Quality Assurance Manager Resume
Chicago, IL
SUMMARY
- 18 years of experience providing leadership and expertise in software testing across a variety of industries and environments.
- Expertise in industry quality standards and familiarity with the tools, concepts and methodologies of quality management.
- Experience in Agile (Scrum) development; testing iteratively against newly implemented User stories until quality is achieved from end customer's perspective.
- Knowledge in performing quality assurance activities throughout SDLC (Requirement reviews, Design reviews, Code reviews and Quality Assurance).
- Expertise in all quality related documentation (test planning, requirement decomposition, traceability matrix, test scripts, test data and defect reporting).
- Hiring and mentoring of new hires in concepts and methodologies of Quality management.
- Procured QA software tools, developed QA procedures and established quality assurance standards.
- Trained 1,000 students over 12 years in QA methodologies, Processes and automated testing tools.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Testing Tools: HP Application Life Cycle Management, TestRail, QA Director, Microsoft Test Manager, HP Unified Functional Testing, Selenium, JIRA, MKS and ClearQuest.
Methodologies: Waterfall, V Methodology, Agile (Scrum).
Skills: Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Stress Testing, Performance Testing, Cloud Testing and Mobile Testing.
Programming Languages: Java, JSP, VB Scripting.
Operating Systems: Mainframe, Linux/Unix, iOS, Android.
Databases: DB2, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server.
Messaging: FIXML, MQ.
Tools: SharePoint, VeriFix, UC4, ClearCase, RequisitePro, and XML Spy.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Quality Assurance Manager
Responsibilities:
- Improved Requirements coverage by 20% by identifying bottlenecks, ambiguous requirements.
- Constant interaction with Stake holders, Product owners and developers to resolve requirement and implementation issues.
- Participation and making suggestions to solve the roadblocks in daily Sprint meetings.
- Driving best practices / value proposition / in house tools for testing.
- Schedule and implementation of tests within the automation framework.
- Facilitate technical input and growth opportunities for further automation improvement.
- HP Quality Center and Microsoft Test Manager Administration and backups.
- Performing stress tests using in house tools like OMS Stress Test.
- Hiring and mentoring of new hires in concepts and methodologies of Quality management.
- Manage offshore QA manual and Automation team.
Tools: MS Test Manager, HP Application Life Cycle Management, TestRail, HP Unified Functional Tester, JIRA, Bloomberg Terminal, FIX Protocol, SharePoint.
Technical environment: C ++, SQL Server 2016, VMWare under Windows platform.
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Quality Assurance Lead
Responsibilities:
- Performed gap analysis and prioritized testing to eliminate production issues.
- Developed test strategies, detailed test plans, test cases, test data, test coverage and reported status.
- Requirement, Technical and Code reviews with suggestive improvements to Business and development teams from QA viewpoint.
Tools: Quality Center, JIRA, MAXIMO, Korn shell scripting.
Technical environment: Java, C ++, SQL Server under UNIX platform.
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Software Quality Consultant -
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for complex, cross-platform, and highly integrated Futures and Options clearing systems that are internally developed in a fast-paced development environment.
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Senior Quality Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Worked as a QA for Facets software for health plan administration .
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Responsibilities:
- Worked as a QA for Multiple projects like Instant rebate gift card, Mail-in rebates, Price Verifier, HUB Back office automation, Debit card.
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Java Developer
Responsibilities:
- Website design, development, and hosting services Programmer of B2C
