Career Highlights

• Well versed in Quality Assurance Managing, Creating, Training, and Reporting as well as Implementation of Originated processes.
• Enjoys learning new technologies, methods, applications and very eager to acquire new knowledge.
• Played majority role in test strategy, test execution plans, defining test cases along with the development and maintenance of test scripts according to the business specifications given.
• Familiar with Ruby, Cucumber, HP Quality Center, Test Director, TestComplete, JIRA, Finesse, Tortise SVN, Altova XML Spy, SOAPUI and Terminal technologies used in manual and automated testing.
• Lead projects from local teams to multiple off-shore teams based around the globe.

Professional Experience

Confidential

ALM Administrator, QA Validation Analyst/Consultant

• Application Lifecycle Management Admin for Testing Project.
• Run end-to-end test scripts.
• Creation of test scripts for Private Banking.
• Defect discovery, reporting and resolution.

Confidential

Validation Analyst/Consultant

• Testing open system/web application following Agile methodology.
• Complete end-to-end testing.
• Key contributor accessing thorough testing scenarios.
• Inquisitive reverse engineering to uncover process improvements.
• Translation and Implementation of Infrastructure Requirements.
• Utilize SQL Developer, XML Spy, Tortise, SOAP and Fitnesse.

Confidential

Co-Founder / Director / Manager / Blogger

• Enterprise level administration of 65 cities that make up 3.0 million contacts.
• Tier II support of social media tools.
• Operational Manager of Cloud Based Services.
• Critical analysis of marketing strategies to all sizes of clients.

Confidential

QA Lead/Consultant

• Testing Environment - Agile Process
• Prepare and review system appreciation documents, understand application dependencies and plan shadow support.
• Analyze functional and non-functional requirements.
• Prepare test requirement specifications, read relevant documents, interact with the client SME, undertake self-study and review software demos to understand client business and client requirements.
• Create test strategy for the project from the test requirements.
• Review effort estimates for project execution and seek review from respective manager.
• Maintain detailed schedule for a work packet and provide inputs to overall project goals.
• Ensure that the test environment is provided by the client as well as provide necessary review feedback for test data set-up.
• Originate action plan for all the risks identified in the test plan as well as seek support to mitigate the risk.
• Critique test scripts periodically to ensure robustness and coverage, complete execution.
• Discover and track action plan for any risks and their mitigation during test execution.
• Validation of go live activities.
• Interface with customer for issue resolution, status updates and deliver high customer satisfaction through the complete process.

Confidential

QA Tester/Consultant

• Testing Environment - Agile Process
• Point of Sale Testing for IRIS Application.
• Transfer of complicated technical documentation into easily understandable procedures.
• Performed testing, debugging according to defined quality assurance processes.
• Applied customized test procedures for the Organization's products.
• User case creation and execution of 500 Aquarius, IRIS and AS400 use cases.
• Creation of test plan and user case templates.
• AS/400 querying utilizing SQL.

Confidential

BA QA Analyst R-SAM Application

• Testing Environment - Agile Process
• Worldwide project over multiple continents involving numerous off-shore as well as on-shore teams.
• Objective being the Electronic Transmittal of 3 billion lines of code each and every month.
• Trained and supported over 250 new testers in HP Quality Center.
• Communicated Project Status Progress, Test Summary, Test Execution Status, and Defect Triage to Test teams and 50 steering committee members on a daily, weekly, at times-an hourly basis.
• Played a key role in the creation of the Test Execution Plan consisting of 1400 Steps, Day-to-Day Plan and Test Strategy Documentation that was required for the project.
• Knowledge transfer and trainer to permanent staff member.
• Responsible for test quality and coverage pertaining to over 700 requirements, arranged internal/external reviews.
• Made decisions regarding project continuation or to recommend suspension of testing when the environment was unstable.
• Knowledge base for any inquiries related to testing activities during all 11 phases of the project.
• Liaison between Business and Technical departments.
• Translated development requests into use cases for testers.
• Participated in daily and weekly progress evaluations on new releases and builds.
• Actively involved in releases of new iterations.
• Exposed to Ruby on Rails, C , and Java programming languages.
• Worked with SQL Developer, HP Quality Center 9.2, as well as Quick Test Pro v10.0 and Cucumber Automation Applications.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Process Originator

• Complete ownership of Quality Assurance Process formation and documentation.
• Originated all automated test cases without the assistance of reference documentation.
• Actively involved with Build and Releases of Versions 4.1 and 4.2 of CC Discover Application.
• Perform both new functionality and regression tests and identified, analyzed and reported issues using JIRA bug tracking tool.
• Wrote and executed 1200 automated performance test scripts using the TestComplete Automation Tool.
• Participated in daily and weekly group sessions relating to the build's progress.

Confidential

QA Lead Functional Testing

• Testing Environment Scrum Process with attempts at Test Driven Development
• Created automated performance test scripts using Performance Professional Tool, Appsloader and Load Runner.
• Headed up off-shore team of 12 Quality Assurance Validation Engineers.
• Designed, developed, and executed manual test cases using test plans and functional specifications.
• Participated in all phases of the test cycle, including Integration/System Testing, Performance Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Performed both new functionality and regression tests in which to identify, analyze and report issues utilizing the Spirit bug tracking tool.

Confidential

QA Analyst/Consultant

• Testing Environment - Agile Process
• Reported defects in HP Quality Center/Test Director.
• Executed test cases in Performance, System and Integration Test Phases.
• Performed on both Business and Auto Policy Applications.
• Collaborated with Business Analysts on defect resolution.
• Verified test case authenticity against most current requirement documentation.
• Analyzed mainframe operation through accurate processing of front end data inputs.

Confidential

QA Analyst/Consultant

• Testing Environment - Agile Process
• Developed test plans, testability matrixes, and detailed test cases.
• Executed test cases and compared those results against expected results.
• Responsible for researching and analyzing testing defects for resolution.
• Gained further knowledge of end-to-end functionality of supporting applications.
• Coordinated and communicated with other QA and project team members.

Confidential

QA Test Lead-Integration/Consultant

• Supported and performed ongoing maintenance of the Test Director bug tracking application.
• Trained, mentored and evaluated team of 6 testers that were new to testing.
• Developed Test Plans, Testability Matrixes, and Test Cases.
• Responsible for review/QA of test scenarios, cases scripts, managing execution of all integration test scripts, also daily summary reports of team members.
• Point of contact for all Upper Management testing queries.

Confidential

QA Engineer/Consultant

• Testing Environment - Agile Process
• Created automated and manual test cases in Nationwide Auto Quote Bind, Property, Contact Us and Search Applications.
• Participated in release nights for 'Contact Us' and 'Search Applications.'
• Played active role in requirement 'walk-through' and bug triage meetings.
• Utilized QTP and Test Director when identifying defects and organizing test cases.

Confidential

QA Engineer/Consultant

• Worked with Automation Tools QTP and Test Director in the execution of automated test cases.
• Was a key team member in the bug triage process.
• Independently wrote manual test cases to evaluate new builds of software.
• Ran test procedures and would report defect discovery back to test team.
• Contributed to discussions involving the type of severity for defects that were reported.