Quality Assurance Engineer

Lavanya Hariharan

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Markham, Ontario, L6B 0K1 Tel : 647-***-****

CAREER PROFILE

• Experience as a Senior Software QA engineer in an IT industry and as a team lead in an automotive software industry.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.

• Skill set: C, C++, Java/J2EE, Crystal Reports, Oracle 9i, MS-Office, Visio, UML, unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, project management, configuration management, data modeling tools, load runner, SQL, SDLC, HTML, VB scripting, requirements analysis, and quality assurance, Clear case, clear quest, quality manager.

• Proven analytical, multi-tasking and communication skills in an industrial environment.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• Working towards PMP certification.

• Certification in C, C++, Java and Embedded Programming.

WORK EXPERIENCE

QA Analyst/Team Lead 2009 – present

IVedha Inc - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

IVedha is a global business solutions provider offering high-value outsourcing services to Thales Rail Signaling Canada Company in the field of software development and testing.

• Coordinated all technical and logistical issues of the project and reached all relevant milestones on time.

• Designed and developed database tables, cursors, procedures, functions and packages to meet business requirements.

• Identified potential risks, chances and claims to the projects in prior using the principles of project management.

• Created reports from wide range of data resources using Crystal Report.

• Supported technical engineers and project managers during internal and external technical interface clarifications.

• Prepared a written list of open systems issues, test plans and requirement specifications during the design and commissioning period of rail systems.

• Reviewed client’s standards, obtained thorough knowledge on client’s process capabilities and assisted clients with technical queries on software related issues.

• Managed multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.

• Developed SQL scripts for testing outputs of the product.

• Worked face to face with clients throughout the software design life cycle (SDLC) and PMLC and delivered an enterprise quality solution.

Senior test Software Engineer 2006 – 2008

Visteon Software Operations – Chennai, India

Visteon is global leader in the field of automotive embedded software systems and CMM level 5 companies.

• Implemented and managed projects using change management methodology to achieve software compliance and cost reduction goals. Used MS-Project to handle projects.

• Lead a team of four for integration of software and quality assured delivery.

• Conducted impact assessments on the current environment including risk and mitigation strategies.

• Coordinated and assigned resources from various departments in order to meet project deadlines.

• Performed validation, field analysis and testing (FAT) and commissioning of software to obtain final approvals and safety assessment report.

• Recruited and Conducted Training for different team on various stages of SDLC.

• Responsible for managing portfolios for enterprise software projects by establishing direction, aligning people and resources using various technologies and data modeling tools.

Software test Engineer 2004 – 2006

Visteon Software Operations - India

Visteon is global leader in the domain of automotive embedded software systems.

• Lead a team of four to meet industrial standards using quality assurance code (QAC)

• Prepared technical specifications requirements (TSR) reports.

• Developed and tested software for features in the DIM (Driver information module).

• Prepared a high level design document and integration test plans.

• Performed reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) studies by collecting all the crucial characteristics from the safety point of view, defining the necessary acceptance criteria and ensuring that they are taken into account in the systems design.

• Developed the executed user training plans.

• Participated in the gate and design reviews as well as the reviews required during the process of software design.

• Created a wrapper program to import employees eligible for sales compensation from Oracle HRCC to create resources.

• Lead a team for acceptance testing and commissioning of the final product.

• Developed target deployment port and VB scripts for rational real time testing tool.

EDUCATION

Bachelors degree in electrical engineering 2004

Madras University, India

ACHIEVEMENTS

Received certificate of appreciation from Volkswagen motors for cluster design, 2005.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Tools: Rational Clear case, clear quest, DDTS, Visio, FTP, UML, PL/SQL, HTTP tool, Rational Rose Testing Tool, MS-Word, MS- Excel, MS- PowerPoint and MS-Project.

References Available Upon Request

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