Professional Summary

Result-oriented Senior IT Professional with strong “get-it-done” attitude and advanced knowledge of Manual and Automated Testing supporting Commercial and Government software systems within Agile Scum/Kanban and Waterfall Software Development process.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to liaise with business analysts, developers and product managers and maintain strong relations with stakeholders.

Ability to organize, prioritize and conduct multiple testing tasks in a deadline constrained environment

Versatile and strategic team player with a well-defined analytical approach and technical acumen of discovering, tracking and resolving defects

Professional Skills

Extensive in-depth experience in Exploratory Functional, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance testing including batch jobs’ testing

Gathering, analyzing, reviewing for testability of Software Requirements and Acceptance Criteria

Development and implementation of testing strategies, plans, manual and automated test procedures and scripts

Execution of automated test scripts within CI/CD pipeline Selenium WebDriver Framework

Back-End testing

API Testing

Business Intelligence Subsystem and Repots testing

Section-508 Accessibility testing

Extensive in-depth experience in Agile Scum and Kanban Configuration management using Atlassian System

Defect/Bug Tracking

Professional Competencies

Configuration Management Tools, Systems and Platforms: Atlassian Confluence, JIRA, Zephyr, Bamboo tools, HP-Mercury ALM, VersionOne, MS Visual Studio Team Edition for testers

Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM): Excel and Zephyr for Jira

Defect Tracking Tools: Atlassian JIRA, HP-Mercury ALM, VersionOne, MS Visual Studio Team Edition, IBM Rational ClearQuest, PVCS

Operating Systems and Platforms: MS Windows, MS Office, MS Visual Studio, MS SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle SQL Developer, Quantum DB - Eclipse Platform, Eclipse-Maven Development Platform, VMware Virtualization Software

Automated Testing Tools: Zephyr for JIRA, Selenium WebDriver, HP-Mercury QTP and ALM

Programming and Scripting Languages: Java for Testers, SQL

Software Under the Test: client-server and web-based Java, C++ and ASP.NET Software Systems

Document and Content Management Systems: MS SharePoint Portal, Atlassian Confluence, Drupal

Relational Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle

Multi-function Peripherals (MFP): Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Ricoh, Kyocera Mitta, Sharp, Canon and Fujitsu

Education

MS in EE specializing in Automatics and Electro mechanics, St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI)

Employment History

Data Systems Analysts, Inc (DSA), Fairfax, VA, Senior Test Engineer, 11/2020 to 03/2023

Continuous Testing and QA support of the DOJ EOUSA JSP Victim Notification System (JSP VNS)

As a member of VNS testing Team, participated in testing of the VNS System, while caring personal responsibility and leading testing of Victim Internet and Restitution sub-systems of the JSP VNS within Agile Scrum SDLC/STLC

Supported UAT and worked closely with developers while preparing the JSP VNS System “going alive”

Developed detailed test plans for JSP VNS and VIS integration and regression testing in Atlassian JIRA

Translated system requirements and acceptance criteria into test cases, procedures, and scripts

Compared JSP VNS and Legacy VNS to verify correctness of the requirements/acceptance criteria and Notification letters’ content

On daily basis closely communicated with business analysts and developers, gaining the subject matter expertise and debugging, verification, and fixing defects.

Perform System Integration and Regression testing

Perform back-end data validation using Oracle SQL Developer.

Report defects and suggested enhancements in Atlassian JIRA

Performed exploratory testing to verify VNS functional and UI capabilities and continuously promoted functionality and requirements improvements.

On a regular basis, communicated and participated in Agile Scrum Team meetings, testing status meetings in requirements and test documentation peer reviews.

Participated and contributed to the successful deployment of Remediation Patches into testing and production environment.

GDIT (acquired CSRA, acquired SRA), Falls Church, VA, Senior Test Engineer, 11/2012 to 05/2020

Continuous Testing and QA support for DOJ US Trustees Program 12 web-based Java Applications

Agile Scrum and Kanban SDLC/STLC

Developed test plans, in JIRA for System integration, regression, negative and stress testing; translated system requirements and acceptance criteria into test cases, procedures and scripts

Closely communicated with business analysts and developers, gaining the subject matter expertise for the software under development and test.

Closely worked with developers and business analysts in debugging, verification and fixing defects.

Performed System Integration and Regression testing, web browsers’ compatibility testing and Section-508 Accessibility requirements and standards compliance of the Applications

Performed back-end data validation using MS SQL Server Management Studio.

Report defects and suggested enhancements in Atlassian JIRA

Performed exploratory testing in order to verify Applications’ functional and UI capabilities and continuously promoted functionality and requirements improvements.

Developed Selenium WebDriver automated testing scripts and executed automated tests through CI/CD WebDriver in-house developed Framework

On a regular basis, communicated and participate in Agile Scrum/Kanban Team meetings, in requirements and test documentation peer reviews.

Participated and contributed to the successful deployment of the applications’ releases through CI/CD pipeline and Atlassian Bamboo.

Took personal initiative to promote and actively contributed to the implementation of Selenium Automated testing.

Computer Sciences Corporation, Federal Consulting Practice. Baltimore, MD, 12/2010 – 11/2012. Senior Technical Consultant/Senior Software Validator.

Actively involved and performed automated and manual testing and validation of several Web-based applications for the US Social Security Administration (SSA):

Gathered and analyzed the Detailed Functional Requirements (DFR) and Detail System Specification (DSS), related to the applications’ functionality, component structure, controls, business rules and data flows and continuously promoted Applications’ functionality and DSS/DFR improvements

Actively used HP QC9.5\10.0\ALM11 for maintenance and execution of manual and automated test cases and for defect reporting

Developed, executed and maintained manual and automation Sanity and Regression test scripts within Structured Method for Automated Regression Testing (SMART) HP-QTP-ALM automation framework.

Performed backend DB2 Database testing using DB Visualizer interface tool

Participated in QTP Automation Projects’ peer reviews

Developed DEMOs and SMART Automation Scope Documents and presented them to CSC and SSA development, validation and management audience

Issued weekly job status reports for the company’s management and QC/ALM status reports for the Customer’s management

On a regular basis communicated and participated in meetings with Applications’ developers, business and project analysts, CSCs and SSA project management and end-users

NGP Software, Inc., Washington, DC, 10/2007 to 11/2011. Senior QA Engineer.

Sole tester, participated in the development of OBERON®, the new generation of AJAX Web- based NGP Fundraising System, developed in ASP.NET within Agile Scrum development framework.

Developed and implemented QA/Testing strategy, plans and test cases

Tested Ready for Test Scrum Product Backlog Items (PBIs)

Defined, reported, tracked and tested defects

Actively participated in Scrum sprint reviews and planning meetings

Conducted regression testing of the Release Versions of the existing NGP fundraising software used by Democrats and their allies, including the top 2008-2012 Democratic Presidential candidates

Closely interacted with Development and Product Management teams in development of Releases’ regression/smoke and acceptance testing plans

Tested all full Releases and product’s APIs embedded in fundraising websites developed on DRUPAL 5/6 content management platforms

Independently evaluated and implemented QTP automated methodology in the regular Company testing practice

Notable Solutions, Inc., Rockville MD., 07/2003 to 10/2007. Senior QA Analyst.

Performed System testing on all stages of SDLC of the AutoStore® Workflow components and System that integrates with over 30 capture sources (MFP), over 30 processing engines (OCR, indexing forms recognition, image formats converting and generating, barcode reading, XML generating), as well as over 20 databases and DMS.

Categorized, prioritized, reported and tracked defects and enhancements

Independently installed and evaluated MFPs and DMSs as a part of systems under the test

Set up network testing environment containing one or multiple desktop PCs and/or VMs with appropriate AutoStore® products and DMS installed and configured, MFPs with up-to-date firmware and embedded in-house software

Participated in product design and review meetings during the entire SDLC

Assisted other members of the office in evaluating MFPs, DMSs and developed products

Mentored and supported 2-3 junior and mid-level testers

Adaptive Trade, Inc., Gaithersburg MD, 11/1999 – 07/2003. Test Engineer

Actively involved in testing activities during all phases of the SDLC of the AdaptiveTrade Engine™ B2B System (web and client-server) real time optimization Java software solution

Participated in development of testing plans and test cases

Performed functional and system regression testing in manual and automated mode Rational Test Manager

Defined, reported and tracked defects

Status

U.S. Citizen

References

Available upon request

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