Simon Biswas
Email: *********@*****.***
Phone: 1-347-***-****
OBJECTIVE:
More than 6 years of hands on experience with a solid understanding Quality Assurance of the software development process, well organized, proactive, process and result oriented professional seeking an opportunity with a leading organization as a Software QA Analyst. SUMMARY:
• Strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance including development, execution, and maintenance of the Test Plans, Test Cases documents and Defect reports.
• Experienced in Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Software Development Life Cycle
(SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Strong problem solving and analytical skill, with profound ability to prioritize and multi- tasking goals in order to meet the time requirements.
• Proficiency in business analysis, business process design, compilation of functional specifications, process development, testing and training.
• Experienced with HP ALM/HP Quality Center Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).
• Performed Functional and Regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Acquainted with different testing concepts and methods like Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Compatibility testing, System testing, End to End Testing, Black box testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Strong Experience with Atlassian tool administration knowledge on JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong Experience in JIRA Administrator with experience customizing JIRA projects with various schemes, complex work, screen schemes, permission schemes and notification schemes required and users while working in a JIRA Environment.
• Experienced with managing project team in the real time environment.
• Ability to work independently as well as excellent team player with very good communication skills and leadership qualities.
• Performed Database Validation and Verification using Structured Query Language (SQL) queries.
• Experienced working both in Offshore & Onshore environment. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Santander bank
Boston, MA
Role: QA Analyst
May 2020 to Present
• Performed integration testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, regression testing,
• Delivered, within short time frames under tight deadlines, with minimal supervision.
• Involved in developing Integration Test Plans and System Test Plans for the applications.
• Responsibilities included Manual, Acceptance, Functional, Integration, System, and GUI testing of the system.
• Test plans, Test scripts and test cases were designed in accordance with business functional requirements and technical designs as defined via an AGILE method (story boards, modeling, team design sessions, etc.
• Participated in preparing a smoke test for the application under test, which included the basic test cases, to ensure that the application is stable enough in the QA environment to start functional testing.
• Experienced with HP ALM/ HP Quality Center Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).
• Expertise on assigning the Test Cases to the Test Sets in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Experienced with assigning the Requirements to the Test Cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Performed data driven testing and Regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Inserted synchronization points to solve timing problem between test and application.
• Experience to eliminate redundant pop up messages to cut down script run times using recovery scenarios in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Used extensive SQL queries from the front end using database checkpoints in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to perform backend database testing.
• Used HP ALM/Quality Center for test management and defect reports.
• Detected, verified, prioritized, navigated and tracked defects using HP ALM in the software until they were fixed.
• Interacted with the developers for bug fixes and problem resolution.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed using HP ALM.
• Used SQL and PL/SQL queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Wrote SQL query using TOAD for database testing and have good knowledge of database.
• Wrote numerous SQL scripts to inspect data within the database.
• Worked closely with Lead Database Engineer to implement reporting and analytics front-ends.
• Produced reports and documentation for all testing efforts, results, activities, data, logging, and tracking.
• Communicated test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management.
• Established run for record documentation revised with traceability from the automation tests to the manual tests for the development team.
• Provided the project management with test metrics, reports and status on a regular basis.
• Participated in regular project status meetings related to testing. Environment: JAVA, .Net, HTML, DHTML, XML, Oracle 11g/10g, SQL, TOAD, PL/SQL,HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), HP ALM / HP Quality Center (QC), UNIX, Windows 7/10. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
Chicago, IL
Role: Test Engineer
September 2017 to April 2020
• Developed and executed test plans and test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications.
• Analyzed systems design specifications and developed Test Plans, Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Performed Manual Testing for usability and compatibility of the custom Web application
• Performed end to end testing for Regression, Integration and database testing.
• Worked with Use cases and requirements to write the test plan and test cases
• Manually executed test cases and reported results to development teams
• Performed manual GUI test for Data entry screen in the Application
• Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
• Validated reports developed using Crystal Reports.
• Remarkable experience working with Agile methods in Agile environment
• Familiarity with Agile software development lifecycle (iterative and incremental), UML design documentation.
• Participated in Bi-Weekly User Story Grooming sessions and Iteration Planning meetings with Scrum Master, Product Owners, and Agile Team members.
• Developed Test cases, Test data and reusable test scripts for User Stories based on the Acceptance Criteria during each Iteration
• Reported the Testing status for the current Sprint in daily during Scrum meetings, updated daily status on what was done yesterday, what will be done today, and any blocking issues.
• Create user stories and Requirement Traceability Matrix to outline system logic changes
• Strong Experience Atlassian tool administration knowledge on JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong Experience JIRA Administrator with experience customizing JIRA projects with various schemas, complex workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes, and notification schemes required and users while working in a JIRA environment.
• Strong Ability to construct custom dashboards using various filter types in JIRA.
• Experience Work with JIRA filters, reporting, dashboards, workflows, fields, and JIRA administration.
• Involved in Preparing test plans and prepared the test cases and test scripts.
• Responsible for creating and executing test cases for System, Integration, Regression and End-to-End, User acceptance testing of the Application.
• Executed the tests manually to verify the application functionality.
• Closely worked with DBA admin, Engineers and managers. Participated in meeting regarding current status, new upcoming build and rollout date and open issues. Environment: Windows XP, Vista, Unix, IIS, Oracle10g, HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), HP ALM, TOAD, MS SQL, JIRA, MS Visual Studio .NET
Rite Aid Corporation
Camp Hill, PA
Role: Software Test Coordinator
July 2015 – August 2017
• Analyzed the business requirements and involve in the review discussions.
• Participated in the QA activities for various releases in the Project.
• Performed System and Integration Testing.
• Drafted test cases based on Functional Specifications and System Specifications.
• Prepared of Test Plan and analyze integration system impacts.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the application for Negative and Positive scenarios.
• Mentored the team members with business functionality.
• Performed the Regression Testing to make sure the bug has been fixed and the application was running properly as requirement.
• Extensively involved in executing, analyzing and verifying test results.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups.
• Involved in validating and verifying defects using JIRA, and clearly articulated defect issues.
• Performed SQL and PL/SQL and backend validations.
• Developed and executed SQL Queries to perform backend database testing.
• Wrote PL/SQL scripts and assisted C programmers for Application development.
• Developed and documented testing processes, test plans and test cases.
• Extensively involved in GUI, backend Oracle testing.
• Assisted in definition, creation and validation of test data.
• Worked closely with the development team to identify and fix defects and enhancements.
• Involved in documenting and analyzing defects and test results.
• Performed troubleshoot with UNIX and Database related problems.
• Performed necessary research to resolve defects.
• Communicated clearly and frequently the status of defects, and the steps to resolution with technical and business teams.
• Exercised good judgment within generally defined quality assurance practices, procedures and standards.
Environment: MS Office, Oracle Database 10g, JIRA, Windows, XML, MS Project, XML, MS SQL Server 2003.
Technical Skills:
Testing Tools: HP ALM, HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), JIRA, Bugzilla, DOORS. TOAD.
Languages: Visual Basic, PL/SQL, HTML
Operating Systems: UNIX, MS DOS, Windows Vista, Windows 7/XP, and Windows Server 2005/2008, Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.
Database: MS SQL Server 2003/05/08, Oracle11g,10g, MS Access. Microsoft Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, MS Works, and Outlook, Microsoft Visio.
Application Server: Microsoft IIS
Education:
Masters of Social Science (M.S.S)
National University of Bangladesh
Dhaka College, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Professional References:
Will be provided upon request.