Quality Assurance Engineer

Deepali Shirode

847-***-****(C)

Status: Greencard Holder

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CAREER OBJECTIVE

To associate with a leading organization that offers professional challenge and rewarding work

environment. Looking for opportunities to enhance my knowledge, skills in state of the art technologies and

be a part of a team that excels in working towards the growth of the organization .

SUMMARY

• Over Five plus years experience in Software Industry involved in complete lifecycle including

requirements, design, development, and testing.

• Hands on experience with tools like HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest .

• Experienced in all aspects of Testing, including Functional, Integration, User Interface, Batch

Process and Regression testing.

• Sound knowledge in software methodologies, developing test plans, designing test cases and

executing test procedures. Experience on bug tracking systems.

• Ability to focus on the important/real-time issues, understand user requirements and translating them into test

scenarios and test cases.

• Worked in Waterfall, Iterative and Agile methodologies to ensure the new features meet the

customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.

• Active team player and as an individual who is self-motivated and a good listener.

• Excellent Communication skills along with Strong analytical and problem solving skills with an ability to adapt

new methods and procedures.

• Team player with great ability to coordinate and work with different teams.

CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified by SQTL Institute in Software Quality Testing

ACADEMIC PROFILE

• Bachelor of Engineering, Pune

TECHINICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Rational Clear Quest, HP Application Lifecycle Management “ALM”, HP

Quality center, Share Point

Applications: Guidewire Claim Center, Web Applications

Languages: Preliminary Knowledge of SQL

Backend/Databases: SQL Server

Web Tools: HTML, DHTML, XML

Operating System: Windows NT/XP/2000, Windows Vista, Window 7

Version control: SharePoint

Suits: Ms-Office-Word, Excel, PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client : Leading Insurance Company, Chicago, IL

Duration : June 2012 to Till Date

Title : Claims Implementation

Role : Quality Assurance Engineer

Environment : Waterfall and Iterative methodology, Clear Quest, HP Application Lifecycle Management

“ALM”, Guidewire Claim Center, XML, MS-Office and Sql Server.

Business Need: As part of this Claims Implementation Program, Guidewire’s Claim Center 6.0 is

implemented with required configuration and integrations to support the claims handling

process. All commercial as well as the Personal lines of business (Auto, Property, GL and

WC) claims will be supported as part of this project.

Customer is consolidating all claims systems onto one platform choosing Guidewire’s

ClaimCenter product as the replacement for the multiple existing claims systems.

Because the Guidewire product is flexible, ClaimCenter can be configured without

affecting the maintainability and upgradeability of the software.

• Involved in Functional, Integration and User Interface testing of the system for end user

perspective.

• Used Waterfall and Iterative methodology to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements

and acceptable quality assurance standards.

• Analyzed the functional requirements to determine scope of testing and test techniques that should be

involved.

• Developed Test Scenarios and Test scripts on HP Quality Center

• Used Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking and reporting.

• Worked with development team on testing defects.

• Updated management about the test progress on a daily and weekly basis with status reports and

attended project meetings (QA status).

Client : Leading Insurance Company, Los Angeles, CA

Duration : May 2010 to May 2012

Title : First Notice of Loss

Role : Quality Assurance Engineer

Environment : Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center, Waterfall methodology, MS-Office

Business Need: The project involves re-engineering of First Notice of loss process. The scope was limited

to processes across different lines of business - Workers Comp, Personal auto,

Commercial Auto, Non Auto Liability).

• Used Waterfall methodologies to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and

acceptable quality assurance standards.

• Analyzed the functional requirements and form specifications to determine scope of testing and test

scenarios

• Developed Test Scenarios and Test scripts on HP Quality Center.

• Used Clear Quest for tracking & opening Bug records and Defect records.

• Worked with development team on testing defects.

• Involved in Functional and Batch Process testing of the system for end user perspective.

• Updated management about the test progress on a daily and weekly basis with status reports and

attended project meetings (QA status).

• Executed test scripts and regression scripts on HP Quality Center.

Client : Leading Insurance Company, Atlanta, GA

Duration : Feb 2009 to April 2010

Title : New Business Application- Auto Insurance

Role : Quality Assurance Engineer

Environment : Mercury Quality Center, Windows XP, MS-Office.

Business Need: The project involves re-engineering of New business process for issuing quote and bind

process for Auto. Customer was trying to create state of the art web application that can

help them compete in the market place to reduce their quote turn-around time and also

replace their client server application.

• Used Agile methodologies to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable

quality assurance standards.-

• Reviewed and analyzed the Use Cases to determine scope of testing and test techniques that should

be involved.

• Involved in Functional, Integration and Regression Testing.

• Responsible to create test plans and test cases for functional testing

• Participated in design review sessions, Weekly Status meetings, Defect Status Meetings

• Authored and executed test cases for both Integration and Functional testing

Client : Leading Manufacturer, India

Duration : Jun 2007 to Jan 2009

Title : Research for Compact Flourescent Lamps Circuitry

Role : Research and Test Engineer

Business Need: Starlite Lighting LTD has been the source for lighting components to most of the

Lighting Majors. Endowed with microprocessor based SWISS Plant, supported by

intelligent computerized controls ensuring least human element. This was one of the six

plants of this kind in the world. They produce the CFL (Compact Fluorescent Lamps)

which are more efficient and durable than the old Fluorescent lamps. It has latest

photometric apparatus having direct computer interfacing and calibrated using standard

lamps from Philips, Netherlands to measure the light output.

• Manually executed test scripts in different test environments QA and Production.

• Define Test Criteria and test conditions

• Preparing the program specifications.

• Create test plan documents.

• Analyze the ballast circuitry and prepare reports.

• Managing the service requests and analyzing the programs.

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