Rabia Mentes Kurkcu
Permanent Resident/ Paterson-NJ
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Certified Scrum Master Experienced Business Analyst and highly motivated QA Engineer with over 6-year experience in various IT industries. Possess a versatile skill set and hands on understanding to affect positive overreaching outcomes in Process, Plan and Defect Tracking Documentation. Adapts Quickly to New Environments, Leveraging Strong Communication and Technical Skills to Meet the Client Requirements and Ensure Delivery of Quality Product on Time.
Professional Summary:
Experience in preparing Test strategy, Test plan, Test methodology, Test scenarios, Test summary reports, Test cases and Test documents for both automated and manual testing based on User requirements, System requirements and Use case documents.
Expertise in Entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Agile as well as Iterative development environments.
Extensive knowledge and experience of Selenium IDE, Selenium Web driver, Selenium Grid, Web driver API’s using Core Java for developing automation scripts in Eclipse IDE.
Expertise in Selenium automation using Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber, JAVA, JUnit, Maven, Jenkins.
Expertise in Java and OOPS concept required for Selenium framework.
Experience in Automation testing using Selenium Web Driver/RC/IDE, JUnit, TestNG, Jenkins, Maven, Cucumber, Soap UI.
Experience in testing Web Applications (Java).
Experienced in performing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)automation using Jenkins tool for scheduling the jobs and expertise working on configuration management tools like GIT, GITHUB.
Hands on experience in implementing POM using Page Factory of Selenium.
Knowledge on Web Services Testing using SOAP UI & groovy scripting.
Developed framework using Cucumber, Junit, TestNG, Page Object Model, page factory.
Good experience in testing both SOAP and REST services using SOAP UI, and Tested both HTML, XML and JSON formats.
Segregated defects based on the hierarchy of the effects on the test scripts using Log4j.
Implemented Selenium Web Driver for cross browser and cross platform testing.
Involved in developing Automation Frameworks such as Keyword Driven Framework, Data-Driven Framework and BDD.
Solid knowledge in Java and OOPS concepts required for Selenium Script.
Participated in Requirement review meetings, analyzed requirements, developing test plans and test cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect Management, Reporting and Tracking.
Hands on experience in tools such as SQL Developer and MySQL Work bench, extracted data from Ms.-SQL Server, MySQL, DB2 and Oracle.
Experience in creating Cucumber BDD (behavior-driven development) framework, TDD (Test Driven Development) and automating BDD scenarios using GHERKIN format.
Extensively used JIRA, Bugzilla for bug tracking.
Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers and technical support in Agile Environment.
Worked on Cross Browser and Cross Platform testing through Selenium WebDriver by testing the website on different browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Performed Web service testing using SOAP UI tool.
Technical skills:
Testing Tools
Selenium Web Driver/IDE/GRID/RC.
Language/ Script
Java, JavaScript, SQL, XML, HTML.
Frameworks
Junit, TestNG, BDD, Data Driven Framework
Web Technologies
HTML, CSS, XML, XPATH, CSS
SOA Technologies
SOAP, REST, SOAP UI
Bug Tracking Tools
HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, JIRA
Build/CI Tools
Maven, Jenkins.
Version Control Tools
GIT, GITHUB
Databases
MYSQL, Oracle
Operating Systems
Windows 7, 8
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Client: SiliconeLabs LCC. Fairfield/NJ (June 2019 – April 2020)
Role: QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
Analysed the specifications from Business view and Functional view of the application.
Participated in daily Scrum meetings, discussed with Business Analysts and Developers about requirement gaps, defects and blocking issues.
Performed manual and automation scripts development on agile process.
Developed test scripts with Java-Selenium to automate browser and web applications under Cucumber (BDD) Framework.
Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behaviour’s and step definitions.
Automated tests based on functional requirement in Eclipse with Java.
Validated the customer account records and their order details with Databases using SQL Queries.
Prepared the Test Suite with the TestNG framework based on Java and developed the test scripts using TestNG annotations.
Extensively worked with End-to-end testing for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Involved in Designing & developing data driven framework using Selenium Web Driver, Testing and implemented Java Mail to send the regression result automatically.
Used Apache POI methods for writing to excel sheets in java.
Cross browser compatibility testing is executed by testing web applications.
Worked on Selenium GUI Object / element verification is done through XPath, CSS Locators.
Involved in Designing & developing data driven framework using Selenium Web Driver, Testing and implemented Java Mail to send the regression result automatically.
Used JIRA to track and report system defects and bug fixes. Written modification requests for the bugs in the application and helped developed developers to track and resolve the problems.
Used Maven for building the WebDriver project. Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically.
Involved in setting up continuous integration system using Jenkins and working knowledge with cloud-based code repository system like Github.
Environment: Agile, Selenium (WebDriver and GRID), java, TestNG, Cucumber, Maven, Jenkins, TDD, HTML, XML, XPath, Web Services (SOAP & RESTFUL) JavaScript, SQL, Gherkin, GitHub, Agile, Eclipse, User Stories,UML.
Client: Kargom Gelsin Worldwide Courier Services Istanbul/Turkey September 2017 – April 2019
Role: QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
Review, analyse and evaluate business systems requirements and user needs.
Document requirements define scope and objectives and accomplish functional testing of software systems built.
Develop and manage business requirements / user stories.
Communicate vision to developers and testers.
Manage System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) deliverables.
Execute SQL queries.
Involved in Document, Implement, Monitor and enforce all processes and Procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the Organization
Involved in Test planning and Test execution and also performed Functionality Testing and Regression Testing, white-box, regression, black-box and end to end testing and more.
Plans Executes test cases and performs various type of testing and issues detailed defect report.
Participating in the relevant Scrum planning and review meetings.
Provided technical and non-technical support to users interacting with customer portal.
Produced Test Metrics showing the number of test cases analysed, number of test cases fixed, number failed number left to analyse and Fix in weekly meetings.
Coordinated with developers discussed the issues for quick results.
Environment: Agile, Scrum, MySQL, Jira, Wireframing, Flowcharts, Microsoft Visio, Business Process Diagramming, Requirement Management, Cucumber,Java,Selenium,Lucid charts, Balsamiq, User Interface, User Stories, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, SWOT, User Stories, BRD, Data Manipulation, Google Docs, Microsoft PowerPoint, Evernote, UAT Testing,UML.
Client: Technopian Phills. Ltd. Manila/Philippines August 2013 – August 2015
Role: Business Analyst /Branch Manager
Responsibilities:
Manage all of the business such as Accounting, HR, Marketing, Sales and Operations.
Perform, evaluate, and communicate thorough quality assurance at every stage of systems development.
Managed sprint planning, execution, testing and releases in Agile Methodology.
Worked in a Scrum Agile process for delivering the outputs on time.
Communicate regularly with other managers, the director, vice president, president, and other designated contacts within the organization.
Lead the team of 10 web developers and 2 Japanese- English interpreter support staff.
Handling an organization’s recruitment, interview, selection, and hiring processes.
Establish, evolve, formal production processes, to ensure quality goals are met and team is using industry-accepted best practices.
Maintain employee work schedules including assignments, job rotation, training, vacations and paid time off, telecommuting, cover for absenteeism, and overtime scheduling.
Prepared meeting notes on daily execution/highlight of the project and send out the reports to managements.
Performed various testing such as UAT.
Interact with Developers and Business Analysts to perform various types of testing throughout Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC).
Environment: JIRA, Agile process, Scrum, UAT Testing, Manual Testing, Defect Tracking, Backlog, Sprint.
Client: Atlantic Schools. Ankara/Turkey June 2010– July 2011
Role: Project Coordinator
Responsibilities:
Monitor testing progress during monthly Releases and generate reports and communicate with leadership.
Provide planning and execution of manual scripts.
Prepared test data document and Involved in generation of bug and test case execution reports.
Creating, preparing and implementing systems quality.
Performed more complex analysis of business requirements and system specifications.
Served as a coordinator for all activities on a project.
Environment: Manual Scripts, Requirement Analysis, JIRA, Scrum, Agile.
EDUCATION
Master’s Degree, Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication Manila /Philippines
COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT- March/2015
Bachelor Degree, Jose Rizal University Manila/Philippines
AB ENGLISH - March 2014
Vocational School of Higher Education, Fatih University Ankara/ Turkey
TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION - June 2010
College Preparatory, Perth International College of English Perth/Australia
January 2007
CERTIFICATES/COURSES
Business Analyst Training Course, (Technopian Phills. LTD.)
June/2015
Professional Scrum Master, Scrum.org.
September/2019
ISQTB Foundation Level Certified Tester (Udemy)
April/ 2020
US HealthCare Domain Training, (SiliconeLabs LTD.)
March/2020
IIBA Foundation Level Business Analyst (Udemy)
April/2020
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Technical Trainer at Silicone Labs.
Editor on Technology Content Creating at SDET ACADEMY
Freelance Bilingual Interpreter since 2007.
REFERENCES - References available upon request.