Victoria Polivanaya

OBJECTIVE

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Solid experience in Software Quality Assurance industry including testing, development, test automation, and training.
• Wide experience in testing of WEB-based, Windows and UNIX applications.
• Extensive involvement in testing financial, E-Commerce, and travel industry applications that includes functional, regression, migration and post-integration testing.
• Experience working in a fast paced agile environment.
• Developing test cases and test plans from wireframes, functional specifications and product requirements documents.
• REST API Testing using SOAP UI.
• MS in Applied Math. Formal training in Software QA

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EDUCATION & TRAINING

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Developed, maintained and executed 1000+ test cases in QC/Selenium for scheduled releases and hot fixes; presented test cases to project teams for reviews and provided feedbacks to peer reviews.
• Reported 400+ and verified 500+ defects using JIRA defect tracking software.
• Was a key person for Customer Loyalty/Rewards Partners: Chase, Amex and Citi; intensively involved in every release of new features, enhancement requests, and hot fixes of their P4P programs in QA and Production environments.
• Worked in the Travel domain with various GDSs: Sabre, Galileo, WorldSpan and Apollo
• Front-end and back-end testing with log files monitoring of requests/responses to/from travel and loyalty services for data validation and failure analysis
• Led multiple projects from test cases development to production releases in Agile based development environment.
• Involved in REST API Testing using SOAP UI.
• Ran automated test cases for post-integration testing with Selenium; maintained and enhanced test scripts written in Python
• Participated in hiring process of QA engineers and mentoring new QA team members.

• Developed, maintained and executed 3000+ test cases in TestLink system for main and custom releases, patches and hot fixes
• Reported 800+ and verified 1200+ defects using TestTrack Pro defect tracking software
• Project leader: estimated test effort timelines, distributed defect fixes verification among QA team; worked closely with Development and Product/Project Management to prioritize defects and define the scope and coverage of the test efforts; escalated blocking issues to management
• Worked with professional services to ensure quality of product customization; collaborated with a remote team in Salk Lake City, UT
• Reviewed technical documentation (user manuals, release notes, readmes) to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency, and adherence to standards for quality, coverage, format and style
• Developed and maintained test automation process for acceptance, functionality, GUI and regression testing using QTP; created test data sets using internally-developed tools
• Installed and configured software products such as Windows XP, MS Office, Mercury Interactive QuickTest, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, Cygwin, sqldeveloper and others
• Participated in hiring process of 30+ QA candidates; actively trained and mentored five new QA team members

Environment:  Windows UNIX/Linux, Windows XP Service Pack 2/NT/00/98/95, Oracle 9i/10g, TOAD, TORA, SQL Developer, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat 5.0.X, QTP, JDK 1.5_OX, TestLink, TestTrack Pro, PowerPoint, MS Project, Perforce, Cygwin, GuildFTP, Putty, WinSCP

• Tested web-based software application “Size Genie” that allows individual consumers to accurately determine their fit and optimal sizes in any brand of clothing
• The areas of testing include GUI, Registration, User Profile, finding Apparel sizes for customers, Administrator Functions, Body Measurements, Help, etc. Provided white and black box testing of the application. Identified software defects at the source code level (HTML, Java, JSP, CSS, JavaScript)
• Automated regression testing with WinRunner
• Developed and executed test cases and test suites for regression and build acceptance testing

Environment:  Windows NT, UNIX (Sun Os 5.8), XML, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle-8i, TOAD, Apache Tomcat, SCCS, WinRunner

• Tested Women's Clothing online catalog that allows customers to view and buy clothing online.
• Tested teacher-parent-student community application that enables cooperation of students, teachers and parents in controlling academic progress of the students
• Tested insurance application that allows the customers to get free quotes on most types of insurance including auto, home, life, health, etc.
• Major responsibilities included writing test cases after analyzing the specifications, functionality and regression testing, testing of GUI against major browsers and operating systems, validation of user input from Web pages
• Executed and modified automated scripts developed in WinRunner

Environment:  Windows NT, UNIX, XML, HTML, MySQL,, Apache Tomcat, SCCS, WinRunner

• Tested large variety of Windows educational software applications for self-study of Math, History, Typing, English, and other required school subjects
• Developed detailed test procedures based on the requirements, fictional specification and other documentation. Executed test cases and test suites against new builds.
• Communicated with Technical Support reps and customers to identify technical problems
• Setup bug-tracking procedures for the QA team

Environment:  Windows, C, Pascal, DOS, FAR

• Supervised up to 12 instructors teaching various computer courses for beginners as well as for intermediate level computer users - MS Office applications, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, etc.
• Designed the curricula and planned class schedule
• Taught classes on Basic and C programming

Environment:  Windows, DOC, C, MS Office applications

• Developed educational software applications to be used in public schools (grades 9-12) - algebra, geometry, trigonometry, physics, etc. Utilized C, Basic, Pascal in DOS and Windows environments.

Environment:  C, Basic, Pascal, DOS, FAR, Windows

PEPSONAL

• US Citizenship
• Extremely well organized. Fast learner. Motivated hard worker
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

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Last update: 08/21/2012
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