Testing Advocate Resume
Mason, OH
SUMMARY
- Over 7+ years of experience in testing with incisive business sense and with proven ability of leading and working in teams to create, launch and support software projects within a specified timeframe.
- Skilled at providing Business Analysis for new solutions to improve business operational efficiency, performance and quality.
- Practical understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), waterfall, iterative, joint application development (JAD), rapid application development (RAD) and agile methodologies.
- Extensive experience in creating testing artifacts like Use Cases, Test Cases, Defect Metrics, Work Product Review documents, Signoffs and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Expertise in developing Use Cases, Solution Design, Test Harness, Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scripts, Test cases, Test Designs, best practices on Business & Testing standards, procedures & methodologies, installation of various automation and test management tools, real time risk factor analysis and troubleshooting techniques.
- Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle using methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
- Extensive experience in Web based Application Services and Desktop Applications.
- Identifying Functional, Non - Functional and Business rules and subsequently modeling them.
- Expertise in designing, coordinating and implementing Business Control and Quality control methodologies.
- Expertise in problem solving, business analysis, knowledge transfer, change management, maintenance &reengineering projects.
- Extensive experience in visualizing the design of the system using UML diagrams and screen mockups.
- Proficient in working users and stakeholders to Elicit, Analyze, Communicate and Validate requirements using JAD, JAR and Brainstorming sessions.
- Proficient in documenting AS-IS and TO-BE business processes.
- Well versed in Requirements/Change Management, Impact Analysis and Gap Analysis.
- Hands on experience with different testing methods like User Acceptance Testing, GUI Testing and Black Box Testing.
- Creative, conscientious and quickly adaptable leader who develops strong working relationships and sets standards for other employees.
- Demonstrated methodical approach to all assignments while adhering to compressed timeline.
- Detail oriented team leader who excels at coordinating with stakeholders and other team members and to work effectively with diverse technical specialists to ensure expectations are consistently met or exceeded.
- Ability to work independently and also a versatile team player.
- Enterprising and self-motivated personality with excellent communication, presentation & interpersonal skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: MS Windows:
Business Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Outlook:
Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Microsoft Test Manager, familiarity with HP Quick TestProfefe Professional, Test Director, Win Runner:
Bug Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, MS TFS, Version One:
Database: SQL, MySQL, familiarity with Oracle, MS Access:
Applications: MS Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat:
Web Technologies: HTML, XML:
Testing Strategies: Integration, Unit, System, UAT, Regression:
Methodologies: SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), Agile, Waterfall:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential | Mason, OH
Testing Advocate
Responsibilities:
- Good experience in managing Offshore and Onshore model.
- Extensively involved in phases like Requirement analysis, Test planning and Test case design and reviews.
- Plan, organize and lead the testing kick-off meeting.
- Support, co-ordination and responsibility of the testing activities which includes review of test cases and test conditions.
- Determine, procure, control, maintain and optimize the test environment (hardware, software and network)
- Get information on the latest releases/ builds from the development team/ the client
- Attended meetings with management to discuss the testing statuses and various impediments or risks.
- Provided clear concise feedback to development team on recurring errors on team basis and with aim of long-term reduction of defects found in final release.
- Co-ordination with the Project Managers and Development team for resolution of any outstanding issues.
- Assist entry-level testers on reviewing requirements, preparing test cases and report software defects.
- Participated in bug triage meetings.
- Monitor, track and regularly report test status and bug statistics to the Project Manager.
- Involved in Test Lead activities like Estimations, Resource Management.
- Provide managers with documentation of test results and status.
- Status Reporting (Daily/Weekly status report, Test Summary Report and Productivity sheet).
- Experience in providing signoffs based on customer requirements and product exit criteria.
- Used Office Suite extensively for documentation, reports, and presentations.
Environment: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Quality Center 10/ALM, SOAP UI, XMLs.
Confidential | Camp Hill, PA
Sr. Quality Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Collate documentation, recognize any changes and take role in ensuring that the changes are made and adequately communicated to others.
- Wrote clear, concise detailedSystem Requirements Specification (SRS) documents and user documentation in accordance to guidelines and standards of a level where developers can interpret, design and develop the application with minimum guidance.
- Scheduled a daily meeting to discuss the development-testing issues for follow-up on defect statuses.
- Designed FFBD for different functional flows scenarios.
- Met with users and stakeholders to understand the problem domain, gathered customer requirements through surveys, interviews (group and one-on-one) along with JAD sessions.
- Used HP Quality Center for storing of requirements, maintaining, execution of test cases and reporting results.
- Processing new requirements.
- Performed peer reviews with team for test case documents on QC.
- Discussing the test case coverage before and after a requirement change, and validating whether it meets the user requirements and design specifications.
- Coordinate with team to discuss deviations from FRS.
- Ensure developers understand and implement the requirements properly.
- Validated data designs using XMLs.
- Perform Gap Analysis to identify the fulfillment of business requirements.
- Provided clear concise feedback to development team on recurring errors on team basis and with aim of long-term reduction of defects found in final release.
- Participated in bug triage meetings.
- Monitor, track and regularly report test status and bug statistics to the project lead.
- Provide managers with documentation of test results and status.
- Used Office Suite extensively for documentation, reports, and presentations.
Environment: MS-Excel, MS Visio, MS-Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, XML, Quality Center, XML, Windows, Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
Confidential | Milpitas, CA
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Worked with the individual sub-project managers to translate requirements intoPRDs (Product Requirement Documents)for the development teams.
- Analyzed the requirements and attended change request meetings.
- Created traceability matrix for test cases and requirements. Communicated with the team members and developers throughout the process regarding requirements traceability matrix and track requirements.
- Assisted in analysis Healthcare Care Section that helped in Product development.
- Primarily involved in gathering requirements for the GUI (Graphical User Interface) screens and designing the same
- Analyzed and created workflow diagrams and presented to developers
- Review requirements, recommendations and constraints, and develop comprehensive and accurate functional specifications, Data Mapping, and process flow.
- Designed and created wire frames and process storyboards.
- Created use-case scenarios and storyboards in MS Word and MS PowerPoint for better visualization of the application.
- Designed the UI (web interface) mock-ups of the application.
- Conducted smoke testing for further rigorous testing.
- Prepared various lessons learnt documents.
- Documented various version controlled test documents, for easy availability and tracking.
- Review the Test Plan developed by the testing team for testing the application.
- Assist the QA personnel in the creation of Test Cases using HP Quality Center.
- Coordinate and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines.
- Review the Test Plan developed testing and validation of data requirements.
- Worked in Agile Development Methodology with daily meetings, presentations, reviews, and burn-down charts.
Environment: Quality Center, MySQL, XML.
Confidential
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Worked with the individual sub-project managers to translate requirements intoPRDs (Product Requirement Documents)for the development teams.
- Assisted in analysis Back office Systems that helped in Product development.
- Primarily involved in gathering requirements for the GUI (Graphical User Interface) screens and designing the same.
- Analyzed and created workflow diagrams and presented to developers.
- Analyzed the requirements and attended change request meetings.
- Review requirements, recommendations and constraints, and develop comprehensive and accurate functional specifications, Data Mapping, and process flow.
- Created traceability matrix for test cases and requirements. Communicated with the team members and developers throughout the process regarding requirements traceability matrix and track requirements.
- Designed and created wire frames and process storyboards.
- Created use-case scenarios and storyboards in MS Word and MS PowerPoint for better visualization of the application.
- Designed the UI (web interface) mock-ups of the application.
- Conducted smoke testing for further rigorous testing.
- Prepared various lessons learnt documents.
- Documented various version controlled test documents, for easy availability and tracking.
- Participated in various knowledge transfer meetings to share product specifications and understandings.
- Review the Test Plan developed by the testing team for testing the application.
- Assist the QA personnel in the creation of Test Cases using HP Quality Center.
- Coordinate and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines.
- Review the Test Plan developed testing and validation of data requirements.
- Worked in Agile Development Methodology with daily meetings, presentations, reviews, and burn-down charts.
Environment: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel.
Confidential
Quality Analyst
Responsibilities:
- As a part of the SCRUM process, performed the role of Quality Assurance Analyst.
- Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business analyst and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
- Documented and communicated requirements, test results, test process and test standards with QA Manager.
- Authored manual test scenarios and test cases improving functional coverage.
- Ensured that all the test cases are updated to Quality Center.
- Performed manual testing of web based applications with frequently changing requirements and features.
- Designed and implemented load testing and scalability testing for the JDA POS.
- Wrote MSSQL queries to interact with the database and test/validate data.
- Tested critical bug fixes in coordination with developers.
- Responsible for Data setup for System testing.
- Conducted System and Regression testing identified application errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
- Tested system in different levels and phases such as Functional testing, GUI testing, Integration testing, and System testing.
- Executed test cases and evaluated their Pass or Fail criteria.
- Executed test cases manually. Compared and analyzed actual with expected results and reported all deviations to the appropriate individual for resolution
- Managed the work of other testers during test plan development and test execution phases to ensure proper and on-time test completion
- Implemented appropriate measurements and metrics
- Participated in regression testing after bug finding.
- Identified and documented all issues and defects to ensure application software functionality.
- Managed QA environment and setup.
- Assisted the Product Business Analyst in building strategy for functionality of a product, performed enhancements and contributed to product development.
- Managed daily assigned duties and completed them in accordance to time.
- Actively participated in daily scrum meetings, review meetings and project status meetings.
- Extensively used MS-Office tools for managing application testing like documentation, reports, and presentations.
- Three nominations for the “JDA Performer” by associates from cross - functional teams and verbal accolades on several occasions.
- Appreciation award for excellent performance and contribution towards a product feature that was completely devised and developed from India.
Environment: Quality Center, SilkCentral Test Manager, Team Track, MSSQL 2000, MS Excel, Windows, VersionOne.