Mirza Z. Beg (Zane)
*********.***@*****.***
Automation Engineer
U.S Citizen
OBJECTIVE
Automation Engineering with 4 years of experience in Quality Assurance. Capable of integrating testing tools and strategies to design, create and develop end-to-end Automation Test Scripts as a value-adding member of the delivery team who is enthusiastic and quick learner and has the ability to adapt to new environments, strong communication skills, and Cross-Functional capabilities. Great team player with Agile and Scrum experience
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Results driven solutions focused IT professional with over 4 years of experience within technical capacities with specializing in Software Quality Assurance Testing, testing on Client/Server and Web based applications. Strong experience on Java, and OOPS concepts. Extensively used Java for test case automation.
Experienced in implementing TDD and BDD.
Expertise in Manual Testing and different types of Automation Testing including different types of Black Box testing including Integration Testing, Component Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Boundary Value Testing, Database testing and Positive/ Negative Testing.
Create and implement in Smoke, Sanity, Regression, Functional, Database and API tests
Strong knowledge of SDLC & STLC, and depth understanding Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Reputation for using test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver/IDE/Grid to develop automation testing scripts for web applications.
Professional expertise in Smoke Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/ Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing and UI Validation.
Developed Test Scripts to implement Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and features for BDD (Behavior Driven Development), using Cucumber and TDD (Test Driven Development) using WebDriver and TestNG.
Experience in the development of Data driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid Automation frameworks in Selenium.
Experienced in working on Selenium WebDriver automation script in Java for Page Object Model (POM) cross-browser testing. Used testing annotations to group the test methods.
Experience in writing CSS selectors, Xpath expressions to identify Web Elements using selenium WebDriver.
Strong background experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Estimation & Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
Reputation for different management scenarios like Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration and Task Scheduling.
Expedience using management and bug tracking tool JIRA and HP ALM/ Quality Center.
Experienced in Database Testing using SQL Queries on Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server.
Involved in the Continuous Integration of the automation framework with Jenkins.
Worked on source version control tools such as Subversion (SVN) and GIT
Experience working on API Testing using Postman and RestAssured as well as also performed database testing using JDBC. Used Apache POI to access data from external base to load into locators in web application using Test Scripts.
WORK EXPERIENCE
BB&T, WINSTON-SALEM, NC DEC 2018 - PRESENT
QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER
Analyzed business requirements, User Story, system requirements, and data mapping requirement specifications interacting with the client, developers and QA team
Documenting the test cases, their outcome, and the expected results to determine the quality of the software product
Developed test scripts in Java language using Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber framework in Gherkin format.
Designed, developed and implemented POM based automation testing framework utilizing Java, and Selenium WebDriver.
Setup the Automation framework using Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and platforms.
Implemented Automated execution of tests using Maven and Jenkins.
Worked on Cross Browser testing through Selenium WebDriver by testing the website on different browsers like Chrome, IE and Firefox.
Developed test code in Java language using Eclipse, IDE and Cucumber framework.
Used Jira for defect reporting and tracking. Closely involved with the development team, maintenance team and business team regarding changing requirements, builds and releases.
Utilized Maven to manage dependencies for test execution, plug-ins and created profiles of grouped test cases to run sanity and regression testing.
Integrated Jenkins with version controller (GIT) and scheduled builds to run automatically during a build release by invoking predefined maven commands.
Involved in the usage of BDD framework to develop Cucumber Step Definitions, Scenarios and Features using Gherkin language.
Used runner classes in cucumber to generate step definition and also used tags to run different kinds of test suites like Smoke and Regression.
Used automated scripts to perform Functionality Testing during the various phases of the application development using Selenium.
Developed test scenarios and test cases for Integration and System testing each release.
Tested data migration to ensure that integrity of data was not compromised.
Performed functional, integration, black-box, and system, regression, and user acceptance tests.
Environment: Selenium, Java, Cucumber, Gherkin, Web driver, GIT, Maven, Jira, XPath, CSS Selector, Eclipse, Windows, Mac, Agile, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox.
NORDSTROM, SEATTLE, WA JULY 2017 – OCT 2018
AUTOMATION TESTER
Developed Automation framework using Selenium WebDriver (Java) and Test Execution using TestNG.
Designed, developed and implemented POM based automation testing framework utilizing Java, TestNG and Selenium WebDriver.
Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (TestNG)
Responsible for implementation of Test Automation Framework build using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Maven technologies under Java platform utilizing industry leading harness design patterns and approaches.
Developed test code in Java language using Eclipse, IDE and TestNG framework.
Used Selenium WebDriver and TestNG to run parallel testing.
Wrote Ant build scripts to automate the compilation and execution of TestNG test cases/suites
Used Java language and TestNG framework for scripting. Used TestNG for building the WebDriver project. Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on a nightly basis automatically.
Expertise in grouping of test suites, test cases and test methods for regression and functional testing using TestNG Annotations like Groups, Parameter, and DataProvider and Tags.
Perform system analysis and understand the deliverables using Agile Methodology
Extensively used Selenium (Xpath, id, and CSS Selector) to test the web application.
Environment: Selenium, Java, Gherkin, Web driver, SVN, GIT, TestNG, Maven, Jira, XPath, CSS Selector, Eclipse, Windows, Mac, Agile, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox.
DMI, BETHESDA, MD MARCH 2016 – MAY 2017
QA TESTER
Analyzed business requirements, documented business requirements specifications, wrote Test Scenarios, Test Cases.
Worked with the development team to understand technical design and architecture for test planning.
Worked under Waterfall methodology.
Prepared Traceability matrix to ensure the adequate coverage of the test cases.
Prepared required documentation for testing sign off by various parties as required by the project plans.
Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression and Integration testing.
Identified and reported bugs using defect tracking tool HP Quality Center and presented bug reports for weekly status updates.
Performed data accuracy, data validation and data integrity testing by querying the database using SQL queries to check the data table on the server.
Connected to the database to Query the database using SQL for data verification and validation.
Performed back end testing on Oracle database by writing SQL quarries.
Created SQL views to aggregate data before moving to targeted database from the legacy database to simulate results.
Interacted closely with developers regarding defects, participated in tracking, reviewing and analyzing bugs.
Environment: Java, Manual Tester, Quality Center, MS, Java Script, Oracle.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Testing Tools
Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Soap UI
Languages
JAVA, SQL, HTML, XML, IDE Eclipse, SQL Developer
Test Framework
Cucumber, Junit, TestNG, Data Driven Framework
Build and Integration Tools
Maven, Jenkins
Processes
Agile-Scrum, Waterfall
Bug Tracking Tools
JIRA, HP ALM
Version Control Tools
GIT, SVN
Data Bases
Oracle, MySQL, Postman
EDUCATION
BS in Computer Science (in progress)
BSc Graduated (Pakistan)
Civil Engineering Diploma (Pakistan)
CERTIFICATES & TRAININGS
Syntax Technologies, Coding Bootcamp