Quality Assurance Analyst

Kanchan Khyadi

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Creative, accomplished, and results-oriented quality assurance analyst with 7 years hands-on and leadership experience, and versatile technical skills qualifications to successfully complete risk assessment on programs and systems in the IT sector. Have a strong knowledge in implementing Agile (Sprint/Scrum) Methodology by analyzing requirement specifications. Partner effectively with business analysts and Design team to understand the requirements and implementation of test strategy approaches, with the proven ability to shift as necessary, and build and execute test scripts.

Core Competencies

Web/Client Software Quality Assurance

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC)

Test Script Creation/Execution

Agile/Waterfall Methodologies

Black and White Box Testing

Backend (SQL) Testing

Android/IOS App Testing

Project Coordination

Report Generation

Team Leadership

Analyst Training

Professional Experience

GOOGLE, Austin, January 2022 to Present QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST

Play a key role in manual testing and perform diverse testing such as functional testing and nonfunctional testing such as smoke testing, UAT testing, regression testing, ad-hoc testing, accessibility testing (Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 compliance), negative testing, browser compatibility testing, etc.

Creating Test cases and test plans and prepared test reports on testing activities.

Identified, investigated, and meticulously documented software defects and non-conformities across various platforms and environments.

Hands on experience in production environment during project implementation.

Helping the offshore and onshore team with understanding and prioritizing the requirements.

Navigate complex operational and reporting functions, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals and contributing to strategic planning.

Convey critical issues to the developers for resolution by documenting, reporting, and highlighting those issues.

Recommend and implement solutions within own area of responsibility, focusing on optimizing business processes and enhancing operational efficiency.

Actively participate in project reviews, sprint planning, backlog grooming, risk assessments, and retrospective meetings to ensure thorough quality coverage.

Establish requirements, and adeptly engage in test planning, text execution, defect tracking, and the testing of emergency changes and fixes.

Collaborate with senior leadership to communicate insights and progress and manage risks in ongoing initiatives.

CAPGEMINI, Houston, Sept 2020 to December 2021 QA ANALYST

Spearheaded the development of test strategy, test planning, text execution and bug tracking using Azure DevOps.

Cooperated with multi-layered team members to integrate given designs into the production of test cases and communicate updates to the product owner.

Worked on Accessibility testing, making sure the products meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 compliance standards.

Provided timely status updates including daily information to the IT team and weekly updates to the business team.

Guided all aspects of manual testing, as well as functional testing, smoke testing, regression testing, accessibility testing, negative testing, backend (SQL) and browser compatibility testing, etc.

Logged and communicated to the team key bugs utilizing Azure Dev/Ops.

Leveraged expertise with the browser stack to conduct cross-browser testing, browser stack and test the application using different virtual mobile devices such as iPhone and Android

JPMORGAN CHASE, NJ, June 2019 to September 2020 QA TESTER

Propelled application performance by using the browser stack to perform cross-browser testing and tested the application using different virtual mobile devices such as iPhone and Android.

Determined the optimal manual test cases for functional, regression, sanity testing of all the three modules of the application and deployed those cases.

Prepared and implemented regular hand-offs to the offshore team regarding the progress of script development and the functional challenges faced during the onshore hours if any.

Facilitated project implementation onto the production system by providing PVT support.

Developed and performed backend testing to verify the data integrity by passing SQL command.

Created requirement traceability matrix, test planning, text execution and defect tracking using Azure DevOps and Axe.

GE MONEY, India, June 2014 to August 2015 SOFTWARE TESTER

Conceptualized and developed deployable Test plans, test cases, test scripts and test data for cards POI and nucleus reporting.

Performed essential functions related to test plan, test case, and defect review meetings.

Garnered a deep understanding of functionality by working cooperatively with business users and business analysts.

Execute Quality Control against uploaded Requirements and Test Cases and linked requirements to test cases and then to defects in HP Quality Center.

Opened and tracked defects, tested emergency changes and fixes, and handled repository setup and QC set up for test execution.

Responsible for repository setup and QC set up for test execution.

Education and Credentials

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University, India

Certifications and Training

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, 2020

Microsoft Certified: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI, 2020

Microsoft Certified: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Excel, 2020

Microsoft Certified: Database Fundamentals, 2020

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB), 2017

Technical Proficiencies

Testing Tools: Azure DevOps, HP AML, JIRA, Axe

Data Visualization Tools: Power BI

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, SQL

Bug Tracking Tools: Azure DevOps, HP ALM/ Quality Center, JIRA

Microsoft Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Outlook

Operating Systems: Windows XP, 7, 8, 10, Mac

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