Quality Assurance Project

KALPANA KUMAR

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Cell: 269-***-****

Portage, Michigan 49024 Email:

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EDUCATION

MBA Newport University, California

BA Psychology St, Josephs College, India

CERTIFICATIONS

PRINCE2 Foundation

PRINCE2 Practitioner

ISEB Foundation

SUMMARY

. Goal oriented IT Professional with 4+ years of experience in software

quality assurance testing of client and web based applications.

. Recognized for management skills and on-time delivery of milestones

and projects.

. Excellent organizational communication and inter-personal skills with

the ability to work independently or in a team.

. Hardworking, enthusiastic, and highly committed to the growth and

success of the organization.

. Liaised with clients for communication, requirements assessment and

played a prime role during UAT, EBT testing and support during live

deployment.

. Proven ability in directing technical and business teams, coordinating

consultants and managing programs.

. Expertise in complete project management from conceptualization and

requirements determination to final testing and implementation.

. Instrumental in Master Test Strategy (MTS), requirements gathering.

High level and detail design review.

. Designed test plans and devised test cases in accordance with software

requirement specification documents.

. Complete exposure to software development and software quality

assurance life cycle.

. Thorough knowledge of black box testing.

. Performed back-end services and database testing, including HTML and

XML Testing.

. Instrumental in implementing knowledge management within the teams to

reduce resource dependencies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CACI (Formerly EzGov Europe) and IBM Europe Oct 2007 - Nov 2009

Amsterdam/London, Europe

DEFRA Projects QA Manager

. Responsibilities included interviewing and hiring my team, training

the team members and assigning tasks appropriately.

. Reviewing high level business requirements and detail design.

. Standardized test methods to manage multiple projects for DEFRA

. Attended business requirements sessions.

. Created estimations for the testing phase of the project.

. Involved in test planning and test case reviews.

. Created task assignments and internal timelines.

. Created and managed test scenarios, test cases and bug reports.

. Facilitated meetings with technical, business analysts, project

manager, architects, and the testing teams to gather requirements

and to review the business documents.

. Created quality characteristics of the project.

. Facilitated meetings to review the test strategy and test plan with

the team for approvals.

. Functional/Regression testing from development through production

for every UAT, EBT and maintenance release.

. Presented status reports to the managers in weekly progress

meetings.

John Deere Credit, West Des Moines, Iowa Apr 2007 - Jul

2007

QA Team Lead

Project: Accounting System Integration Component and JD Learning

. Role involved writing test strategies and test cases.

. Developed integration, system test plans and test cases in Mercury

Interactive Test Director.

. Involved in creating the test data preparation for manual test

execution.

. Developed test scripts to conduct functional testing for the server

side applications.

. Involved in performing complex functional, application, regression and

performance tests.

. Testing compatibility of software under various internet browsers.

. Maintained detailed logs of test activities

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, West Des Moines, Iowa Apr 2006 - Mar 2007

QA Senior Tester

Project: Wells Fargo Online Mortgage Application

. Review of high level capability design and detail design.

. Responsibilities included reviewing high level business requirements,

technical specifications, data specification documents, environmental

matrix, and architectural design.

. Analyzed the documents suitable for testing purposes.

. Responsible for building the test cases, scripts and testing the

system, end to end.

. Configured Test Director for test planning and bug reports.

. Interacted with developers and users to prioritize and resolve

defects.

. Handled a team of 4 elite quality assurance professionals in

supporting products and services.

. Assisted the team in development, management, training and execution

of the test strategy, approach, methodology, and execution of the test

scenarios.

. Responsible as a coordinator and a point of contact for all testing

activities.

. Successfully demonstrated leadership qualities by submitting project

deliverables satisfactorily and on time.

Ohm LLC, Fort Dodge, Iowa April 2003 - April 2006

Software Tester/Business analyst

. Analyzed documents suitable for software testing.

. Tested financial tracking software - Red River.

. Performed user acceptance testing with testing scripts.

. Maintained a detailed log of failing events and re-tested after the

code was fixed.

Independent Financial Consultant May 2002 - April 2003

.

Assessed needs of the individual and assisted them with investments, tax, and insurance decisions.

. Provided advise to clients on identifying and planning short term and

long term financial goals.

. Advised clients on reduction of credit card and other high interest

debt, consolidation and refinancing options.

. Advised clients on retirement (401K), educational expenses

(529), and general tax-deferred investment options.

CDR Medical Services April 1994 - April1996

QA tester

. Performed functional, target and UAT testing.

. Wrote test cases for the tests.

. Attended meetings with the project team.

References upon request

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