Management Quality
Resume:
Vaishnavi Venkataramanan
Ph: 713-***-****
Email: *.********@*****.***
Professional Summary:
Over 5 years of excellent experience in various facets of industry like Educational, Networking and Retail domains.
Experience in testing of Web based application, Point of Sale Application and Networking devices verification,
expertise in attending to customer issues and providing maintenance to projects. Skilled in collaborating with
global, cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, project/program management, technology assimilation, and
organizational development.
Working experience in SDLC Software methodologies – Waterfall, Agile methodologies.
Experienced in executing various types of test procedures including Integration Testing, Smoke Testing,
Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing ( UAT) and System Testing on multiple products and multiple
platforms.
Responsible in maintaining defect report, test plans, Documenting User Manuals, Team status report,
technical documents using tools and excel sheet.
Excellent Analytical, Trouble Shooting and Problem Solving skills. Skilled in bug reporting and tracking
using Clear Quest, Bugzilla, HP Quality center, Quality Management .
Self – initiated with excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
Worked closed with team leads and client managers during requirement gathering phase and designing the
technical test plan.
Excellent communication skills and exchanged reviews over cross-functional and cross global teams to
resolve defects.
Responsible in creating and reviewing Traceability matrix documents.
Provided solutions during critical situations and production environments.
Hand on experience in using various quality analysis tools and defect tracking tools.
Worked on projects that required database testing.
Lead a team of 6 and provided training and knowledge session to various team members.
Have had excellent experience in interacting with clients directly.
Underwent extensive training in Software Testing with Wipro technologies in SQL, XML, UNIX, Java,
database, testing methodologies 101.
Education:
• MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering,California State University, Sacramento, USA
• BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna University, India
Awards:
• Recipient of “Excellence in Service” awarded by ASI Team of California State University.
• Received “Feather in My Cap” award for productive deliverable from Wipro Technologies.
Technical Skills:
• Programming Languages: Verilog, VHDL, C, C++, Perl, Matlab
• Software Tools: Xilinx ISE 10.1i, Cadence PSpice, L-Edit, ModelSim, Synopsys VCS, Design Vision
• Database Management Tools: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), SQL Server, Clear
Quest, Bugzilla, Star team, HP Quality Centre
• Network Tools: Toad, WinSCP 2.6, Putty, Winmerge, Filezilla, WireShark, NoMachine
• Operating Systems: MS Windows, Unix, Linux, VMware
Work Experience:
• Quality Engineering – Motion Control Engineering Inc, CA June 2014 – August 2014
Involved in performing quality testing for applications for MCE. Also responsible for providing various technical
documents.
Responsibilities:
o Responsible in performing quality testing for MCE based applications.
o Responsible for defect management and analysis using Start Team, Clear Quest.
o Support automation framework.
o Responsible for user interfaces testing.
o Developed test cases to execute test and to verify it with the customer request document.
o Responsible for creating test case document, test plan, test report and user manual documents.
o Expertise in using MS Excel and Word to create documents.
• Graduate Assistant Dr. Kumar, Electrical Engineering Dept., CSUS September 2013 –
May 2014
• Test Engineering – Hewlett-Packard, Roseville, CA June 2012 – May 2013
HP’s networking division is one the largest division in the field of engineering where a lot of R & D engineering has
been done to provide various products used at different environments like home products, campus, industries.
Environment: Networking, TCP/IP, Perl, Linux, UNIX, VMware, Eclipse, GIT Server
Responsibilities:
o Responsible in performing manual and automated test to verify applications.
o Involved extensively in automation process. Create defect report and equip development team of status and
track defects in HP ALM tool.
o Responsible for identifying and validating user interfaces.
o Communicated precisely and effectively with cross-functional, cross-cultural global teams and willingness
to learn and contribute to team.
o Ability to work efficiently with different teams and provide on time deliverables.
• Website Management – California State University, Sacramento, CA August 2011 – May 2012
ASI team of CSUS is an organization responsible for student related activities. The website provides updates and
events that happen in the college campus.
Environment: Joomla, HTML, RCs, Photoshop, Clear Quest, Bugzilla
Responsibilities:
o Responsible for performing testing for asi.csus.edu website for quality assurance and product testing.
o Maintained new user change requests (RCs) for ASI website and completed the deliverable on time.
o Resolved existing and new defects on a timely manner for sub divisions within ASI.
o Communicated the status of defects to the higher management effectively.
o Provide post production support.
o Worked extensively with ASI’s Children’s Centre, Aquatic Center, Peak Adventures, and KSSU of ASI
Organization to incorporate new user requests on their website promptly.
• Software Engineer at Wipro Technologies, India March 2008 – September 2010
Wipro Technologies is a leading service based IT company in India. Best Buy Stores is a one of the major clients
in the Retail domain for Wipro Technologies.
1. Best Buy Online Retail Stores: December 2009 - September 2010
Best Buy also has its online retail stores. As an experienced tester, I was responsible in verification of Best buy’s
new modules for Tax Calculation during online purchase and Best Buy Mobiles application to check for inventory
and ability to access various mobile phone services.
Environment: ATG – E- commerce, HP quality Center, SQL, Clear Quest, IBM Quality management, MS Excel,
Bugzilla, Java
Responsibilities:
Have had excellent experience in design of test systems for software verification of Best buy’s
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online application.
Experienced in performing functional, regression, integration, system, software development life
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cycle (SDLC) methodology and user acceptance validation of various software platforms using SQL,
UNIX and Java.
o Created and maintained overall technical test plan for the product during development and test cycles.
o Participated and updated team about defects with priorities even during critical needs.
Responsible in executing different Builds to ensure working and test environment was available
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without issues.
o Experience in testing user interfaces and communicating with 3 rd party applications/ interfaces validation.
o Have had experience in using database for application based testing.
o Extensively used defect tracking tools including Bugzilla, Clear Quest.
o Involved in automation using HP Quality center.
2.BestBuy Stores POS – Mexico Release May 2008 – November 2009
In year 2008, Best Buy opened a new store in Mexico. My role as a Quality Test Engineer was to make sure that
their application on POS – Point of Sale device was compliant to its requirements. The modules involved extensive
testing of working of sales and returns of items.
Environment: Retail domain, ATG, SQL, Java, XML, Oracle 10i
Responsibilities:
Responsible for executing user test cases in development and QA build environments.
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Created test scenarios and test cases for annual verification using MS excel.
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Responsible in performing Unit, System and Regression testing for Best Buy Stores in Mexico.
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Responsible for automation of IBM POS and application using Quality Management in UNIX environment.
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Communicated effectively to onsite and offshore development team about defects instantaneously.
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Provided daily updates to Team Lead and weekly updates to the Team.
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Code written in Java Script, Java and Oracle db.
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Responsible in updates test status on the POS device.
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3.Best Buy Stores China Release: March 2008 – April 2008
Best buy is a US based retail store in the field of consumer electronics and appliances. They opened a store
in China and the project was to cater to the needs as per requirement for Best Buy Store POS – China
Release.
Environment: WProgram management, QTC, ATG, XML, MySQL
Responsibilities:
Implemented database using SQL Server to make sure values were being stored in DB as expected.
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Was responsible in creating new tables and indexes.
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Involved in writing complex SQL and stored procedures.
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Involved in fixing bugs and unit testing with test cases and Quality center.
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Developed user and technical documentation.
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Participated and updated team about defects with priorities even during critical needs.
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