-->Software Development Engineer in Test

      A professional Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with 13+ years of experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry, including 6+ years of SDET and Manuel testing.

● Developed Test Cases out of Business Requirements Documents and User Stories.

● Tested the application in QA, staging environments.

● Designed and developed Test Automation Framework using Selenium, Java,  JUnit, TestNG and Cucumber.

● Implemented Page Object Model with Selenium and Cucumber for easy maintenance and readability

● Tests RESTful API Web Services using Postman and REST Assured Library using Java Programming Language. Utilizing Java OOP knowledge in creating POJO classes to achieve Serialization and deserialization

● Created Automated Test Scripts using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Cucumber.

● Built Hybrid Test Automation Framework on Maven to define project structure, dependencies, builds, and test management.

● Implemented BDD framework using Cucumber, created Step Definitions and feature files using Gherkin (Cucumber) keywords.

● Maintained and executed Maven POM file to simplify compilation and running test classes.

● Worked on distributed Test Automation execution using Jenkins.

● Scheduled Regression Suite and daily Smoke Test in Jenkins using Maven and TestNG.

● Integrated Cucumber and Selenium screenshot functionality for better reports with Jenkins.

● Used Jira for analyzing User Stories, New Features/Enhancements, and tracking/documenting defects.

● Worked in Agile Scrum Development, attended Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, and Review Meetings.

● Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Requirements Traceability Matrix documents.

● Executed Test Scenarios on different browsers as part of Browser Compatibility Testing.

● Supported Functional Testing on a demand basis to meet the testing deadlines.

● Analyzed execution results to identify test failures and reporting defects.

● Implemented automation tools like Java, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, Cucumber, TestNG, Git/GitHub, and Jenkins.

--> Automation Engineer- Manual Tester

● Reviewed User Requirement Specifications and Functional Specifications of the application.

● Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts.

● In Agile-Scrum, participated in Daily Scrum, Business Demo, Sprint Planning, and Metrics Review.

● Created and maintained Automated Acceptance Test Suite using Java, Selenium and Cucumber/Gherkin.

● Developed Automation Scripts using Java, Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber for Regression Suite.

● Applied Page Object Model pattern on top of Selenium Automation Framework to design and write Test Scripts.

● Tested RESTful API, and used HTTP requests to get, put, post and delete data using Postman.

● Maintained and executed Maven POM file using Jenkins for scheduled Smoke and Regression Testing.

● Worked on distributed Test Automation execution using Selenium Grid and Jenkins.

● Experience in API Testing using POSTMAN for Manual Testing and Rest Assured API with Java for Automation.

● Applied JUnit for executing Test Cases by incorporating annotations and performing parallel execution on various platforms and browsers.

● Implemented JUnit test runner classes to call and manipulate Test cases in Cucumber.

● Involved in Backend Testing by writing and executing SQL Queries.

● Used Jira for project management, issue tracking and writing Test Cases.

●Performed Smoke, Database, GUI, UAT, and Functionality Testing.

●Performed Manual Testing and documented bugs and change requests using Jira.

●Performed upgrade/downgrade of application by executing shell scripts and using the scripts for debugging.

●Providing support to team members to execute test cases.

Consultant

-->Columbia University in the City of New York

●Linguistic Field Methods and Language Documentation

Online Journalism, Web Maintenance, Manual Testing

-->ZAZATV News and TV

● Co-founder of Zaza TV

● Followed Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodology.

● Understanding, analyzing the new features that are released.

● Reviewing the new feature design docs, providing valuable comments to improve the quality of the doc and cross verifying the requirements mentioned.

● Conducting teleconference meeting for the review of the test cases with designers and managers, in order to improve the quality of the test cases.

● Reporting any defects found and verifying the same.

● Provided training for Technical support in assisting with problems encountered when running the application, errors, and any queries with the program.

● Created and reviewed other peer’s Test Cases, Test Plan, and Test Scenarios and reported defects and assigned to appropriate team member.

● Playing a key role in debugging issues or supporting team members in times of crisis.

● Providing support to team members to execute test cases.

● Published virtual news and YouTube contents.

● Created and maintained web pages.

Co-Founder

-->Gerger News Group

-->ZAZA TV

--> Online Journalism, Web Domain Consultation, Testing

● Co-founder regional web-based news platform in Turkey.

● Created and published virtual news and YouTube contents.

● Created and maintained web pages by using HTML and CSS.

● Led to daily meetings and published reports.

● Developed and executed Test Cases and verified actual results with expected results.

Reporter

-->Taraf Newspaper

-->Posta 212/ New York

Television News Reporter 

-->ASU TV

Journalist 

-->Dogan News Agency

-->Ihlas News Agency 

-->Kitlehaber.com

-->ZazaTV

-->Otekiler.com

-->GergerTV

-->Gergerim.com

-->Gergerhaber.com

-->Today in Adiyaman

-->Gunebakis Newspaper

Education

--> SDET / Test Automation the nation's top-ranked coding school focused on Test Automation,  Full Stack Development, DevOps, and RPA. Completed school, projects, and co-op work experience in the industry.

--> Bachelors in Communication, Journalism Istanbul University, Turkey(Honor Student).

--> Bachelors in Economics, Political Science and International Relations Istanbul University, Turkey

Languages

--> English

--> Zazaki

--> Kurdish

--> Turkish

Test Management

●JIRA

Data Base

●Oracle SQL, MySQL

Testing Tool

●Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, TestNG, JDBC, Rest-Assured, Postman, Apache POI, Selenium Grid

Languages

●Java, SQL, HTML, JSON, Gherkin

IDE & Configuration Management

●IntelliJ, NetBeans

Development Methodologies

●Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall

Project Building Tools

●Maven

Version Control

●Git, GitHub, GitLab

Browsers

●Chrome, Firefox, Safari

CI/CD Tools

●Jenkins

Operating System

●Windows, Mac OS, Android

Framework

●Cucumber BDD, TestNG, TDD, DTT, POM

Domains

●Insurance, CRM, E-Commerce,  Fleet, Cloud, ERP, News Corporation