Danish Mahmud

About Danish Mahmud

Over 7+ of Quality Assurance experience in planning, coordinating, and testing Web-based, Client Server, and Mobile applications.• Strong in analyzing Business Requirements and functional specifications to develop and execute Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios for manual and automated testing.• Attending Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective meetings, actively participated in the Agile Scrum development process.• Strong Knowledge in JIRA, Bugzilla, and HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management) for Test plans, Bug and Defect Tracking, and Reporting resolved bugs.• Extensive working experience in GUI testing, Functionality testing, System testing, Smoke testing, Integration testing, Backend testing, Regression testing, and UAT.• Good Knowledge in Backend Testing with SQL Queries on Oracle and SQL Server for data verification and comparing expected results with the database.• Proficient in Web Services Testing, Rest API Manual & Automation Testing using SoapUI, Postman, and Rest Assured.• Expert in Automation Testing with tools such as Cucumber, Selenium Web Driver, IDE, Grid, and test frameworks such as JUnit and TestNG.• Experienced in developing Automation Scripts, Execution, and Analysis of Test Results using BDD Cucumber, Data Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid Frameworks in Selenium WebDriver.• Good Knowledge in creating Page Object Model Framework using Page Factory in Selenium WebDriver.• Implemented automated test scripts using Java and object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.• Experienced in using Maven build tools to manage framework dependency jar files.• Experienced in using GitHub, TFS, and Bit Bucket as a source repository system.• Experienced in using Jenkins as a Continuous Integration server to configure with GitHub.• Expertise in mobile Automation testing tools Appium, and Xcode. • Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills with the ability to understand and explain both business and technical needs from and to clients and customers.

Experience

1. Sr Qa Automation Engineer

   Paramount Global

   Mar 2022 — Present · NY, US

   Interacted with Developers and Business Analysts to perform various types of testing throughout Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC).• Implemented Agile testing methodologies and practices to drive efficient and collaborative QA processes.• Submitted the bug findings using JIRA for defect tracking and categorized them based on severity.• Implemented and executed automated regression, functional, and smoke test suites to ensure the stability and reliability of software applications.• Wrote Structure Query Language (SQL) queries to check the proper data population in the application table and for data verification to perform Backend Testing against SQL Server.• Implemented and maintained automated testing frameworks using Rest Assured to validate the functionality and performance of RESTful APIs.• Parallel cross-browser testing using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Sauce Labs.• Implemented BDD framework using Cucumber and wrote test cases in Gherkin language using GIVEN, WHEN, AND, THEN keywords.• Managed version control systems (Git, GitHub, TFS) to facilitate seamless collaboration.• Utilized Jenkins to automate build and deployment processes, managing VMs and orchestrating cloud resources.• Utilized Java and object-oriented programming to develop robust and scalable test automation solutions.• Developed and maintained automated test scripts using Appium for both Android and iOS platforms.

Education

• WUST

  Master of Science, Information Technology

• Washington University of Science and Technology (WUST)

  Master's degree, Information Technology