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Serve in a role performing functional testing, regression, cross browser, platform and UI testing by using company best practices. Create detailed, comprehensive test plans from complex requirements with scenarios designed to force project functionality to prove itself ready for a production environment. Estimate, prioritize and plan testing activities for projects, while often advising others on how to get the most out of their testing. Successfully write SQL to access and manipulate databases for testing. Utilize Postman to execute testing of RESTful API’s. Report, document and assign defects accordingly using JIRA, as well as update and communicate all relevant information. Plan, organize and run daily defect meetings during each release cycle to ensure that all defects are owned by the correct assignee and being addressed in a manner that best offers a solution. ● Work with senior development to recreate defects that occur in production environment and research to discover root causes to prevent from happening again in future releases. ● Develop and implement test cases, scenarios, and scripts according to business requirements by utilizing JIRA test management tool, as well as share innovative ways to improve the software for the customer. ● Develop strategies to employ reusable test automation scripts in order to enhance testing results, increase test coverage, provide faster feedback, and save on overall expenses related manual testing.

Vienna, Virginia, United States

Perform various key tasks, including execution of functional, smoke, regression, end-to-end testing as well as data validation functions. Write SQL queries for database back-end testing, while conducting research and validation. Oversee execution of cross-browser functional testing by utilizing Selenium WebDriver and BrowserStack software as well as recognize, assess, and document defects. Utilize Jenkins for remote execution of smoke tests and regression tests. Execute API testing by using several software languages, including Postman and requests with Python. Plan and host daily standup meetings and Sprint Retrospective by exceptionally performing in an Agile/Scrum environment. Perform various tests by utilizing Zephyr and identify several issues in JIRA. ● Assisted in Creating and ensured maintenance and execution of automated test cases by utilizing various software languages, including Selenium WebDriver, PyCharm, Python, and Selenium IDE as well as analyzed test failures to minimize defects. ● Successfully devised and implemented new ideas to improve vision of testing blog pages as well as secured appreciation from product owner on providing beneficiary ideas. ● Developed and implemented test case, scenarios, and scripts according to business requirements by utilizing Zephyr test management tool.

Served as key part in performing functional testing, regression, cross-browser and platform, and UI testing by utilizing company’s best practices, including Equivalence Class Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis, and Decision table. Leveraged Jenkins to ensure achievement of continuous integration and timely delivery by running tests automatically as well as assessed pass/fail criteria in QA environment and nightly Regression tests runs. Successfully wrote SQL to access MySQL database for Backend testing as well as utilized Postman to execute testing of RESTful API’s. ● Served as key part in performing functional, white box, black box, regression, cross-browser, platform, and UI testing by utilizing company’s best practices, including Equivalence Class Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis, and Decision table.● Leveraged Jenkins to ensure achievement of continuous integration and timely delivery by running tests automatically as well as assessed pass/fail criteria in QA environment and nightly Regression tests runs.● Performed exceptionally in the development of test plans, cases, scripts, and scenarios as well as utilized required traceability matrix for manual testing and aided automation QA team in creation of automated testing as per business requirements.

Manual And Automation Quality Assurance Test Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)