GIRMA.B.TASEW

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Professional Summary:

QA Test Analyst / Software Test Engineer experienced in all aspects of

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Quality Assurance (QA),

Software Testing, Software Test Life Cycle, and QA Test methodologies.

Expertise in experience in analysis of Software Requirement

Specification(SRS), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), software

design documents (SDD), use cases design documents and development of

software test plans, test strategy, test cases, and traceability matrix

Summary of Expertise:

. Experience in working waterfall model, V-model and Agile (SCRUM)

software development environment.

. Expert in functional, regression, integration, system, smoke, user

Acceptance,load, performance, volume and stress testing.

. Solid experience in developing and Executing Test Strategy, Test

Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Data and Test Cases.

. Advanced knowledge of object oriented programming as applied to

automated testing tools.

. Experienced in HP-ALM, Selenium, Quality Center, and JIRA

. Experienced in writing Test Conditions and Test Cases from the

Requirements specifications and Functional specifications.

. Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking reports using Bug

Tracking tools JIRA, ALM, Quality Center.

. Strong experience in testing applications for Windows, UNIX operating

platform.

. Solid experience in maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrices

(RTM) to measure the testing progress.

. Professional experience in testing Financial, Telecommunications,

Insurance and Automotive applications.

. Strong knowledge of Relational Database Management System(RDBMS).

. Experience 508 compliance testing using JAWS and WAVE

. Experience in writing SQL Queries, extract data from MS SQL Server and

Oracle.

. Expertise in implementing CMMI standard processes and procedures.

. Experience in managing projects documentation and tasks using

SharePoint.

. Dynamic and Assertive team player with strong commitment and project

management skills. .

. Experience in working in highly dynamic and challenging environment.

. Experience in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy,

and informative recreation steps.

. Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interface with

development team, clients, and members of the project management team.

Education:

Unity University accounting diploma 2000 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Montgomery college Associate degree in General Education in 2011 Silver

Spring, MD USA

Diploma in Medical Assistance Everest institute silver spring MD,2006 USA

Automated Testing Tools ALM, JIRA, WAVE, JAWS, Quality Center Quick,

Test Professional, Load-Runner, Selenium,

JUnit, TestNG

Programming Language C,VB, JAVA, SQL

Database MS Access, Oracle, SQL

Operating Systems Windows 95/98/NT/XP/2000, Unix

Applications tools: MS Office, SharePoint

Unisys, Reston, VA 05/2013 - Present

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

. Involved in interacting with the stakeholders, development team, and

business analysts in understanding of the business requirements, use

cases and design documents.

. Analyzed functional requirements and design specifications documents

to ensure that application meets all technical and business

requirements.

. Participated in project sprint planning, execution, testing and

releases on Scrum methodology.

. Build test scenarios and test cases to determine the system meets all

approved requirements.

. Performed System Testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Functional

and Regression Testing, and Security Testing.

. Investigated requirements and interfaced with developers to resolve

issues and reporting the issues to all concerned. Outstanding issues

are documented and managed JIRA.

. worked closely with the Systems team, Business Analyst, Developers and

UI team to resolve the requirement issues, deployment issues, and

change management issues.

. Developed and maintain comprehensive test cases and procedures for

all aspect of verification.

. Executed of end-to-end testing to evaluate system testing of the

application.

. Coordinate with end-users to schedule and support User Acceptance

Testing(UAT).

. Interfaced with developers in resolving the defects investigated in

the application during testing.

. Created Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are

covered by the test cases.

. Working closely with team members to ensure status and schedules are

communicated.

. Extensively performed manual and automation testing activities using

HP ALM/Quality Center.

. Performed data validation and analyzed its result for data comparison

reports.

. Perform hands-on manual testing to validate that software meets the

requirements.

. Participate in peer reviews of functional specification, application

previews, and test plans/test cases.

. Create and execute SQL queries to fetch data from Oracle database to

validate the user interface (UI)

. Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with

development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

. Create new bugs and track status of bug using JIRA

. Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the

technical issues so as to meet the client's requirement for a better

quality software product.

Environment: HP Quality Center, ALM, SVN, VSS . J2EE, JAVA, C, VB Scripts,

UNIX, Quick Test Pro, JIRA, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL, TOAD.

Merrill Lynch, Alexandria, VA 10/2010- 04/2013

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities

. Involved in understanding of functionality and design of different

applications based on the Requirement Specification Document.

. Captured Test Cases and Test Results in Quality Center and documented

and prepared the release notes as part of the project deliverables.

. Investigated Software bugs and Interfaced with developers to resolve

technical issues and reporting the bugs to all concerned.

. Investigated requirements and interfaced with developers to resolve

issues and reporting the issues to all concerned. Outstanding issues

are documented and managed through Quality Center.

. Reviewed the requirement and design documents, ensure that

requirements are clear and testable.

. Reviewed software Test plan for defining test scenarios and writing

manual and automated test scripts

. Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM) after developing and

updating Test Cases

. Created, Maintained and Executed Manual Test Scripts in Quality

Center.

. Analyzed and identified defects, and logged defects with detailed

specification into Quality Center as they relate to Test Cases.

. Analyzes test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends

corrective action.

. Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test

scenarios and test data.

. Used the data driven testing and database accessing techniques to

support the scripts.

. Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and

performed Database Testing for the Application.

. Extensively used SQL Queries to verify the data from the database.

. Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing

the test cases and scripts and logging & generated various reports and

graphs for further analysis.

. Actively participated in Review meetings and walkthroughs and prepared

the defect progress reports during defect meetings.

Environment: VB, Quality Center, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows XP.

10/ 2009- 09/2010 Software Engineer/QA Cigna, VA

. Involve in Designing, documenting, maintaining and debugging UI for

web-based applications.

. Investigated the Software bugs and interfaced with developers to

resolve technical issues.

. Executed Test Cases using different testing techniques like Positive

Testing, Negative Testing and smoke.

. Tested Internet Application on different browsers.

. Expertise in working with Quality Center for logging, tracking,

retesting and reporting the defects.

. Involved in User Acceptance testing.

. Creating Test Matrix for reports.

. Analyze test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend

corrective action

. Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up

with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

. Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected

results

. Meet with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly

update the test documents

. Developed & executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: Windows, TOAD, and Quality Center, SQL server.

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