Fatima Akhter
Valley Stream, New York, NY *****
347-***-****, ************.**@*****.***
Summary:
Over Five (5+) years of experience in software testing using Selenium WebDriver
Firm understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle
Experience in designing and reviewing Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, and Test Plans of both manual and automated tests
Extensive experience to automate test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, enhance the scripts, use explicit wait, and synchronize the scripts
Expert on enhancing the Automation framework using Maven, Cucumber, and TestNG
Performed Smoke, GUI, Functional, Integration, System, Front-end, Regression, User Acceptance testing on many Client/Server and web applications
Thorough understanding of QA Methodologies like Agile
Experience in Back-end testing by developing and executing complex SQL queries
Possess excellent interpersonal, written, verbal communication skills and strong analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills
Capability to adapt and learn new tools, techniques, and approaches
Technical Skills:
Testing Tools
Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Cucumber, JIRA, SQL Developer
Languages
Java, HTML
Databases
Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL
CM
Git, SharePoint
Work Experiences
Paychex, Rochester, NY March 2018 – Present
QA Automation Engineer
Paychex serves businesses in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Paychex offers an ever-growing variety of payroll and human resource products and services.
Responsibilities:
Participated in release planning, sprint planning, retrospective, and daily scrum for agile scrum development
Extensively work throughout defect life cycle from opening to closure using JIRA
Develop Behavior Driven Development (BDD) test cases using Gherkins
Design and develop Test Plan, Test Cases, and Automated Test Scripts
Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, and GUI testing
Developed automation script with Web Driver using Java, Cucumber and TestNG
Used Maven for Project building and Git for version control
Tested the application for both positive and negative scenarios
Interacted with developers and business analysts to assessed functional requirements
Performed cross-browser testing for the web interface, and mobile application
Performed query operations on Oracle to do data validation. Used standard SQL functions and commands to develop SQL queries
Follow up with the developers on defects status on a daily basis, and generate reports for managements
PNC Bank, Pittsburg, PA, June 2016 – February 2018
Test Engineer
Web based application provides client to view account information like account summaries, account details, monthly statements, balance transfers, accrued interest, check ordering, and loan application
Responsibilities:
Contributed in release planning, sprint planning, daily scrum and retrospective in agile
Established test cases in Gherkin and automated them using cucumber
Performed test activities and defect tracking using JIRA
Developed test scripts using java in Selenium Web Driver with maven, cucumber, and Test NG
Developed Java programs using Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts
Performed test automation Development using test framework that implements Page Object Model (POM), cucumber feature, and Test NG configuration files
Implemented Maven for Project building, and Git for code management repository
Performed Restful API testing using Rest Assured and Java
Checked database to determine successful transaction of test data from the application by establishing connectivity using SQL commands
Coached and mentored Junior test engineers on various testing efforts and processes
Kaiser Permanente, Springfield, VA, March 2015 - May 2016
QA Analyst
Multi-platform application designed and developed for individual customers in mind and offer electronic repository for the health insurance provider.
Responsibilities:
Employed test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on functional specifications
Contributed in daily scrum meetings and sprint review meetings in high paced software development lifecycle
Automated new test scripts using Cucumber, WebDriver, and Java
Implemented Page Object Model (POM) concepts using Page Factory to manage objects separately making the framework reusable and scalable
Implemented implicit wait and explicit wait in Selenium scripts to ensure that the scripts are synchronized with the application
Designed and developed high level and detailed Test Cases using Gherkins
Developed complex SQL queries for database testing
Education:
East west University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Bachelor’s in computer science & Engineering