Suresh Kumar Samuel J.

QA Specialist - Senior at Everest Infotech
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(386) 825-5501
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States, US
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Credentials

  • ISTQB Certified Tester
    ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
    Dec, 2007
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Everest Infotech
    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • QA Specialist - Senior
      • Mar 2023 - Present

      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 JI RA 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. Show less

  • DC Department of Human Services
    • United States
    • Individual and Family Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • QA Specialist - Senior
      • Mar 2023 - Present

      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 JI RA 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. Show less

  • Credendo
    • Belgium
    • Insurance
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Test Analyst / Test Lead
      • Jul 2019 - Jan 2021

      • Understanding functional requirements of the application from the Business and preparing requirement Documents. • Conduct meetings between Client and Technology and act as a bridge between them for new business requirements. • Designing test strategy, plan and test cases for the projects. • Performing end to end testing and management activities. • Actively participating in testing of application (SIT), UAT and regression testing using HP ALM and SAP-SOLMAN. • Working closely with the Project Manager, SME’s and DEV team in understanding the application under test and on how to improve the testing quality to effectively uncover more defects. • Raising defects, tracking them down to closure using HP ALM. • Working closely with the interface partners and development team to analyze the raised defects and to fix and close them on time. • Scheduling and attending regular project status meeting involving the entire project team. • Attending regular testing team meetings to discuss testing status. • Conducting test script and test plan review for team members using standard checklists. • Generating various reports from HP ALM and SOLMAN after SIT, UAT and regression test suite run. • Creating Requirement Traceability Matrix. • Participating in Sanity testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Ad-hoc testing, System Integration testing and UAT. • Creating knowledge base (Lessons Learned and Best Practices) of the application and providing training sessions to the team on the application. Show less

  • Synechron
    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Associate Specialist - Quality Control
      • Jul 2018 - Sep 2018

      Responsibilities: • Involved in understanding functional requirements of the application from the Business Requirement Document, Functional Specification Document. • Involved in designing test plan and test cases for all the above mentioned projects. • Involved in end to end manual testing and management activities. • Actively participated in manual testing of application (SIT), UAT and regression testing using HP ALM. • 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, tracking them down to closure using HP ALM. • Worked closely with the interface partners and 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 script and test plan review for team members using standard checklists. • Generated test report from HP ALM after SIT, UAT and regression test suite run. • Actively participated in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix. • Designed and executed test plans within the predefined timeframe. • Participated in Sanity testing, 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. Show less

  • Wells Fargo
    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Systems / SWIFT QA Analyst
      • May 2016 - Dec 2017

      Responsibilities: • Involved in understanding functional requirements of the application from the Business Requirement Document, Functional Specification Document. • Involved in designing test plan and test cases for all the above mentioned projects. • Involved in end to end manual testing and management activities. • Actively participated in manual testing of application (SIT), UAT and regression testing using HP ALM. • 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, tracking them down to closure using HP ALM. • Worked closely with the interface partners and 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 script and test plan review for team members using standard checklists. • Generated test report from HP ALM after SIT, UAT and regression test suite run. • Actively participated in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix. • Designed and executed test plans within the predefined timeframe. • Participated in Sanity testing, 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. Show less

  • Western Union
    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • QA Lead
      • Feb 2016 - May 2016

      Responsibilities: • Involved in understanding functional requirements of the application from the Business Requirement Document. • Involved in designing test plan, test strategy, test cases, setting up database for each client. • Involved in end to end manual testing and management activities. • Actively participated in manual testing of application, including integration testing, system testing and regression testing using HP ALM 11.0 and JIRA. • Worked closely with the Project Manager and DEV team in understanding the application under test and on how to improve the testing quality to effectively uncover more defects. • Writing queries using MS-SQL server 2008 to test whether the data is stored in the respective columns in the respective tables. • Reviewed defects logged by testers, tracked them down to closing using HP ALM and JIRA. • Worked closely with the clients, development team and the business analysts 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. • Actively participated in test script review of team members using standard checklists. • Generated test report from HP ALM after regression test suite run. • Actively participated in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix. • Designed and executed test plans within the predefined timeframe. • Sanity testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Ad-hoc testing, System testing and UAT. • Involved in designing and review of test cases for manual testing of web services using HP-ALM. • Created knowledge base of the application and provided training sessions to the testing team on the application. • Participated and coordinated regular testing status meetings. • Attended defect triage meetings. Show less

  • First Niagara Bank
    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • QA Lead / Senior QA Analyst
      • Jul 2015 - Dec 2015

      Responsibilities: • Involved in understanding functional requirements of the application from the use case documents. • Involved in designing test cases for different modules of the application from the use case documents and maintaining them after review. • Involved in end to end functional testing and management activities. • Actively participated in manual testing of application, including integration testing, system testing and regression testing using HP ALM 11.0 • Worked closely with the Project manager in understanding the application under test and on how to improve the testing quality to effectively uncover more defects. • Test data management using tool MISER which is the DB system for GFX. • Writing queries using TOAD tool to test whether the data is stored in the respective columns in the respective tables. • Reviewed defects logged by testers, tracked them down to closing using HP ALM. • Worked closely with the clients, development team and the business analysts to analyze the raised defects and to fix and close them on time. • Attended regular testing team meetings to discuss testing status. • Actively participated in test script review of team members using standard checklists. • Generated test report from HP ALM after regression test suite run. • Sanity testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Ad-hoc testing, System testing and UAT. • Involved in designing and review of test cases for manual testing of web services using Test Director. • Involved in bug reporting to senior management using HP ALM. • Created knowledge base of the application and provided training sessions to the testing team on the application. • Participated and coordinated regular testing status meetings. • Attended defect triage meetings. • Involved in continuous meetings with the development team to identify the root cause of defects and to fix them on time. Show less

  • Truist
    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Business Analyst / Senior QA Analyst
      • Jul 2011 - Jun 2015

      Responsibilities: • Involved in understanding functional requirements of the application. • Involved in designing test cases for different modules of the application. • Involved in end to end manual testing. • Actively participated in manual testing of the application including system integration testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing using HP ALM and JIRA. • Worked closely with the project manager in understanding the application under test and on how to improve the testing quality to effectively uncover more defects. • Involved in Scrum stand up calls, prepared user stories, story board sessions. • Reviewed defects logged by testers, tracked them down to closing using HP ALM and JIRA. • Involved in configuration management using Wincvs tool with other QA professionals. • Worked closely with the clients, development team and the business analysts 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. • Designed test cases covering the functional and cosmetic requirements of the application. • Actively participated in test script review of team members using standard checklists. • Involved in regression test suite execution of application using HP ALM and JIRA. • Generated test report from HP ALM and JIRA after regression test suite run. • Involved in regular Requirement Walkthrough sessions. • Actively participated in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix • Designed and executed test plans within the predefined timeframe. • Sanity testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Ad-hoc testing, System testing and UAT. • Involved in bug reporting to senior management using HP ALM. • Created knowledge base of the application and provided training sessions to the testing team on the application. • Participated and coordinated regular testing status meetings. • Attended defect triage meetings. Show less

  • Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US
    • United States
    • Information Services
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Test Lead
      • Oct 2006 - Jul 2011

      Responsibilities: • Actively participated in Requirement Walkthrough sessions with the client. • Prepared test strategy document for the project. • Test estimation and get it approved from client. • Involved in configuration management using MSVSS tool with other QA professionals. • Developed Test Scenarios , Test cases and Traceability Matrix after reviewing the requirements. • Monitoring, controlling and reporting project progress. • Defect Research, Analysis, & Reporting. • Mentoring team members. • Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing,Ad-hoc testing, UAT testing and Security testing. • Actively involved in discussing the scope of the application requirements with the business analysts. • Played a lead role in coordinating test planning activities with the client team. • Extensively involved in manual testing of the application in system testing and integration testing environments. • Lead role in running and maintaining the regression test suite after each product release. • Involved in reporting bugs in HP Quality Center after integration and system testing. • Participate in defect triage meetings. • Actively involved in creating test summary reports and defect reports. • Participated in creating test data. • Created a knowledge base of all the testing related products. • Actively participated in release sign off of each of the product for WK, NA. • Actively involved in preparing Best Practices and Lessons Learnt documents after the release of all products of WK, NA. Show less

  • Your Inner Leader - Gale Thompson & Associates, LLC
    • Professional Training and Coaching
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior QA Analyst
      • Apr 2005 - Sep 2006

      Responsibilities: • Prepared test cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document. • Involved in testing compatibility of software under various Internet Browsers. • Performed Integration testing, Regression testing and System Testing. • Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using the Quality Center. • Analyzed and imported test data from spreadsheets into Quality Center using Excel. • Created test cases, executed and recorded results of test cases using Quality Center as the defect management tool. • Created and filed various testing artifacts using MS Office applications. • Performed GUI, Functional testing, Regression testing, Sanity testing, System testing, Ad-hoc testing, UAT and Security testing. Show less

  • Citi Bank
    • Financial Services
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • QA Analyst
      • Sep 2004 - Apr 2005

      Responsibilities: • Prepared test cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document. • Involved in testing compatibility of software under various Internet Browsers. • Performed Integration testing, Regression testing and System Testing. • Test data management using tool TOAD. • Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using the Quality Center. • Analyzed and imported test data from spreadsheets into Quality Center using Excel. • Created test cases, executed and recorded results of test cases using Quality Center as the defect management tool. • Created and filed various testing artifacts using MS Office applications. • Performed GUI, Functionality and Backend Testing. • Functional testing, Regression testing, Sanity testing, and System testing. Show less

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

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