Niusha Alavizadeh

Software Test Engineer

**** ******** **, ***** ******, VA 22041

202-***-**** ad1lqo@r.postjobfree.com

US Citizen (Active Public Trust Clearance)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

● Over Seven years of experience in software quality assurance for functional, backend, and web service testing.

● Skilled in planning and implementing new processes, procedures, and tools for quality assurance testing, defect tracking, status reporting, and problem resolution within Agile, Waterfall, and Iterative development environments.

● Involved in the complete software testing life cycle, owning the test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC, experienced in methodologies like Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM).

● Extensive and diversified experience in Information Technology with an emphasis on Quality Assurance, GUI, Automation Testing, Web, and Client/Server based Commercial Applications.

● Experienced in Manual Testing, Automated Testing, Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, UAT, and Regression.

● Expertise in Selenium automation using Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber, JAVA, JUnit, TestNG, Maven.

● Extensively used Selenium (data-driven, XPath locator) and WebDriver to test the web application.

● Introduced and implemented Open-Source web test tool Selenium and WebDriver for cross-browser testing.

● Strong knowledge in the test management framework, analyzing bug severity and risk, bug tracking system using Jira.

● Involved in designing an automation framework for UI testing with Selenium WebDriver.

● Executed browser compatibility and regression tests using Selenium WebDriver for testing UI for every new build release.

● Responsible for writing and maintaining Selenium WebDriver scripts for regression and functional testing.

● Experienced in creating batch testing, parameterized testing using TestNG.

● Experienced in creating test features, step definition, test runners using Cucumber.

● Ability to interact with all levels of personnel from technical to high-level executive management, excellent interpersonal, communication, and writing skills.

● Adept at conducting various kinds of testing, including Automation and Manual Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity Testing, Cross-browser testing.

● Experience in Database Testing using SQL Queries with multiple databases like MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, and MySQL and performed Database testing, including data integrity and data validation testing.

● Reviewed and revised a suite of test cases to reflect changes made to the Test Plan documentation for new functionality and performance issues.

● Hands-on experience in iOS, Android, Windows mobile App, and mobile web responsive testing.

● Involvement in Test Estimations and Test Strategy implementation.

● Experienced in Analysis, testing, and certifying application-specific software and performed ambiguity reviews of business requirements and functional specification documents.

● Involved in planning and assisting in quality assurance schedules and assignments. Logged and tracked to verify the resolutions of software and its specification defects.

● Proficient in devising all the artifacts of testing, such as Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Defect Reports.

● Proven ability to assure Quality Project/Product on time and on budget.

● Strong knowledge of Testing Automation, Performance, and best practices in QA Process.

● Extensive experience in functional, unit, integration, regression testing, and Black-box testing in different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle. SKILLS

● Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Agile SAFe,

Waterfall, SDLC

● Test Frameworks: Data Driven, Hybrid, Page

Object Model

● Artifacts: Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Plan, RTM, Test Summary Report, Bug Report

● Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA-Zapier, HP ALM, MS

Azure

● Automation Tools: Java, Selenium WebDriver,

Maven, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Git

● IDE: Eclipse, Postman

● Databases: MySQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MS

Access. MS Office Tools: Excel, Outlook,

PowerPoint, and Word.

● Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS

EXPERIENCE

Software Test Engineer

United States Department of Labor Washington D.C. Mar 2022-Current

● Reviewed specifications and business requirements before application testing in an Agile Scrum Environment.

● Wrote Test Plans and Test cases for different modules and conducted various testing phases, including Black Box, GUI, Navigation, Positive, Negative, Regression, Integration, and Functional Testing.

● Created Test Scenarios and Test Cases according to the requirements and developed a test matrix in Zephyr.

● Identified, replicated, and reported defects and verified defect fixes using JIRA.

● Defined input requirements to document the Business Requirements Specifications and developed the Requirements Traceability Matrix.

● Participated in Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective, Daily Stand Up, and Defect review meetings.

● Reviewed requirements, created test scenarios, and provided test automation efforts for changes.

● Created and maintained a testing schedule and managed testing of User Stories for the Sprint.

● Developed Test Automation Scripts from scratch using Selenium Web Driver, Maven with Cucumber Framework.

● Utilized Chrome developer tools to identify the Object's id, Name, XPath, link, CSS Selector in the application.

● Applied a behavior-driven development (BDD) approach using Selenium-Cucumber to write and execute automated acceptance/unit tests.

● Developed BDD scenarios for functional and regression suites using Cucumber and Gherkin.

● Created Feature files, step definitions, Test runner files for test results, Page Object Model classes to separate web elements from the script, and utility classes to organize test scripts.

● Conducted database testing by writing and executing SQL queries to ensure that data entered in the front-end application was processed in MS SQL Server database.

● Collaborated closely with Business Analysts and End Users to create and update Software Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Specification.

● Conducted in-depth analysis of various complex issues and provided solutions to ensure the accurate delivery of information to the customer.

Quality Assurance Tester

United States Department of Commerce Washington D.C. Jan 2020-Feb 2022

● Created and managed test cases and detailed test procedures for administering software tests.

● Reviewed the documentation, including the Software Requirements Specification.

● Participated in the Quality Assurance process following Agile (SCRUM) Test Methodology.

● Performed hardware and software testing.

● Tested application and device behavior under various interruptions.

● Conducted Re-Testing and Regression Testing at various phases of the development life cycle for affected existing functionality.

● Reported and monitored software defects using JIRA.

● Executed test cases and reported bugs using classification and issue severity rating.

● Identified test cases to automate and tested these cases using Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, and Java technologies (Eclipse IDE). Contributed to framework creation.

● Used several TestNG Annotations to organize tests.

● Involved in Web Application GUI automation, creating regression suites using Selenium Web Driver, Java, TestNG, and Eclipse.

● Developed automated test scripts using TestNG annotations like Group, parameter, and Data provider.

● Used techniques for locating web elements in the web page by Name, ID, XPath, and customized XPath.

● Collaborated with the team for requirement analysis, Test Strategy, and Test Plan creation.

● Wrote and executed new test procedures; updated test procedures as functionality changed during the testing cycle.

● Involved in Functional, Integration, Regression, System, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) during various phases of application testing.

● Worked on SQL statements to check the validity of the Backend.

● Documented and tracked software defects.

● Interacted with developers and Business Analysts to resolve defect issues. Quality Assurance Analyst

Exostar Herndon, VA Jul 2016-Dec 2019

● Reviewed the Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts to ensure consistency with the strategic direction, goals, and objectives of QA resources using Agile Scrum Methodology.

● Involved in various types of testing, including Black Box Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration Testing, End-to-End Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

● Participated in Agile-related activities, including Stand-up meetings, planning meetings, reviews, and other project and QA-related meetings.

● Utilized agile systems and strategies to provide quick and feasible solutions based on Agile principles.

● Manually created test cases for different types of testing, such as positive/negative, functional/regression, interface, batch testing, screen navigational testing, smoke/sanity testing, exploratory testing, and Backend testing.

● Used Jira to document issues found during the testing process, suggested appropriate solutions, and prioritized defects for resolution in coordination with the development team.

● Isolated, replicated, and reported defects and verified defect fixes using JIRA.

● Gathered business requirements and corresponding design documents.

● Attended design reviews and scenario walkthroughs.

● Verified the test environment to ensure proper setup.

● Analyzed and designed test cases in alignment with the development life cycle.

● Prepared test cases and test data for execution.

● Set up the test environment.

● Detected defects and escalated them based on priority.

● Tracked and reported defects and testing status for development enhancements.

● Conducted Regression testing as required.

● Re-designed or wrote new test cases based on project change requests.

● Prepared reports for test case execution.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree: French Literature and Language, Tehran University Masters: French Literature and Language, Tehran University CERTIFICATION

Scrum Master.

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