Software Quality Assurance Tester Resume

SUMMARY

6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing of Web, Mobile, Desktop and Client/Server based applications.
Extensive experience in Manual Testing using Black Box Testing methods.
Expertise in Agile and V - model methodologies.
Thorough knowledge of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Verification and Validation (V&V) cycle.
Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and writing detailed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts
Extensive experience in Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Integration, Regression, System and User Acceptance Testing.
Experience using Quality Center to create and execute test cases
Experience using Clear Quest for bug reporting and defect tracking.
Experience in root cause analysis of failed test cases and defects to improve testing efforts and quality of product.
In-depth understanding and experience creating and verifying a Traceability Matrix.
Basic knowledge of SQL
Experience in working in a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Defect (Bug) Management Tool: Clear Quest

Test Management Tool: HP Quality Center

Data Analysis Software: Minitab and Origin 8

OS/DB: Windows, SQL, UNIX.

Programming Languages: Python, MATLAB, C

Other: MS Office, MS FrontPage, MS Expression Web, MS SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Software Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

Perform exploratory, functional, regression and UI testing on various web, mobile and desktop applications in real world conditions.
Identify and report software defects via Confidential bug tracking system with appropriate descriptions, screenshots and crash logs.
Included in the top 20% out of the 100,000+ testers within the first two months based on quality of the submitted bug reports.
Test applications that span across several diverse industries like retail, media & entertainment, finance, travel, education & learning and healthcare & fitness.

Environment: Specialized Confidential Platform for executing and reporting bugs and MS Excel.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Executed system level test protocols to manually test the thin-client imaging applications in an Agile and FDA regulated environment.
Created, maintained and executed test suites for Smoke, Sanity, Acceptance, Regression, Integration and System testing.
Discovered, investigated, tracked and verified issues throughout the software development life cycle using defect management tools.
Verified and reviewed product requirements, documented test results, created and maintained metrics reports on resolved defects.
Developed test cases based on hospital workflows and performed use case testing.
Liaised with the global team of developers and testers from different imaging modalities to ensure product met specifications.
Assisted in designing test plans including identifying project risks, verifying traceability matrix, planning test schedule and strategy.
Performed root cause analysis to identify cause of failed test cases and defects to improve testing efforts and overall quality of product.

Environment: Clear Quest, Quality Center, MS Excel, MS SharePoint, MS Word, Windows XP and 7.

Confidential, Lionville, PA

Product Engineering Intern

Responsibilities:

Worked in a team to design needles to minimize injection pain using fundamentals of Design of Experiments (DOE).
Successfully fabricated needles with textured surfaces and modified needle tip angles to comply with ISO standards.
Conducted mechanical tests using an Instron and MTS on modified needles to verify reduction of pain in humans.
Confirmed product requirements & specification by performing thorough statistical & quantitative analysis on the collected data.
Created and delivered presentations and reports on the project status to the upper management.