Ksenia K.

acxlou@r.postjobfree.com

571-***-****

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst/Test Engineer

An energetic results-oriented professional with over six years of QA experience is seeking a challenging position to use existing experience and further develop skills in the field of software Quality Assurance.

QUALIFICATIONS

Broad knowledge and proficient understanding of Manual & Automated Testing.

Skilled in functional, regression and performance testing of Web and Client-Server applications.

Technical leadership experience in Test Planning, Estimates and Reports for Agile SCRUM and Waterfall projects.

Experience in coding, documenting, executing, and troubleshooting automation test scripts.

Extensive experience in building and managing Test Automation Frameworks with various Test Automation Tools.

Knowledge of COTS CRM systems.

Hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails, C#, SQL and VB programming.

Understanding of source control knowledge (Github) and Continuous Integration (Chef and Jenkins)

Strong troubleshooting skills and high level of attention to detail, ability and desire to follow up diligently on outstanding tasks.

Ability to learn new technologies and challenging concepts quickly and implement them.

Proficient as a trainer in coaching, mentoring, and instructing teams.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Test Automation: QTP, Selenium IDE/RC/Core/Grid, LoadRunner, Watir Webdriver, Cucumber

Programming: HTML, JavaScript, XML, Visual Basic, SQL, C#, Ruby on Rails

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Bug Tracking & Project Management: BugZilla, Serena PVCS, HP Quality Center, Jira, Test Rail

RDBMS: Oracle, MySQL

OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, MacOS, Windows 7/Vista/XP

CRM: Salesforce

Software/Systems: Sharepoint, MS Office Suite, Open Office, Confluence

Version Control: Git

Integration tools: Jenkins

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Odessa National Polytechnic University, Odessa, Ukraine

WORK EXPERIENCE

Deloitte Digital (Amtrak Epic project)– Washington, DC 09/2015-Present

Senior QA Engineer /Test Architect (Consultant)

Design, develop and manage an automated testing framework for multiple web applications and web-services of Amtrak Travel Distribution Platform, which centralizes both customer-facing and employee-facing booking, reservations, and ticketing functionality.

BDD/Cucumber with Ruby and WebDriver

Reusable steps using Page Object as a single source of UI elements

Test Web services

Make REST API calls to fetch and create test data and to interact with the SUT

Work with Development Operations team to run tests in continuous integration environment using Jenkins: configure and manage Jenkins jobs for regular batch run of various test suites including Smoke, Regression, "Current Sprint" test suites and providing test results

Implement Issue tracker URL between Allure reports and Jira

Train and advise other QA engineers on writing automation tests

Conduct code reviews and consult management on testing strategies

Identify automated testing needs, scope, plan and supervised their creation

Salesforce testing for following components: Custom Objects, Data migration, Record Types, Workflows, Email Templates, Visualforce, Apex Data loader, SOQL, Desktop Integration, Chatter

Workbench (SOQL) to interact with Salesforce.com organizations via the Force.com APIs.

Maintain test scripts code versions through GIT

Maintain test framework documentation in Confluence

Link Jira issues with test scenarios

ID.me – Tyson’s Corner, VA 01/2014-09/2015

QA Engineer (Consultant)

Provided leadership for quality assurance and testing effort for ID.me identity management platform and management tool that verifies consumer identity and group affiliations in real-time, allowing customers - members of the military, students, first responders, and teachers to prove who they are online while controlling how their information is shared with participating brands.

Developed manual and automated test scripts and conducted user acceptance testing for nine web applications, developed on the ID.me platform.

Set up and ran Cucumber features on a daily bases as part of the continuous integration.

As a part of an “agile” team, involved in all aspects of software development lifecycle from requirements gathering or blueprinting through implementation.

Participated in a variety of meetings with project managers, end-users, engineers and architects during the lifecycle of the project.

Developed and maintained System/UIT testing strategy, test plans, test processes, test scenarios, and test cases

Cucumber + Watir Webdriver test scripts experience includes: using Page Object pattern; setting up background, ‘before’ and ‘after hook’; use FigNewton for managing configuration for the test suits; integrate custom attributes module; use data YAML files with cucumber features; deal with Javascript alert from browser; use Allure Framework test report tool which provides adding to the report of additional information such as screenshots, logs and so on. Participate in setting up Chef and Jenkins

Perform API testing via Postman for manual test cases; using RestClient gem for doing requests and dealing with responses and JSON spec gem for validation steps – for the automated tests

Provide testing status reports per project requirements and provide input to the project plans and processes

United Parcel Service (UPS) – Timonium, MD 01/2013-01/2014

Quality Assurance Analyst (Consultant)

Worked on a management system for mobile tracking devices (DIAD). Tested the embedded client-side application and backend, running on Windows/Oracle platform. Validated GUI and system interfaces, including wireless communications (local, wide-area, IrDA, GPS and Bluetooth).

Wrote test plans and test scenarios, provide estimates

Used Visual Basic to develop automated data-driven test scripts

Prepared test data, load data into mobile devices and database

Used PVCS to manage artifacts

Executed both manual and automated test scripts

Target Labs Inc – Washington, DC 03/2012-12/2012

Quality Assurance Analyst/Test Engineer

Performed testing on an intranet Web-based application using both automated and manual testing methods. Leveraged knowledge of object-oriented programming and SQL to help validate, verify, communicate and resolve software issues.

Created and maintained detailed test plan.

Develop and execute manual and automated test cases, using Linux, Selenium and Load Runner.

Supported migration from QTP to Selenium.

Performed acceptance, regression, and performance tests.

Wrote bug reports and monitored their status until resolution, used Bugzilla for reporting and tracking bugs

Odessa Gas, Inc – Odessa, Ukraine 09/2011-03/2012

Jr. Quality Assurance Analyst/Programmer (Part-Time)

Supported two enterprise-level software systems for OdessaGaz- the region’s gas distributor: web portal- http://odgaz.odessa.ua/ and customer relationship management system.

Monitored and troubleshooted technical issues. This included tracking submitted issues, following up with unresolved issues, testing of issue fixes, and communication of the issue fix to the appropriate party.

Wrote test cases and test reports.

Assisted project stakeholders to clarify basic requirements.

Developed SQL queries for database and backend testing.

Created scripts for regression and stress testing using LoadRunner.

Target Labs Inc – Washington, DC 05/2011-09/2011

Quality Assurance Analyst/Programmer (Summer internship)

As an intern, worked closely with developers, business analysts, and customers in developing and testing cutting edge software solutions and experienced agile development methodology and all phases of the software development life cycle.

Participated in requirements gathering.

Developed and executed test cases.

Odessa Gas, Inc – Odessa, Ukraine 09/2010-05/2011

Jr. Programmer (Part-Time)

Developed an enterprise-level customer relationship management system for the region’s gas distributor. The application provided various input/query forms for contract registration and reports.

Engaged in technical efforts in multiple areas such as networking, server hardware, applications, databases.

Developed and unit-tested an entry form and two reports, using C# and SQL.

Contact this candidate