Quality Engineer Manager

SHUCHI ARYA 818-***-****/adkjzh@r.postjobfree.com

Redmond, WA, United States shuchi-arya (LinkedIn)

SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

A detail oriented, hardworking individual, with Master’s degree in Business Administration and 6+ years of experience in testing, analysis, and design in India and UK.

An experienced solution driven Quality Engineer and Agile Practitioner with experience leading QA teams across functional teams in end-to-end delivery of process innovation accomplishing business goals.

Strong understanding of QA principles, QA process, Use cases, Software development life cycle- Agile and Waterfall.

Technically-savvy and skilled at quickly learning new concepts, software and domain. Exceptional expertise across various test procedures for process improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tool – Selenium WebDriver

Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

Databases - MS SQL Server 2008/2012

Programming language: JAVA

IDE- Eclipse, IntelliJ

Defect/Bug Tracking - Quality Center 10.0 (QC), Rally, JIRA

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Test Analyst- Infosys Ltd, Pune (India) 11/2013- 05/2014

Client: MPCS (T-Mobile)

Organized and tested web applications on various platforms and devices while using Agile methodologies, with focus on Functional and regression testing

Assisted the UAT Testing Lead with analysis and administration of testing activities to facilitate development and ongoing management of test team

Assisted in implementation planning and attends Post Implementation Reviews to ensure lessons learned are carried forward in subsequent development activities.

Liaison with the program managers, development managers, architects, delivery leads, business analysts, test managers and manual functional testers

Provided daily reporting on test execution & defect management to the Test and Project Managers

Worked closely with the product owner and developer from requirement gathering to plan, manage, track and report on testing activities for projects and track everything with Rally.

Worked with a cross-functional scrum teams to develop innovative functional and regression testing solutions.

Use of Adobe Experience Manager 6.0 (AEM) tool for Content Authoring (For dynamically creating the web pages on CQ5 technology).

Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.

QA Test Lead/Business Analyst- Infosys Ltd, Pune (India), London 02/2008- 10/2013

Client: British Telecom

Direct management responsibilities for 7+ QA engineers/Dev (training, mentoring and managing performance) to provide support of a complex enterprise software development using a combination of Agile & iterative methodologies and to ensure smooth testing in E2E test environment.

Manage and lead the testing team in the planning, execution, and reporting of user acceptance testing activities to ensure that the results of a complex enterprise software development using a combination of Agile & iterative methodologies

Focus on removing costs, continuous improvement, removing inefficiencies, and complexity for the project flow while driving quality.

Give direction to and supervise others by offering approaches to be used and following up to ensure timely and quality execution against expectations.

Manage priorities when assigned to multiple teams. Additionally, assist QA Engineers in priority management.

Analyses patterns of defects for projects & communicates findings to facilitate continual improvement

Coordinate test execution with project management, development, Lines of Business, vendors, and other internal departments

Deliver quantity and quality results within established timeline; develop forecast methods; develop metrics.

Responsible for business requirements elicitation and analysis, Impact analysis, feasibility analysis, providing cost effective solution and estimations.

Design and execute test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures and maintained Quality Assurance Metrics.

Provide the overall guidance and develop the quality assurance strategy and test and evaluation master plan (temp) for all phases of development.

Responsible for people Management, including goal setting and providing performance feedback.

Software defect management and tracking management using industry’s mainstream testing tools.

Work with various internal and external partners and managers to define best solutions for data analysis and clean-up approach.

EDUCATION

International American University, LA, USA- MBA 2015-2017

MAIET, Rajasthan University,India- BE 2003-2007

AWARDS

Awarded ‘TESTER OF THE QUARTER’ at Business Unit Meet for excellent commitment, innovation and testing.

Awarded ‘BRAVO AWARD’ at Business Unit Meet for excellent commitment, innovation and initiative on numerous occasions.

Awarded ‘TEAM EXCELLENCE AWARD’ twice at Business Unit Meet for commitment, innovation and initiative.

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