TASHA KAPAROVA

ph: 703-***-**** adan7j@r.postjobfree.com Chicago IL

Authorized to work in the USA without any sponsorship

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●6+ Years of industry experience in the area of Software Testing (Manual and Automation) for Client/Server and web-based applications.

●Excellent knowledge and implementation skills in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC ) and Software Testing Life Cycle ( STLC ).

●Experience in Waterfall methodology, as well as Agile (namely Scrum) and its ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Scrum, Backlog grooming, Sprint Review and Retrospective.

●Well-versed in performing Functional, Cross Browser, Smoke, Regression and Black Box Testing for Graphical User Interface (GUI) of web-based applications.

●Proven ability in designing and creating automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Junit, TestNG, Maven and Jenkins tools.

●Solid knowledge in Java by applying core concepts of OOP such as Polymorphism, Inheritance, Abstraction, Encapsulation.

●Good understanding of manual and automated API Testing by utilizing REST Assured library and Postman tool.

●Working knowledge in performing Database Testing using JDBC API in combination with Java, and SQL Developer against Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) such as MySQL for data validation.

●Worked with Sauce labs for running multiple tests across different browsers, operating systems, and machines in parallel

●Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform as part of a team.

●Quality oriented mind set up with Test to Break Attitude and Tactful & Diplomatic Behavior.

Software Development Engineer in Test

Northern Trust Corp 10/2017 - present

Responsibilities :

●Assesses & analyzes user stories, Business Requirements (BRD) and participates in Sprint planning, Review Sessions & Scrum Meetings.

●Prepares Test cases for positive and negative test scenarios as referred in the user stories keeping in mind the Boundary Value Limitations, and Equivalence class partitioning.

●Develops automation test scripts using Page Factory Model (POM) to test the web applications using Selenium WebDriver with Java and Maven.

●Improves and maintains BDD framework and develop Cucumber Step Definitions, Scenarios and Features using acceptance criteria.

●Identifies, documents and tracks software bug resolution using issue tracking tool JIRA.

●Performs Regression testing using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Continuous Integration tool Jenkins.

●Communicates Daily Status Reports with all the team members, Team Leads and Managers

Environment:

Selenium WebDriver, Java, JavaScript, Jenkins, GitHub, POSTMAN, Cucumber,Sauce Lab,BDD, Agile, TestNG, Maven, IntelliJ IDEA.

QA Automation Engineer

University of Chicago 11/2015 - 10/2017

Responsibilities :

●Analyzed the Business Requirements and based on that developed test cases.

●Developed, executed and updated test automation code using

●Selenium WebDriver, Java, Maven, TestNG which contributed to expansion of Autoregression suite.

●Configured Selenium, Maven tool and created Selenium automation code in Java.

●Developed BDD script with Cucumber and written step definition using Gherkin language based features.

●Collaborated with Senior SDET in setting up the Automation Testing Framework from scratch.

●Participated in the Defect Review Meetings, build meetings and release meetings to resolve the outstanding issues.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, IntelliJ IDEA, TestNG,Maven, Jenkins, Apache POI, JIRA, Page Object Model Framework, GitHub.

QA Engineer

Namba Soft 05/2013 - 08/2015

Responsibilities :

●Manually executed test cases, reported their results, as well as selected test cases for the automation.

●Performed black box, functional negative and positive tests on web-based application under test.

●Identified, and reproduced bugs and generated issue reports using JIRA, as well as verified whether the patches and bug fixes resolved the issue.

●Verified whether data in database matched the expected results by using SQL statements

●Collaborated with BA, QA testers and developers on a daily basis to complete team’s schedule.

●Actively participated in Agile Scrum meetings.

Environment: Agile, MySQL, MS Excel, JIRA.

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