SUMMARY:

• Analytical cybersecurity graduate student with knowledge of risk management, asset protection, and threat mitigation. Driven to protect organizations from vulnerabilities while maintaining ethical standards and compliance.
• Effective interpersonal communication utilized in resolving complex problems in cross - functional team environments.
• Exploited vulnerabilities and created a system shutdown to an electric vehicle by identifying open ports in the Wi-Fi connection and sending false messages and emergency codes to the charging station.
• Participated in this team-based event which provides practicum-based training to the heavy vehicle cyber domain and facilitates access to the hacking environment on real trucks and components.
• Performed a social engineering attack by injecting the APK malware into the ELD/Ground controlled tablet attached to the truck using man in the middle attack (Wi-Fi Pineapple Router).
• Conducted vulnerability scanning using Nmap, Nessus and privilege escalation, created a backdoor injection and exploitation of old browser using Metasploit.
• Recognized as an Award Winner and won the Gold coin.
• Identified and documented the incidents where investigation cannot be progressed further due to missing information.
• Addressed required actions to secure an OS from network-based attack vectors, and fixed detected vulnerabilities.
• Examined alerts from security monitoring tools such as OSSEC (Host based intrusion detection system - HIDS).
• Analyzed security breaches to determine the root cause and d etermined when and how the breach happened.
• Completed access and privilege escalation to create, manage and delete user accounts for multiple systems.
• Troubleshot user access related issues and manage the escalation process to the systems administration group.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HP Quality Center, Visual Basic, C, SQL, HTML, XML, VB Script, SQL Server, Oracle, Windows, MS-DOS, Linux, Unix, and Microsoft Office.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied and analyzed the business requirements and the functional requirement documents.
• Organized manual test efforts of the project for functional, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Executed manual test cases and identified ones to be automated.
• Performed browser compatibility testing using different browsers such as IE, Fire Fox etc.
• Documented the manual test cases through the test lab functionality in the quality center tool.
• Collaborated on daily defect review meetings with the development and business analyst teams.
• Managed bug reporting, tracking and documentation on the system using QC.

Confidential, Rye Brook, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual testing of web-based applications.
• Worked in the Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features.
• Collaborated with Agile team to solve problems and deliver projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Validated some of the reports, using SQL queries, generated during the process.
• Performed regression testing manually after each build and version of the application.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual testing and defect tracking of web applications.
• Regression testing at various phases of project development.
• Prepared test cases and performed Regression testing, GUI testing, and Functional testing.
• Reported defects through Quality center bug tracking systems.
• Used MS-Word/Excel to export all test procedures and test cases to Quality Center.
• Interacted with developers and users to resolve issues in weekly team meetings.