Fahad al-Ahdal

About Fahad al-Ahdal

Over 18 years of professional experience in Information Technology in which 8 years of Software Quality and 1 year as a Business Analysis.• Extensively involved in testing software applications and reporting defects.• Experience in developing and executing Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases using manual/Automated testing using Selenium, QTP/UFT based on the Functional documents and Business requirements.• Experience in different types of testing like Smoke/Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Black Box Testing, Database Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).• Excellent understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)• Strong experience of STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle), Bug or Defect Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies.• Experience with SCRUM and Kanban Agile Methodology.• Comfortable with working on tools like Test Director, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Target Process, Team Foundation Server, Selenium, QTP/UFT.• Creating Automation Scripts using Java, C#(Selenium) and VB Scripting(QTP/UFT).• Experience with SQL Server• Working knowledge in UNIX/Linux operating systems.• Hands on experience with PC Applications mainly MS Office (Word, Power Point, Excel, Access, Outlook).• Adequate public speaking, presentational skills and report writing capabilities.• Good analytical capabilities with well-grounded data analysis and inferential skills.• Able to plan and manage time effectively in order to meet deadlines and ability to perform under tight schedule.• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and always try to float ideas.

Experience

1. Senior Quality Assurance and Selenium Automation Engineer

   Insperity

   Sep 2016 — Present

   Participates as an active member of the Scrum team to ensure quality is built in to products and services.•Provides input into design, software development, software integration testing, and release of the final product.•Assists in scope definition and develops accurate level-of-effort estimates for new, remediation, and refactoring work.•Provides direction and mentoring to engineers, analysts, product management and business leaders as it relates to the quality of software delivery.•Develops documents test plans and cases based on software requirements and technical specifications and appropriately prioritizes testing tasks and test cases.•Performs black box and integration testing to ensure end-to-end scenarios meet overall business requirements.•Collaborates with business stakeholders to execute exploratory tests.•Documents accurately and clearly all actual results compared to expected results.•Provides metrics and status reporting as necessary.•Configures test environments to ensure broad testing coverage.•Performs weekly and on-demand software testing cycles during business hours and off-hours to multiple environments and communicates results to management and project stakeholders.•Participates in automation, load and performance testing projects.•Responsible for the creation, execution and maintenance of automated scripts, tracking / reporting results, troubleshooting and coordinating defect resolution. •Develop concise and easy to maintain test scripts that can be reused across a sub-system or feature.•Design and create test scripts using Java/C# and Selenium to address areas such as regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability in preparation for implementation or deployment.•Work with the QA Team to define test process and strategy associated with automation.•Increase Test coverage, improve and automate Test strategies and software configurations during system testing.

Education

• Usman Institute of Technology

  Master's degree, M.E Telecommunication

  2006 — 2009

• Usman Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's degree, B.E Electronics

  2002 — 2005

Skills

• Customer Service
• Testing
• Sharepoint
• Visual Basic
• Integration
• Marketing
• Manual Testing
• Xml
• System Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Regression Testing
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Qtp/Utf Automation Testing
• Requirements Analysis
• Quality Assurance
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
• Test Automation
• Loadrunner
• Visual Studio
• Integration Testing
• Defect Tracking
• Hp Quality Center
• Scrum
• Unix
• Test Planning
• Test Strategy
• .net Framework
• Operating Systems
• Sql
• Linux
• Software Documentation
• Bugzilla
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Team Foundation Server (Tfs)
• Hp Quicktest Professional (Qtp)
• Leadership
• Databases
• Vbscript