Manual QA Tester

Kurt Rami

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Quality Assurance Analyst

Summary:

Quality Assurance Analyst Professional with over thirteen year experience

focusing on implementation, enhancement and maintenance of point of sale

and inventory management systems. Customer focused, self-motivated and

detail-oriented with excellent computer, problem solving, and analytical

and interpersonal skills. Strengths include the ability to work under

pressure, multi-task, and take initiative. Creative self-motivated and

flexible, Able to establish priorities, manage change, and meet personal

and corporate deadlines.

Technical Skills:

ISP Server, MS Windows XP Professional, SQL, MS Excel, MS Word, Adobe

Acrobat, QC Quality Center. IBM BOS Servers, Fuel Servers, POS Register

Devices, CRT,

OS/2, Windows NT, DB2, IBM, & CompuAdd Registers.

Hardware Skills:

Windows XP/NT/2000/98 and 7, DOS. Mainframe TSO, ISPF

W. Capra Consultants Group, Chicago, IL

2009 - Present

Quality Assurance Analyst, (BP Amoco Naperville, IL)

Responsibilities

. Have worked as a Quality Assurance Analyst

. Analyzing business requirements and test functional specifications.

. Responsible for development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts

and Test Cases for Functional, Regression Testing based on business

requirements for Manual.

. Team player and processes good organizational, written and verbal

communication skills.

. Quick learner and has the ability to adapt to changing priorities.

. Knowledge in performing quality assurance activities throughout the

software development life cycle.

. Analyzed any issue occurred during production QA/UAT and log the

defect and report to Manager and QA lead.

. Executed test script for an application through manual testing

. Performed test on all Major Credit Cards and Loyalty Cards at the

various POS devices and fuel pumps.

. Managed back office system tools for End of Day processing and

reporting

. Reported defects utilizing the vendor supplied Mercury Interactive -

Test Director

. Performed test on VeriFone PINPAD model MX 830, 850 and 870

. Setup test Labs to simulate East of Rockies (EoR) and West of Rockies

(WoR) payment (type) functionalities. Conducted QA testing for

multiple retail dealer sites.

. Installed software to TOPAZ, RUBY, SAPPHIRE and CONTROLLER Point of

Sale Systems and configures for QA Testers.

. Performed Loyalty testing at the site for ExxonMobil

Princeton Information, Lisle, IL 2008 -

2009

Quality Assurance Analyst, (JP Morgan, Chicago, IL)

Responsibilities

. Understand the functional/design specifications, and other relevant

documents to extract test requirements.

. Evaluated the quality of the software product being developed in terms

of functionality, usability, compatibility, reliability, performance

and supportability.

. Translate requirements, design and functional specs into test plan

. Developed test plan, Test Cases and test scripts and followed

methodologies.

. Reporting the status to the upper management on test progress.

. Created functional test cases based on the software requirements.

. Verifying the correctness of the software calculations and creating

test data files valid and invalid to thoroughly test program logic and

system flow.

. Performed and validate positive, negative, system and integration

testing.

. Identified high quality bugs and reported using Quality Control (QC)

. Worked closely with developers for understanding deep about the issue

and worked together to solve the issue and fix them.

. Performed complete end to end testing of the GUI scripting.

. Participated with business analyst and developers to resolve the

technical issues and defect resolutions.

. Reported the defects to development team on periodic basis and

retesting the defects as they are fixed.

(BMC) Business Management Consulting, Naperville, IL

2004 - 2008

QA Lead Analyst,

Responsibilities

. Successfully implemented the rollout a new POS to 460 sites as part of

a major initiative.

. Lead tester for major cross acceptance project to ensure that heritage

BP Amoco credit cards and heritage Amoco credit cards were accepted on

each other's credit networks. As QA Lead for POS software release

responsible for test plan, test scripts, defect reporting, and status

to BP Amoco management and clients.

. Implement Point of Sale software currently installed at 400+ BP sites.

Tested several Point of Sale maintenance releases.

. Updated processes and procedures for testing marketing system

interfaces.

. Responsible for the maintenance of a Retail Quality Assurance Lab.

Assure that all hardware and software is readily available for testing

nine Point of Sale devices, along with pumps, car wash tank monitors,

and back office interfaces.

. Responsible for to make sure Lab is working properly.

. Created scripts and tested Global Dispensers for state of the art BP

Amoco Connect sites.

. Met aggressive timelines for testing new marketing campaigns and

strategies such as the prepaid card rollout and debit card acceptance

at the pump.

. Responsible for the testing of POS peripheral devices including fuel

pumps, car wash simulators, tank monitors, pole displays, and VeriFone

pin pads.

Viva USA, Inc. 2002 - 2004

Quality Assurance Analyst, (Sears Corporation, Hoffman Estates, IL)

Perform quality assurance testing for the Sears IT group on several

projects impacting Sears Point of Sales systems (IBM - POS).

Responsibilities

. Analyzed business requirements with current requirement tools; QC

Quality Center

. Developing use-case scenarios, wrote test plans, tested cases and

generated automated test scripts.

. Interacting with developers and Business analysts to finalize

requirements

. Determining the critical path areas of applications to setup and

execute baseline tests

. Writing decomposition of business requirements and developing a

testing sequential matrix

. Participating in various meetings and discussions to enhance and/or

modify Problems and Discrepancies

. RF Regression: Validated 1700 and 1800 series Sears Network

Communicators (SNC)

. Documenting Problems and Discrepancies (P&D) found during testing

. Follow up with development teams on P&D status on a weekly basis

. Back Office - End to End transaction reconciliation

. Identifying the functional test cases for Regression Testing

. Analyzing technical functional specifications

. Performed TSO for back end reports to verify all transactions

Education / Training

American Business Institute, Chicago, IL, Certificate in Computerized

Accounting 1990

Data - Tech Institute, Chicago, IL, Certificate in Software Testing and

Quality Assurance 1997

New Horizons Computer Learning Center, Chicago, IL, A + Hardware Course

1999

William Rainey Harper College Palatine, IL. SunMicro systems Java

Programming for Non - Programmers 2001.

Continuing education includes: Systems Life Cycles (SLC)-Definition and

Analysis: The Manager's Perspective, Requirements Determination, SLC-

Deliverables, SLC-Defining Project Scope, Technical Development presented

by Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

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