Quality Assurance Performance Testing

Aravind K

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance with expertise in Automation Testing, API Testing, Manual Testing, Mobile Testing, and Performance Testing across healthcare, finance, retail, and e-commerce domains.

• Co-ordinates between offshore and onshore teams, have done demos for the client, and trained multiple teams on Performance Testing.

• Had a good understanding of Java collections, OOP concepts, exception handling, and Generics.

• Experienced in Smoke, Functional, Integration Systems, Regression, and UAT Testing.

• Experienced in writing frameworks from scratch with Java, TestNG, Junit, BDD, Cucumber, and Page Object Models.

• Experienced in BDD, Cucumber, data-driven framework, and keyword-driven framework.

• Experience in writing functional Test Cases using different tools like Zephyer, Excel, etc.

• Had experience in writing Test Plan documents, resource planning, and Test Strategies.

• I implemented Jenkins, integrated with multiple pipelines, and wrote Jenkins Groovy scripts to achieve downstream builds.

• Built the Jenkins pipeline. Executed the scripts in Docker images.

• Had experience in testing the API Services and exposure to Spring Boot.

• Experienced in performing API testing using the POSTMAN tool.

• Wrote scripts using Java, Rest Assured to perform API testing.

• Had experience in the cloud using Amazon Web Services. Configured EC2 instances.

• Had performed Testing of file data residing in Amazon S3.

• I had experience in performance testing using JMeter and NeoLoad.

• Had experience in testing different applications like Salesforce and Pega.

• Involved in performing the Integration testing and validated the functionality and data.

• Used Appium inspector to record the execution Automate viewer to inspect DOM elements.

• Experienced in SQL testing using SQL/PLSQL. Wrote SQL Queries, Joins, Procedures.

• Experienced in UNIX, performed troubleshooting, tailing, and logging.

• Co-ordinated with offshore and onshore teams, guided offshore teams in using the framework.

• I had experience using JavaScript with Selenium and wrote the Test scripts in JavaScript.

• Experience in using test case management and defect tracking tools like Qtest and JIRA.

• Reviewed the stories and participated in Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning, and Release Plan.

• Worked in an Agile environment, motivated team player with the ability to work under minimal supervision, possessing strong analytical, problem-solving and strong, and communication skills.

Technical Skills:

Automation Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, QTest, Tosca, SAUCE Labs,

Auto IT

API & Web Services: Postman, REST Assured, SOAPUI, REST, JSON

Performance Testing: Apache JMeter, Neo Load, Dynatrace Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, PLSQL Frameworks: BDD, Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven, Hybrid, POM, Karate, ATDD

CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Git, Azure DevOps, Groovy

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3), Microsoft Azure

Databases: Oracle 11g/12c, MySQL, SQL Client

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix

Application Tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, Firebug, JIRA, Zephyr, QTest, Putty

Professional Experience:

EXPRESS SCRIPTS, MO OCT 2023 -Till date

Software Development in Test (SDET)

Responsibilities:

● Worked on testing different applications like Salesforce CRM and Pega BPM.

● Having led a team both offshore and onshore, coordinated between offshore and onshore teams, and guided them in using the framework.

● Involved in designing the framework from scratch. Conducted POCs to identify the right approaches and toolsets for Automation.

● Designed and automated REST API test suites using Rest Assured and validated services using Postman, ensuring 95% test coverage across microservices.

● Performed the Integration Testing and validated the integration of the Service Now application.

● Integrated automation tests into CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, configured Groovy scripts, and implemented downstream triggers using Docker images for efficient parallel test execution.

● Triggered downstream builds and Jenkins pipelines. Used Docker Images.

● Performed database validations, wrote SQL queries, and validated the data.

● Handled data that resided on AWS S3. Worked on AWS EC2 instances.

● Performed regression and smoke testing. Involved in testing the end-to-end flows manually.

● Worked on performance testing and performed load and spike testing for every release.

● Used Dynatrace for monitoring JVMS and DB Queries.

● Implemented strategies to validate a large pool of data returned by services. Environment: Selenium, JDK, Jenkins, JUnit, Cucumber, Maven, GIT, REST, AWS, Oracle 12c, Linux, JSON, BDD, POSTMAN, Dynatrace, Oracle12c, JMeter. Cerner, Kansas, MO July 2021 – Sept 2023

Software Development in Test (SDET)

Responsibilities:

• I participated in Agile Scrum methodology for application development and was involved in analysis, design, coding, unit testing, and UI end-to-end testing of business applications in a fast-paced environment. Used Azure for all the software development activities.

• Worked on the API testing using Postman.

• Hands-on experience with TOSCA.

• Good knowledge of manual Test cases in TOSCA, exploratory scenarios, and record/playback.

• Preparation of test data, executing and automating the test cases using TOSCA.

• Automated comprehensive API test collections in Postman, integrated with CI/CD pipelines, and generated real-time execution reports.

• Developing Page Object Model Automation framework using JAVA as a programming language and Eclipse as an integrated development environment.

• Implemented the application using the Spring Boot framework and handled the security using Spring Security.

• Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment. Perform various development activities for DevOps practices for the project, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous testing, and continuous monitoring.

• Executed a full scope of functional testing (smoke, system, regression, integration, data integrity, backend validation, usability) regularly.

• Planned, developed, and deployed a cloud-based testing environment utilizing the Azure cloud infrastructure platform. This includes testing step functions.

• Improved the custom applications build process through automation (CI/CD), resulting in a 15% increase in the availability of software for testing, and performed trigger-based automation of testing and builds.

• Created automation test scripts using BDD framework and Page Object Model method to test the web applications using Selenium WebDriver with JAVA and performed cross- browser testing and Parallel testing on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari using TestNG and Gradle on Selenium Grid to save time.

• Working closely with Developers, Business Analysts, Design Teams, and Business teams to plan testing approaches, cycles, and strategies. And developed good Architecture skills and awareness of best design practices and software architecture. Environment: Java, Selenium, IntelliJ, TestNG, Jenkins, Jira, Agile Scrum, and Postman. Best Buy, Minneapolis May 2019 - June 2021

Software Development in Test (SDET)

Responsibilities:

● It is an e-commerce company to help with online backup services. I have worked on testing customer-facing portals, billing modules, etc.

● Designed and created the framework from scratch. Conducted POCs to identify the right approaches and toolsets for Automation.

● Wrote functional Test cases, involved in designing the Test plan documents.

● Automated complex flows and logics handled auto-refreshing, Dynamic Pages.

● Performed requirement analysis. Participated in sprint backlogs and provided story points.

● Performed Data-driven tests in Cucumber, Parameterized BDD scenarios in the Cucumber framework, executed the Test Cases using different data, and verified the reports.

● Developed Automation scripts for new enhancements with Selenium Web Driver. Achieved CI/CD by modifying the existing Jenkins Groovy library, building the Jenkins pipeline, and triggering the automation scripts.

● Performed API Testing, used Rest Assured for the Rest-based API services.

● Tested multiple web services and validated the JSON responses.

● I wrote JavaScript-based Test scripts to test Angular-based applications, involved in implementing JavaScript with Selenium Web driver.

● Performed cross-browser, parallel testing with the SAUCE LABS.

● Trained multiple developers in performance testing with JMeter. Environment: Selenium, JDK, Jenkins, Cucumber, JavaScript, SOAPUI, Maven, TestNG, GIT, BDD, CSS, Linux, SQL, NodeJS, Rest Assured, JIRA. Cerner Corp, Bangalore Sept 2016 - APRIL 2017

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

● Reviewed Functional Requirements and specification documents and created test cases based on test scenarios drawn from functional requirements for business processes.

● I identified test cases to automate the test cases using Selenium and was involved in Sprint retrospective sessions for story pointing.

● Involved in using Appium to develop Automation testing scripts for Mobile Development and client-server applications.

● Got appreciation for quickly adopting the framework and showing good progress.

● Performed Webservices testing, implemented REST Assured to perform the API testing.

● Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, Integration, Regression, Security, End-to-End, User Acceptance Testing, and Back-End testing.

● Used Selenium GRID to execute test cases in parallel with different target machines.

● Executed system, integration, end-to-end, and user acceptance test (UAT) test cases.

● Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on the front end by writing and executing SQL queries on the Oracle database.

● Used JavaScript to handle auto-refreshing dynamically. Auto refreshing Webpages. Environment: Selenium, JDK, Jenkins, Cucumber, JavaScript, SOAPUI, Maven, TestNG, GIT, BDD, CSS, Linux, SQL, Rest Assured, JIRA.

Bank of America, Hyderabad, India JUNE 2014 - AUG 2016 Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

● It is a Java-based standalone application that implements data filters on the GUI.

● Gathered requirements from business analysts and converted the requirements into a technical design.

● Gathered the data, Java components developed for the core business logic.

● Implemented modules using Core Java APIs, Java collections, and integrated modules.

● Developed view components with JFACE.

● Developed composites, I layer using core Java API and SWT/JFACE.

● Used Java core concepts for writing business logic.

● Wrote complex SQL joins according to business rules.

● Performed back-end testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in appropriate tables and manually verifying the data with the front end. Environment: JDK, SWT/JFACE, SVN, Maven, Eclipse, Oracle9i, JavaScript, Junit. EDUCATIONAL DETAILS:

Master’s in Information Technology 2019

CERTIFICATIONS:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – Amazon Web Services.

• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).

• ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer.

• Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).

• Elements of AI – University of Helsinki.

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