Quality Assurance Manager

Zaman Ahmed

**** ***** ****** ******, *********, VA 22204

*********@*****.*** Cell 703-***-****

Four (4+) years of experience in Software testing and quality assurance

under UNIX and Windows environment with excellent analytical, to obtain a

challenging position as a Software Test Engineer/Quality Assurance where my

skills and determination will be used at their fullest capacity and allow

for personal and professional growth.

QUALIFICATIONS:

. Experienced in Financial, E-Commerce, Telecom industries with strong

problem solving, analytical skills with ability to quickly master new

concepts and application technologies rooted in Software Development

Life Cycle (SDLC) and Quality Assurance life cycle and QA

methodologies.

. Experienced in testing applications in all phases and stages of

testing with good working knowledge of testing disciplines, tasks,

resources and scheduling.

. Experienced in writing Test Plans, Test objectives, Test cases, pre-

conditions and expected results by analyzing System Design

Specification (SDS), Business Requirements Document (BRD), and

Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).

. Expertise in Manual Testing and experience in Automated Testing,

Client Server, Web testing, Business Functionality Testing, System

Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black box

Testing, End-to-End Testing.

. Worked on Manual and Automated Testing using tools such as Quality

Center (Test Director), and Quick Test Pro.

. Ability to work independently and in a team environment, with a

minimum amount of supervision.

. Experienced in making software defects reproducible and reporting them

to developers

. Excellent technical communication, documentation, interpersonal and

reporting skills.

. Motivated hard worker with professional attitude and work ethics.

SKILLS:

QA/ Testing Tools: Mercury HP Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Rational

Robot, Rational Clear Quest, PVCS Tracker, Rational

Quality Manager, Jaws.

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/2000/98/7, LINUX, Solaris.

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Iterative.

Software Packages: MS Office, FrontPage, MS Visio.

Database / DB Tools: Oracle, MS SQL, Quest Software (TOAD), SQL Server

WORK EXPERIENCES

ACCESS NATIONAL BANK, RESTON VA

March 2012-January 2013

Software Tester

A community bank mainly emphasized on business client. The applications

served the purpose of processing wires which includes domestic and

international incoming and outgoing wires and support day to day banking

needs for consumer and commercial customers.

. Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, and System Integration

testing, Regression testing, Database Testing, and Black Box testing

at various phases of the development and test cycles.

. Analyzed requirements, functional design and detail design documents.

. Developed and executed test cases and verified actual results with

expected results

. Working as a team member in requirements mapping and preparing a

Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

. Developed the test cases, test data and test scripts

. Analyzed multiple input systems to create and modify test data

. Automated the manual system test cases using Quick Test Pro

. Automated the test scripts for the GUI Functional, Data Driven and

Regression testing using Quick Test Pro.

. Wrote SQL queries to find out data is correctly populated in each

field.

Environment: J2EE, .NET, SQL server, XML, C++, HTML, Oracle, Web logic,

VBScript, UNIX, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro.

PALADIN CONSULTING, INC.

March 2011 - January 2012

Software Tester

NCT (National Credit Tool) is a client based application for Office of the

Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) which is used to analyze midsized and

community bank's loan portfolio. LPM (Loan Portfolio Manager) uses this

application to create review, load bank files, create line sheet, create

summary.

. Analyzed the SRS documents, interacted with developers and team

members.

. Took part in preparing test data.

. Wrote test cases against use case document and functional

capabilities.

. Wrote test scripts based on prototype and design documents.

. Coordinate with developer and business analyst to comprehend the

application to develop test cases and scripts.

. Maintained requirements traceability matrix.

. Execute test cases, analyzed results and submitted defects.

. Wrote SQL queries for data validation and executed them in SQL

server.

. Identify the proper candidates for regression testing for automation.

. Created test scripts in Quick Test Professional and

. Parameterized the scripts to use different data sets.

Environment: Rational Quality Manager (RQM), SQL server, Jaws, .Net,

Windows7, VBScript.

E*TRADE FINANCIAL, ARLINGTON VA

April 2009 - December 2010

Test Engineer

A client based application called Sierra Exchange and few other apps that

are used to perform necessary tasks. The application is divided into three

components such as: Sierra Admin, Sierra Balancing and Sierra Expedite.

Sierra Admin monitors who is working on what batch of deposits. Sierra

Balancing allow the associates to reject or accept based on the business

rules and Sierra Expedite is used to scan deposits from various locations

following the setup rules.

. Analyzed and documented detailed program information working and

interacting with software developers and members of various other

dependent departments.

. Worked as QA Tester and took responsibility for the requirements

Analysis and testing.

. Analyzed the Systems and Requirements gathering, Data Analysis, wrote

test cases and reviewed test cases.

. Modified and maintained the already existing test plans, test cases

and scripts to leverage the automation team effort during the

regression testing.

. Communicated requirements traceability matrix and tracked requirements

status throughout the project.

. Used QC to gather requirements, design test cases.

. Performed requirement coverage in QC, execute test cases, analyze

results and log defect.

. Performed back end testing by writing SQL statements using TOAD.

. Identified tests to be automated and converted to Test Scripts using

QTP for Functional and Regression testing.

. Developed automated Test Scripts in QTP using VBScript for Regression

and functional Testing.

. Used Parameterization for using various data to test the application

using QTP.

. Executed the regression test cases along with testing new enhancements

by using QTP and analyzed results.

. Used Re-usable actions and external actions in QTP to avoid the

repeatability.

Environment: HP/Mercury Interactive Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center,

Clear Quest, J2EE, HTML, Web Sphere, Oracle, TOAD, Oracle and UNIX

AOL LLC, Reston, VA

July 2008-April 2009

Software Tester

AOL is one of the leading Global Internet Services and Media Company. AOL

is best known for its online software suite, also called AOL, that allowed

customers to access the world's largest "walled garden" online community

and eventually reach out to the internet as a whole. Working in Access

Bundle Team where contains a group of modules like user access Internet

Service, Customer Information, Customer Payment History, Customer Plan and

Services, User Profile information, Customer Security etc.

. Participated in project Design Reviews.

. Analyzed user requirements.

. Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, regression testing

on the various applications

. Developed test cases, executed and logged defects.

. Maintained creating traceability between the requirements and the

test cases in Quality Center.

. Performed Backend Testing using SQL queries.

. Worked in a team environment performing varied daily task that

requires effective communication with project managers, developers

and business analysts.

Environment: .NET, JAVA, Java Script, HTML, XML, Clear Case, Quality

Center, Windows XP

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Commerce and Administration

Dhaka University, Bangladesh

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