Omar Faruk
Automation Engineer | SDET | Java, Selenium, API, ETL, CI/CD | QA Experience | US Citizen
- Role
- Automation Engineer at Cognizant
- Location
- Dallas, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Omar Faruk
Result-oriented QA & Automation Engineer (US Citizen) with 5+ years of experience in…
Experience
Automation Engineer
Apr 2023 — Present · US
Automated UI workflows for customer-facing portals using Java, Selenium, and Cucumber-BDD, reducing manual testing by 35% and ensuring stability across React-based interfaces.• Built a modular BDD framework (Maven + Gherkin) supporting UI and API automation, cutting tester onboarding time from weeks to days.• Automated API validations with RestAssured for onboarding and credit workflows, detecting edge cases (malformed payloads, token expiry, timeouts) and preventing 30+ production defects.• Integrated automation into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) with parallel execution and regression triggers, reducing regression cycles by 40% and accelerating sign-offs.• Expanded testing to ETL and BI validation, reconciling PostgreSQL data against reporting dashboards to ensure accurate compliance reporting.• Built Jenkins QA dashboards to monitor flaky test rates, regression pass/fail trends, and coverage gaps, improving build stability by 20%.• Maintained test coverage traceability in Jira/Zephyr, ensuring compliance alignment with evolving business rules.• Partnered with developers, architects, and product owners during Agile ceremonies to propose improvements (stable selectors, logging hooks, mock endpoints), which reduced flakiness in UI/API test suites and improved product quality.
Education
Generation USA
Junior Full Stack Java Developer Program
2022 — 2022
Stamford University Bangladesh
Bachelor of Science - BS
2009 — 2013
The University of Texas at Dallas
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management
2021 — 2024
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