QA AUTMATION ENGINEER

469-***-****

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Dallas TX

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Technical Skills

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE

FINANCIAL, HEALTH CARE

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cigna, Waterside, CT

QA Automation Engineer

May 2021 - Current

Point72, Stamford, CT

QA Analyst

June 2019 – April 2021

Scholastic, New York City, NY QA Tester

Nov 2017 to May 2019

Education

Bachelor of computer science

university of central punjab (Pakistan)

WORK STATUS

GC

Profession Summary

5 years of professional experience in manual and automated software testing for various business applications and platforms

Hands-on knowledge and experience in every phase of STLC and SDLC and standard test process guide for QA Strategy and QA methodologies-Iterative, Waterfall and Agile (scrum)

Expert in Manual & Automation Testing of Client server/Web based Applications

Conduct Fronted, Backend, Web, and GUI

Expert in Manual, Smoke, Functional, Boundary, Positive/Negative, Integration, Ad-hoc, UI, System, Regression and UAT

Expert in Writing, Executing, and Maintaining Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test Cases and Test Scenarios in every release and in all phases of SDLC

Proficient in QA Testing both in Manual and Automation using Selenium, HP-Quality Center, ALM, JIRA etc.

Experience in data analysis, debugging, identifying, reporting, tracking and resolving all defects prior to production

Experience in open-source automation testing tools like Selenium WebDriver

Experience with JUnit, TestNG, Apache POI, BDD frameworks

Experience in Jenkins, maven and GIT

Expert in writing, querying and Testing RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL Server.

Experience in documenting Defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps

Developed procedures for structured walkthroughs, reviews, and testing to carry out validation and verification functions

Participated and coordinated team meeting, daily Scrum meeting, Planning Sprint and Retrospective meetings

Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) to measure the testing process and requirement progress

Possess excellent interpersonal, written, verbal communication skills and strong analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills.

Work equally well in self-managed or team environment successfully.

Maven (Page Object Module) and Jenkins for Selenium test cases.

Jenkins as continuous integration tool for Selenium test results and Selenium Grid, as well as for nightly build execution; sent status mail to QA Team upon failure of builds; and

Selenium Web Driver, Eclipse, Java, and TestNG frameworks for test scripts, annotation, parameterization, data providers, test suites, and HTML reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cigna, Waterside, CT May 2021 to Present QA Automation Engineer

Cigna is an American worldwide health services organization based in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Its insurance subsidiaries are major providers of medical, dental, disability, life and accident insurance and related products and services, the majority of which are offered through employers and other groups.

Project: Cigna Web Application Execution

Application:

Web Application – is a Web based client-application to handle client data and information and services.

Core – is a Web based application to handle market data analysis and generate report for Execution service.

Key responsibilities:

Designed and developed Test Plan, Test cases, and Automation Test Scripts

Collaborating with Developers, Technical Project Managers and Product Managers to understand fast changing project requirements

Conducted Backend testing using SQL and database concepts

Developed automated scripts using java in Selenium Web Driver with maven, cucumber, and Test NG

Performed test automation Development using test framework that implements Page Object Model (POM), cucumber feature files, and TestNG

Used Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins) for automation script run in nightly basis and to provide quick feed back to the developers

Implemented Maven for Project build tool, and Git for code repository management

Developed script using Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts in Java

Performed Regression testing to verify the functionality with the new codes introduced for modification and/or enhancement using Selenium Framework

Used xpath method to identify the web elements by using selenium locators like id, Name, XPath, text method linkText in the application

Involved in Web Services Testing using RestAPI

Involved in managing the user stories and assigning priorities in JIRA

reporting defects, and defect life cycle using Atlassian JIRA and HP Quality Center ALM

Developed a automation Test plan to execute automation cases in different environment based on testing requirements and created Test cases for Application module

Extensively worked with Database verifications, Validations and developed Complex SQL Queries for Backend Testing with Oracle

Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the manual and automated testing

Participated actively in team meetings with Functional/Development Team for fixing the bugs

Environment: Windows 7 and 10, JIRA MS Office 2013, Skype for Business, Outlook, SharePoint, Share drive, Eclipse (IDE), Selenium Web driver, Java, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Oracle.

POINT 72, STAMFORD, CT QA Analyst June 2019 to April 2021

Responsibilities:

Participated in release planning, sprint planning, retrospective and daily scrum for agile scrum development.

Extensively worked throughout the defect life cycle from opening to closure using JIRA and ALM.

Developed Behavior Driven Development (BDD) scripts with Cucumber and written step definitions for behavior.

Used Gherkin Syntax to test the behavior of the Application (BDD) using Cucumber with Selenium (WebDriver).

Involved in planning, preparing, creating, debugging and running automated test scripts in Selenium WebDriver using Java, Maven, GIT, JUnit and TestNG framework.

Developed Data driven, Keyword driven test framework with Page Object Model approach.

Used TestNG, Apache POI frameworks to develop test suite and Data Driven Testing.

Cross-Browser Testing was involved for browser compatibility.

Analyzed automated test results, maintained and sent reports to the management.

Conducted different type of testing (smoke, black box, functional, integration, UI, data, interface, regression, UAT, etc.) for Web and Client-Server based applications.

Developed Oracle SQL Queries to validate data from the database tables and performed Back-End Testing.

Developed an automated test framework in Selenium and deployed source code to GitHub.

Used Jenkins for continuous integration and development.

Reviewed along with the team all necessary documents and ensured that all scripts and documents are updated.

Prepared test strategy and test schedule for new, upgraded application and services.

Identified, tracked, resolved all defects and ensured resolution prior to implementation of software.

Supported and worked with team to prioritize work requests and reported issues/results on a daily/weekly basis.

Coordinated with management, development team, operations and clients for any outstanding issues and ensured the implementation of software in the correct environment.

Scholastic, New York City, NY Nov 2017 – May 2019 QA Tester

CMS – Content management system that offers managing publishing assets in a central repository for users to access, export, search, and import the contents.

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed Test Plan, Test cases, and Test Scripts.

Analyzed the Functional Requirements and Design Specification documents.

Worked closely with software developers, business analysts and other project management personnel involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Attended design review conference meetings with off-site team.

Communicated with developers and QA Team members to resolve issues.

Manually performed Positive, Negative, Integration, Boundary, Sanity, Functional, Cross Brower, Regression, UAT and End-To-End Testing for billing applications.

Used HP Quality Center to ensure efficient documentation of QA activities.

Performed Back-End testing by verifying the data in the Microsoft SQL Server Database.

Managed the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Participated actively in team meetings with Functional/Development Team for fixing bugs.

Reviewed along with the team all necessary documents and ensured that all scripts and documents are updated.

Prepared test strategy and test schedule for new, upgraded applications and services.

Identified, tracked, resolved all defects and ensured resolution prior to the implementation of the software.

Supported and worked with team to prioritize work requests and reported issues/results on a daily/weekly basis.

Coordinated with management, development team, operations and clients for any outstanding issues and ensured the implementation of software in correct environment.

Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize the success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches

Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs

Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands

Produced and maintained consistent technical documentation

REFERENCE available upon request

SIDRA KASHIF

QA AUTMATION ENGINEER

ABOUT ME

QA Automation engineer with 5 years of experience. I possess strong multi-tasking skills, with ability to simultaneously manage several projects and schedules. I ensure customer satisfaction, meeting business needs. I am seeking a challenging position in the IT Industry.

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