Senior Tester Resume
Arlington, VA
SUMMARY:
Leveraging advanced analytical background and ability to speak to an audience to bridge the gap between business and technology. Excited to tackle the toughest problems on the road to both personal and team growth and success. Senior software tester with the belief that organization will lead to effective knowledge - sharing, which in turn increases efficiency and paves the way for innovation. 5+ years of success streamlining QA best practices and change management. Solid background in documentation, team building, and process improvement.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Agile | Data Analytics | Process Development | SaaS Defect Management | QA Strategy | Innovation | Efficiency
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
PLATFORMS: Windows, Mac OS
LANGUAGES: R, SQL
SOFTWARE/TECHNOLOGIES: Microsoft suite, Jira, Rational, Test Complete, SharePoint, Medallia, Slack, TEAMS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Arlington, VA
Senior Tester
Responsibilities:
- Primarily responsible for development and execution of all unit, functional, and regression testing of delivered artifacts and products and coordinating testing across multiple, escalating test environments.
- Lead development of testing strategy, authoring test plans and test procedures, as well as creating and maintaining continuous integration process documentation.
- Support functional business requirement elicitation resulting in detailed acceptance criteria. Identify and diagnose solution configuration issues that manifest testing errors, providing communication and follow-through.
- Support the development and delivery of measurement reports. Work to continuously improve speed, efficiency, and scalability of the build and test systems.
- Collaborate on accessibility (508) testing across the project.
- Lead tester transition from Rational to Jira and formulated best practices
- Supported implementation of KANBAN methodology, including workflow and board design
- Implemented tester documentation best practices across the project
- Increased communication across roles to support knowledge-share and reduce redundancies
- Mitigated risk by expanding testing efforts and increasing transparency
Confidential, Arlington, VA
Software Test Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute unit, functional, and regression testing of delivered artifacts and products.
- Implement testing strategy and document test results.
- Identify and diagnose defects, communicating with development to ensure timely resolution.
- Maintain testing documentation and test library.
- Coordinate and contribute to meetings with development and leadership teams for product design.
- Develop standards, methods, and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness.
- Supported design of SDLC workflows
- Developed organizational strategy for test repository
- Developed test process from the ground up
- Mitigated risk by editing software documentation for technical accuracy, compliance and completeness
Confidential, Herndon, VA
Technical Support Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Respond to requests received through email and phone, providing support for basic customer issues and requests for information.
- Track incidents and maintain customer tickets.
- Determine when escalation to a higher tier is necessary and facilitate communication of issues across tiers.
- Mitigated company reputational risk by taking initiative and authoring training materials for onboarding
- Mentored new hires
- Utilized deductive reasoning to decrease call time and increase per hour call reception