Neelima Kappa

Overall 10+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) in the IT field with in-depth knowledge of various platforms and domains Retail as a Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies and software testing Manual/Automation techniques and tools, especially for web-based software products. Superior abilities and expertise in Automated testing utilizing Java, Cucumber with Gherkin language, Maven, Jenkins, TestNG, and JUnit. Exposure to all stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC. Automation Skill set includes Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Sikuli, AutoIT, Rest Assured, Jmeter, TestNG, JUnit, Maven, Gradle and Oracle DB, Windows, and MAC environments. Hands-on experience with UI technologies such as JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and CSS, and various content management tools. Experienced in developing and executing manual and automated tests in different platforms using Python, Pytest, Unit test, Robot Framework, and the Selenium library. Excellent knowledge of performing API Testing using Cypress Automation and Postman. Experience working as a Software Engineer in DevOps and SRE, CI/CD, AWS Cloud, Software Development, Configuration Management, Build, Deploy and Release Management in Automation. Have experience in automating Restful services using Rest Assured API using Java by following the TDD/BDD framework model. Good knowledge of building and maintaining a CI/CD pipeline that includes automated tests. Extensive experience in executing UI functional, Smoke testing, and Rest API testing in Azure DevOps Release pipeline. Experienced in developing descriptive programming, function library, and recovery scenarios using VB Script in UFT/Quick Test Professional (QTP). Expertise in using UI Automator viewer in Appium to inspect elements in mobile applications. Experience with Microservices Architecture, development, deployment, and testing. Hands-on experience in using test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center, MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Confluence. Expert in developing Python, Selenium WebDriver test scripts, and Test Frameworks using Pytest to perform Functional Testing. Extensive experience in designing Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, reviewing Requirements, and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). Expertise in Automation Frameworks in maintaining Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid driven, and Page Object Models (POM). Good experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2, S3, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Lex, AWS Identity, and access management. Good knowledge to develop the UAT Test cases and execute them with the flow of the Project. Good experience in methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum processes. Proficiency in using Git, GitHub, Bit Bucket, Azure for version control, and Jenkins, Azure pipelines for Continuous Integration objectives. Extensive experience in scripting languages HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, JavaScript, JQuery, JMeter etc. Experience in BDD framework using protractor for HTML5 based application with node.js and jasmine language knowledge. Have a good knowledge of building and maintaining regression test suites and automating them in JavaScript using frameworks such as Cypress and Playwright for efficient and effective testing. Good programming skills in SQL, PL/SQL, and Java and experience in SQL Server, Informatica, and MS Access. Extensive experience in combining Protractor with powerful tools and technologies such as Jasmine, Cucumber, and Mocha. Experience working with Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing using Typescript. Expertise in Mobile Automation using Appium, Eclipse, and Xcode (XCTest) in Java, Python, and Swift Environments. Experience in automating test cases using TestNG, JUnit, and NUnit, TFS Coded UI scripting and execution. Strong knowledge of web development using CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, LINUX, PHP, and Ruby on Rails.

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM1) from scrum.org
• Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) from scrum.org
• SAFe Scrum Master certification
• SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification