Charu Gupta
Bangalore
Summary
Thoughtful Quality Control Team Lead with 9+ years of big-picture planning and systematic assessment of product standards. Tenacious strategist known for continual product consistency with meticulous detail orientation. Implements lasting quality-control measures, prioritizing customer satisfaction and long-term brand reputation.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
QA Test Lead
Cognizant
03.2022 - Current
- Led cross-functional team collaboration, ensuring effective communication between developers, product managers, and QA testers.
- Extensive testing experience on web/desktop applications
- Established a successful bug tracking system to monitor defects closely, prioritize resolutions, and improve overall product quality.
- Incorporated delivery requirements into planning of testing schedules.
- Thorough understanding of all SDLC and STLC phases.
- Competent in effort estimation, scheduling, planning, and quality control processes.
- Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
- Completed in-depth usability testing on Windows, Android and iOS mobile devices.
- Adapted procedures to mitigate issues and improve deficiencies.
- Prioritizing defects by Severity and Priority.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes, and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
- Mentored junior testers in best practices for software testing methodologies while fostering a collaborative team environment.
- Maintained detailed documentation of all executed tests, identified defects, root cause analyses, and corrective actions taken for future reference purposes.
Senior Test Engineer
Cognizant
04.2021 - 03.2022
- Understanding Requirements and Functional Specifications of Application
- Based on information procured in above step, decide how it is to be tested.
- Designing API test cases and prioritizing testing activities. Execute all test cases and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect.
- Carry out regression testing every time when changes are made to code to fix defects.
Senior Test Engineer
ARTECH INFOTECH
02.2020 - 04.2021
- Understanding Requirements and Functional Specifications of Application
- Based on information procured in above step, decide how it is to be tested.
- Designing API test cases and prioritizing testing activities. Execute all test cases and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect.
- Carry out regression testing every time when changes are made to code to fix defects.
Software Consultant
Siddsoft
05.2016 - 10.2017
- Understanding Requirements and Functional Specifications of Application
- Based on FRS, interacting with team and preparing Use case documents
- Prepared Test plan, Test Strategy, Test estimation documents
- Participated in Reviewing Documents and incorporated review comments
- Analyzing user requirements, developing Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
- Prepared Test cases based on BVA, ECP and experienced based testing
- Executed Test Cases and verified actual results against expected results.
- Involved in Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Re Testing and Regression testing
- Login defects in bug tracking tool and verify defects logged by other team mates
- Regression testing is implemented at various phases of development and test cycles.
- Involved in GUI Testing, Functional, Non-functional, alpha and beta testing.
- Detecting bugs & classifying them based on the severity and priority
- Providing screen shots to identify & reproduce the bugs in any environments.
- Identifying Regression Test cases.
QA Engineer
Q3 Technologies
07.2013 - 05.2016
- Based on FRS, interacting with team and preparing Use case documents
- Prepared Test plan, Test Strategy, Test estimation documents
- Participated in Reviewing Documents and incorporated review comments
- Analyzing user requirements, developing Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
- Prepared Test cases based on BVA, ECP and experienced based testing
- Executed Test Cases and verified actual results against expected results.
- Involved in Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Re Testing and Regression testing
- Login defects in bug tracking tool and verify defects logged by other team mates
- Regression testing is implemented at various phases of development and test cycles.
- Involved in GUI Testing, Functional, Non-functional, alpha and beta testing
- Detecting bugs & classifying them based on severity and priority
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Tourism And Travel Management
IGNOU
New Delhi07.2007
Skills
- CMS Testing
- Performance Testing
- Cross-browser Testing
- Functional Testing
- End-To-End Testing
- Responsive Testing
- Regression Testing
- Test Estimation Techniques
- Risk based testing
- Effective Communication
- Defect Tracking and Reporting
- Client Calls
- Agile Methodologies
- Test Planning
- Test Cases
- Requirement Analysis
- Documentation Skills
- SQL
Domain skills
Retail, Education, Health industry and BFS
Timeline
QA Test Lead
Cognizant
03.2022 - Current
Senior Test Engineer
Cognizant
04.2021 - 03.2022
Senior Test Engineer
ARTECH INFOTECH
02.2020 - 04.2021
Software Consultant
Siddsoft
05.2016 - 10.2017
QA Engineer
Q3 Technologies
07.2013 - 05.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Tourism And Travel Management
IGNOU
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