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Fabida Nayaz

Bengaluru

Summary

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:


  • A Seasoned professional with over 12 years of diversified experience providing Software Quality Analyst, Quality Assurance Lead, Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Assurance Sr. Engineer and testing to various domain applications in IT.
  • Providing leadership in defining Test Plan, automation methodologies and best practices for testing processes.
  • Having good experience in Automation testing using BDD-Cucumber Framework, TestNG.
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining automation test scripts and execution of the scripts.
  • Integrating automation to CI/CD pipeline and operationalized smoke tests.
  • Experience with software build management – Maven, Jenkins, Github.
  • Experience with testing tools – Cucumber, Postman, SoapUI.
  • Experience with SCRUM/Agile - User Stories, Story Tasks, JIRA, Confluence.
  • Experience in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment.
  • Performance monitoring and metrics development and reporting.
  • Generating Splunk Queries for reporting and Dashboard maintenance.
  • Production analysis of log data such as such as servers, applications, and databases, using splunk reporting.
  • Monitored CPU usage and memory utilization through Splunk dashboards.
  • Service monitoring to find the issues and spike using Grafana and report the issues.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with project teams and stakeholders.
  • Traveled to Client place during the Requirement phase and also during the UAT phase to triage the defects and guide the UAT activities.
  • Expertise in different types of testing like Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, Web service and User Acceptance Testing.
  • Involvement in Test estimation and Test strategy implementation.
  • Focused on delivering consistent and professional work for every assignment.
  • Reliable candidate ready to take on challenges using problem-solving and task prioritization skills to help team succeed.

Overview

24
years of professional experience
3
Certifications

Work History

FICO

Senior QA Engineer
1 2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Building Automation framework using TestNG, Maven, Intellij
  • Worked on Agile/Scrum Methodology involved in giving points to User Stories, Back log grooming, User story demos, attended retrospective meetings and worked on Iterations (Sprints) part of releases.
  • Developed and implemented Git integration for automated notifications using workflows.
  • Created workflows to streamline notifications for repository events.
  • Experience in Functional Testing and API testing using Postman and SOAPUI.
  • Created and executed Postman Scripts for the Web Services testing.
  • Experience with Test Automation tools such as Selenium, TestNG, Jmeter.
  • Familiar with JMeter for performance testing, enabling robust application performance evaluations.
  • Utilized Grafana to create interactive dashboards and visualizations, enabling real-time monitoring of system performance and key metrics.
  • Contributed to the development of automated test scripts and executed test cases to ensure software quality.
  • Managed software testing tasks for QA team, reviewed performance, and mentored team in software testing techniques.
  • Created and maintained comprehensive test reports to support the General Availability (GA) process.

FICO

Software Quality Assurance - Lead
04.2016 - 01.2020

Job overview

  • Traveled to Client location (T-Mobile, Seattle-USA) during the Requirement phase and also during the UAT phase to triage the defects and guide the UAT activities
  • Coordinated with the Client and BA directly to get a better insight into requirements
  • Coordinated with Project Manager to develop test plans and schedules
  • Planned, coordinated, and managed overall testing approach and strategy of the projects
  • Experienced and involved in all phases of Testing
  • Took the responsibility to prioritize the testing activities and accordingly assigning them to the team members
  • Experienced in test automation including developing test automation strategies and leading automation testing efforts
  • Experienced working with Cloud-based projects
  • Monitored defect management and reporting activities
  • Resource planning for test scripting and test execution
  • Reviewed and approved test procedures and specifications
  • Familiarity with QA automation tools and QA metrics
  • Ability to perform automated test execution
  • Evaluated performance of QA team and conducted training sessions as needed
  • Ability to recruit and supervise testing team
  • Orchestrated the Regression testing every time a new build is deployed with new features or defect fixes
  • Written SQL Queries and executed them using TOAD.

FICO

Software Quality Assurance - Engineer II
05.2013 - 04.2016

Job overview

  • Traveled to Client (KBank, Bangkok) place during the UAT phase to triage the defects and guide the UAT activities
  • Played a vital role in each and every phase of the project
  • I was a primary point of contact for any QA related activities
  • Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application
  • Participated in identifying the required Test scenarios and Test Cases
  • Worked with Development, Onsite Coordinator, Clients, and Business Analysts to ensure the Test requirements are correct and complete
  • Involved in writing and peer review of the test cases for the new enhancement
  • Involved in the review and improve test coverage
  • Defect Reporting and Tracking using Quality center
  • Involved in End-to-End Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing
  • Involved in client Meeting on a daily basis
  • Delivering the deliverables within the schedules
  • Prepared Traceability matrix.

Cognizant

QA Associate
09.2010 - 04.2013

Job overview

  • Responsible to understand the requirement and design Test Plan and designing Test Cases
  • Identified the test data required and communicated directly with the client
  • Provided QA test estimations for any new CR or Maintenance releases
  • Analyzed and identified system defects through functional, regression, and system testing
  • Experienced in developing and executing complex feature test cases, test scripts, test suites, and test plans
  • Knowledge of general QA procedures and methodologies, and software development fundamentals
  • Worked in a collaborative environment and communicated well with other departments
  • Ability to work on assigned tasks under tight time constraints
  • Preparing Daily status report and Go/No Go Report for the projects.

Cognizant

Test Analyst
09.2000 - 08.2002

Job overview

  • Responsible to understand the requirement and design Test Plan and designing Test Cases
  • Identified the test data required and communicated directly with the client
  • Provided QA test estimations for any new CR or Maintenance releases
  • Analyzed and identified system defects through functional, regression, and system testing
  • Experienced in developing and executing complex feature test cases, test scripts, test suites, and test plans
  • Knowledge of general QA procedures and methodologies, and software development fundamentals
  • Worked in a collaborative environment and communicated well with other departments
  • Ability to work on assigned tasks under tight time constraints
  • Preparing Daily status report and Go/No Go Report for the projects.

Education

Kannur University

Post Graduate-Computer Science

University Overview

Percentage: 72%

Kannur University

Bachelor's Degree-Maths & Statistics

University Overview

Percentage: 81%

Skills

Leadership and Teamwork

Certification

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification

Details

09886888338, fabida.thidil@gmail.com

Timeline

Software Quality Assurance - Lead

FICO
04.2016 - 01.2020

Software Quality Assurance - Engineer II

FICO
05.2013 - 04.2016

QA Associate

Cognizant
09.2010 - 04.2013

Test Analyst

Cognizant
09.2000 - 08.2002

Senior QA Engineer

FICO
1 2020 - Current

Kannur University

Post Graduate-Computer Science
04.2003

Kannur University

Bachelor's Degree-Maths & Statistics
04.2001
Fabida Nayaz