Elzat Kerim

Chicago, IL ad35gw@r.postjobfree.com 312-***-**** US Citizen www.linkedin.com/in/elzat-kerim PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

As a Software Development Engineer in Test with 7+ years of experience, I gained knowledge in manual and automated testing through Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and assured quality of product by designing, developing and executing automated test scripts. Experience in Finance and Healthcare domains using Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodologies. As an adaptable and solution-oriented SDET, I bring a positive approach to every challenge. With a commitment to continuous improvement, I thrive on collaborating with teammates and sharing my knowledge to foster a culture of learning and growth. SKILLS

JAVA Selenium WebDriver TestNG Cucumber BDD (Behavior Driven Development Junit Gherkin Maven POM Gradle HTML SQL JIRA Confluence GitLab Bitbucket Git GitHub Oracle SQL MySQL PostgreSQL Postman Swagger Rest Assured library Jenkins CI/CD Bamboo Apache POI JDBC Smoke Testing Regression Testing Functional Testing UI API Eclipse IDE IntelliJ IDE CSS XPath Slack Microsoft Teams Sauce Lab WORK HISTORY

Software Development Engineer in Test

Bank Of America Chicago, IL January 2020 – present

• Automate Rest API calls in CashPro Flow web-based internal application, using Rest Assured Library.

• Implement automation scripts using JAVA, Selenium WebDriver, Junit with Cucumber, and Maven as a build tool, resulting 30% reduce the manual efforts

• Perform Smoke, Functional Testing and executing over 200+ test cases for regression

• Successfully coordinate and facilitate all Sprint meetings, fostering seamless collaboration between offshore and local teams while ensuring optimal scheduling.

• Reviewing daily JSON reports, identifying issues, and delving into script failures through Jenkins for troubleshooting and investigative purpose

• Utilize JIRA to track tasks and issues, attend daily status meetings to updates on work progress

• Engaging in the release process to ensure smooth product delivery and being prepared for hot fixes

• Conduct an effective Knowledge Transfer (KT) process for new team members to ensure a smooth transition and expediting their onboarding process.

QA (Quality Assurance) Automation Test Engineer

OptumRX Schaumburg, IL July 2016 – January 2020

• Created a framework applying Page Object Model (POM) for UI with Selenium WebDriver and TestNG to improve reusability of existing methods by 30%

• Design test strategies, test plans, and test cases from requirements, design documents and specifications.

• Actively participated in all Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement meeting, Retro and Demo to gain a deeper understanding of an application.

• Wrote SQL queries for data validation and used Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver for connecting database to automation suite.

• Utilized Postman and Swagger for manual testing via REST API calls.

• Served as a mentor for new SDETs entering the team, fostering a collaborative learning environment and reducing their ramp-up time.

• Collaborated with development and product team to identify root causes of recurring defects and implemented preventive measures, reducing critical defects