Golam S Chowdhury

Address: *** ****** ***. ********, ** 07502

Phone: 973-***-****, Email: abgs82@r.postjobfree.com

Objective: A detail oriented Software Test Engineer /QA Tester with over

five years of experience of manual and automated testing in various

projects and environments. Extensive experience in analyzing and

interpreting requirements and/or specifications, developing system test

plan, designing test cases and test scenarios, execute tests, create bug

documentation and developing test summary report. Seeking a permanent or

consulting position in the field of Software Quality Assurance and Testing

to contribute my professional experiences, technical knowledge and problem

solving process.

Summary of Experiences:

. Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and

Software Test Methodologies.

. Experience in analyzing the System Requirement Specification (SRS),

Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Design

Documentation (SDD), and Use cases diagram.

. Experience in Waterfall Model, V-Model and Agile (SCRUM) development

methodologies.

. Expertise in writing, executing, and maintaining System Test Plans,

Test Cases, Test Scenarios.

. Experience in automated testing using HP-Mercury Quick Test Pro,

Quality Center and Load Runner.

. Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking reports using Bug

Tracking tools Quality Center, JIRA and Test Director.

. Experience in conduction peer-review meetings.

. Experience document reviews and meetings to evaluate documents, plans,

code, requirements, and specifications.

. Well versed with Relational Databases (RDBMS).

. Extensive experience in developing SQL queries for backend-testing,

knowledge of ORACLE and SQL Server, and Access database.

. Experience in back-end and integration testing using SQL PLUS and TOAD

to ensure data consistency on front-end with backend database.

. Knowledge of Capability of Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) levels.

. Experienced in maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

. Experienced in tracking and logging Defects with high level of detail,

accuracy and informative recreation steps.

. Ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical and end clients.

. Performed structured walkthroughs, Peer Reviews meeting, and testing

to carry out verification and validation process.

. Self-motivated, team oriented, have strong communication skills and

the ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously.

. Experience in working in highly dynamic and challenging environment.

. Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, establishes

priorities, meet project milestones and deliverable dates.

EDUCATION

Chemistry, Montclair State University - Montclair, NJ

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Language: Visual Basic, HTML, SQL

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, QuickTest Professional, JIRA, TFS,

TestDirector and LoadRunner

Platforms: Microsoft Windows 2000, 95, 98, XP, VISTA, and Windows 7,

UNIX

Applications: MS Office

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

508 Compliance Testing Tool: JAWS and WAVE

Professional Experiences

CFA Institute - Charlottesville, VA

February 2012 - Present

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed Project planning, Status reporting, document review and

defect entry verification.

. Developed a detailed Test Plan based on software requirements

specifications

. Wrote & execute Test Cases for each functionality based on product

functional specifications using TFS

. Participated in Walk-through, Peer Reviews and Defect Report meetings

periodically

. Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve

technical issues using TFS

. Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the

technical issues so as to meet the client's requirement for a better

quality software product.

. Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences on problem resolution.

. Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and

investigated software faults.

. Attended walkthrough meetings with the System Analysts, Project

Managers and Developers.

. Extensively performed Functional Testing and End to End Testing.

. Filled in for Lead QA in their absence to continue with the testing

progress.

. Managed team and distributed work based on team members strong points.

. Imported and exported scripts in TFS

. Gathered and analyzed user/business requirements and developed System

test plans.

. Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant Functional

Requirement Document (FRD).

. Participate and Review Business Requirements and Design Specifications

and provide technical and usability feedback.

. Performed Integration Testing to verify integration between different

modules in the System.

Environment: Visual Studios, SQL Server, HTML, .NET, Windows

CSC -Rockville, MD

November 2010 - February 2012

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

. Worked closely with the project team to discuss the application

design, development and testing aspects and involved in various stages

of the project from requirements through implementation.

. Involved in designing and developing validation plans and test plan

document.

. Developed a detailed Test Plan based on software requirements

specifications

. Analyzed Project planning, Status reporting, document review and

defect entry verification.

. Wrote & execute Test Cases for each functionality based on product

functional specifications

. Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity

of functionality in different versions of the application.

. Participated in Walk-through, Peer Reviews and Defect Report meetings

periodically

. Interacted with the development team and the Business Application

group on a regular basis to analyze the requirements and to understand

the GUI of the application being developed.

. Extensively involved in running manual tests on the applications.

. Manually tested the GUI interface of the application.

. Develop, manage and execute test cases in central test repository HP

Quality Center.

. Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve

technical issues using Defect Tacking system JIRA

. Extensively used SQL Queries to check the integrity of the data and to

perform Back End Testing.

. Use TOAD for data verification and data validation in Back-end

database.

. Conducted end-to-end test of the application manually

. Performed Integration Testing to verify integration between different

modules in the System.

. Maintained the automation scripts for enhancements and modifications

to perform regression testing

. Enhanced and modified automated scripts for several complex scenarios

by adding programming logic.

. Develop checklist for 508 compliance testing.

. Used JAWS screen reader for web accessibility testing.

. Used WAVE) to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process

for 508 compliance testing.

. Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the

technical issues so as to meet the client's requirement for a better

quality software product.

. Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences on problem resolution.

. Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and

investigated software faults.

. Attended walkthrough meeting with the System Analysts, Project

Managers and Developers.

Environment: HP Quality Center, JIRA, SQL Server, TOAD, HTML, VSS, ASP,

.NET, JAWS, WAVE, Windows

Bank of New York, NY

July 2008 - November 2010

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

. Gathered and analyzed user/business requirements and developed System

test plans.

. Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant Functional

Requirement Document (FRD).

. Participate and Review Business Requirements and Design Specifications

and provide technical and usability feedback.

. Prepared Test Cases by analyzing functional requirement specification

document.

. Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant FRD.

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

performed Database Testing for the Application.

. Analyzed system requirements and developed Test Plans, involved in

developing Test Scripts for manual testing.

. Developed, Test Cases and Test Scripts, Testability matrix,

Traceability matrixes, and Detailed Test cases.

. Created test cases and test scenarios using Quality Center.

. Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Quality

Center.

. Involved in importing all the test cases reports in to Quality Center

Databases.

. Developed automated test scripts using Descriptive Programming, Custom

Functions on Quick Test Professional (QTP)

. Performed Integration and User Acceptance test.

. Identified and documented all the defects and root-cause analysis to

ensure application software functionality for present as well as

future builds.

. Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and

investigated the bugs in the application.

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

scenarios and test data.

. Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose

of regression testing.

. Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression

testing and participated actively in system testing and regression

testing.

. Used the data driven testing and database accessing techniques to

support the scripts.

. Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up

with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

. Extensively performed Functional Testing and End to End Testing.

. Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting

tool Quality Center

. Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL

statements.

. Involved in writing Test cases depends on test scenarios.

. Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality and Regression Testing

using QuickTest Professional.

. Executed all automated test procedures to ensure the quality of the

developed application. .

Environment: VB, C, HP Quality Center, Java, Quick Test Pro, Oracle,

.NET, SQL

AT&T, Middletown, NJ June

2005 - July 2008

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

. Investigated the Software bugs and interfaced with developers to

resolve technical issues.

. Executed Test Cases using different testing techniques like Positive

Testing, Negative Testing, Stress testing.

. Performed Functionality Testing and GUI Testing.

. Gathered test requirements by coordinating with design and development

teams.

. Participated in review, progress meetings to monitor the progress of

the testing process.

. Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify

the integrity of the database.

. Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and

walkthroughs.

. Test Director was used to create the test plan, store test cases and

run the test sets.

. Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Plan, various Test

Cases and Test Scripts.

. Regularly following up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies

identified during testing.

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

with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

. Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office

applications.

. Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected

results.

. Meet with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly

to update the test documents

. Developed & executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.

. Designing and Executing Test Cases in Test Director.

. Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test

Director.

Environment: VB, Java, XML, TestDirector, Oracle, J2EE

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