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Nayab Younus

Bengaluru

Summary

QA Lead with 11 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance. Skilled in leading QA teams, developing test strategies, and implementing automation frameworks to enhance software quality. Adept at working in Agile environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-performance applications with minimal defects.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

OpenText
10.2018 - Current
  • Collaborate with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to define quality standards and deliverables with respect to release.
  • Designed and implemented end-to-end test automation frameworks, reducing manual testing efforts by 40% and improving overall testing efficiency.
  • Accomplishment of 1Click Automation for all the components of Current project Irrespective of Environment.
  • Accomplishment of Production Use cases Automation with Gray Logs of all stacks to have good amount of test coverage using rest assured.
  • Took initiation and completed Data Federation Automation Irrespective of region (US & EMEA) to make sure customer data across zones and taking care of delta corrections.
  • Developed reusable automation scripts using Selenium and Rest Assured, resulting in a 30% reduction in regression testing time.
  • Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Git Lab, enabling continuous testing and faster testing release cycles.
  • Taking take of Bulk Load data corrections for the customers in commercial environments.
  • Mentored team members on automation best practices, increasing team productivity by 25%.
  • Develop and implement quality assurance processes, resulting in a specific improvement of 30% reduction in defects.
  • Responsible for monitoring team members, driving them toward ownership, success, constant delivery of best quality with respect to deadlines.
  • Driving Biweekly, Quality calls and preparing necessary action reports to track customer complaints.
  • Led performance testing using JMeter initiatives with replication of production kind of peak load by identifying bottlenecks, CPU utilization, optimizing system efficiency, improving application response.
  • Conducted root cause analysis on performance issues, collaborating with developers to fine-tune database queries, API calls, and caching mechanisms.
  • Led end-to-end security testing initiatives, identifying, and mitigating vulnerabilities using Fortify & Web Inspect.
  • Implemented secure coding best practices and collaborated with developers to remediate SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, and authentication flaws.
  • Integrated SAST and DAST tools (e.g., Fortify, Web inspects) into CI/CD pipelines to automate security scans.
  • Conducted risk assessments and vulnerability management, reducing security threats with priority Critical, High, Medium.
  • Driving the QA & Productivity metrics initiative across the project to help teams achieve the organization set metrics goals. DDR effectively brought down to 10%per release.
  • Confluence tracking for IM/RFAs, retrospection learning, dashboards for automation and security scans, production deployment guidelines.
  • Documentation, Investigating, prioritize, and resolve defects, working collaboratively with software engineering teams to drive issue resolution and code quality.
  • Experience in leading defect discussions, conducting requirement and design reviews, and mentor QA team members. Have worked effectively in cross-functional teams and adapt to fast-paced, deadline-oriented projects.
  • Create quarterly project charter with well-defined weekly project trajectory as per the project specifications & requirements and ensure 100% adherence in terms of schedule, quality, efforts.
  • Brainstorm with the team to identify improvement opportunities and initiatives to further improve quality, delivery speed and productivity parameters
  • Collaborated with developers to see that all enhancements and bug fixes are documented as required and all pre-requisites are completed prior to hand-off into the change control process.
  • Managing work to meet milestones in accordance with the project plan and keep management and project managers informed of issues and status.

Senior Test Engineer

Emids Technologies Pvt Ltd
05.2017 - 09.2018
  • Analyzed system requirement specifications and develop test plans and test case to cover all the requirements.
  • Coordinated Test plan and Test script walk-through with business, developers and testers.
  • Worked of defect resolution with testing team and programmers.
  • Created, executed & reported performance scripting with JMeter against multiple product releases.
  • Worked in Agile Environment with 2–4-week sprints, daily scrum meetings, code-coverage against tests.
  • Performed Various types of testing, such as functional, smoke, regression, user acceptance, negative, end to end testing.
  • Executed and maintained automation scripts using selenium, rest assured.
  • Prepared Traceability Matrix to show the test coverage requirement vs. Test scripts
  • Experience in Core Java with OOPS concepts, written Selenium Test scripts, reusable functions and created the framework using POM Design Pattern and CRAFT framework using Test Ng & J unit.
  • Experience in working on Hybrid driven, Keyword driven and Modular driven framework architecture.
  • Experience in Implementation of Selenium Grid for Compatibility Testing on Browser Stack.

Senior Test Engineer

Test Yantra Software Solutions
11.2014 - 05.2017
  • Identified the test cases to be automated and performed data driven testing and GUI Check Points using Selenium and enhanced the overall functionality of the application.
  • Used Java with Testing, Maven plug-in for Selenium to automate test scripts.
  • Prepared Traceability Matrix to show the test coverage requirement vs. Test scripts.
  • Performed UAT, Functional testing, Regression on every build of the application.
  • Updating and executing existing Functional, Regression and System testcases.
  • Participated and Initiated meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion in order to improve the testing quality by better strategies and testing approach.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

AVRSVRCET
Nandyal
05.2012

Skills

  • Test Automation – Selenium, Rest Assured
  • Performance Testing – JMeter
  • Security Testing – DAST, WebInspect
  • API Testing – Postman, REST Assured
  • Defect Management – JIRA, Version one
  • CI/CD & DevOps – Jenkins, Git
  • Scripting & Programming – Java, SQL

Personal Information

Timeline

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

OpenText
10.2018 - Current

Senior Test Engineer

Emids Technologies Pvt Ltd
05.2017 - 09.2018

Senior Test Engineer

Test Yantra Software Solutions
11.2014 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

AVRSVRCET

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