Dana Nugumet
Chicago,IL
Summary
Experienced Software Test Automation Engineer with over 6 years of expertise specializing in testing across front-end, back-end, database, and mobile applications. Adept at identifying software defects and implementing effective solutions to ensure product quality and customer satisfaction. Possesses strong technical skills, resilience under stress, adept problem-solving abilities, a sense of responsibility, and effective teamwork skills. Proven ability to collaborate with off-shore team, delivering high-quality software within tight deadlines. Committed to continuous improvement and staying updated with the latest automation trends and best practices in the industry.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Test Automation Engineer
Chamberlain Group
04.2023 - 01.2024
- Developed automation test scenarios for authentic devices, employing Java, Cucumber with JUnit, and Appium across iOS and Android platforms to guarantee extensive test coverage and efficiency. Additionally, collaborated on automation projects involving diverse real devices such as Garage Door Openers, VKP devices, Camera devices, automated lifestreaming, face-detection, megachips, subscription (Tesla, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, etc.).
- Executed mobile testing by leveraging tools such as Appium Inspector, Xcode, and Android Studio to identify and engage with mobile app elements, facilitating efficient test automation.
- Utilized simulators for devices, including myQ Insight, to cover a wide range of test cases, ensuring a comprehensive examination of all aspects throughout the testing process.
- Worked closely with developers to identify, report, and track software defects, contributing to improved product quality.
- Created and maintained clear and comprehensive test documentation, test calculations, and quarterly plannings. Improved mobile automation framework, optimized all test reports and pipeline workflow.
- Conducted regression testing, smoke testing, and daily production testing in Azure DevOps, to guarantee the stability of software releases.
- Participated in code reviews and provided feedback to improve the overall quality of the codebase.
- Collaborated with offshore QA team members from Europe to continuously improve test processes and adopt best practices for efficient testing.
Software Development Engineer in Test
Northwestern Mutual
07.2021 - 05.2023
- Designed and developed test automation BDD framework from scratch using Java, Cucumber, JUnit with Maven build tool. This framework increased testing coverage and accuracy, resulting in faster identification of critical defects and improved report accuracy.
- Conducted back-end testing using Postman for manual testing and RestAssured libraries for automation testing. Utilized POJO classes, JSON Path, Object mapper, and Jackson library for serialization and deserialization.
- Utilized Kevlar API Automation Framework, a specific framework used at NM, to perform API testing using JavaScript programming language and integrating Cucumber for efficient test automation.
- Successfully implemented PDFBox library for testing purposes, resulting in 20% reduction in processing time and 15% decrease in errors.
- Extensive experience in mobile application testing for both iOS and Android platforms, utilizing Appium automation framework.
- Collaborated as a cross – functional team member of Agile environment, working with Product Owner and development teams to integrate automation testing into software development process, that improved resulting in better communication, more efficient processes, and stronger sense of teamwork.
- Actively participated in all meetings including scrum standup, sprint planning, demo, sprint grooming, spring retrospective meetings.
- Conducted training sessions to enhance automation testing skills of new team members, resulting in stronger and more capable team.
- Actively involved in smoke and regression testing, analyzing application behavior during different testing phases to ensure functionality of software with a high effectiveness rate.
- Managing bug reporting and tracking through Jira and utilized GIT for version control. Collaborated with remote teams through GitHub to manage code repositories.
Software Test Engineer
RTS Factoring
05.2018 - 06.2021
- Utilized Java to develop and automate tests, employing Selenium WebDriver and TestNG frameworks to interact with web elements and execute actions on them.
- Collaborated closely with customer service team to conduct an in-depth analysis of the application's weaknesses and provided practical recommendations to enhance its performance and usability.
- Led process improvements by integrating Page Object Model (POM) into framework, enabling the centralization of web elements.
- Developed scripts for UI web and mobile applications using Selenium, Appium, Cucumber, resulting in a 20% increase in testing efficiency.
- Performed sanity, functional and regression tests throughout software testing life cycle (STLC) steps.
- Manipulated test data from Oracle Database by writing and executing SQL queries via JDBC connection.
- Contributed to setting up tests to run with Jenkins CI/CD tools, enhancing testing process’ efficiency.
- Reported and tracked software defects using bug-tracking tool Jira and assisted with root cause analysis.
- Participated QA review and retrospective for continuous improvements in Quality and release process.
- Interacted with development and product management teams on review and analysis of functional requirements, resolution of reported bugs and various technical issues.
- Received recognition from management for outstanding contributions to automation testing process, including identifying critical defects that saved company time and money.
QA Automation Tester
First Security Bank
02.2017 - 03.2018
- Performed front-end automation testing on internal web application, utilizing Cypress testing framework to write test scripts in JavaScript.
- Demonstrated a strong aptitude for quickly learning and effectively utilizing various tools and technologies.
- Collaborated with QA team to establish testing guidelines and best practices, ensuring that all testing activities aligned with Agile principles and methodologies.
- Conducted smoke, functional and regression testing to evaluate software's performance and ensure that it met specified requirements.
- Designed and maintained SQL queries and scripts to perform data validation and integration testing.
- Participated in code reviews and provided feedback to improve overall quality of the codebase.
- Reported timely and comprehensive documentation of bugs, utilizing Jira to track and report issues.
Education
Business, Management And Finance
University of Finance And Administration
Prague, Czech Republic05.2016
Skills
Java
JavaScript
Selenium
Postman
Appium
Azure DevOps
SQL
Cucumber
TestNG
JUnit
Kevlar
Karate
POM
Git, GitHub
Jenkins
JIRA
Confluence
TestRail
Timeline
Software Test Automation Engineer
Chamberlain Group
04.2023 - 01.2024
Software Development Engineer in Test
Northwestern Mutual
07.2021 - 05.2023
Software Test Engineer
RTS Factoring
05.2018 - 06.2021
QA Automation Tester
First Security Bank
02.2017 - 03.2018
Business, Management And Finance
University of Finance And Administration