Suresh Kumar Samuel J.

About Suresh Kumar Samuel J.

ISTQB Certified Business Analyst / Sr. QA Analyst with 14+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Functional Testing.• Strong knowledge of Agile/Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and testing methodologies.• Good experience in both Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.• Excellent understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Converting Requirements into Specifications and Wireframes.• Have good experience in User Story Grooming, Sprint Planning meetings with Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Agile Team members.• Participated in Daily Stand Up Calls, Sprint Planning, Sprint review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.• Actively involved in all phases (System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of STLC model.• Extensive experience with Functional, GUI, Regression, Sanity and Browser compatibility testing.• Expertise in using defect management tools such as HP-ALM, MS-TFS, JIRA and Mantis.• Onsite experience involving client meetings and offshore coordination.• Experience in testing Client Server and Web based applications.• Domain knowledge in Banking & Finance sector, Loan & Mortgage Services, E-Publishing and Insurance Sectors.• Involved in preparing test strategy, test plan, test estimation, test scenarios, test cases. Have experience in conducting test reviews, managing test data, team handling and preparing defect reports.• Handled multiple roles – QA tester, QA Lead, and QA Manager.• Experience in coordinating testing activities with Business Analysts and the development team.• Oversees collaborations with development, client services and product management to ensure quality standards are in place.• Leadership experience in software bug reporting and defect analysis using HP-ALM and JIRA. • Good experience driving the defect triage calls and tracking the defects to closure.• Assisted team members both on technical and project related works. • Experience in delivering efficient KT sessions to the new comers to make them feel get easier with the project activities• Good communication skill and analytical aptitude with excellent ability for team work and also as an individual contributor.• Preparing daily and weekly status reports and sending it to senior management for review.

Experience

1. Qa Specialist - Senior

   Dc Department Of Human Services

   Mar 2023 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Responsibilities:• Understanding functional requirements of the application from the BRD and JIRA stories.• Involved in designing test cases for all the above mentioned projects.• Involved in manual testing and management activities.• Actively participated in manual testing of application (SIT), UAT and regression testing using JIRA.• Worked closely with the Project Manager, Business Analysts and DEV team in understanding the application under test and on how to improve the testing quality to effectively uncover more defects.• Raising defects and tracking them to closure using JIRA tool.• Worked closely with the development team to analyze the raised defects and to fix and close them on time.• Attended regular project status meeting involving the entire project team.• Attended regular testing team meetings to discuss testing status.• Conducted test scripts review for team members and UAT stakeholders using standard checklists.• Generated test report from JIRA after SIT, UAT and regression test suite run.• Participated in Functional testing, Regression testing, Ad-hoc testing, System Integration testing and UAT.• Created knowledge base (Lessons Learned and Best Practices) of the application and provided training sessions to the testing team on the application.

Education

• University of Madras

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1999 — 2002

• State Board of Technical Education and Training

  Diploma, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1997 — 1999