Project Quality Assurance

Location:

Sunnyvale, CA, 94087

Posted:

August 16, 2010

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Resume:

Pratyusha Cherukuri

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San Jose, Cell: 408-***-****

CA - 95116

Professional Summary:

Over 6+ years of experience in IT as Quality Assurance and Automation

Developer in C# with in depth expertise in Testing Methodologies,

Testing concepts, SDLC and Automation Development area.

Extensive experience in software development life cycle including Test

Case Design and Development, Issue Debugging (both User mode and

Kernel Mode) and Project management.

. Extensive experience in Developing Test Automations using C# and

implementing test cases.

. Expertise in Test Development, Black Box Testing, Server Application

Testing, QA & Test Activities.

. Excellent Trouble-Shooting, Debugging skills (both User mode and

Kernel mode) and tenacity in problem solving.

. Experience in performing Functional testing, System testing, Regression

testing, Smoke testing using both manual & automated testing tools

. Knowledge in testing various Client, Server and Database applications

. Extensively worked on Keyword driven framework and as well as Record

and playback approaches.

. Designed and Envisaged into various Test Scenarios with Broader and

Multi-Dimensional Outlook

. Experience in interacting with Clients both at onsite and offshore, cross

group collaborations and meeting tight schedules.

. Independently Managed and Lead projects, provided test estimates and

schedules and have experience in Project Management, Designing Test Plans

and Software Quality Processes.

. Strong experience in working with End Users and possess good listening

and negotiation skills.

. Participated in design reviews with the Development team.

. Good team player and have ability to work independently. Also possess

excellent communication skills along with verbal and written skills.

. Excellent work ethic - incredibly motivated, able to be proactive and

strong self-starter. Decisive, action-oriented and result-focused

Architect. Driven by new challenges and desire to be successful in all

endeavors. Immensely enjoys navigating all aspects of complex projects.

Technical Skills:

Operating Windows Server 2008, Vista, Server 2003/2000/XP

Systems

Languages C#, Python

Automation Worked on Internal Microsoft tools including

Tools MITA,RPF and MAUI. Worked on Test case Management

and Project Management tools including Windows Test

Technologies (WTT), Clarity, Jira, Quality Center

and exposure to QTP.

Databases SQL Server

Documentation MS Office, MS Visio Pro

Tools

Web HTML,XML

Technologies

Server Fair Knowledge on Testing SQL Server, Sharepoint

Applications Portal Server, Lotus Domino and Notes

Professional Experience:

Project Name: Clarity, Redwood City Organization: Computer

Associates

Role: Senior QA Duration: Nov 2008 - July 2010

Project Description:

Clarity is one of the Leading IT solutions providers which includes

Portfolio Management, Project Management and Financial Management of the

services. The Clarity application is comprised of nine modules, five of

which are used by people throughout the organization, while the others are

used to configure and extend the system, automate processes with workflows

and to seamlessly integrate with adjacent systems.

Responsibilities:

. Design and handle Test plans, Software Quality Processes and

Procedures.

. Preparation of Test estimates and schedules for Major Releases,

Service Packs and Patch releases.

. Test and qualify the product for major releases including fix packs

and Hot fix, Regressions, upgrade, performance, Sanity Adhoc and

XOG (XML OPEN GATEWAY testing.

. Review Detailed Design Specifications (DDS) and prepare Test cases.

. Detailed Study of the Customer requests on the logged issues and

understand the criticality of the issues.

. Analysis of new enhancements and testing them along with Automating

and modifying the Test cases.

. Ensuring timely delivery of the Deliverables.

. Preparing Status Reports for Management perusal.

. Involved in regular reviews and meetings with the Test Leads, Project

Managers, Sr. Test Managers in planning the project and review of

progress.

. Interacted with leads that made the requests, gathered requirements

from them, documented those requirements into requests and updated the

documents.

. Worked in co-ordination with colleagues and the team lead. Test

results reported to the QA management with recommendations and done UI

testing using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

. Handled change requests as per the business needs.

Project Environment: Clarity

Project: PC Health Organization:Wipro

Technologies

Client: Microsoft, Seattle Duration:

August2007-Nov 2008

Role: SDET

Project Description:

Windows Sustenance Engineering is a group which takes over the Windows

Operating system from the Core team after the Release to Market build and

maintains it by releasing Service packs, hot fixes, General Distribution

Rights and Windows Updates as and when required. PC Health Testing g

primarily involves testing of Windows Error Reporting, Remote Assistance

and different internal components on various Microsoft Operating System

SKUs (like WS03 (STD,ENT,DC), XP, Vista), Service packs, Hot fixes,

Security Rollup packages (SRP) and various other types of updates/patches.

During execution phase we analyze and execute various test cases, and write

other relevant test cases depending on the test pass. The testing

methodology followed is usually WET (Windows Exploratory Testing)

Responsibilities:

. Test Requirement Analysis: Detailed Study of the Client's request on

the logged issues and understand the criticality of the issues

Supported the bug fixes throughout the project.

. Develop and modify automation test cases and Automation frame work

using C# for better quality and improve coverage of given features.

. Debugging the system in both user and kernel mode.

. Writing Test cases by analyzing the impacted areas of the Operating

System and also by understanding the functionality of the components.

. Review the test results of the team members and submit the reviewed

reports along with Prioritizing the issues and resource-balance.

. Identify, Investigate, reproduce and Triage the issues. Debug the

system and narrow down problems and identify possible mitigation

strategy.

. Make recommendations on increasing test coverage and/or shortening

execution time.

. Log bugs using proprietary Microsoft bug logging tool and track to

closure.

. Perform private testing as per the client requirement

. Participate in WAR meetings and report the status of bugs/track to

closure.

. Participate in planning of test passes and other test requests based

on developer requests.

. Help team members in triage of issues and resolve, if any.

. Sending WSR's and DSR's to the concerned people regarding project

status.

Project Enviroment: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008

Project: Windows Test Technology Migration Organization: Wipro

Technologies

Client: Microsoft, Seattle Duration: Nov 2006 -

August 2007

Role: Member of WTT Migration Team

Project Description:

WTT is an automation system which encompasses features for test case

management, test case automation, test case development, and lab

management.

Responsibilities:

. Took transition from core team and implemented set up in Wipro ODC

. Giving transition to Wipro component owners to move automated test

cases for WTT compliant

. Maintaining different OS builds, creating slipstream installations

for various SKU's.

. Point of contact for AppCompat team for any issues with WTT.

. Set up Weekly review meetings with onsite team on the progress of the

activity.

. Provide support for users and resolve issues, if any.

. Prepare and share DSR on the progress of transition to the concerned

people.

. Log bugs using proprietary Microsoft bug logging tool and track to

closure .

. Prepare component specific document at the end of transition

Project Environment: All Windows platforms, WTT tool

Project: Windows Sustained Engineering - AppCompat, W2k/WS03 -Server Apps

Client: Microsoft, Hyderabad Organization: Wipro

Technologies

Role: SDET Duration: Oct 2004 - Oct

2006

Project Description:

Windows Sustenance Engineering is a group which takes over the Windows

Operating system from the Core team after the Release to Market build and

maintains it by releasing Service packs, hot fixes, General Distribution

Rights and Windows Updates as and when required. AppCompat Server app

testing primarily involves testing of applications on various Microsoft

Operating System (WS03) (SKUs viz., STD, ENT, DC, WEB), (Win 2000) (SKUs

viz., SRV, ADVSRV) Service packs, Hot fixes, Security Rollup packages (SRP)

and various other types of updates/patches. Server App testing involves

Installing and Configuring the server applications as well as testing them

for compatibility issues. During execution phase we analyze and execute

various test cases, and write other relevant test cases depending on the

test pass. The testing methodology followed is Exploratory Testing with

emphasis on effected binaries.

Responsibilities:

. Test Requirement Analysis: Detailed Study of the Client's request on

the logged issues and understand the criticality of the issues.

. Preparing the Test strategy and Test plan for Server Apps. Test Case

design for the appropriate applications affected by that particular

release (Packages) and sending the Weekly consolidated Status Report

after Review.

. Writing and Executing Test cases by analyzing the impacted areas of

the Operating System and also by understanding the functionality of

the Server applications..

. Work on hot fixes, Private fixes being released from Microsoft and

tested these packages to ensure that fix is proper and not leading for

any regression.

. Involve in the SDLC and bug life cycle activity, where I contributed

to add the new tests to fill the test holes for testing the

functionality of the component.

. Represented AppCompat bugs in WAR during update release for proper

closure of these bugs.

. Worked rigorously to reproduce the Customer Reported Scenarios and fixes,

for such bugs are tested in depth.

. Performed Code Coverage Testing and Code coverage Data Analysis using

internal MS tools.

. Log bugs using proprietary Microsoft bug logging tool and track to

closure.

. Perform private testing as per the client requirement

. Participate in WAR meetings and report the status of bugs/track to

closure.

. Participate in planning of test passes and other test requests based

on developer requests.

. Help team members in triage of issues and resolve, if any.

. Sending WSR's and DSR's to the concerned people regarding project

status.

Project Environment : Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003

Project: Windows Sustained Engineering - AppCompat - Desktop Apps

Client: Microsoft, Hyderabad Organization:Wipro

Technologies

Role: STE Duration: Sep 2003 - Sep

2004