Umar Shaikh

Email; acxys2@r.postjobfree.com

Contact no: 832-***-****

Summary:

•Around 6+ years of experience in both manual and automated software Quality Assurance Testing of client-server and web-based applications in a multi-tier architectural web and non web based applications.

• Good knowledge of all stages of software developmental life cycle (SDLC) and software testing life cycle (STLC), software developmental methodologies like waterfall model and Agile methodologies.

•Experienced in both Manual and Automated testing with tools such as HP Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Application Lifecycle Manager (Quality Center), RTC, JIRA, SOAPUI.

•Knowledge of automation scripting in different type of framework like Module driven, Data driven and Hybrid framework

•Proficient in System, Functional (Positive & Negative), Integration (SIT), Regression, Progression, Security, Load and Performance testing.

• Good working experience on SOAP UI for testing and validating various web services used in the application

• Experience in Writing and Executing the Test cases, analyzing the Test results and Defects Tracking

•Professional experience in designing Test Cases and Test Scripts for Mac OS, Windows, Java, Oracle and UNIX environments

•Good exposure on Bug Life Cycle and Automation Framework

• Expertise in analyzing the results and reporting suggestions and defects

•An effective communicator, committed team player, quick learner and rapid problem solver with commitment and a strong work ethic and ability to quickly adapt to new environments

• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple assignments concurrently

•Possess strong technical aptitude with strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills. Able to come up to speed quickly and handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

TECHNOLOGIES:

Operating Systems

Windows 2000/XP/NT, UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX.

Databases

Oracle11g/10g/9i, SQL Server 2000, DB2, MySQL, MS-Access, Sybase

Development

Languages/Tools

C, CPP, Java, J2SE/JSE, JDK 1.6/1.5/1.4, J2EE/JEE, J2EE 1.4/1.3, ASP 3.0, ASP.NET, VB 6.0, VB.NET, C#, ASP Web Forms, XML, HTML 4.0, DHTML, CSS, SQL, VB, VBA,VB Script, Java Script, Groovy 1.8/1.7, XML, Web Services(SOAP and RESTful ), Eclipse, Soap and Restful Web Services, SOAP UI 4.0/3.X,, TCP Monitor, Apache Axis 2, IBM WSAD .

Servers

IBM Web Sphere Application Server, WebLogic Server, Tomcat and IIS Server

Software Tools

Jing, Snagit, Rational Rose, MS Front Page, Dreamweaver, MS Project

Testing Tools

QTP 10.x/ 9.5/9.0/8.0, Selenium Server 2.x, Selenium IDE 1.3, SoapUI Pro 4.x, Data warehousing Testing, ETL Testing, Mobile Application Testing, Unit.

Defect Tracking & Management Tools

JIRA, Test Directory 7.6/5.0, Quality Center 10.0/9.x, ALM 12.0, Test Manager, Bugzilla 3.6.6/3.4, SharePoint, Site Scope.

Applications

MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Power Point

Data Ware House / Others

Business Objects and Crystal Report

Work Experience

QA Analyst

At&t - Richardson, TX Feb 2015 to Present

Project: CSI (Common Service Interface)

CSI (Common Service Interface) is AT&T's enterprise middleware platform for enabling Business to Business (B2B) partners and internal IT applications project which covers the areas Customer Care, Order and Subscription Mgmt., Product and offer Mgmt. We are responsible for testing the middleware in conjunction with its Users and Client's process.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Business requirements and design review meetings

• Used Agile Scrum methodology process for iterative development through collaboration of Cross functional teams and sprint

• Defines and manages quality assurance metrics for performance improvement. Implements ongoing quality improvement processes working with IT management and interdepartmental teams to measure, control and improve quality standards.

• Created Test Plans and Test Scripts by analyzing the Business requirements and System Requirements of the Application

• Involved in Backend testing - Validated the data in the database by running SQL queries.

• Hands on experience on various Cloud based platform infrastructure components testing like (DME) Direct Messaging Engines, Command line interfaces (Unix) & Server interaction using gateway services.

• Responsible for Web Services Validation among the different API's using Soap-UI Pro, ITE tool and SOA test.

• Working with Automation team. Executed test scripts in QTP and from the QC by creating test set in test lab.

• Verification and Validation of WSDL Schemas Structure using XML SPY tool.

• Verification and validation of Adapter Mappings and back end ADAPTER Logs.

• Design and developing the automation scripts using SOA test, Hudson and Jenkins tool.

• Verification and validation of the XML response in Logs using SPLUNK tool.

• Executing interfaces and get the response from different Back Ends using ITE, POST XML, SOA test tools

• Open the Defects for failing Interfaces and follow-up with related Backend, Development teams to resolving the issues.

• Participated daily Status meetings with Team Leads, Onshore and Offshore team.

• Actively participated collaborating with internal & external teams to deliver a defect free application

• Responsible for updating and managing version and revision files in SVN.

• Assisted in generating post deployment process for software audit from legal certification

Environment: SOAP UI, Agile Scrum, Jenkins, Hudson, ITKO Lisa, Selenium, Java, JIRA, IBM Web Services, HP ALM, Eclipse ITE, SOA test, Toad, UNIX, SQL, Splunk, WSDL, QTP

QA Analyst

Broad soft Telecommunications

Richardson,TX Aug 2013 to Feb 2015

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Clients, Product Owners, Developers and QA Manager for clear exposure to trickle down the technical/functional User Requirements & Change Requests to Test Plans and Test Scenarios

•Experience in creating strategy test plans, test cases and test estimation requirement traceability matrix.

• Created Automation framework, built the function libraries, executed parallel browser testing and modified the automation scripts by inserting the check points to verify the object properties.

• Done Regression suite and smoke Suite Testing

•Reviewing Business Requirements and functional specification document. Develop test cases

•Reported bug using Project Tracking tool JIRA

• Performed data driven test to test application for multiple scenarios with different verities of data.

• Cucumber was used for entire regression testing and functional testing with primary tool asSelenium to test Scenarios, test Cases and Test conditions identified.

• Experience in Functional Testing, Data Driven Testing, Load Testing and Validating WSDL using SOAP

• Performed white box testing for the Web based application

• Used test driven Approach for developing the application and implemented the unit tests using Python Unit test framework.

• Conducted weekly review meeting with management, users and technical team members.

• Participated in Requirements, Design, and Release Readiness review sessions.

• Coordinated and managed testing activities as per the agile methodology followed by project team members.

• Participated in the QA Meetings, Bug Review Meetings, Go/No-Go Meetings & responsible for updating & verification of the Project Checklist during the Deployments/Releases.

Environment: Win7, Ruby, Selenium WebDriver, AWS, Grid, SQL Server, Oracle, XML, SOA testing, JAVA, J2EE, Gherkin scripting language, JIRA, WARP, Shell Scripting, DOM, Test Plans, Cucumber, Quality Center, Appium, UFT, CA LISA, End to End Testing, Toad, Jenkins, UAT, SOAP UI, REST, JAVA Script, Regression Testing, JUnit, TestNG, Puppet, Agile Methodology

QA Analyst

Boston Scientific, Minneapolis, MN Jan 2012 to Aug 2013

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications, and responsible for documenting functional requirements and supplementary requirements in Quality Center.

• Responsible for writing the Test Cases and Test Scenarios based on the Functional Requirements and Use Case documents and documenting them in HP ALM and Quality Center & Excel.

• Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data and Test Summary Reports.

• Daily Coordination with Business Analyst and Development team to keep update with business and functional requirement changes.

• Documenting test cases and traceability matrix for System Testing and Regression Testing.

•Execute Test Cases for new requirements and documenting the test results in ALM.

• Responsible for test data preparation for the system / integration testing, traceability matrix to ensure the test case coverage and defect logging.

• Performed Integration, System, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance testing of an application.

• Handled multiple projects (both Integration and Functional Projects) simultaneously.

• Mentored new team members with necessary technical and business knowledge.

•Involved in all phases of testing including Integration testing, User Acceptance testing and Regression testing.

• Worked closely with release management team to coordinate pending defects.

•Identified and managed Regression test cases for the new releases.

•Interacted with Business Analysts and developer to resolve defects.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 9.0, ALM, Excel, SQL, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Oracle, MS Office Suite,, HTML, CSS, XML, Web Logic 9.2,

QA Tester, Web Application Test Engineer

Real Time Publishing

Los Angeles, CA Mar 2011 to Jan 2012

Responsibilities:

• Perform manual and automated testing of a web-based application.

• Interacted with business analysts and developers in requirement analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for application developed in agile environment.

• Responsible for build validation process on a regular basis, identify and document the significant new integration features and software components that will require testing.

•Assisted in writing the Test Strategy to be used for functional, regression, integration, and end to end smoke testing.

• Involved in the Project in the Regression Cycle mainly testing the complex module i.e. Real Time Publishing meeting the deadline.

• Wrote SQL queries to validate that actual test results match expected results.

• Prepared the traceability matrices to fill the gap between the requirements and the test cases covered.

• Performed Data-Driven Testing for positive and negative data from external Excel files, designed test case according to requirements of newly added functionality.

• Wrote test cases in Excel sheet and logged and maintained defects on various defect tracking tools depending on the device.

•Configured each test case with XML for every customer site using annotations.

• Participate in testing activities, in collaboration with the development and production teams, to ensure satisfactory performance of end-user reporting.

• Document test results and defects via Bugzilla.

Environment & Tools: Java, Mobile UI Testing, Test Planning, JIRA, Ace Project, Eclipse, Selenium, SQL, UNIX, CSS, XML, TestNG, Oracle 11g, SOAPUI, QC, Junit, MS Sql Server, Windows-XP

Education: University of Houston Clear Lake, TX

Bachelor of Science Major in Computer Science

Status: US Citizen

References: Available upon Request

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