Umair AFZAL

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Charlotte, NC

acp2do@r.postjobfree.com

704-***-****

Software QA Analyst

Over 5 years of experience in manual testing for software Quality Assurance (SQA) within Insurance and banking

5 years of Experience in development of Master Test Strategies, Plans, Test Cases, Use Cases, Automated Tools, Methodologies (Agile and Waterfall), Quality Centre, and Process Improvements

5 + years of strong Client Relationship Management experience

1 year of experience in Test Automation including Functional, Regression QTP, Quality Center, ALM 11 and Clear Quest.

Experienced in usage of AutoIT in automated environment

Beginner in performance testing, HP LoadRunner, Vugen and Vuser

Professional Skills

SQA tools and best practices

Test cases, Test plans & scripts

Defect management

Requirement Analysis

Ambiguity Reviews

System, Functional and Integration Testing

Acceptance and Regression Testing

Issue and Testing Risk Management

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Gilbarco Veeder Root, Greensboro NC Feb 2015 to Present

Shell Florence/Condor

SQA Assurance & Automation:

Applying Scrum methodologies for effective and focused test planning and execution

Develop test cases, test plan and validate for GUI application

Install base images, daily builds or patches to test the functionality

Perform regression, functional and stress testing on POS and dispensers

Manual and automation test execution using AutoIT by writing VB Script

Review and evaluate requirements

Defect management using Clear Quest

Analyze and validate data for testing purpose

Review functional and technical documentation such as user stories, story cards

Review and develop relationship and dependencies between requirements and test cases in share point

Develop and maintain custom testing reports including test progress, defect progress and lifecycle

Provide management with clear quest enhancement plan to bring improved visibility and efficiencies

Assisted in work schedule development, tasks breakdowns and assignments

Update, insert, and joins tables in SQL server by running SQL quires

Performed backend testing using SQL commands to verify database integrity

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Wells Fargo Bank, Charlotte, NC Dec 2013 – Nov 2014

CIV Sales/Services/Portal/Icon/XCT

Quality Assurance & ALM Coordination:

Prepare and develop test plan, test data and test cases for the application and ambiguity reviews

Identify develop and execute regression test coverage

Review and evaluate requirements

Defect management

Assist testing teams with test cases development and execution support

ALM Test case template design improvements

Conduct test artifacts review in ALM to ensure traceability

Review and develop relationship and dependencies between requirements and test cases in ALM

Develop and maintain custom testing reports including test progress, defect progress and lifecycle

Provide management with ALM enhancement plan to bring improved visibility and efficiencies

Introduced new ALM features to the testing teams such as Sprinter and RBT

Maintain user access and authorization in ALM

Run debug mode in QTP. Then use debug view by clicking Step into icon, Step over icon

Quality Assurance Analyst (QA) Oct 2010 – Sep 2013

Aviva Insurance

Des Moines, IA

Quality Assurance & Testing:

Extensively used to write and execute test cases, test scripts, test conditions and expected results including System integration & User acceptance test

Develop, update and testing standards and procedures

Prepare test plan, test data & cases for the application

Review and evaluate requirements

Develop and maintain quality assurance entry and exit criteria

Assist in documentation of testing procedures and training material

Develop and maintain testing status reports including daily, weekly progress and defect status reports using ALM 11

Develop and maintain test data for various phases of testing including system, SIT and UAT

Assisted in work schedule development, tasks breakdowns and assignments

Conducted weekly team meetings

Performed backend testing using SQL commands to verify database integrity

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Quality Assurance Analyst (QA) Aug 2009 – Sep 2010

Key Stone Mercy, Philadelphia, PA

Keystone Mercy Health Plan (FACETS)

Quality Assurance & Testing:

Involved in the review of requirements specification with functional manager and technical specialist of the application

Design and execute test plans and test cases, generate test scripts and test scenarios

Prepared test cases specific to business, technical and non-technical requirements

Completed full testing/QA lifecycle including test planning, preparation of test data, development of test cases, test execution, progress reporting and defect management

Performed manual functional, system integration, user acceptance testing

Extensively involved in batch testing of claims submission

Performed manual sanity and smoke testing

Performed backend testing using SQL commands to verify database integrity

Conduction positive and negative testing by using various type of test data

Analyzed test results using Quality Center 10.0

Conducted walkthrough of all test cases/data with various team members

Basic knowledge of QC admin, I assigned users (TD Admin, Developer, Project Manager, QA Tester and Viewers) to the project and gave privileges. I created new users for project and set-up groups/create new group role like test manager, business analyst, test lead, configuration manager etc.

Quality Assurance Analyst Jan 2008 – Apr 2009

JP Morgan Chase, Chicago, IL

Investment Banking

Quality Assurance & Testing:

Created and reviewed test plans, test cases using the functional specifications and user requirements documents

Worked with Agile methodologies for effective and focused test planning and execution

Designed functional, regression, backward compatibility and database test cases for Bear Trade Applications

Designed test cases for Global Trading application using Quality Center 10.0

Maintain test execution and defect management using Quality Center 10.0

Created and maintain test data to test various file formats including XML Excel, etc…

Experience in checking inbound and outbound FIX tags using FIX protocol

Attended QA walkthrough meetings with different teams including application reviews, technical and functional specification reviews

Generated daily, weekly test execution reports including planned vs. actual testing progress and defect status reports

Involved in QTP automation new scripts development, script maintenance for regression testing

Prepare test coverage matrix

Performed functional testing on FICAM

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Certification: Performance Testing Training in 2015

Norwood Technologies, Charlotte, NC

Undergraduate in Computer Science in 2002

Karachi University, Pakistan

C++ Course in 2003

Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC

Certification: ORACLE CAREER in 2004

Cooper IT, Charlotte, NC

Testing Tools

HP Testing Suite of application – Test Director, Quality Center, ALM

Application Languages

Java, C#, C++, HTML

Software Systems

MS Office Suite, Windows 7/Vista/XP, Unix

Database

Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server 2008 R2

REFERENCES

Will be provided upon request

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