Senior Quality Assurance Lead
Current• Conducted and participated in daily scrum meetings. • Participated in defect triage meetings to review and prioritize identified bugs. • Created detailed test plans and reusable test cases based on functional and technical requirements defined in user stories, confirming new product functionality was working as intended.• Performed overall functional testing, data validation, manual testing, and overall regression on various platforms of SQL Server and operating systems.• Collaborated with development team on bug fix reviews, verification, and validation.• Managed QA teamwork backlog using agile practices.• Managed offshore QA team, providing guidance and direction.• Ensured work was effectively categorized into manageable tasks, tracking in agile framework methodology. Oversaw team’s assigned tasks, ensuring completion in a timely manner.• Communicated status of quality assurance testing processes to immediate supervisor and key stakeholders, raising issues when necessary.• Collaborated with development team, identifying, understanding, and resolving root cause of defects and customer escalation issues.• Worked closely with the offshore automation group, automating features for better regression coverage.• Deployed and maintained Azure resources and other cloud technologies. Implemented and supported databases, software, and servers in the Cloud. • Created, validated, and maintained test environments in Azure. • Coordinated release cycle with development, documentation, and QA.• Managed the setup and upkeep of test environments, resulting in accurate and efficient testing of software applications which lead to reducing testing time by 20%.
