Senior QA Engineer (Manual Testing of Web and Mobile Applications)

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2nd Block, Jayanagar,

Bangalore - 560011

Karnataka, India

VINOD KRISHNA RAJU

Career Objective:

To pursue a good career in an organization, where I can utilize my skills, potential and grow along with the organization.

Profile Summary:

Worked as Test Engineer at HP-ES, Bangalore.

Worked as Senior Test Engineer at Tata Elxsi, Bangalore.

Worked as Senior QA Engineer at Knowledge Adventure India, Bangalore.

Excellent team player (Problem solving, interpersonal skills and quick learner). Professional Experience:

Worked as a Collection Officer at IBM Daksh, Bangalore.

Worked as a Test Analyst at HP-ES, Bangalore.

Worked as Senior Test Analyst at Tata Elxsi, Bangalore.

Worked as Senior QA Engineer at Knowledge Adventure India, Bangalore.

7+ years of IT experience in Game Testing.

1 year of experience in Manual Testing in Web and Mobile Testing in Broadcast Industry.

1 year 9 Months of experience in Mobile Game Testing on the following platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, Facebook, Amazon and FUHU (Dreamtab). Technical Skills:

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Defect Reporting Tool: Test Track Pro, DevTrack Pro, JIRA and Redmine.

Automation Tool: Selenium IDE and Fiddler (Knowledgeable)

Undergone training for Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS/3DS Standards

(Compliance) Testing.

Undergone training for Compatibility Testing (PC). Educational Qualifications:

B.Sc [Electronics] from Vijaya College, Bangalore : April/2005 - 68.11%

PUC from Vijaya College, Bangalore : April/2002 - 43.66%

SSLC from M.E.S High School, Bangalore : March/1999 - 64.32 Extra Curricular Activities:

Have completed 5 years of N.C.C with ‘B’ and ‘C’ certificates. Was the Company Under Officer (C.U.O) for the 2/5 Company, 7th Karnataka Battalion.

Have been awarded a certificate of appreciation for outstanding performance as an artist by the Theatre Group Bombay at THESPO, a national level theatre competition held at Rangashankara Theatre Bangalore.

Work Experience:

Knowledge Adventure India Pvt Ltd:

Joined as Senior QA Engineer to Knowledge Adventure India Pvt Ltd on 20th January 2014. Responsibilities as a Senior QA Engineer:

- Preparing Test Cases, Checklists and executing them.

- Finding defects in the application builds w.r.t functionality, gameplay, text, graphics, network related, and sound on all the platforms.

- Categorizing the defects depending on the severity, type into different classes.

- Writing down a detailed bug report and taking necessary videos\screenshots\logs that support the defect.

- Reporting and managing the defects on the Defect Tracking Tool (Redmine).

- Tracking the progress of the defect and performing necessary actions (retesting, regression, providing more information whenever required, etc.,)

- Preparing Status Reports, Defect Trackers and sending them to producers.

- Performing end to end testing when the game is in QA and Staging environments.

- Performing appropriate sanity checks when the game is on LIVE environment.

- Running Fiddler to capture/viewing the service calls, elapsed time and logs of the game when in QA, Staging and LIVE environments.

- Capturing device logs on the Diskaid (iMazing) tool for iOS devices, android devices and providing info about the critical bugs to Developers, TD’s and Producers for evaluating, solving and fixing the critical bugs quickly.

- Localization Testing - Performing end to end testing of the game on the respective languages that the game supports.

- Mentoring new testers on defect finding, reporting and tracking.

- Tracking regressions, re-testing whenever a new build is received, preparing Regression reports, updating the regression status of the defect tracking tool.

- Taking care of the teams and the projects in the absence of the Module Leads.

- Providing the team with a strong knowledge about the work environment, efforts required for the success of the project and the importance of the project to the company.

- Keeping the team informed about all the necessary developments in the project and communicating the same through the mails.

- Actively participating in the weekly conference call with the Production and Dev teams offshore.

- Proactively coordinating with the Production, Dev and Server teams for immediate bug fixes and for better improvement and performance of the game. Projects Tested: School of Dragons, School of Dragons: Alchemy Adventure and Neopets: Ghoul Catchers

Platform: iOS, Android, Windows, Facebook, Amazon and FUHU (Dreamtab) Tata Elxsi:

Joined as Senior Test Engineer to Tata Elxsi Pvt Ltd on 26th November 2012. Responsibilities as a Senior Test Engineer (Business Broadcast Unit):

- Preparing Test Cases, Checklists and executing them.

- Finding defects in the application builds w.r.t functionality, text, graphics, network related, and sound on all the browsers in Web and on all the mobile devices on the App and WAP.

- Categorizing the defects depending on the severity, type into different classes.

- Writing down a detailed bug report and taking necessary videos\screenshots\logs that support the defect.

- Reporting and managing the defects on the Defect Tracking Tool (JIRA).

- Tracking the progress of the defect and performing necessary actions (retesting, regression, providing more information whenever required, etc.,)

- Preparing Status Reports, Defect Trackers and sending them to the clients.

- Preparing the detailed Web site Monitoring report for Web, WAP and Star Sports Account page during Live matches.

- Running automation scripts for the Login and Logout of the website on Selenium IDE tool on Firefox browser.

- Mentoring new testers on defect finding, reporting and tracking.

- Reviewing defects written by the team mates before reporting on the defect tracking tool.

- Tracking regressions whenever a new build is received, preparing Regression reports, updating regression status on the defect tracking tool.

- Taking care of the team and the project in the absence of the Team Lead.

- Providing the team with a strong knowledge about the work environment, efforts required for the success of the project and the importance of the project to the company.

- Keeping the team informed about all the necessary developments in the project and communicating the same through the mails.

- Assigning different tasks to the testers which would aid them to excel in the current projects and future projects to come.

- Personally taking initiatives in finding ways that may help the game project, the account in improving performance, providing better support to the clients to strengthen the trust and bond with the clients which in turn may help in getting more business to the company.

Project: Multi-sports testing.

Client: Star Sports

Platform:

Web - On all the latest browsers.

App - On all the latest and current versions on iOS and Android. WAP - On the latest iOS, Android and Windows devices. Projects Tested:

- CRICKET: The ICC Champions Trophy 2013, The Ashes Series 2013, The Australia tour of England T20, The Australia tour of England ODI’s, Champions League T20 2013, Australia Tour of India ODI’s 2013, West Indies Tour of India Series 2013.

- FOOTBALL: The English Premier League, Serie A and La Liga. (2013)

- FORMULA 1: The Italian Grand Prix, The Singapore Grand Prix, The Korean Grand Prix, The Japanese Grand Prix, The Indian Grand Prix and The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. (2013)

HP-BAS:

Joined as Test Engineer to the then EDS-GDAS now HP-BAS on 14th June 2007. Responsibilities as a Functional Tester:

- Preparing Test Guide and Checklists.

- Finding defects in the game build w.r.t game play, functionality, text, graphics, network related (if applicable), and sound.

- Categorizing the defects depending on the severity, type into different classes.

- Checking for repeatability of defects in different areas of the game and in future builds of the game.

- Writing down a detailed bug report and taking necessary game videos\screenshots\logs that support the defect.

- Reporting the defect on the Defect Tracking Tool (ex: DevTrack/Test Track Pro)

- Tracking the progress of the defect and performing necessary actions (regression, providing more information whenever required, etc.,)

- Reporting regression results to the Team Lead to take necessary actions on the defect.

Games Tested as Functional Tester: Backyard Football - 2008 (Sony PlayStation 2), Destroy All Humans (Nintendo Wii), Hong’s Music Battle (Nintendo Wii), Backyard Baseball - 2009

(Nintendo Wii), Fuel (Sony PlayStation 3), Rock University Presents - Naked Brothers Band

(Sony PlayStation 2), Desktop Tower Defense (Nintendo DS), UP (Sony PlayStation 2), UFC 3 Undisputed (Microsoft Xbox 360)

Responsibilities as Support Test Lead:

- In addition to the above mentioned responsibilities, I was involved in preparing daily Status Reports, Daily Time Reports of the game under test.

- Mentoring new game testers on defect finding, reporting and tracking.

- Reviewing defects written by the team mates before reporting on the defect tracking tool.

- Preparing Weekly Status Reports.

- Tracking regressions whenever a new game build is received, preparing Regression reports, updating regression status on the defect tracking tool.

- Taking care of the team and the game project in the absence of the Team Lead.

- Participating along with the Team Lead in weekly conference calls with the clients to discuss about the progress of the game project.

Games Tested as Support Test Lead: Gallop & Ride (Nintendo Wii), Biggest Loser Season 1 (Nintendo Wii), Biggest Loser Season 2 (Nintendo Wii), Homefront (Sony PlayStation 3), Ridge Racer Unbounded (Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3), WWE 13 (Nintento Wii).

Responsibilities as a Team Lead:

I have lead two game projects to first shot successful submission results. During this, the team I was provided with consisted of fresh testers with absolutely no game testing knowledge or background.

As a Test Lead I was responsible for:

- Preparing the SOW Hours report, conducting a Project Kick-off meeting with the team along with the Project Manager and providing a clear focus and idea about the scope and severity of the game project.

- Providing the team with a strong knowledge about the work environment, efforts required for the success of the game project and the importance of the project to the company.

- Mentoring the new game testers on defect finding, reporting and tracking and Monitoring the test coverage and progress regularly and tracking the efforts on a daily basis and providing feedback to the testers on a weekly basis.

- Holding team meetings to discuss the progress of the game project, providing necessary feedback, praising the efforts, guiding the testers whenever the team performance did not match the requirements.

- Proactively approaching the team members to keep a check on their efforts, grievances, strengths and weaknesses.

- Preparing Status Reports and sending them to the clients daily and the Weekly Status Reports on the last working day of a week.

- Keeping the team informed about all the necessary developments in the project and communicating the same through mails.

- Assigning different tasks to the testers which would aid them to excel in the current game projects and future projects to come.

- Identifying the strengths and weaknesses and taking necessary actions to aid the strengths and fight off the weaknesses and encouraging the team members to become proactive and take up additional responsibilities depending on their strengths.

- Actively involving myself with the Standards Testing Team to track the progress of the project w.r.t to the Standards Testing required for the game under test.

- Personally taking initiatives in finding ways that may help the game project, the account in improving performance, providing better support to the clients to strengthen the trust and bond with the clients which in turn may help in getting more business to the company.

Games Lead: MX Vs ATV Reflex (Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3), UFC UNDISPUTED 2010 (Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3). Have successfully completed training in Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS/3DS Standards testing.

Responsibilities as a Standard Tester (Compliance Testing):

- Gained knowledge about testing areas with respect to the Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS/3DS console standards and the testing criteria involved with respect to the console manufacturers.

- Got involved and worked with the standards team and gained insight about the standards testing techniques.

- I was involved in preparing daily Status Reports, Daily Time Reports of the game under test.

- Tracking regressions whenever a new game build is received, preparing Regression reports, updating regression status on the defect tracking tool. Games Tested as Standard Tester (Compliance Testing): Go Vacation (Nintendo Wii) Compatibility Testing PC:

- Gained knowledge about testing areas with respect to the Compatibility Testing on PC and the testing criteria involved with respect to the console manufacturers. IBM Daksh:

Collection Officer

The job profile included inbound and outbound calls from/for customers in the United Kingdom and collecting debts from the defaulters and helping customers for the repayment and settlement of their accounts for Lloyds TSB Bank. Achievements:

Was awarded a certificate of appreciation by THQ Inc QA in special recognition for exceptional performance and commitment to ensuring excellence in the field of Quality Assurance during the year 2010.

I have achieved a rating ‘Exceeding Expectation’ consistently for the past 3 years for my performance during 2009, 2010 and 2011.

PERSONAL PROFILE:

Father’s Name : R Narayan Raju

Date of birth : 08/31/1983

Languages known : English, Hindi, Kannada,Telugu and Deutsch A1. Hobbies : Gaming, Playing Volley Ball, Cricket and Adventure Activities. Tel no : 080-********

Mobile : +91-988*******

E-mail : *****.*****@*****.***

The information provided above is true to the best of my knowledge. Vinod Krishna Raju

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