Ashwini Chandrakant Email: adr9r2@r.postjobfree.com

QA lead Automation Engineer Contact number: 225-***-****

CSM, CSPO

QA Lead Automation Test Engineer with about 9 years of experience in testing activities like defining test methodologies and strategies, test planning, writing test cases, test execution, bug logging and test status reporting. Experience in design, architecture and development of software test automation solutions based on software development/release requirements of web-based and client server applications as an Automation Test Engineer and as a Manual Tester.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

●Expertise in Entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Development Life Cycle (TDLC) in Agile and waterfall environments.

●Experience in reviewing and analyzing business requirements and writing detailed test plans, scenarios, test cases, test scripts and test reports for Manual and Automation Testing

●Experienced in set up Selenium tools from scratch and configuring various other peripherals tools to perform Selenium

●Developed and Maintained Selenium & JAVA automation code and resource in source controls SVN, GitHub, over the time for improvements and new features.

●Expertise in using Appium to develop Automation testing scripts for Mobile and client-server applications. Worked on Appium for App testing (Android/ IOS). Developed Appium Scripts for Native, The Web and Hybrid Android/IOS Apps using Java.

●Using Cucumber developed Features, Scenarios, and Step Definitions for Behavior Driven Development (BDD).

●Expertise in Selenium automation of web applications using Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, JAVA, TestNG, Maven.

●Designed, implemented automation frameworks Test-driven development, Keyword Driven framework, Data Driven framework, Hybrid framework and POM and Open payment Framework for Home Insurance, E-Commerce for Auto insurance company.

●Experience in UI testing by using Fire bug, Fire Path, running scripts, debugging scripts in a different environment, Extracting Test results, Cross browser testing, and data validation.

●Experienced in Web Services testing using SOAPUI tool and Validated request and response SOAP and RESTful Web service calls. Performed Continuous Integration of code and scripts using Jenkins and triggered the Continuous Delivery process using Jenkins build job

●Performed performance testing with LoadRunner, JMeter .

●Experienced in testing Back-End layer by writing SQL queries and generating reports to ensure Data Integrity and validate business rules.

●Configured application framework by processing Excel spreadsheets using Apache POI.

●Experience in UI testing by using Fire bug, Fire Path, running scripts, debugging scripts in a different environment, Extracting Test results, Cross browser testing, and data validation.

●Expertise in documenting defects with the high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using Quality Center, JIRA, Rally, Bugzilla etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Methodologies

Agile, Waterfall

Testing Tools

Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Selenium RC, Selenium IDE, TestNG, JUnit, Log4j, Extent Reports, Cucumber with JS, SoapUI, SOAP, REST API, Appium

Defect Tracking & Defect Management Tools

JIRA, Rally, Bugzilla, Test Direct

Frameworks

Behavior Driven, Test Driven, Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid Driven, Page Object Model (POM), Home insurance and loan, E-Commerce Framework

Test Build & Integration Tools

Maven, Jenkins

Programming Tools

JAVA, Python, JavaScript, Gherkin, JSON

Database tools

SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle,

Markup Languages

HTML, CSS, XML

Platform Compatibility

Windows 7/8, UNIX, LINUX, Mac OS

Web Browsers

Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera

MS Office Tools

Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access

Version Control tools

GIT

Spy Tools

Firebug, Fire Path, Xpath

IDE tools

Eclipse IDE

QA Lead Automation Engineer May 2021 – Current

Safeway corporate, Livermore, CA

Safeway is one of the largest foods and drug retailers with 2,300 stores. DCCR (Digital club card registration) and PEPE (Proxy Engine Promotional ECommerce). The object of the current project is assigning a virtual card for the new customer and apply the savings/promotions to the order.

●Involved in SDLC Phases- Requirements Analysis, Test Case Development, System Testing, Regression and Conducted End to End and Black box testing.

●Interacted with developers and business Users to communicate the defects and actively participated in replicating the bugs and performed regression testing using JIRA on the process of Agile methodology.

●Created and executed Test Data using SQL and wrote SQL queries for back-end testing.

●Used Maven Performed continuous integration of code and scripts using Jenkins. Configured and launched builds using Jenkins jobs and analyzed the Test Results from Jenkins UI.

●Designed Hybrid Automation framework, involved in developing the automation script for using Java.

●Tested E-commerce application for all banners in Albertsons .com in labs as well website applications.

●Implemented TDD (Test Driven Development), BDD (Behavior Driven Development), using Cucumber with Java.

●Developed Maven Build scripts to run Sanity Test scripts.

●The POS and Retail application testing and deployment testing on the Pin Pads and on Various Toshiba ACE versions.

●Payment testing with different card types of visa wireless Snap EBT Integrated Automation scripts in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for a nightly batch run of the Scrip Database testing after reviewing the story cards and database diagram.

●Involved in Designing & developing data driven framework using Testing and implemented Java Mail to send the regression result automatically.

Environment: BDD, Maven, Eclipse, SQL, Java, JIRA, UAT, Junit, TestNG, Firebug

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Federal Home Loan Bank, San Francisco, California December 2019- till April 2020

QA Lead Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

●Created Modular Driven Automation Framework from the scratch using Selenium and Appium.

●Used Maven Performed continuous integration of code and scripts using Jenkins. Configured and launched builds using Jenkins jobs and analyzed the Test Results from Jenkins UI.

●Designed POM Data driven Test Automation, framework, involved in developing the automation script for Workday Finance Tool, Home Insurances and POS using Java, Selenium, WebDriver.

●Designed Hybrid Appium Test Automation framework, involved in developing the automation script using Appium, Java and Python.

●Implemented GIT repository for storing and sharing the code.

●Lead the QA testing effort to meet deadlines to complete unit testing, automation testing within timeline.

●Co-ordinated with various stakeholders, onsite team and offshore team with daily status call.

●Created Regression Document to track and report testing activities during each phase of testing, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, logged defects and their status, performance baselines.

●Developed Maven Build scripts to run Sanity Test scripts developed in WebDriver.

●Integrated Automation scripts in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for a nightly batch run of the Script.

●Performed UI testing, Database testing after reviewing the story cards and database diagram.

●Involved in Designing & developing data driven framework using Web Driver, Testing and implemented Java Mail to send the regression result automatically.

Environment: Maven, Selenium, Eclipse, Java, JIRA, TestNG, Web Driver, XPath, Git, Apache and Jenkins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AUL Corp Napa August 2019- December 2019

QA Lead Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

●Involved in SDLC Phases- Requirements Analysis, Test Case Development, System Testing, Regression and Conducted End to End and Black box testing.

●Interacted with developers and business Users to communicate the defects and actively participated in replicating the bugs and performed regression testing using JIRA on the process of Agile methodology.

●Created and executed Test Data using SQL and wrote SQL queries for back-end testing.

●Used Maven Performed continuous integration of code and scripts using Jenkins. Configured and launched builds using Jenkins jobs and analyzed the Test Results from Jenkins UI.

●Designed Hybrid Appium Test Automation framework, involved in developing the automation script for Desktop application using Appium, using Java and python.

●Workday Finance Tool (payroll and HR), Tested E-commerce application for their Auto insurances sale to the vendors and then to the customers Applications using various devices

●Implemented TDD (Test Driven Development), BDD (Behavior Driven Development), using Cucumber with JS and Java.

●Developed Maven Build scripts to run Sanity Test scripts developed in WinApp Driver.

●The Auto Insurance company used e-commerce for selling the auto commercial insurances to the dealers and agents for which we build the automation framework for testing this application.

●Integrated Automation scripts (WinApp Driver) in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for a nightly batch run of the Scrip Database testing after reviewing the story cards and database diagram.

●Involved in Designing & developing data driven framework using WinApp Driver, Testing and implemented Java Mail to send the regression result automatically.

●Performed performance testing with JMeter, Loadrunner to check the performance of the server for the 3PLQR code .

Environment: BDD, Maven, Eclipse, SQL, Java, JIRA, UAT, Junit, TestNG, WinApp Driver, Firebug, XPath and Jenkins

Zenimax Online Studios Rockville, MD Feb 2017 –15 Aug 2019

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

●Interacted with developers and business Users to communicate the defects and actively participated in replicating the bugs and performed regression testing using JIRA on the process of Agile methodology.

●Used Firebug, Fire Path to debug, edit and locate the objects based on ID, Name, XPath, CSS Selector, Link, Partial Link, Attributes, and Tags.

●Created and executed Test Data using SQL and wrote SQL queries for back-end testing.

●Used Maven Performed continuous integration of code and scripts using Jenkins. Configured and launched builds using Jenkins jobs and analyzed the Test Results from Jenkins UI.

●Designed Hybrid Appium Test Automation framework, Page Object Model for Mobile application (Android/ iOS apps) using Cucumber with JS

●Involved in Web Services Testing using SOAPUI with REST to create and execute automated functional, regression, compliance, and load tests.

●Integrated Automation scripts (WinApp Driver) in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for a nightly batch run of the Script.

●Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using JIRA.

●The gaming company used e-commerce for selling the various games app on the website and also on the mobile by providing various offers /discounts for which we build the automation framework for testing this application.

●Worked with the developers to reproduce the bugs and to resolve usability issues during UAT. Created Regression Document to track and report testing activities during each phase of testing, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, logged defects and their status, performance baselines.

IDEXX laboratories ME. Feb 2016 – Jan 2017

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Participated in Kick off meetings and walkthrough meetings with Development, Business and another QA Team.

Involved in Test Planning, writing Test Scenarios and various other quality-tracking reports.

Used Team Foundation Server for creating test cases, tracking defects.

Used Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse IDE, Maven, SVN, Jenkins to create automation regression suite.

●Created functional testing automation scripts for all the modules in Selenium WebDriver using Java and TestNG framework.

●Responsible for implementation of Hybrid Test Automation Framework with cucumber (JS)build using Data driven and Modular.

●Involved in testing Web Services using SOAP and REST. Installed, configured SOAP UI to test web services using WSDL/WADL files.

●Knowledge of SQL (MS SQL Server) for database verification checks and validations.

●Writing and maintaining bugs and test cases in JIRA.

●Well-versed with Agile-Scrum methodologies and involved in creating daily burn down charts.

Environment: MS SQL Server, Windows, Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Maven, SVN, Jenkins, Eclipse, JIRA, SoapUI Pro, XML, JSON.

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, Pune, India May 2007 - June 2012

Software Testing Engineer

Hotel Simply Product is a Property Management System for managing the Hotel system. It is designed as a primary tool for capturing the Booking flow, HK, Admin tasks and Accounting

It is a web-based application for description of intended use of the Hotel industry which offers a revolutionary of new Front-desk interface to work with at the heart of its PMS. The system seamlessly integrates Reservations, Front Desk, Housekeeping, along with your Restaurants, Spa, Travel Desk etc. Through its built-in POS terminals, and also your Marketing/Regional offices, select corporate customers, and Travel agents enabling direct transactions on a unified platform.

Responsibilities:

●Prepared and updated Manual and Automation test case

●Involved in writing, reviewing and executing functional test cases

●Converted Manual Test cases to Automation scripts.

●Handled the Team and assigning the Task for both Manual and Automation.

●Identified the test cases needs to be automated

●Prepared Functionality Matrix for assigning task during Regression.

●Participated in Core Team. Get updates on Business standards and update the Product Quality for every week

Technical skills:

●Application Worked: Property Management Web Application.

●Tool Used: MS Word, MS Access, SQL Server 2005, Putty, SOAP UI, IE Debugger.

●Module validated: All web modules for Booking flow, HK, Admin tasks and accounting.

EDUCATIONS

M. Tech in (Computer Science and Engineering) from Bharati Vidyapith, Pune (Maharashtra, India).2011

B.E. (Computer Science and Engineering) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur (Maharashtra, India). 2006

Diploma in Computer Science and Engineering from Board of Technical Education, Maharashtra State 2003

Scrum Master Certificate. Certificate ID: 001081446 Certification Active through: 10 June 2022

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