Vindhya Subramanian

Phone: 408-***-****

**** ******* ***** *** **** CA-95118

acgd0m@r.postjobfree.com

I am a professional having experience in various phases of software life

cycle, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning,

scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management and reporting.

Visa Status

Green Card

Professional Experience

Apple Inc.

Senior QA Analyst (Consultant) Aug 2011 -

Current

. Develop use cases, user interface specifications, and user requirement

specification documents

. Analyze business and system requirements, manage development of

specifications to create and execute detailed test plans.

. Liaise with developers, business analysts, and user representatives in

application design and document reviews

. Adept at using testing tools to troubleshoot systems, integration,

user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and

regression testing for the Apple Retail Stores applications

. Perform verification/validation in a Client-Server environment with an

ability to troubleshoot connectivity issues and debug to resolve the

same

. Configure test environment and assure test data, schedule

automated/manual tests. Approve results documentation and tracking

testing results .

. Manage script creation for regression and enhancement testing

. Validation of new Builds that are released for any Bug fixes or

enhancements done

. Ability to isolate bugs and perform server/client log analysis.

. Ability to work collaboratively with the development team to meet

Demanding Objectives

. Validate XML for downstream data sent to SAP

. Write/Execute SQL commands to validate Data flow/sync with the

Database

HP / Palm

Senior QA Engineer (Mobile Apps) Apr 2011 - August 2011

. Testing various smart phone apps like Phone app, SMS, MMS, Calendar,

Email, Contacts, Music, Videos

. Testing various apps for HP's Touchpad

. Plan, write, execute and maintain detailed test cases and test plans

. Find, isolate, report, triage and regress bugs

. Perform regression / verification testing using the latest available

software and tools

. Track and manage bug and performance metrics

. Destructive/Negative testing done to see if the software fails in an

uncontrolled manner, in order to test its robustness.

. Ensure that software releases provide an exceptional user experience

and are high in quality

. Testing On-Device-Demo, which is used when products are released to

market and sent out to shops for sale. Testing was done in various

languages like French, German, Spanish

. Perform Acceptance tests for new builds for various devices and post

results for Over the Air Update

Motorola, Inc.

QA

Engineer

Jan 2007-March 2010

. Led the testing effort for the Applications and Services modules of

Ice Set top Box.

. Designed and executed functional, black box test plans and test

scripts for testing various components like Guide, DVR and Settings

. Perform Smoke tests for nightly builds and ensure the failures are

logged with accuracy in bug tracking system and reject builds for

critical failure

. Performed Stress/Load testing on the client and server used for the

Multi room DVR functionality

. Managed Execution of test cases, analysis and recording of test

results

. Executed JUnit test cases to verify various OCAP API's

. Logged defects using Clarify Tool

. Interacted with developers on regular basis to understand the OCAP

middleware features

Soft Sol Inc., USA

Consultant

Superior Court of California

August 2005 -April 2006

. Performed onsite testing of Migrated Java Application

. Gathered information about the various applications to be converted to

Java

. Analyzed and assessed the Forte Application to understand

functionality of existing application

. Migrated the Forte Application to Java using Automated Migration tool

Computer Skills/Credentials

Testing Tools: Radar, Espresso, JIRA, QPST, QXDM, Tango, Bugzilla, Clear

Quest, Clarify, Test Central, Test Quest Pro, JUnit, Red Rat

Programming Languages: JUnit, HTML, Java

Operating System: Mac, Windows, MS-DOS, Unix, Linux

Other Software: MS Excel, UML, MS Office, XML, JBoss, Tomcat

Databases: Oracle, SQL

Education

MS Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas -

May 2005

BE Computer Science, University of Madras, Chennai, India - April 2002

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