Gauri Vijay Shinde

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Summary

Proven Software Quality Assurance professional with over 7 years of experience in Information Technology, specializing in Automation Software Testing.

Possesses excellent logical, analytical, and testing skills with strong communication capabilities.

Exhibits the ability to handle multiple tasks and work both independently and collaboratively within a team.

Professional Summary

Over 7 years of experience in QA with expertise in Agile Scrum methodologies, SDLC, and STLC.

Experience in development of Data driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid Automation frameworks based on Java platform using test automation tools such as Selenium Web Driver, Cypress, Cucumber, TestNG, Maven and Jenkins for web and client server application as well as Mobile Automation using Appium.

Build and enhanced automated test framework using Page Object Model concepts.

Strong foundation in JAVA OOP concepts, adept in using TestNG for well-organized test suites.

Hand on experience in REST API test automation using Rest Assured Library and JAVA, and Manual testing using Postman.

Advocate of TDD and BDD practices for efficient testing.

Developed and executed SQL queries on daily basis.

Hands-on experience in test automation, including script creation, defect management, and UAT facilitation.

Automated web application in AWS EC2 machine with Selenium Grid.

Expertise covers the full testing lifecycle, from test plan development to script creation, system testing, and coordination with stakeholders.

Well-versed in troubleshooting, documentation, and creating comprehensive test plans.

Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, supports security testing, and organizes release regression activities.

Committed to driving continuous improvement in QA processes.

Academic Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Indira College of Engineering and Management-Pune, India (2011-2015)

Master of Engineering in Data Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani-India(2022-2024) – Pursuing last semester

Software Skills

Methodologies: AGILE (SCRUM), WATERFALL, SDLC.

Testing tools: Selenium WebDriver, JMeter, Selenium IDE

Artifacts: Test Plan, Test Case, RTM, Test Summary Report, Bug report

Programming Languages: Java, Java Script

Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, DynamoDB

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, IBM Quality manager

Test Framework: TestNG, Junit, Selenium, Cypress

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS.

MS Office Tools: Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access

API Testing: SOAP UI, Postman

AWS Cloud: Lambda, SQS, SNS, DLQ, and S3 bucket

Types of Testing: Manual Testing, UI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing

Work Experience

Client: ESTYLE Corp., LLC :USA

Employer: Codinix Technologies Inc

Designation: API Automation Engineer Duration: December 2023-till date

Responsibilities

Conducting API testing using tools such as Postman.

Developing and maintaining automated test scripts using Selenium Java.

Collaborating with developers and other stakeholders to identify and resolve defects and issues.

Creating and executing test plans and test cases to ensure API functionality and performance.

Designing and implementing API testing frameworks and strategies.

Conducting load and stress testing to identify performance bottlenecks and scalability issues.

Analyzing and interpreting test results to identify trends and areas for improvement.

Providing technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

Staying up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in API testing and automation.

Participating in agile development processes and contributing to continuous improvement efforts.

Environment & Tools: Java, NPM, NodeJS, Maven, TestNG, JIRA, SQL,SOAP UI, IntelliJ IDEA

Client: SolarWinds - Database Performance Analyzer : USA

Employer: PERSISTENT SYSTEM LIMITED

Designation : Lead Quality Engineer, Duration: January 2020- September 2022.

Responsibilities

Actively involved in all phases of software Development Life Cycle(SDLC).

Participated in release planning, sprint planning, daily scrum and retrospective in agile scrum environment.

Designed and developed Test Plan, Test Cases and Automated Test Scripts.

Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance,Regression, Positive, negative and GUI testing.

Build and enhanced automated test framework Using Cypress on IntelliJ IDEA to automate UI and used Java script, NodeJS and NPM for Angular based user interface.

Experience in writing and executing SQL queries to perform Data Validation and Back-end testing of databases to check the integrity of data.

Created data-driven automation scripts for testing for testing API Web Services using Postman and tested RESTFUL API using Rest Assured.

Actively participated in Stand-up meeting, walkthrough meeting, weekly assessment meetings and daily bug triage meetings and interacted with developers and business analysts to ensure high quality of the application under test.

Performed end to end testing considering all interfaces and subsystems for functional and non-functional testing.

Used Jira as the defect-tracking and notifying developers

Developed and executed complex SQL queries to create and modify test data.

Generated status reports and Defect reports and presented them in weekly status meetings.

Followed up with the developers on defect status on a daily basis and generate reports for managements.

Environment & Tools: Cypress, Java Script, NPM, NodeJS, Maven, TestNG, JIRA, SQL,SOAP UI, IntelliJ IDEA, AWS Cloud: DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DLQ, and S3 bucket https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

Client: IBM-Rational Rhapsody : Israel

Employer: PERSISTENT SYSTEM LIMITED

Designation: Senior Quality Engineer Duration: January 2017 to December 2019.

Responsibilities

Followed Agile testing methodology, participated in daily SCRUM meetings and testing each SPRINT deliverables.

Worked on JIRA for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking, manage the defects and executing the test cases.

Actively participated in Test Review Meetings.

Involved in GUI testing, integration testing, Smoke testing and regression testing using web and client-server applications.

Developed automated scripts using Selenium Web Driver with Maven, Cucumber and TestNG.

Performed test automation Development using test framework that implements Page Object model(POM), cucumber feature files and Test NG configuration files.

Used Continuous Integration Tools(Jenkins) for automation script run in nightly basis and provide quick feed back to the developers.

Implemented Maven for Project building, and GIT for code management repository.

Performed functional testing of SOAP and RESTful Web Services using SOAP UI and POSTMAN.

Submit the defect reports and communicate issues to business, engineering and management using JIRA.

Worked closely and independently with various teams including development and management.

Led 2-3 junior QA team member for smaller or part of project to achieve

Environment & Tools: Postman, JIRA, WINSCP, Agile and Windows.

Client- IBM-Rational Design Manager

Employer: PERSISTENT SYSTEM LIMITED

Designation: Quality Engineer Duration: January 2016 to December 2016.

Responsibilities

Performing and Validating Manual test plans.

Creating automation scripts in Java using selenium Webdriver 3.4 and executing the automation regression suite and debugging the scripts failures.

Debug the failure cause, deal with error log files and maintain test result and reporting the test reports to client.

Running regression test suite.

Recording the issue in IBM Engineering Quality manager with detailed explanation and expected

behavior of the product.

Tools used: Selenium webdriver,Rational Design Manager, Rational RTC and Rational Quality Manager.

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