RASHMI KOGALI

San Ramon, CA

Cell: 925-***-****

adhzi8@r.postjobfree.com

Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rashmikogali

OBJECTIVE: Software QA Engineer.

PROFILE:

• Engineering graduate with 14 years of solid Software testing experience

(black box/manual/automation testing) working with Web-based Mobile

(ios/Android) and Windows applications

• Expertise in leading and managing multiple projects including offshore team.

• Ability to manage, guide & motivate the team to follow the software industry best practices and deliver good quality projects to customers.

• Experience testing mobile devices on ios and Android.

• Developed mobile automation framework for iphone testing.

• Developed API automation framework for GET/POST/DELETE requests.

• Extensive experience on Agile/Scrum methodology.

• Work closely with Product Management and Developer to define and collect requirement to clearly define scope.

• Interact effectively and collaborate with other teams, including Product Management and Development for cross platform functionality.

• Strong background with web testing (functional and cross browser).

• Working knowledge of software development life cycle (Waterfall and Agile).

• Strong understanding of software testing methods and principles.

• Expertise in documentation – test cases, test suites, etc. Provide equivalence partitioning, boundary testing, and other techniques to develop test cases.

• Strong in basic SQL.

• Report software defects and verify them fixed in new releases.

• Expertise in functional, regression, compatibility, and integration testing.

• Experience testing on various configurations and different browsers.

• Underwent training and possess sound knowledge in various skill set including Software Quality Assurance, Test Automation (Quick Test Pro), Selenium, Internet and E-commerce, programming.

• Exposure and familiar with Selenium, Webdriver, Appium, and Sikuli.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical skills, and can do attitude.

• Self motivated, adaptable, and eager to learn new technologies and methods.

• Passion for Software Quality and strong drive for results. TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS: Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista/7/95/98/8/10, Mac OSx, and DOS

Languages: HTML5, HTML/DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP, Java, python, C++, and C

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, MySQL, and Mongo Tools: Testlink, Rally, Firebug, Visual Interdev, Dream Weaver, SQL*Plus, SQL

Navigator, Toad, Mongo db.

Devices: Apple iOS and Android phones and tablets. Testing Automation: QuickTest Pro, Selenium, Sikuli, Webdriver, Cucumber, Gauge

Bug Tracking; QC, Bugzilla, Mantis, JIRA.

ETL and BI tools: Ascential Datastage, Cognos Reportnet WORK EXPERIENCE:

01/20 – current : QA Lead, SocialSurvey 10677 Alcosta Blvd, San Ramon, CA 94582.

As a QA Lead and key member of Quality my responsibilities were:

• Built up QA team, lead the QA process and drive the QA team in a fast paced startup environment.

• Hired and trained the team on the product, managed both automation and manual testing.

• Involved with hands on application testing for functionality, backend testing using MySql and Mongo DB, API testing using Postman queries, and complete end to end testing of the application.

• Manage team to develop API automation wherein the response is validated against DB query results.

• Managed UI automation implementation for the application based on Selenium, cucumber, Java framework.

• Successfully improved the testing time by having the team to automate regression tests.

• Integrated all sprints and automation status in Qtest management tool.

• Documented testplans in confluence and used Jira for bug tracking.

• Collaboratively worked with all team members in Sprint planning and grooming, closely interacted with developers, product and design leads to come up with Acceptance criteria for the user stories and meet the timely deadlines.

• Strive for defect free deliveries.

05/17 – 01/ 20 QA Automation Engineer, Zignal Labs, 600 California Street, San Francisco, CA.

Involved in testing real-time dashboards, analyze social media content, widgets, newsroom, and reports etc.

Perform manual, functionality testing on front end, verify results on backend using Mongo db and, perform API testing using Postman queries. We are following Agile process with small scrum/teams, 2 week sprints followed by sprint demos.

• Developed API testing framework using python and gauge and implemented scripts to automate about 60 queries on GET/POST/DELETE requests.

• Created Mobile automation framework using Selenium, python, gauge to test our web based application on iphone. Automation tests are run on Browserstack real devices.

• Implementing additional scripts and maintenance to our existing automation on our main Zen application.

• Documentation and testing of our client server ZCC application and command controller.

• Successfully implemented automation to read and verify emails sent through our application for reports, username/password resets, and various other functions.

• Attend meetings, standups, and participate as release jockey.

• Involved in interviewing and hiring of teammates. 11/15 – 05/17 QA Consultant, Authentic8 Inc, Mountain View, CA. As independent contractor my responsibilities included testing our product SILO which is a cloud based secure browser. Test various functionalities, involved with manage login credentials, access controls and data use policies. Mainly involved in creating, executing testcases using testlink on various platforms including testing on ipad app, implementing and running sikuli automation scripts. 05/10 – 09/15 Lead QA Engineer, ON24 Inc, San Francisco, CA. Lead mulitple projects : Apollo mobile, HTML5 desktop project, Viper and offsite team members in India. Progressively worked on mobile automation, in Agile scrum methodology. Involve in planning with Product management team to collect requirements, define scope, tasking and bucketing for every sprint. Interact and collaborate with other team leads, developers and work as a team to meet the target and deadline in a timely manner.

• Test webcast for Live, On Demand, and Custom request events both on desktop and mobile devices (ios and android).

• Expertise testing on different browsers like safari, firefox, ie, and chrome.

• Expertise testing various mobile devices like iphone/ipads, android phones/tablets on various OS versions and browsers like native and chrome.

• Exposure and familiarity with Java, Selenium, Webdriver and Appium framework.

• Help automation for mobile ios automation, test and debug daily builds.

• Incharge of maintaining and ordering mobile devices for QA Lab.

• Actively researched to use cost effective ways for demo presentations to remote teams.

• Develop and maintain a test coverage matrix for all supported mobile devices, operating systems and software versions.

• Involve in bug triage with PO.

• Create PPT animation slides and Perform test on Slide transitions.

• Create test plans, test cases, and checklists, and automation feature files using cucumber.

• Setup and test events with both HTML and Flash consoles including HTML5 mobile consoles.

• Worked on WCC project and Elite presentations on desktop.

• Test Event Manager, Presentation Manager, and Reports module, Elite presentations for various types of events.

• Create and test several types of webcasts: phone,webcam,simulive, and screenshare events.

• Test group chat, polls, Q&A, surveys, and various features of webcast.

• Document results and defects and follow through to resolution using Jira as a bug tracking tool.

• Lead training to offshore team and coordinate on daily basis to assign and review their tasks including automation.

• Proven experience delivering high quality software products within a full development life-cycle

• Perform manual, functional, compatibility, and regression testing in Agile methodology.

• Attend daily scrum, Sprint planning meetings, Bucketing, Demo & Retrospective meetings.

• Interact with product management to define scope and with developers to identify and resolve various issues.

• Recognition or Star Awards:

Received MVP for Webcasting Platform in August 2012 and Mobile Platform in April 2015.

• Certification: HTML5

• Training: Agile Scrum

03/08 – 01/10 QA Engineer, Vivaty Inc, Menlo Park, CA Test web based platform that enables social virtual experiences that are accessed inside the web browser and integrated within a community, social network, or branded web site. Users can have a personal 3D virtual scene and can customize their own personal virtual space with photos, videos, music, objects, etc. that they choose. They can then invite their friends and interact and chat with them using their personalized avatars.

• Work in Agile (2 weeks cycle) development environment with development effort outsourced

• Provide Functional, Regression, Compatibility, Smoke, Sanity, User Interface testing

• Perform cross-platform (Windows XP/Vista) and cross-browser

(IE6/IE7/FF2/FF3) testing

• Validate the application support for AIM, and social networks like Facebook and MySpace

• Test Vivaty application in Flash.

• Perform test to purchase Vivabux using creditcard/paypal.

• Utilize Rally application as a major test management tool tracking the testing process (schedules, test cases, time estimates, test execution, etc.)

• Test many application features and functional areas such as player install/uninstall, rich media/interactive/non interactive objects, scenes for collision issues, Avatars, audio/video/picture and texture formats, interactive objects (Facebook/Flickr scrollers and Corkboard messages), notification messages, and race conditions.

• Perform multi-user testing for chat, avatar changes as well as for cross- browser support.

• Perform testing on HUD icons, proper display of pop up windows, buttons, fonts and links.

• Participate in load testing.

• Log, track, retest, verify and close fixed bugs using Mantis Bug tracking software

• Interact directly with develop rs onsite and offsite to identify and resolve various issues.

01/07 – 02/08 Software QA Consultant, NextLabs, San Mateo, CA

• Test client-server Risk Management Application, which is used for deploying and enforcing user access policies. The testing is done using VMWare Virtual Machine.

• Utilize technical documentation available to create detailed feature descriptions and test cases for many modules such as Administrator, Policy Author, Reporter, Windows Desktop Enforcer, Office Communicator Enforcer, SharePoint Servers, and many others.

• Update test documentation by modifying existing test cases.

• Run test cases to check policy enforcement on user’s access on Allow/Deny/Monitor to certain desktops, connected either remotely/locally.

• Create and deploy many policies on object components like users, documents, and applications on various actions like Run, copy/paste, open, delete, print, Instant Message etc.

• Perform regression testing by running QTP scripts on the new build, as well as lots of functionality testing.

• Provide browser compatibility testing using MSIE Browsers in v6.0 and v7.0

(Windows XP)

• Test for enforcement on user access to mail servers like Yahoo, Gmail, and MSN on IE browser.

• Test for policy enforcement on Removable media and Monitoring particular URL's.

• Tested for policy enforced on users to upload/download files through email attachment.

• Perform manual testing on Instant Message using Office Communicator and OCE for communication messages between the users.

• Tested for user’s access through the third party explorer (FAR Manager) and Cygwin.

• Report bugs using Bugzilla. Create Test Summary Reports on Excel spreadsheet.

• Communicate with the developers to resolve bug fixes. 02/06 – 12/06 Software QA Consultant, IQ-Labs, S. San Francisco, CA

• Tested web-based application (paid membership network) for entertainment industry

• Performed manual testing of many features and functional areas such as submitting the portfolio to the casting directors, uploading your photos, on- line forms and their components (list boxes, multi-line text fields, checkboxes, etc.

• Performed boundary tests on the input fields

• Did Positive and Negative testing.

• Wrote test cases for designated areas of testing checking for valid and invalid inputs, equivalence classes, and boundary values of the form fields.

• Tested for Browser Compatibility with Mozilla/Firefox and IE.

• Reported various bugs with different severity using Mantis Bug tracking system.

• Performed regression testing on new release by running all the test cases for the functionality

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

2009 Certificate in Selenium, Portnov Computer School, Mountain View, CA

2005 Certificate in QTP, Portnov Computer School, Mountain View, CA 2005 Certificate in Software QA, Portnov Computer School, Mountain View, CA

2004 Cognos Reportnet, New Jersey

2004 Data warehousing (Ascential Datastage), New Jersey 2000 Internet and E-Commerce (ASP, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Interdev and Dream Weaver in Global IT, Sydney, Australia

1997 Java in ASTRA, Pune, India

1997 C++ in SEED, Pune, India

1995 BE in Computer Science, Karnataka University, Dharwar, India.

Work status: Green Card Holder.

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