Tawfik Ahmed
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
Over 7 Plus years of hands-on experience in Software Quality Assurance and diversified experience in Automated, Manual, Functional, Performance testing of Web and Client/Server applications on UNIX /Windows environment. Self-motivated, organized, passionate and detailed oriented with extensive business acumen of governance, technology, problem-solving, design, and delivery in implementing the strategic quality assurance testing mechanisms.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
QA Tester
Criterion (Cherokee Federal)
New York
01.2023 - 02.2025
- Attended and led Kick-Off meetings, Project Planning meetings, daily stand up and other application related training, reviewed and edited requirements and test cases
- Demoed all latest bug fixes and new updates to client for approval
- Helped Managers with maintaining Quality Assurance related standards
- Attended Defect triage meetings and interacted with developers regularly to ensure that defects were resolved
- Analyzed and dissected system requirements and technical specifications to create and execute test cases for large business initiatives
- Gathered requirements from the customer and prepared requirement documentation
- Developed and enhanced requirement documentation, processes, and systems in full detail
- Worked closely with Software Developers to develop and execute thorough Test Suites in all phases of the Software Development Cycle (design, code, source control, quality assurance, test, and deployment)
- Worked directly with the customer to ensure that all requirements were clearly met
- Supported back-end testing of the software: extracting data from external sources, processing the data, and testing the data by writing SQL queries using PG Admin
- Conducted UAT Testing, defect tracking, & writing stories, in ZenHub/Jira showing acceptance Criteria/definition of task being complete
QA Tester
MUFG Bank of Tokyo
New Jersey City
06.2021 - 11.2022
- Company Overview: Financial, Audit, risk management
- Analyzed Financial and technical Documents such as TDD, BRD for mortgage applications
- Attended and led Kick-Off meetings, Project Planning meetings, daily stand up and other application related training, reviewed and edited requirements and test cases
- Created backlogs and defect logs using Jira
- Used Jira And ALM to upload and manage test cases, test status, test result, test data and defects
- Helped Managers with maintaining Quality Assurance related standards
- Attended Defect triage meeting and interacting with developers regularly to ensure that defects were resolved
- Analyzed and dissected system requirements and technical specifications to create and execute test cases for large business initiatives
- Worked closely with Software Developers to develop and execute thorough Test Suites in all phases of the Software Development Cycle (design, code, source control, quality assurance, test, and deployment)
- Assisted business users in defining User Acceptance Testing, test cases and plans
- Performed black-box testing, web testing, performance testing and while working in a fast paced Agile/Scrum environment
- Worked with architectural diagrams, use cases, and business requirements, and transformed them into reusable test cases
- Wrote test cases for different test scenarios and mapping them in Traceability Matrix with different use cases
- Executed test cases for end-to-end testing for smoke, integration, regression, and sanity testing
- Worked with relational database products which includes writing SQL queries in Oracle SQL Developer to perform database testing
- Performed Web Service Testing to ensure applications can read and write data
- Worked with Automation Frameworks to run automation testing during the regression stage of the testing process
- Actively participated in walk-through, inspection, review, and user group meetings for quality assurance
- Responsible for insight into business impact, financial impact, middleware, deployment, networks, firewalls, and many other areas of QA
- Financial, Audit, risk management
QA Tester
UnitedHealth Group
New Jersey City
01.2021 - 06.2021
- Collaborated with a team of engineers, and other QA testers to be solely responsible for testing, and signing off on all programming/code changes for the system before changes are implemented into the Production/Live environment
- Interacted with Business analysts and Developers to understand the requirements, application functionality and navigation flow
- Developed test cases, test data, and test matrix based on the project documents
- Used HP ALM to upload, manage and track test cases, test status, test result, test data and defects
- Automated data-driven tests by integrating external data sources (Excel/CSV), improving test coverage and validating application behavior with various input data sets
- Used coding language such as VBscripting to create Record and Playback, Data Driven, and Hybrid Drive Automation Scripts
- Utilized QTP/UFT to automate functional, regression, and smoke tests, improving testing efficiency and reliability
- Created and managed Object Repositories to identify and interact with application objects during test executions
- Worked with Relational database products which includes writing SQL queries in Oracle SQL Developer to perform database testing
- Performed Manual and Automated Cross Browser testing on different devices and operating systems
- Reported and analyzed the defects and categorized them based on the severity level
- Attended Defect triage meeting and interacted with developers regularly to ensure that defects were resolved
- Developed and Ran SQL queries on Oracle 10g to perform database/back-end testing
- Created, maintained, and updated regression testing suites upon receiving new builds
- Coordinated with onsite and offshore team members, and kept QA Manager updated on the testing progress
- Ensured all the functionalities of the software meet the highest quality possible, by following industry recognized QA methodologies, and best practices
- Provided status at the Daily Stand-up meeting, including sending daily status reports via e-mail and Jira
- Studied and Analyzed System Design Documents, Technical Spec, Wireframes and Use Cases
QA Engineer
HOBSONS
Arlington, VA
07.2017 - 12.2020
- Company Overview: Education, Publishing
- Actively participated in all phases of SDLC (verification to Validation) and QA life Cycle
- Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and UserRequirement Document (URD)
- Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases/Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both Positive and Negative Testing requirements
- Authored story narratives, functional and non-functional system requirements, and change requests
- Performed Manual Testing on web-based, client-server and mobile applications (iOS and Android platforms)
- Developed Automated Test Scripts through Descriptive Programming (using conditional statements, loops, user defined functions, function library), and data driven testing which applies the Business rules to validate the components displayed on the website
- Conducted front-end, back-end, Functional, Regression, Black box, cross-browsers, and System Testing in Agile/Scrum
- Prepared Traceability Matrix for Test Coverage and review
- Performed Web Service Testing and validated XML variables
- Created Vuser Scripts using VuGen and Used Controller to generate and execute Load Runner Scenarios
- Simulated multiple Vusers scenarios
- Defined Rendezvous points to create intense load on the server, and thereby measured the server performance under load testing
- Involved in Performance Testing to simulate a process and observed the behavior of the system by using LoadRunner
- Created scenarios and set up monitors including Oracle Database monitor, Web Resources monitor, UNIX Resource monitor, IIS web server monitor etc
- Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope, Gap Analysis, Risk, Dependency, and Constraints
- Education, Publishing
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Information Technology Management, Bachelor's in Science
Western Governor University
Skills
- Manual testing
- Automated testing
- Test Plans
- Test cases
- Test scripts
- Use Cases
- Requirements documents
- Functional specification
- Detailed Design Documents
- General Design Documents
- Wireframes
- Backlogs
- Test/QA activities
- Test strategy documents
- Software design
- System development life cycle (SDLC)
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Cross-functional collaboration
- IOS
- Android
- Xcode
- SDK
- Simulator
- Adobe InDesign
- I-Funbox
- Content Viewer
- Smoke Testing
- Black Box Testing
- Functional Testing
- UI Testing
- Database Testing
- End to End testing
- Integration Testing
- Security Testing
- Regression Testing
- Web Service Testing
- Browser Compatibility
- Load Testing
- Performance Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- Automation tools
- Selenium WebDriver
- Load Runner
- ALM/Quality Center
- Postman
- Jenkins
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Development
- GitHub
- Version control
- SQL
- PL/SQL
- Front-end web user interfaces
- Backend SQL
Clearance
Public Trust Clearance
Timeline
QA Tester
Criterion (Cherokee Federal)
01.2023 - 02.2025
QA Tester
MUFG Bank of Tokyo
06.2021 - 11.2022
QA Tester
UnitedHealth Group
01.2021 - 06.2021
QA Engineer
HOBSONS
07.2017 - 12.2020
Bachelor's Degree - Information Technology Management, Bachelor's in Science
Western Governor University