I highly recommend the candidate below...only looking for positions in the bay area. Strong Automation Experience.
Pratyusha Cherukuri
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
408.564.9928
pratyushacherukuri@gmail.com
Profile
Accomplished Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with extensive background in software quality assurance,
development of Test Plans and Cases, Testing Methodologies, User Requirements, Management Information,
Agile Methodology, Designing, e-Commerce testing, Game Testing, Audio/Video testing, Debugging (User
mode and Kernel Mode),Testing Web services, Web and Desktop Applications, Regression, UAT and Stress
testing, Application Virtualization, Application Compatibility, Packaging Tools, Technical Support ,Leading and
Managing the Project in the Software, Gaming and Utilities segments.
Expert Software Integration and System Quality with a diversified software engineering and quality assurance
background, and successful implementations ranging from startup to deployment at large companies such as
Microsoft, Computer Associates, Wipro and PG&E.
Exceptional interpersonal skills as demonstrated in maintaining excellent relationships with vendors and
customers while having the depth of knowledge in serving as a key tester and mentor to the capacity of building
teams from inception to organizational sustainability.
Key Strengths
- Product Documentation
- Hands-On Technical
Skills
- Coding & Development
- Vendor Management
- Lifecycle Development
- Black Box Testing
- Domestic & International Team Leadership
- Agile Process
Professional Experience
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) – SanFrancisco,CA 10/10 - Present
Test lead (Contract – Project: Windows 7 and Office 2010 Migration)
* Design and handle Test plans, Software Quality Processes and Procedures.
* Actively participated in Vendor demo sessions and played major role in evaluation of the tools and in
requesting new feature requests.
* Verifying the compatibility of both Web and Desktop apps using Change Base.
* Testing Web and Desktop applications.
* Participating in Compatibility testing.
* Packaging all the necessary applications along with building the image.
* Preparation of Test estimates and schedules for Major Releases.
* Review Detailed Design Specifications (DDS) and prepare Test cases.
* Detailed Study of the Customer requests on the logged issues and understand the criticality of the
issues.
* Analysis of new enhancements and Requirements followed by creation of test plan, test cases and
testing them along with Automating and modifying the Test cases.
* Scheduled vendor calls and in troubleshooting of the tool.
* Ensuring timely delivery of the Deliverables.
Computer Associates – Redwood City, CA
Senior QA (Contract – Project: Clarity) 7/09 – 8/10
? Design and handle Test plans, Software Quality Processes and Procedures along with Leading the
team and resource-balance
? Point of contact for testing and delivering Hot fixes.
? Preparation of Test estimates and schedules for Major Releases, Service Packs and Patch releases.
? Test and qualify the product for major releases including fix packs and Hot fix, Regressions,
upgrade, performance, Sanity Adhoc and XOG (XML OPEN GATEWAY) testing.
? Web service testing using SOAP UI.
? Review Detailed Design Specifications (DDS) and prepare Test cases.
? Detailed Study of the Customer requests on the logged issues and understand the criticality of the
issues.
? Analysis of new enhancements and testing them along with Automating and modifying the Test
cases.
? Ensuring timely delivery of the Deliverables.
? Preparing Status Reports for Management perusal.
Microsoft – Seattle, WA
SDET (Contract- WinSE – AppCompat - Desktop Apps ) 01/08 – 6/09
* Test Requirement Analysis: Detailed Study of the Client's request on the logged issues and
understand the criticality of the issues Supported the bug fixes throughout the project.
* Develop and modify automation test cases and Automation frame work using C# for better quality and
improve coverage of given features.
* Packaging and building an image using tools.
* Review the test results, Automation Code of the team members and submit the reviewed reports along
with Prioritizing the issues, Leading the team and resource-balance.
* Automating Video testing for Windows Media Center.
* Worked on Regression, Migration and Adhoc testing.
* Debugging the system in both user and kernel mode.
* Writing Test cases by analyzing the impacted areas of the Operating System and also by
understanding the functionality of the components..
* Identify, Investigate, reproduce and Triage the issues. Debug the system and narrow down
problems and identify possible mitigation strategy.
* Make recommendations on increasing test coverage and/or shortening execution time.
Microsoft – Seattle, WA
SDET (Contract- WinSE – W2k/WS03 –Server Apps ) 8/06 – 12/07.
* Preparing the Test strategy and Test plan for Server Apps. Test Case design for the appropriate
applications affected by that particular release (Packages) and sending the Weekly consolidated Status
Report after Review.
* Packaging the applications and building the image.
* Writing and Executing Test cases by analyzing the impacted areas of the Operating System and also
by understanding the functionality of the Server applications..
* Work on hot fixes, Private fixes being released from Microsoft and tested these packages to ensure
that fix is proper and not leading for any regression.
* Involve in the SDLC and bug life cycle activity, where I contributed to add the new tests to fill the test
holes for testing the functionality of the component.
* Represented Appcompat bugs in WAR during update release for proper closure of these bugs.
* Worked rigorously to reproduce the Customer Reported Scenarios and fixes, for such bugs are
tested in depth.
* Performed Code Coverage Testing and Code coverage Data Analysis using internal MS tools.
Microsoft – Seattle, WA 06/05 – 7/06
SDET (Contract- PC Health )
* Develop and modify automation test cases and Automation frame work using C# for better quality and
improve coverage of given features.
* Debugging the system in both user and kernel mode.
* Packaging the required applications.
* Writing Test cases by analyzing the impacted areas of the Operating System and also by
understanding the functionality of the components.
* Identify, Investigate, reproduce and Triage the issues. Debug the system and narrow down
problems and identify possible mitigation strategy.
* Make recommendations on increasing test coverage and/or shortening execution time.
Microsoft – Seattle, WA 08/04 – 05/05
STE (Contract – Project: WTT Migration Team)
* Took transition from core team and implemented set up in Wipro ODC
* Giving transition to Wipro component owners to move automated test cases for WTT compliant
* Maintaining different OS builds, creating slipstream installations for various SKU's.
* Point of contact for AppCompat team for any issues with WTT.
Technical Skills
? Operating Systems
- XP, Windows NT,Windows 2000, Server 2003, Windows Vista , Windows 7, Unix/Linux – Redhat
(Gnome), Solaris, VMWare (Virtual OS)
? Test Tools
- Selenium, SOAP UI,MAUI (MS ), RPF (MS), MITA(MS), JIRA, WTT,TFS, Quality Center 9.0,
Sharepoint.
? Languages
- C# and Python
? Database
- SQL Server
- Education
BITS PILANI (India) – Masters in Software Engineering.
Pratyusha Cherukuri 408.564.9928
