SAM ALAM.

Cell: 646-***-****.

Email : ac3pe9@r.postjobfree.com Queens, New York – 11368.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 6+ years of IT experience with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance in both Manual and Automated testing on Web based and Client server applications.

Extensive knowledge Agile/Scrum, Waterfall methodologies.

Extensive Selenium Web driver using Java and Manual testing experience.

Experienced in HP toolset: HP Quality Center/ALM, HP Quick Test Professional/UFT.

Hands on experience in Preparing Test Plans, Test case and Test data and executing the same.

Well acquainted with all phase of SDLC and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Good Exposure on Bug Life Cycle.

Solid working experienced in Smoke/Sanity, Functional, Regression, Black box, Backend,

Ad -hoc testing, User Acceptance Testing.

Well versed with Handling Element locators, Web Driver methods and TestNG Annotations.

Performing Data driven testing by using Apache POI for test data distribution from Excel workbook to respective elements.

Experienced in Page Object model (POM).

Extensive experience on Web Services testing (SOAP, REST API) using SOAP UI

Having knowledge Behavior Data Driven (BDD), Cucumber.

Automated and scheduled build using Continuous integration tool Jenkins Server at a time.

Experienced working version control with GIT, GitHub.

Designed and executed SQL queries to validate UI and database details.

Documented defects, tracked defects and produced defect analysis report using JIRA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Java, .Net, C ++

Database Systems : My SQL, Oracle, SQL Server

Bug Tracking tools : HP ALM/Quality Center, JIRA

Technical Tools : Selenium Web driver, Soap UI, HP UFT/Quick Test Professional, Cucumber (BDD).

Web Technologies : HTML5, CSS3, Web Services, SOAP, REST, WSDL

Operating System : Windows, Linux

IDE Framework : Eclipse IDE, TestNG, Junit

Build Tools : Maven, Jenkins.

Version Control : GIT, TFS.

Status: US Citizen.

Education Qualification :

Bachelors, Computer Science - National University. Bangladesh.

Work Experience

Current Project

M & T BANK, Buffalo, New York April 2016 - Present

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Manual and Automation Testing.

Review and analyze User stories to determine reasonability, testability, resource requirements and sequencing.

Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.

Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, User-Acceptance (UAT) testing.

Developed Test suits and Test Cases using HP ALM /Quality Center.

Planed, Prepared and updated scripts using HP ALM/Quality Center.

Used HP ALM/Quality Center to house all test documentation and report/track all issues and defects.

Automated Smoke and Functional test cases using Selenium Web driver and Java.

Executed of test suites and HTML report generation using TestNG.

Designed, developed and implemented Page Object Model (POM) Pattern utilizing Selenium Web driver and Java language.

Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically.

Attended daily scrum calls as part of Agile /Scrum methodology.

Used SQL Server to write complex SQL queries to fulfill Backend testing.

Attended weekly review meetings to discuss defects along with testers, developers.

Reported software defects and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.

Project #2

United Health Group, Horsham, PA April 2014 – March 2016

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Involved in Analyzing the User requirements.

Involved in Sanity Testing, Functional, Accessibility, BVT, Compatibility testing and Regression testing.

Gathered the Test data for Test cases and Test Scenarios.

Used HP Quality Center/ALM to create Test Plans and Test Cases and register the expected results.

Tracked and managed all the defects using bug tracker tool JIRA.

Actively involved in Agile /SCRUM activities, Sprint Planning sessions, and Retrospective meetings.

Automated the Regression test cases using the Selenium Webdriver & TestNG.

Performed cross browser functional testing using Selenium Web Driver.

Performed Data driven testing using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG functions which reads data from property and XML files.

Tested Enterprise SOAP and Restful Web Services using SOAP UI tool.

Developed SQL queries and Performed backend testing to validate data integrity in data base tables.

Project #3

GEICO Insurance, Chevy Chase, MD Feb 2013 - January 2014

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Involvement in the System Test Plan Preparation and Requirements Streaming.

Involvement in Preparation of Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data.

Worked on Agile methodologies.

Responsible for Ad hoc Testing, System testing, Functional testing, using Black box Testing Techniques.

Involvement in Test Execution, Results Analyzing and Defect Reporting.

Involvement in RTM preparation.

After Test passed manually then after feasibility we will it based on priority.

Performed Functional, Regression using HP UFT/Quick Test Professional (QTP).

Responsible for converting manual Test Cases into automated Test Scripts using HP QTP.

Used Checkpoints, Descriptive programming (DP) and Data Driven Test Scripts in HP QTP.

Created a Data Driven Framework of automation for the application using VBScript coding in HP Quick Test Professional (QTP).

Used HP ALM/Quality Center (QC) for defect tracking and defect reporting.

Preparation of Daily, weekly, monthly status reports.

Project #4

Barnes and Noble, New York, NY June 2011 - December 2012

QA Manual Tester.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Requirement Gathering Phase.

Test Case Preparation & Test Execution.

Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing.

Reporting of Test Case execution progress.

Involved in Team Meeting and Client Interaction.

Involved in Integration Discussion.

Performed the API testing using SOAP UI Rest Services.

Identified End to end business Scenarios for testing.

Monitored and enhanced the test process and defect methodology.

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Monitoring the Defects, raised during all the phases of testing of the project.

Uploading Manual test case documents in to HP ALM/Quality Center (QC), Requirement Mapping and Test lab preparation.

Knowledge transfer of Offshore.

Performed Test Case execution using HP ALM/ Quality Center (QC).

Defect Reporting and Tracking using JIRA tools.

Involved in UAT Support in execution process and Reporting Issues/Defect to UAT Team.

Execute the SQL queries to identify and prepare the test data characteristics

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