Ezazul Karim

Cell: 904-***-**** Email: ady7rs@r.postjobfree.com

Work Authorization: US Citizen ( with DOD CAF/Public Trust Clearance)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●Over 5 years of successful testing experience as Software Development Test Engineer.

●Outstanding knowledge of industry standard quality assurance procedures.

●Strong knowledge of SDLC and Testing Life Cycle.

●Strong ability to implement all established quality assurance methods

●Adept at analyzing business requirements and software requirement specifications.

●Experience in drafting Test Plan, Test Cases and executing Test Cases.

●Performed different types of Testing: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Content Testing, Installation Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

●Experience in testing on devices IOS, Android & Windows platform.

●Has experience with tools like Visual studio, HP ALM, TFS, WTT, Product Studio, Test Explorer & test services

●Converted manual functional and regression scripts to keyword data-driven automated scripts.

●Designed Automation framework using Selenium Web Driver Automation Framework.

●Experience in automating test scripts with objectives of maximizing the reusability and their maintainability.

●Automation of Build acceptance tests cases and integration test cases.

●Implemented parallel test execution which reduced the end to end test execution cycle time of an ERP application from 3 days to 4 hours.

●Experience in performance/ load test creation and execution for Microsoft support website.

●Debugging, failure analysis, log analysis for test execution results.

●Experience in Agile Testing.

●Experience in Developing SQL scripts to validate relational database tables.

●Provided automation training to manual testers and offshore resources.

●Install, Configuring, Upgrading Middleware technologies such as WebSphere MQ and IIB (Message Broker) In-depth Knowledge of troubleshooting

●Experienced in Planning, Implementation and Administration of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker on various platforms including AIX, Linux, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Windows 2003, 2008, XP, 7, 8, 10 and z/OS

●Good knowledge of OAM, RACF and SSL security in WebSphere MQ

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Testing Tools

HP ALM,QTP,Selenium,Test Director,HP Service Manager,

Bug Tracking

Remedy,Quality Center, JIRA,Zephyr and ClearQuest

Testing Frameworks

Data Driven, Keyword, Junit and TestNG

Language and Technologie

Java script, HTML, XML, JSP, J2EE

Operating systems

AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows 2003/XP/Visa/7/8/10, AS/400, Linux RedHat, z/OS; ISPF, SMPE, RACF, QREP, SDSF, JCL

Other Tools (Middleware)

IBM MQ Version 9x, 8x, 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, IIB (WebSphere Message Broker) 10, 9, 8x, 7.X, 6.x, 5.x, Toolkit, Axway, Qpasa, MQMON, AppWatch

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Southeastern Grocers Mar 2015 – Current

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

●Performed manual testing for end to end business process and automated the tests in QTP.

●Used Quality Center to invoke the scenarios and initially performed the baseline testing and organized all the scenarios systematically and generated reports.

●Worked with the test lead to prepare the test plan and develope test cases, reviewed FRD and updated all test cases in Excel and QC.

●Analyzed business and technical documents, generating manual and automated test cases, assessing and prioritizing quality risks, estimating testing efforts, and ensuring system requirements and use cases are mapped to test plans and test cases.

●Performed Smoke, GUI, Functional, Positive, Negative, Boundary, Database, UAT and Regression tests on the new enhancements added to the web application.

●Used QTP for object repository creation and maintenance, used Regular Expression, Re-usable actions, Checkpoints, Parameterization, Synchronization, Optional steps, and Recovery Scenario.

●Developed Descriptive Programming, Custom Functions and Maintained Local and Global Object Repository in QTP.

●Participated in Agile Scrum meetings, Defect Status meetings, QA meetings, Project Status meetings and interacting with Business Analyst, Developers, PM, Scrum Master.

●Generated test plans and test cases; conduct integration, regression, and system testing; and identify and document defects.

●Communicated test results effectively to project leads, business, and development team members.

●Performed both manual and automation testing.

●Created test scenarios for the application based on business process.

MetLife, Mar 2013 – Mar 2015

Sterling, VA

Project: Tricare

Title: Senior engineer/ Middleware

Worked on Tricare (Secure) to manage messaging, the project includes setup new MQ environments, build and deploy them to use WMQ. WMB and WTX I am involved in managing MQ in various platforms; troubleshoot issues relating to WebSphere MQ. Supporting application area with production and non-production issues.

Responsibilities:

●Defining MQ objects on Solaris, Linux, Z/OS and Windows servers using the scripts

●Setup OAM and SSL security among the MQ infrastructure

●Monitoring queues and channels using AppWatch and Qpasa

●Setup and exercising disaster recovery and failover process.

●Deploying BAR file, applying a monitoring profile when needed in WBIMB.

●Deploying Maps and Trees in a WTX environment.

●Created Clusters of Queue Managers to achieve Load balancing and to simplify

overall administration process

●Setup AppWatch monitoring tool and managing access users

●Participating in problem identification and resolution on development, test

●acceptance and production environment

●Tune-up for better optimization

●Adding or deleting queue manager from MQ clusters depending on infrastructure need to simplify the administrating and also for high availability

●Work with the IBM support for MQ related problems.

●Installing the latest patches for MQ from IBM.

●Providing 24/7 support for the MQ issues in distributed as well as z/OS servers

Bank of America, Jul 2011- Feb 2013

Jacksonville, FL

Project: Enterprise Application Integration

Title: Tech Analyst Middleware

Working in CASHPRO area, the project includes setup new MQ environments, build and deploy them to use MQ. I am involved in setting up MQ in various platforms; troubleshoot issues relating to WebSphere MQ. Supporting application area with production and non-production issues.

Responsibilities: :

●Install MQ, on Aix, Solaris and Linux servers

●Defining MQ objects on Solaris, Linux, and Windows servers using the scripts

●Setup WebSphere MQ clusters for simplifying the administration and also for high availability

●Setup OAM and SSL security among the MQ infrastructure

●Monitoring queues and channels

●Installed the latest fixes and patches from IBM

●Setup and exercising disaster recovery and high availability Queue managers

●Creating new execution group, setting up the HTTP port

●Setup remote administration for all the queue managers

●Created Clusters of Queue Managers to achieve Load balancing and also to simplify

●the overall administration processes

●Participating in problem identification and resolution on development, test

●acceptance and production environment

●Worked with the IBM support

●Installing the latest patches for MQ from IBM.

●Providing 24/7 support for the MQ issues in distributed as well as z/OS servers

State Farm Insurance, Sep 2008- Jul 2011

Bloomington, IL

Project: Enterprise Application Integration

Title: Tech Analyst WebSphere MQ/Message Broker Admin

The project includes setup new MQ environments, Upgrade new version of MQ on z/OS platform. I was involved in troubleshooting testing and production issues relating to MQ on distributed platform.

Responsibilities: :

●Defining MQ objects on Aix, Solaris, Linux, z/OS and Windows servers using the scripts

●Creating and allocating the page sets for the MQ objects in the mainframe servers

●Setup WebSphere MQ clusters for simplifying the administration and for high availability

●Setup OAM and SSL security among the MQ infrastructure

●Monitoring queues and channels

●Installed the latest fixes and patches from IBM

●Setup disaster recovery and high availability for the Queue managers

●Setup remote administration for all the queue managers

●Setup the trigger’s and channel initiator’s

●Setup Qpasa and AppWatch monitoring tool and building custom scripts

●Troubleshooting and debugging Message Flows using Trace nodes and error handling nodes

●Tuning up performance of the applications

●Worked with the IBM support and open PMR’s

●Installing the latest patches for MQ and WBIMB from IBM using SPME for the z/OS environment.

●Providing 24/7 support for the MQ issues in UNIX and z/OS servers

Education

BBA,

SECURITY CLEARANCE Level

DOD (Department of Defense) CAF security clearance

References

Available upon request

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