Manager Project

Wasif Choudhury **** Cockburn Court, Lorton, VA-**079

Wasif

Phone: 201-***-****

Email: *********.*****@*****.***

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Professional Summary: A detail oriented professional with seven plus years of experience in

Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing on various industries and environments; specialized

in User Interface, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Performance and User Acceptance

Testing (UAT) of web based and client/server and stand-alone applications in government solutions,

Insurance and financial industries. Seeking a challenging position in the field of software quality assurance

and testing.

• Expertise in analysis of Software Requirement Specifications, Functional Design Specification

and development of Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix and

Test Summary Report.

• Well-versed with the concepts of Software Development lifecycle (SDLC), Waterfall model, V-

model and Agile methodologies and quality assurance principles, procedures and standards.

• Experience in tracking test coverage and providing Metrics to the management.

• Experienced in automated testing using HP-Mercury Quick Test Pro, Quality Center and Test

Director and Rational test Manager and Rational Quality Manager.

• Experience in bug tracking, bug reporting and bug documentation using Rational Clear Quest,

Quality Center and Test Director.

• Knowledge of working on UNIX platform.

• Experience in Database/Backend testing using SQL Server, Oracle and SQL queries.

• Extensively involved in Verification and Validation Process involves reviews and meetings to

evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements, and specifications.

• Familiar with Section 508 regulations and used JAWS 8.0 for testing.

• Broad exposure to CMMI levels, Software Configuration Management and risk analysis.

• Experience in estimation of testing efforts in coordination of test schedules with overall project

schedules.

• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, establishes priorities, meet project

milestones and deliverable dates.

• Able to identify applications higher risk and more important aspects, set priorities and

determine scope and limitations of test.

• Experience in working with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for

testing, and prepare that data for the test cases.

• Excellent Co-ordination skills in interacting with Developers and Business Analysts regarding

testing status, reporting in identifying and clarifying the test results.

• Team player and have ability to work in a fast paced environment.

• Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building and interpersonal skills.

• Experienced and the ability to mentor team members to perform duties in the most efficient and

timely manner.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ

Security Clearance: Active Secret Clearance.

Skills:

Software Testing tools HP QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner and Quality Center,

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Rational Test Manager, Rational Quality Manager (RQM).

Operating Systems WINDOWS 2000/NT/XP/Vista, UNIX

Language SQL, VB

HP Quality Center, Test Director, Rational Test Manager,

Test Management/ Defect Tracking tools

Rational Quality Manager. Rational Clear Quest

Visual Source safe (VSS),Microsoft Share Point, MS Office,

CM tool

Visio,

Databases SQL Server, Oracle, DB2

Professional Experience

Quality Assurance Analyst

QinetiQ NA, Reston, VA October’ 10- Present

• Involve in gathering and analyzing requirement documents to validate the requirements.

• Conduct review meetings of test plan, test design, test readiness and test completion.

• Work closely with business analysts, engineers, and functional experts to define test

requirements

• Design and develop Test Scenario/Test Cases for various Business Services/methods covering

both positive and negative and boundary testing requirements using Rational Test Manager and

Rational Quality Manager.

• Review Test cases and update/ modify test cases if any gaps or issue in the test cases.

• Execute test cases to validate the application’s functionality.

• Developed automated scripts for regression testing using Quick Test Pro.

• Maintained the automation scripts for enhancements and modifications to perform regression

testing

• Automated Smoke Test and Regression Test suites using Quick Test Professional.

• Enhanced and modified automated scripts for several complex scenarios by adding

programming logic.

• Write SQL query to validate data in oracle data base.

• Attend weekly Project Status Meeting with Development Team, QA Manager, and worked

closely to define Test Scope, Risk, and Test Dependency.

• Provide timely feedback to developers as bugs are found using Rational Clearquest.

• Communicate with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on

Application testing status on an ongoing basis when necessary.

• Coordinate with development team for all the issues related to deployment and defect tracking.

• Participate in defect review meetings with the team members and coordinate with project

development team.

• Gather and analyze tests logs, defects and implement final test summary reports.

• Created weekly status report for performance testing progress.

• Create and Coordinate test plan for UAT testing prior to deployment.

Environment: Rational Test Manager, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Rational

Clear Case, Oracle, Quick Test Professional. TOAD, ColdFusion, Java/J2EE.

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CNSI, Gaithersburg, MD September’ 08 – September’ 2010

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional Requirements and Design Specifications documents to ensure that the

system met all of the technical and business requirements.

• Involved in testing process, designing and developing validation plans and test plan document.

• Reviewed the application’s functional Specifications and developed test cases and test protocol

for functional testing.

• 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

• Performed End-to-End testing of full functionality.

• 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.

• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using

Defect Tacking system HP Quality Center.

• Extensively used SQL Queries to check the integrity of the data and to perform Back End

Testing.

• Uncovered, reported, tracked, and followed-up on system defects to Project Manager,

Developers, and other QA/Test Team members.

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

• Performed Integration Testing to verify integration between different modules in the System.

• 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: Windows, TOAD, Oracle, VSS, QuickTest Pro and Quality Center.

TD Bank, Mahwah, NJ July 06 – Sep 08

Software Test Analyst.

Key Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirements, preparing detailed Test Plan.

• Prepared Test Cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document.

• Interfaced with peers and management on test related topics including test plan creation and

test setup/coordination and test execution.

• 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.

• Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.

• Conducted regression testing for the changes made to the application using QTP.

• Developed VB script for automated test procedure using Quick test professional.

• Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.

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Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression testing and participated

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actively in system testing and regression testing.

Used the data driven testing and database accessing techniques to support the scripts.

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Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development

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team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.

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Converted manual tests to automated test scripts using QuickTest Professional and enhanced

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the scripts by adding user defined functions in VB script.

Extensively performed Functional Testing and End to End Testin

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Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool Quality

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Center

Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL statements.

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Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality and Regression Testing using QuickTest

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Professional.

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

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Environment: VB, C, Java, Quick Test Pro, Oracle, SQL Server, Unix, Windows NT/2000/XP.

BlueCross BlueShield, New York, NY April 04- June 06

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirements and Created Test Cases and Test steps for manual testing.

• Performed Functionality Testing and GUI Testing.

• 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 Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team

to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

• Developed Virtual user scripts using LoadRunner VuGen.

• Performed correlation, data parameterization on LoadRunner VuGen Script.

• Involved in Baseline, Load, Volume, Stress and Endurance Testing (soak) to simulate a process

and observed the behavior of the system by using LoadRunner.

• 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 update the test documents

• Developed & executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.

• Designing and Executing Test Cases in Test Director.

Environment: VB, Java, XML, Win Runner, Test Director, Clear Quest, Oracle, SQL Server,

UNIX, Windows 98/NT.

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