Engineer Quality Assurance

Archana Pulijala

[pi archanasarvagna@hotmail.c

c] om

[pi 408-***-****

c]

Objective: Seeking an opportunity as a QA Engineer in a collaborative and

challenging environment where I can maximize my experience and achieve the

company goals.

Summary:

. Well versed in web, mobile and hardware testing, and running

automation suites

. Strong knowledge of all phases of SDLC and Strong working knowledge of

Software testing (functional, integration, performance, and quality

metrics)

. Proficient in all phases of testing starting from test planning to

defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle

. Very good analytical, troubleshooting, communication and presentation

skills

. Highly adaptive, proactive, quick learner and team player

. Has good Domain Knowledge of mobile and internet banking

Technical Skill Set / Platforms worked on:

Testing Tools & Utilities BugZilla, Testopia, Quality Center, Jira

Rational Clear Case, PVCS, CVS

Selenium IDE, Putty, Oracle SQL Developer

M. S. Word Suite, Visio

Rational Requisite Pro

Platforms Windows Vista/ XP/2000/NT, Apple, Unix

iPhone, J2ME, BREW, WAP, DeviceAnywhere

Hardware Apple MacBook Pro, Intel based Servers and

Desktops

Languages Perl, C, XML, HTML, SQL

Databases Oracle

Web Server, Application Apache, Web Logic

Server

Web 2.0 Tools Wikis, Blogs, Forums

Education:

. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Mixed Signal IC Design)

May 2008

San Jose state University, San Jose, CA

Cumulative GPA: 3.56/4.0, cum laude

. Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communications Engineering

June 2001

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India

GPA: 4.0/4.0, summa cum laude

Vocational Courses:

. Completed training in software testing/quality assurance Jun '09 - Jul

'09

. Coursework in System-On-Chip using System Verilog Jan '09 - May '09

Technical Experience:

QA Engineer, Web and Mobile app tester Sep '09 - Present

Company: Obopay Inc., Redwood City

Team size: 17

"Obopay" and "Mastercard Moneysend" are applications for mobile and

internet banking for sending, requesting and adding funds via bank

accounts/credit cards

Tasks Performed:

. Worked cross-functionally with product management and development

teams

. Prepared test strategy, test plans, test cycles and test suites

. Prepared test cases inventory, requirements traceability matrix, test

cases, regression test cases and test data

. Prepared flow charts for developers to automate regression test cases

. Coordinated code deployment and test environment preparation with the

development team for doing black box testing, regression testing and

automated testing using Selenium

. Performed functionality and regression testing of the web application

on different OS & hardware platforms using different browsers

. Performed functionality and regression testing of the mobile

application on iPhone, BlackBerry, BREW, DeviceAnywhere and WAP

. Involved in database testing

. Tested and ran scripts to settle daily and weekly batch processes

. Reviewed, analyzed, and prioritized the discovered bugs with the

product management and development teams and escalated the critical

ones

. Prepared daily and weekly bug reports, test reports and audit reports

for product management team and execs

. Worked with offshore development team

. Performed smoke testing in the production environment

Achievements:

. Awarded as the most versatile QA engineer

. Awarded most productive QA engineer - on average reported 20% more

bugs than the 7 other peers

. Trained the new trainees - go to person for understanding the system

R&D intern Jan '07 - Mar' 07

Company: Banpil Photonics Inc., Santa Clara, CA

Tasks Performed:

. Designed and studied transmission lines with conventional and

proprietary specifications

. Tested on different cases like microstrip, coax and striplines. The s-

parameters generated were useful for the company for tape out

. Generated technical reports and plots for various products

Hardware Testing Associate Feb '01 - Jun '01

Company: Electronic Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad, India

Tasks Performed:

. Gathered requirements by interacting with the field engineers and by

going through the specifications of the PCB computer based analog data

acquisition and control system for monitoring plant parameters

. Tested the code by simulating waveforms on Altera platform. Loaded the

code onto EPLD, prepared the test bed, tested end-to-end.

. The project was done in an organized manner and was delivered

successfully. Presentations were given.

. Rated as top 1% of 20 associate at the company

Academic Projects in Hardware design and Testing:

. Design and synthesis of Keypad Scanner and decoder using Verilog HDL

in ModelSim PE 6.3e and synthesis is done using design analyzer.

. Design of FIR filter using Verilog HDL in Xilinx 9.2i tool

. Design of operational transconductance amplifier (OTA)

. Digital to Analog Converter

. ALU Design: Achieved high-speed micron technology process

Tasks Performed:

. Gathered specifications as per the latest industry standards for area,

power, frequency and cost trade off

. Design of the units to achieve high speed technology, high bandwidth

systems

. Designed and tested unit and integration blocks

. Tested hardware schematics for voltage and current waveforms on

Cadence Schematic and Layout editor, Design Analyzer

. Did Verilog coding and testing to achieve tradeoff between area, power

and speed using ModelSim PE and Xilinx 1.2

. Generated project reports and presented the research material

Work Authorization: Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder)

Contact this candidate