AIZA UMAROVA
Cincinnati,OH
Summary
Over 8 years of experience as an SDET and Quality Assurance Engineer in various domains such as industry-leading internet auction, Financial banking, Healthcare, and Telecommunication. Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle, Software Testing Life Cycle, Defect Life Cycle including methodologies like Agile and Waterfall. Excellent technical communication, documentation, interpersonal, and reporting skills. Ability to learn and implement new technologies and challenging concepts quickly.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Automation QA Engineer
Ally Financial
11.2021 - Current
- Design, create and maintain test automation scripts for UI and API testing in Web based environment to enhance efficiency and coverage
- Lead the execution of test cases through both automated and manual tests
- Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/GitLab for Integration and E2E tests
- Investigate and analyze test results when automation test script failures occur and provide root-cause analysis for problems
- Perform Regression, Functional, End-to-End, ad-hoc and exploratory testing across multiple browsers
- Manual API testing using POSTMAN, running SQL queries in Database
- Create defects in JIRA with supporting documentation, logging session using Log Rocket
- Execute test cases in Qtest with test results for every testing environment QA, UAT and production
- Participate in production release every month
- Perform accessibility testing using Deque aXe DevTool and NVDA
- Mobile testing using BrowserStack
- Mentor new hires by providing training
- Significantly increased the automation coverage by 40% in additional application, decreased regression run time by 25%
SDET
PayPal
03.2020 - 11.2021
- Developed robust automation framework in JAVA utilizing concepts of Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
- Extensively used Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber feature files, Singleton Design Pattern, MAVEN
- JUnit/TestNG, and (Page Object Model (POM)
- Optimized test cases to maximize the success of manual software testing and to increase automation coverage with consistent, thorough approaches
- Performed smoke and regression testing for UI and API
- Expertise in using POSTMAN for manual API testing and REST Assured using JAVA library for automation
- Independently analyzed, troubleshot, and debugged test run issues utilizing Lg4j logs
- Used Continuous Integration Tool Jenkins for automation scripts run on a nightly basis and provided quick feedback to Developers
- Automated test reports using Cucumber plugins to achieve HTML/JSON reports attached with failed test scenarios
- Decreased Regression suite run time by 40% by implementing parallel testing using Sauce Labs
QA Engineer
UCLA Health
01.2018 - 03.2020
- Involved in designing and implementing a Hybrid automation framework on IntelliJ IDE using core JAVA
- Selenium WebDriver, and JUnit
- Documented test cases according to requirements using Gherkin language
- Performed manual and automated Functional, Regression, and Smoke testing
- Suggested and implemented Page Object Model (POM) along with Singleton Design Pattern, created a framework from scratch
- Worked with MAVEN as a build management tool, GIT for version control, Jenkins for Continuous
- Integration, and JIRA for project management
- Conducted manual Cross Browser testing against Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer using Sauce
- Labs to improve the Browser Compatibility of the application
- Developed and implemented API automation scripts using Postman and REST Assured library
- Performed Database and Back-End testing by writing SQL Queries for data validation
QA Analyst
Pluto TV
08.2015 - 12.2017
- Successfully led all manual smoke, regression, ad-hoc, and UAT tests of front-end applications and tracked all the findings in the Requirement Traceability Matrix document
- Manually created test cases to ensure overall coverage of every functionality applying positive and negative scenarios and boundary-testing techniques
- Identified bugs and reported all the defects following the bug life cycle
- Retested when necessary
- Tested products and services through all stages of development and administration by verifying that user requirements were met and products were in compliance with the quality process
- Identified bugs and issues within the system and reported all the defects following the bug life cycle
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Kyrgyz Russian Academy of Education
Bishkek, KyrgyzstanSkills
- JavaScript, Nodejs, JAVA, Maven, Selenium WebDriver, Protractor, BDD, Hybrid, Page Object Model (POM)
- Cucumber, Gherkin, JUnit, TestNG, REST Assured, JDBC, POSTMAN, Swagger, MySQL
Timeline
Automation QA Engineer
Ally Financial
11.2021 - Current
SDET
PayPal
03.2020 - 11.2021
QA Engineer
UCLA Health
01.2018 - 03.2020
QA Analyst
Pluto TV
08.2015 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Science -
Kyrgyz Russian Academy of Education