Senior Quality Assurance Software Engineer

Qualifications Profile

Highly analytical, solutions-focused, and performance-driven engineer, offering extensive experience in software quality assurance, including manual and automation testing within Agile environment. Equipped with well-honed skills in all phases of testing, from system specification analysis, testing methodology and plan formulation, and test case/scenario/scripts design, up to overall execution and reports generation. Known for adeptness in tracking and fixing bugs and defects to address system/software failure and ensure proper functionality. Effective at collaborating with cross-disciplinary professionals to guarantee the fulfilment of projects requirements and goals. Currently hold an active Security Clearance.

Areas of Expertise

Test Automation Framework Utilization Agile Methodology Implementation Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution

Test Data Management and Preparation Functional/Nonfunctional Requirements Analysis Team Supervision

Professional Experience

Semsotai USA Brea, CA

Quality Assurance Tester Nov 2023–Current

•Developed manual and UAT tests for CRM/ERP software testing for large ITAD client..

•Performed hardware testing and repair of refurbished Dektop PC's. Setup troubleshoot and intalling software on new replaced hard drives.

IDEMIA North America Anaheim, CA

Quality Assurance Data Migration Engineer (Contract) May 2021–Mar 2022

•Drove seamless migration of data from Oracle databases to cloud in production, including working with developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues logged in Jira.

•Performed test data migration on Azure cloud to verify data while helping team to identify and close defects in Jira.

•Generated test plans and documentation for clients and the company to guarantee high-quality project deliverables.

•Served as a scrum master tasked to lead in standups, planning, and retrospective meetings while working in an Agile team.

•Handled the preparation of reports for project owners and stakeholders detailing team’s performance.

The Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, CA

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Contract) May 2017–Feb 2021

•Held responsibility in conducting cross-browser manual and automation testing on company employee website and single page form applications as part of the Development Team using open-source tools, such as Git, React, Selenium, JavaScript, Swagger UI, Jenkins CI, and Cucumber BDD.

•Built an automation BDD framework and modified test scripts through Java with a Selenium WebDriver to run regression test suites while carrying out SQL queries for MySQL DB testing.

•Made use of TestRail test management tools in creating test plans; monitored defects in Jira; kept the business, development teams and managers informed of test status; and chaired test case plan reviews with stakeholders on team.

•Utilized Postman and Swagger UI to perform REST API backend testing on new projects. Performed manual on some Mobile IOS devices.

•Partook in backlog grooming Agile meetings with the development teams and business analyst to discuss and review results utilizing Tableau and Jira in order to prioritize and create plan for backlog items.

Notable Accomplishment:

•Received two Spot awards for both individual and team achievements for exceeding set performance expectations.

Jack Nadel International Los Angeles, CA

Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Contract) Sep 2016–Apr 2017

•Completed cross-browser manual testing as well as some automation performance testing on .NET e-commerce site using open-source tools, such as Charles Proxy, Selenium, JMeter, and Git.

•Carried out the development of test plans, regression testing and tracking of defects in Bugzilla, along with reporting of test status to business, development teams, and managers.

•Ran tests to check for defects and new features in collaboration with backend database developers.

•Worked with the management and sales teams to develop solutions and address software issues for advance beta release.

Razorfish El Segundo, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer (Freelance) Jun 2016–Aug 2016

•Conducted manual testing for Honda/Acura responsive e-commerce auto websites and generated user stories and test cases in Jira to monitor sprint tests for major auto websites.

•Assumed full responsibility in implementing test cases to check resolutions for defects in weekly releases with the use of TFS tools for QA and stage environments; as well as in facilitating weekly software releases of mobile and desktop sites

•Participated in daily scrum meetings to present QA status to teams.

iconmobile group Santa Monica, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer (Contract) Oct 2015–Jun 2016

•Executed manual and automation white box/black box testing on website and e-commerce applications on browsers and mobile iOS and Android devices, including utilization of Charles Proxy to assess HTTP responses.

•Prepared test plans and Jira tickets to determine defects on multiple projects as well as performance REST API tests through Postman to test native mobile applications that handle billing transactions.

•Performed tests on several projects utilizing hardware with facial recognition sensors and barcode scanners as well as MS publishing tools to support testing content for automotive Ford site.

•Used Java to develop Selenium WebDriver automation test scripts for manual test cases.

DirecTV El Segundo, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer • Quality Assurance Lead Oct 2006–Jan 2014

•Acted as QA lead which entailed collaborating with the development and graphic design teams in an Agile environment to address problems and implement improvements, including developing tasks and monitoring time management in Jira.

•Led small teams in creating test plans, test scripts, test report documents for configuration management, while communicating with producer, developers, and Graphics Team to fix bugs.

•Rendered assistance to the configuration management (CM) lead in troubleshooting issues and establishing QA test environments.

•Conducted server-side testing on Apache servers and the LAMP model for REST web services.

•Took charge of generating test plans, summary reports, and documentation for QA projects while providing assistance in building QA virtual machine (VM) environments with configuration management.

Notable Accomplishment:

•Earned distinction for contributing in the development of interactive sports application in the 2nd quarter of 2009, thus receiving the Score Guide Award.

Earlier Career

DirecTV El Segundo, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer (Contract)

Peerless Systems El Segundo, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer (Contract)

Xerox Corporation El Segundo, CA

Quality Assurance Test Engineer

Education

Associate of Arts in Computer Science

Santa Monica College Santa Monica, CA

Professional Development

CMMI Level 3 Overview L1-S SEI Xerox Corporation

Mastering JavaScript and Managing Chaos DirecTV

Agile SAFe Training IDEMIA

Technical Skills

Microsoft Office Suite Jira AWS SDET Eclipse Selenium WebDriver JUnit Apache JMeter REST API

UNIX/Linux BDD Python SQL API My SQL JavaScript Java Git Postman Tableau Jenkins

Swagger XML XPath Windows Server Microsoft Windows 7 and 10 IntelliJ IDE Cucumber BDD

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