Zakir Sayed

DevOps Engineer

Cupertino, California, United States20 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Test Automation and Quality Assurance.
  • Proficient in multiple programming languages including Python and JavaScript.
  • Strong experience in Agile methodologies and continuous integration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Test Automation Specialist with extensive experience in Quality Assurance.

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Skills

Core Skills

Test AutomationQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Python (Programming Language)XcodeProtractorJavaScriptTypeScriptMongoDBSeleniumGitJenkinsGradleTestCompleteJavaSQLXMLSelenium WebDriver

About

SQA Automation tester/ QA lead

Experience

Apple

Photos App team

Aug 2018Present · 7 yrs 7 mos · Cupertino, CA

Python (Programming Language)XcodeTest AutomationQuality Assurance

Goldman sachs

2 roles

SDET

Jul 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York, New York

QA Automation Lead

May 2015May 2016 · 1 yr · Greater New York City Area

  • Working on equities applications using Protractor and Javascript language.
  • Wrote E2E test with Protractor built on WebDriverJS which uses Jasmine framework like describe/it blocks.
  • Worked through all cycle of test specification to test deployment for pre and post release usage like monitoring and functional tests.
  • Continuous improvements done to QA framework to include Saucelabs integration, smart wait functions, drag-drop, etc functionality compatible for different browsers
  • Used etch-client for uploading and reporting the results integrated with dashboards.
  • Worked on MongoDB cross-platform document-oriented database or NoSQL database and slang script for secDB
  • Used Saucelabs to run monitoring & functional tests on different browsers and environments
  • Used fanthomJS to run headless browser test
  • Version control used: SVN, Git and CVS
  • Worked on backbone and angularJS web applications
  • Modified and executed bash script for setting up the production monitoring automated tests using procmon job.
  • Worked with CVS Train-Package-Project structure
  • Automated functional tests involving heavy HTML SVG tags for highcharts data graphs.
  • Used IntelliJ and Sublime Test for javascript development.
  • Worked in continuous integration environment. Familiar with gradle, jenkins, maven, AREA, gns.
  • Gulp was used for build and testing framework with various task and parameterizations.
  • Used docpad for documentation development using .md file.
  • Used kinit and keytabs to store a hashed password and authenticate user information for test user credentials
  • Automated cases for multiple browsers in the same test using forkNewDriverInstance.
  • Documented and build test plans to capture business requirements and implement as regression/automated tests.
  • Monitored and reviewed other team members test procedures to ensure a consistent level of quality.
  • Worked in Agile environment, task planning, scrums and status reporting. Release on every sprint.
ProtractorJavaScriptMongoDBSeleniumGitJenkins+3

Adp

Test Automation Lead

May 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Working on Automation using Protractor/Javascript/Typescript
ProtractorJavaScriptTypeScriptTest Automation

Bank of america merrill lynch

QA Developer

Jun 2014May 2015 · 11 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Worked on automation for client server and web based application for fixed assets (Bonds) line of business like TEMMS, Commercial Papers, etc

Century national insurance company

QA developer

Apr 2011Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos · North Hollywood, CA

  • Experience creating UI automation setup from scratch using Behavior (or Test) Driven Development frameworks.
  • Worked in Agile project, task planning, scrums and status reporting.
  • Performed Functional, Unit, Regression, Data driven testing, Performance, UAT and systems integration testing for both manual and automated. Extensive experience testing API and UI of web applications.
  • Performed data driven testing using Excel, SQL server, XML, JSON data types. Used Page Object Experienced writing SQL queries, insert/update statements and using relational database systems to validate test results.
  • Different Automation tools/IDE used: TestComplete 9.2 by SmartBear, SOAPUI, Selenium RC/WebDriver, etc.
  • Experience testing SOA and RESTful/SOAP XML/REST Web Services. Created entire architecture for backend testing internal and third party API using TestComplete and SOAPUI.
  • Core Java programming skills using Eclipse as IDE. Wrote automated testing code in Selenium 2.0 or WebDriver using Eclipse for functional testing including AJAX-enabled applications. Used TestNG and Junit for testing framework. Implemented the script deployment through TestNG framework in command line.
  • Used ChromeDriver, IEDriverServer to create cross browser automated tests.
  • Experience testing web-based technologies (including HTML, .NET, ASP.NET, XML, FLEX) and desktop applications. Extensively used XPATH, Regular expression and classes to perform UI actions. Exported output/reports all automated testing results.
  • Testing, prioritizing and logging bugs into Bugzilla/Sharepoint. Working closely with software development manager to fix the critical bugs.
  • Familiar with integrating other code quality tools such as code coverage, static analysis into the quality process.
  • Used Team Foundation Server 2010 for version control.
  • Actively participating in giving presentation of work at QA meetings for project demo or tutor team mates with latest QA technology and practices.

Iolo technologies, llc

Automation Engineer/Install Script Developer

Feb 2008Apr 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Developed automation framework from scratch with TestComplete and Jmeter test bed.
  • Responsible for developing the entire install script in InnoSetup for all desktop based application in Pascal.
  • Using Javascript and Finalbuilder to fully automate the build cycle and run UI automated test against that build.
  • Maintaining & optimizing existing automated test scripts for regression testing.
  • Design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems of IOLO products, which includes all localized applications in 9 different languages.
  • Experience with Data Driven testing using various data source (like CSV, XLS and SQL databases). Used methods and properties of TestComplete’s ADO and BDE program objects as well as ActiveX objects to connect to and work with databases.
  • Worked with XML files for any type of structure, using the XML DOM objects. These objects provide a COM interface to every element and attribute of the XML document.
  • Scheduling automated regression tests to run against nightly builds to get reliable daily builds.
  • Developed many in-house applications to ease release management using Visual Studio in C# language.
  • Used Apache Jmeter in performance tests for a number of software development projects. Developed base setup for license renewal through backend API and web services and successfully implemented that for 3 localized languages
  • Experience making Load Testing setup for iolo's website using TestComplete & Jmeter.
  • Trained the QA team on running Automated scripts through TestComplete and TestExecute and some basic script maintenances. Also completed successful TestComplete v7 training through Falafel Software with other QA members.
TestCompleteSeleniumJavaSQLXMLTest Automation+1

Financial software & systems (p) ltd

Software Engineer

Apr 2005Jan 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Developed acceptance test plan based on user requirement and wrote unit tests.
  • Worked on independent Module with a group of 4 to 8 developers depending upon the size of the project.
  • Designed and developed custom modules in the system to fit the academic requirements of various states.
  • Developed Functional, Technical, Design, and Test Specifications based on the Product Requirement Documents.
  • Followed SEI-CMM Level 5 guidelines to deliver quality software product.

Education

International Technological University (ITU)

Master's degree — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Terna Engineering College

BE — Industrial Electronics

Jan 2002Jan 2005

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