Quality Assurance Engineer

Nico Jurea - Chicago, IL - linkedin.com/in/nico-jurea - 630-***-**** - *********@*****.*** - USA Permanent Resident

DHL

Software Development Engineer in Test

Lead the transition from a data-driven to BDD framework using Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Maven, and Java, enhancing cross-team communication and reducing feature files delivery time by 40%.

Conduct thorough testing using Postman to validate RESTful web services across 250+ endpoints, ensuring seamless integration and functionality, contributing to increased efficiency. Achieve 0 critical post-release bugs by reorganizing the testing process to ensure thorough coverage, integrating cross-functional testing of UI, API, and database components within a single framework.

Coordinate QA meetings, guide engaging discussions, and craft detailed reports, employ Jira for effective test case management and defect tracking, lead to a 20% increase in team productivity.

Manage Jenkins jobs for testing, which contributed to a 30% improvement in code quality.

05/2022 - Present

Capital One

Quality Assurance Engineer

Automated 400+ test cases with Cucumber (BDD) format and maintained the Selenium WebDriver framework.

Improved data validation procedures by implementing REST Assured, JDBC, Java, and POJO classes, resulting in a 45% increase in efficiency and ensuring seamless data integrity across diverse systems.

Conducted advanced training sessions on writing feature files and analyzing test reports for a team of 10+ manual testers, resulting in a 40% reduction in manual testing hours.

Implemented comprehensive test scripts for Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Black Box, and White Box testing, leading to a 25% boost in the early identification of bugs.

06/2020 - 05/2022

State Farm

Quality Assurance Engineer

Designed and implemented 500+ manual test cases leveraging advanced test design techniques including boundary value analysis and equivalence partitioning.

Completed a comprehensive automation strategy covering end-to-end test scenarios for essential functionalities across GUI, backend services, and databases using Java, Selenium, REST Assured, and JDBC, achieving a 30% reduction in test flakiness. Created Automation Scripts using a Data-Driven Approach and Page Object Model.

Integrated test automation with the CI/CD process using Git and Jenkins, culminating in a 35% enhancement in code quality.

09/2018 - 06/2020

LANGUAGES AND TECHNOLOGIES

Testing Skills: Manual testing, Automated testing. Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript.

Development & Testing Tools: IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, DataGrip, MySQL, Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL, Selenium, Appium, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Postman, REST Assured, Unix, Linux, Karate, JDBC, Maven, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Xray, TestRail, Jira (Agile methodology).

EDUCATION

Technical University of Moldova

Engineering and Management in Transportation 09/2011 - 05/2014

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