Karishma Saluja

California

E-Mail: ad40hg@r.postjobfree.com

Experience

Co-founder(Focussed on QA)

A-Life Software, Newark, CA

September 2020-Present

Stock Trainer is a virtual stock trading application for Android with real and live world market data.

The app uses real markets and their data to help beginners make their first steps in the world of stock investment. Users are provided with virtual money to trade stocks and get an understanding of how stock investments work. Stock Trainer supports 13 countries and over 20 different stock exchanges.

Sr Software Engineer(Test)

Visa Inc, Foster City, CA

September 2015-2019

Involved in all phases of software development life cycle for VMPA(visa mobile payment application), Understanding and analyzing business requirements. Involved in testing Java card/Global platform applets by loading capfile(binary format for java card) to the SE, Instantiating the payment application instance i.e, populating it with proper data including highly sensitive data such as cryptographic keys, selecting instance, send APDU(application protocol data unit) commands over contact or contactless interface.Involved in developing automation scripts for Applepay-VMPA, Execution of tests(Automation) and analyzing the results.

Sr QA Analyst

Visa Inc, Foster City, CA

June 2014-September 2015

Testing Java card /Global platform applets by loading capfile(binary format for java card ) to secure element, instantiating the payment application, personalizing the payment application instances i.e. populating it with proper data including highly sensitive data such as cryptographic keys, selecting instance, send APDU commands over contact and Contactless interface

ApplePay-VMPA to support NFC and Chip Innovation team. VMPA is a Java card applet that runs on the secure element(SE) installed on the handset. The VMPA package is composed of various modules which address specific functions. The main functionality of VMPA is to conduct a Visa contactless payment transaction.

Volunteer

American Cancer society,

Redwood city, CA, USA

June 25, 2013-July 30, 2013

•Support in event management (Relay for life)

Assistant Professor

LPU, Punjab, India.

2010 – 2012

Subjects taught: Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling and Drug Designing, Transgenics and Quality modification and Cell Biology

Additional Duties:

Training coordinator

Laboratory coordinator

Induction officer

Project guide for following projects:

1) In silico Characterization of Uncharacterized proteins using computational Tools and servers.

2) In silico approach to identify epitopes in dengue virus protein for vaccine design.

4) On the importance of non-canonical base pairs in RNA structures: some structural insights

5) Human sialyltransferases: Modeling and interaction studies with anticancer phytochemicals

M. Tech Project

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.

2008 to 2010

Team Members: Karishma, Dr. U Devapriyakumar

“Quantitative relationship between structure and stability of Proteins” under Dr.U.Devapriyakumar (http:// www.iiit.ac.in/~deva/Deva/Home.html) IIIT, Hyderabad, India

The project is an attempt to establish a correlation between various properties (independent Variables) of a set of protein molecules with their experimentally known Melting temperatures (dependent variable). There are number of descriptors which describe a protein molecule viz amino acid composition, number of alpha helices, number of beta strands, number of salt bridges, radial distribution function, number of hydrogen bonds,molecular volume, solvent accessible surface area and buried surface area(both for Polar and non-polar amino acids), radius of Gyration of hydrophobic core of proteins etc. Contribution of each descriptor can be seen using multiple linear regression, a statistical procedure used to assess relationship between dependent and two or more Independent variables

Intern

Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (Formerly center for Biochemical technology) (CSIR) Delhi

May 2009 to July 2009

Team Members: Karishma, Dr. Vinod Scaria

•Gbrowse installation

•PECAN Alignment

•Parse the alignments

•Create a MySQL database

•Load the database

•GFF loading

•Setting up the Configuration Files

Lecturer

Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi

2007 – 2008

Subjects taught: Cell biology, Immunology and Molecular Biology

Worked as co-convenor at Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi in NSBB-2007, National seminar on Biotechnology and Bio-Engineering.

Lecturer

University of Science and Technology, Murthal

2006 – 2007

Subjects taught: Cell biology, Immunology and Molecular Biology

Intern

Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (Formerly center for Biochemical technology) (CSIR) Delhi university campus

July 2005 to August 2005

Characterization of RSBU gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at IGIB under Dr. Yogendra Singh (http:// igib.res.in/?q=node/79).

Hands-on experience with PCR, Plasmid isolation, Agarose gel Electrophoresis, Purification of protein by affinity chromato- graphy, bacterial culturing and SDS-PAGE.

Intern

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ansari Nagar

July 2004 - August 2004

Learnt Diagnostic techniques for CMV, HCV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Education

International Institute of Information Technology

Master of Technology (M.Tech.)

2008 – 2010

Kurukshetra University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

2002 – 2006

Computer Proficiency

•Programming languages: Basics of C

•Scripting languages: Perl, Python

•Operating systems: Windows, Linux (UBUNTU)

•Database technology: MYSQL

•Web technology: HTML

Bioinformatics skills

•Hands-on experience in Biological Database searching:

Nucleotide sequence database: GenBank, RefSeq, EMBL Bank and DDBJ.

Protein sequence resource: SwissProt, TrEMBL, Pfam, PIR.

Protein structure resource and other relevant database: PDB, MMDB, SCOP, CATH, OMIM, KEGG Ligand, Drug, Disease and Pathway Database.

•Substitution matrices: PAM, BLOSUM, Jukes Cantor.

•Pairwise sequence alignment: Dotplot, NW, SW.

•Multiple sequence alignment: ClustalW.

•Basics of phylogenetic studies and applications, Tool: PHYLIP

•Sequence based database search: BLAST

•Structure prediction of proteins: Chou-Fasman, GOR.

•Tools/Software: RASMOL, VMD, REDUCE, HBAT, ISIS/DRAW, e-Dragon MMTSB (Molecular modeling tool set) like CCP4 (Areaimol) and Molecular Docking: Argus Lab etc.

•Statistics: R, XLSTAT, Minitab, (Normalization, Regression analysis etc).

Courses

M.Tech

•Inroductory and Advanced Bioinformatics

•Biostatistics

•Computer Aided Drug Designing

•Independent study on Metabolomics

•Information Technology workshop: UNIX, PERL, SED, AWK, PYTHON, MySQL and HTML

•Advanced biology

•Computational structural biology

•Computer Problem Solving

B.Tech

Cell Biology, Microbiology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Bio-analytical Techniques, Industrial Microbiology & Enzyme Technology, Recombinant DNA Technology, Diagnostic Techniques, Downstream Processing, Biostatistics, Animal Biotechnology & Aquaculture, Plant Biotechnology, Food Biotechnology, Environmental Biotechnology, Essentials of Virology, Stem cells in health care, Intellectual property rights, Biopharmaceuticals, Bioethics and Biosafety, Management of Biotech products, and Bioinformatics.

Achievements

•Received certificate for actively participating in “Lecture workshop in Computational Biology” held on 21st & 22nd November 2008, at Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad.

•Received certificate for working as co-convenor at Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi in NSBB-2007, National seminar on Biotechnology and Bio-Engineering.

•Active volunteering and participation in ‘R&D’ showcase at IIIT Hyderabad’ held on 30th &31st January, 2010.

•Cleared National Level M. Tech Bioinformatics Entrance Examination - 2008 conducted by University of Hyderabad.

•Cleared National Level M.Tech Biotechnology Entrance Examination – 2008 conducted by VIT, Vellore.

•Cleared M.Tech Bioinformatics Entrance Examination-2008 conducted by IIIT Hyderabad.

•Top rank holder in interview for the post of lecturer in Biotechnology at Delhi College of Engineering.

•Attended SCFBio workshop on Bioinformatics conducted by IIT Delhi under Prof Jayaram

Abstract Publications

August 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA, Chemistry and Global stewardship.

248th ACS National meeting and Exposition, Chemistry and Global Stewardship

Human sialyltransferases: Modeling and interaction studies with anticancer phytochemicals

On the importance of non-canonical base pairs in RNA structures: Some structural insights

Languages

English, Hindi, Punjabi

Extracurricular Activities

Organizing cultural and technical events, Participating in Cultural activities, Listening to Music, Dancing, Meditating, Art, cooking and singing etc.

Work Authorization

U.S.Citizen

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