Software Engineering

Ashita Ajesh

Sunnyvale, CA

Cell: 408-***-****

Email: ablic5@r.postjobfree.com

Career Objective

Software QA intern looking for a challenging position in Software Quality

Assurance with opportunities for career advancement.

Summary

. Experience testing web-based applications with focus on functional,

usability, regression testing.

. Experience in designing software stable design and analysis patterns

using UML.

. Strong knowledge of development lifecycle and agile development

methodologies.

. Familiarity with Windows and Mac operating systems.

. Solid understanding of automated/manual and black-box, white box testing

techniques.

. Undergoing professional training in Software QA- SQA and Selenium IDE/RC.

. Proficient in PHP, SQL.

. Good communication skills.

. Highly-motivated, detail-oriented approach.

. Passion for software quality and strong drive for results.

. Curiosity for identifying the exceptional conditions and scenario under

which system/application behavior deviates from the expected behavior.

. Presently on OPT EAD.

Education

YEAR DEGREE

08/ 2008 - 05/2010 M.S in Software Engineering, San Jose State

University, CA, USA. GPA 3.67

http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/CmpE

06/ 1999 - 06/ B.E(Computer Science & Engineering), Bachelor's in

2003 Computer Science & Engineering, SGGS, India, GPA

3.84

http://www.sggs.ac.in

Skills

. Operating systems: Windows 95, 98, Windows Vista/XP, Mac.

. Testing tools: Selenium IDE, RC.

. Enterprise Technologies: Core Java, JMS.

. Web Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS.

. Server: MAMP, JBoss, MS SQL 2008.

. Languages: C, C++, Java, Objective C, SQL.

. Databases: Oracle 10g Express, MySQL.

. Office Tools: MS Office, MS Visio.

. IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, XCode.

. Other Tools: Wireshark, ColaSoft Capsa, Interface Builder.

Experience

07/ 2010 - Present: Los Altos Software Testing House, Mountain View,

CA- Software QA Intern

. Hands-on experience in testing WaysGo beta version of the project which

is a social ecommerce web application that brings together real-world

business-consumer engagement process inside social networking platform.

. Understanding the business requirements/specs/use cases fully for test

strategy. Clarifying ambiguous, incomplete or undocumented requirements

(undocumented in agile development methodology).

. Implementing and providing input for test plans.

. Designing test cases for testing, validating the input fields.

. Creating and reviewing test cases for usability testing.

. Creating and working on different test matrices for testing the features

of the application.

. Writing SQL queries for getting the test data and creating the test data.

. Executing the test cases and logging the actual results in test case

template.

. Analyzing the gap between actual and expected results if any and

reporting bugs, track defects.

. Preparing bug reports using Elementool.

. Performing functional testing and regression testing for modules like

Login/Sign-up, Registration.

. Participating in software walkthrough.

. Attending training in Selenium IDE/RC.

09/ 2009 - Present: VrlSoft Inc, Palo Alto, CA - Research Assistant

. Documenting and implementing software stable patterns.

. Developing demos for software stable pattern.

. Developing and architecting several Stable Models and Architectures for

various applications.

. Logging activity details for all my professional activities with the

company.

. Creating knowledge maps related to the assigned pattern.

. Assisting in writing research related and book proposal.

06/ 2002 - 09/2002: Videocon Inc., Aurangabad, Maharashtra, INDIA-

Summer Internship as Trainee Engineer

. Gained an in depth knowledge of SAP software and got a practical know how

of how the software was developed based on the organization's requirement

in the IT department.

. Prepared a report on the knowledge gained during the internship.

Key Academic Coursework

. Enterprise Software Overview- Distributed Objects, System management,

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

. Software Systems Engineering- Software design and development, Modeling

approaches like UML, Software stable patterns, Design and analysis

patterns, Knowledge maps, Pattern language.

. Software Engineering Management- Agile principles and methodologies, PERT

charts, Work breakdown structure, Delphi estimation.

. Computer Network Design- Network layers and Protocols, HTTP, TCP, Subnet,

Routing, Routing algorithms, Congestion control, Reno and Tahoe

algorithm.

. Network Programming and Applications- Socket programming in C/C++ under

Linux, TCP over UDP client/server application.

. Enterprise Distributed Objects- CORBA, JMS, Web Services.

. Enterprise Software Components- Software components, Specification,

Realization, Containment, Reusability, Server design patterns, Service

components, API design issues, Usability and testability of APIs.

. Business Intelligence Technologies- Inmon vs. Kimball approach,

Dimensional modeling, Star schema, Cubes and OLAP analysis, Design

granularity, Dimensions and types(Slowly changing dimension, etc), ETL

process, Data mining methodology, Market Basket Analysis, Association

rules, Classifier, WEKA.

Key Academic Projects

. Master's Project- iVTA Application

Working in a team and implementing the iPhone application that will give

the bus information like the bus schedules, bus arrival times at particular

stops in a route and the maps to the user with the feature of MyFavourite

option. The iPhone application will also link to the website application of

the bus transit system where the bus location is displayed on the map using

pre-stored longitude and latitude co-ordinates.

Technologies and Languages used: HTML, PHP, JavaScript, MAMP, Objective C,

Interface Builder, iPhone Simulator

. TCP over UDP implementation in C/C++

Implemented the client-side implementation of TCP over UDP as application

layer while maintaining the TCP state transition diagram.

Developed various test cases like FIN attacks, SYN-after-FIN, SYN flooding

to test the implementation of finite state transition and identify a

scenario, if any where the implementation fails.

. University Records System using JMS.

Developed a university record system using JMS for maintaining student,

instructor and course records in a university.

Identified the classes like Students, Instructors, Courses, Classes,

Schedules and methods for like student enrollment, fees payment, invoice

generation, adding and dropping classes, scheduling instructor office

hours, etc for the university system

Designed the database schema and developed a database for instructor,

courses and student tables.

Written stored procedures for backend operations with the database and the

java application using SQL Developer.

Done exceptional handling for conflicting scenarios at backend as well as

at frontend for some validation scenarios.

Designed UI using Swing for the university system.

. Online Photo Management System using Ruby on Rails.

Implemented online photo management system, similar to a photo gallery,

where the user can create or delete an album based on the album theme and

subject and upload the pictures in an album. The additional features like

searching of pictures based on album subject or date and different viewing

techniques of the pictures are also done through different controllers,

models and views.

Publications

Books

M.E Fayad, Anshu Basia and Ashita Ajesh. "The Art of Modeling Movies Using

UML and Software Patterns ".

Status - Book proposal under progress.

I, along with Dr. Fayad's team, am currently working on the book proposal

that aims at presenting the book on the design and implementation of a

unified movie-making engine that will use the art of modeling a movie using

UML and software patterns.

Journals

1. M.E Fayad, Ashita Ajesh and Shivanshu Singh. "The Accessibility Stable

Analysis Pattern: Extended Template" International Journal of Software

Architecture, Vol XX, No XX, August/Sept. 2010.

Status- Accepted by IJSA and due for publication.

2. M.E Fayad, Ashita Ajesh and Shivanshu Singh. "The Visualization Analysis

Pattern: Extended Template", International Journal of Software

Architecture, Vol XX, No XX, August/Sept. 2010.

Status- Accepted by IJSA and due for publication.

3. M.E Fayad, Anshu Basia, Shivanshu Singh and Ashita Ajesh. "AnyPrecision

Stable Design Pattern: Extended Template", International Journal of

Software Architecture, Volume 1, No 1, July 2010, pp.71-108.

References

Dr M.E Fayad, Ph.D,

Full Professor of Computer Engineering,

Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering.

San Jose State University

One Washington Square,

San Jose, CA 95192-0180.

E-mail: ablic5@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/fayad

More references available upon request.

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