Md Amirul Islam

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Software Quality Assurance Tester/ QA Tester/ QA Analyst/ Test Engineer/ SQA Analyst

Self-driven, talented, resourceful and more than Seven (7+) years of strong working experience in the IT industry as a QA Analyst / QA Tester for Web based and Client/ Server applications playing a key role in test planning, test development, test execution and test methodologies also Participated in complete Software Development Life Cycle. Possess excellent skills in Manual Testing along with skills in Automation Testing. Ability to collaborate with diverse team members in projects also coordinate with offshore team members.

Technical Knowledge and Environment

Testing Tool

HP UFT/QTP, HP QC/ALM, TFS & MTM, Test Rail, Azure DevOps, Zephyr

Test Management

HP Quality Center, Jira, VSTS, Azure DevOps

Defect Tracking Tool

Jira, HP ALM, Bugzilla, TFS, Rally

Operating System

Windows Server, Windows 10/7/XP/Vista/98

Programming Language

VB Script, Java Script

Database

Oracle, MS SQL Server, Toad, DB2, MS Access

Methodology

SDLC, Agile, Watewrfall, Iterative, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban

Testing

Fucntional, Smoke, Integration, Regression, Backend, End to end, Ad hoc, System, Exploratory, UI/UX, Usability, UAT testing

Communication Tool

MS Outlook, Slack, Skype Business, Lync, Office communicator

Version Control

GitHub

Skills Highlights

Manual & Automation

Black box testing

Requirement Analysis

Estimation & Planning

Test Documentation

Organized, Team Player

Agile Ceremonies & Artifacts

Test Cases/Scenarios/Test Data

Test Plan/Result/Report

Leading a QA team

SDLC & STLC

Jira, Test Rail, Zephyr, VSTS

Risk Analysis

Working in offshore & onshore

API testing, Postman

VB Scripting & Framework

ALM/QC/QTP/UFT/TFS

Web Based & Client Based

Agile Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative

SQL/ Database/ RDBMS/Oracle

Functional & Non-Functional testing

Experiences

Macy’s New York

New York, NY

QA Analyst

09/2017 - Present

Directly involve in analyzing User Story, Acceptance Criteria and Design Specification Documents to understand the Application properly and Identify Test Conditions.

Following Agile methodology implementing web and client server-based application in the various project.

Responsible for creating Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for various kinds of testing.

Coordinate for creating detailed Test Plan to efficiently test the application using different browsers.

Participate Sprint Planning, Daily scrum, Sprint review, Retrospective and defect triage meeting as per Agile scrum Ceremonies. Directly involve in story pointing and task estimation as well as backlog grooming.

Create Test case and design Test Steps for each business functionality for positive/negative test scenarios, in the Zephyr which is add on to Jira.

Execute test cases by creating Test Sets, manually testing each Test Step, and updating the Status (Pass/Fail/Blocked/Not Run) and logging bugs for all the failed tests.

Use the Jira issue section to raise and assign bug, track bugs, retest the bug fixed and monitor the bug until closure.

Use ALM in other project to design test case and execute test cases also Log Defects.

Create test case coverage metrics and requirement coverage metrics and checked test case run, pass or fail, not run, not run due to defect, total number of open defect and total number of closed defects in HP ALM.

Generate Defect Status Report, Test Execution Report, and Test Summary report using ALM.

Write Test Cases for User Acceptance Testing using Use-Case Models, Process Flow Diagrams and Business Rules.

Perform Functional, Regression, Integration and End to End testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) with automation testing team.

Responsible to create, maintain, modify and execute Automation Test Scripts for Regression Testing using UFT and report the deviation to the development team.

Following linear, modular, data-driven, and hybrid framework create script using descriptive programming and a lot of VB script command and methods.

Responsible to conduct Backend Testing using SQL queries in Oracle and DB2 database. Perform Data Validation and Data Integration, and retrieve data from database using various SQL joining, sub queries, and complex queries.

Participate sprint planning, daily scrum, demo, and retrospective meeting with clients and team members. Communicate with developers and business analyst daily basis for clarifications and solve defect.

HCA HEALTHCARE

RICHMOND, VA

Software QA Tester

04/ 2015 – 08/2017

Act as a Service Test Engineer for large/complex functional applications, advising staff with solutions to complex technical issues as they relate to the Test Engineering group.

Experience and working in an Agile / Scrum environment and collaborate with scrum team and gathering of testing metrics to ensure all testing artifacts are completed on time.

An analysis User Story and Acceptance criterion to ensure that user story is concise, clear and testable.

Work in the agile development environment and participated on Sprint Planning, Sprint Review (Demo) meeting and Daily stand-up and retrospective meetings and update day to day status to agile team.

Involved in preparing and writing Product Test Plan and defined the testing approach, resources and time lines.

Participate in the review and analysis of business requirements, functional specification and design documents to ensure testability; reporting of gaps/discrepancies.

Analyze the requirements for the new build and made recommendations.

Write Test Plan for the new release and Developed Test Cases based on the requirements, business rules and the use cases and used the HP Quality Center to store those test cases.

Actively participate with the testing team to develop a Strong Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Software change Request (SCR), and Test Analysis Report (TAR).

Perform various kinds of testing such as System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Smoke testing, Ad hoc testing, Backend testing and Regression testing.

Develop Automation Test Scripts by using the tool HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) to perform regression testing for the new release.

Enhance the scripts by inserting various kinds of checkpoints such as Standard Checkpoint, Bitmap Checkpoint, Image Checkpoint, Database Checkpoint, putting Regular Expression, creating Recovery Scenario and adding more steps writing Descriptive Programming.

Perform Data Driven Tests with the same script for multiple sets of data.

Wrote SQL Queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.

Use MS SQL Server (RDBMS) to retrieve data from the application database.

Perform SOAP and Web Service Testing using SOAP-UI.

Prepare Test Summary Report after every build Release and submit it to the mangers, and maintained Test Matrix for the latest test results information.

Create detailed periodic status reports for senior management to keep them posted on the progress of implementations.

Work in a team environment performing varied daily task that requires effective communication with project managers, developers and business analysts.

Lloyds Bank

New York, NY

Associate Quality Assurance Analyst

06/2013 – 03/2015

Involved in gathering user requirements, analyzing requirements and developing the Test Plan, and Test Cases.

Involved in peer reviews of the team’s test plans and test cases.

Prepared Requirement Traceability matrix (RTM), Test data and Test reports.

Worked with development teams to investigate and correct software bugs and deficiencies based on testing results.

Performed GUI, Smoke, Ad-hoc, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, Back-end, and UAT Testing.

Assisted developers with the test files and test data.

Collaborated with developers as needed to isolate root cause of defects.

Conducted Manual Testing of the system; prepared and managed test cases using HP ALM/Quality Center.

Used Quality Center as the test repository and for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generating various reports and graphs for further analysis.

Recorded defects and test management using Quality Center.

Involved in Back end testing using SQL queries.

Performed Mainfarme Testing

Created, updated and maintained QTP Regression.

Responsible for creating and enhancing Test scripts by Creating Checkpoints, and Output values using Quick Test Professional (QTP)

Conducted Data Driven Testing using parameterization in QTP to test the application with different sets of data.

Used to coordinate with development team for Bug fix issues.

Responsible for tracking the defect ownership through the SDLC phases.

Provided Subject Matter Expertise, to include test planning and identifying data.

Involved in Results review meetings and Walkthroughs.

Educational Qualifications

Master of Business Administration

University of Wales Institute Cardiff, United Kingdom

Passing Year - 2011

Bachelor of Business Administration University of Wales Institute Cardiff, United Kingdom

Passing Year - 2007

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