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QA Analyst / GUI Automation tester

Location:
Waterloo, ON, N2L 3E6, Canada
Salary:
85000
Posted:
July 21, 2025

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SEJAL BIHOLA QA Analyst Waterloo, ON, CA

**********@*****.***

+1-647-***-****

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To give effective as well efficient efforts towards attainment of organizational goals with exploring wide scope of knowledge and intelligence. To work in an environment that provides a challenging and rewarding career ensuring a high-level job satisfaction. In the process apart from benefiting my employer, I also expect to learn for my overall development.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 6 years of experience in the Information Technology Industry as a QA Tester in Manual and Automation Testing.

• Firm knowledge of different phases of Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile

(Scrum) Methodology and Waterfall.

• Experience in Web based testing including GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Functional Testing and Unit Testing.

• Expert in developing Java and Selenium Web Driver test scripts and Test Frameworks using TestNG / Junit, ANT/MAVEN build tools and Continuous integration tool Jenkins.

• Proficient in using test automation tools such as Selenium and QTP to develop automation testing scripts for web and client server applications.

• Good experience in building automation frameworks such as Page Object Model, Data driven, BDD (Cucumber).

• Knowledge in Object Oriented Programming Concept such as -Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction, Encapsulation, Interface, Class, Abstract Class, etc.

• Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing the results of scripts, interaction with developers in fixing the errors.

• Experience in Bug Tracking and Reporting using HP Quality Center, Jira.

• Worked extensively with Data Adapter, Dataset, Data reader as a part of ADO.NET to access and update database.

• Understand SAAS, IAAS technologies, cursor and temporary tables.

• Familiar with WCF service client calls for data processing and acquisition.

• Strong skill in Backend Testing using SQL queries on Oracle and SQL Server.

• Proficient in all phases of Test Life Cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle.

• Knowledge of API/Web Service testing using SOAPUI, Postman tools.

• Created automated Test scripts using automated tools and ran the test scripts on various Builds and instances.

• Good at multi-tasking and working well under tight deadlines with high efficiency.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent troubleshooting, mindset, multi-tasking, with research, problem solving, and ability quickly learn new tools and technology.

CERTIFICATION

• Cloud Computing Basics (Cloud 101) –

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(Authorized By LearnQuest & Offered through Coursera )

• Microsoft .NET certificate in college campus program.

• Research on predicting author profile with MAP-REDUCE and HADOOP.

(Research paper Published in IJSRD Volume-2, Issue-1 ISSN (online)-2321-0613) TECHNICAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Automation Tools : Selenium WebDriver, SoapUI, Appium, Postman Languages : Java, C++, C, C#, ASP.Net, PHP, ADO.Net Scripting Languages : VB Script, Java Script

Web Technologies : HTML, CSS, Xpath, XML

Database Skills : SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2016/2017, MS Access, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services

Defect tracking tools : Bugzilla, Jira, HP ALM

Test management tools : qTest, Testlink, Test Rail Development Framework : Eclipse, Visual Studio, MS Visio, Lucid Chart Operating Systems : Windows, Unix, iOS, Android

Version control tools : SVN, Git

CI and Build tools : Jenkins, Ant, Maven

Automation Frameworks : Data driven, Page Object Model (Junit/TestNG), BDD (Cucumber), .Net Framework EDUCATION

M.Tech In Web Technology (MS in IT)

Gujarat University, India, 2014

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology (BE IT) Saurashtra University, India, 2009

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tata Consultancy services (TD) -Toronto-ON

Role- GUI Automation tester/ QA Analyst (TD) Mar 2021- 31st Jan 2024 TCS- Mar 2021 to current

Environment: Jira, JTMF, IBM Mainframe, Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Maven, Postman

• Automate the test cases on next-gen framework using Cucumber, Maven & Junit

• Experience in functional, regression and system testing using automation & manual testing tools

• Good Experience with the IBM Mainframe in H62

• Responsible for Regression testing, Acceptance testing (UAT), End-End testing, Exploratory testing

• Experience on the various projects like Web-broker, OFI, RTFX, ATT-External.

• Perform the Manual Mobile testing using the Seetest Mobile device & Android Emulator

• Update the records and Edit multiple things on Confluence Page BELL Canada, Scarborough - ON Mar 2018 – March 2021 Bell Media creates content and builds brands that entertain, inform, engage, and inspire audiences through the platforms of their choice. Bell Media is Canada’s leading content creation company with premier assets in television, radio, out-of-home advertising, and digital media

Role: QA Automation Test Developer (Selenium)

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Maven, Jira, Test Rail, Git, HTML, Xpath, CSS, Eclipse, SQL, Jenkins, Agile, Web Services, Postman

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements, Software requirement specifications to create Test plan and Test cases for manual and automation testing.

• Understand new requirements and develop QA Test cases for the new features.

• Build Page Object Model framework using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG and Maven for automation testing.

• Used web-debugging tools like XPath, Firebug and Firepath to locate elements.

• Responsible for attending the daily meeting regarding the status of the application on daily basis in the Agile Environment.

• Participated in the System Test Plan reviews, Test Scenarios, Test Cases Review and modified the documents with respect to the review comments.

• Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) implementation with Cucumber gherkin and Jenkins Continuous Integration, expanded test scenarios, tracked Cucumber reports.

• Integrate Automation framework with Test case management tool Test Rail.

• Responsible for Regression testing, Acceptance testing (UAT), End-End testing, Stress testing, Smoke testing, Security Testing, Performance testing

• Involved in Rest based web services testing using Postman web services testing tool.

• Involved in breaking down the User Story into Tasks and assigning.

• Responsible for back-end testing/database testing, which was done using SQL queries.

• Used Core Java and Collections to build the framework.

• Configured Framework with Maven to generate Extent report and maintained automation code in Git repository.

• Setup Jenkins job for nightly build.

CENTETA SYSTEMS Aug 2014 - Nov 2017

Centeta is an IT firm solely dedicated towards website development and striving hard to mark the highest milestone in the category.

Project: https://www.newportcapitaladvisors.com/(65retire.com), Feb 2016 – Nov 2017 Project: - https://karncouzens.com/, Aug 2014 – Jan 2016 Role: QA Automation Tester

Environment: JIRA, Selenium, Java, Junit, Eclipse, Bugzilla, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle, Toad, Jenkins, SVN, ANT, Agile, Postman API, SOAP UI,REST API

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Performed requirement feasibility analysis and identified test scenarios

• Created a Traceability Matrix to ensure 100% test coverage

• Execution of manual testing and automation testing for GUI, using various tools like selenium

• Involved in QA activities and the development of system testing strategies, plans, test cases and conditions to ensure processes and products meet standards.

• Analysis of the GUI and preparing plan of automation testing procedure

• Analyzed business needs, distinguish between needs and wants, identify gaps between business needs and standard application functionality.

• Created automated script for REST-API testing using Rest Assured framework.

• Used Postman & SOAPUI for rest service testing.

• Played a key role in setting up test environment and test data.

• Automated the Functional, Regression, Integration test cases using Selenium WebDriver.

• Developed automated scripts using Selenium, Java, JUnit in Eclipse IDE to perform functional and regression testing for web-based applications.

• Involved in Automation Infrastructure Development using Selenium.

• Involved in Developing the Data Driven Framework.

• Involved in manual testing of various test cases with respective test scripts on Selenium and generate analysis report with Quality Center.

• Developed Automation Test Scripts with extensive parameterizations using multiple actions to categorize tests.

• Coordinating testing efforts between all the technical teams involved, setting up most comprehensive test data set under different testing environments.

• Involved in writing different SQL queries to access data from different database tables and used for data verification.

• Performed backend data validation testing to ensure data integrity and correctness

• Retrieved data from the backend for testing using SQL scripts 3BRAIN TECHNOLOGIES Jun 2009 - May 2011

3Brain Technologies is a leading Web Development, Mobile App development, Web App Development software based company located at Ahmedabad.

Project: https://www.sdwealthmanagement.com/

Role: IT Analyst / Developer

Environment: Asp.Net, C#.Net, .Net 3.5 SQL Server 2008, Html, SQL Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services, Xml, CSS. JavaScript

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to web development staff, including and offshore developers.

• Applies significant knowledge of industry trends and development to improve service

• Be aware of latest developmental trends and make suggestions to incorporate into teams

• Develop performance and search engine optimized code.

• Document the development work, both in the code & in our internal documentation.

• Provide framework solution for multiple business entities.

• Designed, tested, installed and monitored newly implemented systems and software at client sites.

• Monitored and took corrective actions at every project phases

• Programmed add on(s), interfaces or local adjustments

• Extensively used LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML and LINQ to Objects for retrieving the data efficiently and Just in Time manner.

• Develop/Maintain development/ staging /production workflow for code, data and content.

• Perform code reviews of team members work

• Assist in all phases of product development lifecycles and ongoing releases cycles.

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