md shakir hussain

**** ********* ******, ************, ** 19149

cell Phone: 267-***-****

email: ac3po6@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Overview

Professional Software QA Engineer/Analyst with over 4 years of Manual and Automated Testing Experience.

Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Analysis, Design, and testing of client/server and web application.

Experience working in various application development methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile.

Worked with HP ALM Quality Center (QC) to import requirements, write test cases and design steps, execute test cases, log defects and reports.

Expertise in Functional & Regression Testing, Unit & Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), GUI testing, Positive & Negative Testing, Compatibility Testing, Cross Browser Testing.

Ability to execute test cases and Automated Test Scripts, document execution results, and monitor and report status of testing process.

Experience working with Hybrid framework, updating and enhancing scripts and data as needed for QuickTest Professional/ Unified Functional Testing scripts (QTP/UFT).

Experience in front-end GUI/Web testing and performing back-end manual testing.

Expertise in Requirements Review, Test Documentation, Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM), Test Plan, Test Strategy, Use Cases, Requirements, Comprehensive Test Cases, Defect Reports, Test Execution Report, Weekly Status Report.

Proficiency in Test Analysis, Bug Detection, Defect isolation and Report generation.

Monitored the defect tracking process, trouble shooting and generating customized graphs and reports for the client, Reported Bugs using Quality Center.

Experience working with Oracle/MS SQL Databases to perform backend testing to validate constrains and retrieve test data by writing SQL queries on the command line.

Tested mobile device apps and web sites to perform compatibility testing, functional testing, interruption testing GUI testing and cross browser testing.

Experience working with Google team for Google Android testing in various operating systems.

Expertise with Boundary value analysis, Equivalence partitioning and Error guessing techniques, Smoke, Beta testing, Database and Integration testing.

Ability to work with Business Analysts, Developers and other Team Members in complex testing projects and in the overall enhancement of software product quality.

Experience in testing on multiple browser and operating systems – IE, Chrome, Firefox, Windows 7 and XP, 2000, and UNIX, Linux.

Strong aptitude towards learning new technologies/sharing ideas.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, self-motivated and a strong team player, detail oriented, proactive and deadline oriented, quick learner of new technologies, trained new recruits with business process and tools.

Technical Experience

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional/ Unified Functional Testing, ALM Quality Center, Selenium, JMeter

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista & 7, UNIX, LINUX

Languages: VBScript, HTML, CSS, Java, Ruby on Rails, Python

Database: Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL

Networking: Windows Server Configuration, Domain Controller and Clients Project, Member Server, DHCP, Login Script and Remote Access, Network+

Professional Experience

Philadelphia Gas Works, Philadelphia, PA

July 2016 – Present

Senior QA Analyst

Analyzed Business and System Requirements and interacted with users and developers.

Developed system test plans and test cases/scripts based on the user requirements and design documents.

Worked in Agile Environment, actively attended Story Grooming, Sprint Planning Meeting and closely worked with the Business Analyst and Developers to analyze User Stories and Acceptance Criteria

Performed Functional testing, Black box testing, System testing, and Regression testing.

Developed and maintained comprehensive test cases and procedures for all aspect of testing.

Prepared Test Data for Data Validation for the execution of the Test Cases.

Interfaced with developers in resolving the defects investigated in the application during testing.

Developing design step executing test cases, logging defects and generating Graphs & Reports, documented final results and summarized issues, defects or bugs using Quality Center.

Manually tested data from high level to detail level during verifications.

Working closely with team members to ensure status and schedules are communicated

Extensively performed manual and automation testing activities using Quality Center.

Performed data validation and analyzed test result for data comparison reports.

Performed hands-on manual testing to validate that software meets the requirements.

Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from database to validate the user interface.

Developed automated test scripts for regression testing, based on the requirement documents, using Quick Test Professional.

Managed Shared Object Repository to maintain, add, and updated Objects from UI

Interacted with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client’s requirement for a better-quality software product

Tested mobile device apps on iOS and Android platform to perform compatibility testing, functional testing, interruption testing GUI testing and cross browser testing

H&R Block, Kansas City, MO

June 2015 - July 2016

QA Analyst II

Involved in Preparing Test Planned writing Test Cases.

Gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to System Testing/End to End Testing.

Created test plans in accordance to the Business requirements, which describes the scope, focus, and approach of application.

Facilitated discussions with Design and Dev teams to verify developed scripts effectively cover the requirements.

Reviewed manual testing methods and developed and executed manual scripts.

Developed test scripts using Quality Center.

Worked with design/ development/ test leads to resolve issues with developed scripts and verified application functionalities.

Performed Functionality Testing, Regression and GUI Testing using Quality Center.

Generated various graphs like summary graphs in QC Analysis and reported the results.

Involved in writing SQL queries to check the data integrity.

Investigated software faults and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.

Various documents like Test flows and Test performance were built using MS Word/Excel.

Performed Positive and Negative testing.

Monitored the defect tracking process, trouble shooting and generating customized graphs and reports for the client. Reported Bugs using Quality Center.

Validated the Production Environment prior to go live.

Performed browser compatibility testing on different platforms.

Attended daily defect meeting and weekly update meetings with QA Manager to discuss the status of Projects.

Performed Data Validation and Data Integration for Back End Testing using SQL Queries.

Reviewed manual testing methods and developed and executed automated scripts.

Developed test automation scripts using QTP.

Reported issues into the bug reporting system and follow up with the development team.

Dutch Bangla Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh

June 2013 – April 2015

QA Tester/Analyst

Fully involved in analyzing Business Requirement Documents and writing Test Plan.

Developed Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.

Analyzed the Test plan, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, test requirements and necessary resources.

Involved in Manual testing using Quality Center to develop test cases, test scripts, executing the scripts and logging the defects.

Performed Manual Testing on different modules of the application.

Involved in Functional, System, Functional Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing

Wrote and executed SQL queries in validating test results

Used Scheduler to schedule scripts run at particular time.

Supported the use of QC for automation metrics tracking and test execution.

Customized scripts for error detection and recovery.

Ensured that quality issues are appropriately identified, analyzed, documented, tracked and resolved in QC.

Provided a weekly project report that includes Test Metrics and status reports

Participated in weekly status meetings, and conducted walkthroughs for team members, and documented the proceedings.

Participated in meetings with developers to discuss enhancements and modifications.

Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations.

Education

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology English December 2014 1st Class Honors

Status

US Resident (Green Card Holder)

Reference

Available upon request.

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