Automation Engineer Quality Assurance

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Automation Engineer with 6 years of experience in the technology industry, specializing in manual and automated testing. Proven ability to deliver high-quality software in Agile environments, with expertise across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Skilled in designing test strategies, executing complex test plans, and ensuring application quality through robust quality assurance (QA) practices.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Automation Engineer Jan 2024 – Present Irving/Texas

Citi

Developed and maintained automated test scripts for web UI testing using Java, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, and the Cucumber BDD framework.

Collaborated with Product Owner, Development, and Operations teams to plan and execute testing efforts, ensuring products met functional requirements and quality standards.

Maintained and enhanced the existing automation framework, regression test suites, to support ongoing development cycles.

Implemented the Page Object Model (POM) with the Page Factory design pattern to improve test script maintainability and readability.

Utilized Jenkins for continuous integration (CI), executing automated regression suites and generating test reports.

Logged and tracked defects in Jira Xray, analyzing results and documenting issues to facilitate efficient resolution.

Executed health check testing with UFT (Unified Functional Testing) to verify application stability and production readiness.

QA/Software Developer Engineer in Test Nov 2021 – Nov 2023

Charles Schwab Corporation – Identity Access Management, Westlake, TX

Collaborated with Product Owners and Business Analyst to define acceptance criteria for each user story, ensuring clarity and alignment on expected outcomes.

Used Jira Xray for test management and defect tracking, ensuring efficient test execution and timely issue resolution.

Developed automated test scripts, reusable components, and functions using Selenium WebDriver, improving efficiency in Identity and Access Management (IAM) implementation and maintenance.

Led testing of authentication, authorization, and access control systems, ensuring the security, reliability, and functionality of the IAM/IGA application.

Created and managed test user data in Workday for various testing scenarios and compliance validation.

Performed LDAP data validation within the IAM/IGA environment to ensure data integrity, completeness, and accuracy.

Validated backend data using MySQL to confirm consistency and correctness of stored data.

Built a custom automation framework leveraging Page Object Model (POM), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and data-driven testing using Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, Cucumber, Maven.

Used Java to execute automated test cases verifying application functionality and regression stability.

Used Postman for API testing to validate request/response behavior, verify integration points, and ensure API reliability and performance

Automation Engineer Jul 2019 – Oct 2021

Translantik, McLean, VA

Worked in Agile methodology using the Scrum framework; participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Demos, Retrospectives, and other team meetings.

Collaborated with Product Owners, Developers to plan testing and ensure the product met requirements and quality standards.

Maintained and managed existing test cases, including smoke and regression test suites, to support regular releases.

Wrote automation scripts using Maven, Cucumber, and JUnit, helping to speed up testing and reduce manual effort.

Used Appium to perform mobile testing on Android and iOS devices, such as checking screen navigation, button actions, and form inputs.

Created test scenarios and Scenario outlines in Cucumber feature files using Gherkin syntax, and executed them with Java and Selenium WebDriver.

Applied the Page Object Model (POM) design pattern using the Page Factory class to organize and manage test code more efficiently.

Used Jenkins to run automated smoke and regression tests, and generated reports to track test results.

Reported and documented bugs in Jira, helping the team track issues and confirm fixes.

Conducted manual API testing using Postman, validated API endpoints.

performed database verification using MySQL to ensure data consistency and accuracy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Appium, Serenity, mabl

Test Frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber BDD, Selenium Grid,Playwright.

API Testing: RestAssured, Postman, RestSharp, Swagger, JMeter, Hamcrest Matchers, Jackson

CI/CD & Containerization: Maven, Jenkins, Docker.

Version Control: Git

Test Management: TestRail, JIRA, JIRA Xray.

Cloud & Infrastructure: Amazon EC2

Database & Directory Services: JDBC, Apache Directory (LDAP), SSO

AI Tools: Perplexity,Tabnine.

Languages: Java, C#, C, JavaScript,TypeScript, Python, Gherkin, HTML

RDBMS: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Code Editor: IntelliJ, Eclipse, VSCode, Sublime Text Code

Project Management Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Engineering

Al Mansour University College City, Baghdad

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