ASHFAZIA SIRAJ
U.S. Citizen
**** ******** ******* ****, ***********, VA, 20155
703-***-**** (cell)
********@*****.***
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