Quality Assurance Project Manager

Ruchita Choudhary

**** ******* ****** **** ******** Hills, CA 91367

Phone: 818-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.***

Career Summary

Quality Assurance Tester with 5 years of experience in manual and automation testing. Involved in all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). Furthermore, my strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills emphasize my experience and qualification in the pursuit of delivering a quality product on time.

• Strong experience in creating Test Plans, writing Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs, documenting Test Summary Report and interacting with development team in reproducing and fixing defects.

• High level proficiency with Quality Center/ALM defect tracking tool.

• Extensive experience with SQL queries, data mapping and data validations.

• Expertise in analyzing the user/business requirements, functional and design specifications and the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS).

• Working experience of Waterfall and Agile Scrum Methodology.

• Ability to define and execute different types of tests: Functional, System, Regression, Integration and UAT. Experience in Black Box and Gray Box Testing.

• Strong skills in implementing quality assurance standards & testing methodologies for large enterprise GUI and web application using Use Case documents.

• Hands on experience performing automated testing using Quick Test Professional. Involved in development and enhancement of scripts, check points in automated scripts.

Achievements

• Recognized for achieving approximately 90% reduction of bugs, preventing cost overrun and delays in the PointInsightTM release roll-out to the customers.

• Selected as the dedicated QA Tester for a comprehensive custom module, Audit Dashboard and Executive Reports developed within PointInsightTM for McKesson Healthcare.

• Promoted from Junior QA Tester role within 3 months of hiring outpacing LinkEdge Technologies’ typical 6 to 9 months timeline for junior testers.

Technical Skills

Test Tools: Quality Center/Test Director/ALM, Quick Test Professional

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, XP, Windows 7

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari

Database: MS Access, MS SQL Server 2005, T-SQL

Education

MBA (Major in Finance and Human Resource) GPA 3.87/4.0

Dr. Harisingh Gour University, Sagar India

BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) GPA 3.76/4.0

Dr. Harisingh Gour University, Sagar India

Diploma in Advance Computing AISECT, Sagar India

Professional Experience

LinkEdge Technologies Inc, Los Angeles, CA May 2009 – Present

Project: PointInsight™ Issue Management System (www.pointinsight.com)

Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer

Project Description:

PointInsight™ (Pi) Issue Management System is an enterprise solution tool for anticipating, Issue Tracking and resolving issues. It allows for quick and easy documentation of issues, along with seamless communication and collaboration. Pi brings together stakeholders, along with the requisite corporate policy frameworks and the ability to centrally manage all issues. Pi is a pivotal tool for promoting rapid resolution of issues and problems. Currently this product has been deployed in McKesson Healthcare, ARAMARK Uniforms, Virginia Department of Health, ConocoPhillips and in many Fortune 500 companies.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Performed critical and detailed analysis of the client’s enhancement requests and requirements with the product team to identify their feasibility.

• Created Test Plans, Test Procedure Documentation and developed Test Cases for new releases based on the business requirements and functional specifications for Field Customization, Profile Setup, User, Create/Manage Projects and Issues, Escalation, Data Archive, Pre-Built and Ad-hoc Reports modules.

• Executed test cases to check user interface, business requirement and functional features of the Add/Manage Project and Issues, Issue Reopen/Copy/Move, Issue Escalation, Action Items and Reports (built-in and ad-hoc) modules.

• Carried out integration testing to check the interfacing between Admin module and its Create Org, Divisions, Users, Customized Fields, Profile Setup and Maintain Roles sub-modules.

• Performed data integrity test using SQL Queries. Used SQL Queries to verify the data updates and inserts and to validate reports.

• Run cross-browser compatibility tests using Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome browsers.

• Documented project related information like test execution procedures, backup plans, new tester training documents, maintaining test logs and release notes etc.

• Tracked and prioritized defects using Quality Center and generated reports, bar graphs and pie charts for management review.

• Imported requirements into Quality Center, entering test cases and mapping them to requirements.

• Developed automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional for automation testing and maintained them for the new builds of software. Created text checkpoint, text area checkpoint, bitmap checkpoint and database checkpoint in QTP.

• Actively participated in daily Scrum meeting, Sprint planning/Review meeting and retrospective meetings.

• Maintained cooperative relationships with developers and business analysts and communicated with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

LinkEdge Technologies, Los Angeles, CA June 2008 – May 2009

Project: Aramark Uniform’s Route Data Collection

Quality Assurance Tester

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Developed test scenarios and generated detailed test procedures to test the system requirements.

• Developed and executed test cases manually to test application as per functional requirements.

• Performed Cross Browser testing of the application.

• Performed Black Box testing, Integration and User Acceptance testing of the application.

• Assisted development team in reproducing bugs in QA environment.

• Employed test-to-break approach on testing initiatives and clarified ambiguous requirements to ensure the effectiveness of all test plans

• Determined testing requirement, developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted boundary value analysis.

• Improved the documentation of QA testing practices to enhance their repeatability, saving time, money and encouraging testing standardization and best practices.

• Used SQL Queries to test and verify the test results.

• Performed Testing on migrated data from one system to another system.

• Tracked the bugs and reported them using Quality Center as the defect tracking tool.

• Participated to create Test Execution reports and stored them into the Quality center.

• Generated test reports to document all test results.

• Attended several walk through meetings with the Business Analyst, Project Manager and developer and provided feedback accordingly.

Ms Bubbles Inc., Los Angeles, CA March 2007 – June 2008

Project: Apparel Purchase Order Management System (APOMS)

Tester

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing and executing the Test Cases

• Wrote and executed function test cases manually to test application as per functional requirements and business requirements for every release.

• Developed released notes for business users.

• Performed Integration, Regression and User Acceptance testing.

• Performed Cross Browser testing of the application.

• Generated reports and metrics to provide project status to upper management.

• Used requirement coverage matrix to identify the important requirement with the more scenarios.

• Assisted development team in reproducing the bugs in development environment.

• Involved in project meetings and discussions for status updates, issues and setting targets and goals to be achieved in the testing process.

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