Engineer Test

Afsaneh Karbasian

Tel: 425-***-**** Email: *******.*********@*****.***

Objective: to Obtain a challenging PM, Test Lead, QA Analyst or Technical Delivery Manager position.

• Superb communication, leadership, time management, and organizational skills

• Plan work for teams, manage workload balance and track record of delivering results.

• Effectively deal with rapid change in a positive manner and lead staff through changing priorities.

• Experienced in full cycle of software testing and analysis

• Experienced in working with large databases using SQL, Oracle, and Teradata

Programming Teradata 8.1, Informatica, ORACLE, T SQL, SQL, XML, VB, VBScript.

Languages

Operating Systems Microsoft Windows 95 2003 (including Japanese ME and Korean 98), XP, Vista, Windows 7,

windows 8, Unix.

Applications SQL server, Oracle, Teradata, Informatica, SSIS, Visual Studio .NET, WTT (window test

technologies), ASI (Automated Software Installer), Mantis (bug tracking tool), BIDS (Business

Intelligence Developer Studio), MS Office Suite, Adobe (Acrobat Reader, PageMaker), Quality

Center (test cases and bug tracking system). Crystal Reports. Business Objects, Report Info

Reporting, SQL server Profiler, Jira Bug tracker, Snagit, Techwiki.

Quality Assurance Lead: Market Leader/Trulia April 2013 Aug 2013

Quickly tested and deployed code in an agile/fluid release process

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Participated in various roles in the daily push process through organization, scheduling, and communication

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Collaborated with product and business managers on scope, requirements, user experience and scheduling

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Interfaced with engineering teams to understood code changes, assess risk and ensure best practices

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Got hands on with multiple websites and automation code to debug and troubleshoot errors encountered

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during testing

Acted as a PM to hold daily standups, huddles and bug triage meetings

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Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and

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resources.

Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.

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Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and

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forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.

Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups and/or

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projects.

BI Test Analyst Lead: T Mobile Bellevue WA March 2009 – April 2013

Leading a group of people (US and off shore) working specifically on Prepaid system.

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Developed effective relationship and worked with project teams including Developers, System Analysts,

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Architects, and Project Managers.

Participated in requirements, functional specification and technical specification reviews.

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Provided accurate estimates of effort and time lines for completion of assigned tasks.

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Created business focused test plans that keep technical considerations in sight.

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Coordinated the review and sign off on test plans.

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Met with business partners and UAT team to communicate the new functionality for each project.

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Reviewed the functional specification, Source to Target Mapping and business requirement documentations

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and reviewed and inspected the test scripts created by offshore and onshore team to validate the accuracy.

Wrote SQL scripts to perform data validation on data warehouse tables.

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Used Quality Center for defect tracking and test management.

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Compiled test summary reports and run tests on large subsets of data.

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Ensured entrance criteria are fulfilled before testing; ensured exit criteria are fulfilled before test signoff.

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Worked with Program Managers, developers, database administrator and Business analysts to resolve issues

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resulting from testing; resolved conflicts between technical specifications and functional specifications.

Built out and maintain a library of test scripts for regression testing.

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Stayed current on changes happening to upstream and downstream systems.

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Software Test Lead Analyst: T Mobile (Harvey Nash), Bellevue, WA March 2009 March 2010

• In charged of developing the test script and test the whole ETL process and

reporting for different projects.

• Reviewed functional and tech specs and develop test scripts for the whole

E TL process.

• Applying the new code to test environment

• Running the jobs using Informatica.

• Executing test cases and verifying the accuracy of deliverables.

• Executing different variety of reports using reporting site and evaluate the

result with the target tables using SQL, Teradata, and Toad.

• Working with Teradata client to validate the accuracy of data.

• Push the project to production with no issues.

Software Developer in Test: Microsoft (iMatch Technical), Redmond, WA Sep 2008 January 31 2009 st

As a SDT, I was in charge of developing the BVT (Build Verification Test) automation and testing the whole ETL

process of Microsoft AdCenter data warehouse.

Involving in full software life cycle by participating in Design and functional spec reviews and creating

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automation test scripts using Product studio and SQL Server queries.

Executing test cases and verifying the accuracy of deliverables.

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Created OLAP queries to test the data warehouse OLAP cubes

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Escalating blocking issues, risks, and bugs in a timely manner to test management as necessary

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Working side by side with developers to locate and regress the problems

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Software Test Analyst: AT&T/CINGULAR WIRELESS(Act 1Technical), Bothell, WA July 2006 July 2008

As a software test analyst, I was responsible for all the new changes on the website especially existing

customer part of AT&T wireless website. I was involved in all the cycles from designing to production release

stage.

Involved in full testing life cycle by creating test scripts, participating in functional spec reviews, design and test

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case reviews for monthly releases

Utilized innovative test technologies to develop a product's testing strategy

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Prepared data request, analyzing detailed data to identify inconsistencies in addition to drilling down through

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various levels off aggregated data to pinpoint incorrect data and possible causes before running test cases

Escalated blocking issues, risks, and bugs in a timely manner to test management as necessary

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Executed test cases by preparing test scripts to verify the accuracy of deliverables

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Worked closely with developers and program managers to track and resolve issues, and regressed the

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resolved issues in order to deliver the project in a timely manner

Software Test Engineer: MICROSOFT (Volt Technical), Redmond, WA July 2005 July 2006

As the only test engineer in connection Manager team, I tested the product in different platforms especially

Vista. I was responsible to check everything to make sure MS customers can RAS in secure and without

any problem.

Executed test cases on different windows platforms by creating new test scripts for 15 major releases

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Created INI files and built new profiles to prepare for testing

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Performed security testing on ITCM (Used by 50000 MS employees to remote access) to track the issues and

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investigate the problems

Assisted production support to release to live site and drive problem resolution

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Worked with development, testing, Customer support, and operations teams to prioritize the bug fixes and

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subsequently released into test and production environments

Software Test Engineer: MICROSOFT (Volt Technical), Redmond, WA Apr 2004 Apr 2005

As part of a team, I was responsible for maintaining about 200 lab machines and execute automated test

scripts on them using Windows Test Technology tool.

Installed Operating System both manually and from Total control client on test machines

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Executed functional test cases, Auto Smoke, and Build Verification Test cases using WTT and Stream Matrix

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automation tools and sent results to appropriate people on a daily basis

Investigated any problems by triaging failures and escalating them to development team

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Trained, mentored, and supervised other team members

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Automated the setup process by creating Total Control scripts

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Software Test Engineer: MICROSOFT (Volt Technical), Redmond, WA 1997 2004

Performed user interface, database, accessibility, localizability, and globalization testing for internal business

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applications that integrated with systems such as Passport, MSO, and SAP

Administer SQL databases, created SQL scripts to automate restoration and configuration of test environments

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Created test plans, test cases, installation guides, user guides, templates, and functional specification

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documents

Managed projects and team members by setting up meetings including pre test review, triage, mitigating

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issues, providing training and demonstrations

Increased effectiveness of UAT for Clarifying 9.0.2/eSupport 2.0 release by adjusting schedule to work during

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normal business hours of Europe and Asia to track issues and to provide immediate assistance to participants

AA in Computer programming from Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA

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