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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateContact: Mandakini GopinathChester Springs, PA Street Address
email: EMAIL AVAILABLEPhone number: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEProfessional SummarySoftware Development Engineer in Test having more than 16+ years of expertise in test automation, manual testing, and software development. Have held lead role in Quality Assurance and spear-headed Automation efforts. Through collaboration have implemented Business Requirements successfully. Have experience of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in a financial organization. Also have experience with backend automation and SQL queries as well. Demonstrated ability to streamline processes, reducing execution time by 50%, and enhancing testing efficiency by 60% through automated scripts. Given my deep interest in QA Engineering combined with my expertise in transforming manual test cases into automated scripts, looking forward to contribute significantly to your esteemed organization.Work ExperienceComcast Corporation Philadelphia, PA(Remote)Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET-III) March 2021 -June 2024Established a solid foundation for building Automated Octane test cases using Cypress and Cucumber within a team of 15 members.Implemented Unit, Integration, and End-to-End tests that run on a Concourse pipeline. About 60% of the suite comprised of Unit tests.Through thorough understanding of the infrastructure automated 40% of complex scenarios using mocking technique.Participated in manual execution to meet regression run timelines, reducing execution time by 15%.Incorporated underlying system infrastructure with business requirements to develop robust scripts for regression and sanity thereby increasing efficiency by 30% leveraging good team collaboration.Ensured to cover edge cases for identifying defects with my analytical approach.Conducted code reviews (around 3-4 on a daily basis) on GitHub and documented best practices on Confluence, ensuring high code quality.Mentored new hires to the company and aided onboarding.Initiated knowledge sharing across cross-disciplinary teams consisting of 10 members.The Vanguard Group Malvern, PATest Automation Engineer January 2012-February2021Effectively converted Business Requirements into Test Scenarios for Automation.Led collaboration with our business partners to optimize Regression suites thereby reducing duplication by 20%.Proficient in writing Test cases and test plans, designing Test procedures and creating and monitoring defect reports.Designed about 90 Automation Scripts for Web testing using Selenium and Java keeping the principles of Test-Driven Development TDD, Behavior Driven Development BDD and Acceptance Driven Development ATDD in mind.Adopted Shift Left methodology to effectively identify defects, reducing bug resolution time by 20%.Ensured all key control scenarios governing compliance were addressed and prioritized.Adhered to Testing Pyramid to ensure that majority of scenarios were Automated at Unit level and the remaining ones were End-to-End cases. This approach lowered overhead by more than 30%.Scripted and maintained Automated Scripts that increased productivity by more than 60% by replacing the conventional manual effort.Converted a critical Selenium project into Cypress using TypeScript and Cucumber.Monitored Cucumber Reports generated for Selenium scripts and maintained Automation suite run via CI-CD tools like Jenkins and Bamboo to check health of the system.Developed Splunk dashboard to verify Cypress scripts setup for AWS(Cloud development environments).Have experience in Test Driven development.In the role of HP-ALM Quality Center Administrator and Lead for Release Regression I was able to accomplish a timely execution of Release Regression.Experience working on projects following Agile Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall methodology.Data-Driven Testing in SeleniumFor scalability and reusability, data was housed in separate Excel files.Used Client Finder tool to fetch data whenever needed.In case the tool did not fetch required result set, worked with database team to setup new data for testing.Leveraged options to view data for specific testing to avoid overuse or data getting corrupted.Following compliance user data had to renewed on a periodic basis.Software Developer January 2008-January2012Accomplished building web applications using JSP and JSPF for strategic enhancement projects and Production defects, thereby enhancing client experience.Created robust applications with J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, CSS, and XML, ensuring high system reliability.Have experience with SQL and backend database.EDUCATIONMS in Computer Science from West Chester University, PA.CERTIFICATESCertified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance.SKILLSLANGUAGES Java, Gherkin, Java Script, Type Script, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML, JSONTESTING TOOLS Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Cypress, Maven, Jenkins, Git, Subversion, Bamboo, Postman, Version Control, Ci/CdTEST MANAGEMENT JIRA, Confluence, Splunk, Team Track, JIRA, Agile Methodology, Confluence, Top Team, Quality Center (HP-ALM), Octane, Kanban, Defect Tracking, ReportingDATABASE Microsoft SQL ServerTESTING FRAMEWORK JUnit, Page Object Model (POM), Page Factory, Data Driven, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Model-View-Controller, Software Development Lifecycle, DebuggingPLATFORMS Windows, AWSIDE Spring Tool Suite (STS), Visual Studio Code (VS Code),WEB SERVICES API, RESTTESTING TYPE Quality Assurance, Manual Testing, Automated Testing, Test Scripts, Functional, User Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing, Test Suites, Integration Testing, End-to-End Testing, Test Execution, Exploratory, API Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity Testing, Testing Pyramid, Test Driven Development TDD, Acceptance Test Driven Development ATDDACCOMPLISHMENTSWas recognized at a division-level among 500 staff members for being an Automation Advocate. This involved training and laying the ground for application teams to start transitioning from manual testing to Automation.In the role of Test Lead for the department (around 150 staff members), received recognition for introducing a new workflow while resulted in reducing Regression execution timeframes by 50%.Made recommendations that were greatly acknowledged for defining the scope of test cases within Quality Center. |
