Quality Assurance Testing

Soujanya Gattu

**** ***** *** **, *******, WA ***52

Ph.: 425-***-**** Email: *******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A highly creative, goal oriented professional with strong understanding of

Software Development Life Cycle. Areas of expertise include:

. Leadership experience

. Functionality & Performance Testing

. Testing Mobile Handsets

. Wireless Communication Technologies

. WIN CE OS Development tools

. Embedded Applications

. .Net frameworks

. Media transfer protocols

. Device Drivers

. Windows Test Technologies

. Maintaining Test Documents

. Requirements Gathering

SUMMARY

. 7 years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on

Quality Assurance, Manual testing, Automated Testing and System

Testing and also includes 5 years of experience testing WinPhone7

and WinPhone8 Mobiles, Motorola Mobiles and several embedded

devices.

. Experience in testing WP7 OEM's.

. Experience in deploying build applications, monitoring build

status, and analyzing build breaks or issues, BVT Execution.

. Experience in testing Ford Sync Gen II.

. Experience in telecommunications specializing on 3G networks that

can serve both

. GSM and CDMA technologies.

. Experience in executing Automation, Manual and Semi-Automated

tests.

. Experience working closely with developers and test owners on major

blocking issues.

. Strong investigating, troubleshooting and debugging skills.

. Excellent knowledge in qualitative and quantitative data analysis

techniques.

. Superior organizational, time management and decision making

skills.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Professional Abilities: Efficient / Team Player / Highly Self-Motivated /

Fast Learner / Strong Sense of Ethics & Confidentiality / Strict Attention

to Detail & Deadlines.

Personal Qualities: Highly Professional / Friendly / Cooperative

SKILLS

. Databases SQL, Microsoft Access

. Scripting Languages HTML, WML, VB Scripting, Batch Scripting, Perl

Scripting, PowerShell

scripting

. Languages C#, C++

. Microsoft Tools WTT, Product Studio, Source Depot, WP7

Test Central, TFS, SQL Server

. Application Software WIN CE 6.0, MS Office, ASP.Net, VB.Net,

ZMTP,

. Visual Studio Platform Builder, Remote

tools, Dorado, Silverlight

EDUCATION

Certification University of Washington, Seattle

Oct 2007

Major: VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net

Bachelor of Technology Anna University, India

May 2005

Major: Information Technology

WORK EXPERIENCE

Costco Wholesale

May 2012 - Jan 2014

QA Analyst, Web Based E-Commerce Applications, Issaquah, WA

This web based application has been developed on its ability to meet and

anticipate external customer needs. Which allow users to sign up for online

services find and purchase products available within product catalog,

browse through different product category items, complete check out process

and produces order number for tracking purposes.

. Participated in agile/scrum process.

. Analyzing of Business & Functional requirements to fully

understand scope of testing

. Created Test Plan and Test Design based on business & functional

requirements.

. Involved in Smoke testing for each builds or patch and analyzing

if further testing can be performed.

. Writing and Executing the SQL queries and analyzing stored

procedures as part of the backend testing.

. Coded scripts for testing the Test cases and made enhancements for

modified scripts in TFS.

. Perform Data Validation of the data flow from the front-end to the

back-end.

. Conducted automation and manual regression analysis of the Test

Scripts.

. Involved in Quality Assurance of business logic and client side

modules.

. Verifying of bugs for each build and changing the status

accordingly

. Participated in daily bug triage meetings.

. Follow up on defects, closely interacted with development team to

resolve bug fixes, and retested bugs with new builds.

. Involved in User Acceptance Testing and production support.

. Worked as a part of sustainment team involved testing the

production defects.

. Worked closely with end users and developers to ensure application

development meets to user's expectations.

MDSC Hardware QA

SDET, Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA Nov 2010 -

May 2011

. Responsible for designing and developing test plans

. Responsible in performing repeatable testing procedures and processes.

. Responsible in modifying code as required including batch files, make

files, Perl scripts, queries, stored procedures and/or triggers.

. Involved in executing test passes, investigating failures, following

up on issues, assisting FTE's on their areas of ownership such as Wi-

Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Cellular, Touch, etc.

. Involved in executing manual and automated testing of all areas of

functionality on WinPhone8 devices for hardware evaluation and driver

development.

MDSC Partner Quality, WPQx

SDET, Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA June 2010 -

Sept 2010

. Windows Phone Quality Experience is the program that defines

evaluative and qualifying criteria for all WP7 OEM's which are DELL,

HTC, LG and Samsung.

. Responsible for test plan design, test case implementation,

scheduling, test execution and triaging

. Responsible for guiding team in diagnosing, analyzing and

troubleshooting testing failures

. Experience with test automation tools/Frameworks, WinPhone7 Test

Central, Platform Builder.

. Involved in writing scripts for Device Update Automation

. Involved in executing and evaluating Device Health tests.

. Involved in executing Robot-Touch testing on all OEM devices.

. Responsible for writing test cases for Policy Customization.

. Involved in participating triage meetings for resolving major issues

that are causing WP7 OEM's.

Ford Sync-II

SDET, B-Square Corp, Bellevue, WA March 2010

- May 2010

. Ford SYNC, second generation is a factory-installed, in-car

communications and entertainment system developed using

Microsoft Auto software platform - WINCE OS

. Responsible for creating and maintaining automated test scripts

. Responsible for testing Media, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Phone, System, GPS,

Climate and Radio on Sync Simulators.

. Responsible for documenting and analyzing defects

. Worked closely with development teams to refine processes

. Responsible for regression test pass on everyday builds on Virtual Mod

Simulators and Ford vehicles.

. Responsible for regressing and closing bugs.

. Responsible for testing the product code in the specific areas.

. Responsible for Sanity testing before code gets checked in.

Mobile Entertainment Test Team

SDET, Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA Feb 2009

- Feb 2010

. Responsibilities include evaluating functionalities of major

entertainment features of WinPhone7 such as Zune, Camera, Games,

Local Media Playback, Bluetooth, Headsets.

. Responsible for executing Automation using Visual Studio Platform

Builder on several WM7 Devices, evaluating results, investigating

and debugging failures.

. Responsible for weekly manual test pass which covers media testing,

network testing, performance testing, functionality testing,

localization testing, adhoc testing and semi-automated testing.

. Responsible for maintaining Server machines used for Automation.

. Responsible for creating, updating and modifying Automated test

scripts and manual test cases.

. Responsible for maintaining and updating test documentation.

. Responsible for training and assisting new people in the team.

. Responsible for logging, regressing and closing bugs.

WIN CE Mobile Automation Team Jan

2008 - Jan 2009

Build Engineer, Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA

. Responsible for Execution, monitoring and troubleshooting of daily

builds

. Responsible for running Build Verification Tests on several WM7 and

embedded devices to verify the build stability and core functionality

of all latest seven builds using platform builder which has all the

development tools to test, build, debug a WIN CE based platform.

. Actively notifying developer's and test owners up on the build breaks

and blocking issues and working along with them to get them fixed.

. Involved in Sanity testing the build once the fix gets checked in.

. Developed team feature work item which is Scheduler Watcher Service,

it is a Windows service which constantly monitors for .done files in

build and kick off BVT scripts in an automated manner.

. Involved in testing the Silverlight web part in Team's SharePoint site

to ensure that it displays the SharePoint list data properly.

. Responsible for maintaining team wiki with new tests and

documentation.

. Responsible for updating daily results in database and sending out to

team.

. Responsible for logging, regressing and closing bugs.

WAP Browser Test Team

Quality Assurance Tester, Motorola, India July 2006

- Feb 2007

. Responsible for System testing almost all models of Motorola

handsets, analyzing and resolving the issues in cost effective

manner.

. Responsible for Regression and Random testing on Motorola WAP

phones, resulting in finding out the major bugs that crashed the

phone.

. Responsible for writing test scripts for the system test cases

using r2.2.1 and r2.2.2 version software for Automation.

. Involved in writing manual test cases based on specification

documents.

. Report all the test reports and bugs in Motorola web based test

central tool which is called Defect description and tracking

system.

. Involved in Stress and Sanity testing the WAP browser with the

Automation tool called Moto runner.

Pharmacy Management System

QA Engineer, Aurobindo Pharmaceuticals Ltd, India June 2005 - May

2006

The Pharmacy Management System aims at providing robust computerized system

for maintaining the transactions of medical distributors. The aim of

Pharmacy Management System is to provide user-friendly interface, which can

be easily dealt by people who does not have much knowledge in computers.

The interface is provided with relevant controls and names right from login

screen till to the report generation screen

. Responsibilities include initial research & design

conceptualization, development of product requirements, usability

and design validation testing.

. Responsible for UAT, Integration testing and Functional testing.

. Responsible for Black Box Testing the entire project.

. Involved in writing and executing test cases.

. Redrafting test cases and updating test plan when the requirements

are updated.

. Responsible for performing manual testing to evaluate the product

functionality.

. Logging bugs and Interacting with the development team to discuss

the resolution of critical issues before closing them.

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