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Abdul Hamid Sultani

Abdul Hamid Sultani

Manassas,VA

Summary

More than 7 years of experience in Information Technology, with specializing in Software Quality Assurance Testing, proficient in testing on Client/Server and Web based applications and experience on Core Java, OOPS concepts. Experience with Payroll domain with extensive knowledge of Azure Devops, Experience and domain knowledge in Banking, Retail, E-Commerce, Insurance, Financial-Mortgage domains, and their workflow. Extensive working experience on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), its methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall Model. Proficient in using test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver/IDE/Grid to develop automation testing scripts for web and client server applications. Sound knowledge on Junit, TestNG framework for Unit testing, Maven for Project building Experience in the development of Data driven and Hybrid Automation frameworks in Selenium. Developed Test Scripts to implement Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and features for BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber. Experienced in working on Selenium WebDriver automation script in Java for Page Object Model (POM) cross-browser testing. Used testing annotations to group the test methods and for cross-browser. Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Estimation & Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). Professional expertise in Smoke Testing, backed end Testing, Black-Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/ Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Cross Browser/ Cross Platform Testing, UI Validation, Boundary Value Testing. Quality expert with success reviewing features and assessing functionality to identify common and complex software problems. Special experience in payroll domain software illustrated throughout career accomplishments. Collaborates with cross-functional team members to enhance software package quality.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Quality Assurance Engineer

Insperity Inc
05.2022 - Current
  • Testing and Validation: Conducting thorough testing of payroll software applications to ensure accuracy, reliability, and compliance with regulatory standards
  • Tested approximately 1500 payroll validation scenarios
  • This involves both manual testing and creation and execution of automated test scripts
  • Requirement Analysis: Collaborating with stakeholders, including software developers and business analysts, to understand project requirements and translate them into test cases and scenarios
  • Test Planning and Strategy: Developing comprehensive test plans and strategies that outline the testing scope, objectives, methodologies, resources, and timelines
  • Bug Tracking and Reporting: Identifying, documenting, and tracking software defects using bug tracking systems
  • Communicating issues effectively with development teams and other stakeholders, and verifying bug fixes
  • Regression Testing: Performing regression testing to ensure that new software releases or updates do not adversely affect existing functionalities
  • Documentation: Creating and maintaining detailed documentation of test cases, test results, and testing processes to facilitate knowledge sharing and compliance with quality standards
  • Continuous Improvement: Participating in process improvement initiatives to enhance testing methodologies, tools, and efficiency, ultimately contributing to the overall quality of the payroll software
  • Collaboration and Communication: Working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and customer support, to ensure alignment on quality goals and resolve issues in a timely manner.

Test Automation Engineer

Geico Insurance
03.2018 - 03.2022
  • Involved in building automation framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, and Cucumber (BDD)
  • Developed Automation framework implementing Page Object Model, using JAVA, Selenium Web driver and Cucumber
  • Performed BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber Features, Scenarios and Step Definitions in Gherkin format
  • Experience on Core Java, OOPS concepts
  • Used MAVEN for build management, and Jenkins for Continuous Integration of the builds
  • Assessed and analyzed user stories and participated in Sprint planning, Review Sessions & Scrum Meetings and developed Test scenarios, Test cases, Test data, Test reports
  • Performed User Acceptance testing (UAT) exclusively in an agile environment
  • Used Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and cross Platforms
  • Performed UI, Functional and Regression testing using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber Maven, and Jenkins
  • Integrated Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for nightly consignment run of the Script
  • Utilized JIRA as defect tracking tool on the project
  • Examined the Business Requirements Document (BRD), designed Test cases and Test scripts for the application under examination
  • Designed the test scripts and analyzed the results in various levels of the application including integration, regression, functional and acceptance testing using Selenium
  • Implemented Regression and Smoke test execution as a discrete step of the deployment process by using Selenium WebDriver
  • Involved in preparing a report of all automation difficulties and test results for a further application using Maven
  • Delivered back end testing for data validation using SQL in Oracle and executed SQL Queries on database tables to verify the database
  • Participated in Stand-up meeting, weekly automation meeting with all other QA, weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers
  • Environment: Selenium Web Driver, Jenkins, MAVEN, Apache-POI, Cucumber (BDD), Gherkin, Oracle DB, Eclipse, XML, HTML, SQL, XPath, Windows 7, Oracle SQL Developer, MS Office suite, SDLC, STLC, XML, JSON and HTML, Windows XP, 7, 10, Browsers: Chrome, Firefox and IE and Core Java

Test Analyst

Dicks Sporting Goods
02.2015 - 05.2018
  • Developed Test Cases, Use Cases and Automation test scripts
  • Other activities included test execution report and generation in accordance with Quality Assurance best practices
  • Extensive use of descriptive programming to create effective and efficient reusable functions and maintaining them in a neat function library to be used by the team
  • Gathered requirements documents such as business requirements and design document and other related documents
  • Reviewed the Test Basis, designed and documented Test Strategies, Test Plan, Test Cases and executed test cases
  • Responsible for identifying test cases for Smoke Test, Functional and Regression Tests
  • Involved in testing the application utilizing the Scrum (Agile) methodology
  • Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes
  • Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with SQL queries from oracle database
  • Performed End-to-End testing of database to check data integrity using SQL queries
  • Assisted QA lead in documenting User Acceptance Test report and reporting defect resolution.

Education

ISTQB Certificate -

International Software Testing Qualification Board
2021

Bachelor of Arts - Kabul

Psychology University
Kabul, Afghanistan
2010

Skills

  • TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Selenium
  • JAVA, XML, SQL
  • Visual Studio, Eclipse, SQL Developer
  • TestNG, Data Driven Framework, Cucumber
  • Agile-Scrum, Waterfall
  • Azure Devops/ JIRA
  • ISTQB Certified
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Quality Assurance Strategy
  • API Testing Postman/ SOUP UI
  • Test Plan Development
  • Data Validation
  • Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
  • Test script writing
  • Manual Testing
  • Test Plans and Test Methodologies
  • Software Defect Documentation
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Scenarios and Use Cases
  • Automation knowledge

Timeline

Quality Assurance Engineer

Insperity Inc
05.2022 - Current

Test Automation Engineer

Geico Insurance
03.2018 - 03.2022

Test Analyst

Dicks Sporting Goods
02.2015 - 05.2018

ISTQB Certificate -

International Software Testing Qualification Board

Bachelor of Arts - Kabul

Psychology University
Abdul Hamid Sultani