Tester Specialist Resume New York, NY - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Dedicated Senior Consultant with over 15 years of experience as a Business, Data and Quality Assurance Analyst. Full System Development Life Cycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans and test scenarios, executing test cases and test processes.
Full - time JIRA Administrator for project management and software development of multiple projects to record, track and report on issues, defects, tasks, and action items.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,New York, NY

Tester Specialist

Responsibilities:

Applied business and functional knowledge of client systems and operations to testing methodologies and processes to achieve the overall testing objectives.
Prepared, reviewed and updated test scenarios, test scripts and test cases.
Executed System Testing and Regression Testing cycles manually utilizing HPQC.
Validated datasets and test scripts as part of UAT preparation.
Logged defects in a timely manner in HPQC and SharePoint for resolving/tracking.
Tested and closed/re-opened resolved defects.
Facilitated testing activities for scheduled migrations and hot fixes in close communication with Test and Application Leads.

Confidential,New York, NY

JIRA Administrator

Responsibilities:

Supported migration of three distinct data repositories used for reporting and regulatory compliance to JIRA 6. Prepared and executed CSV and CLI scripts. Performed quality checks and reconciliation of migrated data sets with source data. Managed offshore/external migration resources.
Customized migrated JIRA projects as requested by users, including optimizing workflows, creating custom calculated fields to support reporting needs, and managing gadgets/widgets. Developed and published management reports.

Confidential,New York, NY

QA Analyst / Work Track Lead

Responsibilities:

Analyzed and defined functional and business requirements for preparation of test plans, strategies, and reports.
Created, reviewed, maintained and executed test scenarios, test scripts and test cases for System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing cycles. Ensured traceability of requirements to test cases and test results in preparation of testing artifacts.
Logged, tested and tracked issues and defects to closure and resolution in JIRA in partnership with Development Team.
Documented test results in compliance with established Quality Control standards and Quality Assurance methodologies.
Assigned, managed and tracked progress of daily tasks assigned to offshore and onshore resources.
Prepared daily testing statistical dashboard reports for Project Management.
Planned and prepared for delivery of new builds, releases and hot fixes with Development team and Project Management.

JIRA Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Oversaw daily operation and maintenance of JIRA application used to report and manage a variety of project activities, including defects, risks, issues and tasks.
Added new users and managed their access rights. Developed queries to support in-house and client reporting. Modified and enhanced different JIRA projects as requested by users, including creating and updating workflows, adding custom fields, and developing queries/filters.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Executed test scripts to test Security, Maintenance and Reporting functionality of a financial system upgrade/replacement for a large federal government agency.
Built and modified automated test scripts using IBM Rational Functional Tester.
Logged defects found in IBM Rational ClearQuest and worked with Development Team to research and correct and retest the defects.

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Gathered, documented and defined client business requirements, business needs and project objectives, via focus groups, feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all stakeholders.
Collaborated with Project Management and functional and technical teams to facilitate communication for successful project launches and application release implementation.
Performed business analysis, project planning and assessment, and user training; analyses of business process adaptation to audit support tool and revenue generation forecasting.