Aaliya Uddin Phone: (469) 443-6866

Gaithersburg MD 20877 E-mail: uddin.aaliya@gmail.com

CAREER SUMMARY
Over 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance as a QA Analyst. Well expert in both areas of manual and
automation testing (QTP) within Agile (Scrum) Methodology and Non-Agile (Waterfall and V-Model) development
environments. Expertise includes vast knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC
(Software Testing Life Cycle) Process, writing Test Plan, Test case, executing test case, defect tracking. Worked on
Client/Server and Web based applications. Currently seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst position to utilize my
skills.

STRENGTH
 Experience in Financial, Banking, Health Care, Life Insurance and Mortgage Domain.
 Expert in QA Processes, SDLC and STLC over 6 years career leading appropriate testing and delivery of
quality software, products, systems, and applications to meet business, market and customer needs.
 Exhibited leadership quality; acted as Test Lead to create a team environment where all team members
have the opportunity to add value at 100% of their potential.
 Proficient in understanding requirements, design specifications, and testing strategy to: perform risk
analysis, establish testing priorities, review testing strategy and use case, validate requirements, develop
test scenarios, write Test Plan and test cases, create RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) within Agile
(Scrum) Methodology and Non-Agile (Waterfall and V-model) development environments.
 Deciphered Business and Technical requirements and translated them into test plan and test case.
 Substantial experience in writing Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases and Test Scripts for both
QTP and Manual testing and working with overall team to meet project goals.
 Proficient in different phases of testing: Sanity, Security, Functional, Integration, System, Regression,
Black Box, UI, Retest, Accessibility, Monkey and User Acceptance, Gray box Testing.
 Experienced in working several automated testing tools with emphasis on HP/Mercury Suite Quality
Center, QTP (Quick Test Professional).
 Ability to work in Quality Center for maintaining the Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management,
and Bug reporting; excellent technical documentation and reporting skills.
 Hands on experience creating automation test scripts to improve test coverage and reduce need for manual
repetitive testing. Test case automation framework experiences include Functional Decomposition, Key
word driven, Data driven, Linear and Hybrid framework.
 Expertise in writing SQL Queries, and SQL Stored Procedure, Function, and Triggers to test effectively
Back-end/Database Testing.
 Extensive experience in creating test data in various formats (.xml, .txt, .csv)
 Competency with web application architecture and technologies, including multi-platform/browser support.
Knowledgeable in cross browser functional testing and browser plug-ins (Flash).
 Experience using virtualization products such as VMware Workstation and Oracle Virtual Box
 Proficient supporting Test Cycles, Compiling Test Status Reports, participating in Defect Status meetings,
Project Status meetings, interacting with Project Managers, Operations Teams and Engineers; consistently
identified as the critical player for project success.
 Strength in guiding the design and execution of automated and manual testing strategies to identify risks
and issues, design effective mitigation solution, and enhance the on-time delivery of quality systems.
 Provided ideas to improve the testing efforts within the organization, recognized as a creative thinker by
team members and senior management.
 Clear and concise verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

KEY SKILLS: Well versed in Software QA concepts, practices and tools (SDLC, STLC, Bug Life Cycle)
Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Pro(QTP), HP Quality Center, Toad
Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows server 2k8 /2k3/ Windows 7/ XP / Vista
Test management Tools: Test Director, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Jira, Test Manager
 SDLC: Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, V-Model and STLC
Databases: Oracle, SQL server, ETL
Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript
MS Office: Microsoft Office Suite 2012, 2010, 2007
Languages: Visual Basic, SQL, Java,.Net, Ruby, Python, J2EE
Other: Web based Application, Windows, Client Server, Mainframe, Soap UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
QA Analyst/QA Lead Blue Cross Blue Shield, Richardson TX Sep 2013-Present
Health Care Industry
 Performed as Software Quality Assurance Test Lead, assisted in designing and ensuring overall integrity of
the testing strategy. Earned reputation for meeting demanding deadlines and delivering critical solutions on
various levels of Quality Assurance stage
 Expertise in Test Project Management- test estimation, creating and managing issue log, planning,
scheduling, execution and Defect tracking.
 Experience as a Business Analyst (BA) for requirement specifications gathering and documentation.
 Analyzed business requirements for testability. Identified requirement defects, issues or conflicts. Raised
key issues, risks, define mitigating action and lead issue resolution.
 Managed and worked on multiple projects simultaneously of large size and complexity in Agile (Scrum)
and Waterfall Methodology with on-shore and off-shore team.
 Performed Security, Usability, Smoke, Functional, Accessibility, Integration, Regression, UAT and
End to End testing to verify the functionality with the new codes introduced for modification and/or
enhancement for application written in Java, Ruby, Python.
 Developed Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts as well as evaluated test results to determine compliance
with the requirements.
 Performed back-end and database testing using SQL queries.
 Extensive working experience with mainframe application.
 Used Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning
tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
 Performed Mobile testing in Android and iOS (iPhone and iPad).
 Reviewed and approved manual and automated Test Cases and test scenarios in adherence to defined
methodology. Lead discussions and initiatives in process improvement for the group.
 Created and performed maintenance of object repository using QTP.
 Worked closely with Team leads in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing tests.
 Implement improvements to current system testing processes.
 Provided leadership and mentoring to coworkers including new team members with meetings and
workshops. Recognized for creating a friendly team environment to achieve project goals.
 Worked with project managers, information architects, designers, and developers to define use cases and
business requirements.
 Communicated project status with various levels of management. Provided resource and test effort
estimation to all level of management.
 Created and executed test cases and validated the results against a set of formal requirements.
 Reviewed System, Regression, and Integration testing test cases for team member.
 Managed requirements, test Plan, test lab, and defects using Quality Center.
 Analyzed and maintained requirements, and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases
using RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix).
 Performed Peer Review for any defect found. Participated in Inspection and walkthrough meeting.
Environment: Windows 2K8, Quality Center 10, ALM 11, Mainframe Application, Ruby, Java, Lotus Notes, Deal
Interactive, SQL, VMWARE, UNIX, Snagit, Quick Test Professional, J2EE, VMware.

QA Test Engineer IBD, Plano, TX Feb 2011 to Aug 2013

Financial (mutual fund, stocks, options, futures) Industry
  Extensive knowledge on Analysis of business/functional requirements, developing Test plans, Test cases
and Test scripts as well as evaluating test results to determine compliance with test plans and established
business processes for Software Quality Assurance.
 Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement document, System requirement document and User stories
to identify the gaps in requirements.
 Experience in software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing life cycle (STLC).
 Planed, designed, executed test plans and test cases, including for iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android
Mobile, for automated test and manual test to support maintenance releases for multiple web based
applications and Client Server Application.
 Performed Functional, Regression, Retesting, Sanity, Smoke, UI, Integration, Unit, UAT and End to End
testing to verify the functionality with the new codes introduced for modification and enhancement for both
Manual and Automation Testing.
 Utilize verity techniques of problem identification, root cause analysis, issue documentation, resolution
support, and generate of the defect report by graph utilizing HP Quality Center tool.
 Used Descriptive Programming, Functions in QTP and Shared Object Repository method using Vb Scripts.
 Completion of defect Summery report on weekly basis. Conducted and attended defect calls.
 Developed a communication plan with client and project team in reporting testing progress, issues and
defects in Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall Methodology.
 Ability to interact with all levels of personnel from technical to high level executive management. Liaised
with client project stakeholders to address knowledge gaps, queries and any other such dependencies.
 Actively participated in test case automation using a structured, Functional Decomposition, Key word
driven and Hybrid framework in QTP.
 Parameterized QTP scripts for use with varied, controlled test input values (runtime-generated, user-
defined, or from data sources).
 Used Component based approach to develop Automation Scripts, to reduce the cost of maintenance and
maximize the re-use of existing test scripts.
 Implement, develop, execute and maintenance of Quick Test Pro automated tests. This includes integrating
Quick Test Pro with Quality Center to managing tests and their resources (actions, function libraries, object
repositories, recovery scenarios, and data table files).
 Experience with RDBMSs (Oracle) and demonstrated ability to write SQL statements.
 Responsible for the day-to-day and weekly status report on the progress of the testing efforts.
 Prepared test summary reports, defect analysis reports.
 Provided a systematic review process and resources to assure all products met regulatory and conformant
requirements prior to client release.
 Organized and managed team meetings to review deployment schedule, issues log and status.
Environment: QTP, Quality Center, SQL, Java, Windows 2k8, Win7, Linux. Java, Ruby, VMware.

QA Engineer Cigna, New York, NY Apr 2009-Feb 2011

Insurance Industry (Health Care/ Life Insurance)
 Actively performed manual and automation testing. Planed, designed, executed test plans and test cases
for automated test and manual test to support maintenance and releases for multiple software applications
in Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall Methodology.
 Reviewed business requirements and designs specifications for low to moderately complex changes for
completeness and testability for application written in Java, Ruby, Python..
 Experience in test case automation using functional decomposition, key word driven, data driven and
hybrid framework with QTP.
 Support project planning/execution by estimating testing time, reporting status for all testing activities, and
collaborating with the project team to ensure adherence to quality.
 Expert in writing the Test Cases and Test Plans based on the Business Requirement Document, Functional
Requirement Specifications or Use Cases.
 Analyzed requirements, and created Traceability metric between Requirements and Test Cases.
  Utilized HP Quality Center Tool for Requirement storage, Design Test case, Execution Test Case and
Reporting defect with supporting Documents of the Defect.
 Expert in documentation of the defect and maintain the defect life cycle with Quality Center.
 Inserted verification checkpoints, synchronization points, and parameterized data using QTP.
 Provided management with daily status reports.
 Performed mainframe testing for Software Quality Assurance.
 Develop automation scripts and creating automation framework using HP Quick Test Pro.
 Performed script maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations
 Creating Automation script using descriptive programming to minimizing the time.
 Used Synchronization point, Recovery Scenario to run test in QTP.
 Involved in executing SQL Queries for Data Validation, and Non Duplication Testing.
 Prepared defect reports and distribute to project team and conducted defect meetings.
 Participated in Inspection and walkthrough meeting.
Environment: Windows 2K3, UNIX, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Jira, SQL, VB Script, Oracle, Internet
Explorer, Python, VMware, Soap UI.

QA Tester Commerce Bank, New York, NY May 2008-March 2009

Banking and Mortgage Domain
 Created and executed Test cases and validated the results against a set of formal requirements.
 Used Test Director to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning
tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
 Experience in manual test execution, Defect analysis, and documentation analysis in Waterfall.
 Prepared complex Test Cases/ Scenarios using appropriate testing technique(s) and ensured sufficient test
coverage to reduce operating costs and increasing efficiency .
 Analyzed Requirement specifications document for testing eCommerce Application.
 Assisted in creating test data and maintenance, ensured readiness of test environment.
 Performed Functional, and User Acceptance testing (UAT) successfully using Manual Testing.
 Written test cases based on requirements document provided by the Business Analyst.
 Traced test cases to requirements (Updating RTM- Requirement Traceability Matrix).
 Working knowledge of programming language such as Java, Python, .Net.
 Used Test Directory for tracking the defects, and reporting defect with proven documentation.
 Scheduled and executed tests. Reported defects found during test execution through defect tracking system,
provided necessary information to reproduce the defect to arrive at a solution.
 Actively performed different method of testing Ad-hoc testing, Functional Testing, Regression testing,
Sanity testing, Smoke testing, User Acceptance testing, and Integration testing.
 Actively supported the testing team by providing the Scenario (End to End) test Script.
 Performed database testing using SQL and used SQL queries to validate the data.
 Hands on experience on ETL tools in ETL process development, testing and in maintaining ETL codes
 Created Test scripts for testing and validating the Database records using SQL Queries.
 Participated in meetings with team members regarding test procedures, test result analysis and test script.
 Provided management with daily status reports and updates on Test Plan, writing and executing Test Cases
and status report on overall project.
Environment: Test Director, Bugzilla, Window server 2k3, SQL, .Net, MS Office, Oracle, Internet Explorer,
VMware, Toad.

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts- 2007 City College, NY
Relevant Courses: Html, VB Scripting, Management and Accounting

EMPLOYABILITY STATUS: US Citizen