QA Lead

Shikha Gulhar

E-mail: ************@*****.*** Contact#: 408-***-****

Summary:

. Solution-oriented professional with 9+ years of diverse experience in

software testing of enterprise applications, analysis, design, and

implementation.

. Strength in guiding the design and execution of automated and manual

testing strategies, identify risks and issues, and enhance the on-time

delivery of release.

. Planning and implementing new processes, procedures and tools for Test

Management, quality assurance testing, defect management, status

reporting, change management and problem resolution within Waterfall and

AGILE (SCRUM) development environments

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Quality Management:

. Managed multiple QA and Automation projects. Deployed testing techniques

as Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Load Testing, Database driven

techniques.

. Proven track record of successful Test Design, Planning, implementing

Test Strategies with accurate and efficient solution approaches,

Requirements Traceability, Configuration management, Defect tracking,

Test Automation and Performance Testing.

. Technology Background:

Testing Tools Quick Test Pro, Jmeter, LoadRunner, WinRunner.

Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver

Scripting Languages Javascript, PERL

Programming Languages Java,, VB Script

Application Servers Tomcat, Jboss

Databases ORACLE, SYBASE

Java Technologies J2EE, JDBC, Ajax, Apache Storn, Apache Kafka,

Zookeeper

Operating Systems Linux, Windows

Miscellaneous Eclipse IDE, worked with UML tools,

collaborative tools such as Wiki

. SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and SCRUM process with hands on

expertise in requirements gathering, design, testing, deployment,

maintenance and support, onsite and offshore coordination and

communication.

. Participating and conducting defect prevention activities that would

include meetings, setting up code reviews, analysing and

training/orientation of resources

. Continuous Improvement: Strong interpersonal and communication skills

with a track record of motivating and mentoring team players to achieve

improved operational efficiency and enhanced customer satisfaction;

Strong domain knowledge enabling efficient test strategies.

Professional Experience:

ECOFACTOR, Redwood City, CA FEBURARY 2014 - PRESENT

Role: QA LEAD/Manager

Ecofactor provides energy saving services to residential homes through

energy and utility companies, through 3 services; Energy Efficiency through

energy saving algorithms, Optimized Demand Response and HVAC Performance

Monitoring services

Testing divided into Platform Team and Application Team. Application team

supports consumer portal and mobile application. Platform team responsible

for maintaining backend part of the product (including webservices and

database) along with partner integration (webservices integrated with

partner's sytems and tools). This team was also responsible to handle BIG

data architecture for running algorithms and aggregation jobs for computing

end user saving and supporting STORM/TWITTER architecture in the backend

Roles and Responsibilities

. Extensively involved in product migration and integration testing to

STORM/TWITTER architecture

. Supported testing and verification of APIs and algorithms during

Demand Response summer program 2014

. Load tested DR APIs using JMeter

. Mobile testing on iphone and android

. Developed automation test cases for APIs using Selenium-TestNG-Jenkins

framework.

. Daily meetings and co-ordination with partners in order to support

integration activities for STORM and Kafka migration

. Extensively involved in data validation testing .

. Interfacing with clients for requirement discussion and technical

meeting during DR season

. Involved in test estimations, status reporting, manage overall testing

. Working with off-shore team in India and coordinating automation work

. Regular meetings with QA team members, developers, and Product manager

on bug triage, test cases reviews and requirement gathering (used JIRA

for bug management and TestLink for requirement and test cases)

QUICKPAY CORP, SFO, CA APRIL 2012 - JANUARY 2014

Role: QA LEAD/MANAGER

QP QuickPay is a secure mobile payment platform that helps you conveniently

find and pay for parking using your mobile phone. The app is supported on

both android and iOS platform. Once registered with the application, on

login the application presents the user with a map of QP supported parking

locations with respect to his current location. The user selects the

desired location and does a cashless parking (app is linked to secured pay

gate). End user can access different types of location (daily lots, gated

parking, on street meter parking) and based on contact preference the

system provided notifications, parking expiry alerts and parking receipts.

Roles and Responsibilities

. Prepared a comprehensive quality plan to ensure high quality delivery.

Prepare a detailed test execution schedule, baseline the same, manage

any changes in order to ensure on time delivery of the project

. Extensively worked on requirement review, regression test, automation

and defect management

. Involved in functional testing, Inter-System Testing and User

Acceptance on mobile, web application, and text messaging.

. Wrote SProc, SQL queries and Joins to validate data in database

. Used Testlink to write, execute and run reports for various release

based test cases

. Implemented and administered API Automation using Selenium and

Performed demos for sprint cycles

. Developed automated functional test scripts and reusable components

for regression test suites.

. Involved in Process improvement and in maintaining and following

quality related standards, procedures and reports.

SUNPOWER CORP, SJ, CA JULY 2010 - MARCH 2012

Role: Sr QA ENGINEER

SunPower Monitoring System (SPMS) is a system in place to monitor data for

both commercial and residential clients of SunPower. It provides an

interface to the end customer where he could check the production generated

and consumption value. This system supports three main websites -

residential site for homeowner customers, dealer site for commercial end

users and SunPower partners/dealers and Admin website for SunPower

technical support personnel's.

Roles and Responsibilities

. Involved in API testing both manually and through automation.

. Participated in IPhone and Android application testing.

. Extensive backend validation and data integrity testing with help of

PL/SQL scripts (SQL Server 2005 and 2008).

. Wrote scripts in Quick Test Pro to support automation testing

. Involved in localization testing of the websites.

. Deployed build on QA, Staging environments

ALPHA NET CORP, Santa Clara, CA OCT 2007 - June 2010

Role: <Consultant>Sr QA ENGINEER at the sites below

Worked for the following clients

. SUNPOWER CORP

. VMWARE INC

. CISCO SYSTEMS

. Vayama

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, Gurgaon, India DEC 2005 - JUNE 2007

Role: SYSTEM ANALYST

Internship at LIGHTHOUSE SYSTEMS, NAGPUR, India AUG 2005 - NOV 2005

Training AND CERTIFICATIONS

. Brainbench Assessment Results, Computer Programmer - Java 2, DSDM

Awareness Certificate from Radtac, Quality Analyst Training both

Manual and Automation

. Workshops in improving Test and QA processes

. Scrum and Agile training

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