Automation Engineer Quality Assurance

ERIKS KAZA

Orlando, FL ***** 407-***-**** *********@*****.***

SOFTWARE QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER

Results-driven Software Quality Assurance Automation Engineer with 8+ years of experience in testing mobile and web-based applications using various technologies and tools. Experienced in creating automation frameworks from scratch utilizing Selenium and BrowserStack. Experienced in developing Android mobile test automation with Appium and scripting for test automation using Python/JavaScript/Java. Have an outstanding ability in creating REST API automation test suites. Have testing experience on mobile, web, API and Software Engineering concepts. Experienced in driving end-to-end software quality, including leading testing effort. Experienced in writing test plans, API scripts, or test cases. Have proven knowledge of usability, exploratory, smoke, functional, performance, negative, regression and user acceptance tests. Experienced in Agile CI/CD (SCRUM, Kanban) and Software Development Life Cycle. Exceptional in Database testing. Experienced in creating test documentations, test plans and test suite and cases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: PyTest, PyCharm, VSCode, Robot, Behave, Lettuce, Selenium, Appium, Sauce Labs, Docker, Jenkins, Testmo, Practi Test, Cucumber, SoapUI, Postman, BrowserStack, Lighthouse, WebStorm, Git, GitHub, JIRA, HP ALM

Languages: JavaScript, Python, Java,XML, HTML, SQL Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQLite

Operating Systems: Windows, MacOS, Linux

Methodology: Agile, Waterfall, Kanban

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Allio Capital/ Seattle, WA

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Mar 2023–present

• Designed, developed, and maintained comprehensive Appium automation scripts to ensure accurate and efficient testing of Native mobile application throughout sprint-based releases.

• Leveraged Postman to create and execute JavaScript scripts for thorough verification of REST API endpoint responses.

• Created GraphQL queries to fetch and manipulate data from various APIs.

• Performed comprehensive code reviews, analysis, and conducted performance tuning, effectively troubleshooting existing code issues.

• Provided guidance to project teams on established testing practices and standards set by the organization.

• Collaborated closely with the Scrum team in major development projects.

• Delivered training and offered valuable technical assistance to members of the automation team, serving as a mentor to support the growth of less experienced QA professionals.

• Runed Test Cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Load Runner and Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

• Lead the team of 4 QA engineers.

• Collaborated with the support team to replicate, diagnose, and efficiently resolve customer issues, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.

• Performed manual mobile testing using real devices and emulators. Concentric Sky / Instructure Eugene, OR / Salt Lake City, UT Quality Assurance Analyst II Jun 2021–Mar 2023

• Performed UI and API (Postman) testing for the Badgr application.

• Created End-to-End test for the application and test cases based on the requirements suitable for future automation.

• Created Automation tests using Cypress and performed automation regression testing using JavaScript.

• Performed End-to-End, Regression, Smoke, Sanity tests for Badgr and Integration testing for Canvas and Blackboard.

• Served as an active member of the release team by actively participating in Production process improvement for optimizing teamwork.

Automatic Inc San Francisco, CA

Software QA Automation Engineer Jan 2018–Jun 2021

• Developed, executed, and maintained automation UI and API scripts and test environment.

• Participated in developing automation test cases, test strategies, and test plans by analyzing product requirements in the Microservices environment.

• Automated tests using Selenium Web driver using Python.

• Executed functional and non-functional tests to verify application quality.

• Performed Mobile testing using BrowserStack tool.

• Performed REST API testing using Postman with JavaScript.

• Using HP Aplication Lifecicle Management too for gathering requirements,testing and maintenance.

• Participated in daily stand-up team meetings.

• Performed Mobile Testing using Appium.

• Implemented the automation framework with Appium ruby on mobile apps.

• Effectively used Appium to automate tests on both mobile web and mobile native customers. Dynatech LLC Riga, Latvia

Software Quality Assurance Engineer Dec 2015–Dec 2017

• Translated business requirements into manual tests to cover new and existing functionalities for web-based and desktop applications on different projects.

• Conducted End-to-End, UAT, Functional, Regression, UX/UI /GUI, Usability, Compatibility, and Recovery tests.

• Automated Performance tests using Selenium Web driver and JavaScript.

• Executed cross-browser compatibility tests (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE, Opera) of web-based applications.

• Collaborated with product and development teams to prioritize testing for new changes or new features added to the application, participated in QA team meetings and discussions. EDUCATION

M.S. in Civil Engineering – Riga Technical University Riga, Latvia

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