Farzana Sikder

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Phone:678-***-****

Professional Summary:

8+ years’ experience in information technology with specialization in Software Testing.

Excellent working knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Requirement analysis, Planning, Design, Testing Methods such as Agile, Agile Scrum and Waterfall.

API Testing using Postman and web services testing using Soap UI

Investigate, Define and clarify product backlog items

Experienced in mobile Testing

Experienced setting test environment managing all servers and other necessary tools.

Provide guidance and training to peers in areas of strength as well as general guidance to junior staff.

Expertise in writing SQL queries in MS SQL Server Management Studio for back-end testing.

Conducted Smoke, Functional, Data Validation, Black Box, Backend, Regression, Compatibility, Integration and SSRS Reports.

Involved in inspections, reviews and defects reporting meetings.

Coordinate testing with other project teams.

Plan and facilitate meeting effectively.

Able to prioritize work activities and identify risks to quality or timelines.

Strong contributor in cross-functional planning and weekly meetings.

Highly motivated to meet demanding deadlines.

Accurately Report on progress on goals to team through effective use of tools and team based communication

Attended various walk-through meetings with the technical analyst and developers to discuss defects and testing progress.

Reviewed and analyzed TDD, BRD, UI design docs, use cases, online help docs, user guides, and release notes throughout the SDLC.

Expertise using testing tools and carrying out Smoke, Functionality, System, Integration, Black Box, Regression, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Mobile, I-Pad, Web-based application.

Proficient in User Acceptance Testing to ensure that the system under test meets the user’s needs and provides confidence in its use.

Proficient in Manual Testing using HP Quality Center, ALM and JIRA, TFS, MTM, Microsoft Visual Studio

Excellent Interpersonal Skills in interacting with team leads, members, and developers to resolve issues.

Ability to lead, work independently or work collaboratively with team members in complex testing projects towards the overall enhancement of the product.

Possess excellent problem-solving skills, ability to follow industry standards and procedures.

Expertise on preparing Test plan, test Scenarios, test Cases, Daily and weekly Status Report and Executing Test cases using test management tools such as TFS

Basic knowledge of Java programing and Automation testing using Selenium with Java (Keyword and Data driven frame work)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing tools : Quality Center, ALM, SoapUI, Postman, MTM,Testrail, Visual Studio, TFS, Browser Stack for Mobile testing

Defect rep. tools : MTM, TFS, JIRA, Bugzilla

OS/Platforms : Windows XP, Visual Studio,UNIX/Linux/bash command line

Databases : MS SQL Server,Toad

Programming : XML, HTML, Java

Methodology : Agile, Waterfall, Scrum

Professional Experiences:

Westgate Resorts,Orlando,Fl 03/21 to Current

Sr.Manual QA Tester

Responsibilities:

Working on the Jira tickets for WG website,OAM,OC Application and Apps.

Preparing Test plan, test Scenarios, test Cases and Executing Test cases daily in Dev and QA environment

Using Toad to write and run the query for date validation and Exploratory testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing

Prepare test run each week for regression testing before release

API Testing using Postman

Helping the team to move code from Build ready to QA staging and creating documentation and share in the confluence for the team

HCA healthcare, Sunrise, FL 08/18 – 08/20

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

I analyzed TDD and BRD documents for each of the brd’s and user stories to write an effective test cases

Prepared High level and detailed test cases for all of the user stories that were assigned to me in TFS

I have tested their FS (Facility Scheduler) web based application and Dashboards web based application.

Provided estimation for analyzing, test planning and test cases creation and executions

I used postman to test API’s for the user stories that were used API to make sure API are working properly

I run smoke tests using postman whenever we had a new build in QA environment and UAT environment for all the divisions mentioned in the build.

Tested all of the new Functionalities as well as regression test for each new build

Created bug report using TFS and assigned to appropriate Dev who worked on that feature

Worked closely with Developers to verify all the reported bugs in their local environment and Dev environment

Worked on the production backlog bug lists and verified resolved bugs and closed them if they were fixed. And reopened and send back to Dev if bugs were not fixed

I used SQL server to query and retrieve data from database

Prepared demo and presented them to the business

Attended all the meetings and trainings we had every week including our daily standup meeting

Worked with offshore team and communicate with them daily via WebEx teams, email

Worked in the agile development environment

Working on production releases with my team

Performed SmokeTesting,Integration testing,Cross browser testing, back end testing, Retesting, basic regression, full regression, positive and negative testing, mobile testing and I-pad testing including usability, compatibility, functionality

A A Fleet Services, Orlando, FL 04/18 – 08/18

Position: Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Prepared test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements. I am executing the test cases daily basis

Tested off-board connected services in vehicle

Worked with vendors and monitor defect resolution

Used MTM for test planning and organize all the projects, update regression test suits whenever needed.

Detected and recreated bugs and assigned them to the developers and when they fixed them I retested them and closed them, placed them in push to staging

Prepared demo and presented them to the business

Updating TFS daily

Reason for GAP: Taken care of family member.

Assurant, Miami, FL 04/16 – 11/16

Position: Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Assurant was revamping their site. Worked in an agile scrum environment

Attended all the meetings including project kickoff, grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectory and our daily standup meeting

Prepared test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements. Execute the test cases daily basis on six different browsers

I used MTM for test planning and organize all the projects, update regression test suits whenever needed.

Update MTM before starting a new sprint and Updated TFS hours daily

Prepared demo and present them to the business for every sprint

I closely worked with Developers and communicate with them daily basis. Communicate with the other team members daily for gathering test data

Worked on production releases with my team

Smoke Testing, Cross browser testing, GUI, Backend testing, Retesting, Regression and UAT testing, Exploratory testing, Mobil testing, API testing

Created bugs and assigned them to the DEV and when they fix them I retested them and closed them, place them in push to staging.

First Service Residential, Dania Beach FL 11/15 - 03/16

Position: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked on the Connect and CamAcct support tickets and user stories. Identity Server is a new project I worked from the beginning to the end

Preparing test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements. Execute the test cases daily basis

I used MTM for test planning and organize all the projects, update regression test suits whenever needed. Update MTM before starting a new sprint

Tested applications which were built on .Net

Prepared demo and present them to the business for every sprint

Update TFS hours daily

Attended all the meetings and trainings we had every week including our daily standup meeting

I closely worked with Developers and communicate with them daily basis about the projects I was working on. Worked with offshore team and communicate with them daily for gathering data as much as possible from them for testing

Worked in the agile development environment

Worked on production releases with my team

I did Smoke Testing, Integration testing, Cross browser testing, back end testing, Retesting, basic regression, full regression and UAT testing. Worked with the developers when they did load testing and Unit testing.

Created bugs and assigned them to the DEV and when they fix them I retested them and closed them, place them in push to staging.

Office Depot, Head Quarter, Boca FL 02/15 - 08/15

Position: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Office Depot updated their websites with new functionality and credit card tokenization. I did Sanity Testing, Integration testing, End to end testing, Cross browser testing, back end testing,Retesting,basic regression, full regression and UAT testing. Worked with the developers when they did load testing and Unit testing.

Working with offshore team. Communicate with them daily for gathering data as much as possible from them for testing

Worked in the agile development environment. Attended all meeting including daily stand up meeting and give update

Participate in Test Plan Review, Test Scenario and used cases

Preparing test cases by understanding the business requirements and user requirements and wrote Test cases and execute them daily basis.

Worked closely with Automation team and developers and collect necessary information about the project from them

Used Soap to test the request and responses between client and server

Improving specification & design documents through active review and feedback with developers.

Tested applications which were built on .Net and Java environment

Used Jira as bug tracking tools and created lots of Jira tickets, assigned them to appropriate people to fix them, regular discussion with developers regarding defects

3D SECURITY INC, Atlanta, GA 01/10 – 09/14

Position: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked with offshore team.

Participate in Test Plan Review, Test Scenario and used cases

Preparing test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements and wrote over 2000 Test cases and execute them daily basis

Expert testing the application on data driven testing to test the application functionality on UI

Performed different level of Manual Testing such as Functional, Black Box, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, User Acceptance (UAT) and Back End testing to validate data and system integrity

Tested multiple Web Application as well as Client Server Application

Tested different application developed in Java, .Net, HTML5

Tested application compatibility on different browser versions (IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome).

Worked on SQL Oracle Database and wrote SQL queries to validate data

Attended walkthrough meetings with BA, PM and QA Lead and provided feed back to the BA.

Working in a Scrum team with daily stand up meeting, following 70% of Scrum methodology.

Expert in Win SCP Log monitoring tool to check log files for Error

Innoppl – Buckhead, GA 09/08-12/09

Position: Mobile QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Very effective in defect detection, a self-motivated & team player

Involved in regular discussion with developers regarding defects

Very good exposure of testing applications on wide range of Mobile handset of different vendors which includes IPhone, HTC, Samsung and many more

Extensive experience in Functional, System, Compatibility, Regression, and User Acceptance Testing in mobile handset and web based applications

Worked in the agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features set

Designed test case according to requirements of newly added functionality

Tested application compatibility on different browser versions (IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome)

Bugs reporting on bug tracking tool & Updating the status of the bugs in Quality Center

Worked closely with entire team to improve productivity

Interacting with the development team for Issue Clarification

Nationwide- Atlanta, GA 06/07-09/08

Position:QA Tester

Responsibilities:

Developed Test Cases based on Business Requirements, System Requirements, and Detail Design Documents

Used the Quality Center, for writing Test Cases and updating the Test Results after execution of test cases

Involved in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes Designing and Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process and documentation of Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts

Executing test cases on and validating functionality of the new fixes

Performed application’s Functional, Integration, System, Negative, Regression testing

Defect tracking was done through Quality Center and JIRA

Conducted Backed testing for data validation using SQL queries

Analyzing and resolving the issues after coordinating with developers

Education:

Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta, Georgia

Bachelor of CIS (In Progress)

Computer Information System.

Member: AQAA (Atlanta Quality Assurance Association)

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