Simran Bakhishov

About Simran Bakhishov

Gained 7 years of work experience in the IT industry as a Manual and Automation Test Engineer.• Well-versed with Verification and Validation in all testing phases Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).• Experience in different Methodologies like Agile and Waterfall Methodology.• Experienced in the web user interface automation testing with Selenium WebDriver, Java, JUnit, and TestNG frameworks.• Good knowledge of core Java: Inheritance, Abstraction, Polymorphism, and Encapsulation.• Extensive knowledge of using the Selenium Webdriver Automation Tool.• Experienced in all stages of testing such as Smoke Test, Functional, Backend, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Positive/ Negative, Regression, and Boundary Value Testing.• Hands-on experience in automation using Selenium WebDriver with Java, Cucumber tool on Eclipse IDE, JUnit, Maven, TestNG, and Jenkins as a Continuous Integration.• Expertise in using Jenkins to pull the code from the repository, and scheduling the Smoke Test for Continuous Integration.• Experience with Maven build management tool. Configured Maven build tool for automation projects and developed project object model file (pom.xml).• Developed BDD tests using Cucumber Framework by writing behaviors and step definitions and Selenium support code in JAVA.• Developed scenarios and features for the test cases using Gherkin language on Cucumber.• Extensive knowledge of developing and designing different types of frameworks using POM (Page Object Model) based on the automation-testing framework by using JUnit, Java, and Selenium WebDriver• Skills in writing unique XPath and CSS o identify web elements.• Experienced in writing SQL queries to validate the data for the Backend testing.• Performed defect reporting using JIRA and ALM.• Practical skills in working with the GitHub source code management tool.• Good understanding of Continuous Integration tool: Jenkins and Version Control System: Git/GitHub.• Experience in Web API development based on RESTful• Self-motivated, Diligent, Dedicated, Detail-oriented, and Innovative team player/builder.

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer in Test

   Marriott International

   Dec 2022 — Present · Bethesda, MD, US

Education

• Strayer University

  Master of Science - MS

  2016 — 2018