Avinash Nayak, PMP

Mobile: +91-7588478123 ~ E-Mail: Avinash_1_Nayak@yahoo.com , Nayak.Avinash@gmail.com

Objective:
Seeking a technically challenging and growth oriented position with in the IT industry where I can
contribute my knowledge and experience and exercise my skills to its fullest potential.

Professional Summary:

13 years of exceptional track record IT experience includes Software Testing, Project

Management, Release Management, Product Management and Process Management (SCRUM).
Software QA leadership: 8 years of experience developing and implementing QA processes,
and developing and leading software QA teams.
CAD/CAM/PDM/PLM: 12 years of experience working with various CAD/CAM/PDM/PLM
products.
Worked as onsite project coordinator at GE-Appliances, Louisville, KY
Worked at Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan on a short term Windchill implementation project
during the GO-LIVE.
Experience in handling multiple global teams. Experience in working as Release coordinator to
assist release management activities.

Professional Experience:
PTC, India

(Feb 2011 Till Date)

Designation: Technical Lead
PTC is a product based company which develops product life cycle management (PLM) solutions and Engineering CAD/CAM,
Content management and dynamic publishing solutions.

Responsible for the standardizing the QA standards and practices of two data migration teams
Windchill Bulk Migration Team and Pro/INTRALINK Data Migrator QA.

Responsible for testing the Extractors and Loaders across the different verticals of Windchill PLM.

Responsible for Extracting, Transforming, Loading and Validating of the Migrated data.

Based on the release schedule design the test plan that will test the products efficiently.

Developing special tools that are necessary to improve the testing environment and increase the
efficiency.

Responsible for testing the Multibyte Character Support for WBM with Oracle/SQL Server.

Responsible for successful migration of the customer data using Pro/INTRALINK DataMigrator
and Windchill Bulk Migrator.

Developing most appropriate ways to rate /prioritize errors so as to help R&D in fixing all those
issues on priority that are very important for the customers.

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Build automatic and manual test suites in order to detect all the possible regressions (goal is to
achieve maximum possible coverage) for each build so as to have regression free product
release to the customer.

Biesse, India
(Aug 2008 Feb 2011)
Designation: Manager Software Testing
Biesse is involved in development and production of CNC wood working machines for the wood working
industry. It also develops specially designed application software used to program the numerical control
machines. My responsibility involves testing of these software using both manual and automation
software testing.

Standardize the QA standards and practices across the teams.

Developing special tools that are necessary to improve the testing environment and increase the
efficiency.
Based on the release schedule design a test plan that will test the product efficiently.
Build automatic and manual test suites in order to detect all the possible regressions (goal is to
achieve maximum possible coverage) for each build so as to have regression free product
release to the customer.
Developing most appropriate ways to rate /prioritize errors so as to help R&D in fixing all those
issues on priority that are very important for the customers.
Performance reviews for the team, deciding hierarchy that works best for the groups functioning
and also matches company policy /plan.
Estimate the overall coverage of the tests executed.
Inform the company about the status of the product in terms of blocking issues /regressions etc
and what they mean if the product has to be released to customer.
Evaluated, recommended, implemented and administered open source bug tracking tool Mantis.
Evaluated, recommended, implemented and administered open source test case management
software Testlink.
Mentoring QA engineers in manual as well as automation testing.

PTC, India

(June 2002 July 2008)

Designation: Technical Lead
PTC is a product based company which develops product life cycle management (PLM) solutions and Engineering CAD/CAM,
Content management and dynamic publishing solutions.

Windchill Upgrade Team:

Creating test plans for upgrade of Windchill PLM solution.
Installation of Apache and Tomcat servers and configuring them with different run time
configurations for Windchill testing.
Was responsible for installation and maintenance of the central upgraded servers for different
builds of Windchill.

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Was responsible for customer database upgrades (Dublin database / JDPS / Thermoking
/Unisys).
Responsible for troubleshooting issues related to installation and upgrade.
Mentoring QA engineers in Windchill Upgrade testing.
Deploy temp patches from the development for testing.

Windchill Performance Team:

Creating performance test plans for Windchill 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 after reviewing the technical
specifications for the technical performance of the product.
Creation of Test Suite using various combinations of Windchill solutions (7.0, 8.0 and 9.0) and
Pro/E (Wildfire 1.0 and 2.0).
Installation and testing the various builds of Windchill for performance.
Manual Benchmarking for various operations between Pro/Intralink and Windchill.
Automated testing of the Performance by simulating LAN and WAN using Shunra Cloud software.
Pro/Intralink Team:
Systematic and through testing of PTCs suite of products.
Preparation of detailed test plans covering all aspects of software to be tested after reviewing the
technical specification and Functional specification for testing the product.
Testing of software functionality to prove adherence to specification requirements on Multi
platforms.
Create various automation tests to cover all functionality aspects.
Running the automated test on Multi platforms and analyzing the failures.
Approving the build quality of the software tested for shipment to customers
Replication testing of Pro/E data using Pro/Intralink.
Upgrade and Migration between different versions of Pro/Intralink.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd (Now Mahindra Satyam) (Sept 99 Apr 02)
Designation: Engineer CAD/CAM.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd was a service provider for GE-Appliances and had offshore design center
in Secunderabad / Hyderabad, India.
TOPICE 2003 is an NPI- Refrigeration Program involving three major improvements over the previous
SXS model of GE, Quantum. They are: Increase on freezer volume for more storage, implementing a
party ice bucket in door and brightest lighting.
Role:
Location:
Duration:

Top-Down Team Member

Louisville / Hyderabad
07/2000- 04/2002

Home Laundry (PCTO) is the program concerned with the reducing the cost (product cost take off)
washers, dryers and their components. The work involved the complete tracking of life cycle of the cad
request right from the creation to release of the changes for production.
Role:

Team Member Coordinator (Onsite coordinator)

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Location:
Duration:

Louisville, USA
04/2000-07/2000

Monogram- Monolith was a Legacy conversion project involving the complete CAD conversion of
monogram refrigerator components from AutoCAD database to Pro/Engineer database.

Role:
Location:
Duration:

Team Member
Secunderabad
01/2000-04/2000

Home laundry was a Legacy conversion project involving the complete CAD conversion of Home
Laundry products from CADDS5 database to Pro/Engineer database.
Role:
Location:
Duration:

Team Member
Secunderabad
11/1999-01/2000

Vision Range was a Legacy conversion project involving the complete CAD conversion of Range, Home
Laundry and Dishwasher products from CADDS5 database to Pro/Engineer database.
Role:
Location:
Duration:

Team Member
Secunderabad
09/1999-11/1999

The above projects involved extensive use of Pro/Engineer for modeling and detailing purposes.

Incite CAM Center

(Mar 99 Sept 99)
Designation: Engineer CAD/CAM
Incite CAM Center is a small privately owned firm which provides CAD and Engineering services for
various industries.

Responsible for modeling and detailing of various engineering components using Pro/Engineer.

Indian Institute of Science (Management studies Department) (Oct 98 Mar 99)

Designation: Project Assistant
Indian institute of science is one of Indias premier research organizations.
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Responsible for design and development of the software using VC++.

Indian Institute of Science (Instrumentation Department) (Apr 98 - Oct 98)

Designation: Project Assistant
Indian institute of science is one of Indias premier research organizations.
Design of a test apparatus to determine the coefficient of friction of any given material.

Was responsible for design and development of the test apparatus using autocad.

Academic Qualifications:

M.S in Software Systems

BITS, Pilani

6.28 CGPA

2004-2006

B.E Mechanical Engineering

Malnad College

69.4%

1993-1997

PUC (PCMB)

National College

75.3%

1992-1993

10th Standard

S.C.S

77.4%

1990-1991

Certification:

Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified through Project Management Institute

(PMI), 2010.

Awards and Recognitions:

Received Pat on the Back award for my contribution to Vision-Range project.

Received Excellence in performance award for my contribution to Windchill performance
testing.

Computer Proficiency:
Programming languages

C, C++, VC++, Java, XML

Databases

Oracle, MySql

Operating System

Windows, Unix, Linux

Web Server / Servlet Engine

Apache, Tomcat

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Mobile: +91-7588478123 ~ E-Mail: Avinash_1_Nayak@yahoo.com , Nayak.Avinash@gmail.com

CAD/CAM packages

Pro/Engineer, BiesseWorks, ICAM

PDM/PLM Software

Pro/INTRALINK, Windchill

Testing Tools

Rational Robot

Project Planning

MS Project

Personal Dossier:
Date of Birth:
Address:
Passport No.:

02nd April 1976

#178,Suman, 13th cross, Shree Ananthnagar, Electronics city P.O, Bangalore - 560100
A 6928721

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