Over ** years of experience in a Quality Assurance Analyst with both Manual and Automated testing skills and practical experience in Agile Scrum environment.

Summary:

In depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle.

Experienced in Facilitating Scrum Events (daily stand-ups, other meetings) as needed.

In depth experience with Agile Scrum development methodology.

Experienced in User Stories generation and User Stories Analysis.

Expert in Defect Life Cycle and hands on experience with Defect Tracking Tools.

Proficient in writing Test Scenarios, Test Cases - Functional and Integration test cases, reviewing test cases and Estimating test cases execution.

Proficient in Manual Testing and Automated Testing on web-based applications.

Experienced in writing Test Plan, Test Cases according to the business requirement and User Stories.

Experienced with User Stories generation and defining the User Stories Acceptance Criteria.

Experienced with Black Box Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.

Experienced in Equivalence Class Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis.

Experienced with executing test cases, Logging Defect, Retesting Defect and Closing Defect.

Experienced in executing the test cases and perform Root Cause Analysis for the test result.

Expert in Designing, Developing and Maintaining Data Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid Framework.

Experienced with Automating Smoke Test, Functional Test and Regression test.

Experienced with Exception Handling, Error Handling by developing Reusable Functions.

Experienced in Back-End Testing with complex SQL Queries.

Experienced in Cross Browser Testing by executing the test cases.

Experienced with design sessions and provide feedback on requirements and design specifications.

Excellent communicator, team player, able to work in fast-paced IT environment and meet the deadline of the project.

Excellent Cross Functional Agile team member who can perform manual, automation testing with extensive coding skills.

Understanding of web services using Postman (SOAP/ REST)

Skills:

Framework

Highly organized, Key Word Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid Framework

Scrum Tools

Jira, Rally

Communication Tools

Skype, MS Teams, MS Outlook

Automation Tools

Selenium, UFT

Defect Tracking Tools

Jira, HP ALM, Rally

Databases

Oracle, MS Access

Programming Languages

Java, VB Script, SQL, HTML, XML

Testing Methods

Functional, Regression, Ad-Hoc, Integration, System

Continuous Integration Tools

Jenkins

Company: STP Housing September 2019 – Present

Role: Sr. Automation Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

Developed Test Plan, Test Cases and End to End Scenarios based on the User Stories.

Analysed the User Stories, System Design and provided input from End-User point of view.

Conducted Alpha Testing by monitoring small group of end user and provided detail analysis.

Participated in Sprint Grooming meeting and analysed the complexity of each task.

Attended Sprint Planning meeting and provided estimated Level of Effort for the sprint task to reach the sprint goal.

Participated in Sprint Review meeting and demonstrated newly developed functionalities to the development team and business owners.

Attended Sprint Retrospective meeting and provided feedback to the team to improve the development team productivity.

Executed manual test cases, Logged Defect and Retested the defects.

Worked closely with Developers and Business analyst to solve defect related issue.

Developed, Implemented and Maintained TestNG Framework with Selenium using core Java.

Developed functions to handle dynamic object of the web application and solved complex Object Recognition problem.

Developed Reusable Functions and maintained in the multiple Function Libraries based on the application’s functional component.

Performed extensive Back-End Testing using complex SQL Quires.

Performed Cross Browser Testing against to Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer to improve the Browser Compatibility if the application.

Executed large amount of Regression test cases and provided high level execution report to the development team and business team.

Developed Driver Scripts and triggered Automated Smoke Test for each Build of the application.

Scheduled the automated daily Smoke Test with Windows Task Scheduler and tested application stability using Selenium.

Conducted interview with potential End-Users and developed new User Stories for the project.

Good communication and writing skills.

Good team player and self-starter, capable of working independently and motivating a team of professionals

Environment: Agile Scrum, Selenium, Core Java, Jira, SQL, HTML.

Work Experience:

Company: Cydeo April 2017 – September 2019

Role: Jr. Scrum Master

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Making sure everyone on the team understands the Project’s goals and Scope.

•Helping the product owner maintain the Product Backlog.

•Coaching the development team in self-organization.

•Helping to Remove Obstacles to the developers’ progress.

•Facilitating Scrum Events (daily stand-ups, other meetings) as needed.

•Encouraging the organization to Adopt the Scrum Methodology in their Workflow.

•Coaching the organization on the Transition to a Scrum Working Framework.

•Keeping the organization, particularly the project’s stakeholders, up to date on the progress of the scrum team’s projects.

•Managing Timelines, resolving problems

•Coaching team and members on Agile Methodologies.

•Helping in creating teams that are Flexible and Fully Productive during Sprints.

Company: STP Housing Jan 2014 –April 2017

Role: Sr. Automation Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

Developed Test Plan, Test Cases and End to End Scenarios based on the User Stories.

Analysed the User Stories, System Design and provided input from End-User point of view.

Conducted Alpha Testing by monitoring small group of end user and provided detail analysis.

Participated in Sprint Grooming meeting and analysed the complexity of each task.

Attended Sprint Planning meeting and provided estimated Level of Effort for the sprint task to reach the sprint goal.

Participated in Sprint Review meeting and demonstrated newly developed functionalities to the development team and business owners.

Attended Sprint Retrospective meeting and provided feedback to the team to improve the development team productivity.

Executed manual test cases, Logged Defect and Retested the defects in HP ALM.

Worked closely with Developers and Business analyst to solve defect related issue.

Handled dynamic web object with Descriptive Programming in UFT using VB Script.

Developed, Implemented and Maintained Keyword Driven Automation Framework with UFT using VB Script.

Developed functions to handle dynamic object of the web application and solved complex Object Recognition problem.

Developed Reusable Functions and maintained in the multiple Function Libraries based on the application’s functional component.

Performed extensive Back-End Testing using complex SQL Quires.

Performed Cross Browser Testing against to Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer to improve the Browser Compatibility if the application.

Executed large amount of Regression test cases and provided high level execution report to the development team and business team.

Developed Driver Scripts and triggered Automated Smoke Test for each Build of the application.

Scheduled the automated daily Smoke Test with Windows Task Scheduler and tested application stability using Automation Object Model in UFT.

Conducted interview with potential End-Users and developed new User Stories for the project.

Good communication and writing skills.

Good team player and self-starter, capable of working independently and motivating a team of professionals

Environment: Agile Scrum, ALM, SQL, UFT, VB Script, HTML, XML

Company: Inovalon Health April 2012 – Jan 2014

Role: Quality Assurance Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

Participated in developing, documenting, and implementing the Test Strategy.

Implemented whole life cycle of QA methodologies starting from planning, capturing, creating, tracking the defects using Bugzilla and Quality Center.

Automated test cases for GUI, Functionality and Regression testing using QTP.

Developed and updated automation scripts using QTP on different functionalities of the application.

Created Data Driven test phases by creating different data tables and using Data Table Methods in QTP to connect external files.

Performed Web Services Testing and Validated XML request/response data using SOAPUI.

Performed smoke test for all the releases and verifying the fixes and closing them.

Actively participated with the users during User Acceptance Test (UAT).

Created Test Reports throughout all the phases of test effort.

Performed extensive back-end testing in Microsoft SQL Server environment.

Extensive experience writing SQL Queries and Involved in Data Base Testing.

Involved in Estimating Time Efforts based on test plans and business requirements.

Participated in walkthroughs, status and defect review meetings with the defect management and Technical People.

Environment: VB Script, SQL, XML, Team Foundation Server, QTP, QC, Data Driven Framework

Company: SunTrust May 2011 – April 2012

Role: Tester Analyst - II

Roles and Responsibilities:

Involved in designing Test Plans and writing Test Cases and executed Manual test cases to test the system.

Analyzed the Business Requirements Specification, System Requirements Specification and User Interface Specification documents.

Involved in setting up different configuration environment for compatibility testing and manual testing.

Executed manual test cases and logged defects.

Retested the defect once the defects are fixed.

Automated test cases by record and playback using Quick Test Professional.

Reported test execution status on daily basis to the upper management.

Performed Ad-hoc, Functional, Regression, Integration and Compatibility Testing of Web-based Application.

Performed Regression testing against the various build of the applications using QTP.

Created basic scripts from a manual test case, added verification steps to tests, manage objects in the object repository, and customize Checkpoints with parameters.

Najiya Juma

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