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Raveal Kaur

Danville,CA

Summary

  • Dedicated Senior Software Quality Engineer bringing 10+ years of experience and diligence to handle needs of large and complex products.
  • Bringing expertise from fast-paced environments like Checkr and high-volume transactional settings like PayPal.
  • Designed and implemented comprehensive testing strategies for Python applications using Pytest
  • Utilized PyCharm to develop, test, and debug Python code, improving development efficiency.
  • Strong experience writing UI/API functional, smoke, regression, and end-to-end test automation using scripting languages such as Python or Javascript.
  • Proficient in designing and implementing automated tests for CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, including functional, E2E, and synthetic testing for enhanced software reliability.
  • Led testing REST API using Postman, identifying vulnerabilities, security issues and ensuring robust API development.
  • Skilled in identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities, including Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection, with expertise in Penetration Testing.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Checkr
San Fran, CA
08.2019 - 06.2024
  • Implemented a QA process, gateway process, and CI/CD pipeline setup, and providing developers with the required tools and resources, enables automation testing to become an integral part CI/CD pipeline, ensuring efficient and high-quality software delivery.
  • Utilized Python/PyCharm to develop and execute automated tests, resulting in a 25% increase in testing efficiency and 50% increase in test coverage.
  • Led cross-team communication and coordination to enhance testing efficiency, coverage, and reliability during complex migrations.
  • Single-handedly oversaw team operations for QE's, including task assignment, progress monitoring, and issue resolution, resulting in improved testing efficiency by 35%.
  • Successfully led the migration of the UI from Angular to React, coordinated with cross-functional teams, including development, product, and design, to plan and execute comprehensive testing and regression efforts.
  • Achieved significant efficiency gains by optimizing regression testing, reducing overall test time from 24 hours to just a few hours, resulting in a remarkable [87%] decrease in testing time.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

MOODY'S ANALYTICS
San Francisco
06.2014 - 04.2019
  • Developed product test strategies, test plans and test cases, reviewed with cross functional teams, file bugs, and communicate with the team about issues, risk, and product quality.
  • Designed and implemented a comprehensive automated testing framework using Pytest, achieving high code coverage and reducing testing time by 55%
  • Put tools/processes in place to ensure when integration build breaks an existing feature, that team member is notified and the issue can be addressed immediately.
  • Performed Functional/Regression testing for new builds and every modification in the application using robot framework test suite.
  • Led creation of automation suite using Robot framework, java, protractor and SQL.

QA Automation Engineer

PAYPAL
San Jose
04.2011 - 06.2014
  • Assure the quality of the Pricing infrastructure, leading to $181 Million USD additional profit.
  • API Testing Expert with extensive experience optimizing efficiency, accuracy, response time, throughput, and scalability under varying loads to ensure robust API performance.
  • Review business and technical requirements, designs and functional specs and translate them into test plans and test cases.
  • Responsible for creating scripts for UAT and performing UAT with multiple internal teams and external vendors Wells Fargo, BML, STAR NETWORKS etc.
  • Strong skills in backend testing using SQL queries, generating the reports to ensure the data integrity and validate the business rules.
  • Surpassed a 86% code coverage goal by adding more test cases on the testing flagship project.

QA Engineer

ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS
Pleasanton
08.2010 - 03.2011
  • Implemented test strategies, test plan and test cases based on PRD and FDA standard requirement.
  • Developed and executed Installation, Data Validation, and Firmware testing for medical device software applications.
  • Supervise development of SQL-queries for database and backend testing.
  • Responsible for developing and maintaining automated test cases using Java/JUnit.
  • Created Test Metrics, Traceability matrix and generated weekly and monthly.

Quality Assurance Analyst

DATAGUISE
Fremont
07.2008 - 07.2010
  • Involved in pilot project for automation using Selenium IDE/RC.
  • Worked closely with business team, development team and other cross function teams for requirement and analysis gathering.
  • Responsible for creating new feature test cases and maintain regression suite.
  • Developed SQL Queries for testing various Database validation.

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science -

PT University
01.2009

Skills

  • Programming languages: Python, Java, SQL
  • Testing frameworks: Pytest, JUnit, TestNG, Rspec
  • Automation tools: Selenium, Cypress, CI/CD, PL/SQL
  • Experience with Pycharm, Visual Studio Code, Jenkins, AWS, GCP and GitLab

Timeline

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Checkr
08.2019 - 06.2024

Senior QA Automation Engineer

MOODY'S ANALYTICS
06.2014 - 04.2019

QA Automation Engineer

PAYPAL
04.2011 - 06.2014

QA Engineer

ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS
08.2010 - 03.2011

Quality Assurance Analyst

DATAGUISE
07.2008 - 07.2010

Bachelor's in Computer Science -

PT University
Raveal Kaur