Rasheda Begum
Cell: 646-***-**** *****.*********@*****.***
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Over 5+ years of experience in Software Testing of Web, Portal, Client Server and Mobile applications on various development & programming environments by performing Manual and Automated Testing.
Proficient in Manual Testing in Web Based, Mobile Apps and Client Server applications for Functional, non-function, End-to-End, GUI Web based.
Conducted Manual Testing on a variety of different mobile devices from various manufacturers such as Apple, and Android
Testing experience includes: Smoke Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and GUI Testing of various web based and mobile applications.
Full life cycle testing experience in Quality Assurance with Black Box, system, integration, database, GUI, Functional, Regression, Unit testing, User Acceptance Testing, Smoke testing and Sanity testing.
Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Defects Summary and Test Summary documentations for various Business applications, and complete familiarity with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
Strong knowledge in SQL, developing database queries for Backend Testing using SQL Developer, and TOAD, in-depth Knowledge of Oracle and SQL Server.
Analyzed Business Requirement documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), and other project related documents to develop well detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
Excellent documentation skills at developing Master Test Plan template, collecting Test Data and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) for testing purpose
Experience with HP Tools: ALM (Quality Center), HP Quick Test Professional (QTP).
Experience with defect-tracking tools: JIRA, HP Quality Center/ALM
Produced and reviewed documentation including QA Metric Report and RTM to provide to stakeholders.
Performed gap & system analysis by reviewing complex requirements. Clarified requirements specifications with clients and core development team and then delegated tasks to project team for implementation.
Extensive knowledge and expertise in testing web-based, mobile, and power builder application in Agile/Scrum/Waterfall environments.
Exceptional ability to analyze informational requirements and needs, identify problems, examine alternatives, reason logically, and design testing procedures.
Excellent analytical, problem solving skills and a motivated team player with excellent inter-personal skills and familiar working with multiple on shore and off shore development and QA teams.
Comfortable working independently with minimum supervision as well as collaboratively within a team environment.
SKILLS
QA/Testing Software
HP Quality Center, JIRA, Postman, SQLdeveloper, VersionOne, QTP, UFT
Test Management & Defect tracking Tools
Quality Center, VersionOne, & JIRA
Operating Systems
Windows, IOS, & Android
Database(DBMS)
Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MS-Access, Sybase
Browsers
IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome
Protocols
FTP, SFTP, HTTP
Software Development Technologies
Java, .Net, HTML, HTML5, X-Code, XML, Perl, Java Script, VBScript, Shell, ASP, JSP, ASS, AJAX, SQL, PL/SQL
Application Servers
Web logic, IIS, Web Sphere, Oracle Application Server
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sr. QA Analyst: 02/2014 – Present
HBC Digital – New York, NY
Project Description: Work as a Senior QA Analyst by implementing features and enhancements for HBC digital e-commerce websites and other internal applications. Lead and perform testing for retail websites, native apps and internal tools in an Agile environment.
Responsibilities:
Work closely with team in the creating Test Scenarios, development and execution of Test Cases, analysis of test results, detect and document defects, and Validate bug fixes
Participate in a variety of quality assurance reviews of Business Requirements, System Design and user Acceptance Testing.
Work in agile environment attend backlog grooming, sprint planning, stand up, debrief and retrospective meeting.
Create test data sets which fully exercises Data Validation, reports and End-to-End System Functionality.
Work on print outputs with policies to verify that all the forms and all branding meets company standards.
Develop and review Test Plans, Test cases, Managed Defects and Reported Status through the development lifecycle.
Participate in walkthroughs and review the business requirements and followed with the Business Analysts and worked towards the resolution of the specification issues
Test Mobile Version of Apps for HBC Digital on Android operating system and iOS for iPhone/iPad
Perform and lead others to conduct Manual Testing on a variety of different mobile devices from various manufacturers such as Apple, HTC, Samsung and Motorola.
Guide and lead offshore QA Team, held meetings to help clarify business and technical requirements.
Play a support role for Marketing team, Analytics team, and Creative team to test features and functionalities.
Co-coordinate with offshore QA Team for timely delivery on work items. Planed and prioritized various testing assignments.
Lead and perform testing for websites, mobile optimized sites, native apps and internal tools in an Agile environment.
Develop overall Test Strategies, Test Plans for Manual Testing including definition of Test Cycles and Schedules, executing test interfaces and documenting.
Participate in all phases of SDLC from verification to validation.
Mentor and train junior team members/new hires.
Provide Test Status Reports to project team, stakeholders, and managers.
Expert in Developing and Executing test cases based on business requirements, functional and technical requirements, and user stories.
Perform various testing such as Exploratory, Ad hoc Testing, Functional, Database, Black Box, Compatibility, Usability, End-to-End, User Acceptance, Service level/API and Regression.
Used SQL developer tool to execute queries for Backend Testing to verify the database updates, along with validation.
Wrote Structured Query Language (SQL) statements using Select, Inner Joins, Left Joins, Right Joins, Insert, Union, Distinct, View and many other statements against Oracle database by SQL Developer
Work with automation team member to integrate automation testing for functionalities.
Responsible for updating and maintaining the Traceability Matrix for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle using JIRA.
Attended daily stand-up meetings and provided testing status and feedbacks.
IT Test Analyst: 8/12 – 02/14
Apple Bank for Savings- New York, New York
Project Description: Apple Bank is a financial services company that offers a variety of consumer lending and deposit products, including credit cards, auto loans, and small business loans. I was involved in testing Web-based applications of Apple Bank. These applications were being developed to allow its customers to access their accounts, view and pay bills online, view monthly statements, transfer balances between two accounts, view images of checks posted and apply for loans online.
Responsibilities:
Proactively took initiative and demonstrated a high level of accountability in the STLC process.
Developed test plans, scenarios, test cases, and test scripts, and used them in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/ or product knowledge to ensure they functioned properly.
Prepared and communicated Test Status Reports to project teams & upper management that included test execution, coverage, system changes, issues, and potential impact analysis
Worked with QA Manager very closely to review various reports and identify gaps & issues within execution
Collaborated with product management and development teams, in an Agile/Scrum environment, to develop a comprehensive set of tests for web-based applications
Performed testing for websites, mobile optimized sites, native apps and internal tools in an Agile environment.
Worked with developers throughout Bug/Defect Life Cycle (BLC) and with Business Analyst, SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) & UAT Testers to verify & fix Defects.
Participated in the Design & Code Review meeting of project software application and provided feedback to upper management & led meetings within QA Team accordingly
Logged and reported defects with detailed, accurate, concise steps to reproduce, and verified defects fixes once it returned back from developer.
Executed test cases for functional testing, integration testing, database testing and regression testing.
Jr. QA Tester: 11/11-08/12
Assurant Health, New York, NY
Project Description: Worked as a Junior QA Tester on a team developing a Health On Net system. The system allowed lookup of a patient’s coverage eligibility, verification of coverage, creation of insurance, updating insurance information, and processing claims. The system provided other tools that provided patient and physician services, creating and managing appointments, patient medical history.
Responsibilities:
Prepared test cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document
Developed Manual Test Cases for positive, negative, functional and performance testing
Performed Manual Testing of the web application
Performed Cross Browser Testing, Testing Compatibility of software under various Internet Browsers.
Created test data from the functional requirement specifications
Performed Integration testing, Regression testing and System Testing.
Support the QA automation engineer by selecting automation candidates, writing and/or editing functional automated test scripts and executing them
Performed back-end validations using SQL statements against Oracle Database.
Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using HP Quality Center.
Performed GUI, Functionality, Integration, Regression, Interface, Usability, and Smoke Testing.
Reported the bugs using Quality Center
EDUCATION: Bachelor of Arts - Baruch College, CUNY.
STATUS: US Citizen