A Quality Analyst by day and a dynamic blogger by night, The Solitary Writer is an out-of-the-Box thinker whose thinking cap is never on the resting mode. The real feather on his thinking cap is his creativity which you can see in all his works, be it short stories, poems or sketches. He is a very big fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Most of his short stories are inspired from real life and things that fascinate him. His blog "The Solitary Writer" is a central repository of his entire creative spear.

Stephen is blessed with creativity. Ideas stroll through his minds when he is alone and most of his blog posts are born out of it. He loves painting, sketching, drawing cartoons, script writing and photography.

I am a focused, Analytical and a Quick thinking QA professional with strong communication skills and ability to comprehend the complex product functionalities with extensive Testing experience.

I am a goal and result oriented enthusiast who is well disciplined, pragmatic and passionate about Software Quality Testing and Business Analysis.

On the Professional front, he is an ISTQB certified Software Tester with 6 plus years of Testing Experience in Telecom and Healthcare domain. He has performed various types of testing such as Smoke, Sanity, Regression etc. He interacts with Business Analysts and Developers on a daily basis for information gathering and issue resolution. As a part of his daily responsibilities, he is also involved in the preparation of Project deliverables and documents such as the System Appreciation Document, Test Plan, Test Case, RTM, Defect Summary Reports, Status Reports, Test Document and others. He has a strong experience of working in complete life cycle project. He is adept at testing and is responsible for requirement analysis, understanding, attending and conducting review meetings, status calls, creation and designing of clear and concise test cases, manual execution of designed test cases, opening and tracking of defects with developers, knowledge gaining and doubt clarification with Business. His major areas of experience and expertise include SDLC, STLC, Designing, Execution, Defect management and Business Analysis. He is apt in troubleshooting and problem solving. He is a good team player and has an excellent communication skill. Apart from these roles, he also has the responsibility of mentoring the new joiners who join the project team.

He also blogs about Software Testing in his Test