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I am Soraya Yousufi, a Senior QA Automation Engineer/SDET with around 9 years of experience in manual and automated testing across banking, insurance, financial services, and healthcare. I specialize in automation frameworks, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, API testing, and CI/CD pipelines. I have experience across web-based client/server apps and data-driven test automation using Java, Python, C#, and JavaScript. I thrive in agile environments, work with cross-functional teams, design robust frameworks from scratch (POM, Data-Driven, Hybrid, BDD with Cucumber), and have hands-on with REST APIs, SQL back-end validation, and cloud/docker/Kubernetes deployments. I am committed to delivering high-quality software and mentoring teams.…I am Soraya Yousufi, a Senior QA Automation Engineer/SDET with around 9 years of experience in manual and automated testing across banking, insurance, financial services, and healthcare. I specialize in automation frameworks, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, API testing, and CI/CD pipelines. I have experience across web-based client/server apps and data-driven test automation using Java, Python, C#, and JavaScript. I thrive in agile environments, work with cross-functional teams, design robust frameworks from scratch (POM, Data-Driven, Hybrid, BDD with Cucumber), and have hands-on with REST APIs, SQL back-end validation, and cloud/docker/Kubernetes deployments. I am committed to delivering high-quality software and mentoring teams.

Soraya Yousufi

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I am Soraya Yousufi, a Senior QA Automation Engineer/SDET with around 9 years of experience in manual and automated testing across banking, insurance, financial services, and healthcare. I specialize in automation frameworks, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, API testing, and CI/CD pipelines. I have experience across web-based client/server apps and data-driven test automation using Java, Python, C#, and JavaScript. I thrive in agile environments, work with cross-functional teams, design robust frameworks from scratch (POM, Data-Driven, Hybrid, BDD with Cucumber), and have hands-on with REST APIs, SQL back-end validation, and cloud/docker/Kubernetes deployments. I am committed to delivering high-quality software and mentoring teams.…I am Soraya Yousufi, a Senior QA Automation Engineer/SDET with around 9 years of experience in manual and automated testing across banking, insurance, financial services, and healthcare. I specialize in automation frameworks, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, API testing, and CI/CD pipelines. I have experience across web-based client/server apps and data-driven test automation using Java, Python, C#, and JavaScript. I thrive in agile environments, work with cross-functional teams, design robust frameworks from scratch (POM, Data-Driven, Hybrid, BDD with Cucumber), and have hands-on with REST APIs, SQL back-end validation, and cloud/docker/Kubernetes deployments. I am committed to delivering high-quality software and mentoring teams.

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I am Soraya Yousufi, a Senior QA Automation Engineer/SDET with around 9 years of experience in manual and automated testing across banking, insurance, financial services, and healthcare. I specialize in automation frameworks, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, API testing, and CI/CD pipelines. I have experience across web-based client/server apps and data-driven test automation using Java, Python, C#, and JavaScript.

I thrive in agile environments, work with cross-functional teams, design robust frameworks from scratch (POM, Data-Driven, Hybrid, BDD with Cucumber), and have hands-on with REST APIs, SQL back-end validation, and cloud/docker/Kubernetes deployments. I am committed to delivering high-quality software and mentoring teams.

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Work Experience

Sr QA Automation Engineer at Federal Reserve Bank – San Francisco, CA (Remote)

September 1, 2024 - Present

Developed and implemented automation framework for data-driven testing using Selenium WebDriver (Java), Maven, TestNG; Built JavaScript-based test framework with cucumber.js, WebDriverIO, Node.js; Wrote tests in TypeScript/Playwright for a browser-based application; Implemented REST/GraphQL testing; Docker orchestration with Kubernetes; OpenShift; Jenkins CI; SOAP/REST services via SOAP UI; Coordinated with developers and tracked defects in JIRA.

Sr QA Automation Engineer/SDET at Hannover Life Reassurance Co (Artech Information System) | Remote

February 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024

Developed automated scripts for testing web-based applications using Java, Python, C# with Selenium WebDriver; Configured Selenium Grid for cross-browser execution; Used Maven, TestNG, JUnit; Created nightly automation scripts; Implemented Page Object Model; Built API automation with Rest Assured; Used Cypress/Protractor for UI automation; Implemented CI/CD with Jenkins; Deployed in Azure cloud and containerized with Docker/Kubernetes.

Sr. QA Automation Engineer/SDET at GE Healthcare | Waukesha, WI

October 1, 2019 - January 31, 2023

Designed and implemented hybrid automation framework using Selenium WebDriver; Data-driven testing with JDBC; Used Page Object Model for maintainable code; Cross-browser testing on IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome; REST/SoapUI for API testing; Jenkins-based CI/CD; VBScript/UFT for legacy automation; Azure deployment and containerization.

Selenium/ Automation Engineer at Cigna | Windsor, CT

January 1, 2018 - September 30, 2019

Involved in product-level analysis and automation using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven; API testing with SoapUI and Postman; BDD/Cucumber; CI/CD via Jenkins; defects tracked in JIRA; prepared user documentation for UAT; web service testing with REST/SoapUI.

QA Test Engineer/ Manual Tester at KeyBank | Cleveland, OH

February 1, 2016 - December 31, 2017

Developed automated tests with Selenium WebDriver; cross-browser testing; QTP for data-driven tests; GitLab CI/CD; JIRA defect tracking; prepared test plans and documented results; tested web apps and REST/SOAP APIs; contributed to test planning and execution.

Senior QA Automation Engineer at Federal Reserve Bank – San Francisco

September 1, 2024 - Present

Developed and implemented automation frameworks for data-driven testing, including Selenium WebDriver with Java, Maven, TestNG, and a JavaScript-based framework using cucumber-js. Built end-to-end automation with Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript) and WebDriverIO for API and UI validation, and integrated REST/GraphQL testing with JMeter. Led containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift) for test environments; set up CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and coordinated defect tracking in JIRA; performed API testing with REST/REST Assured and SOAP UI.

Sr. QA Automation Engineer/SDET at Hannover Life Reassurance Co (Artech Information System) | Remote

February 1, 2023 - August 1, 2024

Gained experience in Agile/Scrum practices, designed and executed automated tests using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Python, and C#. Implemented Selenium Grid for cross-browser testing, configured TestNG, Maven, and Jenkins-based nightly automation, and created API automation with Rest Assured and Postman. Built a Keyword/Hybrid framework and a BDD framework with Cucumber; participated in CI/CD efforts and cloud deployments with Azure and Docker.

Sr. QA Automation Engineer/SDET at GE Healthcare

October 1, 2019 - January 1, 2023

Involved in SDLC, designed and implemented hybrid automation framework with Selenium WebDriver, developed data-driven tests using TestNG and JDBC, and performed cross-browser testing across IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Built admin interfaces with ASP.NET/C# and contributed to API testing using REST/SOAP UI and Ready API; implemented CI/CD pipelines and maintained test data validation with SQL queries against Oracle/SQL Server.

Selenium/Automation Engineer at Cigna

January 1, 2018 - September 1, 2019

Performed web services testing with SOAP UI, REST API validation, and UI automation using Selenium WebDriver with Java/TestNG. Implemented BDD with Cucumber/Gherkin, integrated tests into Jenkins CI, and collaborated with developers via JIRA/ALM for defect tracking and status reporting.

QA Test Engineer/ Manual Tester at KeyBank

February 1, 2016 - December 1, 2017

Updated and maintained automated test scripts with Selenium WebDriver, performed cross-browser testing, and implemented data-driven tests using TestNG and Data/Keyword-driven approaches. Worked on Git-based CI/CD pipelines, authored tests with Cucumber, and supported defect tracking in JIRA/ALM; performed backend validation using SQL queries against Oracle/SQL Server.