Software Tester

HARWINDER VIRK

****, **** ******, ****** - ** - V3W 1N1

Email: ************@*****.***

Mob.: 778-***-****

Result-focused professional with proficiency in technical disciplines &

quality strategies to successfully integrate business needs & technology.

Professional Experience Summary

< Over 5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance in wide variety

of business applications.

< worked on Functional & GUI regression manual testing project with Quality

Center tool.

< Hands on training in HP QTP automated tool.

< Understanding of various Life Cycle models such as Agile, V, &

Waterfall.

< Coordinated and participated in product design, requirement, scheduling,

development, status, and bug triage meetings.

< Prepared test cases and weekly progress / status reports.

< Hands on experience in manual testing with Quality Center of Web based

applications.

< Knowledge of Banking and Financial Services domains.

< Experience in testing Websites, Desktop applications.

< Extensively worked in Functional Testing, GUI testing and regression

testing of web applications.

< Built a team-based work atmosphere through periodic peer learning

lessons, assignments of increased responsibility, and team participation

in organizational goals and commitments.

< Boosted software quality by restructuring the test coverage/scope,

establishing & tracking QA metrics and defining new standard operating

procedures for the tests performed over different phases of the

development cycle.

< Excellent communication & analytical skills. Quick learning curve with

new Technologies and Techniques.

Education

< MSc (Computer Science) from GNDU, Amritsar - India.

< Graduate from PU, Chandigarh - India.

Organizational Experience

Present Status

Presently working as Professional Associate( Software Tester) with Gaganz.

since 01 apr 2009

Key Projects;

Project # 1

Title :Siyaya

Client :Department of Labour, South Africa

Environment :Oracle 9i,Java,JSP,Servlets,

HTML,JDBC,XML,JavaScript,CSS,Struts

Description:

SIYAYA Web Portal has been developed for Department of Labor, Govt. of

South Africa. It is mainly an insurance project that maintains the

information about all the Commercial employers as well as all Individual

Organizations (Domestic employers) for unemployment insurance fund (UIF).

This project has been ported as a web based enterprise application,

wherein, employers can come and register themselves and insure their

employees with department of Labor, South Africa. They can claim for

unemployment, maternity, illness, adoption and death benefits, contribute

to create a commercial declaration on the system including the creation of

employee employment history. There after system analysis the claim and

process as per South Africa UIF policy (BR).

Role & Responsibilities:

. Performed Manual testing.

. Black Box Testing (Functional, Verification, Regression and Adhoc

testing) of the application.

. Identify prioritized areas / scenarios and design test plan and test

cases for the same.

. Report generation weekly, release-wise & monthly.

. Defect/Enhancement detection & logging.

. Resolving/debugging customer issues.

. Interaction with the Client's Development & Product Management teams.

From '07Dec 2006 to '01 Apr 2009

Key Projects;

Project # 1

Title :CUR(Collection Updation Request)

Client :HDFC

Environment :Java, JSP, JDBC, Windows XP, Oracle 9i, TOAD

Description:

This application was developed for HDFC. The users who are involved in

raising and processing Collection Updation request use this system. Each

user will have a personnel queue. The queues will be visible to the user

based on the access rights given to the user.The finware branch and CPU

will be group queues. The objective of the CUR project was to provide a

workflow-based solution for automating the collection updation request.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Responsible for all phases of the QA lifecycle - requirements review,

test case writing, test execution.

. Understanding the Business requirement and Functional Specification

documents.

. Prepared and enhanced the Test cases according to the functionalities

for performing the manual testing and Test Execution.

. Testing the application for every possible bug on local environment.

. Verification, Analysis and testing of bugs logged by client site QA.

. Bug Reporting.

. Regression Testing.

. Performing Code Reviews.

Project # 2

Title : TGM(Table/Graph/Map)

Client : EU(European Union)

Environment : Struts Framework, Windows-XP, Oracle

Description:

TGM (Table/Graph/Map), designed to be accessible through Eurostat's

website, displays statistical data from Eurostat pre-defined datasets as

tables, graphs, and maps, as its name suggests. It is a useful tool for

statisticians, journalists, teachers, researchers of all kind, and the

general public as well.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Responsible for all phases of the QA lifecycle - requirements review,

test case writing, test execution. Analysis of the specifications

provided by the client and reviewing them.

. Interaction with off shore development team.

. Involved in Smoke, Functional and Adhoc testing.

. Involved in Bug tracking and reporting through Bugzilla.

. Reviewing of functional requirements documents, Installation guides,

release notes, help file Trouble shooting guide, Known issue documents.

. Rerun of test cases and test scripts for regression testing after fixing

bugs in the software.

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