Objectives
Obtain a challenging role in software testing and apply my skills to bring out the best for the organization.

Professional Summary

• 6 years’ experience in Manual/Automation software testing with KLA-Tencor
• Qualified CTFL from ISTQB
• Involved in project management for 10.8 software & a SQC point of contact for DBB
• Expertise in Patterned Wafer Inspection tools & Data management Review tools
• Good exposure in 4x, 3x, 2x design rules, process control solutions & Wafer Fabrication processes
• Working knowledge in EDA tools such as KLayout & Layout Editor – created organic IC design layouts as test data
• Expertise in Black box testing - Functional, GUI, Usability, System, Compatibility, Installation, Stress, UAT, Regression Testing
• Working knowledge in automation testing to create/execute scripts using Quick Test Pro (QTP) 9.5/11.0 – Keyword driven architecture
• Exposed to HP Quality Center, Microsoft Project Server, Team Foundation Server(TFS), iNotion, Kovair, ClearCase
• Active involvement in Requirements Analysis, Designing test plan & test cases, Creating test reports and raising/prioritizing bugs & Project task estimation, Risk identification, Tracking bugs till closure
• Good exposure to SDLC, PLC, Agile processes
• Excellent written & Verbal communication
• Initiated team level knowledge sharing exercises
• Experience in working with global teams & cross-functional teams
• Appreciated by top management for my testing skills & in-depth project knowledge
• Detail oriented & skilled in customer focus approach
• Above all, a self-motivator and a self-starter

Technical Skills

Wafer Inspection tools: 28xx, 29xx, XP
Operating System: Windows 2000/2003, XP, NT, SUSE LINUX
Functional testing tool: QTP 9.5/11.0
Defect tracking tools: iNotion, KOVAIR
Project management tool: MS Project Web Server 2003, TFS, HP Quality Center
Scripting language: VBScript, UNIX scripting
Certifications: Quick Test Pro (QTP) Aug’08 CTFL from ISTQB Dec’07

Soft Skills trainings attended:

• Crucial Conversations
• SMART as Hell
• Hi-tech Speaking
• Situational Self Leadership
• DiSC Profiling
• Working Globally

Professional Experience

Confidential JUL14, 2006 – JUL 30, 2012

Project: 10.8 29xx JAN 2012 – JUL 30, 2012

The 29xx wafer inspection tools’ optical defect inspection captures previously undetectable wafer defects on challenging process layers. This helps the customers to accelerate the development and production ramps of memory & logic devices.

Role: SQC Engineer

BF Inspection tools: 29xx
OS: Windows Server 2003
Technologies: .Net, MFC
Tools used: iNotion, RAdmin, MS Project Web Server

Responsibilities:

• Update test cases to include additional XP2 use cases on 299x BF platform
• Run regression testing (both manual & automation) of features that are previously tested on 282x - XP2 & 283x – XP2 platforms
• Report bugs, prioritize & track them to closure
• Create test reports & test status reports on weekly basis
• Identify risks in project or tasks & schedule & raise them at an appropriate time

Project: QTP Automation JUN 2009 – DEC 2011

Worked on automationdevelopment for the software programs – DBB 1.1 & Hunter – using QTP9.5 & 11. The Keyword driven architecture is used effectively in creating keywords (i.e. functions) required to execute identified test cases using automation. These keywords are then used by the manual SQC engineers to create an automation test suite using Test Automation UI (TUI). This gives the flexibility to the SQC Engineers to choose different test cases to run as cycles depending on their specific need.

My contribution towards the DBB reliability test automation development is a high success. This effort helped to surface many reliability issues in-house at an early stage in software life cycle. This helped improve the quality of the software.
My automation development effort had been appreciated by the development team & the top management.

Role: SQC Automation Engineer

Functional testing tool: QTP 9.5, QTP 11
BF Inspection tools: 282x - XP, 283x - XP, Hunter
OS: Windows 2000, XP, 2003
Technologies: VB Script
Other tools used: RAdmin, MS Project Web Server, iNotion, KOVAIR, SmartDraw

Responsibilities:

• Complete regression test suite for DBB1.1 & Hunter programs
• Manage my effort on automation development
• Run weekend cycle tests & monitoring
• Calculate MTBA, MTBF
• Train manual test team on using QTP to run regression tests
• Work with rest of automation team members in the USA & India

Project: 10.8 RCheck/XP2 APR 2011 – Dec 2011

RCheck & XP2 are two parallel hardware programs running 10.8 Brightfield (BF) software. RCheck is used to solve the Lithography problems while XP2 is an upgrade of the previous XP product which is an integrated solution for various purposes of the Brightfield inspection tools in the semiconductor fabs. The challenge is to work on two unique programs that use the same software to solve different customer problems.

Role: SQC Engineer

BF Inspection tools: RCheck, 282x - XP2, 283x – XP2
OS: Windows 2000, XP, 2003
Technologies: .Net, MFC
Tools used: iNotion, RAdmin, MS Project Web Server

Responsibilities:

• Task effort estimation on the two parallel projects avoiding redundant work
• Review to find gaps on RAD (Requirement Analysis Document) / SRS (Software Requirement Document) created by the Development team
• Create functional test cases & traceability matrix against software requirements
• Review self & peers’ test documents
• Execute the test cases manually and perform Functionality, GUI, Installation, Usability & Compatibility testing
• Execute automation regression test suites & run as multiple cycles as Stress testing
• Report bugs, create test report, analyze stability of the software builds using memory leak charts
• Collaborate with different teams in the USA, UK & India
• Identify risks in tasks & schedule & rise them at an appropriate time
• Share workloads between team members when required

Project: Hunter SEP 2009 – APR 2011

Hunter is the software prototype built on a virtual inspector to playback wafer images mapped to different recipes. This helps in optimizing the recipes to capture more killer defects & suppress the nuisance defects.

Role: SQC Engineer

BF Inspection tools: Virtual Inspector
OS: SUSE Linux, Windows 2000, XP, 2003
Technologies: .Net, MFC, CORBA
Tools used: iNotion, RAdmin, KTVP, MS Project Web Server

Responsibilities:

• Review RAD / SRS created by the Development team
• Estimate project tasks
• Create test cases for manual testing effort
• Review test cases within SQC team & with the Development & Application teams
• Perform Functionality, GUI, Regression, Installation, Usability & Compatibility testing
• Validate features against Requirements
• Create Test report
• Identify Project & schedule risks & communicate to the POR manager

Project: DBB 1.1 JAN 2008 – APR 2011

DBB1.1 is the enhanced product version of the previous prototype DBB1.0. This is integrated with the 282x/283x platforms to carry out defect classification & grouping based on the background design information. With the advanced algorithms, it brings out a 95% accurate defect classification.

Role: Engineer, Software QA2

BF Inspection tools: 282x - XP, 283x – XP
OS: SUSE Linux, Windows 2000, XP, 2003
Scripting Languages: VB script
Technologies: .Net, MFC, CORBA
Functional testing tool: QTP 9.5
EDA tools: Layout Editor, KLayout 
Other tools used: iNotion, RAdmin, MS Project Web Server

Responsibilities:

• Review Requirements (RAD / SRS / MFD) & identify gaps
• Estimate project tasks
• Create test cases for manual testing effort
• Perform Functionality, GUI, Usability, Compatibility, Installation, Regression & Stress testing
• Validate features against Requirements
• Create Test report & raise bugs
• Automate sanity test cases using QTP 9.5
• Automate test cases for Reliability testing / Load testing using QTP 9.5
• Identify Project/ schedule risks & communicate to the POR manager
• Help POR manager with prioritizing issues

Achievements:

• Appreciated by the Development Manager & SQC team Lead for surfacing algo bugs which required domain expertise & analytical skills
• Appreciated by DBB1.1 Program manager & SQC manager on developing automation reliability scripts
• Surfaced memory leak issues & other reliability issues using the Automation scripts & helped in improving the quality of the entire project early in the program
• Appreciated by the Marketing team on my collaboration with the Application team for the benefit of the project.
• Had become the point of contact for peer team members & development team for the DBB server environment setup for their testing.
• Initiated & mocked customer use cases in-house & found valuable bugs
• Created organic GDS II data sets using KLayout & Layout Editor EDA tools for effective utilization in testing

Project: ReDBB MAR 2009 – AUG 2009

ReDBB is a huge feature built over the Klarity Defect application software for the offline DBB1.1 analysis. This involves retrieval of data from the database and analysis on the ReDBB terminal server & showing up results on the Klarity Defect client GUI. Also, this is a joint initiative of two major divisions of KLA-Tencor.

Role: Engineer, Software QA2

Review tool: Klarity Defect
OS: SUSE Linux, Windows 2000, XP, 2003
Technologies: .Net, MFC, CORBA
Tools used: iNotion, RAdmin

Responsibilities:

• Sole owner of the project responsible for the complete manual testing
• Perform Use case testing & deliver the final product with good quality
• Analyze the root cause of the bugs & inform the appropriate division POC
• Raise bugs & alerts
• Transition / knowledge sharing after its first release to the other division SQC Engineers as part of Project hand-off

Achievements:

• Appreciated by the SQC Team lead, SQC Manager & Project manager for successfully completing this project under a tight schedule
• Single POC for both the division SQC Engineers on the overall use case of this project

Project: DBB 1.0 AUG 2006 – DEC 2007

DBB 1.0 was a prototype project that is developed on the 10.4 software product. DBB1.0 classifies the defects identified by 10.4 – 2800 based on the background design. This was a prototype to solve our customer issues on classifying defects & systematic monitoring of the killer defects.

Role: Engineer, Software QA1

BF Inspection tools: Cobra 28xx
OS: SUSE Linux, Windows 2000, XP, 2003
Technologies: .Net, MFC, CORBA
Other Tools used: iNotion, RAdmin

Responsibilities:

• Understand software Requirements
• Validate software behavior against Requirements
• Involved in GUI testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Compatibility, Usability testing
• Identify & raise issues

Product: 10.4 – 2800 JUL 2006 – AUG 2006

10.4 software was developed upon the 2800 (Cobra) hardware. This is used to identify design failures on semiconductor wafers & to suggest possible solutions to minimize further defects & maximize yield.

Role: Graduate Engineer Trainee

BF Inspection tools: 28xx
OS: Windows 2000, XP
Technologies: Java, MFC
Tools used: iNotion, RAdmin

Responsibilities:

• Execute functional test cases & identify bugs
• Verify bugs

Achievements:

• Appreciations for quickly learning the domain & the software testing methodologies
  

Education

B.E - Electronics & Communication Engineering Confidential College 
HSCConfidential School,SSLCConfidential Sec. School