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Gulaiym Kalieva

Buffalo Grove,IL

Summary

Results-oriented professional with comprehensive exposure to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and Defect Management. Proficient in Waterfall and Agile methodologies, specializing in Verification/Validation. Skilled in creating comprehensive test plans, strategies, and cases for manual and automated testing. Adept at using Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, Jenkins, and Git for testing client-server and web-based applications. Experienced in API testing using REST Assured and proficient in database testing across various RDBMS. Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Test Engineer

Caterpillar
01.2020 - Current
  • Designed and developed robust test automation frameworks for multiple projects utilizing Java, JUnit, Cucumber, Karate and Maven.
  • Provided technical leadership and mentoring for test engineers on multiple applications/projects.
  • Automated and scheduled regression test suites achieving over 90% test coverage and configured daily email reports for the entire team.
  • Trained both onsite and offshore teams in test automation and deployment processes, which significantly enhanced team efficiency and fostered a culture of knowledge sharing.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring for test engineers on multiple applications/projects onshore and offshore; train and mentor project team members to create, execute, analyze, and maintain automated regression suites
  • Used Jenkins Continuous Integration tool for automatic build process and running smoke, sanity and regression tests.
  • Identified bugs, logged them into Azure DevOps Board, monitored their progress, and verified their fix.
  • Automated Database migration testing using JDBC for Oracle DB.
  • Developed extensive and detailed documentation for the QA team, substantially streamlining the onboarding process. This improved understanding of QA standards, facilitated learning about applications and the use of the automation framework, and provided guidance on effective documentation practices for all team members.

Sr QA Automation Engineer

Walgreens
09.2017 - 11.2019
  • Monitored bug resolutions, tested fixes, and provided QA perspective to developers.
  • Used Selenium WebDriver for developing and executing automation scripts with Java programming language
  • Involved in designing and developing Cucumber + TestNG based BDD framework on POM pattern from scratch
  • Worked on Regression Testing, Functional Testing and Smoke Testing and automated generation of reports from testing to share with whole team.
  • Used Jira for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking and managing the defects and executing the test cases
  • Played a key role in root cause analysis and resolution of critical defects, improving overall product stability.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and provide input into the design process.
  • Hands on testing of RESTful web services with POSTMAN tool, JSON, XML
  • Constantly participated in Sprint planning, grooming, retrospective meetings to plan user stories and provide estimates
  • Worked in a dynamic Agile Scrum environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings

SDET Engineer

US Cellular
02.2014 - 09.2017
  • Worked on hybrid automation framework based on Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG.
  • Designed manual testing strategies and performed manual testing.
  • Automated over 500 UI test cases using Selenium WebDriver, Java and TestNG. Initiated and facilitated code review meetings to detect and fix code issues, which significantly decreased the number of failed tests.
  • Developed and designed Automation Test Framework, reusable methods and libraries using Java with Selenium WebDriver.
  • Involved in various types of testing such as Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, and Smoke Testing.
  • Applied Page Object Model design pattern by using Page Factory to centralize web elements and methods of the framework.
  • Successfully performed UI testing using Java with Selenium WebDriver.
  • Participated in test documentation reviews and walkthrough, including those for test plans, test cases, test summary reports
  • Performed Back-End (Database) testing to retrieve and validate data from the Database.
  • Utilized Jira for bug tracking and test case management.
  • Extensively used Git commands for code management through the Agile process.
  • Collaborated closely with other teams on daily basis to analyze complex requirements and create test cases to ensure good test coverage.

Education

BBA - Business Management

Kyrgyz Turkish University Manas
Kyrgyzstan
06.2014

Skills

  • Languages: Java, SQL, JSON, Gherkin
    Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Rest-Assured, Jackson API, Karate
    Testing Frameworks: POM, BDD, Hybrid Testing
    Build: Maven
    IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ
    Defect Management Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps
  • Application Testing
  • Scripting and Documentation
  • Test Planning and Strategy
  • Test Automation (Selenium, JUnit, TestNG)
  • Manual Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Cross-Browser and Cross Platform Testing
  • Agile/Scrum Methodologies
  • Defect Tracking and Reporting (Jira, Azure)Team Leadership and Mentoring
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

Timeline

Software Test Engineer

Caterpillar
01.2020 - Current

Sr QA Automation Engineer

Walgreens
09.2017 - 11.2019

SDET Engineer

US Cellular
02.2014 - 09.2017

BBA - Business Management

Kyrgyz Turkish University Manas

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