ASHFAZIA SIRAJ

U.S. Citizen

**** ******** ******* ****, ***********, VA, 20155

703-***-**** (cell)

adtg59@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging position to fully utilize acquired education, skills, abilities, and experience.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA January 1995

Bachelor of Arts in International Studies

Six Sigma Green Belt April 2021

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Methodologies:

Functional Testing

Regression Testing

Performance Testing

Manual Testing

Android Testing

iOS Apple Mobile Testing

Automation Testing

Smoke Testing

First Article Testing (FAT)

User Acceptance Testing

Test Management:

JIRA

AGILE

WATERFALL

HP ALM

ServiceNow

VersionOne

Operating System:

Windows 10, MAC, DOS

Software Applications System Architecture

Office Suite 365

Active Directory

Win At

SCCM

ZOOM Skype

MicroStrategy

SharePoint

RSO APP

WORK EXPERIENCE

MBA CSi Chantilly, VA 02/2019-Present

Northrop Grumman Falls Church, Virginia 09/2007-02/2019

Nortel Government Solutions Fairfax, Virginia 08/2002-09/2007

TRW Reston, VA 03/1998-08/2002

Software Test Engineer

Perform manual testing of the United States Postal Service (USPS) Retail Systems Software (RSS) application for multiple platforms including Full Window Service, Military, Business Partners and mPOS (mobile device). Examine the software release for any inconsistencies and document anomalies in the HP ALM database and in VersionOne.

Participate in Quality Assurance (QA) reviews, identify gaps and provide recommendations to ensure that software/system comply with quality and standards.

Examine the Business Requirements / User Stories.

Create test scripts and execute test cases in the ALM database

Execute automation Regression testing using Microfocus UFT.

Perform comprehensive Functional and End-to-End testing of the RSS system.

Interact closely with the business leads of the requirements to avoid any overlap and duplication of efforts.

System Administrator 03/1998-08/2007

Performed system rebuilds with customized version of Windows10

Installed scripts, switches, and patches to certain Point of Sale (POS) &RSS software versions

Performed ghosting disk to disk and disk to server

Worked with NCR Helpdesk/Desktop Computing team to test and validate the CRF build process for RSS Full Service, MIL platforms before Retail Operations Systems (ROS) migrates the changes to the PROD FS/MIL CRF payload

Verified validity of software installations

Received and verified Automated Data Downloads from Correspondence Servers.

Basic knowledge of SQL commands and worked with MS-DOS commands

Replaced bad Central Processing units (CPUs) / Peripheral including scanners, scales, postage. .printers, customer display units, keyboards, UPS, and clerk displays by working with NCR Help Desk. Fulfill LAN duties and keep LAN security for the RSS lab.

Reviewed Help-desk documents for RSS devices and provide feedback.

Maintained and install necessary hardware and software upgrades to network equipment without service interruptions.

Issued laptops to new users and built workstations with XP and joined the machines on the appropriate domains, setup outlook, mapped printers.

Updated PC's remotely as necessary using Remote Desktop Connection to patch security holes in operating systems and Applications.

Flashed iSC350 Back to UIA - Re-baseline the CDUs to factory settings and then install the needed firmware, this is done when out of the box testing is done to see a certain behavior or when a CDU becomes un-functional.

Created and maintain user accounts in Active Directory.

Software Tester Reston, Virginia 07/97-03/98

Tested a client/server-based credit management and debt collection application called the Grand Treasury Offset Program (GTOP). This system was being developed for the Financial Management Service Division of the US Department of the Treasury. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) portion of the application was being developed in PowerBuilder. The server portion of the system was being developed in C++.

Created test cases and manually executed test cases

Mapped software requirements to test cases

Examined the GTOP application for any inconsistencies and functionality problems

Wrote Software Problem Reports (SPRs) and

Responsibility also included monitoring of problem report status, retesting of failed test cases when problems were fixed

EDS

Software Tester Herndon, Virginia 12/96-07/97

Performed testing for a client/server-based Blood Banking application called the Defense Blood Standard System (DBSS). This application was being developed in Delphi with an Informix database

Developed test cases, and test data for the Verification and Validation team

Mapped testing objectives to development scenarios

Created prerequisites for test cases

Performed automatic execution of test cases in Test Director and WinRunner

Examined the DBSS application for any inconsistencies, functionality problems and

Wrote trouble tickets for these issues in PVCS Tracker

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