Marina Gendelman
465 14th Ave., #12
San Francisco, CA 94118
[email protected]
415-751-9250

SUMMARY:
- Over three years experience in Software Quality Assurance
- Extensive setup/maintaining/testing/ experience most popular multiple platforms.
- Experience with large variety of Hardware and Software.
- Highly proficient in hands on testing procedures.
- Proficient in writing Test plans, Test cases, Test scenarios, Test Procedures and Test
Matrixes.
- Working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodology.
- Working experience using Automated Testing Tools: MS Test 3.0 and Visual Test 4.0.
- Proficient in Black Box Testing.
- Proficient in Bug Detection, Classification, Documentation, Isolation, Analysis and
- Filing bug reports.
EXPERTISE:
OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, UNIX, MS-DOS
6.22, Mac OS System 7.5
HARDWARE: IBM PC, MAC, Fax/Modem, and CD ROM devices.
SOFTWARE: MS Test 3.0, Visual Test 4.0, Visual Source Safe 5.0, Visual Intercept 1.0.5.38, MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Outlook, WinZip, LapLink for Windows 95, SQL Server 6.5, Oracle, Synchrologic, Message Peek, Various Internet Applications (FTP, Telnet, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator/Communicator), WS_FTP, Various Web Developing tools (Visual Page, PageMaker).
LANGUAGES: Visual Basic, SQL, and HTML.
NETWORK PROTOCOLS/ENVIRONMENT: TCP/IP, FTP and HTTP.
PERSONAL: Team Player, Dynamic, Highly Self-Motivated and Eager to learn. Excellent communication, writing skills, and analytical skills, well organized and responsible, able to handle a great variety of tasks simultaneously and sufficiently, capable to lead QA projects.
EXPERIENCE:
3/98 - Present The SoftAd Group, Inc., Mill Valley, CA
Software QA Engineer
- Performing testing of various programs, including both custom and web-based
applications
- Work closely with development engineers and clients
- Responsible for design, development and implementation Test Plans, Test Cases, Test
Matrix, and Test Reports
- Re-staging client and server machines, making patches, burning CDs
- Configuring clean NT Server(s) and clean '95 client to verify full product life cycle has
produced desired results
- Creating Product Installation Instructions
- Verifying code changes/enhancements against actual application functionality to meet
specifications
- Creating and executing queries to verify data integrity
- Reporting various software problems using Visual Intercept and FileMaker Pro
- Graphing and reporting outstanding bugs against bugs fixed to determine weakest link
in application and thus better prepare for upcoming development cycles
- Maintaining SourceSafe and document procedures surrounding build/installations
requirements
- Conducting interviewing and training of new hire QA Engineers
- Leading several testing projects
- Customer Support
- Performed several business trips to clients' locations
2/96-3/98 F.W.E., Cupertino, CA
Software QA Engineer
- Conducted testing of HR and Financial applications, involving System Development
Life Cycle methodology.
- Software was tested on Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and
Windows NT platforms
- Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios for the above system
- Reported various software problems and entered them into the Bug Tracking
database, designed in MS Access
- Verified Bugs fixes, performing regression Test, maintained Test Log, evaluated Test
Results, and created Test Summary Reports
- Performed manual and automated testing using MS Test 3.0 for Windows for the above
systems
- Using MS Test, conducted a wide variety of tests on the way the application looks and
performs, and compared the results of the test
- Used MS Test scripts for Regression, User interface testing and generated the test
data within the MS Test scripts
- Maintained compatibility of various automation scripts designed in MS Test with weekly
software builds
- Created forms, reports, charts, cross-tabs, using MS Access
EDUCATION AND SPECIAL TRAINING:
9/96-Present San Francisco State University, CA (part-time night program)
Pursuing a degree in Computer Science
Classes: Computer Theory, Business English, UNIX, DOS, Windows NT,
Computer Information Systems, Economics for Managers.
2/96-8/96 PC and MAC WIZARDS, San Francisco, CA
Advanced Software Quality Assurance Testing courses,
Favorite Course: "Advanced SDLC and Testing Computer Software"

References available upon request.