Ridvan Cekmez

Tucson/AZ 312-***-**** adl30y@r.postjobfree.com

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QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER SDET

Summary:

A dynamic Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Test with 6 years of experience. Proven abilities and expertise in testing GUI using Selenium WebDriver, Gherkin Language, Page Object Model (POM) and Maven. Ability to create and maintain automated testing frameworks in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD). Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams with in SDLC. Well-practiced in writing SQL queries and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) for Backend testing as well as a background in API Web Services testing using, Rest-Assured, HttpClient Library and Postman. Experience with design and development in Java and JavaScript using Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Worked with CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins. Thrive in Agile work environment, top-performance teams as a highly driven and proactive member of the team. Passion for automation, testing and agile.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AllState, Chicago, IL 12/2018 – Present

Software QA Engineer (Contractor - Remote)

● Participated in all agile meetings including Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Test Case Review, Demo and Retrospective meetings.

● Reviewed User stories and transformed them into test cases and test scripts for manual/automated testing.

● Creating Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test data, and performing Test execution.

● Designed automation scripts to test REST APIs (HTTP Get, Post, Put, Delete) using REST Assured libraries and Postman

● Responsible for defining the automation framework and for using Java, Selenium, Maven, Cucumber, JUnit, JDBC, Apache POI to create the framework and automating the test cases.

● Executed Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing.

● Participated in code reviews using Git

● Extended BDD Cucumber framework and developed re-usable functions across the application.

● Used Jenkins for CI/CD on the cloud Virtual Machines to run Smoke and Regression Testing and sent reports to team

● Performed Back-end testing and microservices through SQL quires in Oracle SQL Database to retrieve and validate data with JSON response

● Performed defect reporting and bug tracking using JIRA and followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.

● Set up and configured Smoke and Regression Tests as Jenkins jobs, hosted on AWS EC2

● Using Selenium Grid, executed cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility tests.

● Tools and Environments: Agile, Agile Ceremonies, SDLC, STLC, Defect/Bug Life Cycle, Jira, POM, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Maven, Rest-Assured, GIT, Cucumber, JUnit, UAT, SQL, BDD, API, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, IntelliJ, JSON, AWS EC2, Android Studio, Oracle Database, Selenium Grid, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Postman, Jenkins Bank of America, Chicago, IL 11/2016 – 10/2018

QA Automation Engineer (Contractor)

● Worked directly with software developers, test engineers, business analysts, project leaders.

● Participated in all agile meetings including Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Test Case Review, Demo and Retrospective meetings.

● Experienced with Single-Page web applications.

● Validated Front-end applications to execute test cases and perform defect tracking.

● Performed Manual/Automation Testing and Backend Testing by using API Rest Assured libraries.

● Responsible for defining the automation framework and for using scripting languages Java, Selenium, Maven, Cucumber, TestNG, JDBC to create the framework and automating the test cases.

● Work with cross-functional teams to identify and develop test cases for functional testing.

● Performed multi browser testing to establish cross browser compatibility.

● Used Apache POI libraries for importing/exporting data to external applications.

● Use Microsoft SQL Developer for writing queries and verify proper insertion of the information into database.

● Used Jira to track the task and issues, attended daily status meetings to update the status of work.

● Set up and configured Smoke and Regression Tests as Jenkins jobs, hosted on AWS EC2.

● Tools and Environments: Jenkins, JDBC, Java, Rest-Assured, Maven GIT, Cucumber, POM, Postman, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, UAT, Junit, TestNG, Junit5, Jira, SQL, MySQL, Agile-Scrum, SDLC, Agile Ceremonies, BDD, API, JSON, IntelliJ, Jenkins. Ensonhaber, Istanbul, Turkey 07/2014 – 10/2015

SEO Specialist/Manual QA Tester

● Identify defects with clear and concise recreation steps

● Execute front-end functional UI testing, back-end functional testing, positive and negative user acceptance testing, integration testing, and regression testing related to major releases and production incidents.

● Testing is executed in multiple environments.

● Performed UI testing using Selenium WebDriver

● Develop and maintain testing standards, procedures, and guidelines to ensure consistent testing procedures.

● Develop test cases and test scripts, based on project requirements/user stories.

● Report out on test results, entering defects as necessary

● Perform keyword optimization, discovery, and expansion.

● Recommend changes to website architecture, content, linking, and other factors to ensure that SEO practices properly implemented.

● Optimize on-page elements such as title tag, meta description, URL, headings, images, internal links and more.

● Experience in analyzing requirements – Business requirements, Functional requirements and Technical

● Worked directly with software developers, test engineers, business analysts, project leaders.

● Conduct ongoing SEO analysis to identify problems and provide recommendations to optimize existing content and uncover new opportunities

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Certifications: Google, Google Analytics Individual Qualification. (2017) Udemy, In-Depth Software Testing Course from Scratch (2016) Full-Stack Development Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Graduated 2020 Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Journalism, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, Graduated 2013

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