Emanuil Karakashev

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with 5 years of successful experience in Manual and Automation Testing Web and Client-Server Software applications, Database Applications, and APIs. Successfully perform Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, and Database and API Testing with excellent knowledge and implementation skills in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Experience in Agile Projects, worked very closely with Product owners, and attended different meetings. Currently working in an Agile Scrum environment with a good understanding of traditional Waterfall methodology. Strong experience in designing and creating and maintaining Automation Frameworks using Java, Maven, Selenium Web-Driver, Selenium Grid, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Apache POI, JDBC, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Database, REST-Assured, Jenkins, other tools, and Libraries. Experience in creating, modifying, and maintaining new and existing Automation Framework Models (Behavior Driven Development, Data-Driven Framework, REST API, Automation Testing Framework with Cucumber, Serenity & REST-Assured with Java). Experience in implementing Page Object Model (POM). Expert in developing Behavior Driven Development (BDD/DDT) by writing in Gherkin language using the Cucumber tool, developing Scenarios, Scenario outlines, features, and Step definitions, and generating the cucumber reports. Experience in Core Java, development by applying different concepts like OOPS concepts, Collections, Exception handling, Multithreading, etc. Experience in implementing Database Testing using SQL Database and JDBS. Using Jenkins for Continuous Integration (CI/CD) for scheduling, running, and maintaining Smoke and Regression Suite. Strong experience in using EC2 instances for running applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. Worked with Selenium Grid for running multiple tests across different browsers such as Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, operating systems, and machines in parallel. Strong experience with Git, Git Desktop, and GitHub.