Minakshi B. Suneja
********.******@*****.***
Summary
Have 6 yrs of IT experience with 4 yrs in Software Quality Assurance. Activities include Manual and Automated Testing of Client/Server and Web based applications
Have extensive experience in system testing, regression testing, and Defect Tracking for various projects in Windows &Unix
Have been involved in Requirements & Analysis, Writing Test Cases & Test Execution
Have good experience in Software Design and Development in web application using Java, JSP, Python2.3, XML, HTML etc. on Windows NT/98/2000
Expertise includes: Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Black box, White Box Testing, Performance Testing & User Acceptance Testing
QA Tools: Customized Testing Tools, JUnit
Methodologies JAD & RAD
Database: SQL Server, Oracle 9i, MS Access
Web Tools: JSP, ColdFusion MX 7.0
Web/App Servers IIS 6.0, Apache
Applications: MS Office, Crystal Reports, VSS
Languages: Java, JSP, Python 2.3, C/C++
Operating System: Windows XP/2000/98, UNIX, Solaris
Software Products: FAST ESP, MS SharePoint, Eclipse, Apache Tomcat, Apache Ant, Kodos, SVN
Creative Information Technology Inc. (CITI), Arlington, VA
(January 2007 to Present)
October’ 08- Present
Working as Lead QA Analyst for SCSEP under the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) – Employment and Training Administration. The SCSEP program utilizes the SCSEP Performance and Results QPR (SPARQ) system to provide a means of tracking and reporting their progress towards their goals. The goal of SPARQ is to provide SCSEP and its Grantees an online automated system of managing participant data and to allow for sharing of standard information needed to work with the SCSEP program
I am involved in the SCSEP with the core responsibility in Testing and Requirements & System Analysis.
Environment includes Windows XP, ColdFusion MX 7.0, Oracle 9i SQL Developer.
Responsibilities:
• Has written Detailed Functional Requirements for SCSEP.
• Created test plan, test cases, test condition matrix for SCSEP.
• Manual testing was done for each screen shots before the start of automated regression testing.
• Customized Quality Center for automating key quality activities, including requirements management, test management, defect management, functional testing, and business-process testing.
• Was involved in building the Validation database from the Production pulls using complex SQL queries for the different scenarios.
• Extensively used SQL queries to test the Oracle database for backend validations.
• Attend weekly meetings with the Client to discuss about the Process Flow and the Database usage for the latest release and for the weekly project status.
April’ 08- September’ 08
Worked as QA Tester & Java Programmer for GPO FDSys. Project is based on taking information from documents published by the Federal Government in various formats, parsing and placing them in XML files. I was involved in writing Data Management Definition (DMD) documents for all applications.
Responsibilities:
• Developing text based Parser. Parser uses the regular expression capabilities and general programming techniques to extract the metadata.
• Parser takes the text file, splits it and creates smaller file granules based on a unique number, granules are parsed and stored in results map.
• Used JAXB Object factory to store data in data objects, objects are persisted to generate XML file.
• Creating Java classes that organizes the text files and there corresponding SGML files into newly created folders.
• Used SVN for Configuration Management and Eclipse as IDE.
• Implemented and maintained Java code build process using Ant.
• Unit testing done with JUnit. As bugs are fixed in parser, JUnit tests are written against them.
• Supported the application by making continuous modifications and bug fixes.
• Actively participated in the design and documentation of application.
• Wrote Test cases and Test Plans as per the specifications from GPO
• Wrote DMD’s including General as well as Technical description for FDSys.xml schema elements, Parsing metadata, Directory and File Structure, Content Management, and for Index and Search.
February’ 08- April’ 08
• Designed and developed a demo site within CITI to customize IBM Yahoo Omni Find search engine. IBM Yahoo Omni Find is a search software solution that enables rapid deployment of intranet and file system search for both employees and customers.
• Used Omni Find API to build a Java/J2ee interface. Software and languages used for the entire application are Java, JSP, XML, XSLT, UML, Apache tomcat, MySQL.
• Used UML diagrams during design phase.
• Issued document push to add documents to the index. Documents were pushed from MySQL database.
• Build a basic web search application using JSP and the Omni Find API. Queries sent to receive the search results. Search returns results as Atom feed or HTML snippets.
• Appearance of the feed in a browser was customized by using XSL stylesheet.
January’ 07- January’ 08
Worked as a Software Developer in FAST ESP Integration for Government Printing Office (GPO). Was involved in complete life cycle development of the project. The project involved analyzing an existing search application and implementing it to migrate from legacy applications to FAST ESP based data processing, indexing and query processing for improved relevancy of the content.
Responsibilities:
• Use of Kodos (Python GUI utility) for creating, testing and debugging regular expressions in Python.
• Developed Parsers and generated FAST ESP based searchable index. The Parser was implemented in Python using IDLE as IDE. Parsers used REGEX and general programming techniques to extract the metadata.
• Use of FAST ESP for searching and filtering services. FAST ESP provides various built-in programs to load data depending upon their source. The key elements used for document processing were collections, file traverser, and pipelines. Search view was used to search against a specific application data and to validate the output from associated parser.
• Supported the application by making continuous modifications and bug fixes.
• Involved in complete testing of the application based on Test case defined by GPO. UI side System and Regression testing done.
• Authored Parser Documentation and assisted in producing technical documentation for 45 applications.
• Created a demo site within CITI to customize FAST ESP search view. Changed the look and feel of the search view and added dynamic drill down navigators as per the demo requirements.
• Completed full life cycle testing of JWOD PLIMS, a CMMI Level 2 application, using Test Cases prepared as requested by high level requirements of the client. Prepared and updated test plan documents using configuration management, referred bugs to Bug Tracker, and on re-testing closed the bugs when resolved. Updated all the Test Cases on the MS SharePoint site. Involved in understanding of Business Process and recommend any change as and when required.
Wipro InfoTech, Bangalore/New-Delhi, India
Business Development Executive, August 2003 to August 2004
I was involved in lead generation and market research among small and medium enterprises, finance and giant manufacturing companies in Bangalore, National Capital Region & Delhi. I gained high appreciation about my outstanding job for WIPRO by helping them gain leads for new sales accounts.
RCS Technologies, Bangalore, India
Java Programmer, Feb.2001 to August 2003
In this role my responsibility was also to build the backend Java files and frontend JSP and HTML pages. In this assignment, I closely interacted with customers during project implementation Also did dynamic configuration of various components which included any changing government policies or company’s statutory policies, pay slip details and organizational hierarchy. Also, I was involved in documentation writing for existing solutions and processes. The solutions of interests were mainly based on Java/J2EE.
A) Project Title: PAYROLL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Environment: Java, JSP, HTML, SQL 7.0
B) Project Title: BACK OFFICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Environment: Java, JSP, HTML, SQL 7.0
C) Project Title: INFORMATION PORTAL
Environment: Java, JDBC, JSP, HTML, SQL 7.0
MTC (India) Pvt. Limited
Java Programmer, March 1999 to Feb. 2001
My responsibility was to build the applets using the swing classes, handling various events acting on them. Besides this, I was involved in designing of the panels. Coding included the functioning of servlets as well as the JDBC connection management. Database updates as well as creations were done by SQL Server.
D) Project Title: HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT
Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, HTML, SQL 7.0
Education qualifications
Bangalore University, Bangalore, India
B.E. Instrumentation & Electronics, 1998
STG, Bangalore, India
Hands-on training in OOPS C++, UNIX, 1999
Learning Tree International, USA
Hands-on training in Java Programming and Developing Java Web Applications using JSP, Servlets, Struts, 2008