Binod Kumar

Austin, Texas *****

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Software Quality Assurance Testing Analyst

Technologically sophisticated and savvy Software Testing Analyst and Quality Assurance professional with a solid history leading all facets of testing life cycles to align technology solutions with current and emergent business needs. Advanced and broad knowledge in Quality Assurance environments, with demonstrated expert skill in multiple software packages, and tools. Uniquely able to guide and contribute to all facets of software testing including identifying defects, reporting, and test script creation and execution.

Technical Strengths:

Migration Projects

Test Plans and Scripts

Strategy & Execution

Defect Tracking/Reporting

Special Projects

Software Quality Assurance

Analysis and Testing

Collaboration/Coordination

Business Requirements

Technical Proficiencies

MS Office Suites MS Visio SQL C# .Net HP Quality Center / HP ALM Unified Functional Testing (UFT) VBScript Microsoft Access MS SQL Server SQL Developer 9i DB2 Unix IBM Rational Functional Tester IBM Rational Performance Tester Clear Quest IBM Lombardi IBM WebSphere IBM Rational Team Concert Selenium WebDriver Manual Tester Windows Operating Systems Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Eclipse Cucumber Maven Gherkin Stash Junit Github Java SourceTree Jira Jing

Professional Experience

ThermoFisher Scientific, Austin, Texas

Senior QA Analyst, 11/2017 – Present

ThermoFisher is the world leader in serving science. Its mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner & safer. ThermoFisher sells Molecular Biology research supplies online to the scientific research organizations in the world. That includes Antibodies, Genes, Species, Cloning, Arrays & Assays for Gene Expression, SNP Genotyping, miRNA, Copy Center, Mutation Detection etc., name a few out of thousands of products available on their website.

Projects:

Magellan Search Redesign: This project develops a new design replacing the old Magellan search.

Key Achievements:

Designed and created Automation framework with Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Gherkin, Junit and POM

Created and executed well detailed manual and automation test cases and test scripts using ALM and JIRA with Gherkin

Performed back-end testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries

Analyzed and updated test results to report any bugs, errors, configuration issues, & cross-browser flaws in ALM and JIRA and managed them until resolved

Performed both end to end manual & automation testing such as Sanity, Smoke, Regression & Exploratory for all web-based, client/server applications as well as all IOS & Android devices

Performed Continuous Integration (CI) with JENKINS and GitLab

Gathered and analyzed Business and Functional requirements to create EPICs and User Stories in JIRA

Attended Backlog Grooming sessions, Sprint Planning to analyze User Stories to plan for QA effort for planned sprints

Worked as a Test Lead with onshore and offshore QA resources and deliver high quality work product

Lead demo and participated in Retrospective meetings after each release

Set up the test environments and worked closely with business users to perform UAT

Job Corps - Department of Labor, Austin, Texas

Software QA Analyst/Test Lead, 11/2016 – 10/2017

Job Corps is a Federally-funded comprehensive program that provides essential academic and career skills training and prepares students for success in every aspect of their lives. Job Corps is a no-cost education and vocational training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives by empowering them to get great jobs and become independent.

Projects:

•WR - Web Redesign: The Website Redesign (WR) project has created a replacement for the outdated job Corps website. This website is designed to appeal to young adults and teens (16-24 years old), who are potential students for Job Corps centers. The site includes updated usability on mobile devices as well as allowing computer access to Job Corps (JC) information. This project provides on-the job training to the job seekers where the jobseekers learn new skills and choose the next step that is right for their future.

•SSAT - Student Survey Application Tool: This project provides the students who participate in training program, a survey to take at the end of their training for future enhancement of the program.

•IGCE - Independent Government Cost Estimator: This project provides estimates, assumption input, cost input, staffing input and summary of a RFP (Request for proposal) through a bidding process.

Key Achievements:

Test Planning

Created User Stories/tasks and sub-tasks in Jira

Created Test Cases

Functional testing, integration testing and User Acceptance testing

Executed test cases, logged defects

generated Requirements Traceability Matrix, Bug report

Conducted defect meeting and triage for defect resolution

Testing for 508 Compliance using JAWS

Security Testing using OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)

Developed automation framework, automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver for different browsers i.e. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge

Database validation

Sprint Planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint Retrospective, product backlog, sprint backlog

Environments: Java, JavaScripts, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, Jira, Confluence, Zephyr, AngularJS, PgAdmin SQL Database, ETL, OWASP, JAWS, BrowserStack, Mobile Testing, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, Agile

Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), State of Texas, Austin, Texas

Software QA Analyst/Test Lead, 4/2014 – 10/2016

Served as a Software Test Engineer in COBOL-to-Java Batch Modernization Project known as the Information Management Protecting Adults and Children in Texas (IMPACT) project, created to replace COBOL and C coding with Java coding. Develop test plans and script deliverables by analyzing batch shell scripts; lead the team responsible for creating these test scripts and test cases, and for executing each script. Detect, record, and report defects discovered during test script execution.

Lead QA meetings, and serve as a key member in planning sessions, technical reviews, and other relevant planning and operational meetings.

Record all defects and retests to confirm that changes were made, and that initial defects were corrected. Generate, update, and maintain the Test Item Matrix. Maintain strict adherence to the Test Management Plan standards and guidelines throughout the entire project.

Key Achievements:

Used shell scripts and commands to carry out batch job and programs in UNIX. Employed HP ALM 11.52 to manage defects and test cases, SQL Developer to query databases, and WinMerge, and DiffPDF.

Assisted in producing project document artifacts; supported and contributed to daily progress meetings.

USAA/IBM, San Antonio, Texas

Software QA Analyst and Test Lead, 8/2013 – 3/2014

Contributed to the Enterprise Financial Crimes Management (EFCM), and the Anti Money Laundering (AML) projects created to improve the overall performance and reliability of the Financial Crimes Analytical Data Environment. Major elements of the project included meeting required availability and recovery standards, and migrating data (using ETL jobs) from those workstations that did not meet those standards.

Key Achievement:

Instrumental in helping to develop a real time synchronization project that moved a nightly Currency Transaction data batch job into real time to better detect any fraudulent credit card activities.

Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI), San Antonio, Texas

Software QA Analyst/Functional Test Lead, 2/2013 – 7/2013

Mapped business requirements with test scenarios and compiled traceability reports. Completed functional, security, user acceptance, and regression testing; reported bugs using Quality Center 11. As needed, ran the software defects meeting, routinely reporting functional requirement deficiencies to business users.

Collaborated with developers to discover the root causes of defects. Completed test scenarios and created sign-off documents. Compiled and analyzed defect reports from the Quality Center 11 database; identified, recommended, and implemented process improvements that enhanced test strategies.

Key Projects:

Medicare Benefits and Eligibility: Created e-eligibility functionality across proprietary systems at KCI for Medicare patients to automate Medicare eligibility checks for orders, and to update patient demographics.

Revenue Optimization: Reduced KCI Advantage Center operating costs by lessening and eventually eliminating the usage of Order Notes, by enhancing the HERO system Order Status screen.

Consolidated Work List: Produced a work list in ADF to provide San Antonio Recertification teams with daily order lists of required work.

Wells Fargo, San Antonio, Texas

Software QA Analyst/Functional Test Lead, 6/2011 – 1/2013

Participated in multiple Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) projects that assigned SPOCs for mortgage borrowers, and that validated letter generation in Mainframe for Mediation, BK/Mediation Welcome Letters, Mediation, BK/Mediation Active, and Inactive Transfer Letters, Mediation and BK/Mediation Good News Suspension Letters, Mediation and BK/Mediation Bad News Suspension Letters. Used the IBM Lombardi, IBM WebSphere, and IBM Rational Suite in testing applications. Actively participated in the Forbearance Balance to LTV project.

General Test Lead daily responsibilities included: creating test plans and cases based on functional requirements documentation; aligning business requirements with test scenarios and gathering traceability reports; conducting functional, security, user acceptance, and regression testing; reporting bugs using Quality Center 11 software; heading the software defects meeting and coordinating with onsite/offshore testers.

Key Achievements:

Connected with business users to mitigate functional requirements issues; cooperated with developers to discover defect root causes.

Generated/analyzed defect reports from the Quality Center database; executed test scenarios and prepared sign-off documents.

Proactively recognized, recommended, and implemented process improvement plans to further enhance testing strategies.

Previous Professional Experience includes: USAA, San Antonio, Texas; Software QA Analyst/Functional Test Lead, 9/2010 – 5/2011; DFPS, State of Texas, Austin, Texas; SQA Engineer, 3/2010 – 8/2010; Pearson, San Antonio, Texas; QA Analyst, 9/2009 – 2/2010; Bank One, Chicago, Illinois; QA Tester, 10/2008 – 8/2009; USAA, San Antonio, Texas; QA Analyst/Functional Test Lead, 5/2005 – 09/2008; Travel Deals, New York, New York; QA Tester, 6/2004 – 4/2005; OrderMotion, Inc., New York, New York; QA Tester, 1/2003 – 5/2004.

Education and Certifications

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, MD University

Certified Software Quality Assurance Testing, International Software Testing Qualifications Board

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