Quality Assurance Engineer

MICHAEL

NOVIKOV__________________________________________________________

Phone: 813- 671-1176 E-

mail: abl2x9@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

Ten + years of work experience in Software Quality Assurance as a SQA

Analyst.

Intensive experience in functional, system, integration, UAT and

regression testing.

4+ years SAP applications testing experience (manual and automated).

Extensive experience creating test documentation: test conditions, test

plans, test cases and test scripts

Automated testing tools: HP Quick Test Pro

HP Quality Center including Business Process Testing, Application model

and SAP solution manager adaptor

Other tools: MKS, PVCS, Remedy, Toad, SharePoint

Databases: Oracle, MS Server 2000, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000, UNIX

Work Experience:

October 2006 - July 2010

The Mosaic Company, Tampa, Florida

IT Analyst - Quality Assurance/Business Improvement Services

Responsibilities:

Created and implemented Mosaic IT Quality Assurance strategy and

process. Created training materials such as "Software Quality

Assurance training for Mosaic IT Department ", "Quality Center

release management", "Test planning and execution", "Business Process

Testing", "Software Testing Lifecycle" "Defect Management Framework".

Conducted training sessions with business analysts and project testers

(US and Canada Mosaic locations)

QA Lead on the following projects: Maximo 5.2 and Maximo 7.1

upgrade. Aprova, SAP ECC 6.0 upgrade. SAP global rollout and other IT

projects and initiatives.

As a Change control Board member I was responsible for

facilitating Change Control meetings, recording results of

discussions, providing update summary to all teams. Working with

change tickets that have been discussed, reviewing all test and

configuration documentation, release notes and releasing tickets in

Remedy.

Created and maintained "Business improvement services"

department score card "Effectiveness of QA testing and prevention of

"post - go live" defects in production".

Oversee the Quality Assurance planning, creation and execution

of test scripts and test scenarios by test team members for the

projects assigned according to QA best practice and Mosaic

methodology. Reviewed project's and change request's test

documentation and made go-no go decision upon this documentation.

Represented SQA on 'Post - Go live' support meetings.

Build new test projects in HP Quality Center including setting

project folders structure, setting user groups and project

customization. Provide existing QC test projects support such as

assisting project testers with manual and business process tests

development tasks ( creating test folders, cycles, releases, uploading

test scripts to QC project, creating Excel reports and performing

other project support related tasks)

Developed automated regression tests library for SAP, Maximo and

Web applications. Managed regression test library.

July 2005 - October 2006- Fidelity National Information Services, Certegy

Check Services, Inc. - St Petersburg, Florida

SQA Analyst Lead/Test Lab Coordinator

My responsibilities within test group:

Working with Project managers and developers on the different projects

(Web based, Oracle and Client Server) creating Test Plans, Test

Conditions and Test Cycles. Creating

manual and automated test cases and test scripts for the different

projects (Check21, Champion Challenger, Pay By Touch and other company

developing applications). Assisting business department with UAT

Successfully completed Compuware automated testing tools training

course. Training included: Requirements Management with Reconcile,

Automated Testing with TestPartner and Compuware QA Center 101 - QA

Center Portal and QA Director.

Helping Support and Test department director with other tester's

assignments and projects test schedules. Mentoring junior testers as

needed.

My responsibilities within TestLab:

Coordinating TestLab equipment usage within department. Reserving

hardware and software to be used for projects system, integration and

regression tests.

Maintaining test schedules for the different projects in the Test Lab.

Platforms: Windows2000, Windows XP, UNIX Solaris, Mainframe, IRMX,

TRU64, AIX

Software: Java, C, C++, .NET, Visual Basic 6.0, C#, XML

Database: Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i

Tools: TestPartner, QA Center, TrackRecord, Reconcile, QA Director, QA

Center Portal, Toad, MKS Integrity Manager, and MKS Source Integrity.

March 2005 - July2005 - Jabil Circuit - St. Petersburg, Florida

System QA Analyst/Tester - Consultant

Responsibilities:

Writing and updating existing manual and automated Test cases using

Quick Test Pro for MES application. User Interface testing, Functional

and Data Integrity testing

Integration testing of assigned functionalities, regression testing.

System testing.

Platform Windows 2000

Software: VB6,

Data Base: Microsoft SQL Server

Crystal Reports

Tool QTP

July 2004 - April 2005 - Horizon - Greenwood Village, Co.

QA analyst/Consultant (Remote consulting)

Responsibilities:

Testing, troubleshooting and resolving software problems

Company website testing, support and maintenance.

Platform: Win2000, IE6, 0 and Netscape web browsers.

DB- Oracle 8

Tools: QTP

November2003 July 2004 - Echostar Communications, Denver, Co

System QA Analyst /Consultant

Responsibilities:

Test preparation, including writing business requirements, test

conditions, regression and system test cases and scripts for DishPromo

Application.

Performing Regression, Integration and System testing. Writing defect

reports and communicating them with developers.

Writing manual and automated test scripts using QTP for the Partner

Tool and CRM applications as part of Company SAP enterprise solution.

End-to-end testing of the interfaces as well as ensuring that any new

functionality introduced into EchoStar's Enterprise Architecture

including existing customer system.

Platforms: WinNT, Win2000, UNIX

Software in use: Oracle, Java, HTML .NET, C++, C#

Database Oracle 8

Tools in use: TestDirector, QTP, Toad

January 2002 - November 2003 - Horizon - Greenwood Village, Co.

QA analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

Installation, testing, troubleshooting and resolving software and

hardware problems

Company website support and maintenance.

Platform: Win2000, IE6, 0 and Netscape web browsers.

DB- SQL Server

Tools: QTP,

April 2001 - December 2001 - Qwest communications International, Englewood,

CO

QA System Test Engineer / Consultant

Responsibilities:

System Test preparation, including writing test conditions, regression

and system test cases and scripts for Customer Request Management

(CRM) web based application. Performing Regression, Integration and

System testing. Writing defect reports and communicating them with

developers. Web based CRM system provides a single platform for the

Wholesale Markets service centers to perform service request logging,

status processing, workflow automation, and work queue management

functions.

Platforms: UNIX, WinNT,

Software in use: Forte, Oracle, Java, HTML, Cold Fusion,

Database Oracle 8i

Tools in use: MQ Tester, PVCS, Winrunner, Rumba, Toad

April 2000 -April 2001 - Requisite Technology, Westminster, Colorado

QA engineer /Consultant

Responsibilities:

Wrote test cases and test scripts for the BugsEye Search Engine,

and SAP Business Warehouse projects.

Participated in testing of server side of BugsEye, eMerge,

ecManager, SAP, software applications, which provide catalog

contents for B2B software applications. Worked with MS SQL

server, AOS, Oracle 8, Oracle 8i databases. Wrote defect

reports (using Star Team tool) and communicated them with

developers.

Tools: Winrunner

January 2000 - April 2000 - Navigant Vacations - Travel Company - Denver,

Colorado

System QA engineer /Consultant

My responsibilities included:

Worked with users to define business requirements. Created Business

requirements and functional design documents, Use- Cases, Test Plans

and Test Cases.

Tested Online Reservations, Booking and Credit Card Billing

functionality.

Airfares, Hotels, Vacations packages, Car rental and Cruise

Reservations.

Airlines: United, American, Lufthansa, British Air Lines and many

more.

Hotels, Vacation Packages and Car Rental in United States and Europe.

Cruise Lines: Holland America, Disney, Princess, Carnival and more.

Provided Testing time evaluation to the management.

Performed functional, and GUI testing. Regression and integration

test.

Write defect reports and communicating them with developers

Performed testing of Application in PC and Mac environment

Created UAT test cases and provided support to users during UAT phase.

1999 - 2000 Teach.Com Company, Denver, Colorado

QA Analyst/contract/

My responsibilities included:

Complete testing of Smart Trainer2000 PC Skills courseware, including

MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Access, Business skills (Virtual

Couch) and Power Point training software applications. My

responsibilities included:

Write Test Plans and Test Cases for all of software products listed

above.

Provide Testing time evaluation to the management.

Perform functional, GUI, and training material testing.

Write defect reports (Test Director) and communicating them with the

business user.

Consult other testers on objectives of testing and application

functionality.

Test installation Process.

Perform application testing in different PC configurations.

1996 - 1999 Borehole Mining International, Inc., Littleton, Colorado

QA Analyst/Consultant Engineer

Responsibilities:

Organize and perform testing of the software application, which

allows conducting the operative control of the BHM, process

writing and executing assembly and system test plans.

Responsible for scheduling of testing and participate in making

go-life decision. Execute test scripts running the application

in the UNIX environment to verify the expected results.

Education: BS in Communications Engineering

Moscow Polytechnic, Moscow, Russia

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