As a highly disciplined and versatile Test Automation Engineer, I aim to provide companies with robust testing solutions through collaboration and creativity. After a career shift from municipal inspection into Software Testing, my experience includes one year of intense project work utilizing up to date manual and automation testing languages, frameworks, and methodologies. I am eager to demonstrate my expertise through providing valuable hands-on testing development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, HTML, SQL, Gherkin (Cucumber)

Test Management Tools: Maven, Jenkins, Jira

Testing Methods: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, API Testing, Front and Back-end Testing, Database Testing

Testing Tools: Selenium, Cucumber, Maven, Jenkins, TestNG, JUnit

Frameworks: Data-Driven, Behavior-Driven and POM

Databases: SQL, MySQL, Oracle

Version Control: Git and GitHub

API: Java REST, Postman, RESTful

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, XML

Cloud Technologies: AWS

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Expertise in Manual and Automated Testing on web-based applications using Selenium WebDriver, Maven, Cucumber, JUnit and TestNG with Java.

Experience using Git for version control in Selenium & Java automation code.

Completed full cycle testing projects, writing and executing tests such as: Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, and Regression Testing.

Experience writing SQL Queries using Oracle SQL Server for back-end testing.

Proficient in Selenium automation using Selenium WebDriver, Java, Maven, Junit and Cucumber.

Experience utilizing Jenkins for Continuous Integration.

Develop BDD scripts using Cucumber, including step definitions.

Fluent in Gherkin for building clear and concise Cucumber feature files.

Experience utilizing Postman for manual API Testing and creation of automation scripts in RESTful.

Utilized Jira to manage Defect Life Cycle: logging, retesting, and closing defects.

RECENT PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Openly CRM July 2020 – Present

Automation Tester Chicago, IL

Practiced Openly CRM Application in Cybertek Coding School

Developed and maintained automation test scripts for web-based applications using Java and automated with Selenium.

Extensively used Selenium locators like Xpath, CSS Selectors and WebDriver to test the web application.

Used POSTMAN for manual and REST-Assured Libraries for automated API testing.

Employed GIT/GitHub as version control systems to track changes and notified the developers of any defects reported by it.

Reported software defects on Jira and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.

Wrote extensive SQL queries for data verification and validation.

Designed and developed BDD Automation Framework from scratch by using Java and Page Object Model (POM) using WebDriver.

Created Cucumber testing framework using Java, JUnit, Maven, Selenium Web Driver from scratch.

Tested applications in different browsers (Firefox, Chrome) and different versions to simulate production environment.

Performed remote executions of Smoke Tests with Jenkins on a daily basis to ensure that the software is functioning properly.

Worked closely with analytic, development and product team to understand requirements and helped produce scripts for validation.

Supported the defining of define testing strategies to assure the accuracy of data analysis.

FleetApps March 2020 – June 2020

Automation Tester Chicago, IL

Practiced FleetApps Application in Cybertek Coding School

Created detailed Test Cases in Jira based on business requirements, data models, and technical specifications and linked them to the appropriate requirements.

Automated RESTful Webservices testing using Java libraries like REST-Assured.

Developed and performed Data Driven framework using Selenium WebDriver.

Used Selenium GRID to perform multi browser parallel testing.

Wrote SQL queries for data verification for Back-End testing.

Created custom assertions using Junit assertions.

Used Maven to build and run the Selenium automation framework.

Updated test procedures as functionality changed during testing cycle, prepared Test Cases for new functional modules.

Used JDBC to connect to database source and performed database testing.

Utilized Jenkins to perform remote executions of Smoke Tests and sent email reports to ensure the functioning of the software.

Effectively implemented different QA methodologies, strategies and plans in all stages of SDLC.

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ministry of Interior Apr 2007 – Sep 2016

Chief Civil Inspector Ankara, Turkey

Inspected and examined central units of the ministry and attached institutions, institutions that are under the supervision of the ministry, provincial special administrations, and works of municipalities.

Held examinations and conducted investigations on the personnel of the establishments that have been understood to commit crime or have been made complaints against.

Ministry of Interior Oct 2005 – Apr 2007

Head of Department Ankara, Turkey

Determined the factors under which personnel are unable to be motivated and took proper precautions to reverse those conditions.

Prepared long, medium, short term plans and programs, decentralized, and formulated an internal control system about the activities that were given to my responsibility.

Ministry of Interior Jun 1995 – Oct 2005

District Governor Turkey

Served as District Governor for three major municipalities over 10-year period.

Chief of all the officials in the district. (police, gendarmerie, teachers, doctors, public servants and officials etc.)

Ensured the implementation of government orders, laws, regulations, by-laws, and the announcement of government decisions.

Oversaw and supervised the performance of district officials and the functioning of the organizations that were within the district.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

UMBC Baltimore, MD

Language Training and Public Administration Leadership Training Program

The Institute of Security Science

Master of Security Science, Ankara, Turkey

Ankara University

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Ankara, Turkey

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