SOHAIB ASHRAF
Berlin,NJ
Summary
Quality Assurance Analyst with 10+ years of experience across federal and private sector environments, specializing in manual testing, data validation, and automation. Currently supporting a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program in a compliance-driven environment, with full ownership of the QA lifecycle including requirements analysis, test planning, UAT support, and release readiness. Strong background in SQL validation, Tableau/dashboard testing, and automation solutions including integration of testing tools within development environments.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Test Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
Remote
08.2021 - Current
- Serve as the primary QA resource, owning end-to-end QA activities across the SDLC for reporting and scheduling systems.
- Translate business requirements and JIRA stories into detailed test cases, test plans, and validation scenarios.
- Perform SQL-based data validation, ensuring accuracy of KPIs, metrics, and backend data pipelines.
- Validate Tableau dashboards, ensuring consistency between data sources and front-end reporting.
- Work with JSON/XML data structures to verify data integrity across integrated systems.
- Collaborate directly with product owners, stakeholders, and business users to clarify requirements and validate expected outcomes.
- Support and guide User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring alignment with business needs and functional expectations.
- Provide QA readiness assessments and recommendations to support UAT and production release decisions.
- Execute regression testing and maintain regression documentation and SOPs.
- Implement daily production health checks to ensure ongoing system stability and data accuracy.
- Identify, track, and communicate defects using JIRA; work closely with development teams to resolve issues.
- Perform Section 508 accessibility compliance testing on Tableau dashboards and web applications using JAWS screen reader and ANDI to identify and resolve accessibility issues prior to release.
- Validate compliance with WCAG and Section 508 standards, ensuring federal accessibility requirements are met for all VA-facing reporting tools.
- Implemented and configured Wiiisdom Ops to automate Tableau dashboard validation and regression testing.
- Integrated Wiiisdom Ops with PyCharm IDE, enabling execution and management of automated validation scripts.
- Developed automated workflows to validate data accuracy, KPI consistency, and reporting logic.
- Reduced manual testing effort and improved efficiency by automating repetitive validation tasks.
- Support a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program in a structured, compliance-driven environment (Public Trust clearance).
QA Analyst
PHH Mortgage
Mount Laurel, NJ
03.2016 - 08.2021
- Developed and executed test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for enterprise applications.
- Performed manual, regression, positive, and negative testing across multiple releases.
- Wrote and executed SQL queries to validate backend data integrity and processing logic.
- Validated data feeds and XML structures for accuracy and completeness.
- Logged and tracked defects using HP Quality Center (ALM).
- Produced test summary reports and defect reports for stakeholders and leadership.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between requirements and system functionality.
SQA Engineer
MSCI, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
06.2015 - 02.2016
- Performed manual and automation testing for web-based and client-server applications.
- Developed API-level automation scripts using C# and the NUnit framework.
- Conducted API validation using tools such as Postman.
- Executed SQL queries for data validation and integrity testing.
- Tested applications built on .NET, JavaScript, HTML, and C#.
- Maintained QA documentation and collaborated using TFS and SharePoint.
SQA Engineer
National Board of Medical Examiners
Philadelphia, PA
09.2014 - 03.2015
- Designed and executed test plans, test cases, and scripts for web-based applications.
- Performed cross-browser and multi-environment testing.
- Conducted data validation using SQL queries.
- Logged and tracked defects using ALM Quality Center and JIRA.
- Ensured traceability between requirements and test coverage.
Education
Computer Science -
Temple University
09.2008 - 05.2010
Mechanical Engineer -
Camden County College
08.2004 - 09.2007
HS Diploma -
Triton Regional High School
09.2000 - 06.2004
Skills
- Manual Testing
- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- UAT
- Test Planning
- Defect Management
- SQL (Oracle)
- Data Integrity Testing
- KPI Validation
- Tableau Testing
- Wiiisdom Ops
- Selenium
- NUnit
- JIRA
- HP ALM / Quality Center
- Visual Studio
- PyCharm
- JSON
- XML
- API Validation (Postman – prior experience)
- SDLC
- Agile
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- C#
- SQL
- Python (IDE-based scripting/automation usage)
- Section 508 Testing
- JAWS
- ANDI
- WCAG
- Stakeholder Communication
- UAT Support
- Release Readiness
- Documentation
Timeline
Test Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
08.2021 - Current
QA Analyst
PHH Mortgage
03.2016 - 08.2021
SQA Engineer
MSCI, Inc.
06.2015 - 02.2016
SQA Engineer
National Board of Medical Examiners
09.2014 - 03.2015
Computer Science -
Temple University
09.2008 - 05.2010
Mechanical Engineer -
Camden County College
08.2004 - 09.2007
HS Diploma -
Triton Regional High School
09.2000 - 06.2004