Marina Kocherovskaya

Brookline, MA

617-***-****

ac467p@r.postjobfree.com

QUALIFICATIONS:

Result focused and customer oriented Sr. QA Engineer with professional experience in designing test strategy, test planning, estimation, generating test reports and defects reports, leading testing effort for complex projects.

Over 10 years of progressive experience in all aspects of quality assurance of large-scale web-based and client-server applications with emphasis on leading Manual and Automation testing teams.

Extensive experience with SDLC and Agile process.

Strong technical aptitude in learning new technologies, tools and methods.

Experience with SaaS and Cloud technologies.

Extensive experience in using Testing tools such as Selenium, Test Driver, UFT (formerly QTP), LoadRunner, TestDirector/Quality Center, and Apache JMeter.

Expert in RDBMS: MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2. Strong hands on experience in writing T-SQL/PL/SQL queries.

Expertise in Smoke, Functional, Regression, Beta testing, Database and Integration testing. Well-versed in reviewing software requirement specifications, as well as identifying, creating, and implementing test scenarios, case, and scripts for various projects. Proficient with regression, negative, integration, black box, functional, system, back-end, smoke, static, end-to-end, usability, compatibility, and user acceptance testing.

Highly organized with the ability and willingness to manage multiple high priority projects and meet deadlines. Proven experience of leading the testing part of the software project.

Experience in managing onsite and offshore QA teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE:

Operating Systems: Windows; UNIX, SunOS, Linux,

Languages: Visual Basic; HTML, XML, VB Script, C/C++, ASP, Perl, Java, JavaScript

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL, DB2/UDB.

Test Tools: Selenium, Web Driver, Silk Test (QA Partner); WinRunner; Rational Robot. Test Director

Technologies and Application Software: SoapUI, WebStorm, Source Tree, IntelliJ, Cucumber,,Swagger, Github, Robomongo, Jenkins, Splunk, Rally (Agile Project Management Software), WebAppTester, ApTestManager, Test Driver, WAST, LDAP, Imceda LiteSpeed, Test Harness, Weblogic(8.1, 9.2), VMware Workstation, VMware Player, Crystal Reports 9, Araxis Merge 6.5, Visual Source Safe, StarTeam, HP Quality Center, DevTrack, Jira, PVCS Tracker

Specialized Knowledge and Skills: Agile Methodologies

WORK EXPERIENCE:

01/2018- Present Senior QA Engineer

Good&Co Boston, MA

Design and develop test strategy, test plan, test cases and generate test reports, defect reports and product quality assurance documentation.

Test API services (Node.js) and Angular based web applications

Test Native iOS and Android apps

B2B and B2C End to End test

08/2013-11/2017 Senior QA Engineer

Direxxis, Inc /

Acquired by Broadridge Financial Solutions Needham, MA

Defined strategy of testing and created Test Strategy documentation.

Developed and applied testing processes to meet client needs with effective prioritization of tasks.

Tested Java based application using agile methodology. Participated in sprint review, sprint retrospective meetings, daily stand up scrum meetings.

Participated in Triage meetings.

Coordinated of user acceptance testing of software development deliverables through Quality Center.

Analyzed requirements, wrote test plans and test cases based on software requirements, created minimum and full acceptance test plans. Provided input for testing strategies, scope, and scenarios.

Defined test cases, then executing them against the latest releases of web site, iOS and Android apps.

Utilized SQL to create scripts and extract data used in system data validation.

Created, run, analyzed automation test scripts (using Selenium, Test Driver)

Evaluated daily automation (Selenium) results.

Performed API validation. Verified results in JSON responses.

Mentored outsourcing team, India.

Worked closely with development team members, internal users, and project managers.

Monitored the error log for all issues identified using Jira. Validate fixed bugs in daily basis.

Designed, configured, setup/ implemented (used Jenkins) test environments.

Performed cross browser testing. Analyzed, documented, and verifyed system change requests (defects, enhancements, new features, production patches). Wrote and reviewed Acceptance criteria.

02/2012- 07/2013 Senior QA Engineer

Shoebuy.com Boston, MA

http://shoebuy.com/

Developed and plan test strategy in Agile Scrum environment. Provided acceptance criteria on user stories and tasks.

Estimated and plan QA activities in agile environment; retail B2C/B2B applications, reports and tools.

Worked closely with development team members, internal users, and project managers.

Participated in a daily stand up scrum meetings. Participated in functional, smoke, regression, MAT, performance, load, and stress testing during product and component releases.

Executed test plans and cases created each Sprint. Tested navigation, broken links, GUI, financial transactions, account statements, shopping cart, forms, tables, frames.

Contributed to end-to-end product testing strategy, focusing on the customer experience for the web based B2C applications Shoebuy.com, bagsbuy.com, ProductExpress.com, NoSox.com, and CozyBoots.com.

Tested the security of the orders/returns using Verysign test account. Test internal reports for the merchandising, marketing and finance.

Escalated issues to developers. Validated fixed bugs in daily basis. Performed cross browser testing. Analyzed, documented, and verified system CR (defects, enhancements, new features, production patches). Wrote and reviewed Acceptance criteria.

Platform Matrix is: Apache web server; Oracle 10g as a backend; application developed - Java, servlets and JSP; Perl.

05/2008- 02/2012 Senior QA Engineer

MetraTech Boston, MA

http://metratech.com/

As a part of the Professional Services team provided quality control for the billing systems customers.

Developed and identified test strategy in Agile Scrum environment. Designed, developed, and executed manual and automated test suites. Participated in functional, regression, performance, and load testing during product and component releases. Identified front-end, middleware, and back-end issues.

Documented and tracked defects in the defect reporting system using ApTestManager software.

Performed test planning; analyze application, system, and security errors. Detect scope changes and escalate issues, multi-task across multiple project efforts simultaneously. Design test plans and define cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing. Attended weekly defect report meetings and present progress updates. Involve in environment setup, testing the release process. Developed of SQL-queries/procedures for database and backend testing.

Used JIRA and SalesForce as a Project Tracking and Bug Tracking system.

Used Borland Star Team to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of source files and software builds.

02/2005- 05/2008 Senior QA Engineer

BEZ Inc., Boston, MA

http://bez.com/

Developed and identified test strategy. Responsibilities included design, establishing and maintaining test environments, performing hands-on testing (both manually and using automated tools)

Assured test data, scheduled automated/manual tests.

Knowledge and experience with open source and commercial test automation tools JMeter.

Oracle installation and maintenance experience.

Participated during all sdlc: requirements, specification, design, testing, implementation, and debugging/support. Performed analysis of scalability and performance using OS metrics (I/O, CPU and memory utilization).

Developed and implemented test plans. Created and Generated System test scripts.

Used Mercury's Test Director for reporting and tracking bugs.

03/2003- 09/2004 Senior QA Engineer

Amdocs Inc., Boston, MA

http://amdocs.com/Site/AmdocsCom.htm

Created functional, GUI, cross applications test procedures using Test Director 7.4 sp4 tool.

Developed and identified test strategy for Opportunity Advisor_CIM integration project. Was responsible for setup, configuration, and test backend (Oracle 9.2 and MS SQL 2K). Participated in the review of functional & technical design specifications, for the integration project.

Developed and executed automation test cases using WinRunner tool. Use VNWare workstation 4.5.2 virtual machine to test different operation systems.

Provided the test status updates. Produce reports for build status and opened/closed issues.

Provided training for the outsource resources

01/2001 –02/2003 Software Senior QA Engineer / QA Engineer

Xchange Inc.,

Acquired by Amdocs Boston, MA.

Performed smoke, regression, end user, functional, installation, configuration, system, cross platform, performance, load, stress, and unite tests for the different components on E -CRM.

Used FRS and other requirement docs to develop test strategy and comprehensive Test Plans, Test Procedures and Test Cases for Internalization - Localization features of the product.

Designed and developed automated verification, validation procedures, Test Scripts and Test Cases using WinRunner

EDUCATION:

Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, St. Petersburg, Russia.

BS in Information Science

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