AMANDEEP KAUR

Project Title: Shipping Team

• Managed end-to-end quality assurance activities in a Kanban project, ensuring adherence to acceptance criteria for all user stories and features.
• Verified functionality and usability of software features by meticulously testing and validating each user story, maintaining high standards of quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Identified, documented, and tracked software defects using a robust bug tracking system, effectively communicating with developers to facilitate prompt resolution and ensure timely delivery.
• Orchestrated deployment of builds for testing, collaborating with development and DevOps teams to streamline release processes and maintain a continuous delivery pipeline.
• Leveraged Playwright with TypeScript for efficient and scalable automation of functional tests, enhancing test coverage and reducing manual testing efforts.
• Authored comprehensive QA documentation, including test plans, test cases, and testing procedures, to serve as a reference for future QA engineers and ensure consistency in testing practices.
• Conducted demo sessions and knowledge transfer sessions for new team members, facilitating their onboarding and fostering a shared understanding of project objectives and quality standards.
• Actively participated in story time meetings, contributing valuable insights and feedback to refine acceptance criteria, clarify requirements, and ensure alignment between development and testing efforts.
• Collaborated closely with product owners, developers, and stakeholders to prioritize and address critical issues, driving continuous improvement and delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Proactively identified opportunities for process optimization, automation, and quality enhancement, championing best practices and driving efficiency gains within the QA function.
• Utilized MSQL database querying and manipulation techniques as a QA engineer to verify data integrity , perform backend validation and Excellent Excellent ensure seamless interaction between application components.

Project Title: Bidder Services

• Spearheaded testing efforts for a greenfield project, ensuring comprehensive coverage of initial user stories and requirements from inception to implementation.
• Developed and executed automated API tests using Postman, enabling efficient validation of endpoints, data integrity, and system integrations.
• Implemented deployment pipelines through Octopus deploy, orchestrating seamless releases and ensuring consistent delivery of features across environments.
• Monitored application performance and behavior in both testing and production environments using App insights, proactively identifying issues and optimizing system performance with the recent changes.
• Conducted manual API testing using Swagger, verifying API functionality, request/response validation, and adherence to specifications.
• Utilized Kameleon for goal tracking, effectively monitoring project milestones, and aligning testing activities with project objectives.
• Collaborated closely with development and product teams to refine acceptance criteria, identify edge cases, and ensure the quality of deliverables from the outset.
• Documented test cases, scenarios, and results to provide comprehensive test coverage and facilitate knowledge transfer within the team.
• Participated in cross-functional discussions to continuously improve testing processes, automation strategies and deployment practices.
• Acted as a subject matter expert for testing methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Mentoring team members and promoting a culture of quality assurance excellence.

Project Title: GAP

• Performed quality inspections for the GAP applications and enhanced the user experience by finding both functional and accessibility defects
• Supported quality team members during corrective action updates.
• Researched and evaluated new techniques and technologies to improve product quality.
• Developed and executed QA test cases, scripts and procedures for automated software maintenance.
• Designed, executed and maintained automated test scripts for in-project deployment.
• Planned and devised cohesive test plans for projects using advanced testing technologies.
• Proficiently executed test scenarios using C# - SpecFlow framework to ensure robustness and reliability of software applications.
• Analyzed test results and reported defects using SpecFlow reporting features, facilitating timely resolution and improving overall product quality.

Project Title: The Veyor Digital

Description: Veyor Digital is a cloud based,live logistics scheduling and planning tool for the construction industry and operational building environments, connecting site teams with their supply chain in realtime to improve materials handling coordination and efficiency.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Mentored the engineer for meeting the requirements and coding standards

• Active involvement in code reviews to make sure best practices has been followed by team

• Involved in test strategies, test plans, automation roadmaps, provide scalable, long term solutions and QA effort estimations

• Create robust automation suite and framework for GUI/UI and API testing

• Create and deploy test automation framework for Guidewire test automation

Project Title: Impexium

Description: Impexium is a web-based Association Management Solution (AMS) that supports the full range of association business and administrative activities who combine enterprise-level functionality with the benefits of a software-as-a-service model to deliver a mobile-first, responsive, analytics driven platform to associations of all sizes.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Attended all the ceremonies like daily stand-up, sprint planning, refinement of backlog along with the weekly automation client calls

• Understanding the stories and requirements and development of testing and test automation approach

• Mentored Impexium team comprising of SDET-2, SDET-3 and SDET interns

• Active contributor in hiring team members for the project

• Test management to achieve efficient QA cycles along with the proper resource allocations

• Participated as an independent contributor in the project code

Project Title: PennFoster

Description: PennFoster is a U.S. for-profit high school for distance learning. Programs are self-paced. The school is regionally and nationally accredited. It offers a high school diploma program and several high school concentration programs including an early college program for students looking to get a head start on their college education and vocational concentrations in carpentry,plumbing, electrical,healthcare,or information technology.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design and development of automation testing framework using open source tools with Selenium and Java

• Built from scratch a new CI/CD process for the entire QA team to support build and deploy using Jenkins

• Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks

• Integrated Allure for reporting and Zed Attack Proxy for security testing

• Attended agile ceremonies like daily stand-up, sprint planning, refinement of backlog.

• Understanding the users' stories and requirements to translate into creating a robust test suite.

• Managing Agile based testing, delivering high quality, bug-free premium product in fast paced sprints to our clients.

• Automated test cases on web and mobile web

• Ramped up test automation coverage to ~85 -90% for all the applications

• Worked in providing test estimations and test planning automation efforts required across different verticals within the organization and team.

• Developed multiple utilities in order to implement recursive testing for one scenario with different type of data sets,parallel testing and distributed testing to speed up the execution with good test coverage.

• Artifact deployment approach is being followed in all the automated module so that one module can be integrated with another as a library

• Participated as an independent contributor in the project code

Project Title: NEJM Journal Watch

Description: NEJM Journal Watch reduces information overload for clinicians who want to make the most of scarce time. Summarizing the latest findings from over 250 medical journals,NEJM Journal Watch is the leading source of practical information for clinicians. Expert commentary from physicians gives context to the most current medical research.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design and enhance test framework and it's utilities using cucumber, ruby and rake and self built wrapper classes

• Automate test cases for Web based GUI/UI and SOAP based APIs

• Implementation and maintenance of automation test approach and scripts

• Host and monitor/analyze script execution results on CI server (Jenkins) and resolve any immediate issues.

• Actively participate in daily stand up calls with client and other Agile ceremonies with the team

• Perform manual testing regularly and report/track bugs using JMeter

Project Title: The New England Journal of Medicine

Description: The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals as well as the oldest continuously published one.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Evaluate the test cases provided in Zephyr and create automation acceptance criteria based on user requirements.

• Creation of test scripts, execution and monitoring/analyzing the results of the test cycles and resolving the framework/scripting related issues.

• Creation of estimates that how much time would be required to automate certain number of test scenarios.

• Actively participate in Daily stand up calls, meetings and provide Automation QA status updates to the team.

• To create the balance between the Offshore and Onshore team so that everyone would be on same page.