KHALED RIZVE

New York City, NY *****

Phone: 914-***-**** Email: ac756f@r.postjobfree.com

Status: US Citizen with Active Moderate Risk (MBI) Background Investigation Clearance

PROFILE:

Eight plus years of experience in the Information Technology Industry with diversified experience in automated, manual, functional, performance, backend, API and 508 testing of Web and Client/Server applications on Windows/Mac-OS-X/Unix-Linux environment to secure a position of QA Analyst/Software Test Engineer/QA Tester/Automation QA Tester/Quality assurance analyst in a progressive company where my resourceful technical, academic skills and certifications will add value to organizational operations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools:

TFS (Team Foundation Server), HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Atlassian JIRA, HP Quality center, RALLY/CA Agile Central (ALM), Atlassian Confluence, Test Director 8.x.

508 Compliance Tools:

JAWS, NVDA, voiceover, ChromeVox and Android TalkBack for screen readers, Color contrast Analyzer for color, Dragon NaturallySpeaking for voice recognition, ZoomText, CommonLook and WAVE extension for web accessibility evaluation testing.

Database and Tools used for Testing:

SQL (Structured Query Language), Oracle 10x/11x, Microsoft SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle SQL Developer and TOAD.

IDE:

Eclipse, Sublime, notepad++, Oracle SQL Developer, Textedit etc.

Test-Automation Tools:

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP/UFT), Selenium IDE/Web Driver, GIT, Source Tree, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Cucumber

Web-Service/API Testing Tools:

Postman for REST API and SOAPUI for SOAP API testing.

Performance-Testing Tool:

HP LoadRunner

Languages Used for Testing:

VB Script, Java, Ruby, C++, C#, HTML, CSS, Java Script, XML, JSON

Operating-Systems Used for Testing:

Windows (XP, Vista, 7,8 and 10), Mac OSX, Unix, and Linux, iOS and Android

Other Office Tools:

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, Microsoft Team, Lync, Skype, Skype for Business, Microsoft Office 365.

SKILL SUMMARY:

Experienced in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Experienced in Agile Methodology

Knowledge of Capability of Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).

Experienced with QA Methodology to ensure better Quality Control.

Experience with 508 compliance testing.

An expert on Functional, regression, UAT and Performance testing.

Understanding and interpreting requirement specifications.

Understand the impact of functionality changes and/or enhancements and the importance of release management.

Experienced in writing Test plans, Test matrix, Test cases, developing and maintaining Test scripts and defect log, and Test Scenarios.

Expertise in Manual Testing and Automated Testing of applications developed in various Environments.

Expertise in using Testing tools: HP QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner, selenium, VuGen, Quality Center, TestDirector, RALLY, ALM

Expertise in testing Performance, Load, and Stress for Client/Server and Web application.

Experience in SQL queries to perform Backend testing using SQL *Plus, TOAD, and Oracle SQL developer.

Extensive experience with core software applications like Microsoft.Net, PHP/MySQL, Java, Ruby, web and client server applications.

Working knowledge of Mobile testing.

Ability to transmit technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Ability to prioritize along critical path and meeting project milestones and deliverable dates.

Strong communicator and skillful in working closely with customers to identify and resolve problems.

Knowledge and understanding of WCAG 2.0, ADA and 508 compliance testing.

Excellent communication skills, versatile team player with excellent interpersonal and technical documentation skills and handling multiple projects simultaneously.

Accurate, precise, and highly ethical in all work-related assignments.

Experience working on Devops, CI/CD environment.

Experience with Selenium Web driver, Ruby, Cucumber automation framework.

Possess an Outstanding Problem Solving, and Presentation skills.

Understanding of REST/SOAP API testing with Postman/SOAPUI.

Hands-on experience working with Citrix.

Experience testing with AWS (Amazon web services) and other cloud infrastructure environment.

Great knowledge of cross-browser compatibility testing using (IE, Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari) browsers.

A dynamic, polished, energetic, and team-spirited professional with outstanding core strengths.

Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, Positive, Negative, System, Data Driven, GUI and UAT Testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

ASM Research

Subsidiary of Accenture

Project: MODS

Client: Department of Defense

Fairfax, Virginia

Quality assurance Analyst II May 2018- Present

Main Responsibilities:

Analyze requirements and perform test efforts.

Participate is Sprint Planning, Scrum meetings, and in test team status meetings as part of Agile Scrum team member.

Lead Accessibility/508 compliance team as client POC.

Write and execute test cases.

Write and Manage Issue/Defect/Bugs.

Database/Backend testing on MS SQL Server 2014.

Data Migration and ETL Process management.

Perform REST API testing using POSTMAN

Perform SOAP API testing using SOAPUI/Ready API.

Perform (Smoke/sanity, Integration, functional, regression and UAT) testing.

Support testing effort for Test, Dev, Pre-Production and Production environment.

ASM Research

Subsidiary of Accenture

Project: CCQAS/JCCQAS

Clients: Department of Defense and Department of veteran’s affairs

Fairfax, Virginia

Quality assurance Analyst II August 2017- May 2018

Main Responsibilities:

Participate is Sprint Planning, Scrum meetings, and in test team status meetings as part of Agile Scrum team member.

Analyze requirements and perform test efforts.

Design, develop and execute functional/Regression test cases that ensure the software meets the intended requirements and quality standards

As a key member of 508 Compliance testing team contributes deep product testing expertise to identify, creates and executes 508 Checklist/test scenarios and suites that fully satisfy project requirements.

Performed 508/Accessibility testing using JAWS/NVDA screen reader.

Perform different types of testing including (Smoke/Ad-Hoc/Functional/Regression/UI-UX/Positive/Negative/Performance) etc.

Maintain, Execute and validate test cases and test procedures for Functional and Non-Functional testing.

Use WAVE browser extension to identify Accessibility Bugs.

Coach team members on different types of testing approach and methodology.

Heavily use TFS (Team Foundation Server) to maintain User story, Acceptance criteria, testing task, write bugs, track bugs and reporting.

Provide detail description of the root cause of an issue/defect/bug to software engineers/developers and work with them to resolve.

Work with Data Staging team to stage data using different methods.

Interact with test team and other groups to identify, create, and maintain test data needed to execute test cases and end-user training.

Help to update User Guide for the end users.

Perform Cross-Browser testing.

Work closely as part of configuration and release management team member.

Ensure that all best practices and enterprise standards are followed.

ASM Research

Subsidiary of Accenture

Project: VistA/CPRS/eHMP

Client: Department of Veterans Affairs

Chantilly, Virginia

Quality assurance Analyst April 2015- August 2017

Main Responsibilities:

As a key member of an Agile product development team, contribute deep product testing expertise to identify, creates and executes functional test case scenarios/suites that fully satisfy requirements

Design, develop and execute functional/UAT test cases that ensure the software meets the intended requirements and quality standards

Attained PSI and Sprint planning

Leads in defining Acceptance criteria for user stories.

Work closely with Product Owners to understand product specifics and to create corresponding test plan, quality standards, and strategies for the project

Maintain Functional and Non-Functional testing and testing report.

Tests GUI applications for 508 compliances with JAWS/NVDA and work with GUI/UX team to improve End user experience.

Review test scenarios for completeness and work closely with PO, Developer, and Leads.

As part of DevOps team participate in improving test processes, propose new ideas on how to improve test process and quality of the product.

Locally deploy Code and test the code before it makes into Test or Production environment.

Regularly upgrade/edit the User guide of the application for the end user and the client.

Run Automated acceptance, Unit and Smoke test.

Maintains traceability matrices and writes test case/reports /Defect report

Document and classify defects in a defect tracking tool using rally, Jira also CA Agile central

Deploy development environment using Unix/Linux commands.

Use and mentor Selenium Webdriver, GIT/Gradle commands, Source tree, terminal.

Run Acceptance test locally before code deploy to the Test environment.

Follow Build management using Jenkins (Continues integration tool) to test the latest build and track recent code changes.

Ensure that all best practices and enterprise standards are followed

Participate in user experience wireframe planning and use Axure share tool to maintain plan and prototype.

Managed Defects analysis report and Triage meeting.

Load and Reliability testing on Pre-prod and Production environment to identify and report performance bottlenecks.

ISHPI information technologies Inc.

Project: CAS

Client: U.S. Securities and exchange commission

Tyson’s Corner, Virginia

Software QA tester January 2015- April 2015

Main Responsibilities:

Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).

Worked with project team members and other stakeholders during design and development to understand requirements and design tests

Assists with assessing testability of requirements

Developed test plans, test designs, and test cases

Developed test scripts with Quick Test Professional (QTP) and other test programs

Used Selenium IDE/Webdriver to automate existing test cases.

Executed tests according to test plans and records test results, evaluating test success criteria and test completion.

Used SQL statements to insert, update and delete data from the database Oracle SQL developer.

used JIRA to help the development team while investigating test incidents to ensure all defects are fixed.

Provided input to test-related team standards and practices

Reported and entered defects and problems into Quality Center, CA Agile central.

Maintained automation scripts and execute them using QTP.

Collaborates with the self-directed development team.

Panzer solutions

Project: SFC/NDI

Client: U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Rockville, Maryland

Software Test Automation Analyst October 2014 – January 2015

Main Responsibilities:

Participate in planning all testing activities accordingly to ensure deliverables are met on time; including test planning, test execution, defect tracking and reporting

Plan, design, evaluate, and execute test cases and test plans for UAT, Functional, System, Regression, and Section 508 Compliance testing

Implement tests based on systems understanding and analysis of functional and systems specifications

Developed automation and regression scripts using QTP quick test professional.

Maintained test cases and requirements on Application life cycle management (ALM).

Created and maintain test data

Also, used ALM/JIRA to log the issue and track issues.

Document and present detailed and summary test findings throughout the life of the project

Effectively balanced work on multiple projects and teams simultaneously

DotConnet Solutions Inc

Project: Exim

Client: Ex-Im Bank USA

Washington, D.C.

Software Quality Assurance Analyst July 2012 – October 2014

Main Responsibilities:

Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).

Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases/Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements.

Involved in Manual and Automation testing of web Application.

Performed Functional, Negative, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression, End to End, UAT and Performance Testing.

Allocated priorities to all the test cases, taking into consideration the product module priorities.

Conducted elaborate manual testing on test cases and provided feedback to the development team.

Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests defect tracking and managing the defects.

Wrote SQL statements in the script to retrieve data from the database to verify accurate data stored in the database as well as back-end testing.

Analysis of automation tools and usage on their web-based application and recommendations for Performance testing lab methodology as well as scripting for intranet/internet.

Identified testing methodology functional, load, stress testing based on the business processes and analyzed the business requirements along with Product Manager & Project Manager to make Test determine Synchronization points using LoadRunner and QTP.

Documented the Test Results and presented the daily and weekly report to QA Manager.

DotConnect Solutions Inc

Project: Banking domain

Client: Wells Fargo

Charlotte, North Carolina.

Software QA Analyst May 2011 – May 2012

Main Responsibilities:

Researched and analyzed software requirements, workflows and designs to define detailed test suites, test cases, data, and procedures.

Written test plans, documenting bugs, and communicating with Development, Operations, and Product Management.

Created test cases, scripts, and data from the approved requirement and design documents.

Reported and entered defects and problems into Quality Center.

Performed Manual and Functional testing to test the functionality of the modules.

Worked with the QA Manager in developing responsibility Matrices for the Team Members periodically.

Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant use cases.

Worked with end users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.

Wrote and recorded VB scripts for automating the testing procedure using QuickTest Pro.

Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.

Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generating various reports and graphs for further analysis.

Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

Designed Performance test scenarios using LoadRunner, ran Stress test, analyzed the results.

Conducted Load and Reliability testing on workflows to identify and report performance bottlenecks.

Participated in the development of User Manuals for clients.

DotConnect Solutions Inc

Project: Healthcare

Client: Kaiser Parmanente

Silver Spring, Maryland.

Software Testing Engineer May 2010 - April 2011

Main Responsibilities:

Responsible for Client interaction. Issue resolution, writing test scenarios based on inputs from business leads.

Involved in analyzing and writing test plan in accordance with business requirements.

Analyzed business requirements and system specification.

Involved in managing the requirements and assigning priorities with TestDirector.

Developed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts for testing the applications.

Used SQL statements to insert, update and delete data from the database.

Worked with SQL and PL/SQL to test database functionality.

Performed web test using QTP for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames, and tables.

Performed Black box testing including Smoke, Functional and Regression testing using QTP.

Created VB Scripts files as per the test plan requirements.

Conducted back-end testing & data-driven testing using QTP.

Conducted End-To-End testing and automated the test using QTP.

Designed and executed automated test scripts for Functional, GUI and Navigational testing to identify errors within the applications using QTP.

Managed the Traceability between requirements and test cases.

Maintain Functional and Non-Functional testing and testing report.

EDUCATION:

Advance Diploma in Business Management

Minor: Computer Information Systems and Technology

London Trinity College, United Kingdom

Technical Diploma in IT and Testing

Diploma in computer science and engineering.

Diploma in software and hardware engineering.

Professional certification

Certified scrum master (CSM)

Accredited software tester certification (ISTI-ASTC)

Agile Scrum team member accredited certification (STMAC)

Manual testing Professional (Ranksheet)

Mobile testing Professional (Ranksheet)

Cloud200X-Cloud Computing (Microsoft)

ICAgile Certified Professional (ICT-TST)

Leading Awareness-Based Systems Change (MITx)

Cybersecurity domain certificate (University System of Georgia)

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Accessibility (Georgia Tech)

Reference: Available upon request.

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