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Engineer Quality Assurance

Location:
Lafayette, CA
Posted:
October 03, 2013

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MICHAEL S. BORUCH

**** ****** ****, ***. **

Phone: 415-***-****

Walnut Creek, CA 94597

E-mail: **********@*****.***

TITLE: QA Engineer

PRIMARY SKILLS:

Selenium 2.0 WebDriver, Hybrid Framework, JUnit, TestNG, Watir, Java, Ruby,

POS, Manual, Quality Center, QTP, JIRA, UAT

RESUME DETAILS:

QA Engineer / Manual Tester / QA Tester / Software Tester / QA Analyst

QA Engineer / QA Tester / Software Tester with 7 + years of experience on

several SDLC projects, QA efforts, developing and executing test plans/

strategies, writing and executing test cases from requirements, setting up

lab environments and providing post-production support to clients in agile

and waterfall development environments. Complete exposure to quality

assurance, analysis and testing for client-server and web-based application

with extensive knowledge in the POS, Realty, Insurance and Financial

Industries.

SUMMARY

7 + years of diversified experience in Analysis, Quality Assurance and

Software Testing.

. Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),

Software Testing life Cycle.

. Experience in Manual Testing on windows and client server based

application.

. Extensive experience using manual testing to troubleshoot systems

integration, GUI, Compatibility, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SOA

Testing using web services, functionality, Database and regression

testing.

. Extensively involved in entire QA Process and defect Management life

cycle.

. Diverse experience with various testing methods such as Functional

testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, User

Acceptance Testing (UAT), Database Testing, End to End Testing.

. Experience in test Management tools like Quality Center.

. Familiar with Automation tools like HP Quick Test Professional.

. Involved in Developing and Executing Test Plan, and Test cases based

on the Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirement, and

Use Cases.

. Create Testing Status and Defect Matrix for reporting to the

Management.

. Prepared reports like Defect Statistics and Tracking, Weekly and

daily status reports.

. Experience in backend database testing, on oracle and SQL server.

. Experience working individually and team environment.

. Excellent Communication skills along with verbal and written.

. Testing both type of application, like Web-based and Client Server

application.

. Well versed with testing methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM and

waterfall.

. Attend Meeting with Business and Development teams to get proper

understanding of the application.

. Performed manual testing extensively - primarily Smoke, Integration,

Functional, Regression, GUI, Database, Black Box, White Box and

Backend Testing.

. Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building, leadership,

and interpersonal skills. Hardworking team player with the ability to

work in time sensitive environments.

. Possess excellent communication and organization skills with the

ability to adapt to new environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing & Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center (QC), HP Quick Test

Professional (QTP), Test Director, JIRA, Firebug, Microsoft Query Analyzer

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/XP/Vista/7

Software Process/Methodology: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),

Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), UML, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall,

Iterative, Bug Life Cycle (BLC), User Stories, Use Case, PLC

Software Testing Types: Manual, Automated, Functional, Regression, Smoke,

Negative, User Acceptance (UAT), Build Acceptance (BAT)

Test automation: Selenium 2.0 WebDriver, Selenium-RC, Java, JUnit, TestNG,

DDF, KDF, Watir

Languages & Database: HTML, SQL, Java, Oracle, SQL Server, TOAD

Other Tools: SQL Navigator, MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Contractor

Pacific Architects & Engineers Inc., Embassy United States of America,

China 5/2011-5/2013

. Translated technical documents from Russian into English

. Possess the Department of State Top Secret clearance

Environment:

Windows XP, MS Word

QA Engineer

ZipRealty Inc., Emeryville, CA, 9/2006 - 5/2011

. Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement Documentation (BRD) to gain

understanding of POS implementation.

. Participated in meetings with BA and Developers to understand the scope

of testing

. Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for assigned modules

. Created and Executed Test Cases manually as well as verify the actual

results based on expected results.

. Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing

(UAT) and End to End Testing

. Documented and reported all found defects in Quality Center

. Provided validation of data through SQL queries

Environment:

Quality Center, Quick Test Professional (QTP), HTML, Oracle, SQL Server

2005, SQL Navigator, Toad, Java, Windows XP

QA Engineer

Foamorder.com, San Francisco, CA, 11/2003 -9/2006

. Studied all Requirements Artifacts - FRDs, Use Cases, Change Requests to

write & involve in Software Testing Artifacts - Test Strategy, Test Plan,

Test Case, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

. Interacted with business client management to solicit requirements and

drive issue resolution

. Escalated Defects while studying Project Requirements and writing Test

Cases by using HP Quality Center (QC) and followed logged defects

throughout its lifecycle in JIRA.

. Performed Manual Testing of web-based and client-server enterprise

applications of BillTrak and its Invoice Processing, Inventory Management,

Claim Management and Auditing modules by HP Quality Center (QC)

. Used HP Quality Center (QC) and JIRA for reserving, executing test cases,

defect tracking, and the complete test management

. Involved and performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with Subject Matter

Experts (SME) & UAT Team

. Performed Backend Testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the

Oracle database

. Demonstrated effective oral and written communication with other team

members including managers, peers and direct reports

. Reviewed Functional Specifications and assists in evaluating test

automation approach profiling of Manual Test Cases for Automation Test

opportunities

. Performed black box and gray box manual and Selenium testing on all

popular browsers. Reported failures to software engineers, using bug-

tracking system.

. Accurately prepared and documented of test results, issues / defects and

progress.

. Effectively handled multiple projects simultaneously during Production

Period by running Test Cases and logging & tracking Defect in HP Quality

Center (QC)

. Actively participated & supported in frequent project or support related

meetings, after hours & weekend support with Off-shore team by Office

Communicator

Environment:

Selenium 2.0, HP Quality Center, JIRA, User Acceptance Test (UAT), Subject

Matter Expert (SME), SQL

QA Engineer

The Broderbund Company, Novato, CA, 5/2001 - 11/2003

. Created Test plans and Test cases based on the business requirements

. Performed Functional, Regression and Backend testing

. Analyzed System specifications and performed smoke, GUI, functional,

Performance, Integration and Usability testing.

. Create test plans to detail the testing scope, requirements (high level),

strategies and all needed required resources

. Gathering, Understanding and Documenting Requirements

. Develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases from requirements and

specifications documents

. Participate and create Test Plans

. Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration

testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT ), and End to End Testing

. Used Mercury Quality Center extensively throughout the testing process to

plan and maintain tests, maintain traceability of tests to the application

functionality and again to requirements, defect tracking and management,

etc.

Environment:

MS SQL 2005/2008, Mercury Quality Center (QC), User Acceptance Testing

(UAT)

Instructor

Jewish educational academies and congregations, Peninsula and South Bay,

CA, 5/1995-5/2001

. Held a teaching position in adult and children education.

. Developed lesson plans using own teaching materials

Research Assistant/Librarian

University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA, 9/1992-5/1995

. Archived research materials and assisted patrons in locating research

materials

. Provided administrative and customer service support for library

customers

EDUCATION

Certificate, Software Quality Assurance Engineering

Software Advanced Technologies Institute, San Francisco, CA, 10/2000

M.S., Jewish Studies

Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago, IL, 6/1998

B.A., Jewish Studies

University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA, 5/1995



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