Nelson Hernandez

Around 4 Years of diverse experience in the Information Technology industry with a focus on Software Quality Assurance (QA/Software Testing) activities. Work on Azure DevOps to manage Sprint items, team board, test plan, test cases, and CI-CD pipelines and artifacts. Excellent understanding of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies.

Good understanding of AGILE, Waterfall software development methodologies. Strong knowledge and working experience on AGILE Methodology (SCRUM), Waterfall model.

Experience in Automation Testing and Exploratory Manual Testing (Black Box/White Box Testing) on Web-based applications. Expert in developing Java Selenium/WebDriver test scripts and Test Frameworks using TestNG/Junit to perform Functional and Unit Testing. Extensive expertise in Functional, Smoke, Regression, Backend/Database Testing of Web Applications.

Used Eclipse, IntellijIDEA as an Integration Development Environment (IDE), core Java and Selenium WebDriver for the creation of automation scripts. Proficient in using Maven build tool to manage testing frameworks dependencies, plugins in pom.xml file. Experienced in Web UI Testing using Selenium WebDriver, Protractor, UI Testing with Cucumber BDD Framework.

Experienced with Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber by creating Feature files and writing test scenarios in Gherkin language.

Utilized

Runner classes to generate Step Definitions as well as used tags to run different tests.

Executed

Selenium test script on different browsers like Chrome and Firefox as well as operating systems like Windows using JUnit/ TestNG, Java and Selenium. Used various Selenium Locators like ID, Name, Link Text, Partial Link Text, XPath, CSS for identifying correct GUI elements in creating automation scripts. Well acquainted with Selenium Synchronization Techniques like Implicit and Explicit Waits in the WebDriver.

Expertise in Defect Management/ Problem-solving including tracking bugs, reporting using JIRA. Good knowledge of API testing to ensure functionality, reliability, performance, and security of API. Experienced in RESTful API testing using Rest Assured Library (using Given, When, Then syntax) with Java and also manually tested API using Postman.

Utilized SQL for test setup and data validation on Oracle database and also handled the tasks of designing, managing SQL Queries. Involved in Continuous Integration (CI) framework using Jenkins and scheduled the tests to run at specific time. Maintained the Selenium JAVA/C# automation code and recourses in source control like GIT over the time for improvements and new features and resolved conflicts while merging source code to a trunk or with other branches in the same.

Experienced in parallel testing using Selenium. Adept at learning new tools & technologies in a very short period and applying those skills in projects. Competent and self-motivated problem solver with excellent interpersonal skills and a dedication to meeting deadlines.

QA Automation Engineer II - TaxAct - Remote

(2023-02)

• Involved in preparing test strategies for client side verifications and validations.
• Developed automation framework, following hybrid approach of implementing Page Object Model (POM) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and Cucumber.
• I have worked on Loan originating process application, were to create test plan, test scenarios, test cases, execution of test cases, logged and reports bugs.
• I encourage leaders, managers, and senior engineers to make mentoring happen as part of their job responsibilities.
• Involved in automating test cases using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG.
• Wrote Automation scripts using Java code and maintained for its reusability.
• Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the application development using Selenium.
• Build Automation framework Using selenium WebDriver, Protractor, Rest assured using BDD.
• Automated sprint stories based on the acceptance criteria and converted previously generated manual test case suites to scripted automation.
• Used Jenkins for continuous integration continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Write and execute automation test cases in various browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer (cross-browser testing).
• Created web UI tests using Cucumber, Gherkin and Selenium automation.
• Used Jira for raising issues, bugs, defect tracking, writing, and executing tests.
• Extensive back-end testing using SQL queries to retrieve data and check data integrity.
• Follow Agile-Scrum methodology and participate in all Agile ceremonies during the Sprint, including Sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, Sprint demos and reviews, and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Developed and executed various scripts using Appium for automated testing of various functionalities.
• Used UI Automator for android and Appium Inspector for IOS testing.
• Performed Cross-platform, Functional, Regression testing, UI testing for mobile Native app, web apps and hybrid apps using Appium test automation framework.
• Involved in Web services testing using REST Assured by writing code to send request and validate response JSON.
• Performed RESTful API testing using Rest Assured Library with Java and also manually tested API using Postman.
• Performed SIT Testing activities (as a part of manual testing) to evaluate and support Microservices by providing end-to-end application testing and by providing technical support.
• Worked with AWS cloud machines to setup selenium GRID and also Jenkins server on HUB machine.
• Experience building and deploying applications as Docker Containers on AWS ECS.
• Experience migrating on-site.
• Used Selenium WebDriver APIs for writing JUnit test suites and test cases for testing functionality.
• Used Maven as the build tool, Git for version control.
• Worked on conversation of manual integration test in to automated test using QTP.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).
• Performed regression tests on the application to assure proper functionality of the site after new builds using Clear Quest.
• Write and implement test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts following supported business requirements.
• Used JMeter to execute LoadTests outside the company firewall by configuring host machines with JMeter in AWS.
• Communicated with different team such as development, requirement, and configuration management. Participated in daily, weekly meetings and technical reviews. Prepared reports showing the testing efforts.

QA Automation Engineer - Cloudvriga - Remote

(2022-01 - 2023-02)

• Automated the test scenarios using Selenium RC and used Java as programming language and JUnit as the test framework.
• Strong experience of developing data models using Hibernate POJO's, configuring Hibernate persistence layer.
• Tested web services, validated request and response XML, SOAP Calls, and WSDL using SOAPUI tool.
• Performed regres sion testing for fixes using QTP and closed the defects in Quality Center.
• Created test data by running SQL queries and exported them to Excel.
• Developed Java modules implementing business rules and workflows using Spring Boot.
• Worked on UNIX based platforms to analyze and debug application issues.
• Used Maven for building the project Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins (CI/CD).
• Used Microservice architecture with Spring Boot based services interacting through a combination of REST and Apache Kafka message brokers and worked with Kafka Cluster using ZooKeeper.
• Contributed to the test automation framework using Selenium/TestNG/Maven and Java.
• Wrote and executed SOAPUI test scripts to cover testing of web services integration of applications.
• Performed backend testing in UNIX environment using complex SQL queries.
• Designed and executed quality test plans and test cases to verify reliability, accuracy, and compatibility of application.
• Performed Smoke, GUI, Integration, Functional, Regression, Redundancy, Data Integrity, System Compatibility testing.
• Creating Typescript reusable components and services to consume REST APIs using component-based architecture provided by Angular 4 and Used Webpack to build Typescript modules.