Shaikh W.

Shaikh W.

Senior QA Engineer

Skokie, IL, United States of America
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About Me

I am an experienced QA Engineer driving and managing the delivery of thoroughly tested .NET web applications and lightweight NodeJS applications for clients. I have 8+ years of hands-on expertise in the use of Selenium WebDriver, UIAutomation (for WCF applications), Perfecto (for iOS apps), NUnit, XUnit, etc. - contributing concepts, methods, and techniques for the implementation of complex systems and evangelizing best practices on test strategies using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior QA Engineer
2020 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Delivers CI/CD as part of an agile team in improving performance by automating and streamlining operations and processes.

  • Helps build and improve infrastructure, application and performance development and ensures tight security including data encryption, security groups, and environment scanning.

  • Ensures high-quality deliverables and implements QA and security best practices in fast-paced environments.

True Group Inc
True Group Inc
Senior .SDET Consultant
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Oak Brook, IL, United States
  • Defined and implemented QA principles and best practices for the validation of different processes on varying test infrastructure; establishing processes and tools to maintain solutions.

  • Led a team to build out a robust manual for QA processes on tasks and developed and an automation regression suite; providing tremendous experience for clients.

  • Developed expertise for the monitoring, managing, and reporting of complex problems and bugs on different applications; reporting performance metrics to the appropriate team for redress.

DMD Marketing
DMD Marketing
Lead Consultant
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
Rosemont, IL, United States
  • Worked with the VP of engineering to establish and ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle of projects; handling post-release/post-implementation tests.

  • Executed different tools/solutions for automation on projects; managing unit/API tests and maintaining documentation of testing life cycle activities.

  • Reviewed technical requirements, specifications, and design documents for different test activities; creating detailed test plans/test cases.

Celergo
Celergo
Senior Software Engineer (in Testing)
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Rosemont, IL, United States
  • Set up and conducted quality tests for a new product with a CMS tool using AEM in support of the quality assurance processes on the project.

  • Developed test plans and performed testing against test cases on each feature of the product and executed a regression suite to identify errors and bugs.

  • Created a Mindmap of the CMS tool; enhancing development processes and covering UAT per the project manager's requests.

Paynet
Paynet
QA Engineer
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Skokie, IL, United States
  • Reviewed the quality specification and testing strategy for data manupliation in building an automation regression suite using Postman and UFT for Paynet.

  • Built out and validated well-structured matrixes with various test data and a global variable for use in API automation frameworks in both Postman and UFT.

  • Identified, recorded, and thoroughly documented defects on the project; tracking quality assurance metrics and KPIs such as defect densities and defect counts.

Ocius
Ocius
QA Engineer
2013 - 2015 (2 years)
Chicago, IL, United States
  • Defined, implemented and executed tools to improve the overall quality and test coverage of QA processes on all supported platforms and languages on projects.

  • Acted as a subject matter expert in the use of different browser stacks for all browser testing and mobile testing on Android and iOS.

  • Wrote test plans and cases for the project's test case management system to handle coverage and bug defect tracking with links to each user story.

Quantum Group
Quantum Group
QA Analyst
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
Morton Groove, IL, United States
  • Conducted functional, exploratory, accessibility, cross-browser and regression tests to validate test coverage for all browsers during UI testing.

  • Employed various testing tools and complied with all ADA testing protocols in driving efficiencies and accelerating the delivery of solutions on projects.

  • Read and modified application code and actively participated in application code reviews.

Portfolio

Senior QA Engineering Lead - Data Migration
Senior QA Engineering Lead - Data Migration

Created the overall blueprint for the new data migration system; developing and executing formal test plans to ensure the delivery of components on the project. Worked within different development environments and on multiple programs/systems; tracking test efforts, scheduling outage and synthesizing results for the client. Successfully hosted the data from the cloud to AWS.

Education

Education
ICAgile Automation
ICAgile
2015
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Devry University
2015