Lalitha Balasubramanian

Email: ac13to@r.postjobfree.com

Ph (C): 704-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A seasoned Quality Assurance professional with six years experience that includes:

Full life cycle QA including Manual, Automated, Functional, Regression, Integration, Load, and Database testing.

Creation and implementation of Use Cases, Test Plans and Test Cases from Software Requirements & Use Cases.

Functional, Data Driven, Back-End and Regression Testing using Rational Functional and XDE Tester.

Bug management using tools like Jira.

Excellent analytical, problem solving and project management skills.

Self- starter, highly motivated and team player. COMPUTER SKILLS

Application Software: Developer 2000, Visual Basic 5.0 /6.0 (VB), MS Visio, MS-Office, MS Project, MS FrontPage, Dreamweaver4/MX, Macromedia Flash, Auto CAD 2000, Logic Works.

Testing Tools: Visual Test, AETG, Rational Suite Enterprise, XDE Tester, Rational Manual, Functional and Performance tester, Selenium, jwebunit, Jmeter, MS Web Application Stress Tool, Quick Test Pro 9.0.

Databases and Web Servers: Oracle 7.x/8.0/9(i), MS Access 2000/2002, MS SQL Server, MySql, Apache 1.3.x/2.x, Tomcat 5.x, Orion, MS IIS, .NET

Languages and Scripting Languages: C++, C, Java, Fortran, SQL, PL/SQL, MS DOS, HTML, ASP, Java Scripting, VB Scripting, VBA, PHP, XML, UML, C#

Operating System: UNIX, MS DOS, Windows 3.x/95/98/2000/NT/XP EXPERIENCES

QA Manager Baxter Bioscience E Business, Westlake CA

(Contractor / Consultant)

Sep 05 – Apr09

Maintained and tested (Manual and Automated) multi-lingual, global health care applications for multiple disease states including hemophilia and primary immune disease.

Tested mobile handheld devices with healthcare applications utilizing IR Modem and hot-sync.

Built quality assurance process for other global websites.

Lead the design, coding and implementation of test plans, use cases and test cases for the projects.

Designed and maintained test frameworks using Rational Manual, Functional and Performance Tester.

Designed and developed performance testing script using Jmeter, Rational performance tester and MS Web Application Stress Tool.

Mentored team members on using Jira, XDE Tester/Functional Tester and testing framework.

Assisted Business analysts during requirements gathering and reviewed Software requirement documents.

Attended Requirement walkthroughs to discuss related issues.

Assisted the development team to plan, test, and implement major releases.

Maintained global customer services processes.

Worked as a liaison between the Developer and Clients. QA Analyst Baxter Bioscience E Business, Westlake CA (Contract) Aug 04 – Aug 05

Analyzed business requirements and system design.

Tested (Manual and Automated) multi-lingual, global health care applications for multiple disease states including hemophilia and primary immune disease.

Performed complete QA Lifecycle activities such as pre-testing phase, acceptance testing phase and testing phase.

Developed use case and test cases.

Implemented automated test scripts using XDE Tester.

Executed and documented test results. Tracked bugs using JIRA

Document, track and communicate results, bugs and analyze any unresolved problems.

Generated Scripts to automate data entry.

Gathered user requirements and design specifications.

Worked on user manual for different applications. Research Assistant Dept of Computer Science, CSU, Sacramento, CA Sep 02 - Jun 04

Research under the guidance of Dr. Ahmed Salem on Using UML use cases for testing requirements

Validate this approach we used six case studies, studied their requirements, developed detailed use cases, and manually generated test cases from use cases. Also generated test cases generated using the AETG web based tool to compare with the manually generated set.

Executed the test cases (manual and automated testing), analyzed the results on each of them. Web Developer, (Intern) GTRAN Inc., Newbury Park, CA Apr 03 – Jul 03

Development and testing web based database application. The languages and software used are PHP, Java Scripting, HTML, CSS, MySql, SQL Server and Dream weaver MX.

Developed data access pages to access database, designed advanced table design, nested queries and connecting to other RDBMS using ODBC

Graduate Research Assistant Dept. of Research And Sponsored Projects, CSUS Oct 01 - Feb 03

Design and development of Database Application using MS Access, Visual Basic, VBA and SQL.

Developed Test cases manually and using AETG web based tool and executed the same. Manual Testing included Black box, White-box, Stress testing, Unit Testing, Integrated testing and Automated Testing was performed using Visual Test, and Purify.

Webmaster Intern California Association of Alcohol & Drugs, Sacramento May 01- Aug 01

Maintenance, develop forms and updating Web pages for the organization using HTML, MS FrontPage, ASP, VB scripting and web based programming (http://www.caadpe.org/). Lab Assistant University Computing Services, CSUS Sep 00 - Sep 01

Responsibilities included assisting Staff and students, computer networking, troubleshooting and installing software on IBM and Mac machines.

Structural Design Engineer Engineering Consultants India, Bangalore, India Mar 99- Jul 00

Design, Analysis, Drawing and Estimation for multistoried buildings, Architectural planning and Drawing for residential houses.

EDUCATION

Master of Science Aug 01 – May 04 GPA: 3.66/4.0

Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento Database Design and Development; Software Testing; Computer Architecture Project: Utilizing UML use cases for testing requirements. CS Bachelor Courses Aug 00 - Aug 01 GPA: 3.2/4.0

Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento Diploma in Advanced Client/Server Application Development Jan 99- Aug 99

SSI, Bangalore, India

Projects: Banking using Oracle8 (i), PL/SQL and D2K; Supermarket - using Visual Basic 5.0 and MS Access; Payroll development - using Visual Basic and MS- Access Bachelor of Engineering Aug 94 - Aug 98 GPA: 3.5/4.0

Civil Engineering, University Vishveshwaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India Project: Analysis and Design of Multistoried Buildings ACADEMIC COURSES

Software Engineering: Computer Software Engineering; Software Verification and Validation.

Database: Data Models for Data Base Management Systems; Data Base Design.

Computer Architecture: Computer Organization; Operating System Principles; Computer Systems Structure Microprocessor Systems Architecture.

PAPERS

Lalitha Balasubramanian, Ahmed Salem "Utilizing UML Use Cases for Testing Requirements" The International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, June 2004, Vol I Pages 269 –275. ACTIVITES

Participant in the ACM student research competition 2003 in Reno

Fall 2002 President of Tamil Sangam, CSUS

Member of the Indian Association, CSUS

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