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Kunduz Sydykova

Langhorne,PA

Summary

Quality Assurance Engineer with 6+ years of solid experience in testing and quality assurance. Skilled in developing and executing automated test scripts, identifying and troubleshooting defects, and improving software performance. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adaptable to changing needs. Proficient in tools and technologies such as Selenium, JIRA, and Java, with keen understanding of test automation frameworks and methodologies.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Automation Tester

Guidehouse
06.2023 - 04.2025
  • Collaborate with product managers and developers in Agile sprints to define testing requirements and ensure seamless integration with development cycles.
  • Use JIRA to document and track bugs, providing detailed defect reports and collaborating with developers for timely fixes.
  • Creating and executing test plans using Jira Xray, ensuring that software meet business and technical requirements.
  • Actively participate in Agile sprints, providing input during sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives to ensure proper testing coverage.
  • Conduct thorough manual testing for web applications, ensuring that all user requirements are met.
  • Identify and report all the defects early in the development cycle, contributing to a significant decrease in post-release issues.
  • Develop and execute test cases for functional, regression, integration, and acceptance testing.
  • Create and execute test cases based on project requirements, ensuring coverage for functionality and usability.
  • Conducted manual testing for new features, reporting defects and collaborating with the development team to resolve issues quickly.
  • Perform database testing using Oracle SQL to verify data consistency and accuracy in the system.
  • Work with SoapUI to perform API testing, ensuring back-end systems meet expected functionality and performance.
  • Identify, track and manage defects using JIRA, ensuring that issues are addressed in a timely manner and preventing delays in product releases.
  • Develop and maintain test automation scripts using Subject7 and improving the efficiency of regression testing.
  • Execute regression testing on new builds and releases, ensuring that previously working features remained unaffected by updates.
  • Perform smoke, functional, ad-hoc, performance, integration testing, system and full E2E testing of web applications.
  • Apply different testing techniques while creating the test plan and documenting test cases to ensure all the edge cases are covered.
  • Support cross-browser(compatibility) testing to ensure web applications are compatible across various browsers.
  • Conduct 508 (accessibility) testing to ensure that applications meet the accessibility standards using Jaws, Wave, Andy, Color Contrast tools.
  • Work closely with development team and continuously support them during the SDLC and applying shift-left testing approach.

QA Engineer

Change Healthcare
07.2020 - 06.2023
  • Designed and implemented testing framework using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, JUnit and Java to automate the testing of web application.
  • Conducted Functional Testing, Regression Testing using Selenium with BDD Framework.
  • Involved in developing BDD Framework from Scratch with OOP standards utilizing POM (Page Object Model).
  • Created automation test scripts using BDD and Page Object Model to test the web applications using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, JAVA and Maven.
  • Developed and executed Test Cases and Test Plans based on project requirements.
  • Built easy to maintain, clean automation scripts and maintain them within source control repository (Git/GitHub).
  • Analyzed Business and Functional Requirements, Features, User Stories for creating Test Cases.
  • Designed Manual and Automated Tests, created Automated Test Cases, Test Plans and executed tests using Selenium WebDriver.
  • Created Test Cases, record test results and reported detailed Bugs using JIRA for Bug tracking.
  • Performed Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Positive, Negative and Ad-Hoc testing on web application at various phases of the Project life Cycle.
  • Automated test reports using Cucumber plugin, to achieve HTML and JSON reports attached with failed scenarios and reporting it with screenshots using Java.
  • Utilized Maven to manage dependencies for Test execution, plugins and created profiles of grouped Test Cases to run Regression Testing.
  • Automated test cases using Java, Selenium Web Driver, JUnit - saving significant cost and time for the company.
  • Implemented JUnit library for effective use of Cucumber in Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
  • Well versed with handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver and writing complex XPATH using different type of locators and CSS selector.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify defects, track issues, and provide effective solutions.
  • Developed build scripts and tools to automate software builds and integrate them into our continuous integration pipeline using Jenkins.
  • Performed Functional API testing, including testing individual endpoints, verifying responses, and validating the data sent and received by the API using Postman and RestAssured libraries.
  • Created and maintained Automated Test Script for API testing.
  • A firm understanding of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) namely ORACLE SQL, MySQL Server and expertise in writing SQL Queries.
  • Performed Database testing using Oracle SQL to ensure that the database functions as expected, data is stored and retrieved correctly.
  • Wrote SQL queries to be used in Data Integrity Testing and Back-End testing.
  • Automated database testing using JDBC to connect to the database and retrieve the data for further validation.
  • Configured and launched builds using Jenkins jobs and analyzed the test results from Continuous Integration build server as Jenkins.
  • Participated in Agile development methodologies and attended daily stand-ups, sprint planning, grooming, reviewing and retrospective meetings.

Software tester

Verizon
10.2017 - 07.2020
  • Participated in team meetings and provided updates on testing progress and defect status. Managed and automated tests within an automation framework using Java and Selenium.
  • Reviewed user requirements to generate Test Cases for Functional testing.
  • Worked closely with developers and other QA members to define the test requirements and developed Test Cases based on the Business requirements and System requirements.
  • Detected Defects, communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting Tool and Tracking the Defect using JIRA.
  • Tested the Application manually and also checked the Design and Functionality of the application.
  • Participated in all activities of Agile software development and Test development life cycles.
  • Created Test Cases for new and updated features of the application based on requirements.
  • Developed Test Cases for positive, negative and END-TO-END Test scenarios and implemented them.
  • Developed automation scripts for Mobile application using Appium, Selenium, Java and Android studio for Emulator.
  • Used Git with GitHub for Version Control and code collaboration to manage code reviews.
  • Used Java as a programming language and IntelliJ IDEA for automating test cases.
  • Executed test cases and analyze the test results.

Education

Bachelor's degree - Accounting, Analysis and Audit

Academy of Management Under The President of KR
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
07-2013

Skills

  • Test Automation/Test Framework Design and Implementation - Subject7, Selenium WebDriver, Java, Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG, Maven, IntelliJ IDEA
  • Defect Tracking - JIRA
  • Languages - Java, SQL, Gherkin, HTML, JSON, XML
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment CI/CD - Jenkins
  • Database/API testing - SoapUI, Postman, RestAssured/Rest API, SQL Developer, JDBC
  • Mobile Testing - Appium Desktop, UI Automator
  • Version Control Systems - Git(GitHub)
  • Manual Testing/Automation Testing
  • Test Case Design/Test Case Creation- Jira Xray
  • Agile Methodology

Timeline

Automation Tester

Guidehouse
06.2023 - 04.2025

QA Engineer

Change Healthcare
07.2020 - 06.2023

Software tester

Verizon
10.2017 - 07.2020

Bachelor's degree - Accounting, Analysis and Audit

Academy of Management Under The President of KR

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