Senior Software QA Engineer
Resume:
Rekha Kulkarni
*************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
Looking for Sr. Software QA Engineer position.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Software Professional with more than 9 years of experience in e-commerce, retail, finance, investment applications.
Strong experience in relational databases – Oracle, MYSQL, MS-SQL Server, Progress, Ingres and Informix.
Strong experience in Unit Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Navigation Testing, Negative Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, end-to-end Testing and cross platform testing.
Strong experience in White box, Black box, Gray box and auto testing – Load Runner, QTP, Silk and Selenium IDE.
Experience in writing test cases for unit testing, integration testing and system testing and end to end (E2E) testing.
Experience in Bug tracking tools – Bug Tracker, Issue Tracker, Clear Quest, Clear case, Quick base, Team Track, Test Director and VSS
Experience in Software Development life cycle (SDLC), SEI-CMM, defect prevention, validation and verification
Experience in project study, documenting the business requirements.
Extensive experience in design, coding and development, implementation and maintenance of software applications using – Java, XML, Java Script, SQL, ASP, PHP, Web Services
Experience in coordinating with third party vendors. Ability to effectively understand, analyze, plan and implement customer needs.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, creative thinker, team player and quick learner.
EDUCATION
Masters in Software Engineering (MSSE): San Jose State University, CA (USA)
Masters in Computer Applications (MCA): Gulbarga University, INDIA.
PROJECT DETAILS
March 2008 to till date: Intuit Inc, Mountain View, CA, USA
Project: Intuit market
Role: Sr. Software QA Engineer
Description: Intuitmarket.com offers the financial Supplies like checks, business cards, envelopes and other financial supplies to Quicken, QuickBooks and web customers. This project is about additions/changes to intuitmarket.com and the integration of business partner’s application.
My responsibilities:
Analyzed existing systems and formulated test plans for new features and releases.
Worked closely with marketing team; reviewed FRD, prepared and reviewed test cases for system testing and end-to-end testing.
Identified gaps/conflict requirements in FRD and worked with Marketing/development team to resolve them
Managed bug tracking software’s like quick base and team track and provided informative update to management
Represented intuit market and actively involved in end-to-end testing which involved intuit backend systems and intuit business partners applications.
Participated in system and regression testing for various releases.
Worked closely with software developers to isolate and reproduce defects.
Participated and coordinated bug triage meetings with the intuit business partners.
Performed grey box testing by executing SQL queries to check shopper registration, order placement and other key functionalities.
Executed automated scripts using Silk test
Worked in a highly agile environment where there were production releases every week.
May 2007-February 2008: Keyu Tech, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Project: newslens.com
Role: Sr. QA / Business Analyst
Description: News Lens identifies local news based on the location and provides a clean interface for users to navigate news stories. The user can also search the news based on the categories like Business, Sports, Technology, Health, Life style, Entertainment, etc.
My responsibilities:
Preparation of functional specifications
Preparation of test plan and integration and system test cases
Preparation of project plan and project schedule
Coordinating integration testing, system testing
Work allocation, managing QA team
Involved in Performance Testing using Load Runner
Involved in Functionality Testing using QTP
Involved in testing of WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)
Performed root cause/error analysis in case of failures and followed up with responsible parties.
May 2006-May 2007: San Jose State University (USA)
Project: Building Web 2.0 Mash up application with PHP NuSOAP
Role: QA / PHP developer
Description: Building of Web 2.0 Mash up uses PHP, NuSOAP and Zend, interfacing with popular web APIs from Amazon, Yahoo and e-Bay websites. Most future software applications will be Web applications, which will be run over the Internet as services for clients. Individual services will be developed and maintained using newer programming languages and newer technology. The purpose of this project is to build a Web 2.0 Mash up Application using PHP and NuSOAP for a commonly used and popular websites like Amazon, Yahoo and e-Bay.
My responsibilities:
Study of requirements, dependencies and deliverables
Design of project architecture
Design of application architecture
Coding in XML, php, zend, MY SQL, apache etc
Testing and implementation and usage scenario
Involved in Performance Testing using Load Runner
Involved in Functionality Testing using QTP
Nov 2002-Nov 2003: Charles Schwab, San Francisco (USA) - Consultant, Wipro Technologies
Project: Quotes and Research Project
Role: QA Lead/ Project Coordinator
Description: Quotes and research project includes enhances/bug fixes for the existing pages under the “Quotes & Research” tab within the Schwab Customer Center. Data to be displayed on these pages may consist of Schwab provided content (quotes, positions); Vendor supplied content (news, analyst summary, charts, reports), and links to third party sites for formatted reports.
My responsibilities:
Collecting the business requirements from the different business groups for the periodic domestic web trading release.
Client interactions and issue resolution
Prepared project plan and project schedule.
Preparing and finalizing business requirements for the release.
Creating release items in the Rational Clear Quest and work allocation to team members, monitoring the work and reviewing and testing release items prior to turnover to QA.
Coordinating with QA, release management, different business groups, development team, build services for pre-acceptance, acceptance, pre-production and production signoff and release.
Coordinating Web trading changes with offshore versions.
Track bugs. Continually interact with developers and product management to resolve various technical, test setup related and process related issues.
Mar 2001 -Nov 2002: The Home Depot, Atlanta, GA (USA) - Consultant, Wipro Technologies
Project: ACT Payment Process
Role: Project Coordinator/Business analyst
Description: The Home depot’s accurate cashier transaction (ACT) payment process is basically rewarding cashiers for the accurate merchandise scanning at point of sale. The objective of the proposed system is to design an application for the automation of cashier’s badge and payout.
July 2000 - March 2001: 01markets.com (India) - Consultant, Wipro Technologies
Project: www.01markets.com IT portal
Role: QA/Project Coordinator
Dec 1999 - July 2000: The Home Depot, Atlanta Offshore project (India) - Consultant, Wipro Technologies
Project: Globalization of the Home Depot Stores Application
Role Module leader and QA
Apr 1999 - Dec 1999: Nike, Beaverton, and Oregon (USA) - Consultant, Wipro Technologies
Project: Movement and Verification of Replenishment and Shipping (Movers System)
Role: Module leader
Jan 1998 - Apr 1999: Seagate Technologies, Offshore Project (India) - Consultant, Wipro Technologies
Project: Time and Attendance System
Role: Sr. Software Engineer
April 1996 - Jan 1998: Triumph International Japan Ltd., Tokyo (Japan/India)
Project: Data ware House
Role: Software Engineer
Jun 1995 - Mar 1996: Bahrain Lighting Group, offshore Project (India)
Project: Human Resources Management System
Role: Software Engineer
REFERENCES: Available upon request.
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