Project Manager Quality Assurance

ANDREY SHCHEPALIN

**** ********** ***** *****

Matthews, NC 28105

**********@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/shchepalin

980-***-**** (cell)

SOFTWARE QA TESTER / QA ANALYST

Citizenship: USA (GC holder),

Work permit at: USA

SUMMARY

• 6+ years of experience with strong knowledge of Quality Assurance and Software Testing Life Cycle

(STLC).

• Extensive experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall,

Agile-SCRUM methodologies.

• Experience in multi-tasking and interacting with multiple teams.

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD)

and coordinated with developers in writing Test Plans and formulate Test Cases.

• Experience in testing, analyzing, and tracking defects.

• Good experience in Integration, System and User Acceptance testing phases using various methods

such as Functional, Structural, Black Box, Gray Box, and Back End Testing.

• Knowledge in the usage of Automation tools - Selenium IDE, HP Quality Center, HP QuickTest

Professional (QTP).

• Experience in testing web based applications.

• Took active role in conducting project meetings including Test and Defect review meetings.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly adapt across various

domains and diversified work culture.

• Performed Back-End testing using SQL queries to fetch the data from the database for validating the

output.

SKILLS

• Toad for SQL Server, SQL, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, SQL Reporting Services 2010, SRSS.

• IBM Integration Designer, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Business Modeler

Advanced, Lotus Notes, Support Wizard, Remedy, JIRA, SoapUI, Selenium IDE, HP Quality Center,

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP).

• Microsoft Office, Outlook, Visio, Project, Excel, PowerPivot.

• Attention to details, Ability to work independently, Self-Motivated, Flexible to Change, High Level Of

Accuracy, Work Ethic, Quick Learner, Strong computer skills, Ability to work within a team

environment, Excellent communication skills.

EXPERIENCE

October 2010 July 2014 OCV, JSC (Moscow, Russia),

3 year 10 months www.ocv.ru

OCV is the leading developer and

integrator of the new technics

and technology solutions in such

areas as transport and industrial

security, software development,

consulting services, information

technology integration.

Software QA Tester

• Reviewed and Analyzed

Business Requirement Document

(BRD).

• Responsible for gathering

requirements by working with

various groups such as Business

Analyst and Developers,

identified test cases based on the

functional flow of the application.

• Wrote and executed detailed

Test Cases including

prerequisites, detailed

instructions, and anticipated

results.

• Generated test plans by

including test scenarios, test

cases, testing environments,

system configurations, and

entrance/exit criteria.

• Assisted development with to do

troubleshooting, diagnostics,

repair bugs and solutions finding.

• Assisted management with the

on testing schedule and the

software release.

• Managed VPN product testing

within client/server and NT

environments.

• Performed Black Box Testing to

test the functionality of all

controls on the web page.

• Performed basic queries

necessary to edit and update

data within the database

including fields and tables.

• Tested deployment of

applications in Enterprise

environments during all phases of

the product cycle.

• Tracked software problem

reports using Bug-Tracking

System. Verified resolutions.

• Worked closely with the

Developers, BA, Project Manager

for Knowledge sharing and to

resolving issues.

• Defined UI checkpoints to check

frames, complex tables, text

boxes, buttons, lists, combo

boxes, hypertext links, image

links and images.

• Performed GUI, AD hoc,

Exploratory, Unit and System

Testing.

• Performed Web Application and

Web Services testing in the

Banking and Financial Domain.

• Tested the entire application

and performed various tests like

Positive & Negative, Business

Functionality, Integration, and

Regression, End to End and also

supported User Acceptance

Testing (UAT).

• Created and maintained internal

technical documentation relevant

to the QA processes.

• Use Toad for SQL Server for

checking the results of data

interaction from some FTP

sources, involving staging data.

• Wrote SQL Statements to

extract Data from Tables and to

verify the output Data of the

reports.

November 2008 - October 2010 MIIT (Moscow, Russia)

2 years

www.miit.ru/portal/page/portal/

en

The MIIT is the large Moscow

University, which implements

various forms of research,

implementation and academic

activities in the areas as licenses

for hi-tech processes to produce

hi-tech products, augmentation of

scientific and technological

potential, required for

development and commercial

application of innovations, etc.

Junior BA/QA Analyst

• Interacted and collaborated with

stakeholders for clarification of

business requirement.

• Translated business

requirement into Business

Requirement Documents (BRDs)/

functional specification.

• Created UML Diagrams

including Use Case Diagrams,

Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow

Diagrams (DFD).

• Comfortable in Basic SQL

queries needed for the testing

purpose.

• Involved with QA team to

determine and develop methods

for unit testing, integration and

usability testing according to the

application complexity and testing

requirement.

• Assisted in writing test plans,

test case in manual testing.

• Manage bug tracking and

provided information update.

• Advising developers when

designing the system.

• Experience with website

development.

June 2008 October 2009 IBS (Moscow, Russia)

1 year 5 months

www.ibsgr.com

IBS Group Holding Limited, a

leading software developer and

IT services provider in Central

and Eastern Europe. IBS Group

has set benchmarks in the

Russian IT industry throughout its

20-year history.

Technical Support Specialist

• Negotiations with clients.

Research and resolving customer

inquiries, complaints, billing

questions, and service request.

• Assisted customers via

telephone, text, e-mail with a

wide range of questions,

problems and requests with

products and services.

• Decision of conflict situations.

Worked with Developers.

• Control warranty and post-

warranty support, work in bug-

tracking systems.

• Prompt response to incidents.

Tracked software problem reports

using Lotus Notes, Support

Wizard and Remedy. Verified

resolutions.

• Communicated software bugs

and enhancement ideas using

established reporting procedures.

• Monitoring Data Center.

• Experience with servers,

storage racks, network

equipment.

• Worked as an assistant

engineer in project activities.

• Installation and maintenance of

user workstations.

EDUCATION

2012 Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, Moscow

Bachelor's Degree, Economy, Economist

2010 Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, Moscow

Master's Degree, Traffic process management (TPM), Engineer

Professional development, Courses/Certifications

Online Courses:

2011 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

2011 SQL for Beginners

Certifications:

2010 Information Technologies in Management

• Project Management.

• Operational Risk Management in Business Processes and

System of Internal Control.

• Testing and automation of business processes.

• Requirements management. The process of software

development.

• Build processes using the library ITIL.

• The Rules and Procedures of Quality Assurance Testing of

Applications.

HONORS

2012 Graduated with honors from Moscow state University of railway

Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Moscow, Russia

2010 Graduated with honors from Moscow state University of railway

Engineering, Master's Degree, Moscow, Russia

2005 Graduated with honors from Pokrov High School, Pokrov, Russia

REFERENCE

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