Azhar Kyzy

Authorized to work in US for any company without any sponsorship.

Professional Summary:

Highly motivated and result oriented Quality Assurance/Software Automation Tester with 6 years of extensive experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance through Manual and Automation Testing of software applications using open source tool like Selenium WebDriver.

Flexibility and experience of working in both Waterfall and Agile Scrum Environments.

Expertise in analyzing Software Requirement Documentation and based on the smart criteria writing the test cases and developing test scripts.

Key contributor during Sprint Grooming, Planning and Retrospective Meetings and performed Sprint Demo at the end of each Sprint.

Expert in Smoke Testing, Back-end Testing, Functional Testing, Positive/Negative Testing, Regression Testing, Ad-hoc Testing.

Extensive experience in developing test automation framework with Data Driven and Behavior Driven Framework using Selenium WebDriver with Java in IntelliJ IDEA.

Implemented Test Cases and feature files for BDD using Cucumber in Gherkin language.

Proficient developing test case requirements using Gherkin, creating better understanding for everyone involved in the project.

Experience in creating Page Object Model and Page Factory design for implementing framework.

Expert in Selenium WebDriver, Java, JUnit, TestNG, Jenkins, Maven, Cucumber, Rest API and Git.

Worked on Cross Browser and Cross Platform testing through Selenium WebDriver by testing the applications on different browsers.

Ability to write dynamic XPath and CSS selectors for complex Object Identifications in Selenium WebDriver.

Experience in Automation Testing at API layer using POSTMAN/RestAssured.

Experienced with SQL and Oracle, to run the data integrity tests for back-end testing and JDBC establish connectivity between the Java Programming language and a wide range of databases.

Ability to adapt to new environment quickly, strong team player, good communication, good analytical and computation skills, enthusiastic learner, confident, sincere and committed.

Proven skills in taking proactive approach by avoiding the defects in a verification step and meeting the deadlines.

Technical Summary:

Testing Tools:

Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Postman

Languages:

JAVA, SQL, HTML, Gherkin

Testing Frameworks:

TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber

Continuous Integration:

Jenkins

Management Tools:

Jira, Git

Build Tools:

Maven

RDBMS:

Oracle, SQL Server, Cassandra

IDE:

Eclipse, IntelliJ

Certification:

Redhat Certificate

Web Services

Restfull, Postman

Platforms:

Windows, MacOS, Linux

Professional Experience:

Walgreens, Deerfield, IL

Title: Senior automation engineer March 2019 – Present

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Coordinated and tracked all projects using project management system Jira and Confluence Pages for documentation purposes.

Participated in Agile scrum ceremonies, attended Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Review meeting, Restrospective meeting and Live DEMO’s for business partners, connecting with Onshore and Offshore Team.

As a cross-functional team member of Agile environment worked closely with developers, business steak holdersand Product Owners.

Participated in weekly QA meetings for sync-up and to share the knowledge between other QA team members.

Developed automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Junit, JDBC, Rest Assured, Java and Maven.

Provided API testing of the application executing REST-assured library and JsonPath syntax.

Reached Apache Cassandra Database with applying SQL queries for testing’s database in automation framework using JDBC (Java Database Connectivity).

Performed manual backend testing for Cassandra Database and running complex SQL queries.

Performed and developed automation for Apache Kafka messaging system. Produced and consumed events through automation framework.

Involved in microservices based architecture project.

Performed Behavior Driven Development in automation framework with a help of Cucumber and Gherkin language

Performed Smoke, Regression and Functionality testing.

As a part of the team showed strong communicational skills and stress resistance. Worked closely with technical and non-technical groups leading to a release of a product with a high quality.

Northern Trust, Chicago IL May 2016 – March 2019

Title: Senior Automation engineer

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for creating test data using automation scripts in Selenium WebDriver with JAVA

Executed manual and automated test cases and managed the defects in Jira.

As a cross-functional team member of Agile environment worked closely with Product Owner to analyze the Acceptance Criteria for user stories.

Participated in Agile scrum methodology, attended Daily scrum, Sprint Planning and Review meeting.

Used BDD with Cucumber, JAVA language and created future files with scenario and scenario outline as well as writing definitions for behavior.

Executed Regression testing at the end of the sprint to ensure the overall quality of the product.

Worked as a team member in requirements mapping and preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Extended Data driven framework and implemented re-usable methods across the application.

Performed parameterization of the automated test scripts in Selenium WebDriver to check how the application performs against multiple sets of data.

Developed automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG and Maven.

Designed and developed Page Objects using Page Object Model Design Pattern and as a project management tool.

Used Jenkins for nightly build execution and sending status mail to the team if build fails.

Involved in setting up continuous integration system using Jenkins and working knowledge with cloud based code repository system like Github.

Performed query operations on SQL to do database validation. Used standard SQL functions and commands.

Performed API testing manually using Postman and automated those tests using Java RestAssured library.

Established connection between database and Java using JDBC and run multiple queries.

Implemented POJO classes in back-end automation and used Jackson library for serialization and deserialization

Closely worked with developers to ensure proper implementation of tests.

Hands on experience with working on command line and good knowledge of basic Linux commands.

Client: GoHealth, Chicago IL April 2014 – April 2016

Title: Quality automation engineer

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Directly involved in planning and analyzing the application requirements and creating Test Plan, Test Cases, and developing Test Scripts.

Created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for Requirements and Test Cases.

Manually tested test cases and developed Test Scripts using Selenium WebDriver.

Executed Functional, Regression, and smoke tests.

Worked in various aspects of the User Interface of the application and automated the test cases using Selenium Webdriver and Java in Eclipse IDE.

Used Junit to run the tests and generate the reports.

Daily used JIRA for project interactions, specifically for defect tracking, issue tracking and general sustainability.

Anticipated test reports and tracked logged defects through JIRA and retested resolved defects.

Configured and controlled all dependencies of project and tool versions using Maven POM file.

Used JDBC to do Database testing with Java Programming Language.

Conducted Front-end and Functional Testing of the GUI by inserting various checkpoints in the recorded test scripts.

Highly involved in SQL Server usage. Implemented functions to test the database integrity through SQL Server.

Performed Data Driven testing by fetching data from Excel sheets and Databases to verify the application’s behavior for different data inputs.

Participated all Agile ceremonies, meetings with BA and Developers to resolve defect issues.

Client: XPO Logistics, Chicago IL September 2012 – March 2014

Title: Manual Tester

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Performed Smoke test, Functional test, Regression Test.

Prepared Test Plan, Test cases and wrote Test Scripts.

Used excel for test report and test data.

Actively performed negative testing, positive testing, ad-hoc testing, manual testing

Involved in Automation testing of web based applications using Selenium.

Participated in both code and framework design review meetings.

Prepared quality assurance reports for each product line.

Performed manual testing for functional test cases and logged critical defects in Jira.

Worked closely with the developers to get the immediate resolution to the defects.

Automated Regression test cases using Selenium WebDriver and Junit with Keyword Driven approach using Java.

Email:

adf5mn@r.postjobfree.com

Address:

Rolling Meadows IL

Mobile:

312-***-****

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