SHARON MICHAEL

Irvine, CA *****

Mobile: 949-***-****

Email: ad1wv5@r.postjobfree.com

US Citizen

SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER

Hello!

I am a Software QA professional who is back from a career break after caring for my young family.

I started off as a Software QA Engineer in an agile environment and was promoted as a Test lead. Having realized the importance of automation testing in agile software development, I got training in Selenium Webdriver with Java using TestNG, Maven, Jenkins and Cucumber Wrapper.

I am passionate about software testing and enthusiastic about new opportunities to grow and gain new skills.

EXPERIENCE:

●Extensive experience in testing of WEB and Mobile applications in an agile environment

●Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and SQA Methodology

●Bachelor Degree in Electronics and Communication

●Analyze technical documentation for inconsistencies, ambiguities, and/or contradictory requirements

●Experience with iOS and Android

●Communicate effectively with management and peers to locate and resolve issues

●Research and reproduce software defects

●Write test documentation such as test plans, test cases, test matrices, check lists

●Passion for software quality

SKILLS:

Databases: MS SQL, PostgreSQL and MySQL

Bug Tracking: Atlassian Jira, Elementool, Bugzilla, Mantis

Platforms: Windows, iOS, Android

Programming: C, C++, Assembly, HTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL

Test Automation: Selenium Webdriver with Java

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, Internet, Intranet

Virtualization: VMWare Server

Browsers: Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

WORK EXPERIENCE:

06/2015 – 01/2017 Software QA Lead, Dynamic Signal, San Bruno, CA

●Served as quality assurance lead in the engineering team, testing and assuring quality of new and existing features on a 2-week agile release cycle

●Deployed builds and started services in test environments

●Tested web-based application for enterprise and self service projects that helps brand use social media to reach and engage customers

●Tested using Facebook, Facebook Page, Twitter, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Group, Google plus, Instagram, Xing, Weibo, YouTube and numerous blogs for content sharing

●Conducted functional, regression and system testing to ensure excellent product quality

●Created, maintained and executed test scenarios and test cases manually using Testlink

●Wrote, followed up and verified bugs using Atlassian Jira

●Executed and modified automation Selenium testcases.

●Performed troubleshooting of issues using log files and SQL queries for MS SQL, PostgreSQL databases

●Worked closely with product managers, production engineers, frontend developers, backend developers, mobile engineers, UI designer, software architect and other QA engineers to ensure the quality of weekly releases

●Contributed to increase in proficiency of the QA team by sharing the new feature knowledge among the team

●Enabled social media channels using API keys for the application by following company instructions

●Deployed builds on production and assured customer quality per customization

●Used Cloud Berry for checking the post picture uploaded onto CDN

●Collected performance information using Firefox add-on Y slow

●Fiddler, Firebug and browser developer tools were used for web debugging

●Testing was done in 3 browsers IE-9, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

●Tested product’s mobile application in iPhone and Android

●Mentored new QA employees

●Served as QA scrum master

05/2012 – 06/2015 Software QA Engineer, Dynamic Signal, San Bruno, CA

●Served as quality assurance engineer in the engineering team, testing and assuring quality of new and existing features on a 2-week agile release cycle

●Tested web-based application for enterprise and self service projects that helps brand use social media to reach and engage customers

●Tested using Facebook, Facebook Page, Twitter, LinkedIn and numerous blogs for content sharing

●Conducted functional, regression and system testing to ensure excellent product quality

●Created, maintained and executed test scenarios and test cases manually using Testlink

●Wrote, followed up and verified bugs using Atlassian Jira

●Performed troubleshooting of issues using log files and SQL queries for MS SQL, PostgreSQL databases

●Worked closely with developers and other QA engineers to ensure the quality of weekly releases

●Contributed to increase in proficiency of the QA team by sharing the new feature knowledge among the team

●Enabled social media channels using API keys for the application by following company instructions

●Used Cloud Berry for checking the post picture uploaded onto CDN

●Collected performance information using Firefox add-on Y slow

●Testing was done in 3 browsers IE-9, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

●Tested product’s mobile application in iPhone and Android

OTHER PROJECTS:

03/2012 – 05/2012 Cimbal.com

●Worked on testing the application (CimbalApp) used for online financial transactions using iOS devices

●Performed Adhoc and Exploratory testing to develop better understanding of the application features

●Contributed to QA Team effort in creating Test Plan

●Developed and executed detailed Test Cases for “Banking and Credit Card” modules (Merchant user role)

●Performed GUI, functionality, browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome) and platform (Windows7/Vista/XP) compatibility testing of the web-based module

●Executed test cases utilizing iOS devices (iPhone, iPad)

●Identified and reported software issues using Cimbal Support Ticket system

02/2012 – 03/2012 Genietrack.com

●Tested mobile application (iPhone and Android) that allows parents to stay in touch with children when they are away from them

●Provided usability testing in production environment for live version of the application

●Performed regression testing in QA environment for different versions of the application

11/2011 – 02/2012 MW-Plus

●Black box testing for Mortgage Wizard Calculator Software which replaces the book with mortgage tables. The software allows users to calculate a variety of mortgage data by choosing different variables and also by selecting payment periods, compounding periods and methods of calculating.

●Developed test cases for the application and executed them

●Developed bug reports and submitted them using custom MS Access database application

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

2005 Bachelor of Science Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering

2012 Software QA, Portnov Computer School, Los Altos, CA

2012 Web Technology, Portnov Computer School, Los Altos, CA

2012 Test Automation with Selenium, Portnov Computer School, Los Altos, CA

2011 Fundamentals of Software Testing, SCAE, Santa Clara, CA

2005 Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) training program

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