SQA Engineer

Aliya Taiyab

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Cell: +1-469-***-****

**** ****** ***** ***** ** 75013

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Around ten years of experience in Software Development and Software Testing

Strong requirement analysis and traceability skills resulting in comprehensive gap analysis

Excel in creating test plans and writing test cases to pinpoint software defects, track bugs, close open defects and validate functionality.

Exceptional abilities in project design and management with the organizational and supervisory skills to assure success. Delegates and monitors work to meet and beat deadlines

Works well in both team environments and individual assignments

Involved in all phases of SDLC & STLC and overseeing testing activities

Working knowledge of V model, Waterfall, iterative and agile development process.

Conducted Black Box testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, data base testing, System testing and Sanity testing of new and existing applications

Validate business and technical requirements to suggest enhancements or gaps to the feature set

Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and assignments.

Able to direct and lead others to produce desired results.

SKILL SUMMARY

SQA Testing and methodologies

Regression and negative testing

Test plans and test cases

UI and Compatibility Testing

Defect tracking

Testing strategies and coverage

Functional requirement

Gap analysis

EXPERIENCE

SQA Lead (eDev Technologies http://www.modernrequirements.com/) Nov 2016 – present

eDev is an established requirements technology and consulting company with its delivery centers in Canada and USA. eDev has provided high quality and cost-effective requirements based solutions to a wide range of leading public and private companies. eDev has earned Tier 1 partnerships, including Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner, Microsoft Gold Certified and Platinum VSIP Partner due to its valuable products.

Responsibilities

Manage resources and split testing activities to achieve quick findings on release with Scrum Methodology

Develop Test Plan, Test Scenarios

Review Test Cases & Test Cases Traceability matrix. Review performance reports and Release notes

Mapping business requirement to test cases and making sure of test coverage

Involved in Black box testing, Exploratory testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, User interface testing, End to End Integration, Installation testing

Supervising automation team

Weekly bug report for higher management

Responsible of taking care that no process deviates from company process standards and owns QA status of release

Write high level test cases based on regression testing for automated scripting

Collaborates with developers and BA team extensively in order to suggest solution in case of technical limitation and in achieving sprint targets

Keep track of client issues and to reproduce in house. Arranging sessions with client when required.

Senior SQA Engineer (eDev Technologies http://www.modernrequirements.com/) August 2014 – Nov 2016

Responsibilities

Develop test scenarios, test cases and Test Case traceability matrix

Managing different VMs to include in Environmental testing

Identifying high priority bugs in early testing with minimal steps as well as verification of resolved issues

Develop Functional Test Report Document

Participate actively in daily standup meetings and weekly sprint meetings

Well versed with Scrum methodology

Collaborate with BA and developers to get the high priority bugs done and conveys release status

Ensuring smooth incorporation of product with MS Team Foundation Server

Involved in all phases of SDLC including post release activities

Reproducing client issues in house and assisting them

Project: SmartWord4TFS

SmartWord4TFS is a Microsoft Word plug-in that enables users to author requirements, generate status reports and submit defects, issues and change requests directly from Word to TFS.

SQA Engineer (RNA Pharmacy Solutions –Pakistan) June 2014 to Aug 2014

RNA Pharmacy Solutions is the experienced leader in practical and profitable solutions created for pharmacies using Windows-based applications.

Responsibilities:

Conduct Black Box testing, Functional testing, UI Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity Testing, Database Testing & Exploratory Testing.

Develop test case and test scenarios with execution.

Test summary report.

Prioritize test cases in case of close deadlines.

Bug tracking and bug reporting.

Working together with development team for quick results.

Projects: MedTablet

MedTablet is a new approach that wirelessly communicates both on WiFi & Cellular networks patient healthcare information, including medication orders, between the pharmacy and any health care facility bi-directionaly. This allows the pharmacy to fill prescriptions, then transmit the patient information and pharmacy data to the nursing facility.

Information Village ( http://www.infovillage.net/ ) Bahrain

Information Village is an experienced online solutions provider based in Bahrain and has been in the industry for over 10 years. Information Village offers many services some of them are website design and development, web hosting, customized online solutions etc.

SQA Engineer & Programmer Nov 2007 to Dec 2012

With excellent team environment at Information Village, I was responsible for the web development using PHP and MySQL. Also involved in managing CMS. Information Village has its own customized CMS which is customized to meet the diverse functionalities required by most of the clients.

Implemented testing processes and performed various QA activities to deliver bugs free quality websites to the clients.

Responsibilities:

As SQA Engineer

Perform Functional and UI Testing of web site.

Executed test cases to compare the actual result with expected results.

Responsible for thorough testing of browser and platform compatibility issues.

Create test plan and test cases.

Involved in release activities.

As Programmer

Conduct meetings with clients to finalize SRS.

System study and analysis.

Database design and implementation.

Designed and developed web modules which were then integrated into main website.

Integrated designs into in house developed CMS.

Altered in house CMS to add complex functionalities required by clients.

Integrated designs into Wordpress CMS.

Conduct training sessions to familiarize clients with software.

Provided technical support to clients.

Involved in debugging of websites

Projects: Some of the web projects for which I worked

http://dreamgroup.bh

www.gulfdiabetes.com

www.bahrainairport.com

http://www.cbb.gov.bh/

www.birdc.com

www.bdutyfree.com

http://www.sme.bh/

http://www.gosi.org.bh

http://www.tala-amwaj.com

www.iib-bahrain.com

Deputy Manager – I.T. Department (EFU General Insurance Limited Pakistan) May 2004 to June 2007

EFU is one of the largest insurance company which has more than 60 branches all over Pakistan.EFU provides full range of non life insurance products and services to its clients which are both large and medium size organization in all sectors of economy.

I was responsible for analysis, designing and development of software. Project execution, testing and implementation were also my responsibilities. Thus performing full software life cycle. I was also involved in the testing of the software on every stage. Besides this, I was involved in maintenance of running systems.

Responsibilities:

Conduct various meetings with clients to document SRS.

Create DFDs and ERDs. Develop database design.

Responsible for both front end and back end.

Involved in full SDLC.

Developed and implemented the system.

Develop complex reports required by the management.

Provide system support to users.

Held classes targeted at familiarizing the end user and support team with the functionality of the product.

Responsible of requirement management and traceability.

Functional, non-functional, security testing, regression testing, backend testing and integration testing of web and desktop applications.

Responsible for test cases development and execution.

Defect Tracking and verification.

Projects: While working in EFU insurance I developed some major applications.

eCertificate

eCertificate is a service offered by EFU where vehicle information that needs to be insured can be submitted on the web and insurance certificate on web 'eCertificates' can be printed besides viewing status of submitted vehicles and other options. The service is designed for Leasing Companies, Banks with whom EFU has leasing agreements, Head Office of EFU, Dealers and other Customers. For the security reasons, I associated my application with the NIFT – Verisign team to embed digital certificates and signature.

Computer Inventory Management System.

The application keeps track of requests made by users for hardware equipments, their approvals and purchase orders. Stock position, repair, returns and issuance of hardware equipments. The system also records warranty of equipments to help build maintenance reports besides various other reports for management decisions. Since this application is the replacement of manual system, therefore it has benefited the organization in millions.

Internee (Muslim Commercial Bank Pakistan) June 2002 – July 2002

Operated software in the ATM department & acquired knowledge of general banking.

Handled networking and implementation.

Programmed macros in Visual Basic.

Workshop on Best Practices in Software Configuration Management.

Training by NIFT for digital certificates and signatures.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Graduated in December 2003 as Bachelor of Computer Science and Information Technology (BCIT), from NED University of Engineering & Technology (First class with distinction)

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Member of organizing Committee of BCIT which was responsible for arranging functions and seminars.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools

Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Systems

Windows, 7,8,8.1,10

Tools

VMWare, Visio, ERWin, Visual InterDev, Dreamweaver MX, MS Office Integration,

MS Office 2007,2010,2013,365,2016, MS Visual Studio 2010 – 2017, VSTS

Languages

Delphi 4, VB 6, PHP, ASP3, Java script, strong know how of C, C+

Web Servers

Apache, IIS, PWS

Databases

SQL Server,- MySQL, Oracle 8i/9i, Access

CMS

Wordpress

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