PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Results oriented IT professional with versatile software quality assurance hands on experience across various industries, platforms and technical environments.

COMPETENCIES

Hands-on expertise in Quality Assurance and Software testing.

Skilled in product delivery for Client-Server, Mobile & Web Platforms.

Strong working knowledge of cutting-edge technologies and business acumen across multiple industries.

Experienced in development and optimization of manual test-scenarios / cases to achieve and sustain optimal test coverage.

Solid hands-on understanding of software development methodologies (Scrum and Kanban in particular).

Proven track-record of identification of complex issues and working with delivery team on their resolution.

Effective communication and technical skills with the ability to quickly grasp technical issues/concepts.

Ability to make critical judgement decisions and solid organization skills.

Proven reliability and dependability for the team, strong self-awareness, collaboration and empathy.

Ability to initiate, adapt to &embrace change while managing workload and handle conflicting priorities.

Skilled in product delivery and enforcement of Mandatory / Standard Operating Procedures (SOP & MOP) with focus on Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI/CD).

Support an Agile Development process, working in conjunction with cross-functional team.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills allow me to be a successful liaison across integrated project team.

SKILLSET OVERVIEW

Quality Assurance

Business Analysis

Development

Definition of Requirements

Cross-functional team experience

Multi-level Communication

User Story Definition

Use Case delivery

Workflow definition

Test Procedure development

Test Harness definition and development

Test Data generation and management

Smoke & Sanity Testing

Exploratory Testing

Data-driven validation

Regression Testing

Integration Testing

Cross-Browser Testing

Guided UAT testing

UI / UX testing

Interrupt Testing

“Definition of Done” and Acceptance Criteria

Designing the business & test-ready use case

Managing issue and bug backlogs

Mobile Application Testing

Defect Tracking and resolution

Design quality & testing standards

End to End Testing (E2E)

Agile and Scrum

Scrum Ceremonies

Kanban Methodology

Mainframe

Waterfall

HTML

Visual Basic

VBScript

Oracle 9i/10g/11g

MS SQL Server

PL/SQL

SQL & T-SQL

.NET

Bugzilla

JIRA

Confluence

HP QTP

MS Visual Source Safe

TestLink

Crystal Reports

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2017 – Current Bradford Exchange Niles, IL

As a sr. QA Analyst worked closely with developers, dba’s and business SMEs on a high visibility project DC TMS focused on improvement of efficiency of DC warehouse operations. Participated in mobile application(s) project and testing new features for Core business Applications for Bradford Exchange, Ashton Drake and Hamilton.

Act as liaison between business and IT teams to refine the product requirements and develop workflow -based Use Cases.

Actively participated in the Scrum sprints activities that included assessment, estimation, daily standups, bug reviews, PBI demos & review, retrospectives.

Collaborate with the teams to define optimal test-approach for both integration and regression testing activities. (data and functionality driven).

Partnered with development, business and product teams to drive and manage in-sprint and “vintage” defect/issue resolution.

Perform smoke, regression and integration testing including cross-browser, cross-platform and devised a comprehensive End to End (E2E) process.

Participated in integration testing with third party applications that involved front-end integration and data flow validation from Mainframe to SQL Server.

Provided status and progress reporting for scrum team and management.

Key achievement: Effectively improved Validation & Verification procedures, introducing smoke and sanity testing prior to regression & E2E; run-time reduction of over 25%.

2012-2016 BrandMuscle Inc. Chicago, IL

As Sr.QA Analyst, worked closely with developers on successful release of “Instant Impact”-core software product. (on-demand, customized, branding material ordering system used by numerous high-profile clients).

Identified in-scope use cases, redefined acceptance criteria with Scrum team.

Established QA standards and procedures used across four QA environments.

Ensured reusability of test procedures and data across environments and delivered comprehensive support documentation for QA and Dev teams.

Lead testing processes including Black Box testing and SQL driven data validation,3rd party tool and service Integration, multilevel regression testing.

Performed POC and SME duties for defect tracking and resolution process.

Implemented structured “Root Cause Analysis” sessions resulting in impact reduction to core features and integrated components.

Spearheaded pre and post deployment activities to assure successful results.

Responsible for system stability, status and progress reporting for the QA team.

Key achievement: Streamlined testing process and implemented effective test-process that allowed coverage improvement for both data and functionality.

2006-2009 Nielsen Marketing Analytics Chicago, IL

As a QA Analyst, contributed to delivery major products used by Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, Sears Canada, and other Fortune 500 companies. Product focusing on efficient data integration, best practice modeling techniques, and clear, insightful management consulting.

Established QA environment designed and implemented an official company process for QA/Testing based on industry best practices.

Implemented standard protocols for efficient, reproducible testing, prioritization of issues, reliable reporting, and systematic communication.

Performed knowledge transfer (KT) for new Testers and software developers.

Achievements: Recognized by management for performance and involvement in company’s core product success.

2003-2006 CAO Distributing, Inc Deerfield, IL

Performed QA & Testing efforts for B2B & B2C point of sale web-application, connecting motorcycle part manufacturers and dealers.

Performed full spectrum of QA and testing activities that were focused on UIT/UAT and data validation and verification.

1999-2003 Baker McKenzie Attorneys at Law Chicago, IL

As a Software Developer Participated in planning, design and development of a proprietary application to calculate and display income distributions for this major law firm with numerous partners and associates. Also participated in large data migration.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Constant & consistent “On-the-Job” & Industry Training.

Advanced QA concepts ISTQB

Agile Testing ISTQB

Scrum and Agile Training

DevOps Training

SQA / Testing

Sales Training

Communication & Presentation

Automation Concepts in HP products (ALM, QC UFT Tools).

Bachelor of Science - Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology

Fluent in Russian

Reference available upon request.

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