YAMINI SIVASUBRAMANIAM ac3189@r.postjobfree.com

Fremont, CA 510-***-****

Looking for Software Quality Assurance Engineer and work towards the growth of the company and to raise my stake in the organization by creating challenging environment and innovative thinking.

Following a 7 year parental career break, I am now eager to resume back to my professional career.

Experience in Personal Devices, Embedded systems and Virtual Platform.

Over 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Manual testing in Web-based, and Client/Server applications.

Assembled, Installed and Tested embedded systems.

Proficient both in Manual testing as well as in Automated testing using SilkTest, Selenium, WinRunner, TestDirector and Load Runner.

Experience in performing Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Acceptance Testing, System Testing and Performance Testing.

Experience in all phases of Quality Assurance Life Cycle, excellent knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle and QA Methodologies.

Performance testing using LoadRunner.

Experience in Data Driven Testing, SQL queries for database manipulations, HTML, Java Scripts and XML programming.

EXPERIENCE

TechSoup Global, SFO, CA. Nov 2010 to Apr 2011

Software Quality Analyst

Responsibility and Contribution:

Web based Product Donation program

Interacted with teams, particularly using agile methodologies, and spanning Project Management Office, Business, offshore teams, and partners.

Participated in daily Scrum meetings; Planning/Design/ Backlog Grooming Sessions. Attended Demo and Retrospective meetings every sprint, QA Planning meeting weekly.

Reviewed software specifications and supporting documentation from which test cases were generated and provided feedback when more detail was required.

Performed black box/ gray box testing on Product Donation project, including Web and Back end applications.

Performed regression testing, integration testing, interface testing, negative testing in an ad hoc manner

Utilized bug tracking systems, such as Bugzilla, Mingle and TFS (MSFT Team Foundation Server), to create living software defect documents, and report defects to software developers and Business Analysts.

Performed Compatibility by Cross platform testing, including Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.

Environment: Windows 7/2008 Server, Mac OS X; MS SQL Server + eCRM apps, MS SharePoint 2010, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Browsers: IE 11/10/9/8, Chrome, Firefox, Safari.

Design Reactor, Campbell, CA Aug 2009 to June 2010

Software Quality Analyst

Responsibility and Contribution:

CIO/CTO and Virtual Experience Platform.

Worked with clients, developers and the project manager to gather, review and understand the requirements.

Worked with the team, QA Manager and project manager to plan and implement the testing effort and establish test plan and strategy.

Prepared and reviewed Requirement documents to learn the function and scope of the application and to create relevant test cases and test scripts to ensure test coverage.

Perform GUI and functionality, System testing on the application.

Bug Logging, bug fix verification and Regression testing.

Organizing and performing UAT by distributing test scripts to the Users, getting them executed and obtaining the Feedbacks and Reviews.

Functionality and usability testing of Content Management System.

Tested Entitlement module of Project Management System.

Performed extensive Compatibility testing of the website with different browsers and operating systems

Writing daily status reports and QA completion reports.

Environment: Windows XP/Vista, Linux, Java 1.5, Flex, Flash, My SQL 5.0, Hibernate, Tomcat 5.5, Spring, JIRA, Mantis, Wiki, Selenium, MS Office 2007, XML, SVN and Ant.

Verizon Wireless, Walnut Creek, CA Aug 2008 – Apr 2009

Software Quality Analyst

Responsibility and Contribution:

Enterprise Business to Business Commerce Application.

Done Manual Testing for the websites.

Performed Smoke Testing for the weekly builds.

Responsible for developing Test Cases for Functionality and Regression testing manually.

Executed Test Cases and submitted Test Defect Reports using the tool Quality Center (Mercury Tool).

Performed Backend testing using SQL Navigator with SQL queries

Validated the backend results using the XML SPY.

Actively participated in daily bug review meetings and interacted with developers diplomatically to ensure high quality of the application under test.

Submitted status reports daily to the Lead and made timely escalations to the Management.

Environment: Linux, Windows XP, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, SQL Navigator 4.5, XML SPY 5, Oracle9i, Java 1.5, Tomcat 5.5, XML, Perl, CVS and Ant.

Xperex, South SanFrancisco, CA Feb 2007 - May 2008 Software Quality Analyst

Responsibility and Contribution:

Kiosks and Personal Devices.

Configured and Engineered Quality Assurance environment for product deployment.

Assembled and installed Embedded Systems- kiosks in various on sights.

Created Test Cases for testing different types of Embedded Systems- kiosks.

Involved in writing Test Plan documentation and Test Cases for PayByTouch, Fitlab and Information Visitor Center kiosks.

Implemented and executed performance Test Cases.

Setup hardware environment using Kiosks, MiniPC and Kontrons.

Done automation testing using SilkTest for Workbench Application.

Evaluated Selenium for Workbench Application.

Developed and modified the frame file (.inc) by declaring window declarations and default Base State.

Created various Application States to define proper beginning and end states of test script. It also contained global variables and user defined functions.

Written 4test script (.t) to automate most of the test cases to test the functional, security, GUI and regression testing of the application.

Performed Data driven testing, Correlation and check point in the scripts.

Reported to QA manager using SharePoint, Bugzilla and Customized Workbench.

Environment: Linux, Windows XP Embedded, SilkTest 2006R, SharePoint, BugZilla, HTML, C, Java and XML.

Williams-Sonoma Inc, SFO, CA Aug 2006 – Oct 2006

Software Quality Analyst

www.williams-sonoma.com

www.potterybarn.com

www.potterybarnteen.com

www.potterybarnkids.com

Performed Manual Testing for the websites and smoke testing for the weekly builds.

Responsible for developing Test Cases for Functionality and Regression testing manually.

Executed Test Cases and submitted Test Defect Reports using the tool Dimensions.

Actively participated in daily bug review meetings and interacted with developers diplomatically to ensure high quality of the application under test.

Responsible in testing Coremetrics Tags for page ID, tag ID, etc.

Participated in alternate days and weekly meetings to discuss the various development levels of the project.

Environment: Windows XP, Unix, Dimensions, HTML, XML, Java Script, Oracle 9i, Java, IIS, IE, Mozilla, Crystal Reports, Cold Fusion, Cold Fusion MX.

Creative Impressions, Palo Alto, CA Developer/QA Apr 2006 - Jun 2006.

Nightingale Home healthcare and Radius magazine.

Standard Chartered Bank, Chennai, India, Quality Analyst Mar 2004 – May 2005.

Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS))

ZeeSoft, Chennai, India, Quality Analyst Jun 2002 – Feb 2004.

Matrimonial Website.

Enterprise Marketing Management.

EDUCATION / Training

Master of Computer Applications, Bharathiar University, India.

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, University of Madras, India.

Software Quality Assurance training at Simplion Technology, San Jose, CA.

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