RUCHI SHARMA
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SUMMARY
Software Quality Assurance Engineer with over 5+ years of experience in Software Quality in Agile environment
Past experience includes testing cloud based applications with domains focused around Content, Customer and Legal Matter Management systems
Experienced in building maintainable and efficient tests using Selenium Web Driver and TestNG (with Java as programming language and maven as build tool)
Skilled in interpreting technical and business requirements to create functional and system/integration test plans
Basic understanding of API’s and have done basic web services testing on SOAPUI
Organized and facilitated backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, demos, daily standups, and other project related activities
Experienced in conducting status meetings, tracking status of existing issues, identifying new issues and risks, communicating plan and progress to all stakeholders
Collected various metrics to evaluate and monitor quality of releases and bug fixes
Good time management skills and ability to multitask and prioritize work to meet deadlines
Ability to work well with minimal supervision while also working as a vital team member
Managed an offshore QA team effectively to meet testing goals for 2 years
Hiring, training and onboarding new team members within the team
EXPERIENCE
MAY 2015 TO PRESENT
SELF TIME-OFF
I relocated from India to California to be closer to family in May 2015 and took time off for settling and raising my child. During this time, I have tried to keep my skill set updated by working on small projects as time permitted at my own level. I am eager to resume my professional career now that my child is school-aged.
OCT 2011 – MAY 2015
AUTOMATION ENGINEER/MODULE LEAD, QASource/Bebo technologies
pROJECT: CLOUD BASED CONTENT AND CRM System (us based client)
Worked with the automation team to identify regression scenarios and automate test cases using Java, Selenium Web Driver and TestNG
Designed, created and executed automation scripts
Worked on migrating scripts developed in Selenium RC to Selenium Webdriver.
Handled the tasks of identifying test problem areas and conduct root cause analysis
Performed the tasks of preparing test cases and test reports as well to ensure that testing phase meets quality standards
Reported and tracked bugs, replicated report customer bugs, verified bug fixes and new functionalities, regression tested new releases, supported developers by examining logs and debug files.
Continuously reviewed newer versions of automation tools and ensured to keep up existing automation scripts based on that
Developed test summary reports to be shared with all stakeholders and management
JUN 2009 – OCT 2011
QUALITY ENGINEER, QASource/Bebo technologies
pROJECT: LEGAL MATTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (US Based client)
Joined as a trainee, promoted rapidly through a series of increasing responsible positions based on strong analytical and logical thinking and sense of intellectual curiosity and creativity
Wrote test plans and test cases based on the business requirements
Involved in scope planning meeting for various releases of the project
Employed ‘test-to-break’ approach on testing initiatives and clarified ambiguous requirements to ensure the effectiveness of all test plans.
Represented QA team for release readiness meetings and related hot fixes
Involved in activities like estimating QA efforts for projects and resource planning and allocation
Created and executed test cases for different modules of the product focusing on system testing
Planned, maintained and gathered QE release stats for releases with the stakeholders
TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY
Defect/Bug Tracking Tools
JIRA, BugZilla
Automation Testing Tools
Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber
Operating Systems
MS Windows and Mac OS
Programming Languages
Core Java and PL/SQL
IDE
Eclipse
Web Technologies
HTML, XML, Basic SOAP and REST
RDBMS
MySQL
Version control system
SVN and GIT
EDUCATION
2004-2008
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
HP University, INDIA