Violeta Kesic
Software Engineer in Test
*******.*****.****@*****.***
Alexandria, VA (Open to relocate in Denver area)
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Experienced full-stack SDET with 5+ years in developing and improving quality of automated test scripts to support web-application testing. Ability to perform various types of testing throughout STLC. Passion for continuous learning and a willingness to gain new skill sets that will support the project and bring value to the team. Motivated to build a long-term career and grow within the company's goals.
• Highly skilled in Functional (Manual & Automated) Testing, and implemented Smoke and Regression suits in Jenkins CI/CD to do Cross Browsers Testing in multiple virtual machines.
• Capable of designing and developing various Testing Frameworks, Test Cases and Test Scenarios for Data-Driven Framework (DDF) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) using Gherkin Language.
• Created and supported automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver with JUnit framework udder Java platform
• Implemented Page Object Model with Selenium WebDriver to achieve code reusability
• Experience with Java programming language using OOP concepts
• Hands-on experience in testing RESTful API services using POSTMAN and is skilled in SQL and JDBC for database testing in RDBMS like Oracle.
• Proficient in using POSTMAN for manual API Testing, REST Assured Library for Automated API Testing by analyzing Swagger API documentation.
• Experience in Jira and Jira Xray as Project Management and Bug Management tools.
• Confident in using Git as a version control system, GitHub as a collaboration tool and remote repository.
• Generated and analyzed HTML/Cucumber/Json reports TECHNICAL SKILLS:
● Test Approaches: SDLC, Agile-Scrum, STLC
● Frameworks: Data Driven, BDD, Hybrid, Page Object Model (POM)
● Languages: Java, Gherkin, SQL, HTML, XML, JSON, CSS
● Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, REST-Assured, Gherkin
● Testing Build & Integration Tools: Maven, Jenkins, JDBC, AWS cloud services, Web Services: SOAP API, API Testing-REST Assured with Java
● Database: Oracle, MySQL
● Utility Tools: IntelliJ, POSTMAN, GIT, GitHub, Jira
● Operating Systems: Windows
● Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access
● Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari
● Bug Tracking: Jira, Jira Xray
● CI/CD: Jenkins
● JavaScript-Cypress (currently taking training)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Software Engineer in Test
Wells Fargo Columbia, MD Jan 2021 – Present
● Implemented all sprint related Scrum Ceremonies (Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Retro, and Demo) and followed Agile methodology.
● Worked closely with product owner and developers to define the components of the automation testing to validate the application’s requirements.
● Performed both Manual and Automation Testing in Web-based Application.
● Researched, analyzed, reported and retested resolved bugs/defects using Jira Xray with the help of automation and manual testing.
● Participated in creating and maintaining Test Automation Framework (Hybrid-BDD-DDT) as a Maven project written in Java to develop and execute Acceptance Tests from Cucumber Feature files and scenarios in Gherkin Language.
● Configured and Automated Functional Test cases using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, Cucumber, and Junit.
● Developed and implemented Objects using POM design pattern and Selenium WebDriver
● Performed API testing to validate endpoints using POSTMAN for Manual and REST Assured for Automated API Testing.
● Prepared SQL Queries for data validation in MySQL and implemented JDBC connection for automation purposes with Java
● Experienced Git as a distributed version control system and GitHub as a repository hosting service.
● Executed Regression Test Suite and Smoke Tests triggered by the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins.
● Used JUnit to verify expected behavior of code under test
● Utilized Apache POI jar file to read Test data from Excel spreadsheet.
● Familiar with parallel testing through Maven Surefire plugin.
● Created and analyzed HTML reports, Cucumber JSON report to automate Test reports and include screenshots where necessary.
Software Engineer in Test
Compass (CRM) Falls Church, VA May 2018 – Dec 2020
● Participated in all Agile-Scrum Ceremonies-Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Demo, Retro meetings.
● Reviewed and analyzed user acceptance criteria alongside with business analysts to ensure proper understanding of requirements.
● Verified and validated software application functionalities, features and usability manually.
● Collaborated with QA Engineers to develop effective Test Strategies and Test Plans.
● Created test cases and scenarios based on Software Requirements Specification in Maven project using Java programming language.
● Performed functional, smoke, positive, negative and regression testing.
● Automated test case executions using JUnit, Selenium WebDriver with Java.
● Identified defects, bugs or issues in the software under test.
● Used Jira for bug tracking and followed up with development team to verify bug fixes and to update bug status.
● Generated Cucumber HTML and JSON reports with screenshots in case of any failures.
● Applied Cucumber BDD approach with Gherkin language to describe behavior of the system in a structured format.
● Implemented POM design pattern with Selenium WebDriver by storing elements and methods for each page separately, so that we can achieve reusability and centralized code organization.
● Developed SQL Queries for testing various Database validations.
● Connected and interacted with relational databases (DB) using JDBC with Java programming language.
● Managed, collaborated and tracked code project changes with GitHub and Git version control system.
● Used Jenkins CI/CD for Parallel Test Execution in Multi Browsers. EDUCATION:
● MA in Tourism University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia 2018
● BA of Science in Tourism University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia 2017 ACTIVITIES:
● JavaScript-Cypress training for Mobile Testing
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