powell mittra

senior specialist

About

Competent software professional with 4+ years of experience in leading organizations. Demonstrated ability to work for both waterfall and Agile projects. Keen to take up challenging work, currently working on Performance testing of Mobile Servers using webservices based on JSON encoded protocol. Have extensive experience in LoadRunner and Performance center tools. Have additionally taken up responsibility to migrate VuGen scripts to JMeter to reduce the cost to company. Interested in Banking domain with good knowledge in Commercial markets. Perpetually excited about Android and iOS automation. Used Appium tool to automate Apps for both Android and iOS.

Country

ireland

City

ireland

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

project management, consulting, strategy, leadership, business analysis, requirements analysis, agile methodologies, problem solving, corporate finance, loadrunner, testing, sdlc, functional testing, project planning, team management, sql, performance testing, web services, java enterprise edition, core java, c, jira, perl, hp quality center, test automation, jmeter, software development life cycle, appium, test planning, soapui, selenium webdriver, testng, scrum, javascript, java, linux, oracle, unix, pl/sql, product management, cross functional team leadership, management, microsoft excel, databases, data analysis, robotframework

Experience

student ambassador

education in ireland

2017-10 - Present · 9 yrs

senior specialist

prudential financial

2020-1 - Present · 6 yrs 9 mos

software engineer technical lead

puresoftware ltd

2017-2 - 2017-9 · 8 mos

o Coordinated multidisciplinary project teams to deliver projects of varying sizes and complexity, focusing primarily process development and testing. o Successfully set-up an offshore team of 7 software test engineers within 4 weeks to work on Agile environment using Scrum. o Managed client relationships and vendor development groups to build a sustainable cadence for iterative development to deliver business value in an incremental fashion. o Actively managed risks and issues, taking appropriate corrective actions as required, resulting in zero escalations from the client. o Reduced time to market by 5-8% by successfully implementing Data Management and Continuous Improvement methodologies. o Lead/facilitated discussions with various stakeholders on defect triage and requirements gathering. o Proposed and helped developed proof-of-concepts for a variety of audiences including business professionals and software engineers. o Assisted in business development activities by providing support for proposals and other initiatives as required.

senior software test engineer

thomson reuters

2014-8 - 2017-1 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Managed the successful delivery of performance testing projects for the Thomson Reuters flagship product - Eikon. Worked with cross-functional teams and end users to gather requirements, create user stories, test scope, plan, and strategy based on those requirements. Managed expectations of key stakeholders of the projects. Worked in Agile (SCRUM) model and actively participated in Scrum meetings.

senior software engineer

accenture

2011-4 - 2014-8 · 3 yrs 5 mos

* Performance Test Analysis for multi-billion dollar banking client and Dell India projects. * Worked on creating PoC for various service visualization. * Created test data creation tool using Perl script and presented it to client. Received appreciation from client and was awarded Edisson for the same. * Worked on VuGen Http/Html, web services. Remote Terminal Emulator (RTE) Protocols and also MQ JavaScript. * Use monitoring tools such as Sitescope and Loadrunner monitors for monitoring web and application servers.