Usman Ishaque Email & Phone Number

Islamabad, Pk

Islāmābād, Pakistan

Working with onshore and offshore teams to design and develop expendable test automation solutions involving functional UI, API, performance, and load testing. Responsible for defining automation testing best practices, mentoring/training of staff, overseeing the definition, selection and extension of test automation architecture, frameworks, coding standards, and Automation Testing Strategies of enterprise software platforms.Key Responsibilities:• Identifying and recommending the automated testing processes and tools• Define and publish key performance metrics for the automated testing• Provide leadership, guidance, training and mentoring to implement test automation across project teams• Define and implement test automation strategy including roadmap, tools, framework & approach across project teams• Oversee technological execution of the recommended automation solution roadmap across project teams• Participate in Design and Architectural reviews of proposed automation solutions across project teams• Evaluate and select best usage of test automation tools for different purposes• Assist engineering management team with the technical presentation of proposed automation solutions• CI / CT / BDD / TDD / API Testing / Mobile Testing / Selenium Webdriver / RestSharp / Agile

Islamabad

Representing the SQA Department on software development projects for S&P Global's products by implementing SQA practices and procedures. Leading the SQA efforts for a product managing the Internal Workflow at S&P Global. Consulting project stakeholders and enforce approved product development processes though collaboration and escalation.Responsibilities:- Design and develop automation/performance solutions that meet organization standards and build reliable, reusable and maintainable automated regression suites- Use tools and frameworks to build automation/performance scripts with quality code to simplify testing scenarios- Design and develop test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases and analyze and report test results to the teams- Work in partnership with the development teams to deliver business functionality on time with required quality that meets the acceptance criteria- Act as a test lead, planning the work of other testing staff and assigning tasks to meet project deadlines- Use strong testing skills to provide guidance and assist project staff- Review and approve the work of project team members in the writing of scripts, expected results, test results and defect descriptions- Focus on building efficient solutions for Web, Services/APIs, Database testing requirements- Participate in internal/cross team meetings, project scoping, functional reviews, test specifications, technical reviews for assigned projects in an Agile environment- Participate actively in functional, system and regression testing activities- Gather quality assurance data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions- CI / CT / BDD / TDD / API Testing / DB Testing / Mobile Testing / Selenium Webdriver / Request / Agile Tools and Technologies:Python, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio, TFS, JMeter performance automation.

Manama, Kingdom Of Bahrain

• Interact with product management, project management and development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives• Design and create test conditions to address business and technical use cases• Test Plans and Test Case Management in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 (MSTM)• Bugs reporting and management in Microsoft Team Foundation Server(TFS)• Perform Functional, Integration, Regression, Usability, Exploratory and Session based testing• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution• Agile/Scrum Environment• Support production deployment of applications and perform “validation testing” during the off-hours maintenance windows• Creating and updating documents of S/W Analysis (SRS, Flow charts, use case documents) and Maintenance phase User manuals, Demos, Trainings)

Islamabad

• Contributed to the Product Testing effort on assigned Scrum Team(s), which may (at times) include leading STEs in a small team, locally or offshore.• Represented SQA in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, and Retrospective Meetings where applicable(Agile methodology).• Delivered on assigned Scrum Team Backlog tasks which may include Test Case Development, Execution, and management of Bugs (tracking and closure) where applicable.• Contributed to the collaborative team environment and overall success of assigned Scrum Teams.• Escalated Risk and Obstacles to testing through appropriate channels. • Champion the application of, and adherence to, the Definition of Done (DOD)• Participated in requirements gathering and software specification design, to ensure testability and conformance to user interface standards.• Reviewed software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, or to mitigate risks.• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, Usability, Exploratory and Session based testing• Contributed to the deployment activities for emergency product patches and scheduled product releases

Islamabad

- Design, develop, implement and maintain risk-based software test cases and test plans, to evaluate software functionality, performance and software defects.- Work with software developers to define software validation, test strategies and plans. Assisted developers with debugging and testing their C++, and C# code.- Provide quality assessments to Management and the Project team, with corrective actions.- Participates in requirements gathering and software specification design, to ensure testability and conformance to user interface standards.- Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, or to mitigate risks.- Effectively communicated QA status and issues, and drove those issues to resolution on a regular basis.- Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates

Islamabad

• Involved in writing SRS documents of Client wise mobile, web and enterprise campaigns• Designed and Executed Test Plans, Peer review plans, Audit Plans, and Quality Assurance Plan for projects and make sure to meet the defined/estimated time lines.• Writing Test Cases to perform efficient Testing of the Functional/Non Functional Requirements of the application.• Tested software prior to its release to ensure it meets the company and users expectations• Documented and communicated fix success, failures and status updates as appropriate• Established, implemented and trained numerous standards and processes in software quality and development of various standards to while the software must conform• Performed QA of analysis/design of the requirements prepared and the modules developed• Prepared bug reports using Test Director

Bachelor Of Science In Software Engineering, Database, Quality Assurance, Oop

Higher Secondary School Certificate

Secondary School Certificate