Shahriar

Senior System Testing/QA Specialist

Ontario Government • Full-time

Jul 2025 - Mar 2026 • 8 mos

• Created comprehensive test plans and strategies leveraging Copilot, test data, test cases, and test documentation for validating complete system testing of COTS Applications known as SOR-RL • Performed manual execution of regression, functional and integration testing of non-automated test cases of both Graphical User Interface (GUI) and non-Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments • Developed an automation script using Python for simplifying a lengthy test step that have saved execution time by 80% and helped the team in enhancing daily execution by 50% • Managed defects and configured defect dashboard using OpenText ALM, managed defect review meetings • Performed accessibility testing to ensure AODA and WCAG 2.2 compliance using AXE, WAVE and NVDA • Performed ETL and data validation testing using Power Query, ensuring data integrity, consistency and accurate transformation between inspection reports and defined checklists • Organized testing efforts, managed test artifacts and project artifacts, defined test structure • Assisted automation team to update the regression test scenarios based on changes from current release • Participating actively in agile sessions such as daily standup, walkthrough sessions for release items • Collaborated closely with technical teams, product managers & owners and delivery lead in Agile team to align feature requirements, QA processes, & test coverages to ensure high-quality software delivery on time • Updated regression scenarios and execution steps by incorporating changes from recent releases and collaborated them with central automation team to update automation script • Collaborated with UAT and Product team to align testing scope and testing coverage for the release • Updated team leads on daily activities status, prepared release test execution summaries, quality metrics and knowledge transfer documentation, and supported release readiness activities

QA Automation Engineer

Shoppers Drug Mart • Full-time

Apr 2021 - Jul 2025 • 4 yrs 3 mos

• Executed automation script for Functional & Non-Functional Testing, Regression, Integration, & Accessibility Testing, recorded the results and reported them weekly to the delivery leads, troubleshooted script issues • Led testing team and finalized testing tools and environment, distributed testing workloads across team members, managed test plans and strategies to meet deadline and carried out the execution • Managed defects and defect review meetings, test cycles and test cases using Jira/Zephyr, managed test plans on Confluence, planned and led peer review of test artefacts • Developed and managed test data strategies to ensure realistic, sufficient and privacy-compliant datasets for functional, integration and regression testing • Designed, built and maintained reusable automation frameworks leveraging ChatGPT to accelerate automation script development and utilized Robot, Selenium & Playwright scripted with Python & Java • Executed SQL scripts to validate DB related test results, performed API testing using Postman & Swagger, performed cloud integration testing of web services migration to Google Cloud Platform • Designed and executed performance and load testing using JMeter/LoadRunner, analyzed performance bottlenecks and validated system scalability • Integrated automated test cases into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for nightly regression run and managed automation test branches using GitHub • Participated actively in agile sessions such as daily standup, IMP sessions, story pointing, sprint retrospective & sprint demo for completed user stories, managed Scrum and Kanban boards in Jira

Software Automation Tester

Ontario Government • Full-time

Sep 2018 - Aug 2019 • 11 mos

• Developed and automated end-to-end and regression test cases using UFT scripted in JavaScript • Reviewed Business Requirements, and Functional Design Document to develop comprehensive test cases ensuring alignment and coverage as per traceability matrices • Validated application tested are compliant with AODA & WCAG 2.1 standards using AXE • Executed test cases on HP ALM manually to ensure results are aligned with policies and regulations of FRO • Managed identified defects in the application using HP ALM, collaborated with developers and business analysts for triage and rechecked the defects once fix was delivered • Conducted API testing with Postman, verified system responses and authentication, designed and executed comprehensive test scenarios to enhance backend validation, contributing to a smoother user experience