Test Cases Quality Assurance

MUHAMMAD HASSAN

Cell: 929-***-**** Email: *****.******@*****.***

SUMMARY:

* ***** ** ********** ** Quality Assurance and Software Testing spanning across retail, Investment banking, Telecom domain involving Web-based and Client/Server applications. Strong expertise in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Expert in analyzing requirements, preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, organizing Test Data, executing Test Cases and documenting Test Reports for both Manual and Automation testing. Extensive experience testing in Agile Methodology and Waterfall Methodology.

EXPERTIES:

4 years of QA & Testing experience in the Information Technology industry with focus on Software Quality Control (QA/Software Testing).

Proficient experience in Manual and Automated Testing of GUI and functional aspects of Client-Server and Web applications.

Strong knowledge and understanding of various Testing Methodologies like Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall, etc and their Life Cycles.

Experience in developing test scripts using QTP for Functionality, Security and Regression Testing

Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Ability to quickly understand and interpret business requirements

Expertise in System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Extensive experience in writing SQL queries in Oracle and SQL Server database as part of Backend testing

Analyzed test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective action where necessary. Participated in UAT and wrote Test Cases for UAT.

Experience in working closely with Release management team, third-party clients, managing test teams and interfacing between the test team and clients.

Possess excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication and documentation skills with good process management skills along with a remarkable ability to gather requirements to bring out quality product.

Documented procedures and processes used as reference material in the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools:

HP Quality Center (ALM11), HP Quick Test Professional (QTP 10.0), BugZilla, JIRA

Programming Languages:

Knowledge of C++, PHP, JavaScript, Visual basic, VB Script, Java, HTML

WS Technology:

XML, XSD, WSDL, UDDI, Web Services, SoapUI

MS Office:

MS Outlook, MS-Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.

Database:

Oracle, Access, MS-SQL Server-2008

DB Tools:

SQL Navigator, SQL*Plus, SQL Developer

OS/Platforms:

Win 2007/XP/200/NT, Linux, Mac OS

Methodology:

Agile (Scrum), Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Bank of America, New York, NY

QA Engineer

Oct 2013 to Present

Responsibilities:

Analyze the Requirement assessment to ensure testability of the requirement and prevent ambiguity

Map the test cases to the functional requirements in HP ALM and executed them reporting a pass or fail status

Develop automation test scripts for performing regression testing on the application using QTP.

Use various Checkpoints in QTP to test availability of the data in the application.

Follow Agile (SCRUM) Methodologies for all the Phases of SDLC.

Retrieve data based on test criteria using SQL Developer.

Provide the test deliverable including test execution report, sign off document to project management team.

Environment: ALM11, Quick Test Pro, Oracle, SQL Developer, PL/SQL, C#, .NET, VB, Window 7/XP/Vista, HTML, JIRA, Agile (SCRUM)

Hudson's Bay Company, New York, NY

Jr. QA Engineer

Feb 2012 to Sep 2013

Responsibilities:

Designed Test cases from Requirements, Functional Specifications and Design Documents.

Create Test Plan, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases for all the Sprints

Analyzed the requirements and mapping them to application functionality

Executed the Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Validation Testing

Followed Waterfall Methodology.

Developed test suite for all the Web service operations in the SOAP UI test tool.

Tested the Web Service by giving input in WSDL and checked the responses per requirement document.

Verified the input XML and the output XML for Data Transmission.

Performed backend testing by executing the SQL commands for data retrieval/verification.

Report the identified defects in HP ALM and track the defects till closure.

Communicated with Application Developers, Project Managers and other Team Members on Application testing status on an ongoing basis when necessary.

Provide QA reports of findings, metrics, escalations, and lessons learned

Environment: HP ALM, MS Visio, Quick Test Pro, Oracle, SQL Developer, PL/SQL, C#, .NET, VB, Windows 7/XP/Vista, UML, HTML, XML, XSD, WSDL, Web Services, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, JIRA, Agile (SCRUM).

EDUCATION:

B.S. in Health and Science Major

City University of New York – Brooklyn College

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS:

Training on HP QTP (Quick Test Professional)

Training on HP QC (Quality Center, ALM)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Member of Quality Assurance Institute (QAI, USA)

Member of Society of Software Quality (SSQ)

Member of International Institute for Software Testing (IIST) Member of Sticky Minds

IMMIGRATION STATUS

US Citizen

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