Salman Rashid

Client: Zurich Kotak General Insurance.

Role: Associate Test Lead.

Test Strategy: Manual Testing.

Experience: 6 years.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leading a team of 10 or more testers for insurance application testing.
• Managing UAT, regression, sanity, and production validation activities.
• Coordinating with business, developers, and client stakeholders for requirement clarity and defect resolution.
• Taking stand-up calls, maintaining the leave tracker, maintaining the productivity of each resource, reviewing test cases, and enhancing skill sets by arranging cross-domain knowledge transfer.
• Preparing the test strategy, execution reports (DSR, WSR, MSR), and procuring sign-off on test cases and CR completion.
• Ensuring that bug-free and working software has been delivered.
• Streamlined testing processes to identify areas in need of improvement.
• Managed cross-functional teams, providing guidance and supervision to junior testers and ensuring proper adherence to best practices.
• Cultivated a culture of continuous improvement within the team by regularly soliciting feedback from peers and incorporating lessons learned into future work efforts.
• Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.
• Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
• Conducted risk assessments for various projects, prioritizing test efforts based on potential impact and resources available.

• Conducted root cause analysis on defects discovered during testing, enabling quick resolution and minimizing risk of future occurrences.
• Reproduced defects and documented findings.
• Streamlined testing processes for increased efficiency in identifying and resolving defects.
• Mentored junior test engineers, enhancing their skillsets and overall team performance.
• Collaborated with developers to resolve issues identified during the testing phase, resulting in a more robust final product.
• Improved software quality by designing and executing comprehensive test plans.
• Operated API testing tools such as Soap UI and POSTMAN.

• Maintained up-to-date documentation of all test plans, procedures, results, and defect tracking databases for future reference or audits.
• Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.
• Reviewed, evaluated, and identified requirements for testability.
• Collaborated with development teams to identify, reproduce, and resolve software issues promptly.
• Optimized regression testing efforts through continuous improvement of test cases and methodologies.
• Increased product reliability, conducting rigorous stress testing on new features before release.
• Contributed to cross-functional teams, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Optimized test coverage by prioritizing test cases based on risk and impact, ensuring critical areas were thoroughly vetted.

Client: Reliance General Insurance.

Role: Test Engineer.

Test Strategy: Manual testing via mobile emulator.

Experience: 3 months.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designing and executing functional test cases through the web portal and mobile application.
• Performed system testing, such as functional testing, UAT testing, Android and iOS accessibility testing, etc.
• Reporting the bugs using Excel.
• Load and performance testing.

Client: Reliance Health Insurance.

Role: Test Engineer

Test Strategy: Manual testing

Experience: 3 months.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designing and executing functional test cases through the web portal and mobile application.
• Performed system testing, such as functional, sanity, regression testing, UAT testing, accessibility testing, etc.
• Reporting the bugs using the Defect Tracking System.
• Load and performance testing.