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Debasis Pradhan
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BB Certified Software/Web Tester, QA, SEO, Blogging/Writing/Data Entry
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QA Engineer / Tester
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$5.56
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Portfolio (4)
> Having more than 4 years of experience in the field of Software Testing. Extensive experience in working as a skillful offshore service provider.<br /> > Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Methodologies. Possesses good Communication, Analytical and Problem solving skills. <br /> > Expertise in System testing, Functional testing, Acceptance testing, Database testing and Regression testing. More than 2 years experience in Product...
> Having more than 4 years of experience in the field of Software Testing. Extensive experience in working as a skillful offshore service provider.
> Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Methodologies. Possesses good Communication, Analytical and Problem solving skills.
> Expertise in System testing, Functional testing, Acceptance testing, Database testing and Regression testing. More than 2 years experience in Product Testing while working in Agile Environments (XP, TDD).
> Experience in Test management tools like ApTest Manager and knowledge in automated testing tools (QTP, Selenium and in-house automation tools).
> Experience in Defect Management and Tracking tools, like JIRA, Bugzilla, BugHost, etc.
> Ability to attain a quick understanding of the FRS / SRS and generate adequate test cases to ensure *near* 100% coverage of requirements. In case, no concrete requirement document is available, can make use of the Exploratory Testing skills to perform testing with excellent results.
> Designing and executing System, Functional, Acceptance, Smoke and Regression Test cases.
> The youngest Indian tester to have his blog featured at TechTarget.
> SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Expert.
> Extensive Copy Writing, Blogging, Creative Writing [English] experience.
> Can perform excellent R&D, Data Entry, Tech. Assistance as well.
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oDesk Tests Taken
Name of Test
Score
Percentile
Date Taken
Duration
Search Engine Optimization Test
3.60
94%
TOP 10%
02/10/2009
28 min
Software Testing Test
3.25
87%
TOP 20%
02/08/2009
17 min
Email Etiquette Certification
4.15
83%
TOP 20%
02/09/2009
17 min
U.S. English Basic Skills Test
4.40
75%
02/08/2009
28 min
oDesk Readiness Test for Independent Contractors and Company Managers
02/08/2009
27 min
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QA our site - test plan is ready
Provider
November 24, 2009
Manual tester
Buyer
November 18, 2009
Software QA Tester
Provider
November 11, 2009
QA Engineer / Windows Form Tester
Provider
November 11, 2009
Manual tester: Test case creation and Test case execution
Provider
November 11, 2009
QA Tester for Web Design & Web Development Projects
Provider
November 11, 2009
User testing; Usability advisor; Website QA
Provider
November 11, 2009
AD POSTER, DATA ENTRY SPECIALIST, CRAIGSLIST POSTER
Buyer
November 9, 2009
Job Category Interests
Web Development
Website QA
Software Development
Game Development
Software QA
Writing & Translation
Technical Writing
Website Content
Blog & Article Writing
Copywriting
Creative Writing
Other - Writing & Translation
Administrative Support
Data Entry
Personal Assistant
Web Research
Email Response Handling
Sales & Marketing
Advertising
Email Marketing
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
Business Services
Payment Processing
Statistical Analysis
Skills
Skill
Experience
Level
Last Used
Description
Agile S/W Development
2 yrs
4.0
2009
Experience in testing under Agile environment (XP, TDD).
Blogging, Content Writing
3 yrs
4.0
2009
Have been succesfully writing one of the most sought-after blogs on Software Testing (from India). Experience in Content Writing, Technical Writing.
Data Entry
4 yrs
5.0
2009
Proficient in Email Management, Technical Troubleshooting, Data Entry, and Customer Service. Possesses excellent written and verbal English skills.
Exploratory Testing
2 yrs
5.0
2009
In case no concrete requirement document is available, can make use of the excellent Exploratory Testing skills to perform testing with excellent results.
SEO
3 yrs
5.0
2009
> Have done SEO for own blog and now the blog tops all major search engines including Google for most of the competitive niche keywords/key phrases. [Google PR:3, Alexa Traffic Rank: 264,937, Feed Subscribers:750 (all stats improving day by day)]
> Optimized and helped many other websites and blogs with great SEO result.
Skilled Software Testing
3 yrs
5.0
2009
http://software-testing-zone.b
logspot.com
Meet a Constructive mind on a Destructive Mission. A Passionate Tester who asks Questions to find Defects in Software.
Expertise in UI Testing, Functional Testing, System testing, Database Testing, Regression Testing, Security Testing, Acceptance Testing and many other done on a wide array of software products.
Test Automation
2 yrs
4.0
2009
Proficient in testing tools like QTP, Selenium, Test Director, JIRA, Aptest Manager, Bugzilla and experience in testing using in-house testing framework.
Certifications
Date Earned
Name
Score
Percentile
Organization
Description
2008
Interpersonal Communications
3.63
97%
Brainbench
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2007
Software Testing
3.73
88%
Brainbench
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Employment History
From
To
Company
Title/Role
Description
01/2007
Present
EC Group Datasoft
Senior Test Engineer / Independent Contributor
It has been a great experience helping the clients discover the power of skilled software testing. Among other things, I have helped in setting up a highly motivated testing team for the organization. Most of this period I have learned working in a Agile [TDD, XP] environment and was responsible for testing some complex suite of Software Products. [Linguistics Suite of Tools, Health Care Applications to name a few]
11/2005
12/2006
Carbonon Tech.
Software Test Engineer / Independent Contributor
It was a relatively short (14 months) association, but it gave me great opportunity to try my testing hand over a wide range of software. [E-Commerce, B2B portals, PC games, Task Management tools etc].
Other Experience
Independent Tester
During my free time I test lot of Open Source and Beta Release software to feed my curious mind. I have tested and found bugs in many popular applications like Google Suggest, Yahoomail Beta, Mozilla Firefox, Twitter, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel to name a few. The details of the bugs can be found on my blog (
http://software-testing-zone.b
logspot.com
).
Education
From
To
School
Degree
Area of Study
Description
06/2002
06/2005
Indira Gandhi University
Masters
Masters in Computer Application
MCA with First class (66%) and distinction.
Project Title:
FieldWorks
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Completed:
01/11/2009
Category:
Software Development > Software QA
URL:
http://fieldworks.sil.org/FW_downloads.htm
Description:
FieldWorks is a suite of software tools to help language teams manage language and cultural data, with support for complex scripts. The tools are Data Notebook, Language Explorer, Translation Editor, WorldPad. These SIL FieldWorks tools support the Dictionary Development Process which defines an approach for building and refining a dictionary, categorizing cultural observations using the Outline of Cultural Materials, complex non-Roman scripts using Unicode and SIL-developed Graphite, limited multi-user capacity, which opens the door to cluster project work over the Internet or a LAN.
Project Title:
Patient Care System
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none
Completed:
09/25/2008
Category:
Software Development > Software QA
URL:
http://ecgroup.in/pcs.html
Description:
Patient Care System (PCS) is powerful, flexible, easy to use and is designed and developed to deliver real conceivable benefits to hospitals and clinics. PCS is designed for multi-specialty hospitals, to cover a wide range of hospital administration and management processes. It is an integrated end-to-end Hospital Management System that provides relevant information across the hospital to support effective decision making for patient care, hospital administration and critical financial accounting, in a seamless flow. This is a quite flexible Product, which is capable of matching the needs of health care organizations of various sizes.
Project Title:
Pictured Home
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Completed:
12/20/2006
Category:
Web Development > Website QA
URL:
http://www.picturedhome.com/
Description:
Pictured Home is an exciting new service which photographs the interior and exterior of a new home throughout the construction process. Utilizing the latest in 3600 digital high resolution photography, Pictured Home provides detailed room by room pictures of a new home taken at key building intervals. While viewing of each room, user may record and change many of the room design features such as paint, trim and flooring selections. The system comprises of 4 major modules viz. Admin User, Partners, Customers, Guest User.
Project Title:
InstaBiz 0.5, 1.0
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none
Completed:
09/11/2006
Category:
Web Development > Website QA
URL:
none
Description:
InstaBiz 1.0 is an online B2B (Business to Business) site, which is developed to assist small and medium sized business organizations to grow and increase profits.
* Lead a team of testers and acted towards the successful completion of the project through proper co-ordination and management of the team.
* Prepared test artifacts like Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data, Traceability Matrices, Test Summary Report, Test Log for different components of InstaBiz 1.0 system.
* Verified the Test Cases prepared by other team members.
* Executed Test Cases for some critical functionality and verified the Defect Reports of other team members and used special types of testing techniques like Compatibility testing, Security testing and Exploratory testing etc.
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oDesk Tests Taken
Name of Test
Score
Percentile
Date Taken
Duration
Search Engine Optimization Test
3.60
94%
TOP 10%
02/10/2009
28 min
Software Testing Test
3.25
87%
TOP 20%
02/08/2009
17 min
Email Etiquette Certification
4.15
83%
TOP 20%
02/09/2009
17 min
U.S. English Basic Skills Test
4.40
75%
02/08/2009
28 min
oDesk Readiness Test for Independent Contractors and Company Managers
02/08/2009
27 min
