Quality Assurance Software Development

Abdullah D. Popalzai

Alexandria, Virginia 571-***-**** ********.********@*****.*** Public Trust Clearance

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Analytical and detailed software quality assurance professional with 5+ years of experience centered on examining the quality of products and reducing development costs through manual verification and automated testing—proven expertise in building and implementing automation frameworks and software development life cycle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quality Assurance Tester April 2023 – Present

FDA/CVM New Animal Drug Application (NADA), (Silver Spring, MD)

Responsible for writing and running UAT test cases and ensuring they meet all function and non-function requirements and comply with all application regulations.

Responsible for SDLC, Agile Process, Business Process Design, and Implementation

Responsible for analyzing business requirements documents and system specifications to identify test requirements.

Responsible for writing and running smoke test cases and ensuring they function accurately and rapidly.

Design an automation framework to be used in UI testing with Selenium WebDriver

Define and track quality assurance metrics, such as defect densities and open defect counts; execute automated unit, integration, regression, system, and security testing in the build process.

Perform Backend testing using SQL Plus, PL/SQL, and regression testing using Selenium.

Create a test summary report for management review.

Develop & automat test strategies, plans, scenarios, cases, and manual test case templates.

Senior Test Analyst February 2022 - January 2023

Travel + Leisure Co. (Orlando, FL)

Analyzed Business Requirements Documents and system specifications to identify test requirements.

Ensured that products conform to business requirements and software quality standards through manual and Selenium WebDriver automation testing.

Performed end-to-end data validation testing for Contract Management System

Performed backend testing and verified data using SQL queries.

Performed functional, end-2-end, exploratory testing, and Positive/Negative Testing

Analyzed and reproduced defects and worked with developers to determine a resolution.

Analyzed user stories and participated in Sprint Planning, Review Sessions, and Scrum Meetings, developed Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Data, Test Procedures, and Test Reports

Maintained a regression suite, monitored, and analyzed test results during the release, and provided detailed status reports.

Tester Engineer December 2019 - January 2022 Nonstop Delivery, Inc. (Chantilly, VA)

Execute test cases, analyze results, and create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.

Monitor debugging process results and create logs to document testing phases and defects.

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Involved in building and developing automation framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, maven, JUnit, and Cucumber (BDD)

Used Maven for build management, and CI/CD, for continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment.

Performed and implemented Regression and Smoke test execution as a discrete step of the deployment process by using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Maven, and Jenkins

Evaluate product code according to specifications.

Quality Assurance Analyst March 2018 - November 2019

GEICO Insurance (Chevy Chase, MD)

Involved in testing the application utilizing the Scrum-Agile methodology.

Set up Jenkins for scheduled automation Smoke test to trigger email test reports.

Designed and documented Test Strategies and Plans and executed test cases.

Developed Test Cases use cases, and Automation Test Scripts, executed automated tests, and generated test reports following the Quality Assurance best practices.

Assisted QA lead in documenting the User Acceptance Test report and reporting defect resolution.

Developed test code in Java using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG framework.

Designed, developed, and executed automation scripts using open-source tools Utilized CSS selectors, IDs, and XPaths to locate elements on Web pages.

Responsible for writing and running claims department test cases and making sure they function accurately and rapidly.

Responsible for writing and maintaining Selenium WebDriver scripts for regression and functional testing using the data-driven framework.

Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion, and updates into the Oracle.

Experienced in Cross Browser Claims Testing by executing test cases in Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer

EDUCATION

Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio 2015

Master of Arts, Governance and Administration

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE/WebDriver/Grid, SOAP UI, Postman, ReadyAPI

Languages: JAVA, SQL, HTML

IDE: Eclipse, SQL Developer

Test Framework: JUnit, TestNG, Karate, Cucumber

Build Tool: Maven

SDLC Methodologies: Agile-Scrum, Waterfall

Management Tools: Jira

Databases: Oracle, MySQL

Version Control: Git/GitHub

CI Tool: Jenkins

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