Test Engineer Quality Assurance

Ayan Rashid

Active DoD Secret Clearance

Cell: 703-***-**** / Email: ******.******@*****.***/ linkedin.com/in/ayan-rashid-2a3a56bb

Professional Summary:

US citizen with an Active DoD Secret Clearance. Over 13 years of professional experience with Software Test Engineer / QA Analyst within various applications using both manual and automated testing techniques along with growing an expertise in the Senior API Test Engineer (REST API/SoapUI). In addition to Windows, Cloud System Administration and Artificial Intelligence (AL/ML).

In depth knowledge of Software development life cycle (SDLC), Software testing life cycle (STLC) and Defect life cycle (DLC).

Expertise in Web service / API Testing (System Integration Test) –REST Method by using SoapUI and Postman In Dev & Stage.

Experience in Jenkins for Continuous Integration with automated test execution (In-Dev,Stage &Prod) Environment.

Skilled in GitHub(Multiple branches),API-Log Extractor, Git Bash, Visual Studio code.

Expertise in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End-to-end testing, API and UI Testing.

Involved in a CI/CD pipeline for Software development process to testing, building and deployment software.

Excellent knowledge in Back-end Testing and data verification using Oracle/SQL server Environment, Regression, Web Service Testing, API Performance-Load Testing, System Integration(SIT), Functional & Non-functional Testing ETL Testing, of Client Server and Web based applications.

Created the API’s Taxonomy file validation in the Mulesoft exchange Portal.

Conducted acceptance criteria with developer owner, to better understand the API functionality.

Analyzed the GitHub ReadMe.md file to create test plans, test cases and test results documents (CTASK), to follow the Job Aid.

Experienced in agile software development, professional with outstanding qualifications and track record in delivering and managing agile software projects using ServiceNow(SNOW), Microsoft Team Foundation/AzureDevOps Server (TFS/Kanban), CA Rally and SE2 confluence/ Atlassian Jira to create and track all the testing and project related tasks.

Performed the form accessibility testing to ensure the forms could pass 508 compliance.

Experienced in Advanced Data Analytics Modernization (ADAM)/CBP Form Database.

Managed Windows Server 2019 environment and performed multiple testing such as Configuration, Software Versions, AD Windows appears etc. on the VMWare /VMSphere.

Created Domain User Accounts and added them to the computer in Active Directory by delegating user’s right and permissions.

Good skills in cloud administering with Microsoft Azure and AWS services (e.g. Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Migration and Management).

Hands on experience on Cloud Computing (MS Azure, AWS, Hyper-V).

Excellent knowledge of VMware infrastructure.

Experienced in windows-based servers and managing entire Active Directory along with deploying Group Policy (GPOs) STIGs server in Domain controller in Cloud environment.

Clearance:

Active DoD Secret Clearance

Multiple Public Trust Clearance awarded : DHS,GSA and USPS Public Trust Clearance

Education:

Masters in Management Information System (MIS) – IIUC-2002 and Bachelor’s in Physics- Chittagong University, BD-1998.

Certification:

CompTIA (Security +) - Certified by CompTIA.(Exp Date: 10/28/2027)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance.

Salesforce Certified-Mulesoft Integration Associate.

DHS Certified Trusted Tester™ Certification for Web on Windows (Certification Number # TT-2412-05208)

Section 508 Program - Participation Certificate DHS Accessibility Day 2020.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Cloud Administrator (AZ-104) and Certified Cloud Practitioner (AWS).

Microsoft Certified: Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML) Engineer Associate (AI-102)

Certificate of Completion-DoD Mandatory Controlled Unclassified Information(CUI) Training.

Technical Skills:

Tools & Software:

Microsoft Office 365; Microsoft Teams; SharePoint; Cisco WebEx; Adobe Connect; Softphone/Avaya; JIRA; Rally;Informatica;UFT; ALM; MTM; Cerenade; Adobe Experience Manager (AEM); Adobe LiveCycle; Jaws; NVDA; Sales Force;SoapUI;POSTMAN;,Git Bash;Git Hub;Visual Studio Code;Active Directory;ServiceNow;Jenkins;MuleSoft,NMAP,Rancher;MS Azure cloud.

Ticketing Systems :

Service Now; Remedy; JIRA; AzureDevOPS-TFS/Kanban and Rally.

Operating Systems:

Linux; Windows; Windows Server 2012/2016/2019

Languages:

Json, C++; Visual Basic; JAVA ; SQL;PL/SQL; VB.Net; PowerShell

Database:

MS SQL Server 2008/2012/2016/2019; MySQL & Maria DB; MS- Access; Adam.

Networking :

Firewalls; Routing; Basic Scripting; VPN/WAN; Database Scanning; Networking Protocols; WAN; LAN.

Browsers:

Firefox; Chrome; Safari; Opera; Netscape Navigator; MSIE;Edge.

Web Server:

IIS; Web logic Application Server; Tomcat; VMWare; Citrix VDI;Jump server;RDP

Professional Experience:

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) / Defense Automatic Addressing System (DAAS). Fort Belvoir, Virginia with Horizon Industries Ltd.

Senior Test Engineer (REST API): Nov, 2023 – Present

Responsibilities:

●Provided Testing support to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) / Defense Automatic Addressing System (DAAS)-REST API.

●Facilitated API’s requirements gathering with Business Analyst, Developer and Client.

●Experienced in Web service / API Testing (System Integration Test) –REST Method by using SoapUI and Postman In Dev, Stage & Prod environment.

●Experienced in Jenkins for continuous integration with automated test execution (In-Dev, Stage & Prod) environment.

●Expertise in GitBash in the workspace and use the commands git clone to import project file (soapuixml file)

●Expertise in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End-to-end testing, API and UI Testing.

●Implemented the correct Resource/Method (GET, POST, and PUT etc), Test Data, Assertions, Responses, Endpoints, and Headers, as per the test cases in the SoapUI.

●Created the API’s Taxonomy file validation in the MuleSoft exchange Portal in the STAGE environment.

●Skilled in API Performance-Load Testing using SoapUI and JMeter.

●Experienced in Firewall testing by using NMAP.

●Exceeded in GitHub repos, API-Log Extractor, Jenkins, Git Bash, Visual Studio code.

●Involved in a CI/CD pipeline for Software development process to testing, building and deployment software, improving efficiency and reliability.

●Experienced in BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) in Agile Process and TDD (Test-Driven Development).

●Used SQL queries to perform backend data validation testing on the database.

●Investigated issues and resolved operational problems in conjunction with developer and platform team member.

Interacted with development teams to maintain the User Stories, SoapUI Test Suite, Test Cases, Test Execution, timely closure of bugs. Tracked and monitored defects by using Jira and ServiceNow.

Analyzed the GitHub ReadMe.md file to develop and create the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Summary Report documents (CTASK) to follow the Job Aid.

Experienced in testing on Unix/Linux and Windows platforms.

Worked with VDI 2016 Desktop (Remote Desktop Protocol-RDP) and Jump Server environment.

Experienced on Troubleshooting for multiple web browsers.

Streamlined the startup and shutdown procedure for multiple server virtual machines during the testing process.

Working as Cloud Administrator in Microsoft Azure environments, involved in Azure AD connect, configuring virtual machines, Storage accounts and Azure resource groups.

Attended daily standup meetings, sprint planning meetings, retrospective meetings, and release readiness checklist meetings etc. in the agile environment.

Generated weekly and monthly status reports to the Project Manager.

Environment: Salesforce/MuleSoft; Rancher; ServiceNow; SoapUI; Jenkins; GitHub; Windows 2019 server; SE2 Confluence Atlassian Jira; Linux; Azure cloud.

Department of Defense (DoD) / US Army. APG, Maryland with ASRC Federal.

Test Engineer Intermediate & Windows System Admin: May, 2023 – Oct, 2023

Responsibilities:

●Provided Testing support to the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), Software Engineering Center (SEC), and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR)

●Supported full lifecycle management, software maintenance, software engineering, software sustainment, software replication and distribution, software control, Information Technology (IT) technical support services, Post Deployment Software Support (PDSS), and Post Production Software Support (PPSS).

●Investigated issues and resolves operational problems in conjunction with other engineering and technical personnel

Experienced in Global Command Control System-Army (GCCS-A) and Mission Command Control System (MC-CS).

Tested and Verified Active Directory Windows appears, DNS icon and multiple kinds of testing such as V&V, software versions, Configuration Test, DNS Manager etc on the vSphere.

Performed the system testing (Army’s Software Technology) on the vSphere/Citrix for multiple environments (Development, Cyber and Production Environment).

Interacted with development teams to maintain the User Stories, Test Cases, Test Execution, timely closure of bugs. Tracked and monitored defects by using Jira.

Experienced in testing on Unix/Linux and Windows platforms.

Hands on experience on SE2 Confluence / Jira, Test Network and Windows server 2019.

Excellent knowledge of VMWare/ VMSphere/VCenter infrastructure.

Experienced in windows-based servers and managed the entire Active Directory.

Developed and created test plan documents, test cases and Test Summary Reports.

Experienced on Troubleshooting for multiple web browsers.

Experienced startup and shutdown procedure for multiple server virtual machines during the testing process.

Worked as a Cloud Administrator in Microsoft Azure environments, involved in Azure AD connect, configuring virtual machines, Storage accounts and Azure resource groups.

Performed day to day operations and maintenance of Azure based systems, including but not limited to backup, recovery and resolve complex technical problems. Design, build and maintained Azure networks, virtual machines, Key vaults, network security Groups, SQL PAAS environments, Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup solutions.

Experienced with cloud computing and Virtualization and migration appliance.

Administrated Azure AD users, groups, and devices, and participate in migration between on-premises and Azure AD through AD connect.

Environment: VMSphare; Windows 2019 server; SE2 Confluence / Atlassian Jira; Linux; Arc GIS.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS /CBP), Washington DC with MSI Universal.

QA Analyst/Application (Form) Developer: May 2018 – April 30, 2023.

Project Description: Assist U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel, other agencies, and the general public by providing design, development and maintenance of CBP forms. The object of the Form Management Section (FMS) is to design, develop, and test the new complex CBP forms. My project involves Electronic and Adobe Forms management and technical solutions Services. The CBP Forms renewal team will provide forms revisions, design and programming, testing and uploading services using the Cerenade eForm solution and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).

Responsibilities:

Analyzed CBP Forms to ensure each met the standards established/all requested form modification by the customer.

Designed and edited CBP forms to fit standards established by the customer.

Designed, created and maintained CBP web based and adobe form using the cerenade and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Technology along with built-in functions and JavaScript.

Uploaded FAR files onto the web-based forms management system Cerenade.

Uploaded PDF files onto the Drupal-based CBP.gov website.

Experienced in CBP form Database (ADAM) to create and update a CBP Form and the summary of new features that are added to the CBP forms Database module.

Performed the form accessibility testing to ensure the forms could pass 508 compliance.

Experienced in section 508 compliance testing using JAWS tools.

Analyzed and developed the form workflow designer/diagram.

Performed the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in the pre-production environment.

Perform API Testing using SoapUI.

Provided production/end user customer on-call support during the office hours using the Avaya one –X Communicator.

●Used in defect-tracking tools Microsoft Test Manager and Azure DevOps Server TFS/Kanban.

Analyzed the form style guide, user requirements, business requirements, functional requirements, systems requirements user manual, gap analysis etc. to ensure the customer satisfaction.

Attended the different kinds of meetings with onsite and offshore team with Gov. Team including ours core team as well.

Supported SharePoint team to execute tests and generate the documents.

Used SQL queries to perform backend testing on the cerenade database.

Generated weekly and monthly status reports to the Project Manager.

Environment: Cerenade; AEM;Azure DevOps Server TFS/Kanban; MTM; MS Office 365; Windows; SharePoint; SQL server; ADAM Database; MS Team;CiscoWebEx;AdobeConnect; Avaya/Softphone; Jaws;.Net;Unix;Jason;C++;VisualBasic;JAVA; SQL;PL/SQL; VB.Net; PowerShell; Sales Force. Soap UI.

General Services Administration (GSA), Washington, DC with PCI

QA Test Engineer: April 2017- April 2018

Project Description: The General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States government, and it’s help to manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. My project was GSA e-business innovation process which is online shopping and ordering system that provides access and integrates government buyers and GSA contractors and managed millions of supplies (products) and services.

Responsibilities:

Interacted with the business analyst and development team for requirements analysis, review design documents, and testing documents which were developed in to Agile-Scrum environment.

Developed and created test plans & manual test cases, test logs and software test procedures based on the business requirements along with the Test Summary Reports during all the testing phases of the software development lifecycle.

Performed rigorous manual testing such as Functional Testing, Smoke testing, Regression Testing System Integration Testing, UAT Testing, Backend Testing, End to End Testing, ETL Testing, Web Service Testing and along with the Entry and Exit criteria for each phase of testing.

Used CA Agile Central (Rally) to track issues, tasks, defects and communicate with the team consistently.

Involved in Agile model of software development by facilitating daily operational scrums and frequently coordinating across cross-functional team.

Participated in Sprint planning, task estimates, task sequencing, task assignments, sprint reviews and retrospectives meeting.

Created and Maintained Test Matrix and Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Performed in Back-end/Database testing writing and executing complex SQL Queries and data verification using Oracle database environments.

Developed test cases for positive as well as negative scenarios and created test data in .xml,.txt, .csv and .xlsx format.

Validated the load process of ETL to make sure the target tables are populated according to the data mapping provided that satisfies the transformation rules.

Performed in ETL testing process by using Informatica and verify source to target database are in sync

Validated web services manually and through automation using SOAP UI

Performed performance testing of the application by using JMeter.

Experienced in developing Descriptive programming for Data driven testing, text output values by using global and local spreadsheets in UFT/QTP.

Performed functional/regression testing during the various phases of the application and analyzed the results using UFT/QTP.

Conducted manually testing on XML documents in web applications.

Worked on UNIX server with respect to operate system and variety of commands.

Supported SharePoint team to execute tests and generate the documents.

Conducted regular project meetings calls with onsite and off shore Team.

Interacted with the development teams for maintaining the test cases and test execution timely closure of bugs. Tracked and monitored defects by using JIRA.

Environment: CA Rally; SQL Server;SQL; MS Office; Windows; SharePoint;.Net;UFT;Unix; JIRA;JMeter; SOAP UI;Informatica;C/C++; Java; J2EE; Java Script; HTML;XML; Selenium/Jenkins/Maven.

Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC with LintechGlobal InfoTech

QA Test Analyst: Dec 2014 - March 2017

Project Description: Federal Aviation Administration is the national aviation authority of the United States. The project is called Designee Management System (DMS), which are designed for the Management of Designees. Designee Management System (DMS) is established for Office Aviation Safety (AVS), Aircraft Certification Service (AIR), Flight Standards Service (AFS) and the Office of Aerospace Medicine (AAM). DMS is used by both internal users (FAA representatives) and external users (candidates).

Responsibilities:

Created the required documentation for each QA project, including requirements analysis, development of the test strategy, integrated test plan, system flow diagram, test cases, defect tracking and associated defect reports.

Participated in developing test strategies, test plans, test scenarios from business and design specifications.

Manually tested each module of the application and verified against expected results.

Worked on Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to create and track all testing related tasks (Epics/user stories/Sprints and progress of work etc.)

Performed functional, smoke, regression, user acceptance, and backend testing of the application.

Used SQL queries to perform backend testing on the database.

Checked data flow from front-end to back-end and used SQL queries to retrieve data from database.

Used ETL methodology for testing and supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing in ETL Solution using Informatica.

Created ETL test data for all ETL mapping rules to test the functionality.

Experienced in testing on Unix/Linux and Windows platforms.

Performed Web Services Testing using SOAP UI to locate WSDL file and created Test cases.

Facilitated UAT testing sessions with client, business process owners and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace requirements during the validation phase.

Used Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning, executing tests, and tracking defects.

Developed automated test scripts using VBScript in QTP to facilitate Regression testing on multiple releases.

Attended several kinds of meetings such as daily stand-up meeting, sprint planning and kick-off meeting.

Environment: Windows; MS Office; HTML; XML; TFS; MTM; SharePoint; Oracle server; SOAP UI; Unix/Linux; ETL/Informatica; SQL; QTP/UFT; VB.NET; J2EE.

Capital One Bank - Richmond, VA with Aayan Tech Solutions LLC.

QA Analyst: Dec 2013 - Nov 2014

Project Description: Capital One Bank is a fully web based application and the project was the Commercial Loan Origination (CLO). The Commercial Loan Origination (CLO) project supports the Automated Financial Systems (AFS). The Commercial Loan Origination lender-servicing module created by AFS. The goal of the project was to test the system electronically and maintain all the payment systems and inquiry functionality along with additional customizable administrative processes.

Responsibilities:

Involved in requirements gathering sessions with client end users to get understanding and prospective of client’s business model along with creating a test plan for functional and integration testing phase.

Prepared MS Excel sheets for requirements and design steps to export to HP ALM.

Converted requirements to tests and created templates in HP ALM for the common steps.

Generated daily script and defects reports via HP ALM used for daily UAT call and overall testing review.

Performed backend testing of the system by writing and executing SQL queries.

Used Informatica to load source file records into database and monitor the ETL loading.

Executed batch processing and verify the jobs status and data in database tables.

Generated UFT scripts with standard, text, bitmap, table checkpoints and also synchronization points.

Managed defects from submission through resolution with vendors, system analysts, QA and client development teams.

Provided statistical reports on QA testing and defects resolution progress on a weekly basis to stakeholders and management.

Environment: HPALM; UFT/QTP; VBScript; MS SQL Server; HTML; XML; Windows; Unix; MS Office; SOAP UI; ETL/Informatica; Java.

United States of Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) - Washington, DC with Aayan Tech Solutions LLC.

QA Automation Engineer: Jan 2012-Nov 2013

Project Description: The Electronic Data Exchange & Evaluation System (EXES) is designed under the direction of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). EXES will use the Electronic Data Deliverable (EDD) to assess the analytical data provided and send the Data Assessment results to CLP laboratories and USEPA Regions. EXES operates in a Web-based environment and the goal of the project is to test the analytical data review/validation guidelines, providing the user with full data assessment results and check all the system functionality.

Responsibilities:

Generated Test Scripts as per system, architecture and data synchronization requirements.

Prepared the Manual Test cases and reviewed the test cases.

Performed UAT, GUI, Sanity, Functional, System, Regression, Smoke and Back-end testing.

Created Test Cases in HP Quality Center, mapped test cases to requirements using requirements coverage, maintained test cases and reports in Quality Center.

Investigated and reported software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues using Quality Center.

Created SQL queries for backend testing and data integrity testing.

Performed Integration testing, system testing and regression testing using QTP.

Parameterized QTP scripts using varied, controlled test input values.

Performed test case execution using a Keyword Driven Framework with QTP.

Generated Weekly Status Reports to the team manager and participated in the weekly status meeting

Environment: HP Quality Center (QC); QTP; Windows; Unix; MS SQL Server; Java; J2EE; VBScript; VB.Net; HTML; XML.

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