QA analyst

RITUJA DONADKAR

201-***-**** • rituja.donadkar@gm ail.com

Quality Assurance Analyst

Highly adept professional; leverage workplace and academic skills in testing methodologies, documentation, web

services, planning test strategies and implementations, testing infrastructure and leadership as Quality assurance

professional.

Skilled in testing methodologies, extensive documentation, testing considering release time targets,

environment and resources.

Excellent project management skills, successfully aligning resources to achieve project objectives within

timelines; skilled in projecting goals and vision throughout team.

Experienced with supporting Test Cycles, Defect Status meetings, Project Status meetings, compiling Test

Status Reports, and interacting with Project Managers, Developers, Stakeholders.

Strong experience in working on Content management system (CMS), Defect tracking systems(Assembla,

JIRA),cross browser testing and mobile,mobile apllications.

Proficient in working on Selenium Web Driver.

Experienced in working in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Hands on experience with Database queries.

E X PE R IEN C E H I GH LI GH T S

HEARST CORPORATION, NY 03/2014-PRESENT

Quality Assurance Analyst

Assure the quality of all Hearst Digital Media sites ( such as Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, etc) and the

Content Management System.

Participated in the Sprint planning and Agile Scrum meeting on a daily basis.

Created and maintained a testing strategy, test cases and test plans. Periodically review the test case plans

with cross team members and maintained the test case suite using Practitest(online test case management

system).

Created Smoke tests, Regression tests and functional tests to test on various software builds for the various

sites.

Isolate, troubleshoot, identify patterns to replicate defects and report them using JIRA. Once fixed verify

the defects and close the bugs. Also, replicate and log tickets as found by the team or by stakeholders.

Automated the smoke and regression tests run on the website and the content management system using

Selenium webdriver and Java.

Hold meetings with cross team members periodically to discuss improvements in the process.

Environment: Jira, Selenium IDE, Selenium Webdriver, CMS, HTML, CSS, Word, Excel, Firebug 1.12.2,

FirePath, Eclipse, W indows 7, W indows XP.

NEWS CORPORATION (THE DAILY APP), NY 02/2012-03/2013

Quality Assurance Lead

Lead a team to review, evaluate, plan and improve existing and future Quality Assurance/testing

environment, infrastructure, tools, processes, methodologies and resources.

Develop and monitor weight optimization techniques to ensure loading time, optimum content display.

Monitor the total weight of pages including overweight images and images which consume memory.

Write test cases for all components in the CMS and document each working component.

Monitor and maintain Assembla, a bug tracking system after identifying bugs as CMS related or App related.

Review historical, existing and ongoing bug reports to identify areas needing specific attention.

Work with engineers, managers, product management and operations team to develop innovative testing

solutions that meet the market needs with respect to functionality, performance scalability, reliability,

realistic implementation schedules, adherence to testing goals and principles that are compatible with

release timeline targets.

Environment: Assembla, Selenium IDE, Selenium Webdriver, CMS, HTML, CSS, JSON, Excel, Firebug 1.12.2,

FirePath, Eclipse, W indows 7, W indows XP.

ANAGH TECHNOLOGY, PISCATAWAY, NJ 11/2010-01/2012

Quality Assurance/ Web Development

Developed effective testing m ethodology, test strategies/ plans to meet the projects business needs.

Developed and tested production releases as well as User Acceptance Testing ( UAT).

W rote test cases for all components in the CMS and the documentation related to each working

component.

W orked on web services, platform applications and core server side s ystem infrastructure in order to

monitor the live issues delivered to users of the public ation.

Monitored the pages built on the CMS (Content Management system) to ensure the quality

deliverables.

Delivered efficient testing m ethodology, test strategies/plans to meet the business needs.

Environment: Assembla, Selenium IDE, Selenium W ebdriver, CMS, HTML, CSS, JSON, Excel,

Firebug 1.12.2, FirePath, Eclipse, W indows 7, W indows XP

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, HOBOKEN, NJ 01/2009-06/2009

Project (Web development):

Developed the entire project applying the Software Development life cycle. Gathered data and converted

the entire design into UML class diagram s. PHP and My-SQL was used to build the database driven

website.

Environment: MySql,PHP, Microsoft Excel, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

KNOW LEDGE SYSTEMS (INDIA), Mumbai, India 06/2007 - 12/2007

Junior Web Developer

Analyzed and implemented design improvem ents and validation testing on existing system.

Environment: Microsoft Excel, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI, INDIA 06/2006-04/2007

Project ( Artificial Intelligence)

Presented a research paper along with a working program which used the concept of artificial intelligence to detect

if an image was cancerous or not.

Used M ATLAB and MS Access to build this project.

Analyzed the two phase’s i.e. training phase and development phase, which played a major role in the

development of the project.

Prepared the training matrix which was used in the training phase for determining if the image was

cancerous.

E DUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Master of Computer Science, Jan 2010

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – Hoboken, NJ

Bachelor of Computer Engineering, May 2007

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI – Mumbai, India

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