Senior Qa Tester Resume
OBJECTIVE:
Dedicated and motivated software testing professional with over 5 years of experience in an agile environment looking to provide testing/test data management expertise and ensure quality product delivery for your clients.
SUMMARY:
- Senior Software QA tester with full system development lifecycle experience. Including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective actions, significant cost savings and fault - free audits.
- Test Data Management expert having very good experience in complete information life cycle including data analysis, data mining, and synthetic data generation using tools like Parasoft SOATest with configuration of SOAP/REST based APIs.
- Strong expertise in test data management solutions with emphasis on production data slicing, test data mining, synthetic test data manufacturing, test data provisioning activity.
- Good understanding of testing lifecycle and risk based, model based testing approaches across various phases of testing including System testing, System Integration Testing and UAT.
- Strong functional understanding of End to End System Integration, Interfaces and data flow within core banking architecture with focus on Credit, mortgages and Retail banking.
- Extensive experience analyzing requirements, writing and executing test plans, defect tracking, leading testing efforts, and dealing directly with the developer or stake holder involved in the project.
- Solid understanding of software development, quality and release management processes, methods and controls across the SDLC.
- Proven record of establishing and maintaining policies for documentation of all test plans, test cases, and QA strategies and processes.
- Work well in a team or individual atmosphere in a faced-paced environment.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Programming/ DB Languages: SQL, Java Basics
Host Systems/ Database: IBM DB2, UNISYS Mainframe, MS SQL Server, MS Access
Operating Systems: Windows 2008/Win7/8/10, MAC OS
Testing/ TDM Tools: HP QC,HP ALM, TFS, JIRA, SOAPUi Pro, Parasoft SOATest, IBM Mainframe tools, Eclipse, Basics of IBM Optim, Basics of Delphix
Web Services: SOAP & REST based APIs/ Web services
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Senior QA tester / Test Data Management
Responsibilities:
- Served as a key member of software development team/ test data management team as the lead QA tester/ Test data management expert on development projects for one of the largest banks of UK.
- Served as a Test data SME providing solutions of End to End Test data mining and manufacturing problems by applying new test data provisioning methodologies and guiding the team by applying automation solutions for redundant/manual tasks during test data provisioning life cycle.
- Worked as a middleware automation tester to automate the various methods of SOAP/ REST based APIs that were developed as a part of enhanced service oriented architecture. Helped the client with savings of significant amount of money by providing successful POC using SOAPUi as compared to other costly market based licensed tools to automate the various API methods for an entire proposal. This in turn got converted into a large project of generating regression test suites of automated test cases.
- Performed QA testing procedures including black box testing, white box testing, user acceptance testing, and maintenance regression testing
- Worked in an onshore-offshore structure having played an important role in stake holder management and other project management related activities.
- Led and directed the work of other QA Engineers in the evaluation of functional requirements and detailed specifications for the multiple projects at the same time.
- Evaluated testing and inspection plans, developed and documented test scripts, test cases, defect tracking and report generation, reviewed run-time documentation for defects and issues
- Transitioned software development efforts to a test-driven development process, which brought QA testing on the front-end of development life cycle for gains in code quality and helped with early identification of some major show stopper bugs which ultimately resulted in increased productivity of an entire team.
Confidential .
Test Data Management specialist
Responsibilities:
- Serving as a Test Data management specialist for a Banking & financial institute. Involved in the analysis of the various backend systems and study of business use cases to understand the functional flow between applications and identify the challenges in terms of test data.
- Suggest TDM tooling based solutions for the type of test data services required like frequent data snapshots, data masking, data sub-setting, synthetic data generation etc…
- Also involved in carrying out Proof of Concept for solution suggested and helping out the client to setup centralized test data management process at enterprise level.