Senior QA Analyst/Tester

Sheikh Asif

Email: ******.******@*******.*** Phone: (347) 925 - 8630

Objectives

Diligent Software Quality Assurance (QA) Tester with more than Six years (6+) of experience testing Web-based and Client server applications. Proficient in test Plan implementation test cases development test execution and bug tracking. Specialize in test development scheduling execution and test project management.

Core Competencies

Manual Testing

HP ALM /HP QC

Defect Logging

Black Box Testing

HP UFT/ HP QTP

Test Plans, Test Cases

Integration & Functional Testing

JIRA, MS TFS & MTM/VSTS/TestRail

Requirement Analysis

Exploratory & UX/UI Testing

Automation Testing with VB script

Agile Methodology

Regression & Smoke Testing

Backend Testing with SQL

Test Scenario design

UAT & System Testing

Postman, SoapUI

MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2

Test Scenarios, Test Data

Report analysis

API Testing

Education

LaGuardia Community College

Associate of Computer Science, Long Island City, NY

Summary of Experiences

Comprehensive Software QA testing experience in Web-based, Mobile based, client server based & cloud-based app

Strong Domain Experience in working with Banking, Financial, Retail & E-commerce, and Healthcare applications.

Specialized in software quality assurance testing with both Manual and Automation followed by complete software development lifecycle (SDLC) and software testing lifecycle (STLC) according to various software development methodologies like Agile Scrum, waterfall, hybrid.

Proficient in analyzing the Business Requirements, System Requirement Specifications (SRS), Functional Requirement specification (FRS), Design Documents, Blueprint, Use Case Documents.

Solid Experience on Agile software development methodology were worked with user stories, Epic, Sprint backlog, burndown Chart and attended various agile ceremonies like Sprint planning, Daily standup, Grooming, Sprint Review, and Sprint retrospective meeting with Product owner, Scrum master and development team.

Expert in writing QA documentation such as Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases designing, Test Matrices, and Reports

Wide experienced to work with various Test Management and Defect tracking tools like HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), HP Quality Center (QC), VersionOne, TFS & MTM/ VSTS, Jira, Confluence, TestRail

Generated Defect Status Reports, Test Case Execution Reports (pass, fail or no run status) and test Summary Report for every test execution cycle to analyze the testing effort and quality of the application using ALM/Quality Center.

Proficient in automation testing with automation testing tool HP Quick Test Professional (QTP).

Experienced in performing various kinds of testing like Functional, GUI, Integration, Backend, Regression, Smoke, System, End to End, and UAT testing in Web based and Client server-based application.

Knowledge of programming skills and understanding of VB script, Descriptive programming.

Created Daily/Weekly Status Report and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), and Participated in defect status meetings with business analyst, developers, test leads and QA coordinator to Prioritize issues, identify open issues and set deadlines for inclusion in the build.

Prepared custom reports and performed SQL query, data analysis and verification on various database such as Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server for back end testing.

Excellent Organizational ability, Communication skills, analyzing skills, technical documentation and reporting skills.

Work Experiences

Senior QA Analyst/Tester

Foot Locker -New York, NY Dec 2018 – Current

Extensively using Agile Scrum methodology and participates all agile ceremonies, sprint backlogs, various artifacts

Work with different teams like product Owner, Development Team/ Scrum team, design team, and offshore team.

Work on User acceptance testing stage to ensure the project is success fully delivering to the End user.

Time to time attended in different meetings like backlog grooming meeting, sprint planning meeting, daily stand-up meeting, test case review meeting, retrospective and demo meeting.

Focus on deadlines and Quality to ensure Quality product is delivered on timely manner.

Communicate with client and vendor discussed the project in detail for better understanding.

Extensively used Postman for microservice API testing using different methods such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE and service virtualization.

Set up the meeting with Scrum team, developers, design team, QA Team discussed the project to develop the Testing platform more dynamic to do high level of quality job.

Create and modified different testing documents like Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data, RTM, Test execution document, defect report, and automation reports.

Use Quality Center/ ALM to track and report system defects for further investigation and defect resolution for Maintenance and Hot fix team in Regression testing throughout the year.

Use JIRA tool for release management such as sprint backlog and board, Task estimation and tracking, log and tracking Bug. Use Test Rail for design test case and execution purpose in feature team.

Involve in testing the XML files and checked whether data is passed and loaded to staging tables.

Tested with Front-End functionality /GUI for the entire application by various black box testing such as Functional.

Testing, Non-Functional, Smoke, End to End, Ad-hoc, Exploratory, Integration, System, Regression and UAT Testing.

Perform automation testing with automation team using VB script language to develop HP QTP/ UFT automation script in descriptive way and different concepts like if statements, For loop, and variables.

Build automated regression suite for newly build feature from scratch using VB scripting in UFT.

Develop and maintained custom library, error handling, recovery scenarios, reporting methods and descriptive programming (DP) using VBScript in HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ UFT

Maintain automation data driven framework and created scripts in Quick Test Professional (QTP) by VBScript on Web Portals or application

Performing backend/database tests by developing SQL queries and validating data integrity SQL queries using SQL Developer 10g.

Involve in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.

Lead offshore team from India on day-to-day task assignment and coordination.

Quality Assurance Tester

PNC Bank- Pittsburgh, PA Jun 2016 - Nov 2018

Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative and Agile SCRUM models across various projects.

Developed detailed Test plan based on software requirements specifications and updated RTM document.

Wrote & executed Test cases for each functionality based on the product functional specifications.

Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Backend, Usability and Regression Testing on the updated application. Performed Web testing of the functionalities of the web application. Performed Regression Testing for fixes and modifications and closed the defects.

Wrote SQL queries in MS SQL Server RDBMS to verify the data with Back end to maintain Data Consistency, Integrity and Accuracy

Worked with a team of Project Managers, Business Analysts, Testing Analysts, Developers, DBAs, and Operations

Attended Product Backlog, Release backlog, Sprint backlog, Daily Stand-up, Peer Review, and Defect Report meetings periodically.

Participated in all the meetings related to Sprint planning, daily stand-up Developed Test cases based upon template, executed test cases and logged the defect using Jira and Test Rail.

Mapped test cases back to the functional requirements for ensuring all the requirements are been included through the RTM.

Used Automation tool like HP Quick test pro (QTP) for creating automation test script along with debugging to enhancing the script for execution purpose.

Reviewed and updated existing automation script using check point, wait statement, parameterization followed by VB script and used descriptive programming time to time as per team demand.

Associate QA Engineer

The Travelers Insurance -New York, NY Aug 2014 - May 2016

Gathered and Analyzed Thoroughly Business requirement, Functional Requirement, Design documents for Release.

Assisted in developing Test Plans for testing the functionality, GUI, and usability of the application.

Performed manual testing, considering the base line of developed Test Plan and Test Cases considering both positive and negative scenarios also boundary scenarios.

Executed Test Case developed by self or peers. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution.

I was responsible for designing and documenting repeatable test. Performed Smoke, Integration, Functional, Regression, GUI and UAT testing.

Used HP Quality Center (QC) bug tracking tool to report application bugs and enhancements request and discussed with developers to resolve technical issues.

Interacted with developers to resolve defects, and I was responsible to create Test Data for functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Performed functional testing for new release enhancements, also Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on Oracle.

Participated actively in the team meetings with the developers for bug reviews.

Responsible for writing SQL queries to retrieve data from Oracle database, also Responsible for updating and deleting data in database.

Technical Skills: Languages and Technologies

Operating System:

Microsoft Windows (98, 2003, XP, Vista, and 7)

Application Language:

Java C++ C# .NET HTML XML CSS VB, J2EE

Automation Tools:

HP Quick Test Professional (QTP/UFT) Test Complete

Test Management Tools:

TFS Visual Studio HP Quality Center (QC/ALM) Rally, Jira

Internet Browser:

Google Chrome Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox

Database Tools:

Oracle DB2 MS SQL Server

Other Software:

Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint) SQL Developer

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