Sindhu Karthikeyan

• Helped with mentoring my fellow QA's to progress in QA efforts by giving them guidance, Knowledge sharing and support.
• Work with Team to provide a High quality product with through testing using shift left approach by testing early and testing often.
• Work with my SD's, Devs, PO and BA in an Agile framework to get the best Business solution designed and created for any Portfolio project.
• Implemented and Executed Testing activities for several types of applications including Mobile, web based desktop, back-end, enterprise applications etc.
• Create and execute Test plans and Test scenarios using company approved tools and applications.
• Have worked on Hackfests and explored new tools like Testmo to do Exploration Testing.
• Have provided my team with detail Test case scenario creation using BDD's.
• Have worked on proving the POC for ITA side when Mindmap was newly suggested to QA team members.
• Have been many a times Voted as an MVP by my Product Owner and team members.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Hired and trained Quality Assurance onsite and offsite team members.
• Managed 3 onsite and 4 offsite team members and Collaborated with field staff and customers to evaluate or diagnose problems and recommend possible solutions.
• Conducted meetings with Business Users/UAT Team to understand and define functional business requirements.
• Coordinated Testing efforts and oversaw daily Testing schedules for department.
• Conduct historical analysis of test results and maintained compliance according to companies guidelines and policies.
• Planned test schedules and strategies in accordance with project scope and delivery dates.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Among many other responsibilities conducted on a daily basis for maintaining system functionality I also lead whole testing effort with my Solution Architect to design a new Smart Dairy app for improved functionality.
• Lead Testing efforts for maintaining this Smart Dairy apps used by Farmers worldwide who were clients of Boumatic Inc.
• Created and executed manual Test Scenario and Test Cases to test functionality of Smart Dairy apps and Reports.
• Created Milking Parlors on different setups, Tested feed cycles for Cows on different Parlor setups.
• Created and executed Automated testing of Web apps and Desktop apps using Ranorex tool.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 3 Testers to manage Testing activities to ensure that system was well maintained and quality was assured.
• Documented and executed integrated Test Plan, Conducted Integrated/UAT Test Plan Walkthrough & Sign off.
• Conducted Test Case Development/Execution to test functionality of the system.
• Carried out back-end validation of Operational Data Store (ODS) using SQL queries.
• Helped in running Automated test cases using QTP.
• Worked with 3rd party team members to set up test data and resolve defects while using their software for our system.

• Managed and led Team of 8 Testers as QA Governess working on Disability and Workers compensation Project for WEA Trust in Madison from Dec 2006 - April 2007.
• Worked for American Family Insurance from April 2007 - Jan 2010.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Wrote integrated Test Plan, conducted Integrated/UAT Test Plan Walkthrough & Sign off.
• Ensured QA environment is properly configured with correct settings.
• Conducted work distribution for Testing and Disaster recovery.
• Conducted Failover and recovery Testing, Performance profiling testing.
• Helped with Running Automated test cases.
• Assisted Business and QA team in prioritization of defects.
• Facilitated Bug meetings, Created Project Defect report using Crystal Reports in CQ for Bug meetings.
• Raised my opinions/concerns in Project Go/No-Go Live decision meeting.
• Set up Release notes for Project when system was ready to be promoted out of QA.

• Worked with Chase bank team to create an app for Mortgage Payment Calculator and Mortgage Refinance Calculator.
• Defined functional business requirements for mortgage insurance application module with compliance to IAA (Insurance Application Architecture) standards.
• Conducted meeting with business users defining functional business requirements.
• Created Business Use Cases which were used to model system development specifications.
• Helped users with UAT, documented & conducted user training sessions.

Project/My Publication : RFID Security without Extensive Cryptography (This publication is supported in part by DARPA contract and by NSF CAREER Award)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Researched and created my own protocol for RFID systems, which deals with RFID Security and Privacy issues
• Worked for LA Times and Rocky Mountain as Graduate Assistant Intern.
• Was involved in creation of "The Digital News book" right from it's layout to final form.
• Maintained all database for project work.
• Gathered requirements, interacted extensively with end users, and gathered user requirements using interviews, surveys, and prototyping.
• Initiated Use Case Analysis using UML, which provided the framework for use case deliverables.
• I also have paper published after results were reviewed at The Third ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN 2005) at CCS

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Worked with United Airlines team and developed solutions for their booking system.
• Assisted Sr. Business Analyst in conducting meetings and gathering business requirements.
• Wrote Functional Requirement Specifications and User Requirement Specifications.
• Designed, analyzed & Implemented system using mainframe COBOL, ECL and TIP.
• Composed SQL Queries to retrieve information from database.
• Created and executed unit test cases.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements for reaction and molecular dynamics and created backend database for easy access of Molecular properties and it's relationships.
• This was my Undergrad Thesis, this research and work was nominated and awarded for best Innovative Future work category..
• This work is still used by BARC team to look up molecular data for research purposes.