Software Developer

*.*Sameer Riaz, Quality Assurance Analyst

Anticipated Role

QA Tester

Availability

Immediately

Education

Master of Business Administration(Finance)

Bachelor of Commerce

Experience Summary

QA Tester with over 5 years of experience supporting business solution software and analyzing business operations. Responsible for the creation and implementation of testing procedures that ensure the integrity and quality of software systems released into production. As a QA Tester working closely with business analysts, software developers, and other stakeholders in all phases of the software development life cycle to ensure that all internally developed software is free from defects, complies with functional specifications and meets or exceeds end-user requirements. Experienced in Agile & Waterfall methodologies and developed user stories, prioritize features, plan sprints and groomed product backlog.

Relevant Technology Experience

Custom Software Development (.NET, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, SQL)

Quality Processes, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control

Analysis, Design, and Development

System Requirements, Functional Requirements

DotNetNuke (DNN), SharePoint

Database Programming – SQL Server

Content Management systems (eCMS)

Database Management and Administration

Work Experience

Organization Name : PN Automation, Inc.

U.S. MarinesMobile App Project: Oct’16 - Till Date

Role: QA Tester

Responsibilities:

Worked with Development Team to analyze and co-ordinate business, functional and non-functional requirements on Web/online portals & Mobile applications and performed programming/coding activities. Highly skilled Functional Tester extensive knowledge of test strategies and quality assurance schedule management. Communicates well with clients throughout testing processes.

•Performed analysis, design and development of the application according to the user requirements

•Worked effectively in a team environment with other developers, analysts, project managers and client staff

•Provided executives with analytics and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies.

•Partnered with developers to automate manual processes, saving time and money while decreasing errors. Credited as a primary driving force behind a 5% increase in margins this fiscal year.

•Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.

•Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams

•Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.

•Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company on average $5,000+.

•Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

•Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.

•Facilitate monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.

•Develop business architecture using requirements such as scope, processes, alternatives, and risks.

•Analyze client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.

•Conduct 5+ levels of testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration and performance to verify the client’s needs are met.

•Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.

•Provide input into developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and develop business specifications to support these modifications.

•Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.

•Serve as a key member of software development team as the lead QA tester on development projects for US Marine Corps (USMC), CMS, SMART TV, Mobile (iPhone/Android), Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TV, Apple TV and ROKU clients.

•Created and executed automated software test plans, cases and scripts to uncover, identify and document software problems and their causes.

MARCORSYSCOM (MCSC) Project: June’ 17 To Sept’18

DotNetNuke Developer:

•Provided assistance during technical design and code reviews.

•Designed and developed test artifacts as per project requirements.

•Prepared records relating to regular software development procedures.

•Formulated and executed technical specifications to support software solutions.

•Formulated and executed technical design schematics.

•Documented DotNetNuke modules and web service solutions.

•Implemented web pages and internet development projects.

•Developed database models with SQL Server and relational mappers.

Responsibilities:

•Provided assistance during technical design and code reviews.

•Co-ordinated kick off meeting with COR to share Project Management Plan and to present demo of COTS product.

•Documented DotNetNuke modules and web service solutions.

•Resolved technical incidents and prepared unit test plans.

•Designed and developed test artifacts as per project requirements.

•Formulated and executed technical specifications to support software solutions.

•Suggested improvements for custom DNN websites.

•Assisted in DNN application maintenance and regression testing.

•Participated in requirements gathering including use cases and functional requirements.

MARINES.MIL Website Project: Jan’ 17 To Augt’18

Role: QA Tester

Responsibilities:

•Used Agile practices and test-driven development (TDD) techniques to provide software in a reliable and timely manner.

•Developed test cases and coordinated with testing team to initiate testing. Performed Unit Testing and User Acceptance Testing and documented detailed defects.

•Conduct UX planning and strategy on several key UX initiatives.

•Used Jira for reporting and tracking bugs, and providing updates on resolved bugs.

•Documented complete software testing process.

•Interacted with developers, system engineers, and testing teams to identify applications defects.

•Completed software testing for each given sprint.

•Coordinated all known issues with the clients and the developer and assure balance and positive relations with both client and development team.

•Multifaceted experience in QA software testing, software development and user-acceptance testing.

•UI & Compatibility Testing.

•Data Interface & Migration Testing.

•Created Test Plans, Cases & Processes.

•Defect/Bug Tracking

•Used JIRA to plan, give out estimates, and follow deadlines.

•Resolved production issues and data cleanup efforts through root cause analysis.

U.S. Army Mobile App Project: Sep’ 18 To Mar’19

Role: QA Tester

Responsibilities:

•Responsible for all the phases of Software development life cycle (SDLC) using Microsoft .Net Technologies.

•Responsible for gathering business requirements, design and implementation.

•Experienced with Agile and Scrum Methodologies using JIRA Agile.

•Worked with Development and Design teams in an agile environment to prioritize features, plan sprints, groom the product backlog, and deliver functioning code to production.

•Created work breakdown structure and project schedules to estimate effort required for each identified task.

•Documented requirements management plan, work break down structure, communication management plan, quality management plan and risk management plan.

•Designed and implemented TFS branching for development and release versions.

•Experiencing in parsing different file formats.

•Experiencing in JSON validation for the syntax-check.

•Responsible for bug fix, Enhancements, Designing, Impact analysis & lessons learned documentation.

•Participated in code reviews to make sure coding standards are followed.

•Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD) approach for development.

•Experienced with n Unit for Unit Test mocking.

•Developed and implemented appropriate exception handlers.

•Performed unit testing, debugging and rigorous problem solving.

•Experiencing in creating use case diagrams, writing code, writing test scenarios, perform unit and integration testing, production support and preparing documentation.

•Serve as a key member of software development team as the lead QA tester on development projects for U.S ARMY CMS, SMART TV, Mobile (iPhone/Android), Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TV, Apple TV and ROKU clients.

USAID Project: Jan’19

Role: QA Tester

Responsibilities:

•Gathered, analyzed and created all types of requirements documents for over 8 technical solution projects.

•Provided software requirements to programmers and web developers to address major software needs for the Koniology organization.

•Performed user acceptance testing for software changes and enhancements.

•Created and documented system processes for end-users.

•Trained employees on software applications

•Designed training programs/authored training procedures and user guides

•Managed projects/facilitated distance learning with Web meeting tools

•Translated employee needs into technical requirements for software applications

•Tested, documented, released new software

•Performed Quality Assurance Testing.

•Tracked progress of the Integration implementation and communicated status during the implementation.

•Facilitated User Acceptance Testing process.

•Testing core functionality and reports with various test scenario using test scripts.

•Performed extensive website testing and resolved site bugs.

•Expert in business process engineering and software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications.

•Developed use cases, workflow, screen mock-ups, and conversion requirements.

•Determined user/business/functional requirements. Created vision, scope, and use case documents; business process models, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and state chart diagrams.

•Worked with QA team to design test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

•Coordinated work plans between project manager and client using MS Project.

•Created documentation for training and Help Desk teams.

Environment:

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2010/2013, .NET Framework 4.0, C#.NET, ASP.NET MVC 4.0, DotNetNuke (DNN), WCF, Entity Framework 4.0, LINQ, HTML 5, XML, IIS 7.0, SQL Server 2008 R2, Oracle, PL-SQL/T-SQL, API Libraries.

G.N-TEX. April’13 To Sept’16

Role: Software Developer/.Net Developer

Responsibilities:

•Analyzed, developed, and implemented new enhancements and re-engineered the existing applications

•Designed and developed web forms using C# .NET, MVC, JQuery, HTML, and .NET Framework

•Performed input validations on web forms using various .NET Validation Controls

•Developed databases using MS SQL Server, wrote complex SQL queries and stored procedures, and modified existing packages, procedures, functions, and triggers to meet business needs.

•Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

•Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.

•Develop business architecture using requirements such as scope, processes, alternatives, and risks.

•Analyze client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.

•Programmed the Business layer for diverse scenarios in C# using object-oriented programming concepts.

•Involved in Documentation, Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Debugging.

•Tracked all changes to prod environment including release and ad-hoc changes under change management with every change discussed with Dev/ QA teams.

Environment:

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2010/2013, .NET Framework 4.0, C#.NET, ASP, Entity Framework 4.0, LINQ, HTML 5, XML, SQL Server 2008 R2.

Technical Skills Overview

Programming Languages

ASP.NET, C#, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, XML

Web Technologies

HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, JavaScript, Bootstrap,

CMS

DotNetNuke (DNN) Platform, Microsoft SharePoint

CRM

Salesforce.com, Data Loader

Databases

MS SQL Server 2008 R2/ 2012, MySQL, DB2

Business Process Tools

MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook

Tools/ IDE/ Frameworks

MS Visual Studio 2013, Clarity, HP Quality Center

Technology Certifications

•Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Punjab.

•Microsoft Technology Associate (Date of achievement: 09.22, 2013) Certification number: E398-3011.

•Microsoft Certified Professional Date of achievement:09/16/2013 Certification number: E385-6070

•Scrum Fundamentals Certified by SCRUMStudy.

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