Asif Hamz

Background

About Asif Hamz

Experience with Requirement Analysis, Requirement Gathering as well as in creating Test Plans, Test Cases Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle (DLC), Agile and Scrum methodologies. • Solid experience in Agile SCRUM environment and well acquainted with agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective and Daily stand-ups • Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Black-Box Testing, Positive/Negative Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Cross Browser/Cross Platform Testing within the UI, Database and API layers of the web applications. • Comprehensive knowledge of Defect Life Cycle, starting from executing Test Cases, identifying Defects, logging Defects and Verification of bug fixes utilizing industry standard tools like Jira. Ability to create Requirement Traceability Matrix between requirements and test cases to ensure high Test Coverage. • Strong experience in Java programming using OOPs concepts, collections, exceptions handling and other core principles. • Extensive expertise in building test automation frameworks from scratch using Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Test Driven Development (TDD), Page Object Model (POM), Data Driven and Hybrid approaches using the latest open-source tools including Java, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, Maven, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, JDBC, Postman, Rest Assured. • Solid experience of implementing BDD using Gherkin language and Cucumber tool, creating scenarios in feature files, step definitions, test runners etc. • Experience in cross browser and parallel test execution using Selenium WebDriver. • Experience in using testing frameworks like JUnit, TestNG, and good knowledge in configuring the test suites in testng.xml file. Experience in using build tools like Maven and configuring pom.xml. • Deep understanding of the frontend languages like HTML, CSS, and JS to read and analyze Web Elements and create custom and robust XPath and CSS locators to handle dynamic elements on the page. • Solid knowledge of Web API concepts like HTTP, REST, SOAP, XML, JSON and authentication schemes, extensive experience in testing REST API endpoints using Postman, Swagger, Curl, Rest Assured by sending HTTP requests GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH and validating the response.