Sonia Hooda

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Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Professional Objective

To take a challenging role within a business’ operation as a Quality Analyst and give an

efficient and effective solution that would help the organization to achieve the best

solution in business which would increase its productivity in market.

Summary :

• Seeking opportunity as a Quality Assurance Engineer.

• QA Engineer with almost 2 years of experience in both Manual and Automated testing

• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in various phases of SDLC, STLC and testing

methodologies like Waterfall and Agile (Scrum).

• Expertise in Business Analysis, Functional and System Requirements Gathering and

Analysis, Creation of Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Scripts and

Traceability Matrix (RTM).

• Skilled in different levels of testing like Component Testing, Functional Testing, Integration

testing, System testing, UAT, Regression testing, Smoke, Sanity, Database testing, Adhoc,

Cross browser compatibility, Scalability, Usability, Performance and Maintenance of the

applications.

• Hands on experience in creating Test Schedules, Test Designs, Test Metrics, Test Estimation,

Defect reporting and tracking, analyzing and producing Test Results and Reports using tools

like Quality Center, Jira and expertise in Impact Analysis and Root cause analysis and

Problem solving like Bug triage meetings.

• Efficient in preparing and delivering other Test Documents / Deliverables like Test

Execution / Test Summary / Test Defect Summary and updated Weekly Status Reports.

Worked with Dev team closely in determining both medium and high severity defects that

would potentially affect the downstream systems.

• Excellent experience in generation of automation scripts using QTP (Object Repository,

Object Identification, Object Spy, Checkpoints, Descriptive Programming) and

Selenium IDE and RC and performed Data driven testing using Excel docs, text files and

generating XML test data files.

• Hands on experience in Web services testing using SOAP UI Pro and XML testing.

• Excellent communication, documentation, problem solving, multitasking and analytical

skills. Amicable nature and strong work ethic complements, ability to produce results in a

complex workplace on time.

• Knowledge in performing data analysis using simple SQL Queries.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP QuickTest Pro, Mercury Load runner, SOUP UI REST

Reporting Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Jira

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2007,Window 2008,Windows Vista, Linux/ Unix

Databases & Tools: MS SQL Server 2008, 2010

Languages: JAVAScript, VBScript, ShellScript

Internet HTML, XML, HTTP.

Technologies:

Software: MS PowerPoint, Word,Excel, MS Project.

Test Strategies Integration, System, Regression, User-Acceptance, Smoke &

Black Box

EDUCATION

Bachelor Degree, Delhi University, India

Online Certification, Stanford University, CA

Software Quality Assurance Training, Canvas Infotech, Fremont, CA

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Excellent verbal, written and communication skills.

• Excellent technical, analytical, problem-solving and leadership skills.

• Extremely hardworking, motivated, independent-thinking, high-energy.

• Detail-oriented team player with an ability to work in time-sensitive and high-pressure

environments.

• Strong technical aptitude with an extraordinary ability to multi-task.

• A self and quick learner and can learn new technologies very fast

Profession Experience

P roject: C redit wise I n terest Module

Client: Citibank, NY

Du ration: Oct.2011 -- June 2013

Role: Quality Assurance Tester

Worked as a QA Engineer with Citibank, application developed for managing various Fixed

Income & Interest Derivative products. Application is used to store the information about Interest

rate derivative products including all derivatives containing an interest rate element in it. This

Application provided the ‘Account Lists’ (types of accounts), ‘Account Summary’ (balances, last

deposits etc.), and ‘Account Transactions’ (Transaction Details) for the various accounts and the

ability to transfer funds between the various accounts using ‘Fund Transfers’. The application also

allowed users to change the account options such as changing their ‘User ID’ and ‘Password’. The

application also allowed users to submit account-related queries to the bank including ordering

checks, requesting copies of checks and statements etc

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of Test Plan and Test Specifications as per clients’

B usiness Requirements.

• As a member of the team analyzed the business and system requirements.

• Developed the test cases according to functional requirements.

• Involved in m anual testing .

• Ini tially involved in m anual testing .

• Performed regression & integration testing.

• Performed Backend Testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the

i ntegrity of the database.

• In teracted with business people and developers to exchange the updated status

and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.

• Maintained all the test cases in Q uality Center.

• Performed In tegration testing to check the integrity between the modules.

• Performed end-to-end testing.

• Test Results and errors logged into Defect Tracking Tool J i ra.

• Participated f lash meetings between QA & Development team.

• Participated in meetings with different departments marketing, Business

A nalyst, DBA and Infrastructure team to resolve the issues.

• Involved in testing the application developing the Java Script, VB Script.

• Participated QA weekly meetings and various other meetings and discussed

E nhancement and Modification Request issues and defects in the application.

Data specialist/Analyst

Employer: HTS Global LLC

Worked as a contractor for HTS Global, A software consulting firm in Santa Clara to help their

recruiting with new hiring of Software engineers and Executives

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Screened 100’s resume everyday for a match of the job descriptions sent to our team by

the recruiting manager

• Prepared list of potential candidates in Excel

• Screened potential candidate by talking to them over phone for the initial round

• Communicated to the manager and some cross functional dept by reporting data collected

by team

• Created reports by writing Macro in Excel for the data analyzed and sent out weekly to

executives.

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