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.