Birikti Hailu

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

SKILLS

PROJECT MANAGER BLACK BOX

UAT GUI
JIRA BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
PERFORMANCE TESTING VISIO
AUTOMATED TESTING TEST PLANNING
PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT DEPLOYMENT
LINUX MICROSOFT ACCESS
STRUCTURED SOFTWARE UNIX
JSON USER ACCEPTANCE
WHITE BOX TESTING ECLIPSE
OBJECT-ORIENTED TESTING TOOLS
QA TEST MANUAL TEST
TEST CASES HTML
REQUIREMENT GATHERING QA VALIDATION
ADP DOCUMENTATION
SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE MAVEN
WEBLOGIC EXCELLENT WRITTEN AND VERBAL
ORACLE COMMUNICATION SKILLS
WEB BASED J2EE
SOA LIFE CYCLE
TEAM PLAYER C#
SOAP MICROSOFT PROJECT
QA JAVASCRIPT
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT NUNIT
Git JENKINS
MICROSOFT OFFICE MICROSOFT EXCEL
API .NET
EXCEL OOAD
WEB SERVICES DEV OPS
TEST CASE SWITCHING
REST PROBLEM-SOLVING
MS OFFICE MICROSOFT TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER
QUALITY ASSURANCE TECHNICAL SUPPORT
VALIDATION TESTING TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
MAINTENANCE JUNIT
ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORKS
DATABASES REGRESSION TESTING
MANUAL TEST SCRIPTS SYSTEM INTEGRATION
INTEGRATOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT
QUALITY ANALYSIS CHANGE CONTROL
PAYMENTS TESTNG
 SCHEDULING QA TESTING
WHITE BOX USER INTERFACE
GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE HP UNIFIED FUNCTIONAL TESTING
TEST PLANS CSS
Cucumber XML
MICROSOFT POWERPOINT TEST SCRIPTS
TEST PLAN SELENIUM
AUTOMATED TEST SCRIPTS INTEGRATION TESTING
FRONT END RESTFUL WEB SERVICES
JAVA MS PROJECT
CLIENT/SERVER SOFTWARE TESTING
ENGINEER APACHE
SDLC

EXPERIENCE

Used Postman 02/2018 to 10/2019

Hilton charlotte center city Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, NC
Feb 2018 to Present
SDET/QA Automation
Responsibilities:
● Prepared Test plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Steps for all the modules. deployment, and post-
production support following Software Lifecycle using SDLC SCRUM.
● Attending Sprint Backlog grooming sessions to discuss with the team about the future sprints.
● Participation in Sprint Demo before releasing to production.
● Participated on upgrading the ADP application (Automatic Data Processing App) on switching to the new
system which would give you the chance to punch in and access all the data information of an employee from
any device using the ADP App.
● Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), beginning with requirement gathering, designing,
developing, and deploying.
● Responsible in managing and maintaining testing - related documentation including Test plans, Test cases,
and bug tracking.
● Expertise in complete software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
● Extensive hands in data preparation for test execution.
● E ectively used test management tools to maintain and execute test scripts.
● Provided technical support to end-users and resolved issues related to User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
● Close communication with project manager and business analyst by attending weekly meeting, user support
teams, and daily communication for better support of User Acceptance Testing.
● Worked closely with cross-functional teams (Dev, BA, PM, Product Owner) as a part of the AGILE environment.
● Developed test scripts to automate the process of testing in Selenium WebDriver.
● Requirements Traceability Matrix developed to align the Test Cases to Requirements.
● Implemented Data Driven Frameworks to create parameterized test scripts and generate HTML reports using
Selenium WebDriver and NUnit framework.
● Used Git Repository for version controlling.
● Divide and delegated bugs to correct Developing team using Team Foundation Server/Azure DevOps.
● Integration of automation batch run job with Jenkins.
● Engaged with the Dev and Project team and informed Dependencies and QA deliverables.
● Engage with Deployment and provide QA Test activities dependencies and test timelines.
● Used Postman to test RESTful web services and APIs.
● Release validation testing performed in the production environment.
● Worked with the functionality and Regression testing cycles of major product releases by developing a test
suite using Selenium Webdriver with C#.
● Help to create a test environment. Creates a test schedule, planning and user acceptance test by using
SpecFlow (BDD tool).
● Performed api/web services automation using BDD framework and .NET libraries.
● Performed End-to-End (E2E) Integration testing of the application.
● Working closely with development, product management, documentation, and technical support to ensure
that the quality objectives of all projects are met within schedule constraints.
Environment: C#, Selenium, TFS, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS-Visio, MS Project, JSON, Specflow, POSTMAN.

SDET/QA Engineer 01/2016 to 01/2018

Nationwide Insurance Columbus, OH
Responsibilities:
● Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS) and System Requirements Specification (SRS), and
involved in design, development, and execution of manual and automation test scripts.
● Prepared Test Plan, Test Case, Test Scripts as per Functional and Business requirement for System/Functional
Test Specification.
● Performed System, Integration, Regression, Failover and Compatibility Testing.
● Worked on Agile software development environment.
● Used HP-ALM as project management tool from writing/attaching requirements, then creating test cases (in
Test Plan module), executing those in Test Lab module, and lastly tracked /logged bugs in defect module.
● Participated in Sprint Analysis Meeting, Sprint Retrospective, Showcase, and Daily Scrum.
● Designed and developed TestNG driven Page Object Model (POM) framework using Java, Selenium
WebDriver, TestNG and Apache POI for Smoke Test Suite.
● Automated the Test cases using Selenium for Regression testing and TestNG for grouping the tests.
● Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application's GUI
and in the testing environment using Selenium WebDriver.
● Involved in creation of automation framework in Selenium WebDriver using behavior driven approach like
Cucumber.
● Worked closely with product and project managers on the implementation of new projects and infrastructures
including operational readiness, change preparation, change execution, and post-change QA validation
● Used SoapUI tool to test SOA based architecture application to test SOAP web services and REST API.
● Involved constantly in the team to adopt QA Testing Standards; logged and tracked defects.
● Analyzed defects or test results and deducted the chain of events leading to a failure.
● Involved and responsible for creating Daily and weekly status reports regarding the progress of the testing
process.
Environment: JIRA, Java, Selenium, TestNG, JavaScript, Oracle, MS O ice, MS Excel, Windows.

Automation Tester/Engineer 03/2014 to 01/2016

The Home Depot Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
● Involved in analyzing Business Requirement Documents and Technical Specification document and
developed a test plan and test cases for testing the application.
● Participated in requirement reviews and analyzed Modification requests and Enhancement requests.
● Tested independent and dependent modules individually.
● Prepared Test Matrix to keep track of the requirements and the test cases.
● Define, develop, and execute automation test scripts using Java that leverage black and white box testing
across functional, non-functional and performance testing.
● Created an automation framework in Selenium WebDriver using behavior driven (BDD) approach like
Cucumber.
● Extensively used Page Objects design and page navigation framework for readable test script and easy
maintenance from developer perspectives.
● Integrated Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for the
nightly batch run of the Script.
● Developed test automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver for regression and performance testing of the
various releases of the application.
● Performed manual testing of each build and then regression testing on each build using Selenium WebDriver.
● Performed UI testing and front end testing using Selenium Webdriver and Java.
● Worked on Cross Browser testing through Selenium WebDriver by testing the website on di erent browsers
like Chrome, IE, and Firefox.
● Done SOA testing for Payments API using Postman and Java framework for web services testing.
● Developed data-driven test scripts to check the same functionality with multiple sets of data.
● Created the tests that have no user interaction as a set and executed them as Batch tests using Maven.
● Used TestNG Annotations in Selenium WebDriver and Java and executed a batch of tests as TestNG suite.
● Performed Assertions like Schema Compliance, XPath and SOAP responses.
● Involved in documentation as to how to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements.
● Responsible for testing the application against di erent environments in QA, staging, and production.
● Analyzed the business requirements, developed test plans and created test cases in Quality center, a test
management tool.
Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG, Jenkins, Postman, Oracle,Maven, IE, Firefox,
Chrome, WebLogic, Windows, UNIX.

QA Analyst 01/2013 to 03/2014

Enterprise Rent A Car St. Louis, MO
Responsibilities:
● Found critical bugs in the application, weekly Reporting through Bug Reports and Maintenance Traceability
Matrix.
● Executed Test Cases, logged defects, developed Test Defect Reports and Escalated issues.
● Participated in use-case reviews, authored, and reviewed test planning artifacts.
● Provided an aggregated, cross-application project view of quality status and defect trends and managed and
enforce consistent workflows and processes.
● Involved in preparation of test cases and test scenarios from the requirement document.
● Participated in the implementation and upgrade of the client/server and web-based applications.
● Developed Test Plan, Test Cases/Test Scripts and reviewed baselining of scripts with di erent Data sets as
input.
● Responsible for Executing and Maintenance of Automated and Manual Test scripts.
● Developed and maintained Manual and Automation test scripts.
● Automated regression test suite using in house automation framework based on C#/ Selenium.
● Set up Selenium tools from scratch and configured various other peripherals tools to perform Selenium test.
● Performed functionality and regression testing during the various phases of the application using Selenium.
● Validate Web services/APIs built in SOA Architecture using SOAPUI.
● Was able to obtain performance requirements and estimate work e ort needed to complete assigned tasks.
● Involved in generating test plan, test cases and executing test cases.
Environment: C#, Selenium, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, JSON, XML, MS Excel, SOAP UI.

QA Tester 02/2011 to 12/2012

Toyota North America Plano, TX
Responsibilities:
● Working in Agile methodology with SDLC
● Creating test cases, executing, recording results
● Conducting integration test, platform certification testing
● Creating automated test scripts by modifying the existing functions
● Conducting regression test, by using the automated scripts for QTP
● Conducting benchmark testing for performance for each Sprint
● Creating performance graphs for each Sprint
Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Agile Methodology (Scrum/Sprint)
EUDCATION

EDUCATION

bachelors
University of Asmara Asmara
• Bachelor of Science, University of Asmara, Year 2007, Asmara Eritrea