Binita Talukdar — Director of Engineering

Profile Summary: F Quality Assurance professional with excellence in project and people management, in smartphone industry . F Spearheading team of 40 members. F 17+ years of experience as people manager as well as QA project manager for android platform. F Excellent Communication, Leadership, Team building, Technical & Analytical Skills. F Hiring and Building team from scratch and setting up QA policies, guidelines and artifacts. F Explicit project experience following SW methodologies like Shift left, Agile/ Scrum. F Competent in analyzing & preparing project activities like Requirement & risks Analysis, resource & schedule planning, Test Planning, creation of Test Strategy, Test Tool evaluation, Test Landscape planning and set-up, Traceability Matrix creation, Test execution monitoring and reporting, and Root Cause Analysis of customer defects & identification of automation tools & frameworks. F Data Driven Quality Assurance : Utilization of Big Data, Market VoCs, Competitor Information to prepare High Level business critical Reports with Focus on Quality F Expert in data analytics and predictive analytics for creating test data and new testing strategy. F Strong QA background with experience in creating and reviewing test plans, test results & test metrics F Expertise in Client Server quality evaluation, API test, Load, Performance test etc. - Strong Domain knowledge on IoT, Smartphone Camera, Broswer and VR experience. F Experience in People Management activities including development planning, mentoring and coaching and performance review feedback of team. Technical Skills: Domain: Exclusive knowledge on IoT, Smartphone Camera, Browser, VR experience Programming Language: Python Performance Testing tool: Jmeter Web Service Testing tool: SoapUI, RestClient, RestAssured Test Management Tool: JIRA, Version Control Tool: Perforce Log Tracking Tool: DDMS, QXDM,RDX Automation Tool: Selenium, Ready API

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance leader in the smartphone industry with extensive project management experience.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 19 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Quality Assurance
Project Management
Testing

Career Highlights

17+ years of experience in QA and project management.
Led a team of 40 members in smartphone industry.
Expert in data analytics for quality assurance.

Work Experience

Samsung India

Staff Engineering Manager (5 yrs 2 mos)

Sr. Technical Manager (2 yrs 1 mo)

Technical Manager (4 yrs 11 mos)

Technical Lead (1 yr 6 mos)

CTS

Associate (2 yrs 3 mos)

Antenna Software

QA Engineer (9 mos)

Mahindra Satyam

Test Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)

Education

B.E at Jorhat Engineering College

Binita Talukdar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17+ years of experience in QA and project management.
Led a team of 40 members in smartphone industry.
Expert in data analytics for quality assurance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance leader in the smartphone industry with extensive project management experience.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssuranceProject ManagementTesting

Other Skills

Test PlanningResource PlanningRisk AnalysisTest Execution MonitoringQuality Gate PassTest Case PreparationDefect TrackingTest ExecutionAgile MethodologiesTest AutomationManual TestingTest ManagementPerformance TestingSystem TestingScrum

About

Experience

19 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

13 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Samsung india

4 roles

Staff Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Sr. Technical Manager

Jan 2019 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Technical Manager

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Responsibilities:
1. Involved in handling multiple projects at a time, maximum upto 10 projects in parallel.
2. Participated in kick off meeting with development team for product planning, scoping and scheduling
3. Involved in estimation, resource planning and risk analysis activities.
4. Prepared master test plan which includes test items, test scope and schedule.
5. Daily sync up meeting with the module leads for project status updates.
6. Need based sync up meeting with development team for smooth execution of the project as well as for tracking requirement changes on time.
7. Weekly status update meeting with higher management for the ongoing projects.
8. Responsible for giving software Quality gate pass for the products under test for further testing like network testing, factory testing etc by respective teams.
9. Responsible for testing / checking quality of the products from product initiation till time to ship to market
10. Handled products for US operators like Verizon, Sprint,U.S. Cellular, Cricket Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile and TracFone
11. Involved in appraisal activities for the team during appraisal cycle.
Test items:
1. GOTA testing
2. Stub App Testing
3. Operator Network testing
4. Funtional testing for native apps
5. KnoX testing
6. Interruption testing
7. Top App Testing from Google and Samsung Store
8. Hidden Key Strings Testing
9. Multimedia lab testing like MMT testing using OA / Conveyor Belt and
10.MMC Compatibility test
11. Stress testing using (T-Set)
12. Non functional test using automation like Memory Leak,Current Consumption and Performance Testing
Thermal Camera, Auto Entry, Sluggish and Extended Battery Life (EBL) test
13. Google Certification
14. Memory Full Test
15. Sound path testing

Test PlanningResource PlanningRisk AnalysisTest Execution MonitoringQuality Gate PassQuality Assurance+1

Technical Lead

Jun 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

Responsibilities:
1. Involved in handling team for testing "Phone"," Contact" application as well as network related features in mobile phones for multiple ongoing projects in parallel
2. Daily stand up meeting with the team for status and information updates.
3. Involved in writing MDN number, MIN number and PRL to CDMA mobile phones and tablets using QPST and QXDM for Relience, Verizon,Sprint,VMU, U.S. Cellular and Cricket Wireless operators.
4. Involved in functional testing for phone and contact application, features related to call, network testing for 2G,3G and LTE network, chameleon features testing, hidden string testing and Sound path testing
5. Expertise in taking QCN backup and restoring for mobile phones and tablets using QPST
6. Responsible for flashing test buid using Odin3, Odin Multiloader tool, taking logs using QXDM, DDMS, and using string in test device.
7. Involved in rating team members during appraisal cycle.

Cts

Associate

Feb 2010 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

Responsibilities:
1. Involved in complete analysis of the testing requirements.
2. Involved in complete project execution for 5 modules individually.
3. Prepared requirement understanding data flow diagram.
4. Involved in preparation of test cases and peer review for test cases.
5. Preparation of Traceability matrix.
6. Test case execution which includes Smoke testing, Functional testing, Usability testing, Exploratory testing, Regression testing.
7. Downloading and installation of the application in BlackBerry, Android device / simulator and in iPhone and iPad simulator.
8. Developed automation scripts using Device Anywhere.
9. Involved in defect tracking in QC.
10. Preparation of Daily Status Report using QC and presenting to the higher management.
11. Tracking of the overall effort utilized by each team member and project status in Cognizant 2.0 tool
12. Tracking the daily effort of the assigned task to the team member in Effort Tracker.
13. Capacity Booking for team members.

Test Case PreparationDefect TrackingTest ExecutionQuality AssuranceTesting

Antenna software

QA Engineer

Feb 2009 – Nov 2009 · 9 mos · Bangalore

Responsibilities:
1. Involved in complete analysis of testing requirements from SRS, BRD.
2. Prepared the Test Design Specification according to the requirement in SRS
3. Prepared high level scenarios (test objects), manual test cases.
4. Involved in Smoke testing, Adhoc testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, performance testing.
5. Installation of framework and application in BlackBerry.
6. Logged and tracked defects in bugzilla.
7. Interacted with the developers on application bugs.
8. Involved in preparing the Test Summary report.

Mahindra satyam

Test Engineer

Mar 2006 – Feb 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad

Responsibilities:
1. Involved in complete analysis of testing requirements from SRS, BRD
2. Prepared the Test Design Specification according to the requirement in SRS
3. Prepared high level scenarios, manual test cases and executed them as well using HP QC.
4. Involved in doing Smoke testing, Regression testing, Functional testing.
5. Logged and tracked defects in QC.
6. Involved in preparing the Test Summary report.
7. Involved in preparing QA documents which includes Traceability Metrics, Execution Status Reports
8. Involved in different metrics like Variance summary, effort variance, schedule variance, Test Cases Estimated Vs Created, Test case planned Vs Executed, Build Vs defects, Defects Vs priority, Defects Vs root cause and Defect Catch Rate.