Olarr
Software Tester
London,United Kingdom
Summary
I am a result driven QA Tester with 3 years' experience of delivering business transformation across different domains. I have worked in an agile scrum and waterfall environment whilst managing stakeholders. I have the practical knowledge of testing lifecycle from test analysis to planning, executing, evaluating the results, and reporting the defects. Ability to liaise effectively with key project team members.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work history
Test Analyst
Royal Mail Group
11.2021 - Current
- Attend daily stand ups and sprint planning meetings with the development team
- Design test cases using the BDD syntax
- Analyse requirements and draw up positive and negative test cases based on user stories analysis
- Work closely with Business Analysts and project manager to understand the functionality
- Liaise with the developers both onshore and offshore to resolve the issues and get the root cause of defect raise
- Design test script on excel taking into cognisance requirement traceability and referencing
- Effectively analysing and breaking down business requirements to extract test requirements
- Upload test cases from the excel spreadsheet to Azure Devops
- Involved in system, regression, integration, smoke, backend, and user acceptance testing
- Execute test cases manually on Azure Devops
- Execute positive and negative testing of the application to test for bugs after fixing of errors
- Raise bugs as they occur and follow through the defect triage to ensure bugs are fixed
- Retest after defect fixes and verifying close defects
- Demonstrate the test flow including evidence to the commercial and operational team after testing is done
- Support the UAT team with writing test cases and execution
- Executed test cases on selenium Ide and then exported test results to C# for visual display
- Involved in test planning and estimation using Fibonacci sequence.
Software Tester
Metro Bank
02.2020 - 10.2021
- Examined business requirements and developed test cases for benchmarking the testing of new application
- Liaised with key stakeholders on the project team to understand the application under test
- Created and executed test scenarios using Jira
- Involved in QA team meetings and defect tracking meetings
- Created test scenarios, test cases and test scripts for each project and test phase in line with the agreed testing strategy and created test data to support the testing
- Developed and ran SQL queries to check database integrity
- Executed test scripts created by other team members, capturing test evidence, and recording success criteria and defects
- Worked on API testing using Postman
- Raised bugs with appropriate examples and steps and tracking them to closure
- Performed smoke testing, functional, system integration testing, Regression testing, User acceptance testing and business acceptance testing for each deployment phase as required
- Peer review of test script checking that test processes and steps are included and up to date
- Analysed software requirements specifications by interacting with the Business Analysts and Functional testers
- Produced and updated regression test packs to test new and amended software of services.
Education
BA (Hons) - Business Management
Prince2 Foundation in Project Management - undefined
Skills
- Ability to create and implement templates for test plan, test cases, test scripts, test defect log, test case checklist
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent organization skills and time management
- Excellent communication and inter-personal Skills
- Proficient knowledge of using
- Microsoft office tools (Words, PowerPoint, and Excel)
- Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle
- Experience in functional, black box, exploratory, equivalence and regression testing
- Well versed in manual testing and good understanding of automatic testing
- Experience in test case documentation (Plan, execute, analyse and track)
- Ability to work in a team and independently
- Good experience in executing test cases on selenium Ide
- Expert in writing test data, defining test cases, developing, and maintaining test scripts, interaction with team members in fixing the defects
- Proven Experience of working in a project environment
- Strong ability to understand business and technical requirements
- Technical Summary
- Test Management and Defect Reporting: HP Quality Centre, Selenium Ide, Visual studio, Postman, Jira, and Azure DevOps
- Java Technologies: JSP, EJB, JDBC, and Java Script
- Web Design: HTML, XML, and FrontPage2000
- Languages: Java, Python, C Visual Basic and SQL
- Operating Systems: Windows, DOS and Solaris (UNIX)
- Databases: Oracle, MS-SQL Server, and MS Access
- Identifying and resolving defects
- Detailed test planning
- Extensive tools experience in [System]
- Thorough test creation and execution
- Lifecycle test development and production
- Test implementation
Timeline
Test Analyst
Royal Mail Group
11.2021 - Current
Software Tester
Metro Bank
02.2020 - 10.2021
BA (Hons) - Business Management
Prince2 Foundation in Project Management - undefined
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