ARKADIY ROMALIS
Brooklyn, NY 11230
(347) 334-1274 / (347) 413-6057 aromalis@aol.com
SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE TEAM LEAD
PROFILE
• Highly experienced Senior Quality Assurance Team Lead with a record of developing and leading successful QA projects and solutions in both the Waterfall and Agile environments. Skilled at employing both manual and automated testing tools to sort out systems, conducting integration, user acceptance, functionality, object, regression, load, performance, and stress testing. Experienced in developing use cases and user requirement specification documents.
• Consistently recognized and tasked by management to improve Quality Assurance effectiveness and efficiency, able to effect leadership that realizes accelerated performance and sustained strategic flexibility while creating a competitive corporate advantage. Expertise in all phases of the software life cycle, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.
• Possess an extensive knowledge of the processes, procedures, and policies necessary to consistently produce a superior product and service. Technically savvy and a quick study in leading QA technology.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Team Leadership • Functionality Testing • Functionality Testing • System Testing (Load, Stress, Performance) Web and Client / Server Applications Testing
Client Relationship Management • Process Improvement • Project Management
Manual and Automated Testing • Quality Assurance Engineer • Training
TECHNOLOGY
WinRunner 6.0 / 8.0 • Test Director 6.0 / 7.6 • Mercury Quality Center 9.0 / 9.2 • LoadRunner 6.5 / 7.5 / 8.2 / 9.0 / 9.5
QTP 8.2 / 9.2 / 10.0 • e-Load 8.2 • e-Tester 8.2 • SmarteScript 5.4 / 5.4.6 / 5.5.2 • SmarteTime 5.0 / 5.0.8 • JIRA
SQA ROBOT 6.1 • SQA MANAGER • APL Plus 2.1 • KEA! 420 v.5.1 • COBOL • Sun Solaris • LINUX / UNIX
UNIX SHELL scripting • Java • C • C++ • HTML • DB2 • MySQL • ORACLE 8.0 / 9.0 • SQL • TOAD 8.5
VB Script • OS / MVS • MS Access • LOTUS • PVCS • MS Windows • DOS • MS Visual SourceSafe • .NET
TRAINING
UNIX Fundamentals and SHELL Programming SAM Career Center New York, NY
April 2010 – November 2010
Business Intelligence and RDBMS Technologies: Oracle 9i RDBMS • ERStudio • DBArtisan
MS Excel (PTS) / MS Access • Data Warehousing • MS SQL Services • MS Analysis Services • DTS
Business Objects 5i Reports • Business Objects 5i Universe Design
New Age Training New York, NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Vault.com New York, NY August 2008 – September 2009
Senior Quality Assurance Lead Engineer
Vault is the indispensable provider of information and solutions for professionals and students who are pursuing and managing high-potential careers. Company delivering the timely and actionable insider information and advice that allow professionals and students to define and achieve personal success at every stage of their careers. Vault is the Web's comprehensive resource for career management and job search information, including insider intelligence on salaries, hiring practices and company cultures. Vault operates www.vault.com and publishes a wide range of career guidebooks, including annual guides to the Top 50 Banking and Consulting Employers, Top 100 Law Firms and Top 40 Accounting Firms, best-selling guides to Resumes, Cover Letters & Interviews, and guides to colleges and graduate school programs. Created a quality assurance program that allowed application development teams to provide higher quality deliverables in shorter turnaround times. Produced detailed test reports via Quality Center, leading testers in the execution of test cases, reviewing test results, and reporting defects. Supervised all functionality testing on each milestone of the application. Advise on best practice for successful QA. Communicate with all levels of management on test status. Meet daily with Business Analysts, Product Staff and Development on Test Issues and Requirements.
Worked in the Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and feature set. Reviewed product requirement documents, functional specifications, and envolved in developing test strategy, test plan and test case documents. Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings. Proactively came up with innovative methods to improve software quality, test coverage, efficiency and regression coverage.
Created a formal quality assurance structure, developing testing processes according to SDLC and USE Cases standards, implementing test plans,
matrixes, scripts, and tools using gathered business requirements. Drafted policies and procedures, trained business analysts and developers in its
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use, and guided the team throughout the implementation of the program. Developed test plans and executed test cases for manual functional testing, in a large-scale server systems architecture environment. Maintain standard test templates for functional test plans, test scenarios and test cases. Documented test procedures, reconciling test results from different tests. Help team deliver well-designed and written test cases to project. Oversee the execution of test cases, review test results and report defects.
Coordinated component, system and documentation testing with the appropriate technical groups and release management. Documented test procedures and findings. Reconcile test results from different test and different groups. Assessed readiness and deviation of product/ project performance based upon test results and product specifications. Performed functional and system tests on Web-based applications on different browsers: IE, FireFox, Safari, and Chrome, using QTP and LoadRunner, in both the QA and back-up environments. Processed transactions from system entry to exit. Maintained metrics reports. Oversaw all aspects of automated test script creation, execution, and analysis. Developed test scripts based upon business requirements and processes, in the line with defined workflows and use cases. Maintained a library of tests and scripts, using Mercury Quality Center. Designed and executed performance test plans and strategies. Created and updated test databases, defect database, plans, schedules, and scripts. Documented and prioritized defects, using JIRA defect tracking tool. Review all reported bugs and assign them the appropriate individuals. Experience in the preparation of Automated Tests within the Keyword-driven automation framework. Extensively used automated test tool QTP for Functional and Regression Testing and Loadrunner for Load, Stress, and Performance testing.. Tested Web-based applications built on IBM portal technology, written on JAVA, to test relevant existing system functionality. Worked with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing, and prepare that data for test cases using SQL. The data fed from DB2 and MySQL.
TIAA – CREF (contract) New York, NY February 2008 – July 2008
Performance Test Automation Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Led Performance Testing for Web Applications running on distributed environments: J2EE platform, BEA WebLogic, and Sungard applications using HP LoadRunner and Empirix e-Load Test Automation Tool suite. The data fed from Access, SQL, and Oracle.
Coordinated Pre-Test Tasks…Ensured performance test requirements are received. Developed performance test plan. Scripts recorded in VU Generator and E-tester. Calculated number of virtual users in Mercury HP LoadRunner and/or Empirix e-Load. Understand monitoring requirements based on test objective.
Coordinated Test Execution Tasks…Coordinated test window and secure technical support for monitoring of infrastructure, and to qualify observation. Ensured correct environment configuration prior to execution. Executed performance and other non-functional tests. Monitor environment components during test included: Test Automation Tool Consol (LoadRunner and/or Empirix) and Applications logs such as log4j, CPU and Memory. Addressed all technical issues. Facilitated the resolution and necessary follow up.
Coordinated Post Test Tasks…Gathered various reports and statistics from monitoring groups, packaging and reporting results to Project Teams. Assisted in explanation of results and other posttest initiatives. Generated performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis. Published results and received appropriate signoffs. Prepared detail status reports and monitoring of all defects and issues. Reported issues in a defect tracking system Mercury Quality Center.
Facilitated Administration and Service, Participated in…Unit metrics development. Web site maintenance. Related process improvement initiatives.
Christies Auction House New York, NY February 2006 – October 2007
Lead Quality Assurance Analyst
Worked in the Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and feature set. Reviewed product requirement documents, functional specifications, and envolved in developing test strategy, test plan and test case documents. Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings. Proactively came up with innovative methods to improve software quality, test coverage, efficiency and regression coverage.
Managed a Functional and Automation Test team creating test strategy and plans, producing detailed test reports via Quality Center. Maintain standard test templates for functional test plans, test scenarios and test cases. Work with the off-shore test management team on the division of responsibilities and test management. Worked with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing, and prepare that data for test cases using SQL. The data fed from SQL Server. Tested functionality delivered across applications and workflows. Tested Web based applications on .NET environment, written on JAVA, C++ to demonstrate that relevant existing system functionality.
Instituted a global quality assurance program that has allowed application development teams to provide higher quality deliverables in shorter turnaround times. Management activities include recruiting, project assignments, scheduling, training, performance reviews, and mentoring as well as participating in budget activities. Supervised all functionality testing on each milestone of the application. Supervised all additional internal quality assurance testers assigned to the product as well as any outside testers. Developed testing process. Created a formal quality assurance structure for the team to follow. Developed a plan to implement the V Model QA process. Drafted policies and procedures, trained business analysts and developers in its use, and guided the team throughout the implementation of the program.
Created a formal quality assurance structure, developing testing processes according to SDLC and USE Cases standards, implementing test plans, matrixes, scripts, and tools using gathered business requirements. Drafted policies and procedures, trained business analysts and developers in its use, and guided the team throughout the implementation of the program. Developed test plans and executed test cases for manual functional testing, in a large-scale server systems architecture environment. Maintain standard test templates for functional test plans, test scenarios and test cases. Documented test procedures, reconciling test results from different tests. Help team deliver well-designed and written test cases to project. Oversee the execution of test cases, review test results and report defects.
Designed, developed and implemented test plans, matrixes, scripts, tools using the detailed business requirements document provided by the business analyses. Developed test plans and executes test cases for manual functional testing. Worked with large-scale server systems architecture and design. Performed comprehensive analysis and testing of website functionality and ensured the website functions properly.Assisted application developers and technical support stuff in identifying and resolving problems. Facilitated resolution and communication of cross-application/ organization architectural issues and decisions. Assessed and revised test sequence and scope based upon
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