Quality Assurance Software Engineer

Gopal Pusuluri

Santa Clara, CA, *****

Ph: 408-***-****

*****.********@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/gopalpusuluri

8+ years of pioneering career in Software Quality Assurance engineering

with Srong leadership professional seeks a challenging position in an

intellectually stimulating and challenging work environment that values

initiative, competence and hard work.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

. A results driven QA leader with a consistent track record of

delivering successful technology products, utilizing proven expertise

in the following areas:

. Software Test planning& analyzing.

. QA methodology, tools, matrices and practice.

. Team Building/Mentoring.

. Test Automation Development.

. Agile methodologies.

. Proven ability to manage multiple projects, under tight deadlines,

often with competing priorities and complexities.

. Strong Knowledge and understanding of complete Project Management

disciplines and methodologies including: SDLC, STLC, project

definition, scope control, communication plans, and risk management

plans.

. Proficient in building QA plans, test strategies, analyzing the

results and reporting deficiencies, and making recommendations on

improving performance and efficiency.

. Implemented QA Methodologies such as - Data Driven, Test-driven and

Risk Based Testing on project basis.

. Experience in testing software products with complex server-side

logic, large database implementations, and sophisticated browser-based

user interfaces.

. Excellent Problem Isolation & Reporting Skills.

. Strong communication Skills.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

SQAE

July 2007 - Present

Consultant - Google Inc. Mountain view, CA.

Google Books, Google HR, Gmail, Google Focus, Google Profiles & Orkut.

Responsibilities

. Primary testing contact for Orkut & Google Profiles.

. Provide liaison support for Product Releases.

. Automation using selenium.

. Assisted in offshore staffing.

Accomplishment Highlights

. 500+ features tested under a year for Google Orkut with high success

rate.

. Successfully managed offshore Automation transition (India & Brazil).

. Driven Orkut offshore QA team to meet the aggressive weekly release

schedules.

. Staffed 5 offshore team members with in a week.

. Member of Google's top level Test Certified team.

SQA Analyst

Consultant - IBM, Bangalore, India July

2005 - June 2007

Responsibilities

. Led 4 members QA Team.

. Designed and implemented QA environment for automated GUI testing

using Win Runner (later shifted to QTP).

. Enhanced and supported a robust QA harness, which includes automated

run of test suites, extensive reporting capabilities, interactions

with Configuration Management systems.

Accomplishment Highlights

. Received IBM Spot award for leading the Team.

. Reduced the project testing life cycle duration by 30% by implementing

Orthogonal array testing technique.

SQA Lead

Nature Soft & Sajeusab Software Solutions March

2004 - June 2005

http://www.nature-soft.com

Hyderabad, Chennai, India

Responsibilities

. Data Driven Testing successfully initiated and implemented.

. Designed, Documented and implemented Master Test plan.

. Managed (hands-on) the day-to-day operations of SQA group, assign

projects and monitor progress, establish an infrastructure and

direction for the QA department.

. Coordinated resources, prioritize group activities, and establish

schedules to complete assignments and deliver products. Ensuring that

plans are consistent with overall company.

. Automated stable test cases using QTP and other automation tools.

Software Engineer/QA

Star Search International, Bangalore, India September 2002 -

January 2004

Responsibilities

. Created/modified test cases and scripts, informed management status of

testing and reported test results.

. Performed Automation.

. Coordinated the testing life cycle including white/black box testing,

Functional, System, Integration, Regression Testing and ongoing

reporting of test results.

. Communicated software problems via Internal Bug Tracking tool.

TECHNOLGIES SUMMARY

Certification SUN certified Professional in Solaris (Unix)

System Administration.

Operating System: Solaris 2.8/2.7, Red Hat Linux 7x, Windows

NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000.

Testing/QA Tools QaTraq, OpenSTA, Compare SQL, Test Director,

E-Dule, Win runner, Load Runner, Clear

Quest, Emma, FindBugs.

Bug Tracking Tools DRTT (Defect Reporting and Tracking Tool),

RT (Intranet Bug Reporting tool), Bugnizer.

Database: SQL Server 2000, Oracle, Ms-Access, Sybase.

Application & Web IIS, Apache Tomcat, Web Logic.

Servers:

Knowledge Exposure: Routers, Bridges, Switches, Firewalls,

Network Topologies and etc.

Miscellaneous MS-office, VNC viewer, Proximitron, Afford

soft.

QUALIFICATION

Master Degree in Computer Science - 2002

Bachelor Degree in Business Commerce - 1999.

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