Resume Skills and Keywords for Software Testing Professional with Career Break

Software testers run manual and automated tests to ensure that the software is fit for its purpose. They fix flaws and bugs with a product before releasing it to users. Software and systems analysis, risk mitigation, and software-related issue avoidance are among their tasks. They create test scenarios for software usability, conduct tests, and report to the production team on the effectiveness and errors. A software tester is also known as a quality assurance (QA) tester or a software test engineer.

Skills required for a Software Testing Professional's role

  • Software Test Life Cycle Management 
  • Project Management 
  • Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases Preparation & Execution 
  • Defect  Tracking & Analysis
  • Stakeholder Management 
  • Risk Identification & Mitigation 
  • Team Coordination 

What recruiters look for in a Software Testing Professional's resume: 

  • Ability to review software requirements and prepare test scenarios.
  • Prior experience in executing tests on software usability.
  • Competencies in analyzing test results on database impacts, errors or bugs, and usability.

What can make your Software Testing Professional's resume stand out:

A strong summary that demonstrates your skills, experience and background in software testing and quality assurance

  • Commenced career in 2004 as Software Engineer – Testing and steadily progressed to the position of Senior Test Engineer with Convergence  Ltd., Bangalore (2009-2011). Gained rich experience of over 9 years in developing, improving &  tailoring test strategies, and frameworks,  defining processes and designing test controls to implement & maintain a testing strategy. Leveraged experience in testing various apps on mobile like SMS, MMS, Email, Browser, Telephony, Bluetooth, Connectivity etc. Provided onsite support for customers from Singapore,  Thailand and UK for field testing and interoperability testing for Samsung clients.  

Targeted job description 

  • Prepared reports on software testing
  • Participated in design reviews and provided input on requirements, product design, and potential problems.

Related academic background 

  • PES Institute of Technology, Vishweswaraiah Technological University | YY 
  • B.E – Information Science, Karnataka Kongadiyappa Pre University College | PUC, Doddaballapur 

Sample Resume of Software Testing Professional with Career Break

KAVITA SHARMA 

PRERNA SHARMA 

SOFTWARE TESTING PROFESSIONAL 

9666727878 | sharmap23@gmail.com | Bangalore, India 

SUMMARY

Commenced career in 2004 as Software Engineer – Testing and steadily progressed to the position of Senior Test Engineer with Convergence  Ltd., Bangalore (2009-2011). Gained rich experience of over 9 years in developing, improving &  tailoring test strategies, and frameworks,  defining processes and designing test controls to implement & maintain a testing strategy. Leveraged experience in testing various apps on mobile like SMS, MMS, Email, Browser, Telephony, Bluetooth, Connectivity etc. Provided onsite support for customers from Singapore,  Thailand and UK for field testing and interoperability testing for Samsung clients.  

EMPLOYMENT 

Senior Test Engineer | Convergence Ltd., Bangalore. Jun 2022 - Jun 2022 

  • Software Testing Leadership: Spearheaded all phases of software testing for projects; designed & executed test plans, scenarios, scripts & procedures, tracked testing by test scenarios, test cases & test steps; managed setup and maintenance of the test environments.
  • Defect Management: Led defect tracking and reporting. Analysed defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in the software programs.
  • Project Management: Monitored project progress and outstanding issues in Agile & Waterfall environment; reported progress and resolved the escalated issues. Planned test schedules as per project scope or delivery dates.
  • Liaison & Coordination: Interacted with product owners, business analysts, testers, developers and stakeholders across geographical locations.

Senior Software Engineer - Testing and Quality Control | Nokia India (P) Ltd., Mumbai Dec 2006 - Jun 2009 

  • Spearheaded the Software Testing Life Cycle including developing, executing & reporting test cases and test scenarios for testing  functionality 
  • Planned test schedules and provided feedback to developers on software usability & functionality 
  • Analysed project requirements, reviewed project proposals and mapped manpower requirements 
  • Provided post-production validation & enhancement support for any minor releases of software applications. 

Senior Software Engineer - Testing & Quality Control | SMS Software (P) Ltd., Mumbai Jun 2004 - Dec 2006 

  • Analyzed requirements, specifications, user documentation and other project documentation to assure product quality &  tests to be  developed. Prepared and managed the requirements traceability matrix 
  • Ensured adherence to laid down processes through SDLC. Created, executed and maintained Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.  Wrote use cases and test cases as per Implementation Spec 
  • Performed manual and automated testing activities, and also tested Embedded Product using TCP/IP, ICMP, DNS, DHCP,  TFTP, ARP, and  VPN- Network Protocols 

Software Engineer – Testing ► SDC Technologies (P) Ltd., Bangalore Aug 2002 - Jun 2004 

SKILLS 

  • Software Test Life Cycle Management 
  • Project Management 
  • Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases Preparation & Execution 
  • Defect  Tracking & Analysis
  • Stakeholder Management 
  • Risk Identification & Mitigation 
  • Team Coordination 

EDUCATION 

  • PES Institute of Technology, Vishweswaraiah Technological University | YY 
  • B.E – Information Science, Karnataka Kongadiyappa Pre University College | PUC, Doddaballapur 

CERTIFICATIONS 

  • Six Sigma certified Yellow Badge and White Badge 

TECHNICAL PURVIEW 

  • Automation Tools: Moto runner, Smart, Steam 
  • Configuration Management Tools: Win CVS, SVN 
  • Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, DDTS, Jira, PVCS, Requeste 
  • RDBMS MySQL, Oracle 8.0, Sybase