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Ahmad Noor Ahmad

Fairfax

Summary

Having over 8 years as a Software Development Engineer In Test. Qualifications include software QA testing experience in the area of automation, performance, CI/CD, back end development and functional testing.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior SDET

Navy Federal Credit Union
11.2022 - Current

As part of NFCU Digital Engineering team, we are delivering Universal Membership Application. It is the primary digital channel through members are onboarded to NFCU.

  • Configured multiple Azure Pipelines to run automated Smoke Tests daily for different environments including development, integration and production.
  • Enhanced automated regression scenarios by creating dynamic methods and process flows that cover end-to-end test scenarios.
  • Experienced in automating front-end and back-end validations with the help of Selenium, REST and JDBC.
  • Practice Agile methodology within my team, participating in all Scrum ceremonies and code reviews.
  • Enhanced Cucumber BDD automation framework by implementing Java OOP concepts, such as POJO and Page Objects.

SDET / QA Automation Engineer

Freddie Mac
05.2019 - 10.2022

As part of a product team in CRT-Securitization, we are tasked with providing a central
location where various clients can request data elements and calculations. The team
currently has 4 microservices stood up which provide access to different data sources
and calculations derived by logical business rules and computational formulas. Along
with providing the ability to move data from one source to another and providing
preprocessed calculations.

  • Led in designing and development of Object-Oriented Cucumber BDD automation framework using Spring Boot, reducing manual testing effort by 90%,
  • Specialized in automation testing of Web-based and Client Server applications using
    Selenium, REST Assured, JDBC and Cucumber framework.
  • Integrated test automation framework into Jenkins CICD pipeline, enabling automated tests to run full scale regression on deployments in SIT and UAT environment.
  • Worked in cross-functional Agile environment, contributing in Back-End framework development, scrum master tasks and business analyst tasks.
  • Experience in developing reusable functions, methods and error handling scripts
    using Java.
  • Worked closely with Product Owner and Business Analyst by troubleshooting
    production issues and provide provided solutions to problems.
  • Exposure to database testing by creating dynamic queries to validate data against
    service.
  • Comprehensive experience in system testing, integration testing, positive/negative
    testing and regression testing.
  • Enhanced existing automation frameworks by introducing Java lambda expressions, POJO classes and Singleton instances with the help of Spring Boot library.
  • Used Java OOP concepts and Selenium Webdriver to create Cucumber BDD scenarios for validating Web UI.
  • Worked with RedHat OpenShift Container and Kibana to analyze and debug logs. Filtering out data and analyzing performance of specific transactions.
  • Exposure to database testing by creating dynamic queries to validate data against
    service.

Automation Engineer

Finra
03.2017 - 05.2019

The goal of FSF was to provide an entry pathway for new strategies, techniques and
approaches to business process. These processes and technologies support up to 40
forms, which read from Large Data Mart including New Membership Application,
Investor Complaints, Dispute Resolution, Member Regulation Desktop

  • Analyzed Business Requirement Documents to get better understanding of the
    system both on technical and business perspectives.
  • Provided demo to business and product owner of the automated test results.
  • Created Feature files and Step definitions with Gherkin language by translating
    business acceptance criteria.
  • Automated back end microservices using RestAssured and JDBC libraries using Cucumber Framework.
  • Optimized automation framework by using Java OOP concepts.
  • Cross validated UI contents and API response against database to achieve end-to-end automation.
  • Managed Jenkins pipeline for our automation framework, ensuring automated regression scenarios are running on scheduled basis.
  • Attended and contributed to all agile ceremonies.
  • Responsible for automating functional and regression scenarios using Selenium and
    Cucumber framework.

Junior QA Analyst

Carfax
02.2014 - 03.2017

Contributed in projects related to data source integration and financial systems migration for Carfax's salesforce application. Ensuring production data met business quality standards as maintenance data needed to be loaded via Carfax's ETL process.

  • Analyzed business requirement documents and functional specifications, developed
    test strategy and created test cases
  • Worked with product team for insights of project and in understanding end user's need for testing standpoint.
  • Worked with IBM database software's to develop advanced queries to fetch and compare different datasets within one or multiple tables.
  • Used Putty and Command line to manipulate, copy, delete and transfer files from one file system to another.
  • Expanded and enhanced test automation framework by converting manual test
    cases into automation with the practice of Java OOP concepts.
  • Enhanced and implemented generic UI methods to perform business process actions
    and validate UI content against database tables using JDBC library.

Education

Computer Science -

Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, VA
11.2023

Skills

Programming Language

  • Java
  • SQL
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS

Technologies

  • RedHat Openshift Container
  • Jenkins
  • IBM DB2
  • MSSQL
  • Tools
  • SpringBoot
  • Cucumber
  • JUnit
  • Maven
  • Gradle
  • Postman
  • BitBucket
  • GIT (Version Control)
  • Elastic Kibana
  • Jira

Accomplishments

  • Designed and instructed various courses related to Microservices and Automation Testing to over 100 resources within the company.
  • Took on cross-functional roles and tasks within my Agile team. Such as Scrum Master and Business Analyst while team was adjusting through resources.

Certification

Java Oracle Certified Associate 2019-05

Timeline

Senior SDET

Navy Federal Credit Union
11.2022 - Current

SDET / QA Automation Engineer

Freddie Mac
05.2019 - 10.2022

Automation Engineer

Finra
03.2017 - 05.2019

Junior QA Analyst

Carfax
02.2014 - 03.2017

Computer Science -

Northern Virginia Community College
Ahmad Noor Ahmad