Engineer Project Manager

FARAH ZAIDI

214-***-**** ***** Dawn Lane, Los Altos Hills,CA,94022 ******@*******.***

Summary

• More than 3 years of experience in manual testing and web based applications.

• Profound knowledge of SQL, XML and Product Release Process and QA goals

• Deep knowledge of creating test cases and managing bug tracking system

• Wide knowledge of quality assurance procedure, testing methodologies and development lifecycle

• Solid understanding of regression and automated unit test development along with Test Case writing

• Ability to use basic scripting commands to test batch processing and access data

• Ability to identify, isolate and document system deficiencies

• In depth knowledge of SDLC and it's various aspects like functionality, performance and integration

• Expert in test scripts development and coordinating with development team to fix bugs

Technical Skills

Testing Tool: Loadrunner, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center

Languages: Shell Scripting, HTML,VB, SQL

RDBMS: Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server.

Scripts: Visual Basic 5.0/6.0, SPSS Software.

Technologies: Object Model, Case tools, ER Model, Data Model, and ODBC.

Work Experience

New York State Education Department, NY june’10 _aug’11

Tester Engineer for New York State student data repository system

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) is seeking support for the performance of tasks, to support implementation of the New York State student data repository system, which is built on the eScholar® data warehouse and data model. The purpose of the State Repository System is to provide a single source of standardized individual records for all public school students for use at the local, regional, and State levels to improve student performance and to meet State and federal accountability requirements. The New York State Testing and Accountability Reporting Tool, or nySTART, is a website which provides authorized users with reports on New York State standardized tests administered to K-12 students

• Coordinated with developers and system engineers to fix application defects

• Responsible for maintaining updated reports on resolved bugs

• Analyze test specifications and perform manual testing

• Responsible for development and execution of detailed test plans and fixing defects

• Analyzed system requirements and document entire software testing process accordingly

• Test scenarios / Test cases / Test scripts preparation

Tools / Technologies: Load runner9.5, Quality Center10, SQL, VB script, Windows XP

New York Life Insurance Jan ’10 -May’10

Test Engineer

• Inspection and writing Test Cases manually using Excel sheet and Test Director

• Reviewed Test Case document and incorporated the changes required.

• Involved in the execution of Test Cases

• Involved in Setting Up and Maintaining the Test environment.

• Involved in reviewing the use cases and submit the comments

• Testing (Dynamic, Black Box Testing, and Static Testing)

Tools / Technologies: Load Runner 9.5, Lotus Notes, Windows, Ephox editor, Adobe Flex, XML

Fidelity Jan ’10 -May’10

Test Engineer for Fidelity Central

• Extensively involved in Functional, System and Regression testing

• Developed the Test script using Win Runner and Executing the Test Script

• Defect Tracking and Reporting•

• Developed & executed test scripts for the Personal Profile module to perform Functional Testing and User Interface Testing.

• Review of test cases and test scripts written by the team members. Participated in team reviews.

Fidelity May’09Dec’09

Test Engineer for Reporting portal

• Extensively performed functional testing using QTP to test the major functional transactions

like enrolling new customers, modifying their account options, track and modify automated collection activities and etc.

• Conducted data driven tests to verify application is responding properly for all varieties of data.

• Extensively used QTP to create tests, insert checkpoints, parameters, output values, use regular expressions, work with actions and handled unexpected events that occur during a test run.

• Extensively used Virtual User Generator to create load test scripts.

Tools / Technologies:

HTML, DHTML, Oracle, WebSphere, Windows, LoadRunner 8, QTP, Test Director 8.0

Prudential Jan‘09–April’09

Test Engineer

• Actively participated in QA reviews and requirement meetings.

• Produce test documentation such as Test Scope, Test Plan & work closely with QA project manager and monitor team progress.

• Designing the Test Architecture and the Scenarios for the Automation.

• Developing test automation strategy, scripting, test scheduling and execution, for all types of system testing including: Integration, Regression, GUI, and Functionality.

• Experience in implement QA projects, in Mercury Quality Center & generate matrices by leveraging Quality Center QA Process

Tools/ Technologies

LoadRunner, Performance Center, QTP, Quality Center, Windows, MQ SQL Server.

Education

• MS Management Information System , Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ.

Certifications

• Certificate Course in Database Administration pertaining to OCP.

• Certificate Course in networking pertaining to CCNA.

• Certificate in Database development using Object Oriented Programming with VB.NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET & SQL SERVER 2000.

• Certificate in Web page designing (HTML, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop 6.0)

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