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Engineer Testing

Location:
San Jose, CA, 95131
Posted:
August 16, 2010

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Resume:

Richa Karan Srivastava **********@*****.***

Summary

* ***** ** ********** ** Software Quality Assurance and Testing.

Experience with Agile scrum and Short Software Release cycles.

Good experience in web based applications, Mobile phones, CRM and

Health Care applications.

Proficient in Black box, Automation and Grey box testing.

Past projects involved good understanding of J2EE, Java, php, HTML,

AJAX, XML, CSS and SQL.

Performed Functional, Regression, Ad-hoc, Security, System, GUI and

Configuration testing of application with multiple OS and Browsers.

Working experience with Off Shore global teams and mentored other

team members.

Enjoy working in a team but able to work under minimal supervision.

Work closely with Development, Product Mgmt, technical Support,

Documentation and other business teams to develop products

schedules, execute test plans and deliver products in timely

fashion.

Technical skills

Automation Tools

Selenium,Junit, TestComplete, XENU, Quality Center, WinRunner,Test

Link, Test Manager and QTP.

Bug Tracking tools: Buganizer,Bugzilla,Test Track Pro, Track Plus

Software & Technologies

Platforms: Microsoft Windows XP/2000/2003/98/NT/Vista, Linux Red Hat

OSX, and MAC

Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript,XML,CSS, AJAX

Languages: C,Java

Database: MySQL,SQL

Familiar with : Oracle 8i,TestNG, Maven, Hudson

Other: Eclipse IDE, MS Office, SVN,FireBug

Experience

Yahoo Inc, Media Integration QA Engineer, May 2010 - Present

Worked as part of Media Integration team, on Content Agility project

Producers Desktop Plug ins for Global News,. This Editorial tool is

for Yahoo media editors for everyday functions. The different

plug-ins are: Page Programming, Module Instance, Creating

Article/Story, List Programming, Search, Site map etc .

Worked with Agile scrum software development cycles in a Continuous

Integration environment.

Reviewed functional requirements docs, mocks, wire frames, manage

and write test cases using Test Manager.

Conducted Black box and Grey box testing for Editorial tool.

Performed functional, Ad-hoc, system, cross browser compatibility

testing for the application.

Tested Web services and API for web application.

Pushed QA builds and maintained test environment using Hudson.

Developed and implemented front end automation test cases using

SelNG(Selenium RC and TestNG) framework.

Attended Sprint and bug triage meetings and communicated project and

testing status to internal and external teams.

Send daily bug status reports and testing progress reports.

Worked closely with Engineering and Product development teams for

schedule, planning and release of application and solving issues.

TrustedID Inc, QA Engineer, Aug 2008 - Dec 2008

TrustedID delivers comprehensive pro-active identity theft

protection solutions to help consumers and their families safeguard

their identity. Its Web application, which includes various modules

like Registration, Portal and CRM application.

Participated in brand new launch of TrustedID web application and

new CRM application.

Took care of SDLC by gathering requirements, writing Test Plan,

managing and writing test cases using Test Link.

System,functional,Regression, UI, Ad hoc,User Acceptance testing of

web and CRM application on different browsers (IE, Chrome, FireFox,

Safari, Opera)and multiple OS.

Specifically testing the web application for Mac OS version

10.4/10.5 to make sure CSS and Javascript will properly work on

system and testing different browsers like Chrome, IE 7/8(through

vmware), Safari, Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS.

Testing Management scripts for Email Notifications, Daily metrics,

Tans union scripts for putting Fraud Flag, Credit Lock on 1000's of

Customers

Tested various Campaigns, Promo codes and Landing Pages which were

part of marketing and various promotions.

Co-ordinated with Third Parties and tested Pixel tracking(Google

pixel, Commission Junction,Next advisor etc) from our web site for

Revenue generation.

Back end Data Validation using MySQL. Participated in Data transfer

and data deployment of old database to new Database Schema which

includes comparing data of old users in new database., Access levels

of different internal users,adding new data in old users accounts

etc.

Conducted Web site security testing using SQL injections, XSS,

cookies etc .

Maintained and analyzed nightly test build runs on JUNIT .

Created and maintained Test suites for Basic Acceptance testing

using Selenium IDE and Selenium RC with Java.

Yahoo! Inc, Personals, QA Engineer, September 2007 - January 2008

Yahoo! Personals is a on line dating service for Singles for meeting

local singles and start a new relationship. Personals provide users

Olympic-sized dating pool where they can subscribe and start

approaching new people over email and messenger. Users can create

their profiles, search people, and have their private Mailbox along

with access to Dating articles, advice, tips and tests.

Provide complete scope of testing activities for Yahoo! Personals,

participated in New Sign In Home page Redesign Release and Search

feature.

Review functional requirements, design documents for completeness

and contradictory requirements

Responsible for developing test specifications and test cases for

System, Functional and Regression, UI,Ad hoc testing of web

application. Provide positive and negative testing, boundary

conditions testing, and validation of valid/invalid inputs.

Executed test cases manually to verify the expected functionality of

the application .

Continuous testing of new features being introduced and extensive

regression, after each engineering build.

Testing, GUI, look and feel of the application on MAC OS with

different browsers Fire Fox, Safari. Tested IE 5 for Mac OS 8.1/9.x.

Performed Multi Platform testing on Windows XP, Vista, Linux and Mac

and cross- browser (IE 7.0/6.0, Firefox 1.5/2.0, Safari, Opera)

testing.

Research software bugs,and customer issues involving reporting

analyzing and tracking defects using Bugzilla

Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting

the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs as they got

resolved.

Executed Internationalization (I18n) and Localization testing(l10n)

.Tested Yahoo Personal, for Australia and Canada sites for

localization. Performed 118n testing for Japanese and Arabic

languages

Attended weekly QA and project review and update meetings.

Used Test Complete for automation and written test scripts in XML

using XML keyword Driven Framework.

SideStep Inc, QA Engineer, August 2007 - September 2007

Sidestep was meta search engine finds real-time price and

availability information on airfare, hotels, car rental, vacations,

cruises and activities. It provided editorially -written travel

guides, travel deals and promotions and it also provided user a

tool bar .

Performed black box testing for various sidestep websites,

responsible for regression,system,functional, ad hoc testing before

and after push to production.

Tested various Air, Car and Hotel Adapters for sidestep.com and

travelsearch.com.

Involved in System, Functionality, UI testing of application using

with different types of "Operating Systems" like Windows,Mac, Linux

and different types of "Browsers" like IE, Firefox, Safari .

Participated in bug review and other QA and project update meetings.

Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting

the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs as they got

resolved.

Report, Analyze and track defects using Bugzilla .

Google Inc, Gmail and Google Apps- Personal Start Page, QA Engineer

, May 2006 - May 2007

Google Apps- Personal start Page and Gmail.

Responsible for developing test plan and test cases for System,

Functional and Regression, Ad hoc testing of web application .

Positive and Negative Testing was performed for this application.

Bugs are reported and status is tracked using Test Track Pro

Created and executed automated scripts for BAT(Basic Acceptance

testing) based on TAU (Test Automation Utility).

Worked on design and creating automation framework based on Selenium

IDE.

Executed Lemon scripts for security testing and logged results about

"XSS vulnerabilities .

Proxy testing using Proximitron.

Executed Internationalization(I18n) and Localization testing.(l10n)

Tested 11 different languages under 18n testing.

Involved in System, Functionality, UI testing of application using

with different types of "Operating Systems" like Windows

XP/2003/ME/2000/NT/98/95, MAC, Linux and different types of

"Browsers" like IE 7.0/6.0/5.5/5, Netscape

8.1/7.2/7.0/6.0/4.73/4.7/4.5/4.08, Firefox 1.5/2.0, Safari, Opera.

Created a Wiki page about Google Personalized Start Page, documented

testing process and for future references.

Written BAT (Basic Acceptance test) test cases for Personal Start

Pages.

Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting

the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs as they got

resolved.

Reported, Analyzed and tracked defects using Buganizer.

Created Reports using Statix. Analyzed and documented Bugs Health

reports for Start page

Prepared weekly QA reports and reports for Builds.

Participated in training and mentoring the offshore QA team

Gmail -J2ME Mobile Application

Continuous testing of new features being introduced and extensive

regression, verification,validation, testing, after each

engineering build.

Tested about 250 phones including Palm treo, Blackberry, Motorola,

LG, Sam sung, Sony Ericsson, Nokia etc phones with different

OS(Windows Mobile, Symbion, Palm OS).

Executed test cases manually to verify the expected functionality of

the application using Test Scribe.

Conducted alphanumeric, numeric and limits data validation using

positive and negative data.

Tested various errors handling scenario in phones like Network

connections.

Stress testing like low battery life or low signal.

UI, email, download attachment testing like .JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG,

.pdf etc.

Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting

the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs as they got

resolved.

Report, Analyze and track defects using Buganizer.

Performed black-box tests and verified the UI, properties and

functionalities

Running BAT (Basic Acceptance test) every Friday before push to live

production.

Ingersoll Rand Inc, QA Engineer, February 2006 - April 2006

Recognition Systems, Inc., a division of Ingersoll-Rand, is the

worldwide leader in Biometric access control, time and attendance,

and personal identification products. Biometric devices like Hand

Readers and fingerprint devices are electronic means of measuring

unique characteristics or actions of a person, and are used to

identify, or verify the identity of, an individual. Recognition

Systems Biometric Scanners communicate with servers and have their

own GUI interface

Responsible for developing test plan and test cases for System,

functional and Regression testing of the terminal application and

Host.

Gathered requirements and change requests analyzed and studied the

design changes

Executed test cases manually to verify the expected functionality of

the application.

Executed functional and Regression test cases manually to validate

the GUI properties

Performed black-box tests and verified the GUI features, properties

and functionalities

Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting

the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs as they got

resolved.

Positive and Negative Testing was performed for this application.

Bugs are reported and status is tracked using Test Track Pro.

Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting

the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs as they got

resolved.

Close interaction with team members to resolve issues

Times Of India( Times Internet Ltd), India Test Engineer, 2000 -

2002

Tested and customized the E-commerce web site

http://shopping.indiatimes.com/ based on IBM web Sphere, which

includes end to end manual testing on web sphere based e commerce

web portal .

Reviewed business requirements and created a testing project plan

and schedule.

Involved in test design, test plan, test development and test

results.

Performed black box testing of the application and GUI.

Created Test Scripts based on business requirements for the GUI,

functional, System and end-to-end testing

Conducted numeric, non-numeric and limits data validation using

positive and negative data.

Executed manual testing using SQL queries.

Found, logged, verified and analyzed bugs.

Involved in user acceptance testing.

Education

Certificate course in XML from San Jose City College. CA

Advance Certificate in Computer Applications from NIIT Delhi India.

M.B.A -Marketing, JIMS, New Delhi, India

Affiliations & Interests

Member of National Language Service Corps.

Interests include Reading, Net surfing and spending time with

family.



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