SUMMARY

• Six years of IT Specialist experience and more than one year of Test Automation experience in testing Web based applications.
• Oracle Certified Core Java SE 8 Programmer.
• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level.
• Solid experience of Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG, Maven and Jenkins.
• In depth understanding of SDLC, STLC and Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Good exposure to Sprint Grooming and Sprint Planning sessions to analyze the Sprint Backlog items and providing proper estimates.
• Extensive experience in functional testing, smoke testing, positive, negative, and regression testing.
• Created and executed Test Cases and Test Data .
• Experience and good knowledge in various testing frameworks like Behavior - driven and Data-driven .
• Practical experience with User Story Sessions for creating User Stories with better Acceptance Criteria.
• Hands on experience in Cross Browser Compatibility Testing using Chrome, Firefox and IE.
• Proficient in Back-end Testing including writing complex SQL queries for testing data integrity and validating business rules.
• Hands on experience in testing Web Services for RESTful API testing using Java RestAssured Library and Postman
• Experience in Defect Tracking and test management using JIRA.
• Experience with Git and Github as source/version control system.
• Exposure to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Proven team player and self-starter, capable of working independently and motivating a team of professionals backed with excellent written and oral communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools/Frameworks: Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse IDE, JUnit, TestNG and GIT

Project Build Tool: Maven, Cucumber and POM (Page Object Model)

Tests Performed: Smoke, Functional, Regression and Data Driven (JDBC/Apache POI)

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery: Jenkins

Languages: JAVA, HTML, SQL(MySQL and Oracle DB)

Test Management: JIRA

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum)

Web Services: RESTful

OS / Browsers: Windows (10/7/Vista/XP), MacOS-Unix / Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Test Automation Engineer

Confidential, McLean VA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, software requirement specifications to create test cases for manual and automation testing using Selenium WebDriver.
• Responsible for developing and executing automated smoke, integration and regression test .
• Participated in daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retro meetings.
• Efficiently logged and tracked defects using JIRA .
• Used Eclipse as IDE for the creation of automation scripts.
• Involved in creation and development of Data-Driven Framework and Behavior-Driven Framework by using Page Object Model(POM) with Maven, Junit, Cucumber combination.
• Achieved Continuous Integration through Jenkins by building the framework using Maven.
• Performed Back-end testing using MySQL, Java, and JDBC.
• Used Apache POI for reading and validating the data from Excel files.
• Automated the functional testing scenarios and built the Automated Regression Suite.
• Performed RESTful API testing by RestAssured library in Java as well as using API tools such as Postman .
• Closely interacted with developers for bug fixes, debugs, and code developments.
• Conducted Jenkins training to other two team members.

IT Specialist / Automation Engineer

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Responsibilities:

• Used Junit-Cucumber-Maven framework to drive the execution.
• Achieved Scheduling the build through Jenkins by building the framework using Maven.
• Create a BDD Cucumber framework using page object model.
• Developed a java application by using Java, Selenium WebDriver and Jenkins, which automated the school attendance system, and emailed a summary to the principal and teachers who did not take the attendance during the day. It saved $800 each year for the subscription and 30 man-hours.
• Developed a java program using Selenium WebDriver browser automation and data-driven framework with Maven and Apache POI . Reduced the time and effort (from 220 man-hours to 4 man­hours) to enroll more than 1,000 students to the corresponding classes in the school system.

IT Specialist / Instructor

Confidential, Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• Created a student dismissal program that call the students according to student number. Reduced the dismissal time by 20 minutes each day.
• Provided troubleshooting when needed through strong problem-solving skills, multi-tasking, and ability to communicate technical information easily.
• Provided computer hardware and software maintenance support and maintenance for the company website.
• Provided training for the Instructional Technology products.
• Taught Robotics and Music Technology courses.