Christopher Gough
Email: ************@*****.***
Phone: 443-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Experienced and talented system analyst with 10+years of experience and strong IT background.
Excellent communicator, coordinator, and project handler with abilities to meet deadlines.
Expert in offering technological solutions all types of complex business problems.
PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS
Strong Functional Analyst with hands on experience in End-to-End system testing, Smoke Testing, and Regression testing
Strong ability to coordinate with external or internal clients
Experience in Defect Reporting & Defect Management Process
Ability to analyze clients’ existing systems and business models
Solid understanding of Agile Scrum delivery and waterfall model
Excellent ability to work on multiple medium projects at the same time
Ability to meet strict deadlines
Strong analytical skills and excellent problem-solving skills
EXPERIENCE
Quality Assurance Analyst August 2022 to May 2023
Insight Global/Osaas (Contractor) Remote
Functional Analyst for Osaas for State of California (EDD-Ca.gov) project
Exposed to Salesforce and Postman for system testing.
Tracked and wrote defects in JIRA
Assisted and wrote happy path test cases for UAT testers
Performed end to end system, smoke and regression testing
Develop and implement internal continuous improvement to project for the State of California (EDD-Ca.gov)
Agile Scrum Methodology used
Quality Assurance Analyst September 2018 to August 2022
Apkudo Baltimore, MD 21224
Lead software quality assurance activities to define, prioritize, manage and executed test plans
Interpreted and analyzed API calls for data integrity
Ensured technical and functionality use of the system
Tracked bugs in JIRA/Clickup
Wrote happy and un-happy test cases and scenarios for the system and imported them to TestRail for test runs
Assisted with regression testing
Exposed to some 508 testing using JAWS
Participated in requirements and design sessions with business and IT stakeholders
Develop and implement internal continuous improvement to project
Agile Scrum Methodology used
Software Analyst / Quality Assurance Tester November 2011 to September 2018
Bithgroup Technologies, Baltimore, MD 21201
Collaborated with developers, testers and end users using the Child Care Administrative Tracking
Ensured technical and functionality use of the system
Mapped and documented interfaces within the CCATS system
Developing solutions for existing products and systems.
Created test scenarios and out of the box scenarios
Prepared testing schedule for system.
Prepare test cases based off the functional requirements and system design.
Studied and developed questions from functional requirements and system designs
Responsible for user manual after all defects were corrected and new functionality executed per the requirements
UAT testing and Mobile Testing
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science May 2008
Morgan State University Baltimore, MD 21251
SKILLS
Worked extensively with JIRA
Experience with testing mobile applications on IOS and Android platforms
Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Some exposure to Salesforce and Postman
Some exposure to HP ALM
Extensive experience with G-Suite.
Has some exposure with JAWS for 508 testing
Extensive hands-on experience with Testrail and Clickup applications
Experience working with Chrome Dev Tools to identify defects
Exposure to Postman and Salesforce