Software Development Engineer

Professional summary

Software Development Engineer in Test with 6+ years of experience in Automation Testing and Manual Testing of web-based applications in team-oriented Agile environment. Proficient automation skills to develop and maintain framework using Java programming language for UI and backend testing. Worked in various domains such as Healthcare and Financial Services. Ability to work closely within a team and independently. Excellent communication skills and proactive approach to work. Experience in working with offshore teams.

Kana Makishova

Software Development Engineer in Test

Chicago, US, IL / 773-***-**** / ************@*****.*** Employment history

FEB 2021 - PRESENT

NAPERVILLE, IL

Software Automation Tester, Discover Financial Services

• Actively participated in evaluating and testing software to validate program functionality

• Played a key role in improving CI/CD pipeline efficiency by conducting timely API testing with Swagger, leading to an 18% reduction in build time

• Skilled in debugging, troubleshooting, and unit testing

• Strong background in agile methodologies and collaborative development

• Decent knowledge in Core Java and Multithreading

• Strong knowledge of Java Object Oriented Programming (OOP) language

• Hands-on experience in Functional, Smoke, End to End and Regression testing

• Excellent Knowledge in Test Scope and Test Case Creation/ Test Design

• Deep understanding in each phase of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Test strategies, and Test plans

• Performed automation and manual testing of UI and Backend application

• Developed Test Plans and Test cases for various aspects of the User Interface and backend application

• Performed API testing using Postman for manual approach and Rest-Assured library for automation with Java in order to verify the request/response of Transactions within the Application

• Recorded the deviations/bugs found during the development cycle and communicated to the client counterparts

• Worked with developers to reproduce the bugs and to resolve usability issues during QA UAT environment testing

• Developed and maintained the test automation framework with automation tools: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, TestNG.

• Comfortable in using JIRA for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management

• Used POM (Page Object Model) design patterns on TestNG, which makes the code reusable, maintainable, and more readable

• Developed reusable codes and executed test scripts using Selenium and IntelliJ

• Developed custom HTML Extent reports to improve the run result readability to business team and upper management

• Performed parallel execution using TestNG for asserting and verifying

• Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in source controls like Github over the time for improvements and new features

• Involved in identifying test cases that can be automated and executing automated tests scripts. JUN 2018 - DEC 2020

LOMBARD, IL

Software Automation Tester, Change Healthcare

• Implemented BDD Automation Framework using Selenium Web Driver, Java, GIT, Maven, TestNG, and Cucumber for UI testing

• Applied Page Object Model design approach created step definition and feature files using Gherkin language

• Performed and automated Web Services API testing for content verification and validation using REST API, REST Assured, and Postman(manually)

• Automated test scenarios, which become part of Automation Regression Suite

• Configured Jenkins for Continuous Integration and centralized dependencies in pom.xml file with the help of Maven.

• Reported bugs/defects, updated all changes made to the test case and closed it when all requirements are met through JIRA and Confluence

• Implemented Page Object Model design to maintain and organize framework along with build management tool as Maven to manage dependencies in pom.xml file

• Automated database testing using JDBC to connect to the database and retrieve the data for further validation

Education

2016 Master's Degree in Linguistics-English literature, Ala-Too International University Skills Selenium Java

TestNG Maven

Cucumber SQL

REST API Postman

JIRA Jenkins

Git HTML

CSS XML

JSON Oracle DB

Agile Scrum

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