QA Engineer
Greater Chicago Area
QA Engineer
Greater Chicago Area
Acute and technically skilled professional with a versatile QA skill set developed through experience,
as a developer and a tester, both in manual and test automation.
Experience in various stages of performance testing.
Strong people skills and motivation to continuously improve.
Offer technical and project leadership skills and can work closely with cross functional and teams located offsite.
Key Skills:
Excellent Communication,Leadership,Project Management,QA Manual and Automation,Test Case development & design.
Defect tracking and reporting,Agile Methodologies,Software Development Life Cycle,Database automation testing, ASMX and WCF web services test automation,Asp.net, C#,
Tools: Visual Studio, WatiN,NUnit,HTTPWatch,Java and Eclipse,Silverlight, GoogleGears, Load Runner, Fiddler,
(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Teamed with QA Engineers to successfully build an automation framework in C# and established a process to develop test automation scripts, execute tests and report results.
Developed automated test scripts for an application developed using cutting edge technologies like silverlight and google gears. Learnt and used the silverlight test framework to automate functional test cases.
Acquired experience with Agile methodologies, by participating in some of the best practiced techniques in all life cycles of software development.
Experience in performance testing using load test tools, tracked performance of the application.Executed Load tests against user defined requirements, tracked agreed upon metrics and generated reports.
Worked closely with product development, release management, business team and other cross functional teams to deliver product with quality.
Worked in Risk Management domain and understood the basics and best practices involved in managing various types of risks.
(Public Company; ACN; Management Consulting industry)
February 2007 — August 2007 (7 months)
As a Software Engineer, assisted in the development, delivery and management of technology-based business solutions.
Gained experience in development, testing, implementing configuration changes and assisting in the design of software applications, meeting both functional and technical requirements.
Supported the technical design process by participating in the analysis of technical application requirements.
Assisted in the integration of technical and application components to meet business requirements.
Participated in the execution and documentation of tests necessary to ensure that an application or technical environment met performance requirements.
(Public Company; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years )
Participated in the development of different processes and methodologies of GSM WAP testing over the SEMC mobile terminals platforms.
Participated in all aspects of System Testing of Mobile phones.
Developed test cases and test scripts using manual and automated testing tools.
Supported Test Leader roles ,executing testing per Project Test Plans, documenting problems,escalating issues and evaluating impacts of new customer requirements.
Utilized Mercury Load Runner for Automated Performance testing,
Visual Basic for Automated System Testing and CSS Style sheets to analyze the WAP browser.
Also supported launched products including DRM Downloads, Video Applications,Games and Music Downloads on field issues where appropriate. Provided projects with lessons learned.
(Insurance industry)
June 2003 — December 2003 (7 months)
Learned aspects of general insurance and in particular the understanding of IT systems in selling Insurance products.
Was also introduced to the concepts of entrepreneurship and business management skills.
MS , Computer Engineering , 2004 — 2007
Bachelors , Electronics and Communications , 1999 — 2003