ILGAR BALASHLI
Cumming,GA
Summary
Seeking a role of a test automation engineer in an organization that encourages creative problem solving, innovative thinking and facilitates as well as values employee growth and career objectives. Highly motivated, ambitious contributor as an SDET, BA, and Scrum master. Strong understanding of business and leads, assists, supports, and documents quality of the project in a fast-paced environment. Knowledgeable of all Quality Assurance deliverables to support design and development projects. Highly accomplished and results-oriented technology leader in manual and automated testing with experience and knowledge in delivering large-scale complex programs. Strong experience using software tools in the Agile environment to product launches and ensure products meet corporation goals and exceed performance expectations. Commended for driving increased levels of performance and accountability among colleagues and multiple cross-functional teams through training, mentoring, metrics, team engagement, and overall team empowerment.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. SDET
Macy's INC
06.2022 - Current
- Involved in preparing the Test Plans and Test Cases based on the business and functional specifications
- Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
- Acted as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally
- Influence setting priorities to achieve QA vision based on a risk based model at an enterprise level
- High level of recommendation knowledge at the consumer products level inclusive of product testing and protocol development
- Great testing knowledge with A/B test
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels within the organization and to the appropriate external parties to balance technical with business needs
- Lead and mentor QA team members, as well as manage outside contract testers
- Lead multiple Scrum teams
- Performed mobile testing (Validating app - recommendations, search functionality)
- Experienced with Restful API and used HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data using Postman
- Coordinated with the Development team for Bug fixing issues using JIRA
- Prepared the test data for interpreting the positive/negative automated regression results based on the design requirements
- Performed cross browser testing on multiple browsers
- ADA compliance testing, Analytics testing using Omni bug, A/B testing Support, (used A/B Test cookies to test in all environment, turned on the percentage based on customer usage) HTTP/HTTPs testing using Charles proxy, Coordinated User Acceptance Test (UAT) processes and documented all the issues during the process
- Participated in demo meetings and worked closely with Agile-Scrum team members
- Ran ceremonies such as Daily Scrum, Sprint grooming, Sprint planning meetings to analyze the Sprint Backlog Grooming items
- Performed Positive and Negative API Testing through Postman using CRUD operations and REST Assured Library
- Executed Functional, regression, integration, and smoke tests
- Ability to interact confidently, at all levels of project management
- Exposure to and use of any Business Analyst tools, Quality Assurance processes, and utilizing Defect & Issues tracking software.
- Reduced regression testing timeframes by implementing efficient automated test scripts.
- Championed proactive defect prevention initiatives through close collaboration with developers during early stages of feature conception.
- Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
- Operated API using Karate Framework for a backend automation.
- Aligned with QA engineers and testers to replicate and track bugs and defects for correction in subsequent iterations.
- Performed functional product reviews to detect verified weaknesses in retail products and software solutions.
- Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.
- Completed pre-implementation testing for new system modifications to assess potential impacts.
- Advised developers on problems with databases, performance and other issues.
- Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities, reported findings and recommended improvements.
- Wrote and executed tests and diagnostics designed to validate products and software applications.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge on industry trends, incorporating best practices into daily work routines for continuous improvement efforts within the team.
- Recommended changes and corrections to developers for optimal software performance and usability.
- Executed regression test procedures and automated test suites to shorten diagnostic timeframes.
- Defined and tracked test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies.
Automation Engineer
RELX Group/ LexisNexis Risk
12.2020 - 05.2022
- Develop test automation frameworks in Karate using Behavior Driven Development approach and configure GitLab server for scheduling and executing Smoke and Regression tests
- Work closely with business analysts and developers for thorough requirements review and developing test scenarios
- Assist in developing Test plans and help with detailing Test Scenarios and writing Test Cases from the Functional Requirements
- Identify test cases for automation and automate them using Karate Framework
- Retrieve needed data from Database writing SQL Queries and validate the information against the database
- Perform SOAP and REST Web Services Testing using SoapUI and POSTMAN
- Use JIRA for analyzing User Stories, New Features/Enhancements and tracking/documenting defects
- Assist in user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Provide feedback on and suggestions for improving QA Procedures to QA Project and Technical Leads
- Participated in walkthrough and triage meetings periodically
- Active participation in project meetings and team meetings
- Designing/automation tests flow within a data-driven framework
- Execute tests scripts for unit testing and regression testing for maintenance/project releases
- Analyze manual test cases and functional specifications to determine the best approach for automating scripts
- Conduct analysis and review of requirements to create test scenarios
- Provision of input for software test plans
- Designing test cases for test plans
- Creation of the test scenarios in which tests are carried out
- Review of software test cases and checking of the test cases
- Performance of testing on functionality of software
- Reporting defects and problems that occurred during the test process
- Build standard regression test cases and ensure ongoing maintenance of the data
- Using a tracking system to track reported problems using Jira
- Preparation of software test evaluation reports
- Implementation and participation in walkthrough design sessions or test plan review sessions
- Writing Gherkin Scenarios and maintaining Jira/Confluence Page
- Running JXT Test Cases using Unix Commands
- Stopping, restarting servers using Rundeck, Eureka.
Automation Engineer
Honeywell
07.2018 - 12.2020
- Develop test automation frameworks in Selenium WebDriver using Behavior Driven Development approach with Cucumber and configure Jenkins server for scheduling and executing Smoke and Regression tests
- Work closely with business analysts and developers for thorough requirements review and developing test scenarios
- Assist in developing Test plans and help with detailing Test Scenarios and writing Test Cases from the Functional Requirements
- Identify test cases for automation and automate them using Selenium WebDriver, Maven, JUNIT, POM and JAVA Object Oriented programming using Eclipse IDE
- Configure and track reports with Cucumber for internal use and with Jenkins for submitting to upper management
- Organize the framework with Page Objects Model for easy maintenance and readable test codes
- Use Maven to define project structure, dependencies, build, and test management
- Retrieve needed data from Oracle Database writing SQL Queries and validate the GUI information against the database
- Perform data driven testing by using JDBC to connect automation framework to the data source and configuring SQL queries to fetch data from the Oracle database
- Perform SOAP and REST Web Services Testing using Eclipse, Rest Assured and POSTMAN
- Use JIRA for analyzing User Stories, New Features/Enhancements and tracking/documenting defects
- Assist in user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Provide feedback on and suggestions for improving QA Procedures to QA Project and Technical Leads
- Participated in Walkthrough and triage meetings periodically.
Automation Engineer
Provident Bank
08.2017 - 07.2018
- Involved in discussions with business analysts and Subject Matter Experts (SME) during creation of test plans
- Created and executed Test Cases manually for functional testing
- Documented and tracked test plans, test results and test analysis using JIRA
- Developed and updated Test plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases for various scenarios across modules
- Involved in designing and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites
- Created Test cases for every functionality and business rule based on documentation provided
- Configured Selenium WebDriver, JUNIT, Maven and TestNG
- Performed Regression testing for new builds and configured parallel and cross browser testing with TestNG
- Performed integration testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing and user acceptance testing, positive and negative testing
- Performed Ad hoc testing to ensure major and basic functionalities of the application are working after deployment of every new module
- Checked the data flow through the front end to back end and used SQL queries to extract the data from Oracle database
- Prepared Traceability Matrix and performed Gap Analysis.
Quality Assurance Analyst
Swift
09.2015 - 07.2017
- Analyzed Requirement Documents (BRD) to understand Functional Specifications
- Prepared test plans and test cases according to Requirement Specifications
- Worked extensively on web-based testing and involved in the UAT environment and production environment
- Performed End-to-End testing after bug fixes and modifications
- Performed browser compatibility testing on different browsers and versions
- Reviewed, analyzed, and compared defects using HP ALM
- Executed test cases, gathered, and evaluated results and generated test summary reports
- Participated in daily/weekly status meetings, coordinated with the Project Manager, Business team (PA Admin team), Developers and Testers to resolve the defects & close them
- Involved in Regression, Integration, Functional and Smoke testing.
Education
MBA - Marketing
ASEU
Azerbaijan05-2013
BBA - Engineering
Siegen University/ ASOA
Azerbaijan/Germany05-2011
Skills
- Windows
- MAC
- Mobile
- SQL
- Java
- Gherkin
- HTML
- XML
- Selenium
- API
- Agile/Scrum/Kanban
- Waterfall
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- Quick learner
- Team Player
- Retail
- Leading
- Application Lifecycle Management
- Recommendation systems
- Scrum/Agile
- Automation
- Functional Testing
- Continuous Integration
- Defect Tracking
- Software Debugging
- Test Planning
- Manual Testing
- Requirements Analysis
- Integration Testing
- Automated Testing
- Regression Testing
- Version Control
- Scrum Framework
- Karate Framework
- Test Management Tools
- Scripting Languages
- Test Scenarios
- Test Scheduling
- Version Control Systems
- User Acceptance Testing
- Test Reporting
- Technical Documentation
- Software Testing
- A/B Testing
- Simulation Modeling
- Data Validation
- Data Modeling
- Project Management
- Data Analysis
- Data Visualization and Presentations
- Data Quality
- Git
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Backlog Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Agile Best Practices
- Leading Scrum Meetings
- API Testing Knowledge
- Automation knowledge
Timeline
Sr. SDET
Macy's INC
06.2022 - Current
Automation Engineer
RELX Group/ LexisNexis Risk
12.2020 - 05.2022
Automation Engineer
Honeywell
07.2018 - 12.2020
Automation Engineer
Provident Bank
08.2017 - 07.2018
Quality Assurance Analyst
Swift
09.2015 - 07.2017
MBA - Marketing
ASEU
BBA - Engineering
Siegen University/ ASOA