Quality Assurance Analyst

Pearl Sequeira

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Career Overview:

Quality Assurance analyst with 12+ years of experience in both manual and automation testing. Aiming to utilize my strong prioritization skills and analytical ability to achieve the goals of the company. I have solid knowledge in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle which includes Test Planning, Test Execution, Defect Management within a Waterfall & Agile methodologies.

Excellent levels of service, taking full ownership of assigned deliverables from initiation to completion. My experience is extensive and diverse – from successful private sector companies to large corporations. Possess excellent communication, presentation, and team-building skills combined with the ability to easily adapt to new technologies and environment

Education:

●Bachelor's Degree in computer science engineering, St Joseph’s engineering college, India.

●CSM certification.

Technology Skills:

●Testing tools: Jmeter, SOAP UI, Putty, QTP, Test Link, Azure Dev ops.

●Bug tracking tools: TFS,HP ALM, Jira, IBM Clear Quest

●Database: Oracle, MS SQL

Work Experience

Pacific blue Cross

June 2019- May 2020

Application support Analyst:

Worked closely with business to gather requirements/business rules and ensure alignment with the development teams.

Translate stakeholder requirements into Epics/Features/User stories/tasks and update write clear acceptance criteria and provide mockups and prototypes.

Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, project communications and maintain the training documents.

Provide biweekly demo to all the stakeholders on the iteration update.

Discuss the solution design with the development team to come up with the most feasible approach to develop a minimum viable product.

Quality Assurance analyst/ Business analyst

Bestbuy Canada - Burnaby, BC

September 2007 – May 2019(Bangalore, India and Vancouver,BC)

Testing/ QA experience:

Jan 2007- Oct 2016

While the testing model was Waterfall –

●Software testing experience on testing websites, back end systems, databases, APIs, point of sale applications, mobile sites and mobile application testing.

●Worked closely with the business, development and the GUI team in the earlier phases of the project to understand the requirements and scope of testing.

●Worked on the test case and test data preparation.

●Worked with the environment team to have the test environment set up.

●Worked on the major testing tracking tools like Azure Dev ops, Jira, HP ALM, Test Link, IBM - Clear Quest.

●Strong Quality Assurance experience in waterfall and agile environment.

●Strong SQL knowledge.

●Experience using automation tools like Jmeter, SOAP UI, Kathalon.

●Ability to quickly understand requirements and create test cases based on the requirements/ acceptance criteria.

●Conduct UAT to ensure the functionality delivered meets business user’s expectations.

●Ability to handle multiple projects with competing priorities.

●Excellent team player with effective communication & analytical skills.

●Prepared test documents like test estimates, test approach, test closure memos.

Once the company changed the testing model to Agile, my responsibilities changed to-

●Testing the user stories once they were dev complete and provide update every day during standups.

●Estimate the scope and size of the testing effort for each user story.

●Design and execute manual tests and automaton testing to wherever applicable.

●Be involved in defining the acceptance criteria for a user story.

●Help members of the team who require assistance in completing a user story that hasn’t progressed.

●Work together with the team on picking user stories for the next sprint.

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