AKBAR “Ak” MALIK

* ***** *****, ************, **, 11738

Phone: 917-***-****

e-Mail: add4pm@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Hands on software Quality Assurance (QA) or software testing experiences.

Experience testing web based, client/server, AND mobile (iOS/Android) applications.

Experience analyzing business requirements, backlogs, user stories, change requests, technical spec, and design / UX specifications to develop Test documents/test scopes.

Experience working in agile scrum environments, and cross-functional frameworks.

Experience with black-box, grey-box, white box, front-end, and back-end testing.

Experience with complex manual and automated testing methods.

Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and frameworks (Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, POM, BDD)

Strong test documents creation and execution skills (test plans, test cases, test scripts, test scenarios, test data, Traceability Matrix, test metrics and test result reports).

Experience with backlog grooming, sprint planning, estimations, sprint testing, bug fixing, test reporting, demos, and sprint reviews.

Experience working with Product Managers, development teams, business analyst, Scrum Masters, release engineers, DBAs, system engineers, operation teams, and peer QAs.

Proficient in developing and running automated testing on QA, Staging and Production.

Experience running functional, non-functional, GUI, ad-hoc, sanity, exploratory, end to end, security, system integration, UAT, performance, database, mobile, cross-platforms, smoke and regression testing.

Expertise on defect reporting, defect triaging, and tracking to closure using JIRA and HP ALM.

Strong problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills.

Experience in DB testing, relational databases, and writing simple to complex SQL queries.

Knowledge of OOPs concepts, API, XML, JSON, builds, tags, branches, and deployments.

Hands on experience writing and executing automated Test Scripts using Java, Selenium WebDriver, DevTools, TestNG, Maven, Cucumber, POM, Jenkins, GitHub, Junit, Extent Reporting, POI and other tools.

Experience with frameworks like CI/CD, Data-Driven, Keyword Driven, and Behavior driven (BDD)

Experience on REST, POSTMAN, JMeter, HTTP Header, Payload, XML/JSON tags for API / Web Service Testing.

Passionate about software quality and testing.

Strong communication skills, analytical skills and ability to grasp key points from complicated details.

Ability to work independently or as a team member in fast paced environments.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Etsy.com, New York, NY Dec 2018 – Present

e-commerce site for handmade gift, vintage & on-trend clothes, unique jewelry, and more

Position: QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

Responsibilities:

Analyzing backlogs, user stories, use cases, design mocks, and business requirements to prepare test plans.

Developing, executing and maintaining complex manual and automated testing.

Working with Agile/Scrum team (Planning, estimating, test designing, executing, and defect tracking)

Actively participating in all phases of SDLC (verification to Validation) and QA life Cycle.

Involve with extensive complex manual testing of web and mobile (iOS/Android) features.

Developing and running test automation and supporting automated regression testing during testing cycles.

Developing test plans and test suites in accordance with Acceptance Criteria and requirements.

Creating Test scenarios, Test cases, Test Scripts and created input data values for both functional and non-functional testing.

Manually executing sprint test cases, sharing results and coordinating with developers on fixing issues.

Performing Black box testing, functional testing, UI testing, integration, end-to-end testing, Regression Testing, cross browser testing, and build acceptance (smoke) testing after each build and Conducting User Acceptance testing.

Creating automation test scripts using Eclipse, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, POM, Junit, Maven, POI, Extent Reporting, and other open source tool to perform smoke, sanity, end to end, and regression testing on builds.

Running and maintaining automation testing test plans/suites, and frameworks.

Writing and executing SQL queries and statements for data validation and back-end/database testing.

Using JIRA for maintenance release, bug tracking, sprint tracking, and reporting.

Investigating and properly handling production issues which were reported by end-users.

Verified supported functionalities and features on Mobile platforms (iOS/Android)

Validating Web Services / APIs using POSTMAN (Methods: GET, PUT, POST)

Conducting performance and stress testing using JMeter.

Interacting with Developers and Business analyst regarding releases, requirements, test scenarios, and defects.

Troubleshooting and working with developers to validate bugs.

Developing and implementing quality related processes, systems and methods for QA Team.

Assisting developers with Unit/white box testing and creating test data.

Participating in weekly meeting and discussed modification request with scrum team.

Participated in sprint planning meeting, daily scrum meeting, and demos

Sending daily status report, bug report to the team and getting status from developers.

PayPal (PayPal Credit), Timonium, MD 11/2016 – 12/2018

Position: Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

Analyzed and reviewed software requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and design documents.

Involve in defining Test Scope, Gap Analysis, risk, dependency and constraints.

Managed requirements, developed Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data and Test Metrics

Executed Test Cases by comparing expected with actual results and logged defects for failed steps.

Performed complex manual testing, tracked deliverables, and ran automated test scripts on the applications.

Performed Black-box testing, GUI Testing, system integration testing and backend testing.

Performing Cross-Browsers / Platforms Testing on web applications including Mobile Devices like iOS and Android.

Created, executed and troubleshooted automated test scenarios across our systems.

Contributed to robust, re-useable, scalable, and high quality test automation solutions for functional, smoke, regression and performance testing.

Performed Web Service Testing using Advanced RESTClient, Postman, and SQLDeveloper.

Performed Backend Testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the data.

Conducted API Testing using Advanced RESTClient utilizing XML and JSON

Took part in a full cycle of System Testing, Exploratory Testing, UAT and Regression Testing

Reported the defects to developers using JIRA.

Analyzed results, reported defects and worked with developers to get the issues fixed before deadlines.

Ran automated smoke testing and regression testing test suites.

Used Descriptive Programming (java), and open source tools (Selenium, API, TestNG, Maven, Git, POM), to develop, enhance and maintain test scripts.

Successfully tested the User Interface, functional and performance of the system.

Worked in a team environment to achieve project quality goals.

Involved in preparing timely test reports and status update documents.

Assisted various members of the project team including development, technical and business team.

Attended design review conference meetings with on-site team.

Coordinated with client team for application configuration issues, defect analysis and timely release of test versions of application.

Verizon Wireless, Ashburn, VA 10/2014 – 11/2016

QA Tester/Analyst

Involved in extensive Manual and some automation testing.

Used SMART criteria to study and analyze project related artifacts such as Technical Specifications, Design Mocks, Use Cases, Functional Specification documents.

Generated and implemented templates for Test Plan, Test cases, Test Scripts on the application.

Performed Functional Testing, GUI testing, Cross platform Testing and Security testing manually.

Conducted Back End Testing and communicated with Dev Team to resolve issues.

Performing Negative and Positive testing on the application.

Developed test scripts for Data Driven tests.

Executed SQL scripts to run the queries using Toad software.

Reported Defects and tracked the status of the bugs in HP Quality Center/ALM.

Used XML and JSON request via back-end to validate data flow and data load.

Attended daily onsite and offshore team sync-up call for status update and to ensure the execution progress is on target and timeline will not be delayed

Regularly met with team leads, other team members and developers to evaluate the project progress.

Involved in Load Testing and Performance Testing to simulate a process, which allows more than 300 users to login at the same time, and observe the behavior of the system by using Load Runner.

Developed and Ran Test Scripts using the automation tool HP UFT for web based application and checked the functionality of the application during smoke and regression testing.

Given support in the User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Involved in documenting QA procedures

PROFESSIONAL SKILL SETS:

QA Tools/Systems

JIRA, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse IDE, intellij, HP QC/ALM, UFT, Cucumber, Jenkins, Junit, TestNG, Notepad++, HP QTP/UFT, Postman, Gherkins, Bamboo, Bugzilla, JMeter, SQL Developer

Communication

JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, Slack, Skype, GoToMeeting, Zoom, Google Docs, MS office

Bug Tracking System

JIRA, HP QC/ALM, Excel, Google Docs

Operating Systems

Windows 7/8/10, MAC, UNIX, iOS, Android

Web Technologies

HTML, HTML5, DHTML, XML, Java, Java Script, .Net, API, AWS, SaaS, Apache Tomcat, C, JSON, PL/SQL, C#, Visual Basic, Ruby, TSL, Shell, Perl, VB Script

Protocols

HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DHCP, SOAP, REST and TCP/IP

RDBMS

Oracle 10g, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL

Internet Browsers

IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari

EDUCATION: Bachelor of Arts, John Jay College, New York, NY

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