QA Tester

BURCU PALABIYIK

Software Automation Test Engineer

Mont Belvieu, TX +1-281-***-**** *****************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/burcupalabiyik

G r e e n c a r d H o l d e r

SUMMARY

Experienced Quality Assurance Engineer with + 3 years of experience in both Manual and Automated Testing of web-based applications. Involved in UI and backend automation development for functional tests. Hands-on experience in Agile Methodology and deep understanding of Scrum Methodology, also familiar with Waterfall. Plan test schedules and strategies according to project scope and delivery dates and monitor and track bug resolutions.

Expert in developing frameworks and test scripts with Java, Cucumber BDD, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Rest Assured, Rest APIs, Postman, Maven, Git/GitHub, Jenkins CI/CD, and JDBC. Have also strong experience in Jira, and Jira Xray project management and bug-tracking tools. Detailed and result-oriented, creative problem solver, with exceptional communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills. Quick to assimilate the latest technologies, skills, and ideas. Positive, outstanding work ethic, and tremendous leadership.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), Waterfall.

Languages: Java, JavaScript, SQL, HTML,

Gherkin.

Testing Frameworks: Cucumber,

TestNG, JUnit, and Page Object Model

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver,

Restful API, Rest Assured, Maven,

Postman, JDBC, Apache POI.

CI/CD: Jenkins

Testing Types: Functional, Smoke,

Regression, UAT, and End to End testing.

Project Management/Bug Tracking: Jira,

Jira Xray.

Build/CI/TM Tools: Maven, Git, GitHub,

MySQL, Oracle, Jenkins.

Web Services: Rest Assured

IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse

EXPERIENCES

Software Automation Test Engineer Jun 2022 – Present Boney Financial Market,Ukraine L’viv

Worked in an Agile Scrum environment and attended Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Grooming meetings.

Collaborated with Test Lead to update and develop Test Plan requirements documents, and created automated/manual test cases.

Designed and developed Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Data Driven Testing (DDT) framework from scratch using Cucumber, Java, TestNG, Selenium, Rest Assured, and Maven.

Experienced in implementing and maintaining Page Object Model (POM) by adding Web Elements at the Page Level and reusing the same web elements.

Implemented TestNG as part of the framework by configuring the tesng.xml file to support test suites, groups, listeners, passing parameters, and cross-browser and parallel testing to run along with Selenium Grid.

Reduced overall manual testing hours %87 by writing and optimizing automation test scripts with a designed BDD framework.

Experienced with Postman for manual API testing and Rest-Assured for automated API testing.

Performed remote executions of daily Smoke Tests with Jenkins and sent email reports. Also configured triggered Jenkins jobs for regression testing.

Pushed defects in Jira Xray with defect type, priority, and detailed information about the defect to the specified application group.

Used Git/GitHub as a version-control system for tracking changes and Jira Xray for project management/bug- tracking purposes.

Environment: Cucumber BDD, Selenium WebDriver, Java, Rest Assured, Rest API, Postman, TestNG, Maven, HTML, CSS, Apache POI, Excel, Git/GitHub.

QA Automation Tester Oct 2020 – May 2022

Talentech Solutions, New York NY

Utilized Agile/Scrum software development methods to increase team efficiency by %75.

Experienced all Spring-related Scrum Ceremonies and followed Agile testing Methodologies such as Spring Planning, Daily Stand Up, Retro, Grooming, and Demo.

Created and maintained Cucumber BDD framework with JUnit using Page Object Model design pattern along with Java, Selenium Web Driver, Maven, SQL, and JDBC.

Performed Back-end database testing using MySQL, Java, and JDBC.

Performed a variety of tests such as Smoke, Functional, Positive, Negative, and Regression testing.

Utilized Git/GitHub for version control and collaboration with other teams.

Used Jira, and Jira Xray for project management, also email, and chat to coordinate with the development team.

Used Excel files with Apache POI for Data Driven Testing (DDT) to validate Database data with JDBC.

Updated test procedures as functionality changed during the testing cycle and prepared test cases for new functional modules.

Performed CI (Continuous Integration) using Jenkins in order to schedule Smoke and Regression Testing.

Submitted Cucumber Maven Reports and Jenkins reports to management. Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Java, SQL, Cucumber BDD, JUnit, Maven, Excel, Apache POI, Jenkins, Git/GitHub, JDBC

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s in Finance

Kocaeli University / Turkey

AWARDS-CERTIFICATE

Garanti Bank -Award exemplary behavior-2012 that makes a difference with its exemplary behavior

Garanti Bank- Making a difference with its exemplary behavior -award exemplary behavior-2013

ISTQB-2023

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