Riyadh Saleem

• Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test suite with over 6000-8000 test cases for entire team of 40-50.
• Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks with well-organized sprints to complete releases.

• Monitored resolution of bugs - pushed back defects for “Must Fix”, diluting discordant views by having constructive discussion and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
• Designed and documented exhaustive test plans with risks and mitigations for projects using cogent testing methods, conduct and receive sign-off discussion with cross QA teams, QAM’s, PM, TPM’s at the same time incorporating delivery timelines into planning of testing schedules.
• Evaluated functional compliance of the product's features against BRD(Business Requirement Document).
• Collaborated with developers, cross functional teams and PM's (product managers) to stay current on product features and intended functionality.

• Assessed application patches and updates at development, testing and quality assurance stages.
• Fabricated meticulous test coverage to the test suite centered on the BRD and maintain the test suite accuracy at all times inculcating any changes made to the initial design.
• Collaborated with Sr. QA Engineers to establish, meet and maintain quality assurance thresholds based on best-practices.
• Completed pre-implementation testing(Beta) for new system modifications to assess potential impacts that can flow in from the customer.
• Tracked, prioritized and organized defects databases through JIRA, worked with development team to facilitate timely corrections.

Created automated scripts for field modifications in testrail through API which seamlessly modifies 1000’s of tests within minutes.

• Endowed a functional workaround solution using dev tools in FireOS which unblocked 30 tests as automatable that were previously marked as Manual-Only tests.

• Created 50+ accurate and successful test scripts using Mrmeeseeks(int. framework)to manage automated testing of certain and features.
• Performed Stress, Functional, Regression and Beta tests on modules and full software implementations for more than 5 programs/products per year.
• Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Performed the role of a release owner for multiple software releases of launched products and individual product launches for a testing team of 35-40 members.
• Managed team of 30-40 members, including hiring, reverse shadowing hiring and training.
• Delivered executive level updates on Quality status to the stakeholders (QAMs, TPMs, Dev Managers, etc).
• Active participant in daily Defect triaging sessions with QA and Dev teams.
• Participated in brainstorming sessions for continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.

• Conducted Retrospective analysis for Software releases and draw contingency plan for future releases.
• Conduct weekly brainstorming sessions to improve the Defect quality and defect throughput by the team.
• Reviewed test plans to improve reliability and avert redundancy.
• Performed failure analysis to determine root causes of quality misses and defect leakage.

• Expanding, optimizing and executing test cases for software builds on kindle and FireOS platform.
• Prepared and shared reports of Regression, BAT, Sanity testing to leads.

• Established strong working relationships with stakeholders and peers.
• Performed Focused area testing, and performance testing.
• Holding periodic KT session for any new features to the team of 8.

• Tracked test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies.
Performed test execution audit and flag Non-Compliance tickets.

• Mentored junior peers, offering instruction on testing parameters and other procedural team practices.

• Performed BAT, Regression, Smoke, Ad-hoc, and monkey testing.
• Rewarded as the top defect filer thrice in a year (2015) with highest fix ratio and was counseled to draw a Defect template for a 45-member team.