AHMAD SARGAND

QA AUTOMATION TEST ENGINEER

Location: Falls Church, VA

Work status: GC – EAD

703-***-**** adtw2t@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmadsargand/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 6 years of experience in the field of Software Testing with good exposure in Software testing, Quality Assurance Automation and Manual Testing of web-based and client-server application, DB testing, APIs, Performance testing and good knowledge of Front-end testing Back-end testing.

Expertise in tools such as Java, Selenium WebDriver Junit, Testng, Maven, Cucumber BDD with Page Object Model (POM) Design pattern, Page Factory.

Good Knowledge of Java and OOPS concepts, Cucumber and Behavior Driven Development and DDT, Testng and Apache JMeter.

Understanding of complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and software methodologies like Agile, Jira and Waterfall.

Experienced in Test Planning, Designing, Writing of Test Scripts, Test Cases, Scenarios, automate the test cases and validate the functionality of web applications.

Experience in developing of test Cases, Scenarios, Scenario outlines, Feature files, Step definitions using Gherkin language and generating the reports.

Experienced in Automation Testing with different types like Functional Testing End to End Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke and Regression Testing and System Testing.

Knowledge of writing SQL queries and Database testing with RDBMS, MySQL

Good Knowledge of APIs testing with Postman, Rest Assured and Karate.

Strong problem solving, critical thinking, organization and communication.

HANDS-ON TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programing Languages: Java

Web Testing Tools: Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, Testng, JMeter

Testing Build: Maven

CI/CD: Jenkins

Version Control: Git, GitHub

Testing Framework: BDD, Cucumber, POM, DDT, good knowledge of Appium.

Database: MySQL / database validation with (SQL query knowledge)

Defect Management Tool: Jira

API testing: Postman, Swagger, Rest Assured,API, Karate

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Reporting: HTML, JSON, XML

IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ

Operating System: Windows, Mac OS & AWS Cloud, Amazon EC2 & excellent computer skills,

Good communication skills and team player Windows, Mac, Understanding Business Requirements, functional testing, Expertise in creation of test scripts,.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Capital One bank – Vienna, VA

Software test automation engineer May/2020 -Present

Working as a member of the SDLC team in an Agile/Scrum environment, Estimate, Prioritize, Plan and automated testing process.

Involving in Designing and developing the test process based on different client's requirements.

Writing, Developing and updating automation Test Scripts, Scenarios, Test Cases, Reviews, Test Execution, Bugs Reports, Ret-test bugs using Selenium WebDriver, Java, JUnit and Cucumber Git, Jenkins and other tools and plug ins in Eclipse IDE to perform functional and regression tests for web-based applications.

Following Behavior Driven Development BDD, Cucumber with Page Object Model POM frameworks and writing test scenarios using Gherkin language in feature files.

Using Git & GitHub for Version Control and collaboration with the team members.

Participating meeting with Scrum team, Business Analyst, Developers, and others to give updates and to develop test plans, test scenarios, test results and to assess new features and testing demands on a daily basis.

Managing Defect Tracking process, which included prioritizing bugs, assigning defects to developers and verifying bug-fixes using Jira.

For API automation I am working with the Karate framework and I have experience working with Postman and Swagger documentation.

Involving in the Sprint meeting and Sprint Planning.

Farmers insurance - Chevy Chase, MD

QA Automation engineer July/2018 - April/2020

Wrote manual test Scenarios, Test cases and designed, developed, Wrote and executed the test scripts, test cases and test scenarios and reports of automation testing on multiple projects using Selenium WebDriver and Java programing Language in an Agile environment.

Conducted Smoke Testing, User Interface Testing and Performance testing at the beginning of every build to test the compatibility of the application.

Worked with development team to analyze and resolve defects and bugs.

Worked with Selenium, Java, TDD, Maven and TestNG Framework, AWS Cloud, Amazon EC2.

Involved in running Selenium automation scripts and updating the scripts according to requirements.

Used Appium, Designing, coding and deploying Manual & automated tests for mobile applications

Involved in Writing and designing test cases and implementing of smoke and Regression.

Experienced with Rest Assured, Rest API, TestNG.

Attended Daily Stand ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retro meetings.

Developed SQL scripts to validate relational database tables with Oracle database.

Studied and analyzed the Functional Requirements Specifications and System Design Specifications and interacted with developers for changes in requirements if any and with Business Analyst to determine requirements are captured correctly.

AETNA INSURANCE - WASHINGTON, DC

QA Analyst March/2016 - April/2018

Created test plans, test Scenarios, test Cases and reviewed and updated all test cases in Excel and managed the Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Performed UI testing and front end testing using Selenium, Java and JMeter to ensure application is stable.

Performed manual testing of each build and then regression testing on each builds using Selenium WebDriver

Executed test cases using positive and negative data and reported results and defects.

Conducted User Interface Testing and Performance testing at the beginning of every build to test the compatibility of the application.

Worked closely with the Project Management team in Waterfall software development environment.

Actively involved in all testing of STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) in waterfall model.

Extensively used oracle and SQL to perform backend database testing for data integrity.

Participated in Functional Walkthroughs to validate the application design against the Test Cases.

Involved daily interaction with the business analyst, developers and project manager.

EDUCATION

School: Digital lab Kabul.

Degree: IT Associate degree (Electronic Network Examination). 2012 – 2013

School: Kabul University/Academy

Degree Title: Bachelor of ART (OUTSIDE). MAR 2004 – OCT 2007

Environment:

Java, OOPs, Selenium, Junit, TestNG, Cucumber, Gherkin, POM, BDD, DDT Framework, Maven, Rest API, Rest Assured, Postman, Swagger, Web Service, CI/CD, Jenkins, Apache JMeter, Karate, Git, GitHub, My SQL, Queries Database, DB, JDBC, Agile, Bug tracking, JIRA, Scrum, HTML, JSON, XML, Framework Functional, Non Functional, performance, Appium End to End testing, Back-end, Front-end, Waterfall, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Windows, MacOS,, AWS Cloud, Amazon EC2, SDET, Validation, Object oriented, Design, Create Test cases, Smoke, Regression, Ad Hoc, report defect, Bugs, Communication skills.

Relocation: YES.

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