Computer Science Project

SINDHU RAGHAVI PURAM

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Career Focus

A Master's in Computer Science graduate seeking full-time position in Quality Assurance or Database

Designing.

Almost 4 years of experience in manual testing and component designing in the world's largest IT consulting company.

Experience leading high-performing quality assurance and designing teams.

Technical Skills

Software: Toad, HP-Quality Center, Microsoft Office Applications, Selenium basics.

Languages: Java, SQL, PL-SQL, HTML.

Operating System: Windows & UNIX.

Methodologies: Test Case Planning & Execution processes, Functional Requirements,

Regression & Negative testing, User Interface Compatibility Testing,

Performance/Load Testing, Migration Testing, Defect/Bug Tracking,

Testing Strategies and Coverage, QA strategies and QC standards,

Technical documentation, Instructional Design documents.

Education

Masters: Computer Science Dec 2015

Lamar University - Beaumont, TX

GPA: 3.75/4

Bachelor of Technology: Bio-Informatics May 2010

SRM University - Chennai

GPA: 7.8/10

Professional Experience Tata Consultancy Services – Chennai

Component Design Lead (Jun’13 – Jun’14)

Standardized and Implemented design procedures that reduced requirement-design time by over 25% and design based developing and testing issues by 40%.

Modified physical database designs like join indexes, primary indexes, secondary indexes and data skew on various tables based on design requirements, which reduced overall data fetching time by 30%.

Persuaded senior management and spearheaded the process of migrating existing codes from AbInitio to PLSQL, which enhanced performance by reducing report runtime by over 60% and also reduced previously incurred AbInitio licensing costs.

Prepared innovative project proposals for existing clients and acquired projects that generated annual revenue of over $6Mn.

Received the annual "Emerging Leader award" for leading a team, of four component designers, that was considered to be the most cost efficient and value generating team in the project.

Test Lead (Jan’12 - Jun’13)

Tata Consultancy Services

Youngest in the peer group to be promoted to a lead role.

Led a team of 6 program analysts that executed test plans well ahead of the scheduled milestones.

Implemented an innovative way of tracking defects by preparing a checklist, for reporting analysts, which increased the workforce testing efficiency and led to a faster completion of projects by 8%.

Organized formal and informal design review sessions during the software development life cycle, to assess and provide inputs on functional requirements, productive design schedules and many other

potential issues, which further reduced the project completion time by over 15%.

Administered the practice of root cause analysis in the team, which reduced time consumed on fixing recurring defects, thereby reducing project completion time.

Accelerated the overall average QA testing handover time by over 30%, within two months of taking charge, which enabled the project management team to allocate existing workforce to other functions.

Awarded "Team of the Month" four consecutive times for overall quality, performance and for a record of "zero bugs detected" during live deployment of various requirements during the project.

Programmer Analyst (Sep’10 - Jan’12)

Tata Consultancy Services

Performed Smoke Testing, Functional testing, System integration testing, Regression testing, Database testing, black box testing and Data driven testing on the code, at various Phases of test cycles, to ensure defect less delivery of requirements.

Involved in developing "Requirements Traceability Matrix" (RTM) to ensure that all the functional test cases is considered, which resulted in flawless execution of all undertaken projects.

Utilized MS-Excel extensively for creating different sets of test cases, which minimized the testing time of new requirements that were a modification of the existing codes, leading to its adoption by the senior management as a standard documenting procedure on various other projects.

Utilized quality center extensively to track, analyze and document defects that resulted in better execution of project test cycles.

Received "On the spot" award for overall performance and contribution to the project for the year 2011.

Graduate Assistant (Feb’15 – Dec’15)

Lamar University

Functioned as the Graduate assistant for the Computer Science Department on courses including Microcomputers, Java and Analysis of Algorithms.

Supported departmental processes related to student recruitment including peer advising/mentoring,

conducting campus tours and orientation activities.

Managed administrative tasks including preparation of PowerPoint presentations, data entry and analysis, website development, and collation of marketing materials and presentations.

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