Niaz Zaman PMP, MBA, CSM, ITIL V3

Test Lead at Red Cedar Consultancy, LLC
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Herndon, Virginia, United States, US

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Mir Z. A.

In my experience of managing several large IT projects, Niaz stands as one of the best QC analysts I have ever worked with. His ability to dig through the code and identify complex scenarios for testing is unique and very impressive. I recall on a short fuse SOA project, Niaz spent several sleepless nights testing and coming back to work with a smile; his pleasant personality, polite demeanor combined with strong technical acumen make him an instant hit with the rest of the team.

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I have had the opportunity to work with Niaz very closely on several projects. Niaz is a astute and detail oriented quality expert. He was instrumental in uncovering several hard to find bugs in our product as an individual as well as QA Team Lead/SME by managing his team of QA Analysts. I am convinced that Niaz will be an invaluable asset for any software quality assurance team effort.

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Credentials

  • Certified SAFe 5 Architect
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
    Oct, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
    Feb, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite 11g Certified Implementation Specialist
    Oracle
    Aug, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • Scrum Master Certified
    SCRUMstudy
    Jun, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (ITILF)
    EXIN
    Jun, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • MongoDB for DBAs
    10gen
    Mar, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • IBM Certified SOA Associate
    IBM
    Aug, 2010
    - Nov, 2024
  • Accredited Integration Specialist
    HP
    Dec, 2008
    - Nov, 2024
  • Oracle Database SQL Certified Expert
    Oracle
    Sep, 2007
    - Nov, 2024
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)®
    Project Management Institute
    Oct, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)®
    Project Management Institute
    Oct, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Apr, 2021
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Test Lead
      • Sep 2021 - Present

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Test Engineer IV
      • Jan 2016 - Present

    • Software Engineer
      • Jan 2017 - Present

    • Test Engineer III
      • Jul 2019 - Nov 2020

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • QA/BA
      • Oct 2016 - Dec 2016

      Worked with Virtual Business Center (VBC) from Minority Business Development Center (MBDA), which is a part of Department of Commerce. VBC is a product and service based platform where MBEs will come to get help with their Capital, Contracting, Financial and other types of needs.• Worked as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements.• Determined operational objectives by studying business functions• Contacted vendors to get the product specifications• Come up with specific comparison criteria • Tested products to make sure they meet the specific criteria

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • QA Manager
      • 2014 - 2016

      - Define and specify the implementation of standards, methods, and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision, accuracy, and reliability of products and deliverables. - Oversee the validity of results, accuracy, reliability, and conformance to established software QA standards- Have overall responsibility for the development of program/project Software Quality Assurance Plan and the implementation of procedures that conforms to the requirements of the contract.- Conduct audits and review/analyze data and documentation.- Provide guidance and subject matter expertise to developers on testing and Quality Assurance (QA)

    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • QA Architect
      • 2010 - Apr 2014

      Responsible for Test Strategy formulation. The foremost Technical Authority and is responsible for the overall Quality of deliverables across all parameters, both functional and non-functional including performance, security, usability. Responsible for design & development of the Test Automation framework / harness and any in-house tools required. Worked with Selenium WebDriver to validate UI components (using element locators and WebDriver Methods) for a project. Used Eclipse to modify existing Selenium codes in Java. Used XPath and DOM to work with dynamic and static objects in Selenium. Performed Data driven testing using Selenium and TestNG functions which reads data from property files. Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and SQL Databases. Automated test cases using Cucumber with BDD approach.

    • Big Data Analyst
      • Jan 2012 - Mar 2012

      Collaborated with stakeholders and verified source-to-target data mapping, design and review. Tested each part of MapReduce where it parses the raw data, populated staging tables, imported data using Sqoop and stored the data in HBase. Created HIVE queries as needed for testing.

    • Senior QC Analyst/Lead/ SME for SOA
      • 2008 - 2012

      • Worked with QA Manager to evaluate and adopt automated testing tools and configuration management tools. • Worked with IV&V testers and the customer to investigate problems reported during IV&V. • Ensured compliance to CMMI Level 3 and ISO 9001:2000 standards, and performed audits against processes and artifacts. • Researched and implemented testing techniques associated with Section 508 Compliance guidelines. • Created automation plan and timeline along with how to use those tools for regression testing. • Performed load and stress testing of applications. • Ran WebInspect to find security vulnerabilities. • Prepared and conducted training sessions for the QC/BA/Dev personnel to support development and automated code testing efforts.

    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • QA Architect/Lead/Release Manager
      • 2012 - 2014

      • Served as Release manager and QA architect for EDRM (Enterprise Data Repository Management) project, which has the largest application scope among the Public Buildings Service (PBS) applications in the company.  As the application managed Oracle Business Intelligence for Govt. Agency users all over the USA, the quality control team needed a constant watch on quality and performance. Responsibilities included hiring qualified personnel for QC and BA; developing test methodologies; and training new hires on OBIEE, Data Model and current Extract, and Transform and Load (ETL). Conducted resource scheduling, delivery management, configuration management coordination and helping user Acceptance Test (UAT) and Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V).

    • Senior QA analyst
      • Jan 2005 - Feb 2008

      • Submitted defects using Rational ClearQuest as well as created defect reports, verified defect fixes and updated defect statuses. • Tested the functionality of GUI using QTP and Rational Robot. Used shell scripting to call up data files in order to perform data matching. • Submitted defects using Rational ClearQuest as well as created defect reports, verified defect fixes and updated defect statuses. • Tested the functionality of GUI using QTP and Rational Robot. Used shell scripting to call up data files in order to perform data matching.

Education

  • Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    MBA, MIS
    1999 - 2001
  • North South University
    BBA, Accounting and Finance
    1995 - 1999
  • Dhaka College
    HSC, Science
    1992 - 1994
  • Government Laboratory High School, Dhaka
    SSC, Science
    1988 - 1992

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