Test Automation Quality Assurance

Abdul Shaik Work Authorization: US Citizen

Atlanta GA 30004 214-***-**** ***************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/abdul-shaik-b3312526

** ***** ** ***** ** experience in Quality Assurance s. with major strengths reside in Test Automation frameworks, Architect Automation Framework, Test Estimation, Test Planning, Test Automation Strategy, Metrics capturing, analysis and implementing corrective action

Hands–on management style with passion for mentoring teams to achieve both company and individual goals in quality/product–driven environments.

Continually deliver top–quality IT projects from inception through deployment within aggressive deadlines with automated frameworks.

Hands-on experience in Test Automation Project Management, including identifying automation requirements, selecting candidates for automation test cases, and improving automation frameworks using selenium WebDriver with Java, Python, and C#.

Successfully automated API scenarios (SOAP and REST API’s) using RestAssured.

Maintained Selenium Code and resources in source controls like GIT, GITHUB, TFS and Azure ADO and integration with Jenkins and CI/CD tools.

Strong understanding and experience in automation testing using Test data Driven (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) techniques using Cucumber and TestNG framework.

Hand-on working experience with monitoring Tools Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics and Kibana and Kafka and Pulsar consumer tools.

Hand-on working experience with Azure migration from TFS to Azure DevOps.

Analytical, results–driven test manager expert in applying technologies solutions.

Broad–based experience spanning multiple industries, including Automobile, Airlines, Retail, Telecom, and banking sectors.

Experience in working with product Managers, business partners, senior management, professional peers and subject-matter experts to understand the requirements.

Experience in leading Test automation initiatives and mentoring team.

Extensive knowledge of Software Testing life cycle, Agile and Traditional methodologies, test processes and test plans.

Participated as scrum team member, including sprint planning, stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives.

Ability to work and manage across multiple projects and building up automation regression suite.

Led cross-functional team to support each Release project plan and post Release/Changes.

Architected and implemented end to end software test automation solutions.

Good knowledge in SQL and Software Test methodology implementation.

Experience in gathering requirements as well as to find gaps between requirements relationship and make requirements hierarchies.

Good experience on application trouble shooting and problem-solving skills.

Capable of meeting tight deadlines with excellent overall project life cycle experience and Team Spirit.

Effectively utilized assigned offshore resource and coordinated resource on daily basis.

Ability to work independently or in a team and handle complex assignments with efficiency. Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies.

UI/ Web based Automation: Selenium WebDriver with Java cucumber BDD, Python, C# and Cypress, Appium, IOS and Android.

API: Rest API, SOAP, Postman, Insomnia, Rest assured automation

Languages: Java, Python, C#, Tosca Tool

Deployment Tools: CI/CD DevOps, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Docker and Kubernetes

Integration Tools: Kafka, Pulsar, Informatica, ETL

Monitoring Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Kibana, Argo, Dynatrace

DB Tools: Oracle, Postgres SQL, MySQL, Casandra DB, NoSQL MongoDB

Cloud Technologies: Azure, AWS

Agile Technologies: SAFe 6.0 Practitioner, SAFe 5 DevOps, TFS, Azure ADO, Jira, TFS

Performance Testing: HP LoadRunner, Performance Centre, JMeter

General Motors Atlanta GA May-2018 – Till now

End2End Integration Lead and Test Automation Architect

Responsible for running End2End program for E2E Public Safety Alerts, Theft Notifications and Roadside Assistance and automated test cases using Salesforce applications

Cross collaborated with Product owner, Tech leads and architects for gathering and understanding requirements.

Collaborated with Azure migration of all the existing services (Azure Event Hub, Azure App services, Postgres SQL AppDynamics, Kafka)

Preparing test strategy for entire program.

Developed a new Maven automation project utilizing a BDD framework with the Selenium java and Cucumber model for web applications, backend database and APIs(Rest and SOAP).

Standardized Gherkin syntax to enable code reuse across test cases.

Hands-on experience with Appium and C# framework.

Conducting triage calls to identify the root cause of issues in the involved applications.

Developed Grafana Dashboards for daily monitoring and setup alerts notifications.

Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in source controls like GitHub and GitLab. Additionally ran scripts on AWS EC2 instance for different hardware requirements.

Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI / CD system to build, test deploy.

Developed and executed SQL queries in the database to conduct data integrity testing by checking the data tables on the server.

Collaborated with Developers and resolve technical and Functional clarifications.

Collaboration with all stakeholders to address roadblocks and expedite dependencies.

Ensuring proper utilization of resources and managed knowledge and process effectively.

Delta Airlines Atlanta GA OCT 2011– APR 2018

QA Manager, Test Automation Lead

Cross collaborated with project managers on requirements gathering and analysis.

Use JIRA to create user stories, test sets, test plans, test cases and for Defect Reporting.

Created, developed and Executed Automation suite for REST API using Rest assured java solution.

Developed automated test cases using Selenium web driver and BDD framework.

Created Test Reports using TestNG.

Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in source controls like SVN, Git over the time for improvements and new features

Integrated the execution of the automated UI test scripts into the Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment process.

Gathering Project/Service requirements of the SOA web services.

Developed cross browser functionality scripts

Preparing test strategy on the requirements

Ensuring proper utilization of resources.

Monitoring and reporting the status to the client and

British Airlines Chennai India SEP 2009 – SEP 2011

QA Manager- Test Automation

Understanding the business scenarios and requirements for new solution architecture.

Preparing test strategy on the requirements,

Interacting with clients and all stakeholders.

Providing estimations of the efforts.

Monitoring and reporting the status to the client.

Identifying priorities in consultation with the client and changing the schedule.

Ensuring proper utilization of resources.

Monitoring and reporting the status to the client.

The Home Depot Atlanta GA FEB 2007-SEP 2009

QA Lead

Interacting with clients and all stakeholders.

Managing offshore Team and explaining requirements

Understanding the business scenario and requirement.

Preparing test strategy on the requirements,

Providing estimations of the efforts.

Monitoring and reporting the status to the client.

Verizon Chennai India MAY 2004 – JAN 2007

ETL Tester

Executed the Mappings and performed Unit testing.

Verified data in the backend.

Understanding the Requirement and Design Documents.

Creating test plan, test strategy Test cases

Reporting the status and issues to the onshore QA Manager.

Involved in backend testing using SQL, AQT and Toad.

Indus Networks Hyderabad India SEP 2003 –APR 2004

Java programmer

Assessing the customer's information needs, validating them and preparing functional specifications.

Designed and Implemented text, Conference, voice chat.

Reporting status to the client.

Master of computer Applications (MCA), 2001 Sri Venkateswara University, India

Bachelor of computer sciences (BSC), 1998 Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India

Certified Safe 6.0 2023

Completed Azure AZ-900 course 2023

Certified SAFe 5.1 DevOps 2022

Certified SAFe Teams Practitioner 2021

Completed Agile Delivery Foundation Jun-2016

Assurance / Digital: Mobile Application Testing Foundation APR 2016

Software Testing and Assurance Foundation – May-2014

Completed Project Management in I-Evolve 2013

Certified Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management 2009.

Informatica ETL Brain Bench certified professional 2006.

Certified ISTQB professional 2006

Sun Certified Java Professional (SCJP) 2006.

US Citizen, Additional details or reference will be provided on request.

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