SUMMARY

Seeking a challenging full time business analyst role to apply the skills gained from MBA program, internship and to leverage my past technical expertise and project management experience.

EDUCATION

Leeds School of Business
MBA with emphasis in Marketing
Semester study abroad MBA with emphasis in Marketing & Supply Chain
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication Major

COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Windows Mobile
Testing Tools: IBM Rational Clear quest, Lauterbach, Bugzilla, Excel
Languages: C, C++, C#, PERL, SAS
Databases: Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server
Web Technologies: HTML, XML, VB Script
Networking Technologies: HTTP, TCP/IP, FTP, SSL
Other: Excel, Visio, Pivot Tables, Solver, PowerPoint

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential, May 2010 - July 2010
Solutions Services Offering Support
Boulder, CO

Responsibilities:

• As a summer intern, developed an optimization model for the services team to effectively budget for different types of projects. My work helped the team segment the projects based on the attributes and analyze the potential tradeoffs.
• Learnt several aspects of precision marketing, analytics andimproved my ability to do tasks independently and manage workflow.

Environment: Analytics, SaS, Transpromo, Decision Modeling, Microsoft Excel, Solver Tool

Confidential, Jan 2010 - May 2010
Recitation Leader
Boulder, CO

Responsibilities:

• Coached undergraduate students in business strategy and effectively using Microsoft Visio, Excel, Process maps and Pivot tables for casino design project in Operations management course.

Environment: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel, Pivot Tables, Process Maps, Business Intelligence, Operations Management.

Confidential, August 2008 - May 2009
Testing Lead
Bangalore, India

Samsung electronics realized the need to develop next generation smart phones to stay competitive in the lucrative mobile phone market. This project is focused on developing Windows Mobile Application Catalog for Samsung smart phones.

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented test rules, test scenarios, test cases and test sets as per the client requirements
• Involved in the preparation of test framework and cases.
• Created both functional and non functional test cases based on business requirements
• Identified and created test data for different test Scenarios
• Created CAB files for each testing instance
• Used Bugzilla extensively for effective defect tracking and test management
• Performed Black box, functional testing, integration testing, ad hoc testing, regression testing, interface testing and user acceptance testing.
• Responsible in providing status reports to the Project Manager
• Used Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to assure that all the requirements are covered in test case design phase.
• Involved in setting up server and making periodic server upgrades
• Actively participated in daily review meetings

Environment: Windows Mobile, Samsung test phones, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Bugzilla, Microsoft Excel, Manual Testing

Confidential, May 2007 - July 2008
QA Tester
Bangalore, India

This project was initiated to develop mobile software for Texas Instruments based on its Neptune Processor. A sample board (hardware mobile simulator) was used in a lab environment for this project.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding project and testing requirements
• Developing test cases
• Performed functional, integration and system testing
• Executed Test cases based on the business requirements
• Detecting bugs and classifying them based on severity
• In depth debugging using Lauterbach
• Fixing the bugs in the order of severity
• Tracking changes using Rational clear quest
• Submitted weekly status reports to QA manager

Environment: C language, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Hardware Mobile phone Simulator, Lauterbach debugging tool, Manual Testing

Confidential, Jan 2007 - April 2007
Project Engineer
Bangalore, India

Texas Instruments helps its customers to bring industry leading devices and cutting edge technologies to market quickly and easily by providing BSP (Board Support Package) for the latter's operating systems. TI's BSP is scalable and includes well tested drivers and clean source code enabling developers to easily and quickly interface the supported devices to the operating system.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding BSP package and test requirements
• Developing test cases
• Involved in functional, regression and system testing
• Executed Test cases based on the Business requirements
• Detecting bugs and classifying them based on severity
• Developed Perl script for Auto Download feature
• Participated in Daily status meetings

Environment: Windows Embedded CE, Wind River VxWorks, PERL, Automatic and Manual Testing

Confidential, August 2006 - December 2006
Project Engineer
Bangalore, India

This project is focused on developing quality software for the SFM (Section Filter Management) Module, a device manager in the context of Darwin Architecture. The SFM module manages instances of Demux TPID (Transport Packet Identity) Filter and Demux Section Filter Devices of CDI (Common Driver Interface) to acquire and cache MPEG 2 sections. SFM Module makes itself available to the clients by exposing certain APIs

Responsibilities:

• Understanding design and test requirements
• Developing test framework and cases
• Involved in functional, exception and stress testing
• Executed Test cases based on the Business requirements
• Prioritizing and reporting bugs based on severity
• Participated in Daily status meetings

Environment: Linux, Windows, DVB-S QPSK stream modulator, NFS (Network File System), TSReader (MPEG 2 Transport Stream Analyzer), DOxygen, Bugzilla, CVS,Test Streams, Automatic and Manual Testing

ACTIVITIES

• Elected member of Student Advisory Committee (SAC) and involved in making curriculum changes to the MBA program by acting as a liaison between the MBA faculty and student
• Organized and coordinated events for annual technical symposium as the Student Leader of Electronics department