Michael Akkawi
Mclean,VA
Summary
- Over 6+ years of professional experience as an SDET and Quality Assurance participating in both Manual Testing and Automation Testing activities, serving various domains such as Finance, Retail and Logistics industries.
- Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
- Experienced in testing all three layers of an application in UI, API, and Database.
- Developed framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber built with Maven.
- Proven ability in Selenium WebDriver Automated Testing frameworks, Page-Object Model and Hybrid Frameworks, developing BDD Scripts with Cucumber using Gherkin.
- Proficient at execution of Smoke, Functional, Regression, Integration tests for improving product quality.
- Hands-on experience with analyzing User Stories specification to create and execute Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
- Excellent knowledge and implementation of different phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Experienced working with Version Control Systems Git using source code management client tools like GitHub.
- Expert in Back-End Testing by writing SQL queries, SQL scripts using SQL Developer and performing database automation testing with JDBC library in different Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) such as Oracle, MySQL.
- Proficient with POSTMAN and RESTful API using REST Assured Library for Web Services Testing.
- Knowledgeable in creating jobs in Jenkins and launching Amazon AWS Cloud EC2 server instances.
- Expertise in using defect-reporting and tracking and test management in Jira and Jira-Xray.
- Well oriented in documenting details reports with detected impediments running Smoke and Regression Suite.
- Knowledgeable with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Java programming language using IDE tool IntelliJ.
- Adept knowledge with Apache POI methods for writing, reading to and from excel sheets to perform Data Driven Testing.
- Well-grounded in Agile and Scrum Environment, attending all ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
- Result-oriented, detail-driven, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to deliver in time with attitude towards understanding business and customer requirements.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
QE II | UPS-GIO
NTT Data
03.2023 - 06.2024
- Planning and designing automation scripts for each sprint based on process flow.
- Responsible for providing technical guidance for improvement of existing automation framework (UTAF), Implementing new technologies and logic to improve existing framework.
- Responsible for automating reusable scenarios for all 3 layers of application (Merge, Distribution and Forecasting).
- Developing end-to-end test scenarios for automation using selenium with java by connection to different queues via RedHat Active AMQ.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Responsible for integrating all developed code and executing in multiple environment (System, UAT) Constantly provided knowledge transfer sessions to manual team on application workflow and selenium with java UTAF framework.
- Acted as primary point of contact for trouble shooting and dependency issues.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
- Contributed to feature implementation and enhancement, code refactoring and defect fixing within automation framework.
QE II | William Sonoma
NTT DATA Services
06.2022 - 03.2023
- Preformed manual and automation testing
- Ability to onboard quickly and jump into handling QE tasks as new team with limited assistance.
- Developed Test Automation Scripts using Selenium WebDriver for testing web applications.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Preformed various types of tests across all browsers on desktop and mobile to identify any bugs or defects.
- Learned new tools and new language like Vue and JavaScript.
- Was able to help team contribute towards client, with Ability to come on board with such short notice and assist team with all QE roles with heavy load of work.
- Worked on Cross Browser Testing through Selenium WebDriver by testing websites on different browsers like Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
- Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
SDET | Sony Interactive Entertainment
Nexient
11.2021 - 06.2022
- Defined, developed, and execute automation test scripts using Java that leverages Black Box Testing, Functional and End-to-End testing.
- Created and executed Test Scenarios, Test cases in accordance with Business Requirements.
- Created Automation Framework in Selenium WebDriver and JUnit using Behavior-Driven Framework (BDD) and Data Driven Development (DDT).
- Reported software defects in Jira and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
- Improved software quality by designing and implementing comprehensive test plans and test cases.
- Enhanced product stability by executing functional, integration, and regression tests.
- Optimized test coverage for better product performance and reliability.
Amtrak-Washington D.C
Amtrak
07.2019 - 11.2021
- Defined, develop, and execute automation test scripts using Java that leverages Black Box Testing, Functional and End-to-End testing
- Created and executed Test Scenarios, Test cases in accordance with Business Requirements.
- Created Automation Framework in Selenium WebDriver and JUnit using Behavior-Driven Framework (BDD) and Data Driven Development (DDT).
- Automated Test Cases using Page Object Model (POM) pattern to design and write tests using Java and Selenium WebDriver
- Self-motivated, with strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Developed Test Automation Scripts using Selenium WebDriver for testing web applications
- Created reusable methods for common framework development to support Web application.
- Utilizing Jenkins as Continuous Integrations server to configure with Maven.
- Performed testing UI through API against Data Base of application, using POSTMAN, REST Assured library, JDBC and ORDBMS: MySQL, for querying database using SQL, and HTTP requests GET, PUT, POST, DELETE for data verification and validation.
- Reported software defects in Jira and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
Alarm.com - Tysons, VA
Alarm.com
02.2018 - 06.2019
- Performed End-to-End System Testing and reported defects
- Executed Test Cases manually to verify actual results against expected results
- Worked with Jira log and maintained defects
- Involved in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle
- Extensively used Selenium locators like (ID, Name, Class, Tag Name Link Text, Partial Link Text, XPath and CSS) and WebDriver to test web-application
- Wrote Test Cases and executed them manually from Jira to test application for its Functionality, System Integration, Smoke, and Regression
- Used to report, update and analyze defects during Software Testing Process
Education
General Engineering -
John Tyler Community College
Software Engineering -
Self-Taught
Skills
- Selenium WebDriver
- WebDriver IO
- Cucumber
- Manual Testing
- TestNG
- Project Management
- JUnit
- Selenium Grid
- Jenkins
- Playwright
- Java
- JavaScript
- Lambda
- HTML
- SQL
- Gherkin
- XML
- JSON
- BDD
- DDT
- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- Smoke Testing
- Component Testing
- Jira
- Jira X-Ray
- Automation
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
QE II | UPS-GIO
NTT Data
03.2023 - 06.2024
QE II | William Sonoma
NTT DATA Services
06.2022 - 03.2023
SDET | Sony Interactive Entertainment
Nexient
11.2021 - 06.2022
Amtrak-Washington D.C
Amtrak
07.2019 - 11.2021
Alarm.com - Tysons, VA
Alarm.com
02.2018 - 06.2019
General Engineering -
John Tyler Community College
Software Engineering -
Self-Taught