Mohammad Yaqoub Akbary

About Mohammad Yaqoub Akbary

Over 7 years of experience in Information Technology, specializing in Software Quality Assurance Testing (Manual and Automation) for client servers, and web applications in diversified fields. Sound knowledge of object-oriented languages and databases in various industries. Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC). strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum and Waterfall Models. Strong Java skills with experience on Selenium WebDriver/IDE for developing automation test scripts for web-based applications.knowledge of Cucumber (BBD) and TestNG frameworks for UI testing and a good understanding of tools like Apache Maven, Jenkins, and Git. Good hands-on experience in Managing the Testing deliverables both Functional and Automationtesting. Knowledge of Software verification/validation process, automation techniques, and testing methodologies. Experience in building automation for API web services with Karate Framework.Experience in developing Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, and Feature files for Behavior Driven Development using the Cucumber framework. Experience in manual and automation testing on various domains, including Banking, Retail, E-Commerce, Insurance, and Financial-Mortgage. Thorough knowledge in Cross-Browser/ Cross-Platform Testing, Smoke Testing, Black-Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/ Negative Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software UI Validation, Boundary Value Testing.

Experience

1. Sr Software Automation Engineer

   State Farm

   Oct 2021 — Present · Chevy Chase, MD, US

   Active involvement in building automation framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, and Cucumber (BDD).• Maintained automation framework and used POM Page Model approach to develop automation scripts using Java and Selenium WebDriver.• Worked on Core JAVA, OOPS concepts.• Assessment and analyzation of user stories, involved in Sprint planning, ReviewSessions & Scrum Meetings and created Test cases, Test scenarios, Test data, andTest reports.• Worked in Agile Scrum Development Environment with frequently changing requirements and features set.• Solid knowledge of SQL. • Maintaining and contributing to automation framework with scenarios and featuresimplemented in step definition classes using Selenium, Java.• Implemented Regression and Smoke test execution as a discrete step of the deployment process by using Selenium WebDriver.• Designed automation tests within the automation framework and provided required maintenance on those tests.• Performed User Acceptance testing (UAT) in an agile environment.• Used JIRA as bug tracking tool on the project.• Executed back end testing for data validation using SQL in Oracle and performedSQL Queries on database tables to verify the database.Environment:Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber (BDD), Gherkin, Oracle DB, Eclipse, Firebug, Fire Path, XML, HP ALM, Jenkins, MAVEN, Apache-POI, HTML, SQL, XPath, GITEYE, SSMS. Developer, MS Office suite, Windows XP, 7, 10, Browsers: Chrome, Firefox and IE and Core Java, SDLC, STLC„ XML, TFS, JSON and HTML.

Education

• Kabul University

  Bachelor's degree, Social science and philosophy

  2012 — 2017