Fahad Anwar

Email: ad0rr4@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 224-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

9+ years of software testing experience with special emphasis on manual and automation testing with hand on Java Selenium.. Strong experience in software-testing activities, support of product development and release by automating testing process following Agile methodology. A committed worker with positive attitude. A team player with the ability to meet deadlines. Dedicated to maintaining up-to-date industry knowledge.

Highlights:

In depth working knowledge of different testing types such as black and white box, exploratory, regression, functional, smoke, sanity, API, backend, frontend, automation, load, performance, etc.

Hands on experience working on Java, Selenium Webdriver, Junit/TeatNG including POM framework.

Lead and mentor Software QA team members Onsite/Offshore.

EXPERIENCE:

TCS – ACE Hardware, remote, IL

Sep 2021 – July 2023

QA

Responsibilities:

Prepared Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test effort estimates for Retail and Merchandise projects.

Leading offshore QA testers and responsible to allocate resources and assignee them to various engineering projects.

Facilitating meetings with the development, project and business users' teams to discuss issues and suggest resolution.

Used Azure DevOps (ADO) to manage projects, requirements tracking and test case design/execution.

Reported projects status to managers and directors.

Involved with BA and developers to analyze and debug code for defects resolution.

Assisted QA team preforming test execution with short deadlines and regression test before releases.

Improved test processes by leveraging existing testing tools features and

Focused on leveraging more automated Test Cases to improve test coverage and regression execution time.

Worked on retail web and mobile application validating PDP, PLP, Cart, Checkout, etc.

AllianceRx Walgreens Prime, remote,IL

Feb 2019 – Sep 2021

IT Engineer

Responsibilities:

Analyze Data Sources and design queries to extract data for operational reporting utilizing.

Working in Retail Grocery, Retail Apparel with functional modules like Purchase Order Management

Working on various retail products with automation testing tools.

Taken part and contributed to design and development sessions with other analysts, developers, and architects on the development team.

Followed architecture development standards, conventions, and practices & also contributed to Quality Assurance by assisting in the development of test scenarios and scripts based on business and functional requirements and design.

Performed testing, identify and document bugs, and review all the developments.

Actively involved in migration of SQL, Test cases from Development Environment, to Test Environment and Production Environments.

Involved in 24 7 production support.

Worked in a Linux system to run load and other database activities. Strong Linux command lines

Experience working with big data distributed messaging systems like Kafka Brokers, Zookeepers, Schema Registry, KSql and RestProxy.

Worked on automation framework to create, delete, alter topics – and add/remove ACLs.

Troubleshooting Offset/consumer lag issues for Kafka and creating Kafka topics with applicable partition numbers.

Experience in monitoring Kafka cluster using Control Center and setting alerts/trigger actions.

Experience working with setting up Confluent Connectors & Replicators to replicate data from one data center to another.

Experience in using KSQL, creating streams from Apache Kafka topics using them to create streams of query results from other streams.

Hands on writing bash scripts and writing Ansible scripts.

Help create a BDD driven test framework using Selenium and Cucumber.

Preform testing API Microservices extensively and Cloud/MongoDb.

Working closely with DevOps team to integrate automation CI/CD tools.

Participating in the build of the required test infrastructure, tools and coverage to ensure the release of top-quality software.

Hands on troubleshooting issues on Linux RHEL 6/7/8, rolling restart and viewing the logs.

Participated in Agile Ceremonies such as Daily Stand-Ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning and Retrospective.

CSAA Insurance Group, Glendale, AZ Dec 2018 – Feb 2019

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

Involved on testing the new functionalities based on developed test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing issues.

Trained and managed 6 offshore/onsite testers for two projects.

Attended status meetings to report the status of the project.

Participated in SCRUM status meetings.

Used JIRA to manage defects and requirements tracking (Stories).

Used an existing automation Framework developed in Ruby, Cucumber and SitePrism page models over Capybara.

Execution Test suits in Concourse using Ruby/Gemfile-Bundler (CI/CD).

Federal Reserve Bank, Saint Louis, MO Jan 2017 – Nov 2018

Test QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

Spearheading the Testing effort by performing requirement analysis for both manual and automated testing.

Used HP ALM Quality Center to manage test scripts, tracking and test case design and execution and Used JIRA to manage defects and requirements tracking (Stories).

Write SQL scripts to validate the backend and check in the frontend of the application.

Developed automation script using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA and Cucumber.

Strong Hands on Experience in working on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) scripts with Cucumber by writing step definitions for Gherkin based features.

Maintained the SOAP automation code and resources in source controls like SVN/Git over the time for improvements and new features.

Perform 508 Compliant testing on PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, HTML, Flash and Zip Files.

Lead the QA team and participated in code review and approvals.

Effectively participated in every day agile scrum stand-up meetings and participated in Iteration planning and retrospective meetings.

MasterCard, O’Fallon, MO Jan 2014 – Jan 2017

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

Writing test cases for Cucumber automation (Java) and developed Maven project object model (POM) Framework.

Extensively automated regression and functional test suites by developing over 500 test cases, 6 test suites using Selenium WebDriver, GRID + JAVA.

Monitored test execution in Jenkins once the code pushed into Continuous Integration CI/CD.

Used Rally/TestRail to house all test documentation and report/track all issues, defects and requirements tracking and test case design.

Created and maintained automated test script for API testing using TestNG.

Hands on developing automation scripts for Mobile Native applications on iOS and Android platforms using Appium and Java.

Followed Agile testing methodology, participated in daily SCRUM meetings and testing each SPRINT deliverables.

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s in Computer Science – University of Baghdad 2009

Additional Information:

Tech Skills: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Java, Maven, TestNG, Junit, Eclipse, ALM, JIRA, Rally, SoapUI, Postman, SQL Developer, Oracle, UNIX/Linux, PUTTY, SSH, VB Script, SQL, PowerShell, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, API, Jenkins, Bamboo, GIT, Github, Swagger, Azure, RabbitMQ, Newman.

Skills: Project Management, Product Innovation, Product Development, Creative Solutions, Team Leadership

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