MUMTAZ AKBARI

Cell: 347-***-**** Email: adrzrp@r.postjobfree.com

Jamaica, NY 11432

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mumtaz-akbari-4b4b2b23b

Education: Bachelor’s of Arts

Self-motivated and results-oriented professional with 6+ years of progressive experience in Software QA Testing – both Automation and Manual. Diverse testing skills with experience in analyzing business specification documents, developing test plans, writing test cases, and developing (RTM). Expertise in test development and complete QA lifecycle for all stages of software development. Sound knowledge of descriptive programming, object identification, and parameterization. Experience in writing and executing SQL queries and VB scripting as well as in reporting bugs using ALM and JIRA. Known for a meticulous work approach and for practicing good interpersonal relations among team members. Outstanding reputation for prioritization of QA test requirements to meet deadlines.

Key Expertise

HP UFT

HP ALM,Jira,Test Rail,Zephyr

Black box testing

Defect analysis and log, Reporting

Oracle, SQL Server, DB2,SQL

Software development Lifecycle(SDLC)

Agile(Scrum) and Waterfall

Test Plan,Test Cases,Test scenarios

QA Manual & Automation Tester

Software Testing Life Cycle(STLC)

Release, Sprint planning,Demo

Co-ordinate with offshore team

Train new joiner and others

Defect review and analysis

Requirement gathering and analysis

Professional Experiences

Software QA Analyst, CVS

Florham Park, NJ 03/2021 to present

Regular basis Participate in sprint planning and grooming for the purpose of clarifying user stories; develop QA tasks, task estimations, capacity planning, sprint review, and retrospective meeting.

Interact with the technical team and product owner to gain a thorough understanding of the application's capabilities.

Ensure the requirements are met and that the task is completed on time by coordinating with the QA Lead, clients, developers, business analysts, system analysts, and other QA team members.

Conform to Agile methodology, routinely attend SCRUM meetings, and conduct sprints to test deliverables each time.

Analyze of user story according with the Acceptance criteria as a part of STLC process

Design test scenarios and test cases based on user stories, change requests and functional design documents.

Design all manual test cases step by step into Test Rail.

Responsible for the Web based testing including GUI Testing, Black box testing, Regression, Integration, System, Functional, Exploratory, UX/UI, Usability, Smoke, Backend Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Perform various kinds of testing manually and update execution result in Test Rail.

Responsible for assisting various business units with UAT Test Cases development and conversion into Jira with Test Rail.

Specifically, using JIRA for agile project management utilizing the Project Backlog, Task Board, Storyboarding, and Burn down Charts, Velocity, story prioritization, bug management, and work progress visualization features.

Utilize Test Rail add-ons in conjunction with JIRA to manage tests such as design and execution during a sprint cycle.

Perform user story Analysis by gathering both functional and non-functional specifications based on interactions with the product owners, document analysis.

Log defects and tracked them using Jira till its closure following company defect life cycle

Closely work with Automation team using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP) for Regression and Functional testing.

Conduct backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database and used SQL queries for retrieving data from Oracle database for executing user specific test cases

Write complex SQL queries using various kinds of joining and sub queries to retrieve complex data from RDBMS

Performing mobile testing in IOS and Android using physical devices for I phone, Android of various version.

Keep an eye on defects every day, and during the Defect Triage Calls, put the problems into separate buckets for discussion and mitigation.

Tested 3rd party integration API Testing with Postman Tool for Request and Response code manual validation with Get, Put, Post and Delete method.

QA Tester, Bloomingdales

New York, NY 09/2019 to 03/2021

Continuously collaborated with a scrum team comprised of a Product Owner, Scrum Master, developers, and offshore team members to perform software testing activities and deploy new application features utilizing the Agile Scrum methodology.

Participated in numerous meetings and tasks such as grooming backlogs, mapping sprints, engaging in daily stand-up meetings, reviewing test cases, and finally, a retrospective and demo meeting.

Consulted and collaborated with other project members Determine and de-construct technical specifications and user stories, including mapping and navigation tools, to provide a suitable testing coverage using various test techniques.

Concentrated on timelines and quality to ensure that a high-quality project is delivered on time.

Communicated with the customer and vendor to fully understand the project.

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

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

Strong experience in using SharePoint for sharing project related document with other team members, like Test plan, Test cases, RTM and progress of the project.

Used Jira with Zephyr to track and report system defects for further investigation and defect resolution for Maintenance and Hot fix team in Regression testing throughout the year.

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

Involved in testing the XML/JSON files and checked whether request and response codes are loaded using Postman.

Tested with Front-End functionality /GUI for the 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.

Maintained automation Data Driven framework and hybrid to created scripts in UFT by VBScript on Web application

Performed backend/database tests by developing SQL queries and validating data integrity for SQL queries using SQL Developer 10g.Involved in extensive data validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.

During the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase, work on User Acceptance Testing to verify the project is successfully fulfilling its End-user delivery promise.

Conducted mobile testing on iOS and Android platforms utilizing real devices and Developers tool for Mobile web browsers.

Additionally, provided knowledge transfer session to new team members who have joined recently.

Tested 3rd party integration API Testing with Postman Tool for Request and Response code manual validation with Get, Put, Post and Delete method.

Worked as a test lead behalf of Test lead.

Quality Assurance Tester, US Bank

Kansas City, KS 07/2016 to 09/2019

Intensively involved in the analysis of the User Stories and Design Specification documents to guarantee that the system fulfilled all the technical and business requirements. Involved in the examination of the User Stories and Design Specification documents to guarantee that the system completed all the technical and business requirements.

Used Agile Scrum methodology attended various meeting such as Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Demo and Retrospective meeting with the scrum team.

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 along with Product Owners.

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 to Develop Test cases based upon template, executed test cases and logged the defect using HP ALM and later on with 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.

Checked and modified current automation scripts by including check points, wait statements, parameterization, and VB scripts, as well as using Descriptive Programming as needed by the team.

Technical Environment

Testing Tools

JIRA, Zephyr, VSTS,ALM, Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Postman

Operating Systems

Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7,10

Database

MS SQL Server 2005/08, Oracle11g, 10g, MY SQL

Microsoft Tools

MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, MS Visio, and Outlook.

Application Server

Web Logic, IIS, and Apache.

Communication Tool

Microsoft teams, Web-Ex, Jabber, Zoom

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