Anwer Saeed

2589 James Madison Cir.

Herndon, VA 20171

Ph:  678- 357- 6950

anwer_saeed@yahoo.com

 

 

Status:                      US Citizen

 

Certifications:         Certified Product Instructor (CPI) for TestSuite 7.0 (WR & TD)

                                    Certified Product Specialist (CPS) for TestSuite 7.0 (WR & TD)

                                    Certified Product Specialist (CPS) for LoadRunner 7.0 (Web)

 

Planned Certifications:     Certified Instructor (CI) for Mercury Products in Jun’ 07

 

 

Professional Training Courses

·  Practical Software Testing Methods                       (Learning Tree International)

·  Software Quality Assurance.                                   (Learning Tree International)

·  Identifying & Conforming User Requirements.      (Learning Tree International)

·  Object Oriented Analysis and Design                    (GA Tech Continue Education)

·  Testing Process and Methodology                         (Capital One Financial)

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    

Department Of Justice, Washington, DC

QA Performance Lead Consultant                                                        11/03 – Present

·  Responsible for creating automated scripts using WinRunner 8.2 for multiple applications including Office of Domestic Preparedness (ODP), Grant Management System (GMS), and SF269, Closeouts, GANs etc.

·  Responsible for designing and scripting automated scripts for load and stress testing using LR 8.0 so that performance and scalability of multiple systems can be analyzed before production deployment.

·  Improved the testing process of testing department where testing is thorough and robust and saving the department 31% of the total budget.

·  Train new and old employees for Mercury Interactive tools including WinRunner, LoadRunner and Test Director so that the whole team has complete understanding of standard and procedures of multiple test suites.

 

 

Capital One Financial, Richmond, VA

QA Performance Lead Consultant                                                             12/02 – 11/03

·  Responsible for creating a baseline and executing performance and endurance testing of Internet Account Acquisition (IAA) project to compare two versions of the web based applications for Transaction Response Time for business critical transactions.

·  Responsible for analyzing the requirements, designing, debugging, execution and generating reports for Pony Express Phase 2 project. This project was performance tested using Citrix and Oracle 2 tier protocols.

·   Responsible for analysis, creating test plans and test scripts for Global One application created by PeopleSoft 8.4.

·  Responsible for creating automated performance scripts for load testing using LoadRunner 7.6 / 7.8 to testing the performance of web server (Web Logic 5.1) and application server (Tuxedo 6.5).

·  Responsible for creating automated scripts to run against Oracle Database ver. 8.18.08.

·  Responsible for creating and maintaining the regression suite for Global One projects for regression of new releases.

·  Create a master test plan template so that the team can follow the same standards and procedures for all the incoming projects

·  Setup a formal process where team can log the bugs that were found during functional / regression testing.

·  Mentor the team for the best practices of automation including regression and performance testing.

·  Setup the testing lab for both regression and Performance testing projects

·  Responsible for updating and maintaining the Test Director for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle.

·  Responsible for the training and education of other team members so that they are better able to handle the projects

 

Circuit City, Richmond, VA

QA Lead Consultant                                                                                      05/02 – 12/02

·  Responsible for setting up the Test Director for “Magellan” project so that manual and automated test cases can be saved in a central repository.

·  Responsible for a basic and advanced Test Suite 7.2 training so that the team members are more productive.

·  Responsible for reviewing the requirements for a new application “virtual wedge” (An in house product to replace the hardware).

·  Responsible for writing the system test plan and review them with other teams involved in the project.

·   Responsible for writing test cases to test the requirements for both positive and negative scenarios for all the peripherals in store including bar code scanner, magnetic ink character recognition, magnetic stripe reader, printer, signature capture pad and cash register.

·  Responsible for writing the implementation plans so that the new hardware and software can be introduced in the store for field-testing.

·  Reviewed the plans written with different teams of the organization to update them based on their feedback.

·  Conducted some basic training classes for the full time employees to explain them the automation strategies and the best practices for future maintenance.

·  Installed the automated tools in the lab and customize the machines to meet the testing requirements.

·  Design a regression testing lab from layout till completion, including ordering of hardware, software, setting up a standard image for the machines for easy installation for future enhancements in the lab.

 

Capital One Corp., Richmond, VA

QA Lead Engineer                                                                                          08/01 – 05/02           

·  Responsible for managing multiple projects in a fast paced environment.

·  Responsible for creating GUI Vusers for Citrix Server/Client environment.

·  Configured the Citrix server and clients to perform load testing.

·  Created scenarios and executed load testing on Citrix server to find out the capacity of Citrix server.

·  Analyze the results and created reports for the management about Citrix capacity with multiple processor servers.

·  Responsible for executing load testing in Client/Server environment for JAVA application to see the impacts of new changes in the application.

·  Compare results of previous version with the latest execution to investigate the performance of the application.

·  Experienced in developing and applying new QA processes and procedures, test planning and design, according to the development environment.

·  Responsible for reviewing and analyzing the Business requirements for a financial application that will help the corporation to collect more than 76 million dollars per year from delinquent accounts.

·  Responsible for writing System Test Plan, Test cases and Test scripts both for manual and automated testing using WinRunner.

·  Responsible for setting up Configuration Management and defect management tools (Rational) for a perfect history of versioning and defect tracking.

·  Responsible for mentoring different teams for the training of LoadRunner, WinRunner and TestDirector.

 

AgilQuest International, Richmond, VA

Lead WinRunner / LoadRunner Consultant                                           04/01 – 08/01           

·  Responsible for reviewing and analyzing the requirements of the new system and identifying discrepancies that can hinder System, Regression, and User Acceptance Testing.

·  Responsible for installation and maintenance of WinRunner 7.0, Test Director 7.2 (Enterprise edition), and LoadRunner 7.0.

·  Responsible for writing a System Test Plan and Test Cases for the application under development.

·  Responsible for creating automated scripts for all the critical business processes and maintaining them throughout the development phases to accommodate new functionality and other changes. Application was developed using J2EE, EJB, VB Scripting, Java Scripting, C++ with WebLogic and SQL server.

·  Mentoring and educating all the testing team members on Mercury Interactive tools so that they can use the products efficiently and productively.

·  Reporting the management about different statuses including test cases completed, new bugs found, bug fixes etc.

 

Capital One Corp., Richmond, VA

Lead WinRunner / LoadRunner Engineer                                               07/00 – 04/01           

·  Responsible for gathering requirements for different solicitations and business processes and write test cases and test scripts.

·  Planned, designed and developed a lot of automated scripts to meet the business requirements of the different solicitations.

·  Wrote and performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for different solicitations.

·  Created different automated regression suites for the critical solicitations that were developed using J2EE, EJB, JDBC, Java Scripting, C++, and Oracle.

·  Responsible for writing SQL Queries to find out that the data is correctly populated in each field.

·  Designed and developed a methodology, known as “GUI Engine” where all the GUI files are converted into access tables with column names as objects.

·  Maintained and enhanced a methodology, known as “Test Engine” where non professional can use test engine on any web application without changing any codes of automation scripts. Test Engine works along with GUI and Data Engines to create a complete database driven testing process.

·  Mentored Capital One associates in WinRunner, TestDirector, and LoadRunner, so that they can maintain the automation scripts and requirements in future.

·  Performance tested the Kmart three tiers Solicitation that includes Netscape Application Server (NAS), WebLogic, MQSeries, and Oracle database.

 

Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA

WinRunner / LoadRunner Engineer                                                          06/00 – 07/00           

·  Responsible for automating Cisco’s critical business transactions for functional testing using WinRunner.

·  Responsible for analyzing, designing and scripting Cisco’s site for load testing.

 

EqualFooting.com, Sterling, VA

Senior LoadRunner Engineer                                                                     03/00 – 06/00           

·  Responsible for analyzing, designing, and maintaining scripting for the whole website.

·  Worked closely with developers, system engineer, Cisco consultants and whole test teams to Load test equalfooting.com.

·  Responsible for retrieving server logs using Sun Solaris platform to analyze and compare them with reports.

·  Responsible for troubleshooting the slow responsive areas and work with whole developers team till response time is within acceptable limit.

·  Responsible for installing, and configuring controller and host machines so that a desired number of virtual users can be created.

·  Responsible for analyzing results, reports and charts to see response times of individual transactions with respect to whole site.

·  Responsible for configuring controller and host machines at different physical locations so that equalfooting.com can be load tested from inside and outside of firewall.

 

Mapics Inc, GA

LoadRunner/WinRunner Consultant                                                        10/99 – 02/00           

·  Responsible for creating scripts on AS/400 application and in a completely data driven environment.

·  Worked closely with Business Analyst to create data tables for different applications.

·  Created scripts and added them to the function generator so that whole team can use the same functions hence improving productivity.

·  Mentored WinRunner and Test Director, Caliber RBT applications and educated the team about WinRunner scripts.

·  Created critical business process scripts for the huge SAP application and load tested using 450 Vusers for Performance evaluation.

 

New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), NY                                                  8/99 – 10/99

LoadRunner Consultant

·  Responsible for implementing and performing load testing on ACCESS 2000, an online trading system for New York Mercantile Exchange using WinSock protocol.

·  Ran different scenarios and analyzed results to find out server and network responses and system bottlenecks.

·  Worked closely with developers and business analysts to create scripts that emulate the actual trading business process.

·  Recommended different alternates for slow response of the application

·  Reported to management about different problems and bottlenecks found in the application, database server, and network.

 

BellSouth.Net, Atlanta, GA                                                                                   12/97 – 07/99

Quality Assurance Engineer

·  Responsible for planning, developing, updating, and maintaining of Load testing scripts for BellSouth multi tiered online environment.

·  Creating and executing SQL queries to make sure that transactions are entered in Database as expected and all fields are populated correctly.

·  Responsible for testing the business rules defined at CORBA server to make sure that customers will get the right products, promotions and pricing.

·  Created automated scripts using WinRunner for checking functionality and rules defined in CORBA server using test driver programs.

·  Responsible for developing, updating, and maintenance of Load testing scenarios for BellSouth.Net PORTAL web site.

·  Responsible for maintaining and updating twelve host machines for running more than one thousand virtual users.

·  Performed extensive analysis on reports to find bottlenecks in the system and recommend the system engineers for possible remedies.

·  Collect the logs of Web Servers from UNIX Platform and store them in local machines and analyze the reports and logs.

·  Responsible for planning, design, creating and maintaining scripts for functional and regression testing using SILK Automated testing tool.

·  Responsible for testing new applications and maintaining previously developed applications for small businesses using automated testing tools.

·  Keep track of the defects found in different applications using CMVC.

 

Delta Technology, Atlanta, GA                                                                           10/96 – 12/97

Quality Assurance Analyst

·  Responsible for writing test plans and test cases for Air Operation Maintenance (AOM) portfolio.

·  Responsible for in depth testing coverage of application in UNIX, Windows 95/NT platforms.

·  Responsible for automating different applications using WinRunner, and Test Director in a multi tiered environment.

·  Responsible for updating previously written automated scripts to meet latest needs of different projects.

·  Responsible for regression and system testing of AOM projects.

·  Keep track of all the bugs found using Distributed Defect Tracking systems (DDTS).

·  Communicate with developers and other related personnel regarding bugs found during testing.

 

National Market Share, Atlanta, GA                                                                    11/95 - 10/96

Quality Assurance Analyst/Database Analyst

·  Responsible for analyzing the requirements and identifying shortcomings in them and discuss with business analyst for further clarifications.

·  Writing automated scripts using SQA Robot to convert the data from an ordinary storage to PeopleSoft Application.

·  Run the regression Suite of different test cases to verify the new functionality of the application did not create any bugs in other parts of the application.

·  Creating and executing SQL Queries to verify the newly entered data was entered correctly in the database.

·  Kept track of all the bugs found during regression and system testing.

·  Communicated with programmers to avoid any confusion about detected bugs.

 

AT&T, Sandy Springs, GA                                                                                    04/94 - 10/95

Quality Assurance Analyst

·  Tested and approved new accounting and inventory systems designed in Visual Basic 4.0.

·  Maintained records of bugs for quality improvement reports for future reference.

·  Communicated with programmers to explain bugs in the system to avoid confusion.

·  Assisted in configuring and installing of new equipment.

·  Analyzed reports for improvement in quality on monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.

 

TECHNICAL STRENGTHS

·  Proficient in using Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Unix, Sun Solaris 11, AS/400 VAX, and DOS. MS Office 2000, SQL, PL/SQL, RDBMS, Sybase, FoxPro, Silk 5.0, QA Partner 5.0, File Aid CS 2.0, Caliber RBT, ClearDDTs 4.0, PVCS, ClearQuest 5.0, Exceed 6.0, MS Project 5, Visio 5.0, MS Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++, ANSI C, Pascal, Shell Scripting, Perl, CGI, ASP, JSP.

 

EDUCATION

Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA                   Completed - 03/97

·        MS in Computer Science              GPA 3.5/4.0

 

University Of Eng. & Technology, Pakistan                                    Completed - 04/89

·         BS in Mechanical Engineering     GPA 3.53/4.0