Tarif Zaman

Falls Church VA *****

Cell: 240-***-****

ada1aq@r.postjobfree.com

US citizen

Holding public trust clearence

Quality-focused IT professional with over 8+ years of experience QA analyst. Well recognized for identifying and resolving technical issues and concerns. To obtain a QA position with a challenging work environment that offers learning opportunities with growth potential.

SUMMARY:

Over 8 +years of experience in Manual Testing of software applications across multiple technologies and platforms.

Proficient in performing functional, regression and end-to-end testing of the application through test automation and manual testing processes.

Hands on experience in various SDLC methodologies like Agile, Scrum and Waterfall model. Experienced in Defining Testing Methodologies, Developing Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying, Validating and performing Structural, Functional, User Interface and Regression testing of Application Software.

Skilled in Maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.

Worked on SharePoint or confluence site like customizing the feel & look of SharePoint based Web site using FrontPage.

Configured and maintained Document libraries, Form libraries in the SharePoint site.

Experienced in interacting with developers, configuration management while handling production issues with development teams and business analysts.

Expertise in Documentation Management and creative skills including preparing Test Plan, Test Case Specifications, Test Requirements, Test Case Matrix and Defect Reports.

Skilled in playing Admin Role for HP ALM/Quality Center, HP Load Runner along with Test, Requirement Management tools like HP Quality Center/Test Director.

Expertise in performing manual testing of the applications in Windows (Java and .Net) Platform.

Extensively experienced in the entire QA life cycle - STLC, which includes designing, developing test plans, setting up testing standards and testing frameworks, developing test design and execution processes, design and execution of test cases, test scripts and finding, reporting and prioritizing the defects of the application-under-test.

Vastly experienced in analyzing business requirements and functional requirements specifications of an application.

Extensive documentation skills and proficient in utilizing HP Quality Center, IBM DOORS as Test Management and defect tracking tools.

Skilled in Test Status report generation using tools like HP ALM to show test coverage, test case completion, test execution numbers, defect summary and defect classification based on multiple criteria.

Good in back-end testing using SQL queries, generated documents/reports to ensure data integrity and to validate reports as per business rules.

Experienced in using UFT testing tools.

Involved in Performance testing using Load Runner. Experienced in estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedules with overall project schedule.

2 years of experience in working with selinium webdriver. Experience with testing automation grouping and parallel execution. Exceute test script on IE, Firefox and Google chrome . Good understanding of automation Life cycle and quality process. Good in core Java .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

CAPITAL ONE

Senior QA Analyst

Mclean, VA

March 2017 – Present

•Working with product owner and senior BA and reviewing the Functional Requirements Documentation (FRD) to understand the business requirements and enhancements requested by the client.

•Working in an agile environment – Followed Agile methodology (SCRUM) with 2 weeks sprints.

•Creating ‘workload trackers’ to track the work efforts, assignments for the testing team – both test design and test execution.

•Involved in Validation effort of test execution status, defect summary and any outstanding issues during daily validation status meetings.

•Involved in designing the overall Test Plan.

•Managing the HP ALM as an Administrator for various project – new user addition/deletion, group creation/modification, privilege assignment, test set and folder structure creation, report generation, defect definition creation.

•Working on Requirement review and writing Test cases and test script.

•Participating in scrum meetings to report testing activities in Agile methodology.

•Conducting regular scrum Stand up meeting, Sprint planning and review meeting, with the team to discuss on work assignments, task evaluation, and address any open issues and concerns.

•Working As key dependency person in recording data for conducting test.

•Performed Intregression testing with UFT tool.

•Using various SQL statements to display data from multiple tables and conducted back end testing.

•Conducting regression tests, ad-hoc test, smoke tests.

•Participating in validating the Business Rules and policy for the different modules.

•Performing peer reviews to come up with the right test scenario coverage.

•Performing Black Box Testing and Functional Testing Manually.

•Designing metrics for various reporting purposes like Test case burn down metrics, Defect tracking with HP ALM and Defect containment rate.

•Performing and managing the iterative and incremental testing required for the software development using agile, conducted UAT testing with business operation team.

•Assisting in conducting UAT and provided production support during the install of the application, and log in bug after deployment in HP ALM bug tracking tool.

•Providing the required test data for the developers in order to fix the defects.

•Participating in QA team meeting and bug tracking meetings.

•Performing environment testing & configuration testing weekly basis.

CSRA. Inc

Falls church VA

QA Analyst

Aug 2015 – Feb 2017

Responsibilities:

•Presented Functional requirements Documentation (FRD) to Business Operations for acceptance prior to development

●Assisted Senior BA with Eliciting requirements from subject matter experts and stakeholders.

•Successfully developed Test cases, Test plan, Test tracker & RTM for upcoming releases. And also Assisted BA with Business rules and flow charts.

•Successfully defined complete, understandable stories with the help of the subject matter experts.

•Managed user stories, sprints, and releases in Rally Software to facilitate Agile methodology.

•Execute test cases and also performed bug cycle by creating defect in Jira.

•Worked with developers, Business analysts, to understand the Application in order to perform the role and test different scenarios in QA.

•Used of bug tracking tools like Jira and for reporting modification requests.

•Carried out Automated tests and batch tests using Jira.

•Constructed complex SQL queries to validate the data.

•Executed UFT regression automated scripts.

•Assist the team With UAT testing.

•Working with SQL database, running queries if needed for business purpose to assist business operation team.

•Working with the Business Systems Support Analyst in identifying and proposing application system changes, better uses, enhancements and developments and liaising with appropriate vendors, users and the IT Team.

•Manage QA team to accomplish various projects within the time line and deliver successful Deployment sign off.

•Involved in validating the Business Rules for the different modules.

•Involved in Requirement and Gap Analysis.

•Documented software requirements, test cases and tests execution using HP ALM .

•Ordinated weekly test plan/project status meetings and reviews with QA team.

TD Bank,

Lewiston, ME

QA Tester

Jan 2011 – July 2015

Responsibilities:

•Involved in analyzing the applications and development of test cases.

•Analyzed and reviewed the software requirements, functional specifications and design documents.

•Developed test scenarios and test procedures based on the test requirements.

•Participated in Preparing Test Plans and Developed Test Objectives and test Procedures.

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

•Performed Smoke, Functional, Compatibility and User Interface testing.

•Executed the test cases for Manual testing using HP ALM.

•Conducted Bug Reporting and tracking using HP ALM.

•Created traceability matrix between requirements and test case for each round of testing using Quality Center.

•Performed peer reviews to come up with the right test scenario coverage.

•Worked on Agile Methodology (Stand-up Meetings, Scrum Meetings, Update Time report).

•Experienced as a HP ALM Admin and managed the access permissions for different teams, created common reports for visibility to higher management.

•Involved in preparing Test Scenarios, business components, test cases and linking all these together in HP ALM.

•Involved in Defect Reporting, Defect Tracking and in preparation of Defect Report using HP ALM.

•Involved in testing Data integrity on back-end using SQL queries.

•Used UFT for Regression functional and Integration testing.

•Requirement & Use Cases

•Performed QA process includes Test cases template, Test cases organization.

Education

Associated degree Dhaka Bangladesh

SKILLS:

Testing Tools: ALM, UFT, JIRA, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Pro, Rational Tool.

References available upon request

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