QA Engineer

Hina Shams

*** ************ ****,

Ancaster, ON L9K1M8

Phone# 905-***-****

*************@*****.***

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering, Software Jan 2005 - Apr 2009

McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Certification

Certified Tester Foundation Level, ISTQB Oct 2012

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Suretrak, Solid Edge, Matlab, Latex, LabView, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Visual Studio, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Word Perfect, yEd

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL, DB2

Languages: C/C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, Haskell, VHDL, Shell, HTML, XML, UML, javascript, vbscript

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1, MAC OS, DOS

Testing Tools: Test Execution Toolkit (TET), SpiraTeam, JIRA, QA Complete, Watin, Firebug,

Test Complete, Test Execute, Fogbugz, BitBucket, Tortoise SVN, Tortoise Hg, Putty,

HP Quality Center (QC), Bugzilla, Version 1, CBRMS, VMWare Workstation,

VMWare VSphere, ADK, BinScope, SigCheck, AccessEnum, Attack Surface Analyzer

WORK EXPERIENCE

QA Engineer May 2013 – May 2014

McAfee Inc., Waterloo ON

Responsible of effective assurance of product (McAfee SiteAdvisor) quality through Test Automation, Code Inspections, Peer Reviews, and Functional Testing

Work closely with developers and other teams to automate new features and edit/update existing automated test cases in javascript and vbscript using TestComplete/TestExecute

Create Test Plans, Test Cases in Quality Center and build Test Frameworks to execute them

Implement set of black box test cases for any code change made during testing phase

Validation of the product builds and defect logging/tracking using Bugzilla

QA Documentation (Test Results, Test Coverage: Manual vs. Automated, Wiki Articles: Troubleshooting Docs and QA Process related docs to be used by other QA Members)

Performance test of the product build using ADK

Security Testing of the product using BinScope, SigCheck, AccessEnum and Attack Surface Analyzer

Deploying product builds in QA and Automation Server

Task Creation and Tracking using Version 1

Creating and Managing VMs in QA and Automation environment using VMWare VSphere and Workstation

Troubleshoot and understand product logs

Got more experience in Networking, DNS/Host Setup and Client Server architecture

Software QA Analyst Apr 2011 – Apr 2013

Porter Airlines, Toronto ON

Work directly with business users and the Information Systems teams to identify, define and develop test plans for a wide variety of projects, including the Porter website, a number of internally-developed customer facing and back-office applications,Kiosk, and system upgrade projects

Translate requirements into test cases to cover the product functionality

Ensure project documentation supports development of QA material

Design, develop and executed test cases using test case management system, QA Complete

Develop automated test suites in C# using Visual Studio 2010 and off-the-shelf test tools (Watin, Firebug)

Created Booking API in C#, javascript and HTML using Visual Studio

Develop automated test suites for the website using Test Complete

Update and maintain QA Wiki to document the summary/process involved in testing the application

Use Fogbugz/JIRA to create new cases and specify the timelines/deadlines for new projects, and to log defects

Work with SQL Server to update/delete/retrieve data from the database

Develop architecture diagrams using yEd

Software QA Analyst Oct 2010 – Feb 2011

Active Network, Mississauga ON

Develop and maintain test cases using business requirements and use cases in test case management system, SpiraTeam.

Execute manual test cases for web-based applications and financial systems.

Analyze test results to identify problem areas and to ensure adequate coverage.

Identify and report defects in an issue tracking system, JIRA.

Assist in troubleshooting reported problems and track defects to closure.

Write SQL queries to find, create and update data in databases.

Software QA Analyst (Intern) May 2007 – Apr 2008

MKS Inc, Waterloo ON

Performed extensive Manual and Automated testing of MKS’s entire application suite

Developed, enhanced and fixed automated test scripts for MKS’s enterprise platform, MKS Integrity

Prepared Test Plans and Test Specification documents

Set up and executed suites of automated tests on Windows, Linux and Unix clients and servers and after analyzing test failures in these runs raised product Change Orders and/or Test Change Requests as required

Developed test cases using shell running in the open source framework, Test Execution Toolkit (TET)

Worked with Linux/Unix, as well as SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 databases

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Excellent written and verbal communications skills

In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having understanding of various phases such as Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing

Understands complex test requirements and able to formulate test plan and design approaches to support requirements

Good understanding of client server architecture

Ability to work independently or as a part of a team

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