SUPARNA BHADURY

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Coraopolis

PA 15108

Contact No: 734-***-****

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QA TEAM LEAD AND MANAGER

BRIEF SUMMARY

9.5 years of experience in Quality Assurance with skills in following areas of software testing:

●Leading a team of 5 QA resources and doing hands on QA testing at the same time

●Experience in leading offshore QA team (in India) for 5-15 resources

●Assigning Quarterly goals and objectives to the QA resources

●Conducting QA team meeting, QA team retrospective

●Preparing performance appraisal of the QA resources

●Preparing Test Plans, Test Designs,Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Strategy

●Ensuring successful and timely execution of the planned test cycles

●System testing, Regression testing, Integration Testing, User Interface (UI) testing, UAT testing and Performance Benchmark testing, Automation testing

●Extensive knowledge in website application testing

●Extensive knowledge in Agile Scrum and Kanban SDLCs

●Cross browser testing using spoon.net

●Defect tracking using IBM Rational Clear quest tool, JIRA, Version One

●Worked closely with the development team on critical, non-re-creatable issues, diagnose and identify steps to recreate the same

●Good knowledge in iPhone, Android application testing

●Configuration management using Rational ClearCase and VSS

●Knowledge in US Health Insurance domain

●Knowledge in US healthcare domain

●Knowledge in Finance and Insurance domain for UK

●Good knowledge of testing web application and client-server application

●Strong experience in working agile projects, waterfall models

●Worked in projects following delivery method as RUP (Rational Unified Process)

●Leading a team of 10 testers

●Training/ mentoring subordinates and customers on QA best practices

●3 years of hands on experience in Unisys mainframe (A-series) systems

●Understanding of Unisys mainframe modeling language LINC

●Experience in JAVA and VB.NET black box testing

●Good experience in managing QA activities at offshore using Onsite-Offshore model

●Work on client locations for new enhancements

●Responsible for Configuration Management and coordinating the activities with offshore and onsite/customer team members

●Provide accurate Weekly and Monthly status to offshore projects and Customer

●Review deliverables from offshore team and deliver to Onsite

●Train the QA team and developers on the product

●Timely coordination with the development team and the product support team for test environment creation.

●Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills

●Gold Certificate winner from Keane for excellent work in Keane India (2008)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Testing and Configuration Management Tools:

Web Service Testing:

Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA, Version One, Quality Center (ALM), VSS

SOAP UI, XML

Automation Tools

Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, Junit, QTP/UFT

Databases / DB Tools:

MS SQL Server

Desktop Tools:

MS Office

Operating Systems:

Windows XP(32 BIT), Win Vista (32 and 64 bit), Win 7 (32 and 64 bit), Apple MAC,

Scripting Languages:

Visual Basic scripting, Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TRACKABOUT (08/2012-TILL DATE)

Pittsburgh, USA

Oil & Gas Industry-Real Time Asset Tracking

QA Team Lead

ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :

●Working as a Team Lead/Point of contact for the QA team.

●Responsible for making decisions in day to day QA activities.

●Responsible for reporting to higher management in case QA team is facing any issues

●Providing quarterly Goals and Objectives to the QA resources.

●Performance appraisal of QA resources.

●Managing a team of 5 QA resources.

●Apart from the team lead responsibilities worked as an active QA team member with the below mentioned roles.

●Taken initiative to automate the entire regression suite using Selenium tool that QA team used to execute manually before.

●Automation testing using Selenium

●Also leading offshore QA team in India

●QA team point of contact for agile scrum and retrospectives

●Establishing QMS (Quality Management System) policies in the company

●Participating in risk mitigation meeting and creating software verification test plan/ strategy

●Participating in company audits for QMS policies

●Introduced QMS policies in the organization following the FDA rules and regulations

TRACKABOUT (07/2011-07/2012)

Pittsburgh, USA

Gas Industry-Real Time Asset Tracking

QA Analyst

ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :

●Independently working in a Test Driven Development/ Agile environment.

●Working in backlogs/enhancements in different sprints.

●Writing acceptance test (ATs) for the test steps and expected results.

●Enhancement or Backlog is broken down after detailed discussion with the developers.

●Identifying the test scenarios and regression scenarios for backlogs.

●Defect Tracking using Version one tool

●Providing creative feedback in agile retrospective meeting to identify and solve issues in each sprint.

●Integration testing between different interfaces through web services and xml.

●Regression Testing in different modules of the application

●Actively participated in growing the existing regression test suite.

●Verifying TrackAbout application in different handheld devices like Motorola 3090, MC075, Psion, Denso and Honeywell.

●Good Knowledge in device certification.

●Working side-by-side with the product managers, business analysts and developers throughout the software development lifecycle.

Celerity (01/2011– 06/2011)

Pittsburgh, USA

Client : Highmark Bluecross Blueshield (Health Insurance)

Small Group Sales Project

QA Analyst

ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :

●Independently detailing test cases, executing and completing test plans.

●Constructing test sets based on the functional requirements.

● Ensuring all test cases are updated with test results as they are executed.

●Adhering to the quality procedures in place.

●Understanding working in typical Waterfall and Agile environments.

●Communicating and negotiating with development where appropriate to resolve issues found during testing.

●Following all release processes and protocols.

●Configuring the test environment required to test the functional areas

●Experience testing 3-tier web applications

●Experience testing applications that employ Flex, Ajax, or other asynchronous web technologies

●Understanding of different types of software testing

●Working closely with the Business Analyst team and verifying the product according to the SMEs’ (Subject matter expert) expectation.

Bodymedia Inc. (10/2009– 12/2010)

Pittsburgh, USA

Medical Device related Software (Healthcare)

SenseWear, BlueBerry, BodyBugg, Go Wear Fit

Senior test engineer

ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :

●Testing of the software interfacing medical devices

●Testing of firmware quality implemented in the medical devices

●iphone (3G, 3GS, 4) and itouch(2nd Gen and 3rd Gen ), Android phones application testing

●Understand and Analyze business requirements

●Estimate testing effort for the new enhancements

●Prepare Project Plan using MPP

●Plan the execution of the enhancements and its impacts

●Create and execute detailed test plans

●Prepare test data, and manual tests. Approve results documentation and track systems updates

●Supervise development of SQL-queries/procedures for database and backend testing

●Solid web testing and client server architecture experience

●Use JIRA as Defect Management System for reporting and tracking issues, and providing updates on resolved issues

●Analyze the quality of the software and help troubleshooting the issues

●Assign task to the team members and track it to closure

●Develop Verification and/or Validation Plans to manage the execution of testing in relation to Design and Development Plans and Schedules

●Develop Verification and/or Validation Procedures to manage the execution of testing in relation to Plans. Perform black box testing, detailed functionality testing and regression testing.

●Execute Verification/Validation Test Cases related to Procedures

●Develop Verification/Validation Reports and Records to document test results and activities

●Organize Verification/Validation document reviews to obtain approval on all documents before being placed into the Design History File

●Document and Track defects as a result of testing to closure.

●Automating test scripts using QTP

Keane Inc./NTT Data (10/2005– 4/2009)

Client - Unisys,UK (2005-2009)

UK Mortgage (Finance and Insurance)

UFSS (Unisys Financial Service System)

Senior Software Engineer

ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :

●Understand and Analyze business requirements

●Estimate testing effort for the new enhancements

●Prepare Project Plan using MPP

●Plan the execution of the enhancements and its impacts

●Utilizing Microsoft VSS to store documents and controlling the versioning of the same

●Create and execute detailed test plans

●Configure test environment, Prepare test data, schedule automated/manual tests. Approve results documentation and track systems updates

●Supervise development of SQL-queries/procedures for database and backend testing

●Use Clear Quest as Defect Management System for reporting and tracking issues, and providing updates on resolved issues

●Schedule and run batches on Unisys mainframe (A-Series)

●Develop and test LINC reports in EAE developer

●Analyze the performance of the system and help troubleshooting the performance issues

●Performance, regression, user interface, user acceptance testing, system testing on Unisys mainframe (A Series) and windows environment

●Perform benchmark testing for each release

●Status reporting to Keane onsite and customer in form of DSR,WSR and MSR

●Assign task to the team members and track it to closure

Education

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Degree

Branch

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B.Tech degree

Computer Science and Engineering

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