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NAFISA NARZIEVA
Fairfax,VA
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Summary
Experienced as Quality Assurance (QA) / Test Automation Engineer professional with 6+ years of experience in the IT industry. Outstanding communication and extensive experience in software development as well as the ability to identify, develop and enhance client relationships.
Professional in quality assurance committed to ensuring software integrity and reliability. Extensive experience in designing and executing comprehensive test plans to identify defects early in development cycle. Focused on collaborative teamwork and adaptable to changing project requirements, consistently leveraging expertise in automated testing and meticulous documentation.
Overview
7
years of professional experience
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Kroger
Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer
06.2022 - 03.2025
Job overview
- As a Quality Engineer of the project worked on environment setup and configuration of Automation Framework, and CI/CD pipelines from scratch
- Upon joining the project, worked closely with QA Lead and established goals for improving the quality, reliability, and performance of the application
- Responsibilities:
- Major role in implementation and development of Test Automation Framework for GUI Testing using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber BDD, JUnit, Maven and other various Testing and Management tools and Software
- Configured Jenkins to execute smoke test suite and regression test suite, provide status reports of failed tests, and send in email after every build in order to make sure new defects were not introduced after extensive fixes
- Experience in configuring and setting up executions tags and reports in order to monitor them in CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins and documenting them through Confluence
- Hands-on experience on Java Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concept: Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, Polymorphism
- Performed Back-End Testing by using Postman API for manual API testing, Java and Rest Assured libraries for automating and testing Restful Web services
- Identified and used variety of Selenium Web Element locators such as ID, Name, Class Name, Tag Name, Link / Partial Link Text, CSS, XPath on the GUI parts of the application in order to perform Front-End Testing
- Used JUnit and Gherkin programming language in order to read and write Feature files and Test Case Scenarios in Cucumber Maven Project
- Responsible in building and executing Test Scripts from User Stories based on detailed acceptance criteria in JIRA or other project management, defect / bug tracking tools
- Performed Writing, Reading and Validation of Data inputs from External File of Data Sheets by using Apache POI dependency
- Environment: Java, AWS, Selenium, Rest Assured, JUnit, Postman, Agile
- Enhanced software quality by developing and implementing comprehensive testing strategies.
- Advanced departmental knowledge-sharing by training new QA Engineers on company-specific testing methodologies and tools.
- Optimized test coverage by maintaining a well-organized, up-to-date library of test cases corresponding to application requirements changes over time.
- Reduced product defect rates by creating robust test cases and meticulously executing them.
Pentagon Federal Credit Union
Quality Assurance Analyst / Test Automation Engineer / SDET
03.2018 - 04.2022
Job overview
- Managed all aspects of manual testing, automation, updating, and quality assurance
- Conducted manual testing procedures to ensure complete analysis of multi-module applications
- Responsibilities:
- Identified and analyzed the test requirements based on application business requirements and blueprints and developed test scenarios and procedures based on them
- Designed and developed manual Test Cases, Test Plan to be used for Functional testing whether to test in Front-End or Back-End of the applications
- Developed and obtained new skills on learning Automation tools of JAVA, Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, SQL and SoapUI
- Performed Negative / Positive tests and Cross-Browser Tests with Chrome, Firefox and IE for maximum assurance and efficiency
- Logged and tracked defects / bugs, assigned priority, automated and Manual Test Scripts based on User stories in JIRA and ensured problem resolution is communicated in a timely and effective manner
- Manually produced SQL queries using Oracle SQL Developer in order to validate the data and for automation used JDBS libraries in Back-End Database Testing
- Managed User Story Sessions for creating Test Cases with better Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done
- Designed, developed and implemented POM based automation testing framework utilizing Java, TestNG and Selenium WebDriver with Maven Build
- Participated and learned Agile Methodology in Scrum Framework and attended all kinds of Project related meetings with team members
- Executed parallel browser testing on various machines using TestNG
- Environment: Manual Testing, Java, Selenium, JIRA, TestNG, Agile
Education
Samarkand State University
B.S. from Computer Science
01.2009
University Overview
Class of 2009
The Washington University of VirginiaFairfax, Virginia
M.S from Master of Business Administration
01.2020 - 12.2022
Skills
- PROJMANAGEMENT TOOLS
- JIRA, Confluence, VersionOne
- Behavior Data Driven Framework (BDD)
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Page Object Model (POM)
- TESTING TOOLS
- Selenium WebDriver / IDE /
- Selenium IDE
- Cucumber BDD
- Apache POI
- JDBC
- TestNG, JUnit
- Jenkins
- Postman
- RESTful API
- JSON, XML
- Maven
- Rest-Assured JAVA library
- Java, SQL, Gherkin, Python, JavaScript
- DATABASE
- Oracle, MongoDB, MySQL
- VERSION CONTROL
- Git, GitHub, GitLab
- METHODOLOGIES
- Agile, Scrum
- IDEs
- Eclipse, IntelliJ, PyCharm, Visual Studio
- Automation testing
- Test Automation Framework
- Test planning
- Test case design
- Defect tracking
- Performance testing(Load testing)
- User acceptance testing
- Mobile testing
- Agile methodologies
- Data validation
- Technical documentation
- Quality assurance processes
- Version control systems
- API testing
- Software quality assurance
- Continuous improvement
- Documentation and reporting
- Configuration and troubleshooting
- Production traceability
- Test plan development
Accomplishments
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Collaborated with developers and other stakeholders to resolve issues. (defect, bug)
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams reducing reported software defects by 40%.
- Implemented an automated testing framework using Python and Selenium, increasing test coverage by 75% and reducing manual testing efforts by 60%.
- Identified and investigated quality issues and suggested corrective actions.
- Authored detailed QA test reports contributing to improvements in product adjustments.
- Managed testing schedules leading to a 22% increase in on-time project completion.
- Achieved organizing database to track business contacts and was commended for attention to detail and accuracy.
- Achieved implementing new procedures or systems through effectively helping with the projects.
- Praised and awarded for the ability to solve difficult problems independently and efficiently.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Spanish
Limited Working
French
Limited Working
Russian
Full Professional
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeContract WorkWork Location
RemoteImportant To Me
Work from home optionPaid time offPersonal development programsCareer advancementWork-life balanceTeam Building / Company RetreatsAvailability
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Software
Automation, manual testing, test automation frameworks etc( the rest mentioned in the resume)
Interests
Improving my skills related to my job, developing software and communication skills, reading, business, management, languages, reading, interacting with people.
Timeline
Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer
Kroger
06.2022 - 03.2025
The Washington University of Virginia
M.S from Master of Business Administration
01.2020 - 12.2022
Quality Assurance Analyst / Test Automation Engineer / SDET
Pentagon Federal Credit Union
03.2018 - 04.2022
Samarkand State University
B.S. from Computer Science
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