Test Quality Assurance

SACHIN PATEL Brampton, ON

M: **************@*****.*** T: 647-***-****

PROFILE SUMMARY

Over 2 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Analyst/Software Tester in the IT industry as a member of a successful testing teams

Experience in creating and maintaining of Test Deliverable attributes like Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test scenarios, Test Metrics, and Test Estimate reports

Understanding and creation of Requirements Traceability Matrix and mapping documents

Experienced in in-depth testing life cycle starting from Sanity Testing, Functional testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Backend Testing, UAT Testing, Stress and Performance Testing

Sound knowledge of Software Testing processes, QA methodologies and related procedures

Through understanding of Defect Management Life cycle & Testing Lifecycle

Experienced in both Manual and Automated Testing process and procedures

Prepared Regression test suites and provided support for automation

Good understanding & knowledge in preparation of Daily-Weekly Status Reports and Test Completion Reports

Ability to interact with Business Analysts, Architects, Developers, Database Administrators, Release Managers and other resources in a professional and courteous manner etc.

Team player with excellent PR skills and possessed with flexible attitude and able to work independently with minimal or no supervision

Excellent Interpersonal skills and an innate ability to self motivate, and open to learning new technologies & processes

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Maple Leaf Foods, Toronto - 06/’11 - 06/’12 - Software Tester

Purolator, Toronto - 10/’10 - 03/’11 - Jr. Software Tester

EXPERIENCE DETAILS

Maple Leaf Foods, Canada JUN 2011 – JUNE 2012

AMS – Software Tester

Personify – Worked as a Software tester on a leading-edge Association Management Software (AMS) system encompassing advanced enterprise, e-business, and analytics capabilities to help achieve new levels of productivity and member service excellence implemented as a result of government regulation. As a Tester developed test cases, reviewed functionality changes, change requests, executed test cases and logged defects as per the defect management process.

Reviewed Project Plan, Estimations, Timelines, Business and Functional requirements and Use Case Documents

Reviewed business required to define criteria for test cases to validate business/functional requirements and impacted data flows

Analyzed requirements, detailed design, and assisted in formulating the test plan for the functional testing of the application

Performed extensive testing on proposed fixes and changes to functionality including regression test cases using Positive and Negative sets of data

Worked closely with the automation team to identify regression test cases for QTP automation

Responsible for creating/copying Test data based on Test Cases and provided them to DBA

Performed Backend Testing and validated the data accuracy in Oracle using TOAD

Used HPQC to manage Defect tracking and Change Request Process

Provided Management with analysis reports, execution and Defect reports on demand and assisted the test lead in compiling various reports

Performed End to End & UAT Testing using business scenarios documented in consultation with the business users

Managed and Tested various Change Request for different Modules and corresponding functionalities

Involved in reviewing and discussing Test Plan with other team associates to identify gaps

Gathered system matrix, use case scenarios for application under test by communicating with End user groups, Development teams, Functional/UAT test teams, Production support groups involved

Developed Test Cases & Test Scripts for functional testing and regression testing

Purolator, Canada OCT ‘10 - MAR ‘11

3PV Migration and Certification – Software Tester

3PV Migration – Worked as a Software tester on a system migration effort from VB to Java based web application integrated with 3rd party vendors and service providers. As a Tester developed test cases, reviewed existing and new functionality, approved change requests, executed test cases and logged defects as per the test plan and defect logging guidelines.

Reviewed Business Requirements Document and was involved in developing Test Plan, including the scope, Test Objectives, Test Strategies, Test Environment, etc.

Developed Test cases, Test scripts and enhanced them according to the requirements

Developed test scripts using QC for Functional, GUI, Integration, System and Database testing

Performed parallel testing to ensure existing functionality works as per the new design and documented and variances in QC

Performed Regression tests during various phases of development (Agile/Scrum Approach)

Tested the functionality of the application, validated data at back-end, documented errors as per the agreed process

Logged, maintained & tracked defects Quality Centre and generated defect summary reports on a daily basis

Prepared Positive and Negative scenarios in the test cases using MS-EXCEL and uploaded them to QC using export functionality

Prepared Test Data Matrix for various test conditions used for the execution of the Test Cases

Investigated requirements and interfaced with developers to resolve issues and reporting the issues to all concerned and outstanding issues were documented and managed through Quality Centre

Participated in Sanity, System Testing, GUI Testing, Back-end Testing, Security and Regression Testing

Coordinated with Business Analysts to identify seek clarity on business requirements to document test cases

Reviewed the test cases with peers and other groups to ensure test coverage

Involved in Defect Management using Quality Center for reporting, monitoring and closing the defects in coordination with development team

Created Test Execution reports and Defect reports for the Management and also gave walkthrough of the defects to the business on the issues encountered during test execution phase

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Software Testing Course

Diploma in Information Technology

Post graduate in Networking

Bachelors of Technology (Instrumentation)

OPEN TO RELOCATION & REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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