Quality Assurance Specialist

Asim Raza Kazmi

Senior QA Analyst Test Automation Specialist

Address: ***** ********* ******* ****, ****, Texas - 77494

Cell: +1-281-***-**** Landline: +1-281-***-**** Email: *********@*****.***

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dynamic and innovative software engineering professional with over 7 years of success in systems

development, testing and project management. Continuously promoted and challenged through team

leader and department manager positions. Currently, working as a Quality Assurance Manager for services

and products that fulfills the need of not only 300+ employees group specializing in high-end data

solutions but more than 100 customers worldwide. An Adaptable, creative and conscientious leader who

loves to cultivate strong working relationships and set high standards for other colleagues. Always

interested in challenging work related to Software Quality Assurance and Project Management. Following

are the highlights of my work experience in current and previous roles:

A seasoned Software Test Professional with extensive background and experience in testing of N-

tier Client/Server Applications, Databases, Web Services and Web applications through manual and

automated test efforts.

Managing an ever-growing team of Software Test Engineers successfully since 5 years in an

efficient yet cost effective manner.

Experienced in managing Quality Assurance and Testing of enterprise applications for big industry

names like: Ingram Micro, SP Richards, Best Buy, HP, Acer etc.

Hands-on experience with test processes for RAD, XP and waterfall development models.

Specific expertise in search and high performance java enterprise application testing gained from 6

years experience managing, testing and deploying product catalog search engines and e-commerce web

applications.

TECHNICAL SNAPSHOT

Project Management Tools, including Merlin, MS-Project, and Project.net etc.

Automated testing tools, including SOAPui, QEngine, Selenium, WinRunner and QTP.

Test Management tools, including QATraq, Test Master, Jira, Testopia etc.

Issue/bug tracking tools, including Atlassian Jira, bugzilla.

Continuous Integration Server, including Jenkins.

Experienced in testing and managing enterprise applications developed using Hibernate, Ajax,

JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, Web Services (SOAP and REST protocols) etc.

Hands on Experience using Relational Databases (MySql).

Experienced in Preparing Software artifacts such as Statement of Work, SRS, FPS, Test Plans, and

User Manuals etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Etilize Inc.

Senior Technical QA Lead January 2008 to Present

Leading Quality Assurance teams with 8+ resources on multiple product lines ensuring total quality output

from all aspects of software development.

Implement a proper code-review and maintain programming standards using code analysis tools to

facilitate distributed development teams spanned across North America, Europe and Pakistan.

Setup a proper system for Quality management to achieve 2% post-production issue occurrence.

Manage, Design and Implement Test automation using Selenium (Internal Designed Framework), and

SOAPui for the current and upcoming projects to minimize regression-testing time.

Execute and Manage Performance Testing to ensure major performance issues are highlighted in order to

help the organization in achieving 99.9% uptime of critical applications that receives close to 1 million

transactions every day.

Successfully implemented production monitoring through QA-designed Automated test suites as well as

Nightly-build concept using Jenkins Continuous Integration Server that resulted in pro-active fixation of

Production Database and functional crashes.

Manage end-to-end delivery of projects as and when required.

Key Projects include:

inQuire Search: Part of Core team for creating a product catalog search engine handling millions of

products in multiple languages I was responsible for overseeing development and test teams in Karachi office and

managed multiple teams on the design and development of this multi-tier, horizontally distributed, clustered catalog

search engine. Enabled up-sales/cross-sales, banner ads, and search sort merchandising by integrating merchandising

rule engines and expanded functionality to include faceted navigation, parametric filtering, keyword search with

normalization, stemming, synonyms, and spelling suggestions. Search engine serves Acer and IngramMicro.com,

the world’s largest IT distributor and powers the Etilize SpexLive SAAS platform in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Also

served as Product and QA Manager.

conQuire Product Information Management System: Fulfill the need of aggregating content for 100+

customers including Ingram Micro, SP Richards, HP, Acer, Best Buy etc. with Database size over 200GB

and almost a million transactions every month. I Managed 6+ test engineers to deliver new and improved

functionalities while keeping the legacy code and functional Areas intact.

Technology: Struts 1.1, J2EE Version 6 (JSP, Servlets), XFire (Web services - SOAP), Ajax (JQuery,

Prototype), Quartz Cron, and Site Mesh

Testing Tools: Apache Jmeter 2.5, Hudson CiS, Selenium RC, Jprofiler

SpexLive SAAS Platform (Web Services and SOA): Continue to Manage 4+ test engineers on this

highly critical product line and delivered results in record time successfully. I am also responsible of

managing a team of developers on continuous development of various new modules.

Technology: Core Java, XFire (Web services - SOAP/REST), Ajax (Prototype), apache Lucene, Quartz Cron,

Struts 1.1

Testing Tools: SOAPui 3.6, Apache Jmeter 2.5, Hudson CiS, Selenium RC

Best Buy Product Selector: Managed a team of software developers and test engineers to complete a

product configurator for internal best buy product selection process. Technical deliverables include a fully

functional e-commerce based web application that is built around 500k+ products and its selection

process. The project was successfully delivered and deployed on October 2, 2011.

Technology: Core Java, Ajax (Prototype), Quartz Cron, and Struts 1.1

Testing Tools: Selenium RC, Jmeter

HP Product Configurator: Managed a team of software developers and test engineers to complete a

product configurator for internal HP product selection process. Products selected are sourced with Etilize

for product content creation and show up on HP-HHO Public Web portal. Technical deliverables include a

fully functional e-commerce based web application that is built around 100k+ products and its selection

process. The project was successfully delivered and deployed in September 2010.

Technology: Core Java, Ajax (Prototype), Quartz Cron, and Struts 1.1

Testing Tools: Selenium RC, Jmeter

Etilize Inc.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer/Lead September 2005- December 2007

Key Projects Include:

Ingram Micro E-Commerce: Worked as a Test team-lead enabling high performance user experience and

asynchronous communication with legacy components by testing and deploying IngramMicro.com/search. Led testing

and production launch with accountability for a team ranging up to 2+ members checking and verifying the code

written by developers dispersed throughout Canada, the U.S., and Pakistan. Ensured seamless integration testing of

legacy systems with AJAX and Java. Outcome: Successful launch of new e- commerce site, which still serves

Canadian and US resellers today.

Technology: Core Java, Ajax (Prototype), Quartz Cron, and Struts 1.1, Hibernate

Testing Tools: Selenium RC, Jmeter, QEngine, Load testing using Keynote Test Performance Measurement,

QTP

Venture Tech Networks: Lead a team of Test engineers on this rich-media Value Added Reseller ecommerce

application. Designed Automated Solutions for continuous monitoring of web site and also served as a business Analyst

and directly worked with customers to understand business needs and transform them into development tasks.

Completed the project yet again in record 4 months of time.

Technology: Core Java, Ajax (Prototype), Quartz Cron, and Struts 1.1, Hibernate

Testing Tools: Selenium RC, Jmeter, QEngine, QTP

Nimax AIDC-POS Reseller Site: Worked as the only QA individual on this half a million dollar project to deliver

successful ecommerce solution in just 6 months with no post-production bugs and earned my organization another similar

priced project.

Technology: Core Java, Ajax (Prototype), Quartz Cron, and Struts 1.1, Hibernate

Testing Tools: Selenium RC, Jmeter, QEngine, QTP

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENTS

Horizon Computer Systems

Founder/ Free Lance Web Developer March 2005- July 2005

PHP, Jscript, HTML, CSS based web site designs for Local SMEs

CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS

Effective Software Requirement Engineering

Business Beam Pvt. Ltd. 2009

Project Management for Professionals

Business Beam Pvt. Ltd. 2010

Several Online Workshops on Software Testing

EDUCATION

Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi May 2001 – December 2004

BS, Computer Sciences – CGPA 3.0

HONORS AND AWARDS

Best Debater Award at MAJU

Awarded Outstanding QA at Etilize Inc., (2005-2006)

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