Zakkiyah Latif, Sr. QA Test Engineer

Zakkiyah Latif

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

Location
United States - Virginia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Administration and Business Administration
Experience
4 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :4 years, 10 Months

Sr. QA Test Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
  • United States
  • February 2014 to November 2015

Work closely with Product/Business Analysts and Managers to understand the product requirements and use cases in order to deliver high quality software on schedule for production releases.
•Interface with peers and management on test related topics including test plan creation and test setup/ coordination and test execution.
•Gather and analyze data in support of business cases, proposed projects, and systems requirements.
•Attend Daily stand-up meeting with SCRUM Master, Development Team, and QA Engineers.
•Work closely with Business Analyst, Project Manager and Business Owners to define Test Strategy, Gap Analysis, Risks, and Test Dependency.
•Communicate with development team and Business Analyst for functional requirement issues.
•Review requirements and specifications and provides input during requirements and specification walkthroughs.
•Design and develop Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements, technical specifications, and Use Cases.
•Conduct Functional, Integration and Regression testing during the various phases of the Development and prioritized test cases to meet project specific deadlines.
•Perform Risk Analysis based on defect severity and priority
•Execute test cases for End to End system testing.
•Write and execute SQL query to verify and validate data in the back-end database.
•Execute test case for 508 compliance testing.
•Involved in database testing by passing SQL queries and retrieving information from the database.
•Manage and execute the traceability matrix of requirements to test cases.
•Participate in various meetings to discuss Enhancement and Modification requests.
•Write custom SQL queries for data validation on back-end database, Oracle +.
•Coordinate with development team for all the issues related to deployment and defect tracking.
•Participate in defect review meetings with the team members and coordinate with project development team. .
•Experienced in developing and executing automation Regression testing and System testing using Selenium.
•Created and executed Web Service test scripts using SOAP UI tool
•Experienced in performing data driven testing to validate the components displayed on the website using Selenium
•Initiated and participated in Conference Calls, Walkthroughs and Reviews
•Create new bugs and track status of bug using JIRA
•Leverage JIRA activity history to quickly access recently opened issues, and searches.
•Use HP ALM for tracking documents and managing versions.

Environment: SVN (Subversion), Selenium, Eclipse, ALM, SOAP UI, JIRA, SharePoint, Windows, Java, Unix

Software Test Engineer at Merrill Lynch
  • United States
  • April 2010 to July 2012

Involved in gathering requirements, and preparing detailed Test Plan.
•Developed manual test scripts for functional and regression testing.
•Developed testing templates, SOP and procedures.
•Planned and managed resources and budget successfully for various projects simultaneously.
•Prepared detailed QA Project Plan using MS-Project.
•Involved in compatibility testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
•Interfaced with peers and management on test related topics including test plan creation and test setup/coordination and test execution.
•Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant functional requirement document (FRD).
•Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the
•Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
•Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression testing and participated actively in system testing and regression testing.
•Used the data driven testing and database accessing techniques to support the scripts.
•Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
•Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL statements.
•Involved in writing Test cases depending on test scenarios.

Environment: VB, C, Java, XML, Quality Center, Web Sphere, SQL Server, Windows

Software Tester at Kaiser Permanente
  • United States
  • August 2009 to March 2010

Review User and System Requirement Specification and developed Test Plan and Test Cases and Procedures.
•Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results
•Performed Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Functionality Testing, Database testing, Performance testing etc.
•Prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
•Tracked defects and facilitated defect review meetings with team leads.
•Regularly interacted with developers, business analyst and users.t
•Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
•Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression testing.
•Involved in end-to-end system testing.
•Participated in defect review meetings with the team members and monitored defect status.
•Performed Functional, Negative, Regression and Smoke Tests on the new enhancements added to the web application.
•Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity and performed Database Testing for the application.
•Managed the testing process, logged and tracked defects using Quality Center.
•Mentored junior test engineers and assist them to maintain the overall product quality.
•Attended the weekly status meetings and create notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: XML, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows XP

Education

Bachelor's degree, Administration and Business Administration
  • at Keiser University
  • January 2019

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Specialties & Skills

BUSINESS ANALYSIS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
FUNCTIONAL
HEWLETT PACKARD
MEETING FACILITATION
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
QUALITY

Languages

English
Native Speaker