Engineer Quality

Seasoned Quality Assurance professional with extensive experience in all phases of quality assurance testings within fast paced environments across multiple teams. An accomplished team player who also performs well as an individual contributor while using logic and reason to identify strengths and weaknesses of products and systems.

Skills and Technical Expertises

●Full understanding of SQA methodology & software development life cycles, RUP (Rational Unified Process) SDLC and Agile SCRUM process (repetition)

●Hands on experience in planning, creating and executing test plans to validate software functionality

●Experience with Functional, Integration, End-to-End, Regression testing

●Proficient in testing Mobile applications and Internet based e-Commerce applications

●Possess strong analytical, communication, time management, interpersonal skills

●Talented to learn new systems, tools and software quickly

●Ability to use an holistic approach and able to advocate for quality

●Executes multiple projects simultaneously with commitment to excellence in all projects

●Operating Systems: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android

●Tools: Jira, Xray, Confluence, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center, Selenium, Cucumber, RequisitePro, Android Studio, Xcode, Jenkins, GitTower, Mobile Handsets, Emulators, Virtual Handsets, Brew Tool, Fiddler, Charles, Putty, Aqua Data Studio, SQL Tools

●Web Testing: HTML, familiarity with JavaScript, SoftLayer, AWS

●Software: MS SQL Server, Visio

Professional Experience

QA, promoted Sr. QA Engineer 2011 to 2020

Tealeaf/IBM/Acoustic San Francisco, CA

●Responsible for planning and executing functional and system level testing

●Designed, documented and maintain test plans and test cases for revisions and approvals

●Collaborated with product feature teams to lessen ambiguity

●Analyzes and reproduced problems reported by customer support including gathering complete set of relevant data so the bugs could accurately characterized and addressed

●Documented, verified and tracked issues, reproducing problems quickly and efficiently

●Regularly exercised independent judgment and discretion with respect to quality assurance matters important to the success of Tealeaf products

●Provided QA recommendations and sign off for tested features

●Mentored and trained team members on new features, test processes and tools

Quality Assurance Analyst/Lead (Contract) 2009 to 2011

Wells Fargo San Francisco, CA

●Created, prepared, and conducted quality assurance review meetings, developed test plans, test cases, user scenarios, check lists and other QA documentation

●Defined, established and maintained a consistent test flow related to a given project; resolved questions during project testing phases

●Performed leading and coordinating role for most testing activities on a project; prepared daily and weekly test summary reports for the project progress

●Used functional knowledge of application to provide technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and resolving moderately complex test problems

Quality Assurance Engineer 2008 to 2009

Stub-Hub San Francisco, CA

●Performed test execution, including functional (front-end and back-end), regression and integration tests.

●Analyzed business requirements and technical specifications

●Created comprehensive test cases based on business requirements and technical specifications

●Reported issues to Bugzilla Bug Tracking System

●Worked closely with cross-functional organizations and project teams to develop project schedules and testing strategy to deliver high quality products

●Created daily status report

Quality Assurance Engineer 2007 to 2009

BEA San Francisco, CA

●Developed and executed Functional/GUI, Integration, Regression tests for web-based enterprise applications

●Performed functional testing of UI components for various applications

●Worked closely with QA Leads, product managers and software engineers to understand requirements and functionality that can be used to develop and execute test plans

●Identified, prioritized, and designed tests necessary to qualify the products using product requirements documents, functional specifications, design documents, use cases, and other information sources

●Designed, created, and maintained test data sets; tracked bugs and regress fixes for each project in bug database

Quality Assurance Engineer 2006 to 2007 Moderati San Francisco, CA

●Performed Functional/GUI, Integration, Regression, and Performance testing of WAP, Java, J2ME, SMS and Brew mobile/Web applications

●Tested Web, XHTML, HTML, XML

●Ran SQL queries to check and modify various tables in the Postgres database

●Tracked bugs and regress fixes for each project in bug database

●Tested handsets using Mobile Complete Device anywhere virtual handsets

●QA liaison between Moderati and Quality Partners covering outsourced testing

●Collaborated with off-site Engineers for delivery of completed applications, bugs and

with third party testing lab for testing handsets in volume and performing True Brew Testing

●Submitted all Brew applications to NSTL for carrier certification

Quality Assurance Analyst (Contract) 2005 to 2006

Yahoo Inc. Sunnyvale, CA

●Performed Testing Yahoo Mobile applications

●Yahoo Mobile Internet services such as Mail, Messenger, Games, News, Finance, Local Info, Weather, Address Book, Calendar deployed by Sprint, ATT Wireless, Cingular, Verizon, Nextel, Rogers, Dobson communication

●Tested Brew Messenger deployed by Verizon and J2ME Messenger client deployed by Sprint

●Performed testing of the above applications on all client supported mobile devices

●Worked closely with developers to debug code written in C++, J2ME, BREW

Quality Assurance Analyst 2001 to 2005

Vodafone, Walnut Creek, CA

●Performed test strategy, test documentation and participated in creating test scenarios and cases

●Identified test data requirements and created or obtain test data

●Executed test cases/scripts and document results and documented and tracked defects identified during testing

●Provided guidance and direction in test development and execution to junior members of the team

●Performed testing on WAP application all supported handset terminals as identified in Test Environment Requirements

Education

B.S in Business Administration, Odessa State University, Ukraine

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