Engineer Quality

Dinara Akmataly

Software QA Engineer

Email: ****************@*****.***

Call: 773-***-****

Location:Chicago (IL)

Summary

Software QA Engineer with 5+ years of experience with strong specialization across Manual testing. Focused towards working in a challenging environment related to the field of Quality Assurance, which would aim at organizational and self-development.

Collaboration with Customer Success, Development and Product Management Teams

Writing test Plans as per the project requirement and designing the test cases for the same.

Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like Agile Scrum, Waterfall.

Performed Test Client for REST web APIs.

Expertise in analyzing Business and Functional Requirements/User Stories to formulate Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Scope, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix for Manual testing to ensure proper business compliance, API testing with Postman

Strong experience in executing Front-end, Smoke, Functional, API, Regression and End-to-end testings.

Excellent skills in RDBMS, proficiency in SQL and expertise in writing SQL queriesto perform Database testing.

Worked extensively on performing Black Box Testing, Gray Box, and Regression Testing.

Excellent skills in writing test scenarios and acceptance tests.

Involved in Cross Browser/Parallel Testing, API Testing, and Database Testing

Excellent knowledge of Unix/Linux commands

Technical Skills

Web Testing

Chrome DevTools,BrowserStack

Databases:

Oracle, MySQL

Web Services:

POSTMAN, Rest API,Charles Proxy

Bug tracking

JIRA,TestRail

Mobile testing

XCode,Android Studio,ADB

Testing Methodologies:

Functional Testing, Front-end Testing, Back-end Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, API Testing, End-to-End Testing.

Methodologies:

Agile/Scrum, Waterfall

Platforms:

Windows, iOS, Unix, Linux

Education

Bachelors in Accounting and Audit from Kyrgyz Russian Slavic University 2011-2015

Professional Experience

Discover Financial Services, Chicago, IL

April 2018 - Current

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities

Actively engaged and participating in full lifecycle of an agile project including sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups, sprint demos and sprint retro.

Implemented quality software best practices to develop Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case and actively participated in process improvements.

Performing, Smoke, Regression, and End-to-end testing and providing the team with the daily visual and descriptive report.

Working with Customer Support team triaging production bugs

Testing iOS, Android and Web applications

Developing test cases against business requirements using TestRail

Tracked defect and enhancement requests as they entered into defect-tracking system using Jira.

Closely collaborated with the PO and BA on improving and refining the process of the quality assurance department.

Maintained all the documentation and Weekly Status Reports.

Performed REST API testing with Postman

Bank of America, Chicago, IL April 2017 - April 2018

QA Tester

Responsibilities

Reviewed User Requirement Specifications and Functional Specifications of the application.

Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts.

Participated in Daily Scrum, Demo Meeting, Sprint Planning, and Retro Meeting .

Performing manual API testing of web services using Postman and REST Assured by verifying and validating responses with assertions to enhance reliability.

Tracking and reporting defects in Jira bug tracking system

Regressing issues with previously released versions to understand where is the brea

Pesticides INC, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Sept 2014 - Feb2017

Manual QA engineer

Responsibilities

Conducted different types of testings including Regression testing, Sanity testing, Smoke testing, and End-to-end testing.

Took an active part in participation in all sprint ceremonies such as daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint demo and sprint retro meetings.

Involved in writing and executing functional Test Scenarios for Manual Testing.

Actively participated in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.

Tracked quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts and prepared quality assurance reports .

Executed Regression Testing whenever a new functionality was introduced in the system

Closely collaborated with the PO and BA on improving and refining the process of the quality assurance department.

Maintained all the documentation and Weekly Status Reports.

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