Professional Summary

To obtain a challenging position in a creative and collaborative environment to contribute with my analytical and technical skills and provide dynamic and creative testing services to the overall goal of the company

Technical Skills

* ISSUE TRACKING TOOL: Jira

* WIKI TOOL: Confluence

* TEST MANAGEMENT TOOL: TestLink

* CROSS BROWSER TESTING TOOL: BrowseEmall

* SQL LANGUAGES: Transact-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL

* MARKUP LANGUAGES: HTML, DHTML, XML

* DATA INTERCHANGE FORMAT: Json

* AUTOMATION TOOL: Selenium Web Driver

* PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: Java, JavaScript, JSP

* DEVELOPMENT TOOLS: IntelliJ, Eclipse

* OPERATING SYSTEMS: MS Windows 10/XP/7/8/8.1, Unix SCO Open Server v 4.2

Qualifications Highlights

* Over 10 years of experience in IT as a Quality Assurance tester with extensive experience in performing manual testing across multiple platforms (e-commerce, desktop, mobile, etc.)

* Expertise in conducting and participating in different Types of Testing: Black-box testing, White-box testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, Acceptance Testing, GUI testing, Smoke testing, Sanity testing and Exploratory testing

* Detail-oriented with strong analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills

* Experience with waterfall and agile software development practices. Specifically, Scrum experience with agile experience methodology

* Good technical background with a keen understanding of QA procedures and methodology

* Skills required to work effectively in both self-directed and team-oriented environments combined with well organizational and interpersonal skills

* Experience working with relational databases

* Ability to work within established deadlines

Work History

QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST. DELOITTE CONSULTING –Toronto-December/2017 to June/2018.

As a QA Analyst with Deloitte Consulting, I participated in the quality improvement for a large scale legacy system transformation project to Guidewire Insurance Suite on an agile framework.

Performed End to End Functional Testing to ensure that converted policies (Personal property, personal auto and IRCA) function as expected once in Guidewire through policy life cycle transactions

Created, enhanced or executed complex SQL queries to profile legacy data in Oracle Database based on different criteria such as policy coverage type, underwriting rules, policy line of business, policy dwelling type, number of scheduled items, number of risks, number of drivers, number of convictions or number of chargeable claims in previous terms, underwriter or producer location, claims source, coverage decline rules, effective or expiration date, policy status etc.

Profiled legacy policies to identify test data set to support various testing scenarios

Conducted post loading data validation by comparison between the policy payload and the Guidewire fields at UI.

Involved in SIT and Regression Test designing. Also, involved in the execution of system integration testing in the Guidewire Insurance Product (Policy Center, Billing Center), Analystics Engine, Internal Third party (VDM) and External Third parties (MVR, FCSA, HITS, DMTI, Transunion, iClarify, MPAC, Autoplus)

Conducted conversion renewal validation up to fifth renewal year in Guidewire policy Center and billing center.

Performed Ad-Hoc testing to find defects before the product is in the hands of users

ENVIRONMENT: Guidewire Insurance Suite, Jira, Confluence, XML, Oracle, IntelliJ, Java

QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST. EZProSoft Inc. –Richmond Hill-August/2016 to October/2017.

At EZProSoft Inc, I actively set solid testing strategies implemented by ensuring a proper coverage exists for requirements across a variety of tests such as Unit, Sanity, Integration, Functional, Exploratory, Regression, etc. in an Agile development environment with releases in short cycles of web based products and mobile apps for Canadian Addictions Treatment Centers.

Reviewed and analyzed User Stories to validate the testability and identified the testing requirements

Documented Test Scenarios. As well as created and executed Test plans and Test Cases

Identified, recorded and escalated issues to the appropriate team members by using JIRA bug tracking tool. Therefore, investigated and tracked products failures to improve quality

Performed regression tests after any functional improvement or repair to the product to determine whether the change has regressed other aspects of the system. In addition to new feature exploration and re-test on defect fixes to confirm resolution

Verified release notes and user guides to ensure that product documents are complete, correct, and consistent

ENVIRONMENT: Oracle, IOS 3.2/4/5, MS Windows 10, XP, Java, JSP, IntelliJ, AngularJS, HTML/XML/JSON, Jira, TestLink

QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST. Guidewire-Mississauga-July/2015 to January/2016

Worked in a team with Insurance Experts, Product Owners, Developers and testers to identify features, clarify requirements, document correct system behavior and identify how changes impact other potential risk areas of the application. Besides that, I executed exploratory testing and functional testing in Guidewire Policy Center with different Line of Business such as Worker’s compensation, Personal Umbrella, Commercial Property Insurance, etc. to verify the success and stability of system changes, to prove business requirements are met and ensure high quality releases in a multi-tiered complex environment that follows an Agile methodology

As a member of a scrum team, monitored testing progress, provided testing status updates and escalated issues or roadblocks to Product Owner, management and other project participants

Maintained and conducted regression test suites, end-to-end tests of high complexity features

Provided reporting on test cases execution, developed and maintained testing standards and guidelines to ensure consistent QA procedures

Helped developers reproducing errors

ENVIRONMENT: Guidewire Policy Center, Jira, IntelliJ, GOSU, XML, Beyond Compare, P4

QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST. BAM Software and Services LLC(BAMSAS)-Toronto-Nov/2007 to April/2015

At 364 Northern Development, a close affiliate of BAM Software and Services, I Performed Web based and Mobile Wagering applications tests, logged results and reported defects. Also, analyzed some problems, generated and executed creative test cases that thoroughly verify the success and stability of system changes.

Created, maintained and executed functional test cases and test scenarios based on business requirements or user stories

Led and performed testing of applications against undocumented requirements

Worked closely with Business owners and developers to ensure business requirements are implemented correctly

Create SQL queries for data verification test cases

Performed smoke tests on new software build to verify that critical functionalities of the system are working fine

Conducted Functional, Back-End (SQL), UI, Cross Browsers and Regression Testing of release candidate build

Prepared list of new features and hot fixes for the Release notes

Performed integration, system and acceptance testing using manual methods

Performed Backend database testing to validate Racing data and Sport Games data using complex SQL queries

Configured and updated test environments for different e-Commerce platforms: Betamerica, TrackInfo, BetFastNow, OnlineRacingTV, etc

Tested Mobile version of sites: Betamerica and TrackInfo with BrowseEmall, IPhone 4, IPhone 4S, IPhone 5, IPad, IPad2 and IPad3

Developed and documented step by step test cases based on the software requirements elicited by software developers or business analysts. Therefore, executed and maintained test scripts for BAMSAS web applications

Reported Defects and tracked their status update by using JIRA tools

Checked for exceptions and performed sanity test on the staging servers with and without live traffic on the servers

Performed Sanity check on live sites to validate user behavior

ENVIRONMENT: Oracle, IOS 3.2/4/5, MS Windows XP/7/8/8.1, Java, Selenium IDE, Selenium Web-Driver, JSP, Eclipse, IntelliJ, AngularJS, HTML/XML/JSON, Jira

JAVA DEVELOPER. Finansia-Toronto-Feb/2006 to Oct/2007

Worked alone or with others developers debugging and resolving Java programming problems with Eclipse IDE and CVS on Finansia’s projects management application and Finansia’s bug tracking tool.

Checked out the release getting the copy of the source file into the own working directory and find bugs

Completed quality checks and ensured that a request meets company standards

Tested software builds, isolated bugs, documented and tracked them in the bug repository

Committed the changes: When the set of changes were finished, checked them back into the repository. Also, stored the new file in the repository and made it available to anyone else who is using that same repository. Specified log messages, whenever a file was committed

Recorded the history of sources files

Made modifications to the branch without disturbing the main trunk

Moved changes from one branch to another branch by merging

ENVIRONMENT: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Windows XP, Java, Eclipse, CVS, XML

Education

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. “Canadian Business College”, Toronto

MASTER IN TELEMATICS. “Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña”, Barcelona (Spain)

BACHELOR DEGREE IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING. “Fundación Universidad del Norte”, Barranquilla (Colombia)

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