Kalpana G

QA Automation/Manual Test Engineer

Contact Number: 703-689-9945 Ext 108
Email Id: ambedkar@realsoftech.com
Summary:
 Around 7+ years of experience as Software Development Engineer in Test, Quality Assurance Engineer in Software
Testing, good communication skills, collaborative experience with offshore teams.
 Experience in test automation with Selenium-Java with Agile Methodology for websites, Java Robot for window
based software, Appium-Java for mobile apps and sites, and Webservices for middleware testing
 Information Technology experience in gathering Requirements, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing,
Maintenance, Enhancement & Production Support of Client/Server, Internet, Intranet, Windows and Web-based
applications both public facing and internal.
 Working experience in Agile, Test-driven development and Waterfall methodology.
 Excellent knowledge of business process automation and workflow concepts.
 Coordinating Joint application design (JAD) sessions and interviews to converge towards a design acceptable to the
customer and feasible for the developers.
 Knowledge of HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) test automation tool and expertise in ALM testing tool.
 Knowledge on JIRA tool for tracking Bugs/Defects.
 Experience in Quality Center (QC), identify, document, and track issues found during testing. Skilled in preparing
traceability matrix to ensure that all the requirements defined for the system are tested in the test cases
 Experienced in performing end-to-end verification and validation.
 Experienced in performing smoke, functional, component, integration and system testing.
 Knowledge on creating data models, writing detailed Use Cases with Basic, Alternate & Exception Scenarios, UML
Diagrams, Process Flow Diagram & Workflows, Wireframe and other elements using MS Visio, Enterprise Architect
& Rational Rose.
 Experienced on how to test web services: SOAP and RESTful.
 Experienced integration of Cucumber with Selenium as it helps to read and to understand the application flow.
 Knowledge on mobile application UI testing framework using Appium and TestNG as a pre-requisite.
 Knowledge on Testing Angular components, angular attribute directives, utility API
 Hands-on experience in Testing/QA Life Cycle includes preparing the Test Cases and Testing the developed programs
(Unit testing, Sanity Testing, performance testing, Regression and user acceptance testing). 
 Experience in developing Custom Reports and different types of Tabular, Matrix, Ad-hoc and distributed reports in
multiple formats using Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
 Extensive working experience in unit testing framework – NUNIT and MSUNIT.
 Experienced in all stages of STLC for Manual and Automated Testing using Selenium.
 Experience with various source control Tools like TFS, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, GIT and Tortoise SVN.
 Experience with Azure DevOps Services like Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Test Plans, Artifacts also collaboration tools
like team dashboards with widgets to share information, progress of tasks, trends/charts, wikis, set notification.
 Experience with Azure DevOps supporting extensions integrated with slack.
 Conducted functional walkthrough, performed various System testing such as Regression, Integration, ETL Testing,
Functional, Smoke & UAT; and thereby obtained necessary signoffs and assisted in the development of User
Manuals, tutorials for customers.
 Ability in carrying out regression testing & retesting to make sure that the discovered bugs are fixed
 Ability to perform tasks under minimal supervision.

Technical Skills:
Testing Tools Selenium WebDriver, Appium, TestNG, Selenium IDE, JUnit, Cucumber, SoapUI,
RestAssured and Freetts
Methodologies Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, SDLC, STLC.
Languages Java, HTML, XML, Gherkin, C.
IDE Eclipse, IntelliJ, SQL Developer.
Test Framework Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid, Page Object Model (POM).
Test build, Integration Tools Maven, Ant, Jenkins, SVN, Git
Databases SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, MySQL.
 Web Debugging Tool
Bug Tracking Tools
Processes
Operating Systems
MS Office tools
Browsers
XPath, Firepath, Firebug.
JIRA, Quality Center.
Agile-Scrum, Waterfall.
Windows (XP, Vista & 7, 8, 10) Linux, Mac.
Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari.

Client: Truist Bank, Greensboro, NC Oct 2020 to Till Date

Role: Automation Engineer
Description: Truist Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company headquartered in Charlotte,
NC. The company was formed in December 2019 as the result of the merger of BB&T and SunTrust Bank It is the
6th largest bank in USA offers consumer and commercial banking, securities brokerage, asset management,
mortgage, and insurance products and services, This project is to execute client migrations from heritage banks into
Truist interface. Executing Legal day 1 and Client day1 conversion activities and testing.

Responsibilities:
 Analyzing the requirements from the client
 Performed Front End testing using Java, Selenium, Junit, Cucumber and Gherkin languages.
 Participated in all Scrum Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, Daily Standup, Sprint Demo and
Sprint Retro Meetings.
 Developed and maintained BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and DDT (Data-Driven Test) framework with Java,
Selenium using Cucumber with Gherkin language.
 Designed and implemented POM (Page Object Model) based Automation Testing Framework utilizing Java, Selenium
WebDriver, Cucumber and JUnit.
 Performed Back-End Testing by using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) for automation and both PostgreSQL, Rapid
SQL for manual testing.
 Used Gradle build automation tool for managing and centralizing dependencie
 Worked with RESTful API using Java REST Assured library for Automation and Postman for Manual Testing.
 Automated the Test Cases for Smoke, Integration, Regression, Database, Positive and Negative Testing in an
Agile/Scrum environment.
 Experience using API Testing with CRUD (Get, Post, Put, and Delete) methods.
 Implemented Automated Execution of Smoke and Regression Testing using Jenkins.
 Involved in implementing logging and tracking using Jira. 
 Used Bitbucket as a version control repository.
 Utilized Gradle to Manage dependencies for Test execution, Plug-ins and created profiles of grouped Test Cases to
Regression Testing.
 Worked closely with developers and product team to solve defect related issues.
 Performing mobility testing on Tatva app.
Environments: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Gradle, JUnit, Cucumber, Gherkin, REST API, Postman, Jira, Rapid SQL, PostgreSQL,
JDBC, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Agile, Scrum, Eclipse

Client: Citizens Property Insurance Corp, Jacksonville, FL Aug2017 to Oct 2020

Role: Software Testing Engineer
Description: Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) was created in 2002 from the merger of two other
entities to provide both windstorm coverage and general property insurance for home-owners who could not obtain
insurance elsewhere. Headquartered in Tallahassee, FL and quickly became the largest insurer in the state.
This project is to develop a web based product for Insurance claims center and premium coverage product
catalogue.

Responsibilities:
 Participated in Daily Scrum calls with BA’s and onshore team.
 Assisted and analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specification based on Smart criteria and involved in the
preparation of the Test Plan, developed detailed Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
  Participated in all Scrum Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, Daily Standup, Sprint Demo and
Sprint Retro Meetings.
 Developed BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and DDT (Data-Driven Test) with Java, Selenium using Cucumber
Features, Scenarios, Scenario Outlines and Step Definitions with Gherkin language.
 Designed and implemented POM (Page Object Model) based Automation Testing Framework utilizing Java, Selenium
WebDriver, Cucumber and JUnit.
 Performed Data-Driven Testing by using Apache POI for writing and reading from Excel sheets.
 Performed Back-End Testing by using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) as a data source and configured SQL queries
to fetch data from database.
 Used Project Object Model (POM.xml) file for managing and centralizing dependencies.
 Experience in using Selenium Grid to run Test Scripts on different platforms and against different browsers in Parallel
to save time.
 Worked on API testing on my project and I used RESTful, Postman, and REST Assured library.
 Automated the Test Cases for Smoke, Integration, Regression, Database, Positive and Negative Testing in an
Agile/Scrum environment.
 Back-End WebServices level testing with RESTful API using Java REST Assured library for Automation and Postman
for Manual Testing.
 Experience using API Testing with CRUD (Get, Post, Put, and Delete) methods.
 Analyzed the User Stories, System Design and provided feedback from End-User point of view.
 Thorough experience in implementing automation tools Selenium WebDriver, Selenium GRID, JUnit, TestNG, Eclipse,
IntelliJ IDEA, Git/GitHub, Jenkins, SOAP UI and REST with Postman.
 Implemented Automated Execution of Smoke and Regression Testing using Jenkins.
 Involved in implementing logging and tracking using Jira. 
 Experienced in implementing Git as Version Control tool and GitHub as a Repository.
 Utilized Maven to Manage dependencies for Test execution, Plug-ins and created profiles of grouped Test Cases to
Run Sanity and Regression Testing.
 Worked closely with developers and business analyst to solve defect related issues.
Environments: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Maven, JUnit, Cucumber, Gherkin, REST API, Postman, Jira, SQL
Developer, JDBC, Apache POI, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Agile, Scrum, IntelliJ IDEA

Client : ICICI, India Sep 2015–Oct 2017

Role: Automation Engineer
Project: Mobility Banking
Description: It is a Mobile-based application typically used for Collection management processes. It basically enables by
bringing buyer & seller to come across a single platform for making their payments against invoice. Buyer able to choose
different types of Payments Modes in different Authorization levels are required While Making Payments.
Responsibilities:
 Expertise in Entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Agile as well as
Iterative development environments.
 Involved in writing Automation Scripts and Executing Scripts. 
 Used the Iterative Incremental Framework Scrum with Agile Software Development.
 Automated Test Cases from Sprint Backlog after doing manually if it is passed.
 Developed BDD (Behavior Driven Development) with Java, Selenium using Cucumber Features, Scenarios, Scenario
Outlines and Step Definitions with Gherkin language to make sure that my test cases are understandable for each
member of my team.
 Implemented Automation using Selenium WebDriver, Java, Selenium Grid and Maven.
 Configured Selenium, Testing, and Maven tool and created Selenium Automation Scripts in Java. 
 Involved in developing BDD Framework from Scratch.
 Worked with developers to update the defects, resolve them and track their status using Bugzilla.
 Integrated Jenkins with Version Controller (GIT) and scheduled builds to run automatically during a build release by
invoking predefined Maven commands.
 Experience with Cross-Browser and Compatibility Testing to test whether the Web applications are working as
desired in different browsers and environments.
 Experienced in various type of testing Smoke, Integration and Regression and Functional.
 Performed Regression Testing as part of every build using Jenkins CI.
  Performed Data-Driven Testing by using Apache POI for writing and reading from Excel sheets.
 Developed SQL queries for testing various Database validations.
 Used Project Object Model (POM.xml) file for managing and centralizing dependencies.
 Worked on API testing on my project and I used RESTful, Postman, and REST Assured library.
Environments: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, JUnit, Cucumber, Gherkin, REST API, Postman, SQL Developer, Git, Bugzilla,
Jenkins, Agile, Scrum, IntelliJ IDEA

Value Labs, India June 2014 – Sept 2015

Role: Security Test Analyst
Responsibilities:
 Conducted Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, UI Testing, Compatibility Testing,
Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing
 Implemented testing on web, mobile (both iOS and Android mobile applications) and desktop applications using Agile
Methodology
 Worked as a team lead for a project and conducted continuous meetings with the development team to understand
business requirements, defined project scope to the team, allocated resources and provided them with day-to-day
task list
 Developed and executed software test plans and test cases in order to identify software problems and their causes
 Performed bug writing using bug reporting tool Jira

Environment: Appium, Selenium Web driver, Java, AGILE, Linux, SQL Server

QUALIFICATION: Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from JNTU, India