Quality Assurance Analyst
Resume:
SALMAN TARIQ
QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST
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New York, NY
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/salman-tariq-586699216/
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Self-motivated and result-oriented professional with 7+ years of progressive experience in Software QA Testing – both Automation and Manual.
Diverse testing skills with experience in analyzing business specification documents, developing test plans, writing test cases, and developing (RTM). Expertise in test development and complete QA lifecycle for all stages of software development.
Sound knowledge of descriptive programming, object identification, and parameterization. Experience in writing and executing SQL queries and VB scripting as well as in reporting bugs using HP Quality Center/ALM or JIRA.
Known for a meticulous work approach and for practicing good interpersonal relations among team members. Outstanding reputation for prioritization of QA test requirements to meet deadlines.
SKILLS
Manual testing Automated testing Black box testing Functional Regression Backend Integration Smoke HP Quality Center (QC) /ALM HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) / UFT Selenium Oracle SQL Agile Test Plan Test Case Defect Log Requirement Analysis TFS & MTM Jira MS SQL Server VB Script Data driven Framework Descriptive Programing UAT Testing TestRail Agile (Scrum) TestNG Waterfall API/Postman
WORK EXPERIENCE
STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS GROUP Needham, Massachusetts
QA Engineer 03/2022- Current
Working with Agile team and involved from sprint planning to Production Release.
Analyzing backlogs, user stories, system requirements, functional specification, financial data, use cases, workflow, dataflow, and operational transactions.
Involved with test planning, test designing, estimation, test reporting and defect triaging.
Creating Test Plans, Test cases, Test Procedures, Test Scripts and created input data values for both positive and negative testing.
Created efficient and reusable test cases in Selenium WebDriver, improving testing accuracy and reliability across multiple browsers and platforms.
Also Use Jira agile tool for release management such as sprint backlog and Scrum board, Task estimation, tracking log and tracking Bug. Use Test Rail for design test case and execution purpose in feature team.
Tested with Front-End functionality /GUI for the entire application by various black box testing such as Functional.
Testing, Non-Functional, Smoke, End to End, Ad-hoc, Exploratory, Integration, System, Regression and UAT Testing.
Built and maintained a data-driven testing framework using Selenium, Java, and TestNG, enhancing test case reusability and maintainability.
Involved in API Testing with Postman and Rest API testing with Advance rest client, Manual testing, and Automation Testing.
Experience in handling custom objects, exception handling/Recovery Scenarios in QTP/UFT and familiar with String functions, Date functions, Math functions and other related QTP/UFT functions.
Detected and reported bugs effectively, collaborating with developers to resolve issues quickly, improving application quality by 30%.
Developed test code in Java language using Eclipse, IDE, and Junit framework.
Performing backend/database tests by developing SQL queries and validating data integrity SQL queries using SQL Developer 10g. Involve in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.
CHARLES SCHWAB Warren, NJ
Software QA Engineer 08/2019 – 03/2022
Worked in an Agile environment, with an ability to accommodate and test the newly proposed changes at any point of time during the release.
Involved in API Testing with Postman and Rest API testing with Advance rest client, Manual testing, and Automation Testing.
Performed and executed manual test cases in different testing phases like GUI testing, Web testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), System Testing, Integration Testing, Unit Testing, Black Box Testing, Manual Testing, Performance Testing.
Designed and executed automated API tests using Postman, improving API reliability and reducing testing time by 60%.
Involved in running the scripts, modifying them if necessary and if there is some application error then submitting a defect through Bugzilla.
Collaborated with developers to define API requirements and shared best practices for API testing using Postman, enhancing team knowledge and API quality.
Developed SQL Queries used to perform database Testing.
Coordinated with developers and recorded defects in JIRA to track until they are resolved.
Involved in the Manual Testing and developed Traceability Matrix.
Used GitHub as code repository and Code Collaborator to manage code reviews.
QC in both areas of User portal and Admin portal, and Reporting bugs, tracking bugs, and verifying bug fixes.
CARDINAL HEALTH Wilmington, DE
QA Tester 01/2017 – 07/2019
Involved in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) using Waterfall methodology.
Developed test code in Java language using Eclipse IDE and TestNG framework.
Performed Backend, Code Logic, Webservice, and HTML validation testing.
Defined activities required to prepare and conduct Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Backend Testing, Performance Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Reviewed and analyzed requirements, developed test plans, wrote test cases, performed Integration, System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Responsible for Testing for RESTful Webservices using SOAP UI Testing of different Data source like MySQL using Data Collage.
Written and executed SQL queries and Joins, Group By clause, having clause etc. to validate the data.
Attended Weekly status meeting in reporting and provided a weekly report that includes test metrics consisting of status reports.
Documented bugs found during the process of testing.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, PK
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Test Management Tool
HP ALM/QC (Quality Center), VSO/VSTS, Jira, Test Rail
Automation Tool
HP QTP (Quick Test Professional)/ UFT, Selenium
Application
Web BASED, and Client Server Based
Application Languages
Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, VB.
Scripting Languages
Visual Basic Script (VBs)
Methodology
Agile (Scrum), Waterfall
Operating System
Windows 98, 2003, Windows XP, Windows 7, Vista.
RDBMS
Oracle (8g/9g/10g/11g), MS SQL Server, MYSQL Server
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