Qa Engineer Manual Testing

Leyla Nasirova QA Engineer

LITTLE FALLS, NJ ***** +1-862-***-**** ad5xni@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 5 years of total experience in QA:

• Proficient in performing Automated & Manual Testing of Client-Server Software Applications, executing Behavior Driven (BDD) and Data-Driven (DDT) tests, and analyzing test results.

• Hands-on experience with core Java, OOP concepts and Data Structures.

• Experienced in Frontend/UI testing automation using Selenium WebDriver.

• Proficient in automated testing of Backend for RESTful API and Web Services with Java REST Assured library.

• Experienced in manual testing of endpoints with Postman. Used Swagger for API documentation. Utilized CRUD operations like Post, Get, Put, Patch, Delete.

• Skilled in Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Hybrid Data Driven frameworks, with JUnit and Maven as the Build Automation Tool. Utilized Page Object Model design pattern with Page Factory for creating page objects to store Web Elements and methods using Encapsulation and other OOP concepts.

• Experienced in automating test scenarios involving Database validation using Java Database Connectivity

(JDBC) with SQL queries working with Relational Databases.

• Strong knowledge in testing tools: JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber and Selenium Grid.

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline for Smoke and Regression Test Suites using Jenkins to run and schedule jobs, configured with Maven, Cucumber reports and GitHub as the remote repository.

• Implemented (Java) OOP concepts - Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, and Polymorphism in the testing framework.

• Expertise in bug tracking using Jira-Xray and creating reports such as Cucumber reports and HTML reports.

• Outstanding knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle.

• Experienced in Agile Methodologies Attended Scrum Meetings such as Standup, Grooming/Refinement, Sprint Planning, Demo, and Retrospective meetings. Prior experience in Waterfall Methodology. WORK EXPERIENCE

Automation Test Engineer @ Barclays 08/2023 – PRESENT Whippany, NJ

• Proficient in utilizing the Cucumber-BDD-JUnit framework, Gherkin, Maven, and Object-Oriented Programming

(OOP) with Java for backend testing purposes.

• Conducted End-to-End testing for the entire application flows

• Conducting various tests including Regression, Smoke, Sanity, and Ad-hoc.

• Reading logs from AWS for efficient and scalable testing.

• Testing APIs using tools like Insomnia, Postman and Swagger.

• Performing Query operations with SQL to conduct Database validation

• Using Oracle Database, Impala and Hue for backend testing

• Verifying endpoints using common methods like GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.

• Managing projects and tasks with Jira.

• Using Bitbucket for remote repository.

• Researching, analyzing, reporting, and tracking defects using Jira-Xray

• Actively participated in Agile Ceremonies such as Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retro Meetings.

QA Engineer: @ American Express 03/2021 – 06/2023

Phoenix, AZ

• Supported Cucumber-BDD-JUnit framework using Page Object Model design pattern, Selenium WebDriver, Gherkin, Maven, and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) with Java

• Ran Frontend/UI testing of the Web App using Selenium WebDriver

• Ran Smoke and Regression tests on Jenkins

• Wrote business readable Test Scenarios in Cucumber Feature File using Gherkin language and implemented these scenarios in Step Definition classes using Java Programming Language

• Performed manual API testing with Postman and automated most of these tests using Java REST Assured, Hamcrest and Lombok

• Utilized GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE methods to validate the endpoints

• Used Swagger tool for API documentation

• Implemented Data Driven testing using mainly Apache POI to read Data from Excel and CSV files

• Performed Smoke, Regression, Integration and Ad-Hoc Testing

• Conducted End-to-End testing for the entire application flows

• Researched, analyzed, reported, and tracked defects using Jira-Xray

• Used GitHub for remote repository

• Performed Query operations with SQL to conduct Database validation

• Actively participated in Agile Ceremonies such as Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retro Meetings.

Quality Assurance Analyst@ Prudential 01/2019 - 03/2021 Newark, NJ

• Automated UI Testing with Selenium WebDriver and API/Endpoint testing of RESTful API with Java REST Assured on a Serenity-BDD-JUnit Framework

• Performed Smoke, Regression, and Ad-Hoc Testing

• Implemented Page Object Model pattern and OOP concepts in both frameworks

• Researched, analyzed, reported, and tracked defects using Jira

• Used Jenkins as Continuous Integration

• Ran Regression and Smoke Tests as well as freestyle jobs to test my branches before doing my PRs

• Performed Cross-Browser Testing using Selenium Grid

• Used Apache POI to read Test Data from Excel and CSV files

• Actively participated in Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retrospective Meetings.

SKILLS

• Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, REST Assured Library, Postman, JDBC, Appium

• Languages and web tools: Java, SQL, Gherkin, HTML, CSS

• Project Management tool: Jira, Trello

• Test management tools: Jira X-Ray

• Build Automation Tool: Maven

• Databases: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL

• Technologies: Selenium Grid

• VCS, Remote Repository: Git, GitHub

• Testing Frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber-BDD

• IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse

• Methodologies: Agile Scrum

• Operating Systems: MacOS, Windows, iOS, Android

• Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, G-Docs, G-Sheets

• Communication Tools: Slack, Zoom, Teams

• CI/CD: Jenkins

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science / Nakhchivan State University, Class of 2005 Azerbaijan

LANGUAGES

English – Fluent Russian - Conversational

Turkish – Professional Azerbaijani - Native

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