SUMMARY:

• Resourceful SQA Engineer able to work in a well structured or an agile environment, self - motivated, successful in a team or as an independent contributor. Over 18 years of QA, developing, supporting and administering of variety of applications, operating systems and computer languages.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Bugzilla, TestLink, SQL Navigator, Oracle, SQL Server, SQLyog, MS SQL Server Management Studio 2014, MS Visual Studio, MS TFS, various CRM Tools. All popular web Browsers, SDK, Mobile tools and utilities.

Operating systems: MS Windows, UNIX, Mac.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Concord, MA

SQA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Writing and executing manual test cases for Recruitment Marketing Platform enterprise.
• Utilizing TFS for test cases creation, execution, defect tracking and verification
• Participating in daily stand ups, weekly spring planning and Backlog Grooming meetings
• Running automated and manual smoke tests on all final builds in various test environments, staging Production, and on Pre-Prod nodes
• Contributing to gathering functional specifications and creating User Stories, including UI, business rules, workflow, integration with third party data providers.
• Performing regression tests on every Release Candidate

Confidential, Waltham, MA

SQA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tested QuantiaMD application on the most popular browsers (FireFox, Safari, Chrome, IE) and mobile devices (Android and iOS handsets and tablets).
• Wrote, modified test cases according to technical specifications.
• Performed regression tests
• Developed and maintained test plans for acceptance and functional testing in agile environment.
• Tested Publisher - internal application for editors written in C#
• Communicated with developers, product management and editors on daily basis
• Ran automated Selenium tests written in Java from Eclipse using TestNG
• Analyzed log files and test results of automation tests.
• Assisted automation engineer to write and modify automation tests.
• Built and deployed new builds into various environments utilizing CI Jenkins system

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Senior SQA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tested various speech recognition applications on wide variety of mobile devices and accessories (Motorola, Samsung, Apple, RIM, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, HTC, etc.).
• Independently developed testing strategies, created test plans, wrote, and modified test cases for numerous speech recognition software packages.
• Translated technical requirements, functional specifications, and use cases into test documents.
• Executed competitive analysis, and conducted benchmark testing on competing applications from a usability, functionality and performance prospective.
• Extracted log files from Mobile devices using various tools/utilities.
• Wrote detailed bugs description, triaged, and communicated with developers and Product Management on daily basis.
• Participated in Scrum meetings discussing development, implementation, enhancement, and test strategy for different projects.
• Provided technical support for various applications.
• Developed, executed and maintained automated test cases on in-house implemented Python Framework.
• Executed and monitored automated recognition tests on specially designed and built in-house CHAT tool.
• Provided leadership and mentoring to QA team members.

Confidential, Malden, MA

Software Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided troubleshooting of client facing custom application including UI and back-end components.
• Provided database tuning and performance optimization.
• Installed and supported third party application for generating and printing shipping labels for various vendors.
• Hands-on development of a number of functional areas.
• Re-engineered and optimized various sets of functionality (GUI, Business Logic Processing, Backend processing).

Confidential, Woburn, MA

SQA Engineer/Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in design, development, implementation, customization, enhancement, support,and administration of variety of CRM applications (eQuote, AMS, Siebel Communications, QTG).
• Provided on call 24 hours support for various CRM applications.
• Developed, executed and maintained new reports using Actuate, Crystal, Brio and SQL Navigator.
• Scheduled and monitored reports execution on different servers and against different Databases.
• Modified and executed UNIX and PL/SQL scripts to update replication Databases from Data Warehouse.
• Designed, developed and maintained Web site for internal use in ASP.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

QA Engineer/ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed, executed and maintained detailed test strategies and scripts for Web/Windows-based sales automation software.
• Wrote test cases for functional requirements, systems integration, user acceptance, full systems and regression tests.
• Analyzed and reported software errors using Vantive (information tracking database).
• Participated in full product QA/Development cycle.
• Performed stress, regression, functional, performance tests on unit, module and system level, using Browsers Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape 4.5.
• Interacted with developers and business analysts on the daily basis to discuss and solve critical issues.

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

QA Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for testing two in-house applications designed to manage Worker’s Compensation Claims (ExPRS - client-server and ICI - Web based).
• Testing included manual execution of functional and system integration test cases, and Y2K compliance.
• Performed preliminary analysis on new functionality of the application, wrote and updated test cases.
• Moved and installed new versions of software from developing environment to staging.
• Communicated with production support to identify, troubleshoot and resolve software conflicts.
• Navigated, ran scripts and performed tests in UNIX AIX environment.