Sonia Hooda
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Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Professional Objective
To take a challenging role within a business’ operation as a Quality Analyst and give an
efficient and effective solution that would help the organization to achieve the best
solution in business which would increase its productivity in market.
Summary :
• Seeking opportunity as a Quality Assurance Engineer.
• QA Engineer with almost 2 years of experience in both Manual and Automated testing
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in various phases of SDLC, STLC and testing
methodologies like Waterfall and Agile (Scrum).
• Expertise in Business Analysis, Functional and System Requirements Gathering and
Analysis, Creation of Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Scripts and
Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Skilled in different levels of testing like Component Testing, Functional Testing, Integration
testing, System testing, UAT, Regression testing, Smoke, Sanity, Database testing, Adhoc,
Cross browser compatibility, Scalability, Usability, Performance and Maintenance of the
applications.
• Hands on experience in creating Test Schedules, Test Designs, Test Metrics, Test Estimation,
Defect reporting and tracking, analyzing and producing Test Results and Reports using tools
like Quality Center, Jira and expertise in Impact Analysis and Root cause analysis and
Problem solving like Bug triage meetings.
• Efficient in preparing and delivering other Test Documents / Deliverables like Test
Execution / Test Summary / Test Defect Summary and updated Weekly Status Reports.
Worked with Dev team closely in determining both medium and high severity defects that
would potentially affect the downstream systems.
• Excellent experience in generation of automation scripts using QTP (Object Repository,
Object Identification, Object Spy, Checkpoints, Descriptive Programming) and
Selenium IDE and RC and performed Data driven testing using Excel docs, text files and
generating XML test data files.
• Hands on experience in Web services testing using SOAP UI Pro and XML testing.
• Excellent communication, documentation, problem solving, multitasking and analytical
skills. Amicable nature and strong work ethic complements, ability to produce results in a
complex workplace on time.
• Knowledge in performing data analysis using simple SQL Queries.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Testing Tools: HP QuickTest Pro, Mercury Load runner, SOUP UI REST
Reporting Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Jira
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2007,Window 2008,Windows Vista, Linux/ Unix
Databases & Tools: MS SQL Server 2008, 2010
Languages: JAVAScript, VBScript, ShellScript
Internet HTML, XML, HTTP.
Technologies:
Software: MS PowerPoint, Word,Excel, MS Project.
Test Strategies Integration, System, Regression, User-Acceptance, Smoke &
Black Box
EDUCATION
Bachelor Degree, Delhi University, India
Online Certification, Stanford University, CA
Software Quality Assurance Training, Canvas Infotech, Fremont, CA
PERSONAL SKILLS
• Excellent verbal, written and communication skills.
• Excellent technical, analytical, problem-solving and leadership skills.
• Extremely hardworking, motivated, independent-thinking, high-energy.
• Detail-oriented team player with an ability to work in time-sensitive and high-pressure
environments.
• Strong technical aptitude with an extraordinary ability to multi-task.
• A self and quick learner and can learn new technologies very fast
Profession Experience
P roject: C redit wise I n terest Module
Client: Citibank, NY
Du ration: Oct.2011 -- June 2013
Role: Quality Assurance Tester
Worked as a QA Engineer with Citibank, application developed for managing various Fixed
Income & Interest Derivative products. Application is used to store the information about Interest
rate derivative products including all derivatives containing an interest rate element in it. This
Application provided the ‘Account Lists’ (types of accounts), ‘Account Summary’ (balances, last
deposits etc.), and ‘Account Transactions’ (Transaction Details) for the various accounts and the
ability to transfer funds between the various accounts using ‘Fund Transfers’. The application also
allowed users to change the account options such as changing their ‘User ID’ and ‘Password’. The
application also allowed users to submit account-related queries to the bank including ordering
checks, requesting copies of checks and statements etc
Responsibilities:
• Involved in development of Test Plan and Test Specifications as per clients’
B usiness Requirements.
• As a member of the team analyzed the business and system requirements.
• Developed the test cases according to functional requirements.
• Involved in m anual testing .
• Ini tially involved in m anual testing .
• Performed regression & integration testing.
• Performed Backend Testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the
i ntegrity of the database.
• In teracted with business people and developers to exchange the updated status
and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Maintained all the test cases in Q uality Center.
• Performed In tegration testing to check the integrity between the modules.
• Performed end-to-end testing.
• Test Results and errors logged into Defect Tracking Tool J i ra.
• Participated f lash meetings between QA & Development team.
• Participated in meetings with different departments marketing, Business
A nalyst, DBA and Infrastructure team to resolve the issues.
• Involved in testing the application developing the Java Script, VB Script.
• Participated QA weekly meetings and various other meetings and discussed
E nhancement and Modification Request issues and defects in the application.
Data specialist/Analyst
Employer: HTS Global LLC
Worked as a contractor for HTS Global, A software consulting firm in Santa Clara to help their
recruiting with new hiring of Software engineers and Executives
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Screened 100’s resume everyday for a match of the job descriptions sent to our team by
the recruiting manager
• Prepared list of potential candidates in Excel
• Screened potential candidate by talking to them over phone for the initial round
• Communicated to the manager and some cross functional dept by reporting data collected
by team
• Created reports by writing Macro in Excel for the data analyzed and sent out weekly to
executives.