Zain Abedin
Springfield, Virginia *****
E-mail: *********@*****.***
Phone: 703-***-****
OBJECTIVE:
To obtain a position as a QA Software Tester
SUMMARY:
• Over 4 years of experience in Manual Testing and Automated Testing of Client/Server and
Web-Based applications using HP Suite with an emphasis on creating and maintaining
automated regression tests.
• An energetic, team-oriented and process-focused professional with excellent communication
skills in Software Quality Assurance Field.
• Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience in writing Test Plan, Test cases, Test execution,
Bug Tracking and Test Summary Reports.
• Experienced in understanding business requirements and developing use case diagrams using MS
Visio.
• Good exposure to software development methodologies and Rational Unified Process (RUP) and
Waterfall.
• Proficiency in both Manual and Automation testing using ALM/HP Quality Center, HP
QuickTest Professional (QTP) and TestDirector.
• Experienced in analyzing existing QA models and re-define QA Processes based on QA best
practices and guidelines to improve the company-wide QA process and mindset of QA Personal.
• Experienced in using ALM/Quality Center for managing test execution and defect tracking of
all issues.
• Very good in writing SQL queries for backend data validation.
• Experienced in creating automation scripts using VBScript in QTP to fully automate the
application functionality.
• Experienced in developing regression suite for End to End tests in QTP.
• Highly experienced in developing Automation Frameworks (Data driven, Keyword driven
and Hybrid) in QTP using VBScript.
• Possess excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills, exceptional
organizer and team builder.
TECHNICAL SKILL:
ALM/Quality Center, TestDirector, UFT/QTP, JIRA, Bugzilla,
Testing Tools
HP Sprinter
Programming Languages Java, Java script, VB script, PL/SQL, SQL
Web languages HTML, XML
Operating System Windows, MS-DOS, UNIX/Linux
Microsoft Suite Visio, MS Office(Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
Database Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Hello Wallet, Washington District of Columbia
Automation Analyst
April, 2011 – Present
Responsibilities:
• Analyzed the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and developed detailed Test plans,
prepared Test cases.
• Performed Ad-hoc, Smoke, Functional, Acceptance, System, Integration, Usability, and
Regression testing etc. during different stages of the application development.
• Involved mainly in testing the applications, comparing and verifying the requirements and writing
test cases as well.
• Worked with users and developers in building up the applications.
• Maintained a Requirements traceability matrix in order to keep the clients and all the teams up-
to-date with the current progress of the project.
• Worked as Quality Center Administrator to maintain users, groups, domain, projects, and
policies.
• Logged bugs in the Quality Center tracking tool.
• Responsible in generating test reports for each new release in Quality Center, which keeps
track of all the open and closed bugs.
• Responsible to test and verify in back end database tables using SQL Queries.
• Responsible to test each new version of application for Regression testing using QTP.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing using QTP during the various phases of the
product development.
• Customized QTP Scripts with Parameterization, Check Points, Library Files, Regular
expression etc.
• Customized the QTP Test as per the Test Case by using the VB-Script.
• Performed Cross browser testing using QTP.
• Used VBScripts in QTP to access webpage script variables.
• Converted an OR-based script to a DP-based script using QTP.
• Designed Data Driven Framework for testing key workflows using QuickTest Professional.
• Performed Automated and Manual validation of Key business flows in various Environments
before Prod Release.
• Sent Defect Reports, weekly status report and maintained Test Results/Error Logs.
Environment: Quality Center, QTP, SharePoint, Dot Net, SQL Server, MS Office, J2EE,
Windows and Linux.
Discover, Riverwoods, IL
QA Engineer
Aug, 2010 – March, 2011
• Analyzed the business and technical requirements and developed the Test scenarios, Test plan
and Test cases.
• Created models using Agile methodologies i.e. SCRUM and remodeled the test cases / scripts
for team to follow.
• Responsible for the management of the Testing Solutions, Strategy and Analytics.
• Responsible for making Business Process mapping documents to make team understand are
being followed and what/how systems are linked.
• Performed Smoke, GUI, Functional, Regression, System, UAT, Interface, Integration,
Backend Testing.
• Involved in calling test with parameters, creating requirement coverage and importing test
cases in the Test Lab of HP ALM.
• Created, executed tests; generated the test reports and created graphs using ALM/Quality
Center.
• Coordinate as an ALM support to ensure efficient services to the team members and the client.
• Prepared Tool Mentor documentation & PowerPoint presentation of ALM/Quality Center for
the client and for the team members.
• Used Quality Center to communicated defects encountered during Regression Test and
followed-up with developers until all issues were resolved.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database changes.
• Developed functional test cases for Regression Testing and automate test scripts using QTP.
• Converted manual test cases into automation using QTP.
• Worked with Standard checkpoints, Page checkpoints, Table checkpoints in QTP while doing
the functional test on the web application.
• Used Text checkpoints to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its
behavior in the earlier version using QTP.
• Worked with data types, variable and variable declaration, naming convention, constants
and assigning values to the variables in VB scripting.
• Wrote Descriptive Programming and enhanced the scripts using Parameterization,
Synchronization, Correlation, Regular Expressions, Check Points, and Customized
Exception handling using VB Script in QTP.
• Developed Data Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid Automation Framework using QTP.
• Written Both Positive and Negative Test Cases.
• Extensively compared several data feeds using comparison software.
Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA
Test Engineer
Feb, 2009 – July, 2010
Responsibilities:
•Involved in working with requirement management, documentation, report analysis, business
analysis, work flow design, testing and defect reporting.
•Involved in creating the Test Data to test functionality of the application.
•Developed positive and negative test cases.
•Created test strategy, test plan, test procedures and test cases and tracked defects and
enhancement requests using Quality Center.
•Used Quality Center to execute functional scenarios, bug reporting and bug tracking and view
and integrate requirements.
•Used Quality Center to create and attach test results, defect reports and coordinated with
development to resolve the issues.
•Extensively used Quality Center for defect tracking.
•Performed backend database testing using and wrote SQL Statements.
•Involved in conducting Functional, Integration, System, and Regression testing using
QuickTest Pro.
•Wrote user defined custom functions using VB Script in QTP.
•Created automated steps for the update order component in business process testing (BPT) using
QTP.
•Assisted in analyzing, documenting and maintaining test results.
•Responsible to test and run the interface process to move from WOE to Network.
•Involved in installations of Builds/ Releases in Test environment completely.
References are available up on request