Test Project

Adil Saeed

Cell: +1-416-***-**** e-mail: ac9buq@r.postjobfree.com

ISTQB (CTFL) - certified Quality Assurance analyst with +12 years of experience and in-depth domain knowledge of P-C (property & Casualty) Insurance, HR, Payrolls, Financial, Train movement & logistics and Customer loyalty programs.

Domain Knowledge

Tools & Technologies

Auto & Property Insurance

Payroll Systems

Financial Reporting Systems

HR Systems

Customer Loyalty Programs

Finance & Wealth Management

Online Education Systems

Policy Management Systems

Train Movement & Logistics

RALLY, RTC (Agile)

HP ALM, HP OMI

ClearQuest, JIRA

Beyond Compare

Share Point

Selenium, UFT (QTP)

Jenkins

Wireshark

WebSphere MQs

MS SQL Server, Oracle, LDAP, DB2, SYBASE

WINDOWS, UNIX, LINUX

WCM, SOAP UI, Web Services

Agile, Iterative & Waterfall

Test Strategy & Planning

Resource Allocation

Regression & Integration testing

Functional & Acceptance testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client : Canadian National Railway (CN) Oct 2018 – Current

Project : Positive Train Control (PTC)

Role : QA Lead / Sr. QA Consultant

Tools : HP ALM, Share Point, Wireshark, Remedy, JIRA, Confluence

Environment : COBRA, WASP, BOS, CAD, COSMA, ITCM, OTDS, OM, TMDS, MS SQL Server, LDAP, Oracle, JSON, JBOSS, HP OM, XoMon(Kibana)

Project/Product Descriptions:

Positive Train Control (PTC) is a system designed to prevent train-to-train collisions, derailments caused by excessive speed, unauthorized train movement in work zones, and the movement of trains through switches left in the wrong position. PTC network enables real-time information sharing between trains, rail wayside devices, and the “back office” applications, regarding train movement, speed restrictions, train position and speed, and the state of signal and switch devices.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the regression, system integration and business/user acceptance testing.

Coordinate testing with automation team and DBAs to ensure proper test data is available.

Organize and ensure the continuous update of the regression-model to reflect the changes in functional requirements.

Review the requirement documents to establish the criticalities & dependencies and ensure appropriate test coverage is applied to minimize the defect reoccurrences.

Coordinating testing with cross functional teams across different vendor applications.

Monitoring the design and execution productivity with reference to the overall project rollout plan.

Conduct weekly progress review meetings with the PMOs to ensure the project timelines are met.

Working with DevOps to implement the new tools and integrating testing into the DevOps.

Mentoring the junior team members in best practices for supporting current toolset and latest industry developments.

Working with the vendors or internal teams to resolve technical issues, conduct detailed root cause analysis and provides recommendations to improve processes & systems.

Review of production tickets to update the regression suite and manage post implementation support.

Managed and supported all aspects of QA activities including test plan, test strategy, estimates, resources, design efforts, application dependencies, release scheduling and Go No Go decisions.

Ensure timely documentation & Sign-Offs for governance and quality audit purposes.

Client : INTACT Insurance Nov 2015 – Aug 2018

Project : Home & Auto Insurance Policy System

Role : QA Lead / Sr. QA Consultant

Tools : HP ALM, Share Point, SOAP UI, Selenium

Environment : Java, Oracle, HALCION, PEGA, DNG, SAVERS, Guidewire, RTC (Agile)

Project/Product Descriptions:

CONTACT:

It is a comprehensive P-C (property & Casualty) insurance policy management system.

Responsibilities:

Monitored the overall QA process and to determine the areas of improvement and worked on their implementation.

Responsible for closely monitoring the productivities and test plans for resource management along with test strategy to achieve the goals in the stipulated timeframe or raising the alarm in case of unavoidable - deviations.

Ensured the end to end testing of middleware and front-end applications with mainframes.

Guided the team to analyze SRS, SB, UC, copy decks and product catalogue to develop Test Scenarios.

Managed several cross functional teams and liaison with offshore resources to coordinate the testing efforts.

Responsible for managing project assignment in a multi vendor environment.

Conducted daily triage / status meetings during the execution phase.

Worked closely with project leads to ensure deliverables are met with all pertinent issues resolved.

Responsible for preparing the test data / matrix to test the critical aspects of the applications.

Responsible for providing the L2 and L3 support.

Responsible for maintaining test artifacts, lesson-learned & training documents / job aids.

Client : ADP Canada April 2014 – Nov 2015

Project : Payroll Management and Reporting Systems

Role : QA Lead / Sr. QA Consultant

Tools : HP ALM, Clear Quest, RALLY (Agile), Share Point, Beyond Compare, JIRA

Environment : .Net, MS SQL, Site Minder, DB2, LDAP, WebSphere MQ, Jenkins

Project/Product Descriptions:

ADP Workforce Now – WFN:

“ADP Workforce Now” is a single-entry system that brings together all the tools needed to meet organizational goals and to improve company’s bottom line - covering HR, payroll, time & attendance, recruitment and performance management.

TeamPay:

TeamPay is a user friendly and professional-grade Payroll Solution designed specifically for busy small business owners and managers. With its intuitive workflow and on-screen tips, doing a payroll becomes easy and accurate.

Pay@work:

Pay@work, is a payroll management system hosted by ADP. Its robust functionality allows the users the flexibility of managing payroll remotely.

Also worked on other payroll products like People@work, Total Access, Reports over internet, Fund Direct, Pay Connexion and User Admin.

Responsibilities:

Prepared test estimates for resource management along with the test approach and test strategy.

Analyzed BRD, copy decks and FSD to develop Test Scenarios and Test Scripts.

Executed test scripts in different environments.

Conducted defect triage meetings and participate in daily scrum (stand up) meetings with Development and Business teams.

Used HP ALM for test case and Clear Quest for defect management.

Responsible for creating the required test data and configuration in the middleware.

Responsible for preparing post-deployment verification document for Production Support and prepared PDC documents to help the training team.

Client : AEROPLAN Aug 2013 – Mar 2014

Project : ERP (Customer Loyalty Program for Air Canada & Star Alliance)

Role : QA Lead / Sr. QA Consultant

Tools : HP ALM, QTP (UFT), DB Visualizer, Salesforce

Environment : JAVA, DB2, JBOSS, Java Beans, Sybase, QPX, ITA, ADAS, DM, UFMM, CCE, windows, IOS

Project/Product Descriptions:

Distinction Bonus Miles:

Customer loyalty program integrated with business partners like Air Canada, Star Alliance, Starwood, Hilton, Hertz and other major retailers. This application is designed to offer exclusive program and partner benefits to Aeroplan high value and near high value members (HVM).

Discount on Classic plus DOC+:

Web based application for air-miles discounts for different tiers and eligible destination with preferred airlines.

Data Audit Capability (DAC):

Application meant for Data capturing from QPX and Air Canada fare & miles calculation and conversions.

Responsibilities:

Created number of detailed Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test procedures for ongoing new projects.

Responsible for proper Implementations of Test plan right from the conception phase to the project delivery.

Performed Functional, UAT and WCM (Web content management) Testing.

Performed Sanity, Regression, Positive, Negative and Security testing.

Performed automated smoke/sanity tests using QTP to secure proper build deployment.

Used HP ALM to ensure 100 % coverage of Business Rules, Business Requirements, Internal Design Document, Mock-ups, Functional Specs and High-Level Functional Specs.

Updated test cases as per new changes raised by the business during development & UAT.

Worked with development team to review the impact analysis to update the regression test strategy.

Responsible for creating & maintaining Test Results-Matrixes.

Responsible for test data preparation.

Participated in Peer Reviews of Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Cases.

i2c Inc. Jan 2007 – Apr 2013

Client : Thomson (Offshore Consulting)

Project : Varity of financial/wealth management, Educational and research related Apps

Role : QA Consultant

Tools : HP QC, QTP (UFT), LINKBOT, Load Runner

Environment : UNIX, JAVA, C++, ORACLE

Responsibilities:

Developed, documented, verified & maintained Test Plans and associated Test Cases to cover the business requirements as designated by the QA Manager and approved by the business user.

Functional and regression testing and doing positive/negative/regression and security testing.

Used Load Runner for Stress/Performance and Load Testing for the Servers and Servlets for the entire department. Responsible for running quarterly Load/Performance tests on all the Online Gale Apps.

Responsible for creating maintained results matrixes. Helping in forecasting future usage of company’s products depending upon their current usage growth pattern.

Created Quality Load Test check-lists for all the Load Tests.

Used Link bot for the testing of broken links and compatibility testing and used Visual Test for screen capturing.

Used Quality Center as Defect-Tracking tool.

Presented Demos on our new products & features for our customer support department.

Client : ETA ASCON (United Arab Emirates - UAE)

Projects : EXPEDEON & Insurance Policy Administration System

Role : QA Analyst

Tools : Test Director/Quality Center, Quick Test Professional

Environment : C#, .NET, SQL, UNIX, LOTUS NOTES, CANON Scanning Device.

Responsibilities:

Created Test Cases for Premium calculation.

Uploaded Test cases into Quality Center and mapped the test cases to Test sets.

Organized test sets based on the type of test in the Test lab of Quality Center.

Performed Positive, Negative, Regression, Functional, Conversion, Comparative Inquiry, Integration, System, User-acceptance and Performance testing.

Communicated Defects to the development team during testing by validating the test results.

Used Quality Center for test management and defect tracking process.

Validated the data mapping &integrity of data in the database by performing Backend testing using SQL.

Provided & Planed Execution Status Reports to the management using Quality Center.

EDUCATION:

MIB – Masters in International Business, UOWD - (University of Wollongong - Australia)

BS – Bachelors of Computer Sciences, UMT - (University of Management & Technology)

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