Project Quality Assurance

Syrah

Drive, Jyotika Syal *******.******@*****.***

Dublin,

CA

94568

***- ***- ****

Career Summary

• Excellent understanding of quality assurance standards, agile methodologies, and SDLC.

• Knowledge of web design technologies including JSP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, XML and Web Services and significant experience in designing and implementing web applications

• Excellent development skills using latest technologies including Java, C, C++ and in-depth knowledge of J2EE.

• Well proficient in Android SDK Application Development, Android UI Toolkit, and Layout Managers

• Experience in designing, implementing and supporting database development using SQL Server, MySQL & Oracle Pl/SQL.

• Experience in writing API documentation in collaboration with the Project Management and R&D groups with hands on experience in DITA XML.

• Experience in testing software including writing test plans, test cases, test scripts, test summary reports and reviewing test cases with experience in test automation using Selenium suite of tools.

• Hands on experience using Amazon Web Services, Google App engine, IBM BigInsights, Hadoop and MapReduce Programming.

• Experienced in Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) and in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with end-users, expert and quality assurance teams for project meetings.

• In-depth knowledge of Web Services, specifically RESTful Web Services and its development using JAX-RS.

• Three years of diverse software development, test automation, technical writing, and graphic illustration experience. Academic Qualification

MS in Computer Science from San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (Aug 2012-June 2015) GPA: 3.7/4.0 MS in Information Technology from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India (July 2003-June 2005) GPA: 3.8/4.0 Bachelor of Computer Applications from Kurukshetra University, India (June 2000 – June 2003) GPA: 3.7/4.0 Skill Set

Programming Languages: Java(Core, Advanced,

J2EE), C, C++, C#, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS, Perl,

JavaScript, and Ruby

SCM Tools: GitHub, SVN, CVS,BitBucket

Technical Writing tools: FrameMaker, QuarkXPress,

RoboHelp, SnagIt

Database: MySQL, SQL, Oracle Pl/SQL

IDE: NetBeans, Eclipse, Android Studio

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, and Unix, Mac

OS X

Others: Unity 3D, MS Project, JIRA, Bugzilla, Jenkins, JUNIT, Selenium Suite of Tools, TestNg, Maven

Projects

Master Thesis Project SFSU, San Francisco, Sept 2014-June 2015 Created an android app for posting the images on Facebook and Instagram. The Project uses Facebook SDK and Material Design as libraries for implementing the functionality. Once the user picks his preferred choice, the picture shall be uploaded on either Facebook or Instagram with a caption. This functionality is further to be integrated with a large project as one of the modules, where cluster of photos are generated when the user displays the timeline. Then the cluster image, description, time, location, and the participant details are posted on Facebook as status update. MultiPlayer Game Development Project SFSU, San Francisco, Jan 2015-Present Created a multiplayer game in Unity 3D with focus on developing both the client and server for a multiplayer game. This project involves Game Concept Design, Artwork Support, Game Client Development, Game Server Development, Game Network Protocol Development, Database Development, Game, and Contents Development. The project also involves creation of Web Service calls for communication between Unity Client and the Simulation Server. Android Application for Kids SFSU, San Francisco, Sept 2014-Dec 2014 Created an android app “KidzCredit “for kids. The purpose of KidzCredit is to allow parents to monitor their kid’s activities and give credits for their chores (tasks) and allow the kids to complete their tasks by giving them scores. The kids can also send their completed chores for approval simply by clicking on the chore and then, view their scores. Used SQLite as the database for this app. (Link: https://github.com/jsyal/Android_js) Cloud Computing Project SFSU, San Francisco, Sept 2014- Dec 2014 Implemented projects like running Hadoop map reduce on IBM Smart Cloud, using map reduce framework to implement word count and anagram count, writing application code to implement an application that runs on the Google Application Engine (GAE) platform to manage multimedia data including images, audios and videos. The Blobstore APIs used in this project served data objects (called blobs) that are much larger than the size allowed for objects in the Datastore service. (Link: https://poised-artwork-756.appspot.com) MPI Measurements Project SFSU, San Francisco, Jan 2014-May 2014 Created MPI programs to measure the characteristics of AWS Clusters. After running these programs on the clusters in various configurations at three different times of the day and recording the Unix session allowed to measure the performance in different scenarios such as roundtrip time processes on same node; roundtrip time processes on different nodes; barrier time, processes on same node; barrier time, processes assigned in spread mode; and reduce time, processes on same node.

Software Engineering Project SFSU, San Francisco, Jan 2014- May 2014 Performed the role of Team Lead for creating a Web Application “DealClick”, an on-line classifieds for selling used items. The project development was divided into five formal milestones (Milestones 1 – 5: high level specs and design; more detailed specs and design; prototype; beta release; and final release and a demo). The project development involved special emphasis on Iterative, Incremental, Agile and User Centered Design methodologies. Used MYQL as the database, Subversion SVN version control system, HTML5, JavaScript, Twitter Bootstrap2 with the Flatly theme3, An Amazon Web Services EC2 instance running Ubuntu with an Apache web server for the web application.

(Link: http://sfsuswe.com/~s14g04/index.php)

Database Design for Tracking Employee Data Application SFSU, San Francisco, Jan 2014-May 2014 Implemented a backend database to support an employee data application which included designing E-R diagram, Relational Schema, implementing test queries in relational algebra, interactive SQL as well as JDBC and scripting language.

Project Management Project SFSU, San Francisco, Aug 2013- Dec 2013 Worked as a Team Lead to design a complete Project management project showing all the aspects of Software Development Life Cycle. The scenario used was of Healthcare industry using software named LiveCare Transfusion Authentication. The project focused on creating a Business Case (with details such as desired areas of impact, desired MOV, and time frame for achieving the same), Project Infrastructure, Work Breakdown Structure, and Project Schedule and Budget.

Automating Test Cases of School Website sfsu.edu SFSU, San Francisco, Aug 2012- Dec2012 This project involved detailed study of concepts of manual and automation testing of web applications. Project involved data driven automation of sfsu.edu test cases using Selenium suite of tools (Selenium WebDriver & Selenium IDE), JUNIT, TestNg and Microsoft Excel (Apache POI). Test Framework included maven and eclipse. Professional Experience

Carefusion( Technical Writer) Sept 2011 – Apr 2012 (Chandigarh, India)

• Documented User Guides and Training Guides for Pyxis Transfusion Verification products, that enables to record oxygen saturation along with the oxygen amount and delivery mode.

• Documented materials such as installation guides, migrations guides, conceptual overviews, programming examples, release notes using FrameMaker 9.

• Responsible for developing and supporting the Quality Assurance Team by creating, reviewing, editing, and tracking documentation.

Canam Technologies Ltd (Technical Content Writer) May 2009 – July 2009 (Chandigarh, India)

• Created User Guide and Administration Guide for their in-house IT project eTRACRS aimed at handling the admissions process of candidates seeking admissions abroad.

• Created PowerPoint presentations and MRD (Marketing Requirements Documents) for eTRACS and analyzed the business requirements for the website.

Emergtech Business Solutions (Software Developer) Mar 2007 - Oct 2007 (Farmington Hills, MI)

• Assisted the software development team in developing and testing client and server components for their in-house tools and user interface components.

• Created drawings and diagrams for team members and customers using MS Visio in a web-based environment.

• Worked with project integration teams to finalize all the requirements and technical specification documents.

• Logged, classified, tracked, and reported results from discovery through recoding and retesting. Quark Systems Pvt Ltd (XDK Writer) Dec 2004 – Feb 2006 (Mohali, India )

• Wrote documentation that describes how to program and utilize XDK’s for QuarkXPress products (QuarkXPress 6.5

/ QuarkCommerce and documented the APIs in the QDR (Quark Developer Reference) Tool.

• Created help files using RoboHelp and imported finished documents, manuals, conference materials, and training manuals into PDF format for both CD distribution and Internet Publication.

• Produced user guides, software installation guides, system administration guides and context-sensitive online help systems, managed documents in electronic and hard copy formats.

• Involved in manual testing for localization of this application in Middle East languages and cross group collaboration for localization testing of this product.

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