Sandhya Korlipara

Email: abhaz0@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 408 - 859- 9929

Profile:

. Seven years of extensive hands on Quality Assurance and Testing

experience in web based, client server and wireless applications

. Excellent knowledge of Test concepts and methodologies

. Involved in software development life cycle, Quality Assurance

methodologies and standards

. Involved in Manual and Automation testing

. Experience in automating test suites using Ruby, Watir, Winrunner,

Load Runner

. Experience in writing test plans, test scripts and test cases based on

business system and design requirements and executing the test scripts

. Experience in handling the defects throughout the bug life cycle from

detecting the bug and till it gets resolved

. Extensive experience in black box testing, functional testing,

integration testing, user interface testing, regression testing, user

acceptance testing, ad-hoc testing, smoke and sanity testing and

browser compatibility testing for various applications

. Experience using SQL queries for back end data testing.

. Experience with working in Unix environment and familiar with shell

scripts

. Followed the Agile process to integrate testing activities into each

phase of SDLC

. Monitoring and improving the process making sure that any agreed upon

standards and procedures are followed ensuring that problems are found

and corrected.

. Excellent analytical, communication and documentation skills. Quick

learner, self motivated, good team player and passionate towards work

. Reputation for "getting the job done with can-do attitude"

Skill set:

Technical Skills Description

Languages & GUI SQL, COBOL, Java Script, Ruby, HTML, XML, Watir

Testing Tools UNIX Commands, QA Process, CVS, Scanmus,

Winrunner, TestDirector, LoadRunner, QTP, Selenium, Silk, Test link, App

test Manager, Test Manager, Quick Base

Databases Oracle 7, 8i & 9i, MS SQL, SQL Server

Database Tools SQL*Plus, Toad

Operating Systems Windows, UNIX, Linux and MAC OS

Bug Tracking tools: Bugzilla, JIRA, Clear Quest

and Admin Track

CRM Application Sales Force

Wireless Technology GSM, UMTS

Web Server Tomcat Apache

Version Control Perforce

Network Protocols SNMP, TCP/IP, IMAP, SH, Telnet, FTP, SMTP,

HTTP, HTTPS

Professional Experience:

Sr QA Analyst, Intuit, Mountain view, CA

Sep 10 to Present

Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management

solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions,

including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting professionals.

Some of their products and services, includes QuickBooks, IOP and TurboTax

software, simplify small business management and payroll processing,

personal finance, and tax preparation and filing.

Project: Intuit Online Payroll (SAAS Application)

Responsibilities:

. Involved in Product Planning to go over the User stories and

specifications

. Followed the Agile methodology and involved in Sprint Planning

meeting

. Involved in Sprint planning meeting to assess the time needed for

completion of QA tasks

. Attended daily Scrum meetings to track daily status of the project

. Worked in tight schedules for releases every month

. Documenting test cases in quick base management tool

. Used JIRA defect tracking software to track the defects, creating sub

tasks for every Sprint

. Can Independently drive the project from test execution to test sign-

off

. Running Performance tests using Yslow

. Browser compatibility testing on IE, FF, Chrome and Mac Safari

. Retrieving SQL Queries to retrieve data on SQL Server using Toad

Client

Environment: Java, Java script, HTTP, HTTPS, Windows and MAC, Quick Base,

JIRA, Link checker, Yslow, Toad for SQL Server

Sr QA Engineer, Yahoo Inc, Sunnyvale, CA Jan

10 to Sep 10

Yahoo is a search engine and a web portal company. Working as Yahoo

Personals and Yahoo Travel QA engineer primarily involved in testing the

migration flow of Y! Personals users to our new Partner and Yahoo Travel

new feature testing

Responsibilities:

. Review Product Requirement document. Involved in gathering test

requirements, developing high level Test Plan and Test Scenarios

. Involved in End to End test implementation of migrating Yahoo users to

the Partner site successfully without any interruption

. API layer testing by validating the XML data to ensure API1 data is

sent successfully to the partner site

. Involved in organizing meetings with the product and development for

team for smooth transition of user migration

. Involved in organizing day to day meetings with the partner and

prioritizing the issues related to end to end migration flow

. Involved in writing test cases and test execution which comprise of

new feature testing for user migration and regression of existing

Personals site

. Coordinating with yahoo billing team and testing the subscription

functionality thoroughly to ensure API2 data is sent correctly to the

partner

. Validation of data on partner site after migrating the user

successfully

. Cross browser testing on Grade A browsers comprising of IE, FF,

Safari, Chrome on different operating systems

. Organizing Bug Triage meetings on daily basis with Product and

Development team

. Involved in Internalization (i18N) and Localization testing

. Mobile application testing for Yahoo Travel on different mobile

devices

. Execution and maintenance of automated sanity scripts using Watir

. Maintained test summary report after analyzing the test results

. Involved in QA sign off procedure for every release

Environment: PHP, Unix, Java, Java script, CSS,ASP, XML, HTML,

Flash,Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, AJAX, Windows and MAC, Test Manager, Watir,

Link checker, Bugzilla

Sr QA Engineer, Polaris Wireless Inc, Santa Clara

Nov 07 to Jan 10

Polaris Wireless is the global leader in providing high Accuracy software

based locations systems to wireless operators and law enforcement agencies.

As Senior QA engineer working on multiple products comprised of Location

based applications, Network Optimization Applications, Operations and

Maintenance Applications and Autonomous Monitoring Applications.

Responsibilities:

. Review of Functional documents including Functional Requirements and

Functional specification documents

. Preparing Test Specifications including Test Instructions and Test

requirements with participation in Test Plan Review

. Leading test engineers in offshore team

. Organized weekly/Daily status meeting with the off-shore team and

responsible for meeting the project deadlines

. Writing test cases in App Test Manager and reviewing the test cases

with development and operations team

. Performance of test execution, analysis of results, debugging of

issues and working closely with design team in fixing the bugs

. Involved in Performance Testing and analyzing the performance test

results with the design and operations team

. Load testing the product at high transactions per second ensuring the

stability of the system

. Accuracy test execution and analyzing the Accuracy test results with

the design and operations team and ensuring the customer requirements

are met

. Testing the Secured Applications by running End to End Integration

testing on Windows and Unix Platforms

. Responsible for Installation, up gradation and verification of

customer specific Network Optimization Application

. Used Mat Lab Application for backend Testing

. Wrote SQL queries for Database creation and extraction

. Involved in OAM GUI Application testing on Windows Environment

. Browser compatibility testing of Web based applications on different

browsers

. Troubleshooting the results from the backend Unix log files generated

. Defining Quality Standards by coordinating and training deployment

team and providing technical support when the product is deployed

. Organizing Bug Triage meetings with Development and Operations team

and ensuring product quality is met

. Involved in Resource Planning and Preparing Project Schedule and

Project delivery date

. Preparing System Test Report and Test Summary Report for Product Sign

Off to Deployment team

Environment: Unix/Linux, Windows, Mat lab, App Test Manager, MySql, Toad,

Bugzilla, Java, Tomcat Apache, Webmin, HTML, SNMP, SSH, Telnet, FTP,

HTTP, Syslog

QA Engineer, Yahoo Inc, Santa Clara Oct

06 to Nov 07

Yahoo is a search engine and a web portal company. Worked as QA engineer on

Yahoo Travel which is a comprehensive on-line travel destination where you

can reserve cheap airline tickets, hotels, cars, cruises, vacation packages

and enables the user to plan the trips on yahoo trip planner. Yahoo travel

guides enables the user to plan the vacation by getting valuable

information on hotels, restaurants, sights, things to do and attractions

for various destinations. Yahoo farechase is an online search engine that

lets to compare flights and hotels on different airlines and travel

agencies.

Responsibilities:

. Reviewed Product requirement documents and involved in developing Test

scope, Test cases, which included the objectives, Testing strategies

and Test environment

. Developed Test Plans and Test Cases using Test link for both Manual

and Automation Testing

. Involved in detailed understanding of the QA Process and QA Cycle for

every release

. Performed Adhoc testing, Integration testing, functionality testing,

User Interface testing, sanity and smoke testing, Positive and

Negative testing

. Performed Browser compatibility testing using Internet explorer, Fire

fox, Opera on windows and on Mac safari and Fire fox

. Automated, executed and maintained sanity scripts in Watir using

ruby language

. XML feed testing to cross check the front end data validation with

the backend data

. Attended scrums and sprint planning meeting to get the overall

product approach and estimated QA sizing for each sprint

. Involved in weekly triage meeting with the developers and product

managers before every week's release

. Maintained a structured QA process and organized the weekly and bi-

weekly releases by signing off the release on various environments

. Checked the backend database on UPS page whether the action performed

on front-end reflects on the backend

. Ran security testing using scanmus during every release cycle

. Checked the performance grade of the application using Yslow

. Performed Validation of the data to check whether the result of tests

executed were expected as per the specifications

. Logging and Tracking defects using defect tracking Bugzilla tool based

on the priority and severity of the issue

. Coordinating with Development team for resolution of various issues

related to functionality and regression testing of the application

. Interacting with Bangalore team on the sanity run of the application

and during the new feature and major releases

Environment: PHP4, Java, Java script, HTML, XML, Windows, and MAC, Oracle,

MySql, Ruby, Watir, Test link, Scanmus, Link checker, Bugzilla

Web QA Engineer, Meevee, Burlingame, CA

Feb 06 to Sep 06

Meevee is a web based application for free online TV guide and search

engine to search for all the local TV listings, shows and schedules and

channels. Get show summaries and episode trailers for the favorite TV

shows on different channels.

Worked as a QA engineer I am responsible for testing the functionality of

the whole application by running the test scripts and test cases and

logging the defects based on the priority and severity levels.

Responsibilities:

. Reviewed Product requirement documents and involved in developing Test

plan, which included the objectives, Testing strategies and Test

environment

. Developed Test Plans and Test Cases by understanding the business

logic and Customer Requirements for Manual Testing

. Involved in detailed understanding of the entire product Life cycle

and identifying critical application areas

. Performed Integration testing, functionality testing, User Interface

testing, Smoke testing, positive and Negative testing

. Performed Browser compatibility testing using Internet explorer,

Firefox, Opera and Safari

. Developed and Executed SQL queries for Backend testing

. Performed regression testing for every week push and major releases

. Maintained test scripts for sanity check using Win runner

. Performed Validation of the data to check whether the result of tests

were correct

. Logging and Tracking defects using defect tracking Admin track tool

. Used UNIX Commands to test product on Linux and MAC OS platforms

. Coordinating with Development team for resolution of various issues

related to regression testing

. Participating in Bug status meeting to get the update of the issues

resolved and the pending issues

. Sales force application service and support module was used to test

the web application based on the customer feedback

. Opened new cases if there are any issues on the application using

sales force and assigning the issue back to the concerned person

. Used sales force in providing product support for various bug fixes

on the application

Environment: UNIX Commands, CVS, C#, Java script, XML, Windows, Linux and

MAC, Oracle, SQL, Toad, Admin track, Salesforce.,Win runner, Test Director

Web QA Engineer, Virtual IP Group Inc, Sunnyvale, CA

Aug 00 till June 02

Project - Customer service Web portal

Virtual IP is a design services company helping customers to meet their

design goals. Tested web application that was used for project management,

customer status reporting and data review.

Responsibilities

. Analyzed business requirements and design documents

. Involved in testing of web based project management, status reporting

and data review portals

. Prepared Test plan, Test cases and Test Scripts

. Performed browser compatibility testing using IE and Netscape

browsers

. Performed Regression testing as per the business requirement

. Performed the functionality and GUI testing

. Identified defects and reported them in their in built defect tracking

tool

. Developed Test status on the weekly basis for senior management

. Involved in meetings to identify the new structure and modify existing

structure as and when necessary for the application under test

. Interacting with the development team and attended the bug status

meeting

Environment: Windows NT, UNIX, Microsoft IIS server, Visual Source Safe,

IE, MS SQL Server, QA Process

Project- Multiple customer projects

Responsibilities

. Analyzed the customer requirement specifications document and designed

the layout as per the requirements

. Involved in the physical testing of the design by manually checking

the connectivity of the design

. Checked whether the floor planning of the design matches the

document

. Checked whether there are any opens or shots in the design that may

cause the automation flow stop in between

. Automated the physical testing to check the design rules check

. Verified the defects where the design fails

. Checked whether the design was meeting all the design rules and

electrical connectivity

. Automated and standardized the design flow for repetitive tasks

. Tracking the defects in excel spreadsheet

. Attending the bug review meeting with the developers

Environment: UNIX, EDA software tools, VSS, MS SQL Server, QA Process

Education

. Post graduate courses in computer science

. Honors diploma in information and systems management

. Masters Degree from Osmania university, India

. US Citizen

. References upon request

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