Samira Malikova

About Samira Malikova

8 years of experience in Manual and Automation testing of Quality Assurance for Client Server and Web-based applications in Finance Industry.• Work experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle and complex Financial Systems, well-versed in application life-cycle management tools.• Excellent problem-solving skills in creating test scenarios for complex UI functionalities of Order Management Systems (OMS) or Electronic Trading Applications.• Analyzed and understanding Business Requirement Documentations (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and Design Documentations and converting them into Test Scenarios.• Excellent skills in Selenium WebDriver, coupled with Object-Oriented Programing (OOP), for developing and maintaining efficient Test Automation Scripts and Frameworks.• Extensive knowledge in developing test automation frameworks with Behavior Driven Development, Data Driven Test and Hybrid Driven Framework approach using Selenium WebDriver with Python.• Extensive experience in Smoke/Sanity, GUI, Functional (Positive/Negative testing, Boundary, Spot checking/Ad HOC testing), System Functional, Usability, End to End Integration, Backend/SQL testing, Non-functional, Volume Load testing, ETL testing• As far as tools I’ve been used projects Linux for tracking logs, SQL for backend testing, VERIFIX for simulating tool, for writing bug track life cycle and for managing the process I use the Jira• FIX Protocol testing/API testing and Frontend testing, Regression testing, Selenium WebDriver based test automation frameworks, Selenium WebDriver test scripts. Actively involved in various Test Methodologies including Black Box Testing, System Testing• Experience in applying Testing Methodologies, creating Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Executing Manual and Automation Test Cases and tracking defect using JIRA.• Hands-on experience writing Automation test scripts using Python (Selenium) and utilizing other tools like Jenkins, GitHub, HP ALM, Selenium, Jira, Confluence, VERIFIX• Exposure to all aspects of Software development, Troubleshooting, Testing and Maintenance.• Comfortable in troubleshooting issues in Unix/Linux command line and writing simple shell scripts.• Proficient in testing trading applications and understanding Capital Markets and Products including Equity, Debt and Derivatives.• Experience in API testing with Postman tool to validate endpoints using Get, Put, Post, Delete requests.

Experience

1. Quality Assurance Engineer

   Interactive Brokers

   Apr 2020 — Present · NY, US