Test Cases Testing

AUGUSTINE KUSI

Phone: 1-773-***-**** / Email: *.*******@*****.***

PROFILE

Software quality assurance professional with seven years progressive experience in Information Technology with three years in Software Testing. Experience in using Quality Center/ALM and involved in User Acceptance Testing, Integration testing, Unit testing, GUI testing, Regression testing, System testing, Functional, and Performance testing. Seeking a challenging environment where my technical and analytical skills can be utilized to provide good software products to end users.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Excellent understanding of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC) and the importance of a software tester in developing, enhancing and maintenance of software applications

Excellent understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and the role of QA in the cycle

Expertise in manual and automation testing in different methodologies including Agile and Agile Scrum and Waterfall

Involved in developing and executing test plan, test Cases and RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) for functional testing

Good working experience using Quality Center/HP ALM and creating and tracking defects in Defects module

Developed test cases for Regression.

Working experience with on site and off shore teams based on the schedules of the company

Proactive participation in functional requirement reviews and coordinating meetings with development teams and business users

Strong experience in all levels of testing such as Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Exploratory Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black Box Testing, and Web Application Testing

Good analytical, interpersonal and communication skills, results oriented, committed and hard working with a quest to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks

Highly motivated, self-starter and able to work independently and collaboratively within a diverse technical team

Good experience in sales domain and knowledge in education and health domains

Proven success in meeting and exceeding customer needs, as an individual contributor and as a team member

Extensive experience in analyzing business requirements and specifications, development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases

Good working knowledge in Structured Query Language (SQL), Joins to read data from database and manipulate data and preparing test data by executing SQL queries and Joins, writing SQL queries using My SQL and other tools based on the need

Proactive participation in functional requirement reviews and coordinating meetings with development team and users

Good working experience with QTP / HP UFT to perform automation testing in VB Script, very comfortable using QTP/ HP UFT to perform; Object repository, Checkpoints, Actions, Functions, Regular expressions, Parameterization, Transactions, Descending programming, Object spy, and Function library

Good working knowledge with HP Load Runner - VUGen, Controller and Analysis tools for functional and performance testing (Non-Functional Testing)

Good working experience with UNIX commands

Green Delta Auctions Louisville, Kentucky August 2014 – Present

Quality Assurance Analyst

Involved in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes Test Designing and Execution of the entire QA process and documentation of test plans, cases, procedures and scripts

Designed test plans and cases by going through the Design, Functional Requirements and Business Requirements Documentation

Analyzed technical specifications in the User Requirements Document, Functional Specifications and Technical Requirement Documents

Analyzed the system requirement specifications and developed Test Plan, Test Cases to cover all paths using Quality Center (ALM)

Created and executed test plan and test cases that was used to determine optimal application performance according to specifications. I also tracked requirements through Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Designed test scenarios and wrote test scripts

Performed all types of manual testing and creation of test scripts using Quality Center and exported some from Excel to Quality Center

Conducted regression testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developers using Quality Center for the bug fixing and tracking

Used Quality Center to track defects and reported to development team

Performed various types of testing like smoke, functional, regression, system, integration and user acceptance testing

Reviewed test cases for requirements coverage, ambiguity, and completeness

Documented the test results using Quality Center

Queried databases to retrieve data using List, Range, and Join operators

Analyzed failed test results and submitted defects based on test results through Quality Center and maintained complete Defect Life Cycle

Coordinated with the Project Managers and Development team for resolution of any outstanding issues

Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School, Philadelphia PA May 2012 – June 2014

Assistant Information Technology Specialist

Installed, maintained and updated computer systems and software

Assisted teachers in the use of Power Teacher and Teacher Websites

Helped manage academic programs such as Study Island and Renaissance Learning, Administration and Reading Eggs

Assisted in generating and printing report cards (Interims, Quarter and Final cards) and 4Sight Testing

Participated as a team member responsible for analyzing the needs of the school and customizing PowerSchool Software

Ernest Chemist Limited, Ghana Jan 2010 – June 2011 QA Analyst

Performed manual testing on different modules of the application

Performed web specific testing including link checking, browser page testing, and application and security Testing

Queried databases to retrieve data through Joins and Select statements

Attended meetings with Developers and Team Leads to promote effective partnerships and to help solve errors

Interacted with the testing and development team to resolve development issues

Reported results and updates to the QA Lead and tracked requirements by mapping Requirements and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Designed test scenarios and written test scripts

Involved in setting up the test environment & creation of test data

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, OS X, UNIX

Languages: VB, SQL, Java

Databases: My SQL Server, MS Access

Testing Tools: Quality Center/ALM, UFT, Load Runner,

Scripting Languages: HTML, Java Script, VB Script.

Browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari

Other Packages: MS Office Suite, MS Project

EDUCATION

College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN - M.S. Health Informatics, expected graduation -May 2017

University of Ghana, Legon-Accra - Bachelor of Science in Information Technology May 2011

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