Software Test Analyst at Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) (2021-09 – Present)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) is a world-leading professional membership organisation that promotes, develops, and supports chartered accountants and students globally.
- Carry out day-to-day test planning, execution, and reporting activities
- Ensure backlog items have clear acceptance criteria and comprehensive test coverage
- Execute regression, smoke, and exploratory testing across multiple releases and environments
- Provide clear and auditable test evidence to support CAB (Change Advisory Board) and release management processes
- Maintain up-to-date test documentation, including test evidence and metrics
- Communicate effectively within the project team to ensure alignment on quality goals
- Log, track, and manage defects through to resolution using defect management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)
- Collaborate with developers and business analysts to investigate root causes and validate fixes
- Participate in defect triage meetings and contribute to prioritization discussions
- Work closely with developers, business analysts, project managers, and product owners
- Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and assist business users with test planning and execution
- Stay current with testing methodologies, tools, and industry trends
- Share knowledge and mentor junior team members in testing techniques and tools
Software Test Analyst at Inform Billing (2018-08 – 2021-07)
Inform Billing is a privately owned and independent company which offers comprehensive billing solutions for telecoms, IT, VoIP, M2M and Managed Print resellers. Worked on Eclipse NG Billing Platform and Enlighten Online Billing projects.
- Attend sprint refining, sprint planning
- Attend daily scrum meetings with the Director, PO, Manager, Developers, BA & Testers
- Provide inputs in sprint refining and sprint planning meetings
- Identify testing tasks in sprint planning meeting
- Prioritize the tickets/stories as per the sprint in Jira
- Design the test cases & document the test results in Jira
- Keep the test tasks up to date in Agile scrum board in Jira
- Condition test data as per the test requirements in each sprint
- Use SQL to create or modify test data and to verify test results
- Conduct smoke tests, functional tests on Chrome browser
- Submit request payloads to APIs and validate the responses using Postman
- Conduct load tests simulating real time user demands on webservices using Postman
- Identify and log the defects in Jira
- Involve in the QA review meeting with the Testers and BA
- Run regression/core tests before release in test environment
- Reproduce production issues and verify the fixes in test environment
- Perform root cause analysis of the issue/defect by checking the previous version
- Provide feedback in sprint retrospective meetings
Software Test Analyst at Midland Software Ltd (MHR) (2017-01 – 2018-05)
MHR is a leading provider of software and services for Talent management, HR, Payroll and Analytics. Worked on HR and PAYROLL projects and ITrent Integration with HR and PAYROLL.
- Attend sprint ceremonies such as sprint planning, sprint refining (grooming) and sprint retrospective meetings
- Work with Product Owners and developers to define acceptance criteria in sprint planning meeting
- Identify testing tasks for user stories in sprint planning meeting in TFS
- Use poker cards to estimate the story points in sprint planning meeting
- Create and document test cases and test results
- Conduct browser tests using tools such as browser stack and cross browser testing
- Use tools such as Litmus test to perform email testing
- Conduct mobile testing on real mobile devices on Android and iOS
- Fabricate test data as per the sprint test requirements
- Attend stand up review meetings on daily basis
- Track the Kanban cards issues & management
- Perform exploratory testing, identify defects and track defects in TFS
- Deliver workloads as appropriate based on Moscow
- Perform retesting and regression testing to ensure resolution of identified defects
- Conduct sprint demos to the project owners
- Identify opportunities to adopt innovative testing technologies and techniques
- Follow a risk-based approach considering commercial factors
Software Test Analyst at Accenture (2014-04 – 2016-12)
Worked on HMRC NPS (SRIT-Scottish Rate of Income Tax) project. NPS is National insurance and PAYE service system that holds the NI and tax information of all the citizens of the UK. Worked on the 'Employments & Reconciliation' project to test new reconciliation process triggered due to the change in the residence status of the citizen to Scottish.
- Attend design walk through sessions with Business Analysts
