Nazim Sikder

About Nazim Sikder

US Citizen, over eight (8+) years of expertise in IT industry with a focus on Software Quality Assurance and Testing in web-based and client-server-based applications as a Manual Tester and an Automated Tester. Extensive experience with all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from concept through deployment and support. Worked closely with the development team to get a thorough understanding of new product features to create test scenarios and test cases. Experienced working in various methodologies specially Waterfall and Agile Scrum development environment. Expertise in testing principles, verification and validation methodologies, defect management, quantitative approaches, risk management, and measurement programs. Extensive experience in Test Management tools like Jira, HP ALM, Zephyr, TestRail, VSTS. Analyzed user stories to create manual & automated test cases that cover a broad profile of the application. A strong ability to work closely with the development team and business analysts is required to prepare the test plans, scripts, and test cases by evaluating the Business Requirements and other ARTIFACTS. Proficient in different phases of Testing including Black Box, Functional, Integration, System, Back-end, Regression, Smoke, End to End, Ad-hoc, Exploratory, UX/UI, Usability and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Extensive experienced with writing and utilizing SQL queries using Oracle Developer against RDBMS databases such as Oracle and MS SQL Server. Proficient in using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) for automated testing of functional & regression testing. Experienced in Automation Testing including creating test scripts, various enhancements- Parameterizing, Option explicit, Regular Expression and Synchronization techniques. Perform automation testing with automation team using VB script language to develop HP QTP/ UFT automation script in descriptive ways and different concepts like if statements, For loop, and variables. Maintain automation hybrid/data driven framework and created scripts in UFT by VBScript on Web application. Proficient in multi platforms (Windows) and cross browser testing (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari). Working knowledge on JMeter tool for performance testing. Having good experience on API testing, POSTMAN, Soup UI and Ready Api.

Experience

1. Senior Software Qa Engineer

   Charles Schwab

   May 2022 — Present · Westlake, TX, US

   Regular basis assembles the task list for the following sprint in the grooming sessions for user stories, then determines the QA requirements, the expected effort for tasks, and the capacity necessary for the sprint. Join the sprint review and retrospective meetings as well. Performed API testing using Postman. Participate in daily SCRUM meetings and test every Sprint deliverable by following Agile scram approach. Write test scenarios and test cases based on user stories, change requests and functional design documents. Design all manual test cases step by step in the test plan section. Responsibilities include UI Testing, Black Box Testing, Regression, Integration, System, Functional, Exploratory, UX/UI, Usability, Smoke, Backend Testing, and User Acceptance Testing for Web-based, Windows, iOS and macOS applications Utilize JIRA to manage agile projects, namely backlogs, task boards, stories, burn-down charts, velocity, story prioritization, bug management, and work progress tracking through the dashboard. Perform Mobile Testing as needed for Black box testing of software applications (Web-based and Mobile: iOS/ Android) Perform Requirement Analysis by gathering both functional and non-functional requirements based on interactions with the process owners, document analysis and represent them in the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM). Log defects and tracked them using JIRA till its closure following the company defect life cycle. Test regression suite manually. Extensively involved with testing the front-end and online features integration with the back-end database. Conduct backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database and use SQL queries for retrieving data from Oracle database for executing user specific test cases. Write complex SQL queries using various kinds of joining and sub queries to retrieve complex data from RDBMS. Participate in defect status or triage calls.

Education

• The City University of New York

  AS in Science

  2013