Senior Test Engineer Resume Arlington, VA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Over 18 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance and Software testing. In depth knowledge of Software development life cycle, testing methodologies including both Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall models. Proficient in System, Functional, Regression and Performance testing of Client/Server, Web Based applications. Hands - on experience with testing tools like CA Agile Central (RALLY), HP-ALM (Quality Center), Mercury’s QTP, Test Director, SoapUI, Oracle SQL Developer, PLSQL Developer and TOAD.
Experience in all facets of the STLC and SDLC, with timely delivery against aggressive deadlines.
A Skilled Agile Tester has an excellent ability to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels to ensure projects are completed on time and to the customer's satisfaction.
Excellent knowledge of Agile and Scrum development environment and a certified Scrum Master.
Knowledge in Test case automation using Selenium with Java, Cucumber, BDD, Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab.
Expertise in creating test requirement documents, writing test plans, test scenarios and test case development, test case execution, traceability matrix, web service testing.
Expertise include business functionality testing, sanity/smoke testing, Interface testing, integration testing, system testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, performance testing, bug documentation and reporting, data requirement analysis, retrieving required data from DB.
Proven ability to work under pressure, focus on the big picture and deliver with success
Managed and/or led teams (Onshore/Offshore) that have ranged in size from 3 to 20 employees.
Possess a very strong people-oriented skill, a natural team member and a very quick learner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows, UNIX.

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, HTML, XML, CSS, Java

Development Tools: Visual Basic, Developer2000

Testing Tools: CAAC (CA Agile Central - formerly known as RALLY), HP - ALM (Quality Center), QuickTest Pro, Selenium IDE, SoapUI, P/L SQL Developer, SQL Developer, Toad, Snipping Tool, Screencast-O-Matic, SnagIt, Test Director, PVCS Dimensions, Caliber Author, Bugzilla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

Review new requirements and write test cases
Validate the web application by executing the test cases, doing exploratory/ad-hoc testing for any enhancements made
Manage defects using BugZilla - Logging new bugs and retesting the fixed ones
Participate in weekly project meetings and test team meetings as and when required

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with all stakeholders and customers to ensure developed applications designed to meet customer requirements and to ensure delivery of high-quality applications.
As a member of the Scrum team participates in backlog planning, grooming, daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.
Take a leading role in manual testing, actively involved in creation of detailed test plans test cases and test scenarios for different application modules according to functional requirements and business specifications.
Review Requirements, Feature Design and Low Level Design Specifications. Provide input regarding the completeness and correctness of these documents as well as consistency with the baselined version of the software and with other documents throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Attended Requirements, Feature Design, Functional and Low Level Design Specifications review meetings.
Write test cases for new functionality and updated existing test cases for changing functionality using Test Director, HP-ALM, CA Agile Central (RALLY).
Execute test cases manually in the System Test, frequently tested in front end and backend
Extensively used SQL queries to see the transaction in the database
Perform SANITY/SMOKE testing, Guerilla Testing/Enhanced Unit Testing as a SWAT Team member
Perform Regression Testing and E2E (end-to-end) Testing with various versions of the application.
Clearly and effectively communicate all defects that have been found during the testing effort using CA Agile Central (Rally), HP ALM to track problems (CRs--change requests)
Created and maintained Test Matrix
Update the test log/Requirement Traceability Matrix and Write Test Summary Reports
Arrange Brown Bag session of the knowledge transfer (KT) among the Team Members for the new features of the application
Mentor new/juniors on the team

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