Qa Tester Senior Software

LEV SHVARTSBEYN

Germantown, MD ***** • H: 240-***-**** • C: 240-***-**** • ***.***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Result-oriented Senior Software QA Tester with full System Development and Testing Lifecycle experience in Exploratory Functional, Integration, Regression, End-to-End and User Acceptance testing, supporting Commercial and Government software systems within Agile Scum/Kanban and Waterfall Software Development process; strategic team player with a well-defined analytical approach and technical acumen of discovering, tracking and resolving defects

Versatile and Hands-on IT Professional with advanced Manual and Automated Testing Professional Skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability 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

Multifaceted hands-on experience 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 within CI/CD pipeline

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

Application Lifecycle Management Tolls: Atlassian JIRA, HP-Mercury, MS TFS

Gathering Requirements and Analysis, adapting Business Requirements to Technical Requirements and developing of Testing Documentation: Testing Cases and Plans, Testing Reports

Functional including Role-Based Security testing, Integration, Regression, Manual and Automated Testing

End-to-End User Acceptance Testing supporting DOJ and DOD projects

Business and QA Analysis, generating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Testing Reports

Report, track and test defects

Back-End testing: MS SQL Server, Oracle

Section-508 Accessibility testing

Programming and Scripting Languages: Java for Testers, SQL

Agile Scum and Kanban, SDLC Configuration and Management with Atlassian Tools within CI/CD pipeline

Automated Testing Tools: Zephyr for JIRA, Selenium WebDriver, GitHub version control

Defect Tracking Tools: Atlassian JIRA, HP-Mercury ALM

MS SharePoint On-Premise/Online Portal and based applications

MS Windows, MS Office, MS SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle SQL Developer,, MS Visual Studio, PeopleSoft

EDUCATION

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nakupuna Consulting. The Nakupuna Companies. A family of 8(a) & small businesses

Software Tester 03/2024 – 06/2025

Served as a member of the Testing Team supporting E2E testing of PeopleSoft based Navy Personnel and Pay System (NP2) Program, a critical piece of the DOD Navy’s overall Human Resources transformation designed to revolutionize and streamline Navy personnel and pay management for nearly a half-million active duty and reserve Sailors.

Developed test scenarios, test cases, and test plans.

Performed functional and regression testing.

Identified and prepared test data in support of test activities.

Analyzed, reported, and tracked defects

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

Data Systems Analysts, Inc (DSA) Fairfax, VA

Senior Test Engineer 11/2020 - 03/2023

Served as a key member of the BA/QA Team as the Senior QA Tester supporting the modernization project of the DOJ Victim Notification System JSP VNS, while caring personal responsibility and leading testing of the Victim Internet and Restitution sub-systems of the JSP VNS within Agile Scrum SDLC/STLC.

Ensured compliance with QA standards, DOJ regulations and consistence with existing legacy VNS and VIS software.

Translated system requirements and acceptance criteria into detailed testing plans, test procedures, cases and scripts being developed within Atlassian JIRA.

Performed Functional, Integration and Regression testing as well as validation data within Oracle DB Back-End testing

Reported and tracked defects and suggested enhancements in JIRA

Actively supported User Acceptance Testing and worked closely with developers, business analysts and stake holders while preparing the JSP VNS System “going alive”

On regular basis 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

Learned and evaluated ServiceNow Platform for future manual and automated testing of the modernized VNS

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc (GDIT), Falls Church, VA

Senior Test Engineer 11/2012 - 05/2020

Took personal initiative to promote and actively contributed to the implementation of Selenium Automated testing in the SDLC/STLC

Continuously tested and QA supported DOJ US Trustees Program, which includes 12 web-based Java Applications

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 while communicating with business analysts and developers to gain subject matter expertise for the software under development and test

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

Reported 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

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

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

On a regular basis, communicated and participated 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 Azure based CI/CD pipeline

Computer Sciences Corporation, Federal Consulting Practice, Baltimore, MD

Senior Technical Consultant/Senior Software Validator 12/2011 - 11/2012

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 Client’s management

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

NGP Software, Inc, Washington, D.C.

Senior QA Engineer 10/2007 - 11/2011

As a 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

Senior QA Analyst 07/2003 - 10/2007

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

Test Engineer 11/1999 - 07/2003

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

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