Samba Niang

Summary:

Highly qualified, tenacious and well-accomplished Automation Engineer with over 4 years of experience and a strong background in automation framework design and implementation.

Solid understanding of full software development life cycles, web analytics, changing web standards, and agile methodologies.

Dedicated to continuously developing, implementing, and adopting new technologies to maximize development efficiency and produce innovative applications.

Proven success in implementing, integrating, testing and supporting impactful applications developed in diverse, collaborative environments for mobile, web and other platforms.

Proven ability to jump into new projects and learn new technologies quickly. First rate communication skills coupled with effective time management and organization.

Extensive knowledge of JAVA object oriented programming language concepts like Abstraction, Polymorphism, Inheritance and Encapsulation

Expertise in web and mobile automation using Selenium WebDriver, Appium,

Designed and implemented different automation framework from scratch like POM (Page Object Model) framework and Data Driven framework using the help of TestNG Data Provider

Expertise in writing Selenium WebDriver and Appium automation scripts in JAVA for web/mobile application

Extensive experience with writing test scenarios on Cucumber feature file

Written proficient Java glue code step definitions for test scenario using regex

In depth understanding on how and where to use gherkins annotations

Executed automation framework script on different browser/environments & reported defects/results to the team and upper management

Maintained and enhanced the Automation code and resources in source controls like, GitHub over the time of improvement and new features

Worked on IE, Safari, Firefox, iOS and Chrome driver

Experience in writing CSS Selectors, Xpath expression to identify web elements

Implemented Cloud Based Selenium Grid on Sauce labs and local Selenium Grid for various applications with various combinations of OS and Browsers

Expertise in using Maven build management tool, continuous integration tool Jenkins and GitHub source code management tool

Experience working with testNG and Allure testing reports

Have in-depth knowledge of various SDLC methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and SCRUM

Experience in designing, preparing and executing test cases for web application and mobile application using SDLC concepts

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools : Selenium,Cucumber, Appium, TestNG, Maven, JIRA, Eclipse,

Jenkins,Bamboo

GitHub RDBMS : MySQL,MongoDB, Application: MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point)

and Access)

Networking : Windows Server 2003/2008 r2, LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, VPN

Web Technologies : HTML, Java, Python,XML, and JSON Environment, LINUX, WINDOWS

XP/7/8/10, and MAC OS X

Core Competencies:

Project Management

Agile Software Development QA Standards Testing Methodologies Test Case Design UAT Planning Quality Assurance Data Validation Requirements Analysis Testing Automation Defect/Bug Tracking Scripting & Documentation

Education:

B S in Electrical Engineering Technology from SUNY College of Technology 2014

Experience:

Anthem Inc GA Feb 2018– Present

QA Tester

Work in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint planning meetings

Develop and maintained Page Object Model framework using JAVA programming language with the help of Selenium WebDriver

Robot 3T to get access to MongoDB database and write some query for testing in the dataBase

Developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases for large-scale data validation and comparison between two web applications and between the UI and Database defining simple to complex scenarios

Write test Cases, SubTask, test Scenario through the help of Jira.

Knowledge of using BitBucket to create branch, and commit all changes made to framework.

Use bamboo to run automation framework daily

Have thoroughly done Peer reviews for developing the UAT test plan, strategy, test cases which are used while testing the application

Created UAT test plan documents, strategy, test cases, executed UAT test scripts, and created test reports using quality center

Hotwire, New York, NY July 2016 – Jan 2018

Automation Engineer

Work on web and mobile application for Priceline

Work in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint planning meetings

Develop and maintained Page Object Model framework using JAVA programming language with the help of Selenium WebDriver

Automate Priceline iOS and Android app using Appium Java-Client library

Written and executed test scripts using Eclipse IDE

Used Firebug and Firepath to identify and locate elements as needed, along with creating custom xpath using xml functions

Implement Maven for build management and also implemented CI tool - Jenkins

Used Sauce labs to execute Selenium automation suites on different platform; performed browser combinations in parallel

Apply TestNG and Allure to view detailed test execution reports

Implement GitHub for source control

Perform Defect Tracking & Management in JIRA

Performing a variety of software testing including unit, functional, usability, system integration, regression, cross browser and OS compatibility, mobile application and performance testing

Banana Republic, New York, NY May 2015 - Dec 2016

Software QA Engineer

Followed the SDLC process, use requirements documents to create testing strategy including providing test estimates, documenting test plans and objectives, assessing and identifying testing risks, and developing test scenarios and test cases

Developed, documented and maintained test artifacts like test data, data validation and automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, primary language used for automation was JAVA

Assisted on developing and maintaining robust and effective Page Object Model Framework

Used Firebug and Firepath to identify and locate elements as needed, along with creating custom xpath using xml functions

Implemented Maven for build management and also implemented CI tool - Jenkins

Applied TestNG and Allure to view detailed test execution reports

Implemented GitHub for source control

Implemented Selenium Grid for parallel testing on multi browser and OS combination

Executed full test on every regression build and provided detailed report to the upper management

Modified test scripts to handle all checked and unchecked exceptions which helped run test smoothly

Validation Test ENGINEER At CDI Corporation/GE Transportation Erie, PA Dec 2014 - May 2015

Verification and Validation of Locomotive Software

Analysis data and presented to the subsection leader

Altar preexisting test procedures document to streamline testing

Used Matlab/Simulink, LabVIEW, IBM Doors

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