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Summary of duties: * Conducted acceptance and exploratory testing for each iteration. * Defined tasks prioritized work and allocated resources. Provided team with goals, guidance, instance feedback, and progress measurement. * Worked with R&D and developers to review and clarify the PRD and PSD prior the design to ensure software quality and reliability for instrument system and software used in the manufacture and service. * Hardware, Firmware and Software debugging, Verification and Validation. Actively engaged in integration, system, performance and regression testing. * Prepared Test Deliverables including: Established Test Strategy, Identify Tests and Potential Risk Areas, Wrote Test Plan, Developed Test Procedures, Created\Reviewed Test Cases, Forecasted/Estimated Resources and Test time line, assigned Specific Tasks, created final Test Report and Dashboard. * Lead a team of the Hayward and San Diego test engineers. Managed QA engineering through the entire product lifecycle - requirement, design, review, coding and iterations. Summary of duties: * Developing templates and maintaining Test Plans (Master, System Integration, UAT) Test Cases and Summary of Test Results for Internet applications (TestDirector) * Implementing Development Life Cycle and establish a working relationship with Research and Development group and Engineering to collaborate in robustness testing of developed solutions Helen Volkov * Actively participating in business requirements, functional specifications, and design walkthroughs to improve product quality early in the development cycle. * Working with Algorithm groups, Optimization Development, and Project Manager to resolve issues in a timely manner * Evaluating Bug tracking System and developing report process * Evaluating Automated Test Tools to run regression tests 06/2003 - 12/2004 Applied Biosystems\Life Technology Foster City, CA Staff Software Test Engineer Job Responsibility: Independed Software Test Contributor for the Data Collection and Data Analysis applications on Fast Real -Time PCR System with fully automated robotic loading and SDS Enterprise Database, Fast Sequence Detection, and Genetic Analyzer Systems with capillary array and RFID capabilities. Summary of duties: * Worked with user stories to create\execute specific test cases for high risk areas. Isolated and duplicated software failures, produced detailed reports of verified and suspected problem areas, verified fixes for reported issues. Partnered with development team to coordinate smooth integration of a new feature delivery into product. Developed and implemented metrics to measure application quality. * Created different test environment by changing instrument hardware and consumables to execute instrument specific test cases. Worked in scientific lab with different laboratory devices and tools. * Data validation using algorithm validation tool, Excel spreadsheet and macros for Real Time PCR. * Prepared instrument and sample plate for the run. Created and executed experiment with primary analysis and custom protocols. Collected experiment data and analyzed results * Created and executed data driven test cases including system setup, steps to follow and expected result. Reviewed results with developers and chemistry engineers. Analyzed data. 08/1999 - 06/2003 Kaiser Permanente Oakland, CA Sr. Programmer Analyst/System Analyst Job Responsibility: Independed Software Test Contributor for for large testing projects in Windows NT, UNIX, client-server and/or mainframe (IBM) environment Summary of duties: * Worked with user stories to create\execute specific test cases for high risk areas. Isolated and duplicated software failures, produced detailed reports of verified and suspected problem areas, verified fixes for reported issues. Partnered with development team to coordinate smooth integration of a new feature delivery into product. Developed and implemented metrics to measure application quality. * Created different test environment by changing instrument hardware and consumables to execute instrument specific test cases. Worked in scientific lab with different laboratory devices and tools. 07/1998 -08/1999 E*Trade Financial Menlo Park, CA Team Lead Software Analyst/Test Coordinator Job Responsibility: Software Test Summary of duties: * Worked on teams developing market trading software for mobile devices. Analyzed business requirements, conducted gap analysis, estimated projects scope and coordinated the projects with oversees teams. Worked closely with developers to deliver high-quality software using IVR, ADP and SQL Summary of duties: * Responsible for all aspects of system testing areas. Developed, executed, maintained and documented software test plans, specifications and results for assigned product. Summary of duties: Helen Volkov * Performed necessary research including meetings with developers, in order to acquire necessary information to design effective test procedures and to resolve various contradictory issues * Performed testing using the VCMS V.I.P test environment that simulates the production environment
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