Skills

Please use this table to list the skills noted in the Required/Desired section of the Peoplefluent requirement. In addition, please respond with the years of experience for each skill and the last time each skill was used. Add or delete rows as necessary.

Employment History

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in an agile environment consisting of multiple Scrum Teams tasked with varying objectives.
• Reviewed and analyzed Requirement Documents associated with various modules and processes for existing and brand new functionality.
• Developed detailed Test Cases to test new functionality and updated/upgraded existing Test Cases as part of an overall effort to increase quality of Testing and significantly reduce the number of bugs found per round of testing.
• Responsible for testing a brand new functionality Instrumentation extensively to ensure that all user requirements were met.
• Lead the software development team comprising of Testers, Development Team and Mechanical Engineers in several rounds of Regression and Smoke testing prior to deployment of a new feature enhancement and/or application patch releases.
• Participated in daily Scrum meetings for each Scrum team to discuss progress, issues found and specific goals to be achieved for that day.
• Participated in Sprint Planning meetings to discuss what was in scope for that Sprint period and also determine how many man hours it would to take to achieve each task.
• Developed detailed Test Plans for each Sprint in an effort to ensure that all stakeholders were aware and in agreement of the specific tasks QA would be undertaking for that period.
• Met daily with S.M.Es to discuss requirements, scenarios being developed for testing and general knowledge transfer.
• Conducted a sprint review in form of a presentation at the end of each sprint to show all major stakeholder what was achieved in the last sprint and also discuss any challenges or issues QA encountered.
• Used Microsoft Visual Studio TFS 2010 as a Sprint Planning, Task Creation and Defect tracking tool.
• Performed Regression testing to determine that new bug fixes did not break existing functionality before a new release is made available to clients.
• Worked closely with the Development Team to ensure that all Severity 1 Showstopper bugs where discussed and ultimately fixed as a matter of priority.
• Worked with Business Analyst to incorporate new test cases where needed due to change in Requirements.

Confidential

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Functional unit and Acceptance testing documents for Point Of Sale System.
• Implemented QA Standards for all work streams to follow when creating Test Script and Test Scenarios.
• Recommended a process on how to link a requirement to a Test Scenario.
• Actively participated in Process Improvement meetings as part of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Collaborated with Training team to develop Training materials for end Users.
• Lead SOX Sarbanes Oxley Documentation for Acceptance Testing documents.
• Assisted offshore team to Facilitate issues resolution in a timely fashion.
• Worked with Development team to facilitate all defects using Visual Studio Team System.
• Used Microsoft Visual Studio TFS 2010 as a Sprint Planning, Task Creation and Defect tracking tool.
• Created automated test scripts in Visual Studio Team System using Business Rules as defined by product owners/business analysts in requirement documents.
• Conducted major documentation drive to record major business application modules in the share point for companywide usage.
• Worked in an agile environment consisting of multiple Scrum Teams tasked with varying objectives.
• Conducted/facilitated informal workgroup training sessions and managing projects.
• Identified most common user issues and documented their solutions using Share point and MS Visio.
• Requirements engineering - Directed and provided requirements engineering/analysis process.
• Lead requirements analysis and definition for new projects with clients.
• Derive business processes, elicited and analyzed user and organizational needs.
• Communicated requirements to project team members and stakeholders to conduct workshops to elicit, investigate, analyze, specify, categorize, prioritize, evaluate and validate requirements.
• Participated in UAT, regression testing of maintenance releases patches implementation.
• Served as High Level Support Analyst to assist end users with functional/technical issues after Application went live.
• Facilitated CR Change Request report when Data Fixes were required to fix a bug in Application.

Confidential

Software Tester/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the early stages of software development and collaborated with other teams often and regularly through all stages of the project life-cycle.
• Responsible for maintaining the Requirement Traceability matrix and finding out gaps within the Requirement coverage.
• Lead requirements gathering/definition, requirements documentation, solution design, test plan/test case design and all levels of testing including unit, system, and regression and user acceptance.
• Worked independently and as part of a cross functional team that created, reviewed, and executed test procedures.
• Developed, documented and executed Exploratory, System, Integration, Regression, Performance and Stress Tests.
• Recorded results and generated Defect Requests DR's during test scripts execution.
• Performed regression testing to ensure all reported defects had been resolved.
• Used manual and automated techniques to perform software testing.
• Assisted in development and testing in a specialist capacity.
• Performed user acceptance testing UAT .
• Implemented advanced software testing methodologies, models as required.
• Tracked and communicated all defects found in QC to appropriate subsystem.
• Performed regression testing on bug fixes associated to my subsystem.
• Drafted and revised test plans and scripts, executed test scripts according to application requirements documentation.
• Defined and managed project scope, gathered requirements, identified and managed Project tasks, project consolidation and releases.
• Project management for Microsoft lab and data center projects
• Recommended and implemented changes to enhance the effectiveness of quality assurance strategies.
• Defined, documented and reviewed functional requirements and design.
• Analyzed and documented relevant business processes, inclusive of facilitating user interview/meetings and documenting the current and future state business processes.
• Owned the Integration Testing process, including development of test plans, test cases and scenarios and documentation of results.
• Participated in daily Scrum meetings for each Scrum team to discuss progress, issues found and specific goals to be achieved for that day.
• Responsible for ensuring that project met functionality requirements and expected business benefits.
• Responsible for all facets of the User Acceptance Testing process.
• Engaged all relevant participants in change management activities, where appropriate.
• Responsible for managing and producing all business process related documentation and all the project deliverables during the initial requirements gathering phase.
• Served as the primary liaison with the development and testing teams to ensure proper knowledge transfer of all business needs and functional requirements.
• Prepared project documentation such as meeting minutes and business process.
• Assisted the Project Manager/Project Lead with project closeout activities.

Confidential

QUALITY ASSURANCE LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Lead the QA Team throughout the Software Development cycle in Testing activates such as Test Plan creation, Test Cases documentation and execution, defect triage and tracking and post go-live activities.
• Actively participated in the early stages of the project by attending meetings and critically analyzing requirement documents for any ambiguities.
• Responsible for test planning creating test scenarios, writing test cases/scripts for manual and automated testing.
• Worked effectively with cross functional teams.
• Scheduled, integrated, and utilized manual testing, as needed.
• Created new scripts when necessary and modified existing test scripts for the application change.
• Responsible for troubleshooting software testing issues and providing detailed documentation of defects to the developers Performed regression testing.
• Performed system testing, including new functionality and regression testing.
• Performed ad-hoc testing when needed.
• Worked in an agile environment consisting of multiple Scrum Teams tasked with varying objectives.
• Documented test results.

Confidential

QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Executed test cases, manual and automated, and documented results.
• Participated in assigned projects, including project meetings, work product reviews, providing work breakdown structures and status to manager and project managers.
• Developed test plans documenting the testing for functionality that is changing and the system regression testing that will be performed.
• Developed and executed test cases to ensure the delivery of quality applications.
• Participated in test planning, created test scenarios, test cases/scripts for manual and automated testing
• Executed test cases accurately and concisely report both progress and defect status, including gathering and reporting on project quality metrics.
• Entered issues, maintained issues, and managed the defect tracking system.
• Troubleshot and found root cause of issues found during testing using technical knowledge.
• Pro-actively worked with Development and Support staff in problem analysis, reproduction, and resolution.
• Project management for Microsoft lab and data center projects
• Ensured new applications and software modifications met requirements and operated satisfactorily in the system environment.
• Identified and documented defects and failures.
• Performed regression testing.