Seiar Ahmad Shirzad

Software Test Automation Engineer

ad2rdv@r.postjobfree.com

+1-631-***-****

Stafford, VA 22556

Work Status: U.S. Citizen

** ***** ** ********** ** the Software Quality Assurance in Manual and Automation Testing of Web applications with extensive testing and automation experience in different domains such as e-commerce, banking, healthcare, financials, government and more.

Performed BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) using Cucumber Features, Scenarios and Step Definitions in Gherkins format.

Expertise in various aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle including Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Execution, and Maintenance.

Hands on experience with Cucumber, TestNG, POM framework and extracted data from external files using Apache POI and loaded into the variables in the scripted code.

Plan, write, and execute automated tests using automation scripts with Java and Selenium.

Practical knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming Concepts (OOPs) and Core Java.

Experience in automating test cases using TestNG, Cucumber, GIT version control & Maven.

Actively involved in QA planning, testing and familiarity with Agile/Scrum/Sprint environment.

Created and tested queries in the database to conduct data integrity testing and end to end testing.

Proficient in the creation and execution of test plans, defect tracking, and requirement coverage.

Expertise in various types of testing like Smoke testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, System testing, Black-box testing, GUI testing and UAT testing.

Interacted with Project Managers, Business Analysts, and developers in reviews and solving problems encountered in the application.

Writing optimized XPath and CSS to locate various web elements - static and dynamic objects.

Managed and used defect management tool - JIRA for bug tracking and closures.

Experienced with Jenkins as Continuous Integration server, Schedule jobs to run at regular intervals.

Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools

Test, Complete Azure DevOps Selenium IDE/WebDriver

Languages

JAVA, XML, SQL TYPESCRIPT

IDE

Eclipse, SQL Developer

Test Framework

BDD, TestNG, Data Driven Framework, Cucumber Playwright

Web Debugging Tool

XPath, Fire path, Firebug

Build Tool

Maven

Processes

Agile-Scrum, Waterfall

Bug Tracking Tools

Version-One, JIRA, Rally, HP ALM

Data Bases

MS Access, Oracle, MySQL Mainframe

Operating Systems

Windows (XP, Vista & 7, 8)

Work Experience

QA Team Lead Appril 2022 – Present

Littera Education

Lead, mentor and mange a team of QA engineers

Foster a collaborative and quality-focused culture within the team.

Develop and implement comprehensive test plans and strategies.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define testing requirements.

Implement and maintain automated and manual testing processes.

Evaluate and recommend appropriate testing tools and frameworks.

Establish and track key quality metrics to assess product quality.

Provide regular reports and updates on the status of testing activities.

Work loosely with development product management and other stakeholders to ensure effective communication and understanding of quality expectations.

Identify areas for process improvement and implements best practices.

Assess project risks related to quality and provide mitigation strategies.

Oversee the execution of manual and automated test cases.

Ensure thorough testing coverage for all aspects of the software.

Provide training to team members on new testing methodologies and tools.

Support the professional development of QA team members.

Managing all phases of QA, both pre/post-launch, for every client’s website and closing out projects when all final fixes are completed.

Coordinating with senior developers to address bugs in the template used for all client websites.

Researching ways to automate testing processes to optimize QA performance throughout the product life cycle

Managed automation team, ran sprint planning, created task tickets, demos, weekly check-ins

Develop CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.

Managing offshore and on-site team.

Interacted with Project Managers, Business Analysts, and developers in reviews and solving problems encountered in the application.

Works efficiently with the Operations, Customer Success, and

Product team

Environment Proficiency:

Test Complete, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, MAVEN, Apache-POI, Cucumber, Junit, Mainframe, MySQL DB, Eclipse, Firebug, Fire Path, XML, HTML, XPath, Agile Scrum, GitLab, Windows 7, MS Office suite, Playwright typescript

Automation/Functional QA Lead January 2021 – February 2022

AgFirst Farm Credit Bank

Involved in Test Lead activities like Estimations and resource Management.

Effectively represented QA team in project planning, test efforts, and various cross functional status meeting.

Creating Smoke test suite using Test Complete.

Creating regression suite using Test Complete.

Scripting as required for keyword test driven in Test Complete

Utilized Azure DevOps as defect tracking tool.

Expertise in managing offshore and on-site team.

Involved in Application testing Front end testing, Application Integration testing, E2E testing,

Involved in building automation framework from scratch using Test Complete.

Assessed and analysed user stories and participated in sprint planning, Review Sessions & Scrum Meetings and developed Test scenarios, Test cases, Test data, Test procedures, and Test reports.

Performed User Acceptance testing (UAT) exclusively in an agile environment.

Worked closely with development team to reproduce the bugs and to resolve usability issues during UAT and created Regression Document to track and report test activities during each phase of testing.

Participated in stand-up meeting, walk-through meeting, weekly automation meetings, demos, sprint grooming, retrospectives, and assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.

Environment Proficiency:

Test Complete, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, MAVEN, Apache-POI, Cucumber, Junit, Mainframe, MySQL DB, Eclipse, Firebug, Fire Path, XML, HTML, XPath, Agile Scrum, GitLab, Windows 7, MS Office suite.

QA Team Lead October 2019 – January 2021

U.S Bank, Brookfield, WI

Involved in Test Lead activities like Estimations and resource Management

Involved in Application testing Front end testing, Application Integration testing, E2E testing,

Effectively represented QA team in project planning, test efforts, and various cross functional status meeting.

Expertise in managing offshore and on-site team.

Involved in building automation framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, and Cucumber.

Assessed and analysed user stories and participated in sprint planning, Review Sessions & Scrum Meetings and developed Test scenarios, Test cases, Test data, Test procedures, and Test reports.

Performed User Acceptance testing (UAT) exclusively in an agile environment.

Used Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and across Platforms.

Performed UI, Functional and Regression testing by automated using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, and Maven.

Utilized Version-One as defect tracking tool.

Worked closely with development team to reproduce the bugs and to resolve usability issues during UAT and created Regression Document to track and report test activities during each phase of testing.

Participated in stand-up meeting, walk-through meeting, weekly automation meetings, demos, sprint grooming, retrospectives, and assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.

Implemented Regression and Smoke test execution as a discrete step of the deployment process by using Selenium WebDriver.

Perform Accessibility Testing.

Environment Proficiency:

Selenium WebDriver, VersionOne, Jenkins, MAVEN, Apache-POI, Cucumber, Junit, Mainframe, MySQL DB, Eclipse, Firebug, Fire Path, XML, HTML, XPath, Agile Scrum, GitLab, Windows 7, MS Office suite.

Sr. Automation Engineer

BB&T Bank - Bristow VA September 2017 – September 2019

Analysed System specification documents (SSD), Business requirement documents (BRD) to identify test requirements. Performed agile testing, review the stories and participated in Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning and Release Planning meeting and used Jira Tool.

Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that test plans were written for all the requirements and performed gap analysis.

Hands-on Experience on Selenium WebDriver and creating Scripts in Selenium WebDriver using Java.

Experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), in-depth knowledge of contemporary QA/test principles, methodologies.

Generated Selenium test reports using Extent Reports and Logs for quality assurance.

Developed automated test cases using Selenium WebDriver and used Java frameworks to develop the manual test scripts and executed them using Cucumber framework.

Logging defects, tracking and working with developers to drive them to closure using JIRA.

Used Maven to help manage project's build, report and documentation across the network.

Participated actively in continuous integration of the automation framework using Jenkins.

Monitoring and analysing the testing process, and making recommendations for improvements.

Developed and maintained reusable test scripts to ensure complete requirement test coverage.

Performed backend testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in appropriate tables and manually verify the correctness of the data with front-end values.

Performed Smoke, System testing, system Integration Testing, User acceptance, Database & Regression testing.

Support/Co-ordinate test automation through planning, analysing, designing and executing test cases utilizing a variety frameworks/tools (TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, Maven)

Contributed in developing Automation Framework that uses Java, Selenium Web Driver and TestNG.

Experience in working with Oracle Database, SQL as well as PG Admin PostgreSQL. Participated in peer review with team and developers to review test cases/test scripts.

Involved in Test documentation, such as Test Cases, Bug Reports, Use Cases etc using Jira.

Used Jenkins as a Continuous Integration server to configure with GitHub and Maven.

Environment:

Selenium WebDriver, Apache POI, REST, Postman, MS Office, Windows 8 and 10, SQL, Maven, Jira, Cucumber, Gherkins, Eclipse IDE, PG Admin, PostgreSQL.

Automation Engineer

West Corporation - Chicago IL January 2015 – August 2017

Worked in a dynamic agile scrum environment and worked side by side with developers’ team.

Developed, executed and maintained test automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver.

Designed behaviour driven framework for selenium automation using WebDriver, Java and Cucumber.

Perform Functional testing, Smoke testing and Regression testing and actively participated in daily scrum meetings and involved in bi-weekly Sprint releases.

Reviewed and analysed business requirements and technical specifications to come up with Testing Scope and Level of Efforts (LOE).

Performed System, Integration, Smoke, Sanity, Functional, End to End, Positive and Negative testing and monitored the behaviour of the applications during different phases of testing using testing methodologies.

Performed parameterization of the automated test scripts in Selenium to check how the application performs against multiple sets of data.

Participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Performed various testing activities - functional testing and cross-browser compatibility testing.

Updated test plan and documented defects in defect tracking JIRA.

Used Jenkins as a continuous integration tool to schedule and run the automated test scripts.

Designed and develop automated test scripts to increase testing efficiency and reliability.

Performed Data Driven testing using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG functions which reads data from property and XML files and other external sources.

Developed and maintained automated test scripts in Java using Cucumber Framework.

Worked closely with business team, designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational workflow.

Performed Backend Testing, database table manipulations of relational database systems by writing complex SQL queries.

Environment:

Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Gherkins, POM, Maven, Jenkins, Web Services, REST, Oracle Database, Eclipse IDE, HTML, XML, Windows, Virtual Machine, Xpath, Firebug, Fire path

QA Manual Tester

Amtex Auto Insurance - Houston, TX February 2013 – December 2014

Interact with the Business Analysts for requirement analysis, test case reviews.

Created and executed manual test cases and logged defects.

Performed manual testing of database, user interface (UI), and mobile applications.

Defect verification, bug reproduction to ensure a good quality product and defect closures.

Following up with the development team for open defects and reporting status to Test Lead.

Regression testing to ensure the defect has been addressed in the application to close the defects.

Participated in weekly QA status and project status meetings to report any defects and issues encountered in application.

Actively communicated with the end users and business users to create realistic test cases.

Participated in Agile Scrum methodology and attend Daily Scrum, Sprint Grooming, and Sprint Planning and Sprint Review meetings.

Generating test reports and graphs through the completion of testing and verification.

Conduct QA reviews and inspections to find potential defects and recommend corrective action.

Involved in the design and development of test plan from business and Functional requirements which includes test objectives, test strategies, test environments etc.

Wrote Structure Query Language (SQL) queries to check proper data population in application table and for data verification to perform Backend Testing against Oracle Database.

Provide test summary documentation and analyse test results, identifying trends and/or root causes of analysis.

Involved in the regression test planning for the project and identified the critical regression tests.

Analysed the Business Requirements and worked closely work with the Business Team to get the clarifications.

Reporting and sharing data disposition to team leads and communicating with different departments.

Provided weekly status updates showing the progress of the Manual testing effort and open issues to be resolved.

Prepared meeting notes on daily execution/highlight of the project and send out the reports to managements.

Environment: Manual Testing, Oracle, JIRA, SQL server, Windows XP, 7 and 8, HP Quality Centre, ALM

Education

Bachelor’s In Management Studies (BMS) Indian School of Business and Management

ISTQB Certified

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