Nazir Ahmad Sediqi
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Gaithersburg, MD
Work Status: U.S. Green card holder
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
●8 years of experience in Information Technology, with specializing in Software Quality Assurance Testing, proficient in testing on Client/Server and Web based applications and experience on Core Java, OOPS concepts.
●Experience and domain knowledge in Banking, Retail, E-Commerce, Insurance, Financial-Mortgage domains, and their workflow.
●Extensive working experience on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), its methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall Model.
●Proficient in using test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver/IDE/Grid to develop automation testing scripts for web and client server applications.
●Sound knowledge on Junit, TestNG framework for Unit testing, Maven for Project building
●Experience in the development of Data driven and Hybrid Automation frameworks in Selenium.
●Developed Test Scripts to implement Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and features for BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber.
●Experienced in working on Selenium WebDriver automation script in Java for Page Object Model (POM) cross-browser testing. Used testing annotations to group the test methods and for cross-browser.
●Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Estimation & Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
●Professional expertise in Smoke Testing, backed end Testing, Black-Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/ Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Cross Browser/ Cross Platform Testing, UI Validation, Boundary Value Testing.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Testing Tools
Selenium IDE/WebDriver, SOAP UI tool, Ready API
Languages
JAVA, XML, SQL
Web Technologies
XML
IDE
Eclipse, SQL Developer
Test Framework
TestNG, Data Driven Framework, Cucumber
Build Tool
Maven
Processes
Agile-Scrum, Waterfall
Bug Tracking Tools
JIRA
Data Bases
PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS Excel
Operating Systems
Windows (XP, Vista & 7, 8, 10)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Test Automation Engineer
September 2018 - Present
Aetna Health Insurance
Washington DC
●Involved in building automation framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, and Cucumber (BDD),
●Developed Automation framework implementing Page Object Model, using JAVA, Selenium Web driver and Cucumber.
●Performed BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber Features, Scenarios and Step Definitions in Gherkin format.
●Experience on Core Java, OOPS concepts.
●Used MAVEN for build management, and Jenkins for Continuous Integration of the builds.
●Assessed and analyzed user stories and participated in Sprint planning, Review Sessions & Scrum Meetings and developed Test scenarios, Test cases, Test data, Test reports.
●Performed User Acceptance testing (UAT) exclusively in an agile environment.
●Used Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and cross Platforms.
●Performed UI, Functional and Regression testing using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber Maven, and Jenkins.
●Integrated Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for nightly consignment run of the Script.
●Utilized JIRA as defect tracking tool on the project.
●Examined the Business Requirements Document (BRD), designed Test cases and Test scripts for the application under examination.
●Designed the test scripts and analyzed the results in various levels of the application including integration, regression, functional and acceptance testing using Selenium.
●Implemented Regression and Smoke test execution as a discrete step of the deployment process by using Selenium WebDriver.
●Involved in preparing a report of all automation difficulties and test results for a further application using Maven.
●Delivered back-end testing for data validation using SQL in Oracle and executed SQL Queries on database tables to verify the database.
●Participated in Stand-up meeting, weekly automation meeting with all other QA, weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.
Environment: Selenium Web Driver, Jenkins, MAVEN, Apache-POI, Cucumber (BDD), Gherkin, Oracle DB, Eclipse, XML, SQL, XPath, Windows 7, Oracle SQL Developer, MS Office suite, SDLC, STLC, XML, JSON and Windows XP, 7, 10, Browsers: Chrome, Firefox and IE and Core Java
QA Automation Engineer
March 2016 – August 2018
Sun Trust Bank
Richmond, VA
●Developed Test Cases, Use Cases and Automation test scripts. Other activities included test execution report and generation in accordance with Quality Assurance best practices.
●Extensive use of descriptive programming to create effective and efficient reusable functions and maintaining them in a neat function library to be used by the team.
●Gathered requirements documents such as business requirements and design document and other related documents.
●Experience with Postman tool for Manual Testing API Rest Request
●Experience on Core Java, OOPS concepts.
●Reviewed the Test Basis, designed and documented Test Strategies, Test Plan, Test Cases and executed test cases.
●Responsible for writing and maintain Selenium WebDriver scripts for regression and functional testing using data driven framework.
●Developed test code in Java language using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG framework.
●Setup the Automation framework using Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and platforms.
●Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (TestNG and Maven).
●Utilize CSS selectors, IDs, and XPaths to locate elements on Web pages.
●Involved in testing the application utilizing the Scrum (Agile) methodology.
●Involved in designing of automation framework to be used in UI testing with Selenium WebDriver.
●Execute browser compatibility and regression tests using Selenium WebDriver for testing UI for every new build release.
●Set up Jenkins for scheduled automation test run and that will trigger Smoke Test script by receiving email.
●Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes.
●Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with SQL queries from oracle database.
●Performed End-to-End testing of database to check data integrity using SQL queries.
●Assisted QA lead in documenting User Acceptance Test report and reporting defect resolution.
●Experienced in Cross Browser Testing by executing the test cases in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
●Participate in Agile Scrum methodology and attend Daily Scrum, Sprint Grooming, and Sprint Planning and Sprint Review meetings.
Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Jenkins, SQL, Maven, XPath, GitHub, Windows 7.Oracle SQL Developer, MS Office suite; JIRA, SQL, SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, XML, REST, SOAPUI, JSON and Windows XP, 7, 10, Browsers: Chrome, Firefox and IE.Core Java
Manual QA Test Engineer
Liberty Mutual
Mar 2014 – February 2016
Boston, MA
●Developed Test Cases, Use Cases and Automation test scripts. Other activities included test execution report and generation in accordance with Quality Assurance best practices.
●Extensive use of descriptive programming to create effective and efficient reusable functions and maintaining them in a neat function library to be used by the team.
●Gathered requirements documents such as business requirements and design document and other related documents.
●Reviewed the Test Basis, designed and documented Test Strategies, Test Plan, Test Cases and executed test cases.
●Responsible for identifying test cases for Smoke Test, Functional and Regression Tests.
●Involved in testing the application utilizing the Scrum (Agile) methodology.
●Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes.
●Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with SQL queries from oracle database.
●Performed End-to-End testing of database to check data integrity using SQL queries.
●Assisted QA lead in documenting User Acceptance Test report and reporting defect resolution.
Environment: MySQL, Oracle SQL Developer, MS Office suite; JIRA, SQL, SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, XML, JSON and Windows XP, 7, 10, Browsers: Chrome, Firefox and IE.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in law, Kabul University, Afghanistan, 1998-2001