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KULWINDER KAUR SAINI

Software Tester / QA Analyst

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 9+ years of IT experience as Software Testers with experience in Daily Agile Scrum "Stand-up", Biweekly Sprint Planning and Retrospective Sessions and update the team on status of upcoming User Stories.

Captured requirements as agile user stories and expand stories into narratives to ensure a standard team understanding of the requirements; guide prioritization of requirements based on business value, risk, architectural significance, and other drivers.

Used JIRA to create product backlog, sprint backlog, bug tracking.

Experience in creating efficient and effective requirement and design documentations.

Extensive experience in writing Use Cases, Functional specifications, Scenarios, Business processes, Workflows, Process flows, Test cases and Test Plans.

Hands on experience of using MS Office Suite, MS Visio & Power Point.

Expertise in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using Quality Center, JIRA

Experience in analyzing business requirements and specifications, development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases.

Testing experience with Internet Explorer, Mozilla and MSN explorer browsers and good exposure with browser compatibilities and their constraints.

Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to converge early toward a design acceptable to the customer and feasible for the developers and to limit a project's exposure to the forces of change.

Involvement in Project Planning, Coordination and implementing various QA methodologies.

Customer focused self-motivated, team person, good analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly. Good communication skills with commitment, perseverance, detail oriented and positive attitude.

Experience writing simple SQL queries for data validations

Extensive experience using project bug tracking tools like JIRA and HP Application Lifecycle Management

Strong Communication and Presentation Skills substantiated in past assignments with developers, project managers, subject-matter experts, stakeholders, system implementers, and application end-users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Modeling Language/Tools: RUP, Rational Rose, MS Visio

Management tools: MS Office suite, Outlook, SharePoint

Requirement Gathering Tools: MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Visio)

Testing/Reporting Tools: HP ALM Quality Center, QTP, JIRA

Database: MS SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

United States Department of Homeland Security (U.S.A Customs and Border Protection) April 2019 – Till Date

With more than 60,000 employees, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP, is one of the world's largest law enforcement organizations and is charged with keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S. while facilitating lawful international travel and trade. As the United States’ first unified border entity, CBP takes a comprehensive approach to border management and control, combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.

Role: QA Analyst

Job Description and Responsibilities:

Analyzed the Business Requirements Document, and prepared detailed Test Cases for new functionality.

Participated in by weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.

Associated with development team to understand technical design and architecture for test planning.

Experience on the overall Software Testing Life Cycles including Requirement Analysis/Gathering, Test Planning, Test Case Development, Test Execution and Test Reporting for Agile methodologies.

Initiated requirement gathering sessions and facilitated reviews throughout the project lifecycle.

Provide quality assurance testing for client applications to ensure high quality development and deployment of application enhancements.

Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping the requirements with the Test Cases through JIRA.

Involved in Regression testing, Functional testing and report daily update.

Interacted with Developers to perform various types of testing throughout the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC).

Following the CATAIR files rules and create the files based on the rules.

Process all different type of CATAIR files and check all of the validations as per the business rules.

Connected to database to Query the database using SQL for data verification and validation.

Tested request and response XML's based web services interfaces using SOAP UI.

Performed Web Services Testing and XML validation by creating test case suite using SOAP UI.

Participated in basic training for Selenium.

Excellent Presentation skills about communicating with both business and technical teams.

Excellent communication skills and ability to quickly master new concepts and technologies.

Environment: Windows XP Pro/2000, HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, Oracle, JIRA and Trade Message Interface

OBXtek,Inc., Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Jan 2013 – March 2019

OBXtek is an award-winning Service disabled Veteran Owned Small Business providing information technology and management services to the federal government. As the prime contractor on over 85% of its work, OBXtek is a leader in its field and has a robust corporate infrastructure that provides support for all its programs. This growth is a result of providing customers with successful project execution and quantifiable results, responsive customer service, timely recruiting, quality assurance/quality control, and competitive pricing.

Role: QA / BA Analyst

Job Description and Responsibilities:

Analyzed the Business Requirements Document, Test Plan and prepared detailed Test Cases for new functionality.

Associated with development team to understand technical design and architecture for test planning.

Designed and developed Page Objects using Page Object Design Pattern and Selenium WebDriver.

Documented the use cases and prepared the use case, activity, logical, component and deployment diagrams using MS Visio for a clear understanding of the requirements by the development team

Participate in sprint planning sessions, retrospective meetings, daily standup meetings and other agile activities.

Liaised with the technology team to derive Functional Requirements.

Collaborate with other project teams to determine risk indicators and levels prior to analysis

Develop detailed plans of action to project risk reduction. Confirm acceptable risk levels.

Participate in Scrum meetings for product development and deployment.

Conducted Risk Analysis to identify the risks associated with developing the new system, and formulated a Mitigation Plan to eliminate or reduce risks of high severity and major financial effects

Played a pivotal role in conducting Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Smoke testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing)

Conducted requirement workshops, brain storming sessions, document analysis, interface analysis and prototyping for requirement elicitation

Collaborate with the Scrum Master and Scrum teams in Estimation and Velocity planning. Also, participated in conducting Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, and Sprint Review & Retrospective meeting.

Managed Change Requests from stakeholders by conducting extensive Impact Assessments to capture the expected consequence of such changes

Validated soap response using various Assertions such as Xpath, Contains, SOAP Fault, Schema Compliance etc.

Tested applications in different types of browsers and versions, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome to simulate production environment.

Tested the applications for UAT, Unit, regression and integration for 508 compliance.

Participated QA weekly meetings and various other meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues and defects in the application.

Environment: SharePoint, SQL developer, MS-Visio, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), Agile Methodology and JIRA

Eagle Corp Apr 2011 – Jan 2013

Eagle Bank is among the 20 largest commercial banks in US. Eagle Bank is a largest commercial bank holding company with more than 1,500 employees. The Main modules I worked are customer, Online Banking, creating accounts, opening account information dealing with personal accounts and business accounts.

Role: QA Analyst / Tester

Job Description and Responsibilities:

Analyzed business requirements and functional documents, created the test strategy document that define the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.

Prepared the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Responsibility Matrices for the Application under test.

Involved in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes Test Designing and Execution of the entire QA process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts.

Analyzed the specifications in the User Requirements Document, Functional Requirement and Technical Requirement Documents for the purpose of preparation of Test plans.

Performed manual testing for each system build.

Test Director was used to track and report defects to developers.

Automated Test scenarios for GUI Functionality, Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional.

Used Actions and Reusable Actions in Quick Test Pro, for designing the Automation test scripts.

Extensively worked with VB scripting and Descriptive programming by using Quick Test Pro.

Enhanced Test Scripts using user defined functions.

Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.

Designed and developed dynamic spreadsheets and queries to reconcile test results and logged all test results and bugs.

Used HP Mercury Quality Center for Test Management, for Functional Test Automation.

Performed User Acceptance Testing in the final phase of software development process to check the functionality of the software.

Performed data accuracy, data validation and data integrity testing by querying the database using SQL queries to check the data table on server.

Involved in defect management – Track all the defects raised, conduct defect meetings to update the status of all the defects on periodical basis, publish a consolidated list on weekly basis.

Environment: Windows XP Pro/2000, HTML, XML, SOAP, XSLT, Java, JavaScript, Oracle, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center 9.0/11.0, rational Clear Quest and JIRA

Education: Bachelor’s Digree, India

Clearance: DHS (CBP) Second level clearance

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