POOJA LAHOTI
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A result-oriented Test Automation Engineer with 4 years of experience in Software Testing. Proven ability in Manual Testing, Selenium WebDriver Automated testing & Frameworks, Page Objects & Hybrid Frameworks, SQL, Python.
Working in a highly dynamic agile environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings
Hands on experience in Big data technologies such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Spark SQL, Spark RDD, Tableau, APIs
SKILLS
Testing & Test Management Tools: QC, ALM, Selenium WebDriver, JIRA, APPIUM, CUCUMBER, Gherkins, TFS
Database & Methodologies: MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Impala, Agile, Waterfall, SSAS
Programming languages: VB Scripting, Java, Python, Groovy
Automation Framework: Hybrid, Keyword driven, TestNG, Junit, POM, BDD, TDD
Analytical & BI Tools: Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark, Tableau, Spark SQL
IDE: PyCharm, MS Visual Studio, Jupyter, Eclipse
Others: MS Excel, MS Power Point, Jenkins, Maven, Git, GitHub, Linux, Windows
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Information Systems, The University of Texas at Arlington, TX May 2017 - Present
Extensively automated regression and functional test suites by developing over 120 test cases, 6 test suites using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG framework
Created automation scripts to collect data for 900 lobbying firms from opensecret.org using Python and Web scraping.
Worked Extensively with MS Excel (Pivot, Charts, VLOOKUP), XML, JSON.
Experience in Data Extraction, Data Wrangling, Data Loading and Data Analysis using Python APIs and libraries.
Working with web technologies like HTML5, CSS and Java Script to maintain the department website.
Test Automation Engineer BRITISH TELECOM Tata Consultancy Services, India Aug 2014 - Jul 2016
Proficient in documentation of deliverables in testing process (Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Summary).
Expertise in analyzing requirements, create and execute manual test cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix.
Implemented around 300 automation testing scripts using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA and TestNG
Performed GUI, Regression, Functional and cross browser testing using Selenium WebDriver
Involved in designing, maintaining and enhancing Automation Framework
Logged 700 plus defects in JIRA and involved in defect triage meetings to analyze defects on priority basis
Used SOAP UI to perform SOAP API Testing for various functionalities and have working knowledge of REST API.
Automation of REST API calls to fetch and create test data and to interact with different APIs.
Saved 20% of testing budget by automating Regression/Functional tests using Selenium WebDriver.
Experience with testing mobile apps on both Android and IOS platform using APPIUM.
Performed GUI, Regression, Functionality and Alpha-beta testing, Black box and Grey box testing rigorously.
Designed complex database queries, stored procedures and analyzed reports using SQL Server 2008
Worked with DevOps team to enable CI/CD process and execution using Jenkins.
Test Analyst TATA COMUNICATIONS LIMITED Tata Consultancy Services, India Dec 2012 - Jul 2014
Analyzed the business requirements, functional specifications, system requirements process flows and test specification documents.
Automated Daily SIT Progress report using Excel Macros reducing reporting effort by 45 min of the team.
Design test strategies, specification and test plan through user Stories for 3week sprint cycle in Jira.
Worked extensively in Load Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Performance Testing and Ad-hoc Testing, API and Webservices Testing.
Experience working with black-box and white-box testing methodologies
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Management Information Systems Aug 2016 - May 2018
The University of Texas at Arlington, TX
Related Coursework: Advance Business Statistics, Data Mining, Advanced Database Management System, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Project Management, Big Data Analytics, Python for Data Science, Management of Information Technology
Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Aug 2008 - May 2012
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Sentiment Analysis and Topic modelling on Twitter Data (Python): Using Twitter API, collected streaming tweets and performed Sentiment Analysis, formed Word Cloud and conducted topic analysis on the corpus using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)
Used Tensor flow to do deep learning of the Pokémon images to extract the tags and the corresponding probabilities associated with it.
Pokémon Go! Analytics: Used Beautiful soup for web scraping the data from HTML pages and Built regression models for iOS and for Android using sklearn using cross validation algorithms like Linear Regression, Ridge Regression and Lasso.
Predictive Analytics: Developed a model that predicts if the website is Phishing based on few features provided to rank the website using Naïve Bayes, J48 and Multilayer Perceptron Algorithm.
Designed the models using WEKA and MS Excel which predicted phishing website with an accuracy rate of 92.78%.
SAP BW Project on Data Cube creation: created a data cube using SAP Data warehousing workbench, organized and summarized into a multi-dimensional structure defined by Characteristics and key figures. All the steps from Extraction, transformation and Loading were carried out to develop the data cube.
Research paper on NOSQL Database: We talk about various types of NoSQL databases based on implementation perspective like key store, columnar and document oriented. This paper also consists of discussion on pros and cons of NoSQL systems along with some points on their application in business intelligence tools. Our work also wraps around key issues while implementing and maintaining various NoSQL databases systems. We also would recommend a NoSQL solution on the basis of business context in the paper and real-life implementation. This research paper covers the consolidated interpretation of NoSQL systems, depending on the various database features like performance, scalability and data aggregation
Business Forecasting Econometrics: Generated a Two-step ahead forecast for the following quarter of South West airlines (time-series data) of the United States using ARMA and SARMA models, and Box-Jenkins Methodology.
Social Network Analysis: Analyzed the network between the professors across various department at UTA as to who are more likely to work together using UCINET, Python, Vos viewer and Gelphi.
Research presentation on various Project Management Software’s.
Analysis of Yoga in daily life: Have collected data by conducting a telephonic survey and analyzed the data using ANOVA, SAS, Linear Regression and Multiple Linear Regression to understand the frequency of Yoga for different individuals.