Shashank Shekhar Sharma

Email: - shas.sharma@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-9731241378

Curriculum Vitae

Career Objective:
To continue growing in leadership and knowledge, excel in innovative technology application, interact and share
with team members and colleagues, and develop world class solutions to the real world challenges. Willing to
learn new technologies and work under challenging environments, and ready to add value to the external and
internal customers.

Strengths:
I am enthusiastic, hardworking, determined, quick learner and sincere person with good leadership qualities. I
am capable in motivating team and playing an effective role in carving a niche for organization and myself.

Professional Summary:
 Around 5 years of experience in Software Testing as Test Engineer, Test Automation Development Engineer,
feature prime & QA.
 Extensive experience in Manual (Black box & Gray box), Regression & Functional testing.
 Have tested more than 350 windows application on windows platform.
 Have good experience on x86 & x64 architecture and Windows concept.
 Good knowledge of QC and Product studio.
Exposure to Microsoft's automated testing tool -Windows Test Technology, Defect Tracking & bug database
management tool - Product Studio
 Exposure to Test Planning, Defining Metrics, Test management, Effort estimation, Status reporting, Reviewing
Test Plans, client interactions.
 Experience in handling a team of 3 Test engineers for 2 Testing Module.
 Knowledge on QTP 9.2 tool and Automation using C#.NET.
 Basic programming knowledge.

Achievements:
• Successfully monitored Terminal Server test passes.
• Technical Certification in Powershell Scripting & C#
• Got best performer reward from client.
 My effort as a STE (Software Test Engineer) was very much appreciated from my client at Microsoft Inc. and
soon I was promoted to SDET (Software Development Engineer at Test) role.

Experience:
Organization Duration
Mindlance, Bangalore. Sep 2009 to Till Date
Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad,
Jan 2005 to Aug 2009
Bangalore.
Wipro Infotech, Bangalore. Nov 2004 to Dec 2005

Educational Qualification:
• Completed MCA with 1st division
• Pursued BIT (Information Technology) with 71%.
• 10+2 from CBSE and Completed SSC in BSEB
• HND in multimedia and computing

Skill Set:
Programming: Basic Knowledge of C#, SQL C and C++.
Scripting – Basics of Powershell, UNIX Shell Scripting and Perl
.NET Technologies: .NET 2.0,
Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP SP2
Software Testing Tools: WTT and QTP.
Test Management Tools: Appex and MQC.
Network Operating System: WS2000, WS03 and WS08 (Longhorn).
Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML

Training Summary:
 C#
 .NET Fundamentals
 Testing concepts, methodologies & automation
 Software review and testing & Software Configuration Management
 Software Engineering Process
 QTP 9.2, QC

Project Profile:
 Shashank Shekhar Sharma
Email: - shas.sharma@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-9731241378

PROJECT#6 Emoneyger Web testing.

Client Mindlance, SMBC
Role Sr. Test Engg.
Testing Manual & Automated (UI & Functional)
Organization Mindlance
Duration 01/09/2009 to Till Date
Team Size 30
Environment Software MS Office 2007, QTP 9.2, QC 9.2
Description:
Testing emoneyger site in OSD environment. Creating, editing VB script using QTP. Executing test cases and
analyzing result. Reviewing Test cases result capturing & analysis and Defect Tracking using HP QC.
Roles and responsibilities in Project:
 Find Website UI bugs.
 Timely Deliverables
 Test case improvements (Manual and automation)
• Performing bug analysis and developing strategy for creating new TCs
• Coordinating Tasks between offshore & Onsite team
• Setting up test bed and test lab
PROJECT#5 Nortel Sdm/Cbm Platform & Upgrades
Client NORTEL
Role Sr. Test Engg.
Testing Automated (UI & Functional) & Manual
Organization Wipro Technologies Ltd. Bangalore
Duration 15/01/2008 to 31/08/2009
Team Size 70
Environment Software MS Office 2007, Solaris 10, SSPFS, QC 9.2
Description:
This project Nortel Sdm (Supernode Billing Manger)/Cbm (Core Billing Manger) Platform & Upgrades is part of
Nortel SDM/CBM. Project deals with developing and testing features various CBM profile in different scenario.
Raising CR and writing documents on CBM features. I also lead a team of two performing performance testing for
CBM. It includes running scripts, collecting and analyzing system performance data.
Roles and responsibilities in Project:
• Running STIG and Documenting of STIG sustenance feature.
• Raising CR and Fixing CR for security hardening feature.
• Analysing the shell Script results.
• Running Script to collect performance data.
• Setting the performance test bed and executing performance testing.
• Analyzing performance data and generating reports.
PROJECT#4 Application Compatibility Testing for Windows 2008 Server
Client MICROSOFT INC.
Role Test Enginner
Testing Automation & Manual
Organization Wipro Technologies Ltd. Hyderabad
Duration 26/04/2007 to 31/12/2007
Team Size 20
Windows 2008 Server (Language- German & English) WTT (Windows Test
Environment Software Technology, PS (Products Studio), GrabMI, QAppFix, AppxTest, Double
Diamond
Description:
The Primary function of this project is testing the functionality and stability of the Windows 2008 Server
Operating Systems by performing Application Compatibility testing on continuously released builds.
Project involved manually testing applications on Windows 2008 Server operating systems to test various
features of OS to make sure no regression bugs are missed. The objectives and vision of the project:
 Find OS bugs and OS regressions bugs.
 Timely Deliverables
 Test case improvements (Manual and automation)
 Performing Windows 2008 Server builds testing for regression
 Performing broad test pass and depth testing for Windows 2008 Server
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 Improvement of code coverage

 Improving the test coverage (adding new test cases in Manual and automation test suites)
 Debugging the issues (bugs)
Roles and responsibilities in Project:
 Conducting LAM (Look Ahead Meetings) before test pass begins
 Checking the media (application) availability & allocating work to individual testers based upon the test pass
requirement
 Making sure that test bed setup is ready in lab
 Providing the required hardware and software for testing to individual testers
 Creating or updating test cases for allocated applications. Also reviewing the test cases created by other
testers in the team
 Test Execution, Result Capturing, Defect Reporting & Status Reporting
 Checking applications' compatibility with operating system by executing test cases. (Testing, debugging, and
logging Bugs)
 Logging bugs into Microsoft bug tracking tool Product Studio Database with fairly described repro steps &
defending them in bug resolution meeting
 Conducting bug review analysis meetings every week
 Tracking all the bugs logged by the team & assigning responsibilities to team members to make sure that the
respective bugs are in correct resolution state
 Communication with the Client for providing the necessary info regarding various issues whenever and
wherever required
 Training the new joiners
 Creating daily status reports of the testing & sending it to manager
 Preparing weekly Status report and sending it to client
 Acknowledging good contributors by highlighting their efforts in status reports
 Raising project related issues to manger on timely basis
PROJECT#3 MS APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY TESTING (AUTOMATION)
Client MICROSOFT INC.
Role Test Automation Development Engineer
Testing Automation
Organization Wipro Technologies Ltd. Hyderabad
Duration 01/11/2006 to 25/04/2007
Team Size 5
Windows Vista (English & German), Windows Server 2003(English &
German), Windows XP SP2 (English & German), ), WTT (Windows Test
Environment Software
Technology, PS (Products Studio), Visual Studio 2005, AeAuto Automation
Framework, C# .NET
Description:
The Project deals with Automation of Test cases for the Applications that are part of the Microsoft application list
for testing various Windows client OSs (Windows Vista, XP SP2, and Win2K3). This includes automation of UI and
Non-UI test cases using C# .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.
Roles and responsibilities in Project:
 Preparation of test cases (TCOs) for applications
 Automating test cases using C# on .NET framework using Visual Studio 2005 IDE
 Testing and debugging every script on various MS Windows operating systems on various languages
 Coding test cases to run independently and to make sure that all the test cases remove the items created
during the test case (Cleanup items)
 Performing OS deployment & Automation execution jobs using WTT
 Fixing & closing of assigned bugs after test runs in client environment.
 Reviewing peer's code by following MS coding standards & making sure that all my code work are peer
reviewed before final code submission. Making changes in the code as per the code reviewer's comments
 Logging accurate OS & Automation Framework bugs on timely basis with all relevant fields in PS with all the
necessary information & repro steps
 Communicating with the customers, analyzing the issues, bugs and suggesting solutions to it
 Gathering & monitoring automation team's performance & generating weekly status reports
 Conducting automation training for new team members
PROJECT#2 MS OLSE APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY TESTING
Client Wipro Technologies E&PE.
Role Associate Engineer
Testing Manual
Duration 01/01/2006 to 30/10/2006
Organization Wipro Technologies Ltd., Hyderabad
Team Size 24
 Shashank Shekhar Sharma
Email: - shas.sharma@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-9731241378

Vista (Ultimate, Business, Home Basic, Home Premium, Starter SKUs) XP

SP2(SKU - Ultimate , Language-German & English), WTT (Windows Test
Environment Software
Technology, PS (Products Studio), GrabMI, QAppFix, AppxTest, Double
Diamond
Description:
The Primary function of this project is testing the functionality and stability of the Windows Vista Operating
Systems by performing Application Compatibility testing on continuously released builds. Project involved
manually testing applications on Windows Vista operating systems to test various features of OS to make sure no
regression bugs arises.
Roles and responsibilities in Project:
 Preparations for test pass after going through the Test plan document. (Look ahead meetings)
 Writing or updating Test cases for different applications as a part of exploratory testing i.e. defining test cases
on the fly and testing & reviewing test cases prepared by another testers.
 Checking applications' compatibility with operating system by executing test cases. (Testing, debugging,
logging Bugs)
 Performing various black box testing Methodologies like Functional testing and Regression testing for testing
various OS features
 Logging of the bugs into Microsoft bug tracking tool Product Studio Database with fairly described repro steps
& defending them in bug resolution meetings.
 Communication with the Client for providing the necessary info regarding various issues whenever and
wherever required.
 Resolving and closing the bugs assigned to me
 Performed game testing for few test passes.
 Worked on German builds of the Operating System
PROJECT#1 CIO Office and Operations
Client Wipro
Role Associate Engineer (Trainee)
Testing Manual
Duration 25/11/2004 to 31/12/2005
Organization Wipro Infotech, Bangalore
Team Size 6
Environment Software Window XP/NT/2000, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript
Description:
The Primary function of this project is testing the functionality and stability of the Wipro internal portal. Project
involved manually testing portal on Windows XP operating systems to test various features of Wipro portal.
Roles and responsibilities in Project:
• Preparations for test pass after going through the Test plan document.
• Performing Portal testing.
• Preparing test lab for portal testing.
• Finding issue and debugging issue of portal.

Personal Profile:
Name: Shashank Shekhar Sharma
Date of Birth: 22nd Feb 1981
Languages known: English, Hindi and Telugu
Nationality: Indian
Passport: Yes
E-mail: shas.sharma@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-9731241378