SHARMIN JAHAN AHMED

ac8p2c@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 571-***-****

US-Citizen with active clearance and over 5 years of software testing experience seeking a challenging position as a Software QA Engineer based on strong analytical background, extensive experience in US Government, Financial and Health industries.

Professional Summary:

In depth knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its different types of methodologies such as Waterfall, V-Model and Agile (Scrum).

Defined Test Scope and Strategy for a release and managed them based on the change in Requirements.

Involved and Participated in requirements analysis, review and working sessions to understand the requirements and system design.

Experienced in working with the Business Analyst to understand the business process and develop Test Strategy.

Experienced in all Testing Activities including (Requirement review, develop test case, functional test scenarios Test Strategy, Test Plan, Environment Setup, Test Execution, Log Defect and Test report and Support from Customer Site).

Expert in writing, documenting or reviewing Test Plan, Requirement Document, Design Document, Technical Specification Design, Functional Requirement Specifications and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Involved in estimation of test effort and co-ordinate test schedule with overall project schedule and deliverables.

Experienced in Manual and Automation testing for Web and Client/Server applications.

Strong experience in different types of testing such as System, Functional, Integration, Regression, Back End, 508 compliance testing, Positive, Negative, Black Box, White Box and support client to Customer Accept testing.

Experienced in using various HP/Mercury testing tools such as ALM/QC, Microsoft test manager, knowledge of Selenium.

Closely worked with the developer and the other team members to solve any technical and end user issues.

Very strong in writing complex SQL queries and testing all the database applications of RDBMS in ORACLE 10g, SQL Server 2008 R2.

Worked as a Production Support tester and completed tasks on time under very tight deadlines.

Monitored the work Progress and represented the status report to the upper management on weekly basis.

Worked closely with cross functional teams (technical and Business teams) to meet on time delivery on time.

Strong working knowledge of MS-Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Windows, UNIX, Linux.

Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills as well as strong problem-solving skills and a great team player.

Skill Sets:

Testing Tools

HP ALM 11.5, Sprinter. HP Quality center, Quick Test Professional 11/UFT 12, Microsoft Test Manger, Rally. Bag tracking tools JIRA.

Programming Languages

VBScripts, VBA.Net, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, VB Script, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, XML, PL/SQL, T-SQL

Data Bases

Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2008 R2, DB2, MySQL, Vista

Operating Systems

Windows, Unix/Linux

Browsers

Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome

Professional Experiences

Client: Department of Defense

Software QA tester

DELOITTE LLC

Falls Church, VA

06/2017-present

Project Description: At DHA, provide military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers and force planners in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, in support of U.S. military planning and operations and weapon systems acquisition. The project handling about 90 internal applications mainly related with Department Integration System etc. Data interchange, Data relocation, Back end validation of source data and prod data VS test data & warehouse data.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents and Functional specification documents to prepare Test cases based on Test Plans.

Gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to application testing.

Closely interacted with Business Analysts, designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow.

Performed regression, functionality, System, Interface, front end, back end, negative, positive and user acceptance Testing using manual

Used Quality Center to create Test outlines and maintained Test scripts and created, modified and debugged the Scripts.

Tracked the Defects status using Quality Center and presented the status report to client every day.

Used SQL, PL/SQL queries for backend testing.

Created, Modified and implemented the automated Scripts using HP Quick Test Professional.

Works according Performed functionality testing to make sure that application to

Involved in Regression testing using QTP.

Helped the team in solving all technical issues and also acted as a point of contact to the Business Analysts and Developers.

Conducted regular team meetings to drive continuous improvement in process of product delivery.

Involved in the weekly status meeting and walkthroughs to discuss the upcoming releases and changes in the code or the hardware requirements and other major issues.

Accenture federal /Able Vets LLC. Client: Department of Veteran Affairs

Chantilly, VA

Quality Assurance Specialist

06/2015– 03/2017

Project Description: As a “Quality Assurance Specialist” supporting Department of Veterans Affairs’ Health Care (Remediation) Project. The project handling about 75 internal applications mainly related with veterans’ Health Care, Emergency Department Integration System etc. Data interchange, Data relocation, Back end validation of source data and prod data VS test data & warehouse data.

Responsibilities:

Assisted users for user acceptance testing (UAT)

Outstanding experience in UAT/QA design, development and execution

Responsible for conducting user Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Involved in UAT of the applications by providing users with test cases and scenarios and guiding them during the testing process.

Involved in heavy mobile device testing, writing manual test cases for mobile device as well as desktop application

Involved in Section 508 compliance and Usability testing against mobile devices and desktop devices in Voice Over, Talk Back and NVDA tools.

Execute detailed validation of application functionality, report Data integrity, and Real-time data integration.

Wrote Test Plans and Test Cases into HP Quality Center for Functional and Regression Testing.

Involved in data Preparation and Execute Tests for the project.

Involved in the team meetings with representatives from Development, Database Management, Configuration

Prepared Test Status Reports during test execution phase

Tracked and reported defect using Jira

Conducted Cross Browser, Configuration, UAT and Regression Testing on the application.

Involved in data Preparation and Execute Tests for the project

Perform Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration testing, Regression testing, (UAT) User Acceptance testing and Database testing at various phases of the development and test cycles.

Worked with other team members and conducted the weekly status meeting to make sure the all team members are on the same page

Participated in weekly meeting and Daily stand up meeting, defect prioritization meetings.

Work in the agile development environment and participated on Sprint Planning, Sprint Review (Demo) meeting and Daily stand-up and retrospective meetings and update day to day status to agile team.

Reviewed Business Requirements, Functional and Technical specifications with business analyst and QA manager to learn the functionality and process.

Data Group Inc. Client: Sun Trust Bank

Springfield, VA

Quality Assurance Specialist

11/2013 – 05/2015

Project Description: SunTrust Banks migrating oracle database 11g to 12 C and enhancing the

existing platform for the following applications loan origination system (LOS),Loan Management system (LSM) and Integrated collection system and building share service among the component to allowed SunTrust bank to automate its loan origination process, by allowing the loan officers to enter the data directly into the system, manage new mortgages by tracking the status, and by producing the task list and delegating them to the other users within the other organization. In the new application, multiple users can work parallel on the same mortgage Case

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents and Functional specification documents

to prepare Test cases based on Test Plans.

Gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to

application testing.

Closely interacted with Business Analysts, designers and software developers to

understand application functionality and navigational flow.

Performed regression, functionality, System, Interface, front end, back end, negative,

positive and user acceptance Testing using manual and Automation testing.

Used Quality Center to create Test outlines and maintained Test scripts and created,

modified and debugged the Scripts.

Tracked the Defects status using Quality Center and presented the status report to client

every day.

Used SQL, PL/SQL queries for backend testing.

Created, Modified and implemented the automated Scripts using HP Quick Test

Professional.

Works according Performed functionality testing to make sure that application to

functional specification using QTP.

Involved in Regression testing using QTP.

Helped the team in solving all technical issues and also acted as a point of contact to the

Business Analysts and Developers.

Conducted regular team meetings to drive continuous improvement in process of

product delivery.

Involved in the weekly status meeting and walkthroughs to discuss the upcoming

releases and changes in the code or the hardware requirements and other major issues.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, QTP, XML Spy, SQL Server, SOAP UI, Java Web Server, Windows.

Educational:

Master’s in social science-2002

National University of Bangladesh

Technical Training:

HP-QC/ALM Certification Training Completed- 2014 and 508 compliance Training

Reference

Available upon request

Clearance:

Public Trust.

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