SUMMARY

• 10 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance.
• Well versed in requirement gathering and SW Test Planning, Strategy and Execution.
• Excellent noledge of Agile/Scrum development environment.
• Detail oriented and possess strong analytical and troubleshooting ability.
• Superior interpersonal and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, Win Servers, Linux, Solaris, Mac 10.1x, iOS, Android, Vxworks, ESXi, VMware, HyperV

Automation/Testing tools: JetStress, IOMeter, QuickBench, WireShark, QTP, iMacros, Selenium

Bug Tracking/Tools: Rational ClearDDTS, JIRA, Testlink, TestRail, Robomongo, RESTClients, SVN, Confluence

Technologies/Protocols: RAID, Virtualization, Thin Provisioning, Clustering, TCP/IP, CIFS/NFS, SMB, iSCSI/FC, SAN/NAS

Programming Languages: PERL, SQL, HTML, Shell Scripting, Python, Selenium Webdriver

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Campbell, CA

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed competing priorities for different projects and planned the resource requirements, kept on top of defect backlog etc.
• Cross - functional interactions with other leaders to streamline operations
• Provided quality assurance team status updates to higher management
• Coordinated development of large system test setups from given customer configurations
• Managed the ordering and procurement of hardware components for a geographically dispersed team and three different test labs
• Ran functional tests and planned regression testing for ongoing projects, logged and verified issues on firmware

Confidential, Campbell, CA

Sr SQA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked cross functionally with Product management and Dev to understand requirements and created testing strategy based on such discussions
• Provided regular updates to management, assessing gaps and risks to delivery schedule
• Developed an expertise in Agile and Scrum models while helping deliver Transporter’s desktop and mobile apps
• Augmented the quality of the apps by filing improvements in addition to functional testing over a breadth of operating systems
• Customer centric focus while testing the Transporter website for clarity and ease of use. Started UI automation effort by creating python scripts (Selenium WebDriver)
• Awarded certificate for commitment to work

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

SQA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for testing quality from start to finish, including editing and maintaining test strategies, converting them into test plans, executing test plans and evaluating test results
• Understood test requirements and defined test cases based on them
• Worked closely with Dev to reproduce issues and provide additional information
• Communicated progress and escalated issues to management in a timely manner
• Configured test beds and helped with the setup of the lab
• Performance benchmarking through IO simulator tools like JetStress over subsequent builds
• Edit and maintain perl scripts used for software stack functional tests
• Responsible for maintaining SQA twiki/dashboard for ongoing and in the pipe-line releases

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Quality Engineer and Site Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a lead for OHA (Online Health Assessment) module. Managed the project from Design to Development to Delivery
• Performed functionality and regression testing. Did a thorough review of the navigation flow throughout the website and logged enhancements
• Site Administration. Responsible for all content changes/addition to the website. Dealt with customer issues regarding site use
• JIRA management - Routed all pending tickets to appropriate developers. Ran reports on JIRA

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Quality and Application Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed where the upgrades and changes were needed in the new release. Was also involved in requirement gathering for the requests related to various enhancements
• Reviewed the Functional Requirement Specifications with the business team
• Configured the product for Motorola 4.0 release by adding new data structures for handling the new incoming data from the switch
• Programmed the Data Acquisition tool kits for managing the new incoming data
• Developed Perl scripts to parse the Network performance data coming
• Participated in defining test strategy, scope and objectives for the Test plan document
• Created SQL queries to directly test if data was being populated in the database through the incoming network data files
• Attended Confidential ’s Bellevue Boot Camp 2003 on Prospect. Then provided project related training to the offsite testing team and mentored them

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Quality and Maintenance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created patch tar’s required for the installation of environments and set up specific environments for different vendors
• Fetched/Retrieved information from an input file and designed scripts in Perl and Shell for data replication to provide a bigger input data set and validate data structures
• Reviewed software requirements to estimate time/resources for testing and prepared QA Approach documents
• Communicated regularly with the team onsite and analyzed documents facilitating testing.
• Customized the Test Case Management tool for different vendor specific tests
• Performed application front end GUI testing and conducted manual, negative/positive testing
• Tabulated and reported QA results to management team. Logged tickets through Rational ClearDDTS