Merjen Setdarova

(Green card holder)

Phone: 224-***-**** Email: adz1po@r.postjobfree.com Location: Lisle, IL LinkedIn Automation Test Engineer with 6 years of experience testing User interface (UI), Application Programming Interface (API) and Data base. Excellent code reading skills, with the strength to recommend improvements to ensure a bug-free final product. Perform different test types like: white box, functional, integration, regression and smoke test. Technical skills

• Java

• JavaScript

• SQL

• JSON

• Gherkin

• Selenium

• Cucumber

• TestNG

• Postman

• JUnit

• Cypress

• Ready API

• Rest Assured

• Karate

• JDBC

• Jenkins

• Maven

• Sauce labs

• Agile, Scrum

• OOP

• POM (Page

Object Model)

• Azure DevOps

• Soap UI

• GIT

• Gradle

• Jackson

• Linux

• Waterfall

• Excel

Experience

03/2021- present QA Automation Engineer

Crawford & co, remote

• Developed BDD testing framework from scratch specifically designed for UI and API automation using Cucumber and Junit using Java, which ensured maximum test coverage.

• Took ownership of modifying and maintaining an Automation Framework Models (BDD/Hybrid)

• Actively conducted thorough peer code reviews to ensure code quality and collaboration within the development team.

• Created a comprehensive set of reusable Utility methods in Java to automate testing across various layers of our applications.

• Working on Cucumber's future file and data-driven testing to test a functionality against several pieces of data. Utilizing the Apache POI to read data from Excel files.

• Executing and automating SQL queries with the JDBC library for back-end verification and validation.

• Created POJO classes for serialization and deserialization in API automation using Rest assured and Jackson libraries.

• Working with the Page Object Model design (POM), developing elements for each page object and reusing them all in different scripts.

• Testing REST API with Postman to perform manual API testing.

• Using runner classes in Cucumber to generate step definition and used tags to run different kinds of test suites like smoke, regression using Selenium WebDriver and Java.

• Through using Selenium WebDriver and a framework that is data-driven, Functional testing and Regression testing are being performed.

• GitHub is used for source code management and code sharing. 04/2019- 03/2021 IT Software QA Specialist

Morningstar, Chicago IL

• Assisted with all stages of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), including requirements analysis, test documentation, application testing, and defect reporting.

• Automated Rest API testing using Rest Assured library using TestNG framework

• Have experience testing Rest API using Karate BDD framework.

• Used Postman for requiring API manual validations on a day-to-day basis.

• Actively involved in the SDLC and STLC process and used Azure DevOps as project management tool and Bug Reporting tool to log the defects and reporting purposes for developers to fix the bugs.

• Automated UI testing using JavaScript with Cypress.

• Developed framework to test UI functionalities using TestNG data driven framework with Apache POI excel reader.

• Have a hands-on experience scripting in JavaScript with Cypress.

• As part of a data-driven test, wrote MS SQL queries and performed data validations on the returned response.

• Participated in Daily QA Meeting, Sprint Planning meetings, Sprint Retrospective meetings and Daily Scrum meetings.

• Cultivated and upheld positive connections with the project team. 01/2017- 04/2019 Quality Assurance Tester

Wheels Inc, Des Plaines, Illinois

• Involved in Automation testing using Selenium WebDriver with Java.

• Developed automated test scripts for Smoke and Regression, Positive and Negative tests with Selenium Web Driver in Cucumber framework using Java language.

• Created test strategies, plans, cases, scripts, and other project documents.

• Using Selenium WebDriver, transform manual regression test cases into automation scripts.

• Actively Used MySQL and checked the SQL Server database in order to verify the data.

• Used Postman to test SOAP API.

• Made and created automation scripts.

• Had worked in Gradle project, used Bamboo for remote execution

• Has hands-on experience with database testing techniques, bug life cycles, and STLC at all levels.

• Work closely with the scrum team throughout the development process.

• All activities involved in manual testing:

Education

01/2011 - 07/2013 Associate degree - Math teacher (Diploma) Khydyr Deryayev Pedagogical school, Mary, Turkmenistan

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