PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• More than 12 years of IT industry experience as software quality and business analyst in different domains such as telecom, finance, healthcare, media/entertainment.
• Performed different roles such as business analyst, quality assurance engineer, project manager and communications lead depending on project
• Tested more than a dozen applications including products such as Tibco MDM, Ariba, Sun Accounts, SAP, SSRS reports, SalesForce, OneSource, WorkDay, Oracle etc.
• Well equipped with business process analysis and improvement, requirement specifications gathering and documentation, proficient in preparing planning documents, reports, detailed functional test plans, conference papers, white papers and thesis
• Experience with implementing QA processes, managing on - shore and off-shore QA teams, creating process manuals/documents
• Possess a good understanding about different phases of Quality Assurance Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Methodologies for waterfall, Agile (scrum) methodologies and Hybrid SDLC.
• Experience as SQA Engineer in manual and automated testing for web, client/server, ERP and web services applications
• Developed test cases, test scenarios, test scripts and test reports based on the User Requirement Specification and System Requirement Documents for the functionality, performance and UAT testing.
• Experience of working very closely with business analyst, project manager, architect, and developers to deliver quality product by helping identify loop holes in the requirements documents, reviewing technical specification documents and code.
• Worked on automated testing tools like Win Runner, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Test Director, Quality Center and Web Load. HP/Mercury Certified Professional for Quality Center 9.2 and Quick Test Pro 9.2
• Performed data validation and back end testing of databases to check the data integrity using SQL queries.
• Experience using MS office products such as Visio (for creating workflows, system diagrams for business requirements and process documents), Word(for documenting test plans, business requirements etc.), Excel (excel for data driven automation testing, VLOOKUP function to compare values, pivot tables to generate test results metrices etc.), Power Point (for presenting test results, business test plans, presentations in general)
• Active and reliable team member, excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, independent worker and also team player with excellent analytical, problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills, quick learner, ability to manage multiple projects at the same time
• Experience of working with offshore teams using technologies such as conference calls, WebEx etc. Excellent written skills and authored multiple process documents, user manuals, white papers, research papers etc.
• Used defect tracking tools such as Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, Quality Center, TestLink, TeamTrack and Bugzilla.
• Key player in arranging team events such as team building events, corporate level virtual IT summit, creating quarterly team newsletters etc.
• Worked on research projects sponsored by federal government organizations such as DARPA and semiconductor companies such as Texas Instruments.
• More than 6 years of experience of working as a programmer on various academic projects using languages such as C, Fortran X Windows and software packages such as AutoCAD, Matlab, Mathematica, SolidWorks and LabView

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional 6.5/8.0/8.2/9.1/9.2, Load Runner 7.2/8.1, Quality Center 9.0/9.1/9.2, Test Director 7.6/8.2, WinRunner 7.5/7.6, WebLoad 8.1, Silk Test 6.0, TestLink1.7.3,Testopia, SoapUI, ScrumWorks, Selenium

Test Scripting: VBScript, JavaScript, C, TSL, Shell Scripting, XML, HTML

Bug Reporting Tools: Rational ClearQuest, Bugzilla, Test Director, Quality Center, Team Track, TFS, JIRA

Languages: C, C++, C#, SQL, PL/SQL, Java 2.0/J2EE, FORTRAN, Pascal, BASIC

Databases: DB2, Oracle 9i/8i, SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access

ERP: Siebel 7.6/7.8, SAP, Infor s SUN GL System, Oracle

Other Tools/Packages: Remedy, TBS, MS Visio, MS Office, Mathematica, Matlab X, MS Project Windows, LabView, SolidWorks, AJAX, SharePoint, EXP, Tibco MDM, Ariba, SalesForce, OneSource

Platforms: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris

Source Control Software: Rational ClearCase, SmartSVN, Surround, TFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working as a QA test manager for a health care startup which is developing a web-based application providing Confidential t al material to home health industry.
• Responsible for development of test milestones, test schedules, development, and testing progress of the project, documenting and tracking issues and risks, communication of project status with all stakeholders, presenting demo to clients, conducting UAT.
• Also responsible for business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis and requirements gathering,
• I am currently working on developing gravity forms for auto generating Confidential t health summary which will assist the field RNs to complete OASIS form (Medicare documentation) faster.
• Mentoring other team members regarding QA processes and standards. Also, conducting sessions with new team members to get them up to the speed on the project.
• I also do hands-on manual QA analysis of the project as needed. Currently also using Selenium automation tool to automate some of the test scenarios. Using JIRA as a bug tracking tool.

Environment: Manual Testing, Selenium automation, Zoho projects, SQL, Bugzilla, UAT, gravity forms, JIRA, healthcare domain

Confidential

Lead Systems Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Served as a lead QA engineer, business analyst and/or team member on many important development projects which included Confidential in-house projects such as Helios, Orion, OneSource, Supportal and external products such as Tibco MDM, Ariba, SAP, Sun Accounts, SalesForce, TFS etc.
• More than 5 years of experience in working as intrateam communications lead.
• Led a team of six QA engineers located across the US and Tunisia managing the day to day QA team activities such as assigning duties, tracking project status during the releases, assist with resource management etc.
• Mentored other team members during project release cycles regarding the applications, standard QA processes at Confidential . Also trained the team members of QA, development and BA teams on various products and applications used by Confidential .
• Primary resource to work on documentations related to releases such as test plans, release sign off documents and making sure the releases are deployed on schedule.
• Implemented QA process including UAT process, created process documents/manuals, implemented strategy for defect management by collaborating with development team, PMO and business analysts.
• Primary resource in conducting UAT testing for new projects and assist the business users with UAT testing including granting access, creating data, scheduling UAT calls, tracking defects, coordinating between development team and business users, getting the necessary approvals from the business users to move forward with the project releases.
• Consistently ed highest performance rating during appraisals including multiple MVP s.
• Worked as a QA test manager to complete testing of Master Data Management system which was an important corporate level project started by FIS/ Confidential .
• Duties involved - testing Client and Vendors master data and individual applications such as client, vendor and procurement web forms which were built in-house and integrated with MDM product.
• MDM data for client and vendors needed to be available for creating purchase orders and invoices in general ledger systems- SUN accounts. I was responsible for testing integration between MDM and GL system Infor’s SUN accounts for different scenarios making sure data is transferred from MDM to SUN accounts correctly and within acceptable performance window.
• Tested SUN accounts database using SQL queries to make sure data has been transferred properly from MDM to SUN database
• Responsible for loading existing client and supplier data into MDM system using Excel files
• Tested data integrity in MDM by running various integration and end to end system tests
• SSRS reports were built to extract MDM data. I was responsible to test the SSRS reports built to validate the data is loaded correctly in MDM
• Worked with Tibco MDM consultants including MDM architect and other development team members throughout the project to ensure requirements are fulfilled as needed.
• Assisted with defining or changing business requirements to make sure integration between MDM and SUN accounts as well as MDM and web forms is viable, productive and works efficiently.
• Resolved bottlenecks with performance issues occurring when data was flowing from MDM to SUN accounts by offering constructive suggestions based on testing results
• Worked with Tibco MDM support after go-live to troubleshoot issues
• Tested MDM application and integrated products during maintenance releases.
• Played a key role in defining business requirements working closely with the Helios team (in-house web form development), Tibco team (MDM) and end users.
• Led UAT testing for MDM client scheduling regular calls with business users, assisting them with testing, tracking issues, escalating issues to appropriate authority and making sure the UAT testing is successful and proper approvals are in place to release the project.
• Supported the users and the Confidential support team after go-live during the transition period until the Support team was ready to take over.
• Created regression test suite for the MDM application including integration testing.
• ed most valuable player for the year 2015 towards my contribution to the success of MDM implementation at Confidential .
• Tested in-house built ERP application Helios and its modules during new project releases as well as maintenance releases as individual tester and/or team lead.
• Managed a team of six QA resources based in US and Tunisia to create regression test suite comprising more than 5000 test cases for Helios which were used during releases to complete regression during releases.
• Also, assisted with QTP based automation of Helios application for additional assistance during releases for conducting regression testing.
• Worked as business analyst on many developmental projects related to Helios over 10 years including working as a primary resource for UAT testing.
• Gained thorough knowledge of standard financial accounting systems through Helios application and its sub modules such as Time & Expense, PO, ICE, AR invoice, Projects, Accounts Payable, Reports etc.
• Conducted multiple levels of end to end integration and reconciliation testing between Helios and other applications such as SUN and EXP to ensure data integrity is maintained during financial transactions.
• Extensively used SQL queries and SSRS reports for performance data integrity tests during integration of multiple products/applications.
• Tested SAP ERP application for modules such as SD, FI and BW reports. Tested submodules for SD including materials management, customer and vendor management, contract/order management etc.
• Tested submodules for FI including SAP GL system, accounts receivable, accounts payable, journal entry creation and postings.
• Tested BW portal for different reports in SD and FI module such as contract details, invoice list etc. Reported defects found to the development team.
• Tested SAP system migration from current hardware to new TC2 data center. Ran different customized transactions in SAP to perform data validation testing by performing tests in current test environment and new TC2 environment. Analyzed results and reported discrepancies to SAP vendors for fixing underlying issues
• Infor’s SUN accounts was used as a GL system for Confidential . So, journal entries created by SAP were posted to Sun accounts after changing them to suitable SUN GL format. Tested integration between new migrated SAP system with upgraded version of SUN Accounts 5.4 for GL testing to make sure journals created in SAP ledger are compatible with SUN accounts GL systems which is used by the Confidential Corporate to maintain books.
• Tested contract management system in SD module of Global Trade SAP solution which manages creating new contracts/Orders, editing existing contracts such as adding new line items, cancelling contract before due date, updating revenue recognition method of existing contracts etc.
• Tested Accrual Engine in SAP system. Carried out transaction for generating accrual objects for contracts and invoices for deferred income, deferred charges, creating accounting documents for these accrual objects and transferring accounting documents to FI module for further financial processing. Worked with different revenue recognition methods such as USGAAP, IFRS and analyzed amounts generated by the system for deferred income, charges, professional services invoices etc. to make sure they are correct
• Created regression test suite for SAP application which is used during SAP releases.
• SUN accounts by Infor is a GL system used by Confidential for book keeping and master data management repository for customers and vendors. Led the project for SUN Accounts migration from SUN 5.2 version to SUN 5.4 version which is supported at the corporate level
• Liaised with global teams from Paris, London, Tunisia, Sydney, NJ, Hong Kong etc. to make sure testing efforts are adequate and kept all the players involved in the project on the same page throughout the lifecycle of the SUN 5.4 Upgrade project
• Tested different projects utilizing SUN systems such as- quarterly SUN patch sets, ADP Payroll, CounselLink, TEMS, New vision templates
• Worked on creating regression test suite for the SUN application.
• Good knowledge of Infor’s SUN accounts system used for maintaining financial information in GL format. Knowledge of financial journal creation for accounting process such as AP, AR, GL, processing journals in SUN accounts, extracting data from SUN systems in reporting format by running excel macro templates in Vision system as well as SUN systems itself, experience of analyzing data from SUN systems and identifying defects/discrepancies from normal behavior.
• As a primary testing resource, tested Ariba application for purchasing system, journal entry generation and posting to SUN accounts using third party software and in-house built org admin dashboard.
• Defined the business requirements for the Aries application including the journal entry creation and posting.
• Primary resource for Ariba UAT testing assisting users with access, functional testing, defect tracking and finally getting the required business approval.
• Supported the users after go-live during the transition period to the Support team
• Tested Orion application for maintenance releases which is a contract management system. Tested SalesForce integration with Orion application.
• Tested in-house built Supportal application which is used by the Support team to fix data
• Tested Helios and SSRS reports for Helios, SUN, Aries etc. Responsible for testing Data Warehouse related tickets during reporting releases.
• Tested OneSource and Top Company Management applications which were used for managing client and vendor data in FASP database.
• Tested Oracle ERP system when Confidential was merged with FIS. Tested purchase order, invoicing, supplier modules in Oracle.
• Experience of testing WorkDay HR system
• Assign tasks and responsibilities to other team members, collected daily status reports from them, arranged for communication between testing team and development team by holding conference calls
• Write test plans for all releases, verify release notes and prepare release sign off documentation. Also, making sure release sign off is approved by the appropriate directors
• Prepare detail analysis on hotfix releases for various projects.
• Preparing matrix after releases to perform analysis on defect management, testing efforts, resourcing to continuously improve quality of the applications utilized by FIS/ Confidential .
• Worked with management in US, in hiring process to hire automation tester for the offshore testing team in India.
• Trained the offshore QA team located in Tunisia on different Helios modules.
• Coordinated team efforts for projects such as creating regression suites for Helios, SUN and Reporting.
• Was involved in troubleshooting problem encountered during automation such as technical issues, communications between the onsite and offshore team.
• Mentored new team members and assisted with onboarding process including creating strategy for onboarding.
• Key player in arranging team events such as happy hours, team building events, creating quarterly team newsletters
• Key player in arranging corporate level Virtual IT Summit which included panel discussions, keynote speeches and various quizzes/events across US,EU and APAC locations of Confidential
• Created team newsletters. Collaborated with different team members to gather information.
• Led project to create videos of Confidential ’s flagship in-house application Helios by coordinating among development, QA, PMO and BA teams. The project length was more than one year. Gather requirements, created schedules, presented, recorded video, converted to windows media player, uploaded on SharePoint and sent email communications to all teams once each recording was available.
• Led Virtual IT Summit or VITS which is a virtual technology conference event at Confidential single handedly. The events is held across multiple global Confidential offices and consists of panel discussions, arranging technology based online quizzes, updates provided by regional heads such as Confidential heads for APAC, North America, EMEA etc. Created email communications and schedule for each individual event, reached out to different business heads including VPs of different departments to participate in panel discussions, arranged for virtual conferences and panel discussions using MS Lync, arranged a team of volunteers to perform task such as recording the event, sending reminder emails, judging quiz contests etc. Was ed MVP for my contribution towards arranging the VITS event.
• Responsible for arranging team events such as happy hour, mid-year and end of the year event. Conducted voting to find out the activity/place where team would like to go, arranged logistics including ordering food, booking event, sending communications, handling special requests from any team member, budgeting for the event etc.
• Responsible for arranging virtual team building events that was a part of Confidential ’s overall team building strategy. Responsible for getting video conference unit fixed which was purchased for this purpose. Arranged virtual meetings over video conference including team scrum meetings to update on project status, informal team building events for various teams, mid-year and end of the year virtual team building.
• Managed release related communications to clients after each release. Responsibilities include - Preparing release notes, getting the notes approved by appropriate authorities and then emailing to the end client
• Responsible for sending email communications during release to all stakeholders such as BA, QA, development teams. Communicated critical issues, backlogs, showstoppers along with testing completion statistics to keep all teams on the same page
• Responsible for handling end user communication during user acceptance testing cycle. Created power point presentations to present UAT demo. Also, communicated daily UAT status such as defect status, testing completion to UAT team members and internal development and QA team to keep everyone updated.
• Experience using different forms of media to facilitate communications within teams such as video conference, WebEx, Lync, conference calls etc.
• Excellent command on written English communication having written various process documents, user manuals, white papers, thesis papers and research publications, newsletters, official company communications
• Excellent knowledge of creating templates for various projects such as newsletters, recurring processes such as test/defect status reports, test plans etc.

Environment: Helios, Manual Testing, SharePoint, SQL Server 2008, Team Track, Windows 7, MS Office, Infor’s SUN GL system, Confidential ’s EXP document storage mechanism, SAP SD/FI/BW Portal, Team Foundation Server (TFS), C#, Helios Connect, SalesForce, Report Manager, One Source, Top Company Manager, Audit, Ariba, Tibco MDM, QTP 9.1, Team lead, Communication lead

Confidential, Irving TX

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirement documents, functional specification documents to prepare test cases based on test plans. Involved in review meetings of test plan and test cases.
• Was deeply involved in review of Business Requirements documents with Development team. Came up with ideas to resolve any conflicting issues regarding business requirements
• Working as a business analyst on need basis to review/modify the requirements, helping project manager communicate the changes to the end users, conducting UAT testing, working with end users located in USA conduct in India.
• Worked on regression testing and /ad hoc testing of the application during the maintenance release cycles.
• Worked with Helios Support team to resolve/close support tickets.
• Excellent understanding of financial journal creation and worked on Infor’s Sun accounting systems to import the financial journals related to payments and accrual.
• Worked as liaison between the testing team in the US and offshore testing team in India including hiring process.
• Trained offshore teams on different Helios modules.
• Developing automated test scripts using QTP with features such as data parameterization, check points and regular expressions. Extensively used the data tables to perform data driven testing.
• Automated different tabs of the Helios PO system such as summary, line items, receiving, and account closeout using QTP 9.1.

Environment: Helios, Manual Testing, SharePoint, .net, AJAX, Quick Test Pro 9.2, SQL Server 2005, Team Track, Bugzilla, Windows XP, MS Office, VBscript, Infor’s SUN GL system, Confidential ’s EXP document storage mechanism

Confidential, El Segundo CA

Test Lead for agile SDLC

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a test lead and interacted very closely with the Business Analyst and Developers to set up time and cost efficient/effective process of QA in Agile environment as per team’s needs.
• Managed a team of two testers. Composed status reports and was responsible for running daily QA scrum to make sure that the process is running smooth
• Analyzed the application Magnum. Gathered design documents and functional requirements. Created test plan and test cases based on these documents and the user stories during development sprints. Conducted review meetings with the development team to review the test cases written during each development sprint. TestLink 1.7.3 is used as a test management tool.
• During QA sprint was responsible for executing the test cases for the latest sprint release. Also, responsible maintaining sprint backlog.
• The UI part of the application is tested manually. These tests include testing functionality and cosmetic aspects of the UI.
• Manual testing of the web services is done using both HTTP POST request sent through the UI itself, and SOAP UI and passing the required parameters to the XML file.
• Web Load is a JavaScript based automation tool which used for automating the web services testing. Web load is used for functional and load testing of the web services.
• For functional testing of web services automation, no recording is done and agenda scripts are written in JavaScript using programming techniques. XML parsing is done to filter the response of the tomcat server and retrieve the required information from the response.
• Load testing of web services is done by creating virtual users on Web Load console for different agendas. The console is used to control number of virtual users generated, ramping up-down times for these different users.
• Wrote test cases to test that the media assets when published on the web, conform to the standard media RSS web feed format developed by Yahoo.
• The testing of media RSS web feed included testing the XML documents holding the asset information such as Title, Description, Duration, File format such as QuickTime or Windows Media and making sure that the data appears in the correct format on the web browser depending on browser’s type.
• Used Bugzilla as a bug reporting tool. Verified and validated the bugs resolved during the regression testing of latest sprint release.
• Used SmartSVN as a source control software. Created a new build every time using ANT whenever a feature is completed during the development sprint. Test cases are written for this new feature during the development sprint.
• Used SQL developer for Oracle is used to do the database testing. Executed SQL queries on more than two tables using Join, Union operators. Created Views for test purposes.
• Managed the testing during the release cycles. Key player in deciding the testing strategy, test cases in order to optimize the testing during product release phase.

Environment: Agile (Scrum), Manual Testing, TestLink 1.7.3, Java, Swing, Web Services, Web Load 8.1, SOAP UI, SQL developer for Oracle, Bugzilla 2.22.2, SmartSVN3, XML, JavaScript, Scrum Works, Linux, Windows XP, ANT, eclipse, tomcat server

Confidential, Plano, TX

Senior automation engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed QTP 9.2 version with add in for .Net and Siebel. Also involved in migrating Test Director 7.6 (Oracle 8i) to Quality Center 9.0 (Oracle 10i) via Oracle 9i with the help of Mercury/HP support staff.
• Performed integration of the QTP and Quality Center tools for effective automation. Stored and executed QTP scripts from Quality Center.
• Analyzed business requirement documents, functional specification documents to prepare test cases based on test plans. Involved in review meetings of requirements, design, test plan and test cases.
• Involved in functional regression testing of the web based Business Center application (.net based) and Siebel application using QTP 9.2
• Wrote VB scripts in QTP 9.2 to automate login and email check for yahoo, hotmail and Microsoft outlook email ids. These scripts perform functionalities such as checking the Inbox, extracting particular data from the emails, checking the time on which email is received, converting it to standard CST, moving these emails to a different folder and deleting the spam emails, and finally logging out of the mailbox.
• Integrated the QTP test scripts for the three different applications. .Net based Business Center, Siebel and Yahoo emails to run the entire automation.
• Developed automated test scripts using QTP with features such as data parameterization, check points and regular expressions. Extensively used the data tables to perform data driven testing.
• Experience in using CreateObject method in order to pass the data from the key board. Also used “Device Replay Feature” of QTP for applications where QTP’s “Record and Playback” function was not working.
• Experience in recording scripts in Analog and Low Level Recording mode for applications where normal recording mode was not working.
• Tested Remedy application which was used as IT management software. Also tested TBS application which was used for trouble ticket management.
• Used IBM’s Rational Clear Case to do the source control of the QTP scripts created with different releases. Also used IBM’s Rational Clear Quest as a bug tracking tool to report defects and then validating them.
• Scheduled and executed batch tests run of the QTP scripts from Quality Center.
• Documented the entire automation process using QTP 9.2 as per the company’s standard documentation format.
• Documented and presented the best way to use QTP to train the Quality Engineering team at XO in these software tools. Used MS Visio to create the objects for presentation.
• Managed the testing during the release cycles. Key player in deciding the testing strategy, test cases in order to optimize the testing during product release phase.

Environment: Manual and Automation Testing, Test Director 7.6, .net, Quick Test Pro 9.1/9.2, Quality Center 9.0, Siebel 7.6/7.8,Oracle 8i/9i/10i, ClearQuest, ClearCase, Windows XP, MS Office and MS Project, MS Visio, VBscript, HTML, Unix

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis of the specifications and creation of test designs according to the functional requirements.
• Involved in creating Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Interacted with Team lead and developers while testing the application.
• Performed web specific testing like Link checking (external, internal), Browser page testing.
• Edited content based on requirements from end client users

Confidential

Teaching Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Establishing and maintaining communications with the supervising faculty
• Adhering to policies and procedures established by the supervising faculty
• Using the scheduled laboratory time to assist students with their laboratory work
• Grading and returning assignments in a timely manner
• Maintaining accurate and up to date records
• Attending and/or assisting with course lectures and exams
• Developing select course materials such as exam questions or homework problems
• Holding office hours to meet with students
• Conducting review sessions for exams
• Preparing solutions to assignments and exams

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experiments were performed at Argon ion beam of energy 15keV-20keV in ultrahigh vacuum
• Different equipment parts were designed using AutoCAD and Solid Works.
• The experimental results for the sputtering yield of liquid Ga-In and Ga-Bi metallic targets are simulated using software such as Mathematica, SIMNRA and SIMION
• LabView programming was used to create a fully functional measurement application with analysis and a custom user interface using a variety of PCI- and USB-based data acquisition hardware.

Software: Mathematica, SIMNRA, SIMION, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Monte Carlo Simulation, LabView

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The project was to investigate the effect of silyation on ash-damaged low-k organosilicate glass films. The Texas Instruments funded this project
• The project involved designing of the lithographic masks using the AutoCAD and characterization of the organosilicate films using tools such as ellipsometry, contact angle measurement and four-point probe impedance measurement.
• Experimental work involved treating organosilicate glass films with supercritical carbon dioxide which will remove water from the films and at the same time embed silyation agents in the film.
• Contact Angle measurement data was graphed and analyzed using packages such as sigma plot and Origin.

Software: Mathematica, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, ellipsometry characterization software, sigma plot, Origin.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The project was to fabricate and build MOSFETs based on organic material called “pentacene”.
• This project was funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Pentacene was vapor deposited on silicon wafer at temperatures about 150 C. Gold electrodes were patterned using lithography in clean room.
• LabView programming was used to create a fully functional measurement application with analysis and a custom user interface using a variety of PCI- and USB-based data acquisition hardware.
• The data was plotted and analyzed in Origin software.
• The lithographic masks were designed using AutoCAD. The MOSFETs were characterized using different tools such