Test Automation Quality Engineer

Ajay Kumar

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TEST AUTOMATION ENGINEER - SDET

Quality Engineer Cucumber (BDD) Selenium (Java) REST Assured Playwright Functional Testing DB Testing

·Senior SDET with 13+ years of expertise in the whole SDLC process, including design, development of test plans, test cases, test execution, and implementation of test processes to achieve the best results in fast changing work environments.

·Hands-on technology professional accustomed to working in complex, project-based workspace.

·Extensive functional testing experience, development and maintenance of test automation frameworks in Selenium WebDriver Java with JUnit and developed test scripts in Cucumber (BDD).

·Hands-on experience automating web apps using Java selenium using BDD

·Analysis of business and system requirements including impact analysis of existing systems and create

detailed requirements with business users and technical architects

·Hands-on experience in automating Rest API’s using REST Assured & Java

·Managed multiple scrum teams in offshore-onshore model and ensured timely delivery of quality products.

·Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, technically competent, result-oriented with problem

solving skills and ability to work independently and as a team.

·Involved in various phases of testing starts with development integration (DIT), system integration (SIT), user acceptance (UAT) and release validations (PROD).

·Excellent knowledge of Agile ceremonies and experience with Waterfall methods. Experienced in

testing Android and IOS mobile applications, as well as using simulators

SKILLS SUMMARY

Testing Activities:

Tools and Programming Languages:

Test Automation

Cucumber (BDD) & Selenium

API Testing

UFT/QTP(TDD)

Functional Testing (Agile & Waterfall)

REST Assured & Robot Framework

DB & Regression Testing

Java, Python, C++ and Basics of VB

Sprint Planning, Grooming, Review and Retro

JUnit & TestNG, GIT & SVN

Smoke & Sanity Testing

Atlassian JIRA & HP ALM

Integration & System Testing

MYSQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB

Acceptance Testing

Jenkins & Electric Flow - CI/CD

Test Script Creation & Failure Analysis

TestRail, Zephyr and Xray

Defect Management, Test Plan & Strategy

Bitbucket, Stash & Confluence

Test Design, Execution and Test Closure

Maven

Domain: Investment Banking, Data Analytics & Life Sciences

Postman & Swagger IDE (Eclipse, Sprint Tool, Intellij, PyCharm)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Client: Citi Bank - Irving, Texas

Designation: Sr. SDET Engineer 09/2024 – Till Date

As a senior SDET for the project involved in enhancing and maintaining the automation framework. Involved in reviewing the artifacts developed by the team. Worked closely with BA and PO to understand the application architecture and functionality to create more robust and isolated scripts for specific functionality in the modules. Accomplishments:

·Maintained and enhanced test automation framework code and shared repositories.

·Attended agile ceremonies, conducted sprint review demos and code review sessions.

·Created wiki page to document application’s test coverage and test description facilitating test

automation framework maintenance and business continuity.

·Ran regression automation suite in UAT for each production release.

·Created and maintained automation acceptance test suite using Selenium and Cucumber framework.

·Coordinated with the development team for defect tracking using JIRA testing management tool.

Client: Aflac, Charlette, NC, USA

Designation: Senior Test Engineer - SDET 01/2021 – 07/2024 Empowered designs and develops digital solutions that get people from Point A to Point B with ease. We take traditionally complex, time-consuming processes and create solutions that give people what they really want: a simpler, better, faster experience.

Roles & Responsibilities:

·Automation testing using java/selenium.

·API testing using Insomnia/POSTMAN.

·QA management

·Root cause analysis of the defects raised by incident team using Kibana logs.

·Checking the functionality of micro services

·Fixing the data directly in production server

·If the issue is related to code, then creating a ticket and sending for defect management team

·Handling the communication between T3 support team and Defect management team

Client: Meredith Corp, New York, USA

Designation: Test Lead 06/2019 – 12/2020

Technologies: CMS migration testing, Automation using Nightwatch.js, Confluence, Jira for defect management, Sequel Pro and MAMP for DB testing, Postman for API testing

Project Description: Meredith Corporation is a media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa. The company owns magazines, television stations, and radio stations. Meredith's publications have a readership of more than 120 million, paid circulation of more than 40 million, and its websites have nearly 135 million monthly unique visitors. Meredith’s broadcast television stations reach 11% of U.S. households.

After, TimeInc Acquisition in 2018, Meredith planned to develop a unified CMS tool on top of WordPress which in OneCMS.

The CMS migration project is all about migrate data from Legacy DCMS, Drupal 7,8 and WordPress to OneCMS.

Responsibilities

·Validating the legacy export UDF to check the correctness of data.

·Validating the body parser data to check each field in content’s body is exported.

·Migrating data to OneCMS using pipeline and checking each field again in OneCMS to ensure 100% data migration.

·Compare source system export with data migrated to production DB

·Participating in all agile ceremonies

·Automating the OneCMS content add/update scenarios using Nightwatch, NodeJS automation framework.

·Managing the offshore team

·Creating the sprint end reports and maintaining the QA artifacts on confluence

Project Name: BBC Sounds. 09/2017 - 05/2019

Organization: British Broadcasting Center, London UK.

Technologies: CI/CD, Jenkins, Automation Using Ruby & cucumber tool, RW testing on devices using Appium tool, JIRA for bug tracking

Project Description: Listen to your favorite BBC podcasts, live radio and music all in one app!

BBC Sounds is the new way to listen to BBC audio – your favorite programmes, podcasts, radio stations and music all in one place.

To give you the best experience, this app tracks what you’ve listened to on BBC Sounds and how long you’ve listened to programmes for. You can turn this off by logging into your BBC account and turning off “Allow Personalization”. This app also tracks when you add something to My list or Subscriptions.

Responsibilities:

·Automation of UI Applications Using Ruby and Framework capybara

·Working as a scrum team and following Agile methodology

·Testing responsive web on mobile using Appium

·Creating and managing bugs in JIRA tool

·Attending sprint planning meetings

·Attending OKR meetings to understand the product requirements better

·Participating in all agile ceremonies

·Creation of feature files

·Test automation analysis for all the testing jobs setup on test and live environment

·Coordinating with development Team to resolve the issue.

·Managing the deployments to test and live

Client Name: Realogy Franchise Group. 07/2012 - 09/2017

Organization: Mindtree Ltd. Bangalore.

Technologies: Automation Using Java/Selenium TestNG, Maven, EAI testing, Web service testing using SOAP UI tool, Database testing using SQL server 2008, Data Migration Testing

Project Description: Realogy has a diversified business model that includes real estate franchising, brokerage, relocation and title services. Realogy's world-renowned brands and business units include Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, CENTURY 21, Coldwell Banker, Coldwell Banker Commercial, The Corcoran Group, ERA, Sotheby's International Realty, NRT LLC, Cartus and Title Resource Group. Collectively, Realogy's franchise system members operate approximately 13,800 offices with 241,000 sales associates doing business in 103 countries and territories around the world. Its headquarters is in Parsippany, New Jersey.

Responsibilities:

·Automation of UI Applications Using java, Selenium (Web Driver).

·Data Migration testing

·EAI (BizTalk Server) testing on BizTalk server 2013R2

·Web service testing using SOAP UI tool.

·Functional Specification Understanding & Creating Clarification documents.

·Understanding Technical Specification Document.

·Creation of System Test Plan and Designing Test Scenarios.

·Creation of Test Cases and Involved in peer reviews.

·System Testing, Database Testing and Regression Testing.

·Coordinating with development Team to resolve the issue.

·Creation of System Test Report and Check off list.

·Creation of Weekly Status Report and Driving Meetings

·Verifying All the data in SQL server 2008

·Mentoring new team members.

EDUCATION DETAILS & EXPERIENCE

·Master of Computer Application (MCA) - UPTU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India – (July 2008- June 2011)

·Bachelor of Science - CCS University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India – (July 2004- June 2007)

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