Scrum Master/Quality Assurance Test Engineer
Resume:
Ishak Mohammed Khan
Chicago, Illinois 60608
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●Experienced in Agile Scrum software development life cycle participating in daily scrum, sprint planning, and retrospective
●Strong Experience in Smoke, Functional, Regression, Integration, GUI, and User Acceptance Testing
●Excellent understanding in a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Configuration Management, Software Life Cycle Methodology
●Expert of open-source test automation software Selenium Web Driver, cucumber, and Selenium Grid
●Expert in test Framework using J-Unit, TestNG, Maven, and Page Object Model (POM)
●Working knowledge in object-oriented programming (OOP) concept such as inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction, encapsulation, and interface
●Experience in writing and executing Test Cases and Test Scripts, mentoring customer's staff, working with the overall team to meet project goals
●Experience in working with HP Quality Center, JIRA, and Rally Software
●Expert in developing a hybrid framework using Selenium WebDriver with Java
●Detail-oriented handles multiple projects, forecast deadlines, resource, logistics and budgets for future projects
●Experience in RDBMS such as Oracle, My SQL, and SQL Server
●Expert in developing complex SQL scripts for database testing
●Ability to work independently and in a team environment, with a minimum supervision
●Excellent technical communication, documentation, interpersonal and reporting skills.
●Motivated hard worker with a professional attitude and work ethics
●A complete Tech Savvy and Positive attitude to expand present knowledge base, energetic, active team player, with a positive and forward-looking attitude.
Technical Skills:
Software Testing Tools, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, TestNG, Cucumber, TestNG, Rest Assured, JIRA, Rally Software, Operating Systems, UNIX, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Databases, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MS Access, CM, SharePoint, SVN, GIT
Certifications: Professional Scrum Master One (PSM 1) certification
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Discover Financial Services, Houston, Texas/Chicago, IL April ’18- Present
Scrum Master/Software Quality Assurance Engineer
EPP – Enterprise Payment Platform is built for a Switch network that helps medium scale vendors to make electronic transactions through Credit/Debit which helps organizations to charge transaction fees, settle and dispute transactions and to generate reports based on INT/PRC at an institutional and terminal level.
Responsibilities:
●Followed AGILE SCRUM methodology and participated in & led SCRUM Meetings (Daily stand-up meetings, Sprint meetings, Sprint retrospective meetings, Sprint demo meetings) as well as participating in many SCRUM activities.
●Implemented and maintained Agile/Scrum framework within the organization
●A superb understanding of working in an AGILE environment.
●Part of a team that was empowered and assured the team is productive and functional.
●Works effectively with others to remove delivery team roadblocks.
●Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
●Maintained continuous alignment of project scope through tough environments
●Worked in an agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features.
●Studied and reviewed product requirement documents, functional specifications, and involved in developing test strategies, test plans, and test case documents.
●Developed strategies to move test cases with Cucumber for existing and new test cases.
●Tracked and made visible the Teams' progress, Velocity, Burn down charts and other metrics and Information Radiators on an ongoing basis.
●Developed reusable methods and POJOs using Core Java based on requirements.
●Trained and coached new team members in the Scrum process.
●Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Data validation testing.
●Identified and removed impediments to development teams' progress, and protected the teams from outside distractions.
●Collaborated with multiple cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Release Management, User Interface Development, QA, Information Development.
●Worked with the development team to improve their intra-team communication and iteration work for improved visibility of current work, open issues, and priorities.
●Removed roadblocks for successful iterations, which led to the transition of releases on time.
Environments: Java, Cucumber 1.2.4, Eclipse, TestNG, Html, Xml, HP ALM, Rally Software, SQL, Windows, Rally Software
Metro Plus, New York, NY Oct ‘15 – March ‘18
Scrum Master
CRM – Systems that manage Affinity healthcare customer relationships. The application is designed to Manage customer accounts by assigning Primary Care Physician, changing customer detail information, payment tracking, generating reports for sales on targeted population and demographic areas.
Responsibilities:
●Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
●Assisted the team to remove impediments by having an understanding of the control and release processes.
●Gave assistance with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information
●Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects.
●Coached team members on Agile principles and provided general guidance on the methodology.
●Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
●Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
●Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example.
●Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
●Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.
●Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
●Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
New York Community Bank (NYCB), New York, NY, Dec’13 – Sep’ 15
Software Test Engineer
Online Banking provides any client the access to login, to view account information like account summaries, account details, monthly statements, balance transfers, accrued interest, the ability to order checks, and loan application processing.
Responsibilities:
●Performed Smoke, Functional, Systems Integration, Regression, and Database testing at various phases of the development and test cycles
●Perform risk analysis along with proposed mitigation strategies
●Responsible for developing Test plan based on Functional Specification and Technical Specification Of the application
●Developed and executed test cases and verified actual results with expected results
●Developed automation script with Web Driver API using Java, and TestNG
●Used Continuous Integration Tools Jenkins for automation script run on a nightly basis and to provide quick feedback to the developers
●Used Maven for Project building and Git for version control
●Proficient in using Implicit Wait, Explicit Wait, and WebDriverWait to sync the script with the application during the run time.
●Enhanced automated scripts by developing Java classes and methods using object-oriented programming concepts (OOP) such as inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and abstraction
●Retrieve test data using complex SQL queries
●Performed query operations on Oracle to do database validation. Used standard SQL functions and commands to develop complex queries
●Managed and executed Test Cases with HP Quality Center (QC)
●Worked closely with developers, Business Analyst, Architects, and Project Manager to understand Portal Project
●Assisted and trained team members and customers understanding complex application areas and functions
Sprint, Reston, VA, Aug ‘12 - Nov ‘13
Software QA Analyst
This application is able to give the convenience of managing the account. Customers are able to create an account and be able to check minutes and messages, reset password purchase ringtone, and improve their service through the system and also pay their bill online.
Responsibilities :
●Develop test plans based on test strategy
●Create and execute test cases based on test strategy and test plans
●Review business requirements and software system designs for testability
●Participate in reviews of system architecture, and design documents
●Develop scripts, utilities, simulators, data sets, and other programmatic test tools as required to execute Test Plans
●Develop reusable automation frameworks that are used to support multiple applications
●Perform manual testing by implementing several test cases and documented the results using Quality Center
●Perform GUI, Functionality, Integration, System, User Acceptance, and Backend testing of the application as a whole manually.
●Perform querying the database using SQL to check for successful transactions.
Education: Graduated from Touro College in 2012 with my Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
References: Available upon request
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