Test Cases Engineer

Syeda Ahmed 831-***-****

CAREER OBJECTIVE

A challenging Software Test Engineer / Quality Assurance Analyst position where my vast experience of Testing across multiple technologies and platforms could be used and there is an opportunity to learn.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 7 years of professional experience in Information Technology with extensive knowledge in Quality Assurance, Manual and Automation Testing.

Experience in testing Web-Site/E-business/E-commerce/Banking and retail domain, different environments in Java/UNIX and Windows.

Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers, technical support and help them in base line from the requirement specifications.

Experience on Selenium IDE and creating Scripts in Selenium WebDriver using Java.

Experience in Black box testing and Build Verification/Release Procedure of requirement.

Extensively used automated test tools like Selenium for Functional and Regression Testing.

Profound working knowledge in defect tracking tools Quality Center/ALM and JIRA.

Experience in writing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, and Traceability Matrix.

Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Experience in performing Build Verification, Positive, Negative, Boundary, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Performance, Load/Stress, Security, GUI Cross-Browser and User Acceptance, and Web based e-commerce applications testing knowledge.

Experience in reviewing all kind of testability docs like Requirement Specification, and Business Rules.

Experience in Quality Analyst, issue identification, defect logging and verification, Problem resolution.

Experience in writing SQL queries by using DDL and DML language and can write join queries.

Experience in changing the user requirements to system level test cases.

Excellent knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), and testing methods like Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and V-Model.

Versatile team player with good analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.

Interested in new technologies and able to learn quickly.

SKILL SET

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, UNIX, Android, iOS.

Languages: SQL, HTML, XML, Java, .NET

Automation Tool: Selenium WebDriver, SoapUI, Load Runner, QTP

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access

Test Management Tools: HP ALM, JIRA, Rational ClearQuest

Scripting Languages: VB Script, Java script, Shell Script

Networking Technology: SQL Plus, TOAD, PuTTY, WinSCP

Application Software: MS Office, MS Paint, Adobe Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bank of America Charlotte, NC

Senior QA Engineer Sep 15 - Present

The project involves creating Testing automation for windows based applications used for trading and managing Stocks and Bonds. As part of the core team which is responsible for developing automation strategy and framework design. Create several framework functions like Opening up applications, reading/updating spreadsheets, uploading test results to HP ALM for use by the entire automation team. As a pre-step for automation, designed and created all the test cases. Ran tests manually to understand the application functionality before starting on the automation.

Responsibilities:

As a member of the Agile (Scrum and Sprint) team participated in daily stand-up meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.

Working closely with QA Manager and Business Analyst to prepare Business Requirements to create Test Plans, Test Cases and test approach/strategy documents.

Develop and execute Test Cases and Test Scripts based on the requirement documents and manage it using HP ALM/ Quality Center.

Developing automated scripts using Selenium for functional and regression testing.

Implement automation testing framework and maintain up-to-date automated scripts in Selenium WebDriver using for regression and functional testing.

Conduct Data-Driven Framework to test the application with different sets of data from the external source.

Prepared and executed Test Cases with different Test Sets for different objectives based on the Business/Functional requirements.

Create and maintain SQL Scripts to perform back-end testing on the oracle database.

Responsible for Manual Mobile native application testing and manual mobile web application testing.

Working with Multiple mobile application simultaneously: iOS, Android, Tablet.

Validate Web Services request and response xml using SoapUI.

Performing Manual and automation testing of the web application and its integration components using SoapUI.

Responsible in taking reports on the performance of the tool using Load Runner.

Test the moving of the service to production after the UAT approval.

Interact with QA Automation team and managers to nail down the technical problems.

Participating in Project Team Meeting and help in reviewing the Defects and its severity.

Managing the Requirements, Test plans, Test lab and Defects in ALM/ Quality center.

Envisage Information System Atlanta, GA

Senior Test Engineer Oct 13 - Aug 15

Envisage Information Systems is an independent software development company providing record keeping system and other web interfaces, data connection, and work flow automation products to America's retirement industry.

Responsibilities:

Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data and Test Summary Reports (TSR).

Conducted Requirements walk through within the Testing team.

Designed and Developed automation script in Selenium WebDriver using Java.

Performed both UI and backend automation using Selenium WebDriver.

Designed and implemented test scripts and managed Selenium test automation processes.

Involved in Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, GUI and Stress Testing.

Written, executed Test cases, and documented defects in the HP ALM.

Tracked and reported defects into HP ALM and notified management with details.

Arranged meetings with the Project Teams to discuss the test approach used for the Data Conversion and ETL modules.

Worked with ETL group for understating mappings for dimensions and facts

Performed manual integration, functional, regression, end-to-end and exploratory testing of the mobile applications on Android, iOS and BlackBerry devices.

Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI.

Conducted data integration testing by extensive use of SQL.

Was responsible for analyzing data from Oracle and MS SQL server, running SQL queries to provide decision support

Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Conducted functional, regression, integration, system testing and UAT tests.

Managed software defect information, interacted with Business users to fix severity and priority of issues.

Coordinated with PM, BA's, Developers and functional teams and coordinated meetings.

The Port Authority of NY and NJ, New York, NY

Software Test Analyst Nov 11- Sep 13

Sanef ITS Technologies is upgrading the tolling hardware as well as implementing the full back office functionality for The Port Authority of NY and NJ. The implementation includes upgrading six tolling lanes with latest hardware as well as software in order to ease traffic situation at the tolling facility. My scope of work included leading the offshore development team (3 members) as well as getting the work done with acceptable quality standards within the defined time lines.

Role/Responsibilities:

Developed and executed Test Cases and Test Scripts based on the requirement documents and managed it using HP ALM/Quality Center.

Created Automation Test Scripts in HP QTP and involved in Automation Framework Development.

Prepared automated scripts for Maintenance and Regression testing using HP QTP.

Have excellent skills in VB scripting, written many re-usable VBScript functions to automate the application.

Writing and executing functional as well as regression test plans for testing various applications implementing the various system functionalities.

Extensive use of SQL queries for querying and verification of data visible on the UIs.

Leaded the testing team offshore and giving the right direction to them in order for them to have a better understanding of client requirements.

Managed the Test Deliverables and making sure that the deliveries are released to Test in time.

Provided Demos and User Training to Client employees to be able to adapt to the new system quickly.

Was Responsible for coordinating with client and offshore and involved in requirement gathering, design meetings.

Communicated and coordinated with offshore team, developers, design teams.

Was Responsible in investigating, resolving, escalating the production issues to the higher layers as per the process.

Was Responsible in regular system and application health checks.

Was Responsible for testing various mobile models to check the functionality of the sites.

Worked on shell scripting.

Involved in performance evaluation and compatibility with other portal Managers.

Monitored the team by reviewing their test cases, load and performance cases.

Defect tracking and test reporting using HP ALM.

Responsible for testing mobile applications and sites on different mobile models.

Conducted status review meetings periodically to check the progress of the project.

Amazon.com Seattle, WA

Software Test Engineer May 10 - Oct 11

Worked on Amazon Fresh, the new Amazon grocery delivery service. The website is JSP/Struts/Java/MySQL stack on Linux. The fulfilment application is Ruby on Rails with MySQL backend on Linux. This service became active in Seattle area in a record 8 months from start of work.

Responsibilities:

Actively participated in all phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) from requirement analysis to User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Responsible for developing Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test procedures based on the requirements submitted by the Business analysts.

Created SQL scripts to run against Oracle database for back-end testing.

Involved in writing and testing complex SQL queries involving more than three table joins and getting explained to verify the SQL performance

Participating in Walk Through, Bugs scrub meetings, feature team meetings, Defect report meetings periodically, Defect tracking and analysis.

Performed end to end testing and communicated project and testing status to internal and external teams.

Participated in post-mortems back to future and analyse the results for future improvement.

Coordinated with the Product Management and Business Analysts and Users for functional issues with the application.

Developed detailed test cases and use cases based on functional specification and other technical documentation. Covered positive, negative and boundary value conditions.

Provided web-specific types of testing including browser compatibility, operating system compatibility, navigation, links, images and on-line forms.

Managed the entire test process, scheduled batch tests, and logged and tracked defects using Rational ClearQuest, and followed up the bug life cycle.

Communicated with developers and testers to isolate and resolve various issues.

EDUCATION

Master of Arts

Contact this candidate