Elgar Alekperov
QA Consultant
*****.*****@*****.***
Cell: 416-***-****
Highlights:
Over 7 years of experience in software Quality Assurance and Testing on Client/Server, Web based applications in Banking, Retail, Financial Industry using Water fall and Agile methodologies.
Extensive experience on Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with design, architecture, planning, modeling, development, writing support procedures.
Involved in entire QA Life Cycle includes Designing, Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process.
Hands-on experience in different testing phases like Functional, Non-Functional, SIT, UAT, E2E, Back-End, Security, Browser compatibility.
Outstanding analytical, decision-making, problem solving and management skills with the ability to organize activities in fast speedy team environment.
Interacted with Client, BA, Development team, QA onsite and offshore team members to resolve technical challenges from testing perspective.
Extensive experience in IBM Cognos Disclosure Management, Essbase Cube, Oracle Essbase Data Specification, HP ALM.
Strong analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform as part of a team.
Good team player with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies very quickly.
Work experience:
QA Consultant
Scotia Bank - Toronto, ON Nov 2015 - Present
Retail Credit Risk Roadmap, Common Reporting Platform
Participated in Business Requirement reviews and contributed to a Testing Suitability Analysis.
Developed Test Scenario, Test cases based on Business Requirement document.
Performed Functional, Data Validation, Workflow, Layout manual testing for Canadian & International Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Reports using Cognos Disclosure Management, Essbase Cube(ASO/BSO), Oracle Essbase Data Specification, Pivot.
Performed functional testing, extensively generated Management, Regulatory and other internal Standard
reports and tested in Essbase Cube, CDM and Hadoop.
Logged defects, participated in daily variance meeting, and exported defects from HP ALM to development
team.
Successful coordination of development, business and testing between the interfacing application teams.
QA Coordinator
CIBC - Toronto, ON Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Retail Banking
Participated in Business Requirement reviews and contributed to a Testing Suitability Analysis.
Created Testing Risk and Scalability Assessment document to identify the appropriate level
of test coverage for the risk, complexity and size associated with a testing.
Developed Test Plan document for project as well as conducted walk thru with the client, Dev team, BA.
Performed System Integration, User Acceptance and regression testing for Client Server and Web
Applications.
Generated reports and validated errors in FRS Application.
Extensively generated, tested and validated Reports in OBIEE, Essbase Cube.
Performed data base testing using Toad for Oracle.
Logged defects using HP ALM and participated in daily variance meeting.
Exported defect log from HP ALM to Development team.
Successful coordination of development, business and testing between the interfacing application teams.
Created Daily status report and sent it to all the stakeholders included in project.
QA Analyst
Testing Solutions Inc. - Toronto, ON Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
North American Bank
Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement documents, Functional Design, Change Request and Use
Case documents, identifying applications functionality, test requirements, and coverage (Client: North
American Bank).
Developed and executed Test Cases for Banking (Retail) application according to requirements using
Waterfall methodology.
Performed System Integration testing (SIT), End to end (E2E), and regression testing.
Created SQL queries and tested front end developed data in the databases.
Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and reported using HP ALM.
Interfaced with developers to discuss variances, technical issues and software faults.
Leaded and coordinated team of 3 members to success by training, organizing and prioritizing tasks in the
testing.
Prepared RTM Document to ensure that all the requirements had sufficient coverage through testing.
Analyzed the functional specifications and helped team members to achieve test goal.
Reviewed and analyzed UAT requirements, executed UAT test cases in appropriate phase and supported
UAT team in defect tracking.
QA Coordinator
CIBC/President Choice Financial, Toronto) - Toronto, ON Aug 2013 - Jun 2014
Retail Banking
Participated in Technical Design Reviews and contributed to Testing Suitability Analysis and Testing Risk
and Scalability Assessment to determine testability.
Coordinated the delivery for the test team's test planning, test development and test implementation in
adherence to standards for System Testing.
Prepared Test Plan outlining the test approach, scope and responsibilities.
Created and performed System Integration testing (SIT), User Acceptance testing (UAT), and Regression
testing for retail banking written on Java.
Performed test preparation, execution, and variance tracking reports that provide the required metrics.
Collaborated closely with development team members throughout the design and development process.
Developed and executed test cases for the Tax purposes, registered and non-registered investment products such as GIC, TFSA, RSP and RESP.
Analyzed features to point out inconsistencies, helping to reproduce and troubleshoot found defects using
HP ALM.
QA Analyst
TLI Software Inc - Toronto, ON Jul 2011- Aug 2013
North American Bank
Participated in Business Requirement reviews and contributed to a Risk and Scalability Assessment.
Performed Functional, Non- functional and Regression testing for Retail Web application.
Performed Database Testing using SQL Server Management Studio Express Tool to check if all the database queries were executing correctly, data was retrieved and updated correctly.
Created and performed System Integration testing (SIT), User Acceptance testing (UAT), and Regression
testing for retail banking written on Java.
Defected tracked, logged, reviewed, analyzed and reported using JIRA.
QA Analyst
Gurus Consulting Ltd - Toronto, ON Dec 2010 - Jul 2011
Participated in Business Requirement reviews and contributed to Suitability Assessment.
Performed manual front-end and back-end testing of a complex enterprise system (CRM) - financial (online
Banking and loan application) web applications for a large North American Bank.
Analyzed design documents, created test plans, designed test scenarios, and developed test cases.
Created and executed test cases, logged bugs and defects, submitted bug reports, and maintained bugs
fixes using HP QC
Performed Database testing by creating and executing SQL queries.
Executed and modified scripts according to functional changes to perform automation regression testing
using HP QTP
Performed on-line banking testing (e-statements).
Performed Functional, SIT, and Regression (security, browsers compatibility, browsers sessions, and broken links) of a Web-based Financial Loan applications.
Technical skills
Testing Tools: HP ALM(10.0,11.0),Kofax 9,QTP, LoadRunner
Languages: VB Script, SQL, HTML, XML, Visual Basic
Operating System: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/2008,Unix
Database: SQL, MS SQL, Toad Oracle, DB2
Office Tools: MS Office 2007/2010
Advanced knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, SharePoint, MS Project, Visio and PowerPoint
Education:
Azerbaijan College of Finance and Banking