SUMMARY

• 10 years of hands - on experience in software testing, automation and QA analysis;
• 5+ years of experience in coordinating QA projects and leading QA teams;
• Knowledge of Test Automation Tools (HP Quick Test Pro, Selenium 2.0, SOAP UI, Sikuli, Pybot);
• Experience in developing, improving and maintaining frameworks for test automation;
• Advanced skills in analyzing business, design and system requirements, test documentation and development (test plans, test cases, use cases, periodical reports);
• Knack for research on new solutions, tools and resources, good experience with open source tools;
• Over 3 years of experience in agile/scrum methodologies, experienced in exploratory, ad hoc testing methods;
• Deep knowledge of all aspects of manual testing (functional, regression, integration, compatibility, installation, Back-end testing, mobile testing);
• 2+ years of expertise in an object oriented programming languages (Python, JAVA);
• Excellent abilities in prioritizing and multitasking;
• Team player with great communication and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Automation Tools: Selenium 2.0, Sikuli, Pybot, Quick Test Pro, SOAP UI;

Programming languages: Python, Java, Visual Basic, SQL, HTML/DHTML, XML/XSL/XSLT;

Database Management Systems: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Netezza;

Test and Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Jira, Internal Bug Tracking Systems;

Operating Systems: All versions of Windows, Unix (Solaris), Linux;

Business applications: Oracle Forms, EPower, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA TEAM LEAD

Confidential, Chesterbrook, PA

Responsibilities:

• Working in agile environment, elbow to elbow with development and business teams;
• Coordinating QA team, reviewing created test documentation, handling daily tag up meetings;
• Reviewing automated test cases to troubleshoot possible errors and missed functionality;
• Working with project management and dev leads on the scope of the project, time lines, and functionality;
• Involved in mobile testing, investigated current available mobile automation tools, helped to choose best option for current project.
• Handling and expanding SOAP UI suite for SOAP/REST calls testing.

QA TEAM LEAD/SENIOR QA ENGINEER

Confidential, New York, NY/Horsham, PA

Responsibilities:

• Performed full QA cycle, including defining test plan/strategy, gathering requirements, creating test plans / test cases, creating test cases for production releases, maintaining production releases;
• Widely used open source tools (SOAP UI, WinSP, Sikuli, PyBot, etc), researched and applied new strategies for testing/test planning, which saved time and increased quality of QA processes (foreseen potential issues in applications and services, wide use of exploratory testing, effectively collaborated with development team, speeded up the requirements gathering process, decreasing time on routine activities);
• Maintained automated scripts for UI and back-end testing. Generalized existing pieces of automation scripts into one framework that made running automation tests fast and easy. This framework was used by most of the QA teams in the company;
• Mentor new team members on QA process and project organization;
• Worked closely with development team, business analysts and management, participated in project/planning/follow up meetings, provided estimates for QA activities and dispatched QA tasks to other members;
• Willingly accepted new assignments, worked on multiple activities in different areas, quickly adapted to changes of business requirements and team structure, helped with late/weekend production releases.

QA TEAM LEAD

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Planned and applied test strategy, managed test activities, interviewed and trained new QA personnel;
• Developed test plan, wrote test cases suite, managed testing on client’s environment. Created various test scenarios in order to foresee all possible behaviors of the system;
• Provided regular status reports to top-level management and to the customer, closely communicated with the customer to determine and documenting new desired business logic and features;
• Developed Bug Tracking workflow based on a ePower platform, provided presentations and trainings for QA and Development teams;
• Shared knowledge with other QA team members, helped development team with issue investigation. Worked with developers to troubleshoot issues during development and integration stages of SDLC.

SENIOR QA ENGINEER

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Performed the whole spectrum of QA work for advanced C# - based project. This included writing Test Cases, performing manual testing, and creating/executing automated test scripts with Quick Test Pro;
• Provided tests on database level with SQL scripts and executing advanced SQL queries (MS SQL Server), verified database schemas, table relationships, correctness of data type format;
• Was involved in specification development elucidating inaccuracies and discrepancies between different parts of functionality described, that decreased time for development/bug fixing of the product and improved its quality;
• Implemented set of easy-to-use automated test scripts that covered all main workflow scenarios and can be configured for any workflow scenario in the application. This decreased time for test scripts creation while all possible scenarios were included into automated regression test set;
• Using Bug Tracking tools, developed new format of QA reports and statistics that helped to draw clear image of the activities progress and to find methods to increase effectiveness on the project.

SENIOR QA ENGINEER/QA ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Joined the largest (ISO 9001 certified) software development company in East Europe, worked on multiple outsourcing projects for US and European customers. Earned excellent skills in SQA processes and testing methodologies;
• Worked on multiple projects such as Reuters (NYC, NY), ATG (Cambridge, MA), TNK-BP (Moscow, Russia), etc. Proved excellent efficiency to work as QA Tester and QA Team Lead on advanced software applications used by world’s major financial and business vendors. Each project includes whole scope of SQA work, such as: use (often update) Functional Spec, write Test Cases suite, perform manual testing, report bugs in BTS;
• Earned experience on writing automated test scripts on Silk Test, WinRunner, HTTP unit. Performed a lot of work on SQL (Oracle, MS SQL Server), testing Java (J2EE) and Web applications, worked on multiple OS platforms Windows (all), Unix(Solaris, AIX, HPUX), Linux (Red Hat, SuSE, others);
• Was promoted to Senior QA Engineer in one year after proving the ability to successfully execute any of the assigned tasks, make optimal decisions during minimal time, work independently and as a part of a team;
• Worked on multiply projects at the same time showing high efficiency on every assigned project and gaining positive feedbacks from top-level management and customers.