Qa Tester Analyst

Shadab Siddiqui

Cell: 585-***-****

Home: 905-***-****

Email: ******.*****@*****.***

Career Summary

Over 20 years of experience in QA Testing, Application Systems Analysis, Design, Development, Enhancement, Coordination and Customer Support, Change Management, Functional Design Documentation and Test documentation

Functional and Technical expertise with SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) in various projects.

Exposure to web enabled applications, there architecture, tools, and technologies.

Industry experience includes Financial, Manufacturing, Distribution, Telecommunication, and Insurance

Technical Skills

Applications Financial: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Mortgages, Insurances, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Budgeting and Training

Manufacturing: Supply Chain Management, Material and Logistics Management

Telecommunication: Cable On-line system, Billing System

Medical Supplies: Enterprise Equipment/Consumable Items Tracking System

Other: Data Conversion and Migration

Tools/Utility Load Runner, MS Power point, MS Excel, MS Word, Visual Studio, TAA Tool, Crystal Reports, SOAPUI, Jenkins, Jira, Service-Now.

Web Server WebSphere, Glassfish, JBOSS, Apache.

Professional Experience

May 19 to Nov. 20 Modis, Toronto, ON QA Tester

Client: Scotiabank, Scarborough, ON

Worked as a QA Tester on Scotiabank IBS-Core, Data Engineering Central Services system, and major Credit Bureau Application to process the TransUnion bureau files.

Identified and documented deficiencies, executed test cases, analysed test results, and making recommendations to developers based on findings.

Logging Test Results and Tracking of testing closure.

Updated Jira at helping teams track and accomplish the items that need to be accomplish.

Performed Black Box testing to examine the functionality of the application,

Prepared Traceability Matrix Table to trace the requirement during the Software development Life Cycle.

Aug 18 to May 19 CGI, Halifax, NS QA Analyst

Provided Test Support for one of leading bank’s Auto/Residential Insurance Application.

Worked closely with development team based on company’s defined development processes and methodologies.

Investigate issues (found during test efforts or reported from production), log them into Jira and escalate.

Performed Black Box testing and regression testing to verify if code changes are not affecting existing functionality.

Prepared Test Results logs, recommend improvements, and compile reports based on findings.

Participated in scrum meetings and daily status meeting. Using various value-added tools.

Performed peer review on test cases from teammates, as well as take part in test case execution.

Identified, resolve, and close bugs with accuracy and efficiency.

Performed quality assessments and identify risk.

Nov 17 to May 18 RST Solutions, Collegeville, PA QA Tester

Worked with Client Business user team and discussed at all stages of Testing process.

Tested the application for functionality, usability, and performance.

Writing and updating, both accurate and valid test cases for the creation of test plans

Executing test plans while accurately documenting test results and all relevant test artifacts

Manage the bug database and backlogs to ensure bug accuracy, priority, status, and severity.

Interact with Development, Production, and Design teams to help solve technical problems.

Work closely with the team to analyze, plan, and report on project schedules and timelines.

Performed whit box Testing and Data validation using SQL.

Jan 15 to-Sep 17 New York Technology Partners Inc., Rochester, NY QA Tester/Analyst

Provided software support as an QA Tester/Analyst Programmer on Merchandise Management Accounting System, Vendor Rebate/Claim Processing, Order Management, Price and Cost Management.

Worked directly with BPO to understand business requirements and wrote Test scripts and Test procedures.

Assist in the tracking and enforcement of quality metrics, KPI, objectives and criteria.

Server-side performance and load testing, server specific testing and bug verification

Assist in writing scripts and tools for automated UI testing, unit testing and data validation.

Performed both White box/Black box and Load testing for Payroll System in order to test the application.

Jun 13 to Dec 14 Wolseley Canada, Burlington, ON QA Tester

Provided software development support as System Analyst on Syntax Applications: Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, A/P, A/R & GL Systems.

Support day to day operations, problem diagnosis, troubleshoot and resolve issues as required.

Enhanced and developed program to enhance the business needs.

Created modules, Service programs and procedures using embedded SQL.

Collaborates with developers to improve overall quality by emphasizing defect prevention.

Develop, review, edit requirements, specifications, business processes, impact analysis and provide recommendations related to proposed solutions.

Participating in group meetings to discuss the issues, process improvement and provided solutions.

Jun 12 to May 13 TCS, Sudbury, Ontario QA Analyst/Tester

Client: Vale Mining Company

Worked as a QA Tester on the Manual Data Load Application. Application was intended to provide user with the functionality to upload MS Excel document data and manually enter data in a web-based application.

Performed complete analysis of the application to create test plans and strategy.

Developed Test plans, test scenarios and wrote test scripts.

Executed test case and prepared different documents for pass cases and failed cases.

Prepares summary reports and defects list. Performed integration testing and stress testing.

Verified results in PIMA application (SAP XMI portal) by running various reports.

Ran SQL scripts to verify the test results.

Experience summary from Nov. 1990 to May 2012:

Clients: TELUS Mobility, Clorox Canada, Oceanic Time Warner Cable, Germania Insurance,

TD Bank, GE Canada, XEROX Canada, Rutgers University, Yorktown Cabinets,

HANCO Rent-a-Car, House Building Finance Corporations

Applications worked on: BPCS LX conversion project for Inventory Management and Cost Management, Data Services, Billing system, Business Class Phone Application, Cable On-line Application, Mutual Insurance, Finance Services, Asset Management, Infinium Purchase Management, Infinium Payable Ledger, Infinium General Ledger and Oracle Purchasing System,

General Ledger, Payroll, Rental Agreement, Vehicle Management, Training System, Loaning Systems, Profit and Loss sharing loans System.

Developed File maintenance programs, inquiry programs, Data Entry programs, file creation and updating programs and management reporting.

Analysed, modified, debugged and tested programs coded in all RPG versions and run query to validate the data.

Modified software modules to support web-based application Mass Usage Tool and MRUN using C#.

Performed FTP to send and receive files to/from other servers. Processed XM files in RPG programs.

Used Seagull Jwalk Program Manager to convert Display screens into GUI screens.

Conducted analysis of organizational needs and goals for the development and implementation of application systems. Monitor operating efficiency of existing application systems.

Wrote and executed Test cases for Application Testing, created Request for change and defects.

Performed Database Analysis, Impact Analysis and RPG programs conversions.

Used X-Analysis tool for file usage, object where used, source X-references and data flow diagrams.

Assisted in the customer support issues and job scheduling using Robot.

Worked in Project Management Office (PMO) and assisted PMO with documenting business processes.

Performed gap analysis to cutdown the gaps between functional documents and production system.

Performed migration activities from System/36 environment to AS/400 environment.

Performed data transfers activities from DB2/400 to PC environment for data analysis.

Education

Apr 1980 Bachelor of Arts (Economics) University of Karachi

Personal Strength

Understand the core business processes of the business unit and business requirements as well as the architecture patterns and technology strategy.

Depth knowledge / experience with various forms of reporting, including the design and creation of ad-hoc reports, automated reports and interactive dashboards.

Experienced professional with excellent organizational, time management and communication skills

Knowledge on usability and application performance consideration.

Self-starter with a high sense of urgency and ability to work independently without any supervision.

Passion for resolving end user issues and the aptitude of communicating the solutions in layman terms.

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