Toronto, ON

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Sharmistha Guha QA Analyst

OBJECTIVE

QA Analyst with 4 years of experience in testing roles in complex projects within IT which involves QA, Automation and Manual. Well versed with testing in agile cross functional team with Scrum engineering practices. Looking for a suitable opportunity and excel within the organization. SUMMARY OF SKILL

• 4+ years of IT experience in Quality Assurance with extensive knowledge and commitment in automation and manual testing with attention to detail.

• Strong in software test development life cycle, best practices and agile methodologies to be at par with the latest industry trends.

• Experienced in testing web based applications and service testing in Banking and financial domain.

• Extensive experience in functionality and regression testing in research oriented teams.

• Having experience in using competitive automated tools like UFT (QTP) and SOAP UI to bring in a lot of impact in the testing results with correct test strategy.

• Having expertise in testing hybrid frameworks and script coding using VB Script and committing them to version control tools like GIT to enhance better collaboration.

• Experience in creation of test plans, including analysis, test case design, writing, debugging, execution and test cases maintenance.

• Expertise in logging defects and tracking bug reports, dedicated towards a high quality product.

• Hands-on and end-to-end experience in test and project management using HP ALM and JIRA which also helped in requirements management.

• Experience in REST API testing for verification and correct functionality of the product.

• Excellence in teamwork, innovation, collaboration, leadership, time management and strong verbal and communication skills.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Programming Languages:

VB Script, Java

Automated Testing Tools:

UFT (QTP), SOAP UI, HP ALM

Operating Systems:

Windows

Databases:

Oracle, MySQL

Miscellaneous:

JIRA

RELEVANT CAREER EXPERIENCE

QA Analyst May 2017 to March 2018

Cognizant – JP Morgan (Banking and Finance)

• Analysed test documents and designed suitable test cases with correct test strategy as part of the automation test team which helped to save testing time and grow as a team.

• Identified and analysed the application under test and developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for regression testing based on the requirement documents using UFT(QTP). Toronto, ON

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Sharmistha Guha QA Analyst

• Merged scripts regularly to the version control system so that they are easily available to other testers to debug which improved building the productivity of the team as a whole.

• Documented software defects, using bug tracking software JIRA, and report defects to the software developers to improve the product quality which brought down customer bugs by 30-40%.

• Executed monthly test scenarios as batch to ensure regular quality regression testing which helped to identify any bugs or failures in the application. This helped to prevent any sudden system failures with quality product delivery. Used HP ALM as test management tool.

• Reviewed and supervised code for around 10 newly joined team members to give them valuable suggestions, coach, inspire and share support to bring them to speed and become productive.

• Researched various new API’s under test and was involved in API testing for the web service using SOAP UI which improved the quality of product and helped to make it more competitive.

QA Analyst May 2014 to May 2017

Cognizant – Wells Fargo (Banking and Finance)

• Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures to collaborate within the team.

• Analysed test documents and designed suitable test cases as part of the automation test team.

• Identified and analysed the hybrid framework under test and developed automated test scripts from manual tests for regression testing based on the requirement documents using UFT (QTP).

• Attended sprint planning meetings as part of our Scrum process.

• Merged scripts regularly to the version control system so that they are easily available to other testers which improved the productivity of the team and brought down project cost by 10-15%.

• Documented test procedures to ensure replicability and compliance with standards.

• Executed monthly test scenarios as batch to ensure regular quality regression testing which helped to identify any bugs or failures in the application.

• Identified various web elements to be tested and wrote extensive scripts to test them under different browsers for meaningful results.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Bachelors in Technology in Computer Science 2008- 2012 West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering

VOLUNTEER SERVICE

Member of Outreach, Cognizant, Kolkata, India 2014 - 2017

• Outreach is a group of Cognizant employees which believes in spreading smiles across school children in rural areas. Was part of the core team to teach students on various subjects.

• Coordinate with other members to successfully organize trips to the schools to spend time with the children and spread happiness.

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