QA Specialist

SHAZIA HUSSAIN

EMAIL: *********@*******.***

CONTACT# 630-***-****

Experience Summary

Quality Assurance Analyst with more than two years of IT experience in the areas of SQA/Software Testing, client-server applications.

Experience in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like the requirement analysis, design, development, testing and deployment to ensure Quality Assurance Control.

Experience in the Quality Assurance Life cycle (QALC) starting from creating Test Plans, Test Cases to performing different types of testing and validation.

Experience in using automated-testing tools such as Mercury Interactive Test Director, Load Runner and Win Runner.

Experience in simulating thousands of Virtual users in performance and stress testing for wide range of protocols such as Corba and SQL applications for system analysis using Load Runner.

Data validation

Experience in writing of SQL-queries/procedures for database and backend testing.

Experience in J2EE Standards (Java 2.0, EJB 2.0, JSP 1.x, Servlets, JDBC) Object Oriented Analysis and Design.

Experience in writing PL/SQL (Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursors, and Functions) and SQL statements in databases such as Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server.

Experience in Manual Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Web Testing, Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, Usability Testing, Alpha Testing, Beta Testing and User Acceptance Testing

Experience in Version Control and Configuration Management tools such as PVCS.

Experience in UNIX (HP, SCO, Solaris 2.0), Windows (NT, 2000) & Linux (Red Hat, Suse 7.x) platforms.

End-to-End, Stress, System, Beta Testing & Performance Testing.

Experience in writing Test case, Test scripts and Test plan formulation.

Excellent team spirit and leadership qualities with good communication and interpersonal skills.

An Experienced Quality Assurance Professional with Multiple skill sets and a proven record of successfully completing projects.

Computer Skills

Education

MS in Computer Science (pursuing)

Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

BS (Computer Engineering) (July’97-July’01)

Work Experience

Pampered Chef, Addison, IL (Feb '07-March 09)

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

Analyze business and system requirements, mange development of specifications to create and execute detailed test plans, and verify bug fixes.

Configure test environment and create strategy for product development and certification. Assure test data, schedule automated/manual tests. Approve results documentation and tracking systems updates.

Supervise development of SQL-queries/procedures for database and backend testing.

Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing, and generated reports.

Analyzed application, system, and security errors. Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.

Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing.

Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.

Documented complete software testing process and developed training documentation

Interacted with developers, system engineers, and testing teams to identify applications defects

Universal Information Systems, Bloomingdale, IL. (April ‘05 – Jan ’07)

QA Analyst

Claims Pricing System

Responsibilities:

Involved in preparation of Test Plans for different modules and documented test cases for various screens of the application.

Performed Business functionality testing which involved the testing of all core functions of the application.

Performed release engineering duties which included cutting new builds and installing on QA servers.

Followed black box methodologies to check the functionality.

Performed Integration testing and Regression testing with Win Runner.

Performed database testing, content testing, server side testing, Form testing, Frame testing, Usability testing of an application.

Performed database testing by using SQL queries.

Performance testing used Load Runner.

Managed change requests, including defects, enhancements, issues and documentation changes with a flexible workflow process using Test Director.

Generated reports, graphs on test cases and analyzed the performance using Test Director.

Created Test Plans and Test cases.

Keeping track of all the errors in PVCS Error Tracking System and reporting to the programming group.

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