PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10 years of diversified experience in the field of Quality Assurance. I have worked in all phases of the software development lifecycle, and expertise in testing environment administration. Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills coupled with Good Verbal and Written Communication skills. Committed Team Player with Great Interpersonal skills and exceptional Organization skills.
• Expertise in software quality assurance and all phases of software development lifecycle.
• Software Development Methodology including Agile/Iterative and Waterfall Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and tasks management in JIRA.
• Planned and defined testing plans and testing cases based on given use cases and feature design documents.
• Development and management of detailed testing plans, including objectives, resources, tasks, criteria, milestones, and review points.
• Experience scripting in Shell and Perl in Linux environment, and PowerShell in Windows.
• Professional in RedHat Enterprise/CentOS Linux and Windows Server 2008/2012, including server configuration, system administration and application deployments.
• Strong skills of Puppet Enterprise and Powershell DSC for Cloud Configuration Management,
• Expertise in all phases of Testing Life Cycle including Pre - testing, Acceptance Testing, Testing, and Post-testing.
• Expertise in creating Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Reports, Test Cases and Test Scripts for Automated and Manual testing based on the functional specification for the Functional, System, Performance, Integration, Regression, GUI, UAT, Smoke/Sanity and Usability testing.
• Expertise in configuring and maintaining Defect Tracking system using Bugzilla, TestRail, TargetProcess or flat Excel sheet.
• Entry level JAVA programing experience with Junit Test and Groovy script.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr Software QA

Responsibilities:

• Optimize the use of agile methodologies (Scrum) by adhering to best practices, capturing metrics, monitoring progress and continuously improving Updated and modified the testing plan and environment.
• Defined testing objectives and functional testing cases based on feature design documents.
• Developed and executed functional testing cases, system testing cases, performance and scale tests.
• Initialized SQA testing environment, suites, and criteria in reports in new projects.
• Created and executed Java and Groovy testing tool to test RESTful API.
• Analyzed previous testing reports and defects trace, and upgraded new testing procedures.
• Installed and configured Puppet Master and agents for cloud nodes configuration, and test Puppet modules.
• Setup Microsoft Azure cloud servers with using CentOS 6/7, Windows 8.1/Server 2012 for testing and deployment environment.
• Designed and executed performance tests on VMWare and Azure virtual servers, to measure CPU usage, Disk throughput and network I/O.
• Created PowerShell and Powershell DSC scripts to prove the concept of application installation and configuration in cloud environment.
• Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) with using Teamcity.
• Used TargetProcess and JIRA as defect tracking system to open, verify and manage defects.
• Refined functional testing cases to generate automated testing cases.
• Designed and executed compatibility and performance testing for new platform.

Environment: Windows Server 2012, PowerShell, Artifactory, Jenkins, Puppet, GitHub, Mercurial, TargetProcess, JIRA, MySQL, TestRail

Confidential, PA

Senior Software QA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning and coordination of contingencies when scheduling and maintaining current status of projects and assigned project deadlines.
• Manage, analyze, and propose business alternatives for project and change requests and issues based on feasibility, risk, timing, and organizational impact.
• Updated and modified the testing documentation during the System Development Life Cycle of the product.
• Analyzed previous testing reports and defects trace, and upgraded new testing procedures.
• Developed and followed Test Strategy and Test Plans to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional, User Interface, Performance and Usability requirements.
• Used Tektronix MTS and Wireshark to investigate IP transport stream traffic issue.
• Managed, Documented and Controlled all the test cases, test scripts and test results using MS Excel
• Managed lab environment and configured the satellite receiver, KVM, ASI router, PSIP server and coordinated with other engineers to fix hardware and third party devices’ problems.
• Setup Linux and Windows 32/64Bit system in the Intel/AMD processor based server, including modify ASI card driver configure CVS, Apache, VS2005 compiler, software RAID and diversity network service.
• Designed and executed performance characterization testing plan for new branding and ingest server.
• Created Linux shell and Perl scripts for system integration, application installation, configuration and network setup.
• Interaction with the developers for confirming and fixing the bugs prepared test metrics during the execution phase for the control board review.
• Submitted defects and enhancements to stakeholders using MS Excel.
• Used FogBugz defect tracking system to open, verify and manage defects and issues.
• Helped the customers support team to answer questions about products, help customer support to do troubleshooting. And built up environment to reproduce customers’ issues.
• Assist the product manager to design products demo and installed the demo system in customers’ sides
• In terms of test plan, developed automated testing cases and produced testing scripts and applications, and used xStarter to execute GUI automated testing.
• Designed and executed compatibility and performance testing for new platform.

Environment: RHEL 5.X/6.X, Windows 7, Server 2008, VMware, Visual Studio 2005/2010, Shell, MS Office Suite, CVS

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Verifying Requirements and OCAP, MHP and CA standard and carried out appropriate analysis and documentation to develop Test Cases.
• Analyzed previous testing reports and defects trace, and upgraded new testing procedures.
• Developed and followed Test Strategy and Test Plans to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional, User Interface, Performance and Usability requirements.
• Managed, Documented and Controlled all the test cases, test scripts and test results using MS Excel
• Participated in the Motorola Headend team to monitor DAC, CMTS, MPS and SEM situation and change some configurations for testing,
• Maintain the data, DHCP and VOD server and coordinated with other IT supports to fix problems.
• Managed XAIT server daily, as file system and application management, status report and server recovery.
• Performed manual testing along with test plan, and some automated testing with using IR Blaster.
• Installed and executed mock CableLab CTP (Conformance Testing Plan) testing on ADK box and produced testing report with analysis of results, journals and console files.
• Developed DVR, Service Selection, Resolution Switch, Close Caption and other functional applications with using OCAP PC Emulator
• According to system testing report and customer’s bug list, produced simple JAVA applications or sample codes as testing cases to verify defects.
• Interaction with the developers for confirming and fixing the bugs prepared test metrics during the execution phase for the control board review.
• Black box (System) testing performed for the TV Guide application.
• Submitted defects and enhancements to stakeholders using MS Excel.
• Used Bugzilla as defect tracking system to open, verify and manage defects.
• Joined the customers support team to answer questions about products, help customers do troubleshooting, and provide some JAVA TestXlet to customers to verify bugs.
• Tailored release notes and user guide documents within production package of mid-ware for customers.

Environment: Linux, JAVA, Eclipse, XAIT, OCAP, Motorola HeadEnd, SeaChange VOD, MS Office Suite