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Darika Begalieva

Schaumburg,IL

Summary

Dedicated and passionate Test Automation Engineer(5 years of SDLC and STLC experience) with proven professionalism and hands-on testing skills. Seeking an opportunity to leverage my experience as an SDET/QA. My extensive knowledge and experience in Web-based application testing will be a valuable addition to the IT team. Authorized to work in any company without sponsorship.

  • Highly proficient in Automation Software Testing using Java, Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber in various domains including Retail, Financial and Banking.
  • Excellent knowledge and implementation skills in complete Software Development Life Cycle ( SDLC ) and Software Testing Life Cycle ( STLC )
  • Experience in Waterfall and Agile Projects, worked very closely with Product owners in Agile and attended different ceremonies like Sprint Planning meeting, Scrum, Backlog grooming, Sprint Review.
  • Proven ability in designing and creating automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, Cucumber, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, tools.
  • Experience of Creating, Modifying and Maintaining new and existing Automation Framework Models (BDD/TDD/ Hybrid, Data Driven Frameworks) .
  • Strong knowledge of Object-oriented programming language(OOP) Concepts using Java for test case automation.
  • Experienced in formulating test plans, developing, executing, maintaining test cases, and test procedures.
  • Expert in using Behavior Driven development (BDD/TDD) by writing Gherkin language using cucumber tool, developed Scenarios, Scenario outlines, features and Step definitions and generating the cucumber reports .
  • Experience in installation and Administration of version control systems like GIT (Distributed Version Control), GitHub .
  • Working with Unit Test Frameworks like TestNG, JUnit.
  • Experience in implementing the Page Object Model (POM) by creating element for each page object and reused all the objects in various scripts.
  • Automated Web services by writing Scenarios and used assertions for data validation and performed data driven for validating different endpoints .
  • Expertise in Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), SQL scripts/queries for data verification to compare the expected results with the database.
  • Performed Database/Backend testing by writing complex SQL Queries for data validation and integrity, good at writing complex Joins and knowledge in SQL/Mysql.
  • Worked with Selenium Grid for running multiple tests across different browsers, operating systems, and machines in parallel.
  • Substantial experience in using Jenkins as a Continuous Integration (CI) server to configure with Git technologies and Maven.
  • Experienced in using Jira for defect-reporting and defect-tracking.
  • Experience in writing good quality object-oriented code for testing purposes by following industry standard java coding standards.
  • Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently and with a team.
  • Quality oriented mind set up with Test to Break Attitude and Tactful & Diplomatic Behavior.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.
  • Experience include Unit testing, Functional testing, User Acceptance Testing, Integration testing, System testing, browser compatibility testing & Security testing of client/server and Web Base Applications.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer in Test

Ulta Beauty
Bolingbrook, IL
04.2022 - Current

• Analyzed Business Requirements Documents and Identified documents required for System and Functional testing efforts for all scenarios
• Created test cases for manual testing to verify functionality of the application.
• As Cross-Functional team member of Agile environment worked closely with Product Owner to analyzed Acceptance Criteria for user stories.
• Performed both Manual Testing and Automation Testing in internal Web-based application.
• Involved in Test Design, Test plan and preparing Test Result for each executed component.
• Responsible for analyzing and prioritizing functional, regression test cases for test automation development.
• Designed and implemented different automation framework from scratch like Page Object Model.
• Performed Back-end Testing by writing SQL Queries in MySQL Database.
• Identified web elements using various locators like ID, Name, Class, TagName, XPath and CSS locators.
• Used Junit-Cucumber framework to drive execution.
• Developed Selenium Automation framework such as Hybrid Framework (Behavior and data driven) on Intellij IDE using core java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber, Maven, Git , POM Model and Jenkins tool for Continuous Integration.
• Hands on experience in handling synchronization using Implicit wait and Explicit waits to improve automation suite efficiency.
• Designed automation test framework using TestNG, Framework structures, Selenium WebDriver and Core JAVA.
• Used JIRA as defect-tracking tool and undated JIRA with all changes made to any test case.
• Using Apache OPI for reading and validating data from Excel files.
• Conducted Cross Browser Compatibility Testing for the application on all major web browsers Chrome, Firefox and IE.
• Participated in full life cycle of Agile scrum as SDET, performed automation testing, supported manual testing, provided Production support for Application Release.
• Participated in various Spring planning, Test planning and Test strategy meeting to analyze product backlog item and spring backlog item.

Software Developer in Test

CVS
Chicago, IL
04.2021 - 04.2022
  • Created test plans and test cases based on the requirement documents and reviewed it with Business Analysts, Users and Development teams before performing the
    testing
  • Built the current framework from scratch, both UI and API for brand new React application based on Cypress, Cucumber and TypeScript/JavaScript on IntelliJ IDE.
  • Worked with Solar and Wind applications and strong knowledge in Energy Industry
  • Used/Maintained Cypress with Cucumber and TypeScript framework to test web-based application and services.
  • Extensively used SQL developer to validate and verify data from backend.
  • Involved in performing different types of testing like Functional, Integration, Regression, System, Performance, Smoke testing and API Testing.
  • Worked with users in performing UAT testing and assist them in getting access to different applications.
  • Closely work with Developers, UI and UX as well as with QA automation team
  • Organized Weekly status meetings with the involve parties to report the status and discuss any issue that impacts the testing schedule.
  • Ability to read logs from Portainer and work with Docker
  • Ability to review pull requests (code review) and make sure code looks clean, maintainable and reusable while writing test tools and identifying automation opportunities.
  • Ability to Document my work and maintain documents for teams on Confluence page.
  • As a scrum team member involved in Sprint planning, Sprint Review Meetings, Retrospective meeting, Look Ahead meeting, Testing Strategy meeting and Sprint unplanned requirements.
  • Ability to multi-task, prioritize and manage multiple simultaneous projects under tight and conflicting deadlines.

Software Developer in Test

Alliant Credit Union
Chicago, IL
02.2019 - 02.2021
  • Created test plans and test cases based on the requirement documents and reviewed it with Business Analysts, Users and Development teams before performing the testing.
  • Worked with Mortgage application and strong knowledge in Mortgage Domain
  • Involved in performing different types of testing like Functional, Integrated, Regression, System, Performance testing and API Testing.
  • Created an automation project using build management tool Maven using JAVA Programming language with Selenium WebDriver.
  • Experience in BDD using Cucumber in Gherkin format by creating feature files, step-definitions, runner classes and used JAVA for programming language.
  • Worked closely with the development team to identify and work on scripts that
    need to be automated.
  • Worked with users in performing UAT testing and assist them in getting access to
    different applications.
  • Collaborated effectively with Development, BA and Product Management to ensure software release deadlines are met with highest quality in place.
  • Organized Weekly status meetings with the involve parties to report the status and discuss any issue that impacts the testing schedule.

Education

Bachelor of Information Systems And Technologies -

Kyrgyz State University I. Arabaev
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
05.2024

Skills

  • Testing resources with SDET experience with various automation skills
  • Operation system: iOS
  • Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Jenkins, Maven,Selenium Grid ,Rest API ,GIT, JDBC
  • Testing: Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing
  • Excellent knowledge and implementation skills in complete Software Development Life Cycle ( SDLC ) and Software Testing Life Cycle ( STLC )
  • Expertise in understanding Business Requirement Specifications, Functional Specifications ,Design documentations and converting them into Test Scenarios
  • Test Management tools: JIRA
  • DataBase: MySQL
  • Documentation skills
  • Automation knowledge
  • MS Office
  • Team building
  • Good analytical and problem solving skills
  • Skilled in time, priority and task management
  • Interpersonal skills to interact with customers and team members
  • Presentation skills to present test results to individuals and groups
  • Communication skills
  • Programming Languages: Java, HTML,SQL, GHERKIN, XML
  • CI/CD Tools: Jenkins
  • Active in pursuing learning opportunities
  • Ability to work independently and as part of team
  • Willingness to travel
  • Fluent in both English and Russian Languages

Additional Information

Authorized to work

Timeline

Software Engineer in Test

Ulta Beauty
04.2022 - Current

Software Developer in Test

CVS
04.2021 - 04.2022

Software Developer in Test

Alliant Credit Union
02.2019 - 02.2021

Bachelor of Information Systems And Technologies -

Kyrgyz State University I. Arabaev
Darika Begalieva