AHMAT ALHADJ

New York, Email:acbd72@r.postjobfree.com, Phone: 646-***-****

Objective

US Citizen, seven years of experience as a Software Test Engineer with

diversified skills in Manual and Automated Testing in IT service industries.

Seeking a permanent or consulting position to contribute the value of my diverse

technical, business acumen and professional experience requirement analysis,

designing, developing and executing of software test plan, Test Case and

procedure, requirement traceability matrix, defect tracking and test summary

report.

Summary

Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall model,

V-Model, Agile model, and QA Test methodologies.

Specialized in System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Back-end

testing, Sanity testing, and Regression Testing of web-based and client-server.

Expertise in developing Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Cases and procedures

Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) and Test Analysis Repot(TAR)

Experience in Automation testing using HP-Mercury Quality Center, Test Director,

and quickTest Professional ( QTP).

Experienced in manual testing as well as automated.

Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation

of Test Cases.

Enjoy working collaboratively with testers, developers and other team members in

testing complex projects and in the overall enhancement of software product

quality.

Excellent analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently

with minimal supervision and also perform as a part of a team.

Experience in Database/Backend including SQL Server, and Oracle

Strong skills in back end testing using SQL queries, generating reports to ensure

data integrity and to validate business rules.

Good in planning, organizing, scheduling, executing and reviewing system software

testing.

Excellent organizational presentation skills, ability to manage and adapt to

change in work priorities as requested and multi-task within projects.

Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building and interpersonal skills

Experience and the ability to lead a team to perform duties in the most efficient

and timely manner

Proven ability to take initiative, work independently and collaboratively,

execute process change.

Self-starter with a positive attitude, willingness to learn new concepts and

accept challenges.

Excellent interpersonal skills and leadership experience with internal/external

customer/client.

Technical Skills

Languages

Visual Basic, SQL

RDBMS

Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server, DB2.

Operating System

UNIX, Microsoft Windows

Automation Tools

QuickTest Professional, Quality Center and Test Director

Version Control Tools

MS Visual Source Safe

Defect Tacking Tools

Quality Center, Test Director

Application software

MS Office

Experiences:

National Archives, Washington, DC

May 2012 - Present

Software Test Engineer

Project Description: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is

the nation's record keeper. ARCIS is a web-based system being developed by the

Federal Records Centers (FRCs). The system will serve as the online portal

through which agency will do business with the FRCs and Government.

Responsibilities:

Developed test plan, Test cases, and Test scripts based on high-level and

detailed designs.

Created and executed Test Cases for some of the modules of the application under

test (AUT) using Quality Center.

Documented the daily defect status using Quality Center.

Responsible for defect tracking and management metrics, defects are logged and

change requests are submitted using Quality Center.

Participated actively in Functional testing, System testing and Regression

testing using Quick Test Pro.

Performed System, Functional, Regression, UAT and End to End testing to verify

the functionality with the new codes introduced for modification and/or

enhancement using Quick Test Pro.

Created user-defined functions, functions libraries and maintained the

initialization scripts to set-up the work environment using Quick Test Pro.

Created automated VB scripts for new functionality using QTP.

Conducted traceability matrix between Requirements, design, use cases and test

cases.

Participated in the Test Case Peer Review to ensure test cases appropriately

translate and map to requirements.

Regular interaction with developers, business analyst and Logic Unit Workgroup.

Prepared documentation for all stages according to company standards.

Tracked and reported defect using Quality Center.

Implemented Test Case and Test Process with project time frames.

Participated Weekly meeting and Daily 4.pm defect prioritization meetings.

Prepared Test summary report after every build Release and submit it to the

Mangers.

Participated in QA team meetings and walkthroughs for weekly QA testing review.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, MS Office, MS SharePoint, Bugzilla, SQL,

PL/SQL, Oracle, DB2

Time Warner, New York, NY

Sept 09- Apr 2012

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Involved in gathering and analyzing the System Requirement Specification (SRS),

Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).

Conducted review meetings of test plan, test design, test readiness and test

completion.

Responsible for planning activities and creating test plan.

Analyzed specification and assisted team to create test data, test cases, and

test scripts for functional testing.

Performed backend testing for verifying the Data Transactions and Database

Integrity

Automated the functionality testing of the application using Quick Test

Professional (QTP)

Extensively developed, enhanced, and executed QTP VB script for automated

functional and regression testing of the applications.

Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database

updates, inserts and deletions etc., of the records, and validate them.

Involved in testing front-end functionality of the application and validated that

in the Backend.

Identifying and logging defects if a test fails analyze the root cause of the

problem for efficient investigation by the development team and log accordingly.

Reporting and verifying the bugs in Quality Center

Performed Backend Regression testing by writing SQL statements to review the

returned data.

Developed Inbound File receiving scenarios, and created mock-up data.

Coordinated with developers, project managers and system analyst to resolve

various issues related to defects, re-analyzing certain functionalities and

providing creative feedbacks.

Environment: Windows, Unix, VB Script, Oracle TOAD, QTP

Credit Suisse, New York, NY

June 07 - Aug 09

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed Test Plans for System, Integration and UAT.

Participated time to time in regression testing after each build.

Developed Automated Functional Regression Test scripts for using QTP.

Analyzed the Business requirements.

Developed detailed Testing Strategy for the entire application and developed

various test cases.

Created and maintained manual Test cases, Test plans and Test Matrices Quality

Center

Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the backend testing against Oracle database.

Conducted analysis of the defects identified and provided the development group

with details to recreate the problem

Defect tracking and reported problems using Quality Center and co-ordinate with

development team.

Participated in weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.

Exported test cases into Quality Center and executed the test cases.

Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix for each project to ensure all

requirements are mapped to test.

Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing.

Generated and tracked defects using Mercury Quality Center

Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences on problem resolution.

Update weekly status to project Manager and project lead.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center, XML, SQL, J2EE, VSS

Hoffman Roche, Nutley, NJ

Sep 05- May 07

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant Functional Requirement

Document (FRD).

Participate and Review Business Requirements and Design Specifications

Developed detailed Testing Strategy for the entire application and developed

various test cases using Test Director

Participated time to time in regression testing after each build.

Developed Automated Functional & Regression Test scripts using Quick Test

Professional. Enhanced scripts using parameterization and synchronization to

support data driven testing.

Test scripts were synchronized and Bitmaps inserted for greater accuracy of

testing.

Initiate, coordinate and implement the system testing Process.

Performed Regression testing during various phases of development.

Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the backend testing against Oracle database.

Conducted analysis of the defects identified and provided the development group

with details to recreate the problem

Wrote and Executed SQL Queries during Backend testing.

Tracked and reported the bugs using Test Director

Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and

test data.

Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed

Database Testing for the Application.

Used Test Director for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the

development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

Interact with development team for new functionality and review defects.

Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.

Environment: Mercury Test Director, Oracle, SQL Plus.

Education and Training

Bachelor in Computer Engineering Technology under progress

Diploma in Electronics Engineering Technology

References

Will be available upon request

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