Degree in Arts and Public Administration (BA)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA)
- Three years diploma in Software Engineering from NIIT (GNIIT)
CERTIFICATIONS :
- Got a certification from Brainbench in Software Testing
- Got a certification and training ITIL® V3 Foundation in IT Service Management from QAI & APMG
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE :
Senior Test Lead
Espire Infolabs Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi
from October 2007 to present
Started working as a Senior Test Lead with the profile of a Test Manager having following responsibilities and duties : responsible for handling a team of testers & analysts and supervised their work efficiently, responsible for handling all the problems and queries of the team and tried to solve them, responsible for motivating the team in achieving the target given by the client/authority, hired new people for the department, Manages development of Test Specifications and execution of tests
- Working closely with Business development team/Account Managers in mining the existing accounts and setting up new areas of Business within Testing Stream
- Setting up and heading Testing CoE within the company
- Work closely with Project Managers and propose optimum resource model for the project
- Defining and proposing the scope of Test Strategy and estimate the Testing effort for projects, Contributes to continuous improvement of Testing standards, process, procedure and methodology across all test areas
- Evaluates, maintains and improves Testing roles and responsibilities within the project development life-cycle
- Performance reviews of team
- Client management skills, including, account management and building deep relationships.
- Facilitates the development, implementation and adherence of testing department standards in partnership with other test team leadership
Quality Assurance Lead
OTC Software Pvt. Ltd, (an ODC of Orion Inc Canada) Noida - India
August 2006 – September 2007
Worked as a QA Lead with the following duties and work :
- Work closely with Product Management and Engineering in understanding product requirements, planning and development of test strategies for new feature sets.
- Reviews product requirements documents and software design specification documents and develop Quality Test Plan.
- Manages development of Test Cases, execution of tests, and setting up lab for executing the tests.
- Create and manages testing schedule
- Follow QA Testing process and report on testing results to Product Management and Engineering.
- Guide and Mentor test team members and build QA skills, domain skills and product awareness skills for better quality of deliverable and to comply with company adopted standards.
- Co-ordinate testing efforts with other groups such as Project Management/ development/ requirement/ design and perform functional/system verification test, regression test, performance test and build team.
- Distribute the tasks to the team members as per their skill levels and meet the timelines for delivery or enhancement of the product.
- Communication/interaction with the onsite team.
- Establish new quality assurance and software testing processes, procedure for better quality, and ease of implementation.
- Define selection criteria for automated test tool.
- Set weekly targets involving the speed and accuracy of the work being performed
Quality Control Lead
WNS Global, Gurgaon (India)
March 2006 – September 2006
- Review and analysis of Client Requirements and setting up weekly targets involving the speed and accuracy of the work being performed
- Co-ordinate testing efforts with other groups such as Project Management/ development/ requirement/ design also Communication/Interaction with the client as and when needed/required.
- Setting weekly targets involving the speed and accuracy of the work being performed
- Creating, executing, and maintaining Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Artifacts for all projects and managing resources
- Responsible for handling a team of testing team and supervising their work,
- Responsible for completing duties assigned by the management, Mentor them and provide them the product knowledge motivated all the team members in achieving all the targets,
- Arranged different training programs for the team,
- Responsible for organizing meetings with the team members and with other groups to discuss about work progress and schedule
Quality Assurance Lead
Netsoft Informatics Pvt. Ltd, Chandigarh (India)
April 2003 – March 2006
- Responsible for creating and managing a software QA program, including budgetary responsibility, hiring and staff supervision, setting up and maintaining the quality processes in the organization and assuring they got followed in project life cycle
- Review and analysis of Client Requirements and setting up weekly targets involving the speed and accuracy of the work being performed
- Wrote and executed system test plans for web-based as well as windows based software applications (e.g., www.opinionmeter.com, www.pchealthplan.com, www.norchio.net, Nastad Content Management System, ), including functional, usability, browser compatibility, performance, installation, load and stress tests.
- Installation un-installation testing of component. Registration and license validity testing and to validate the functionality with the team for different features and module's working of the application
- Co-ordinate testing efforts with other groups such as Project Management/ development/ requirement/ design also Communication/Interaction with the client as and when needed/required.
- Other usual tasks performed were maintaining required documentation.
- Performed Regression testing and Reporting bugs through bug tracker, updating bug tracker with result of testing conducted at each build and communicating any serious performance related issues with developers
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Viionsoft Pvt Ltd, Mohali (Punjab)
April, 2001 - April, 2003
- Wrote and executed system test cases based on the business requirements for high-capacity hospital management product, database-driven desktop applications on Windows NT platform
- Responsible for designing and developing Strategies and processes with the support of Quality Manager and Business Analysts, involved in verifying Software Products against SQA levels defined in accordance with ISO and CMM Quality Checking Models
- Responsible for performing Unit testing and Build testing conducted the Systems testing which include Functional Testing, Installation Testing, Configuration testing, Volume testing, Performance testing and Beta testing before the software was marketed
- Organized and supervised formal reviews of development documentation (requirements and design documents, system test cases)
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