QA Automation Engineer at Wintrust Financial Corporation

Analyzed and reviewed business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories; designed, developed, and maintained automation test scripts using Java, Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, and Maven; built and enhanced hybrid automation frameworks (POM, Data-Driven, and BDD); automated data validation across IBM DB2, Google BigQuery, and Google BigTable; backend data validation via SQL queries and stored procedures; automated file validation for CSV, JSON, XML, and Parquet in data ingestion pipelines; validated ETL workflows; implemented BDD automation with Cucumber and Gherkin; automated regression and smoke test suites; UI automation with Playwright (JavaScript/TypeScript) and Cypress; created reusable components; API automation using REST Assured, Postman, and Cypress API; integrated with CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins; performed cross-browser tests using Selenium Grid; mobile automation with Appium; performance testing with JMeter; leveraged AI-assisted tools like GitHub Copilot; tr

Test Automation Engineer at Elevance Health

Designed and developed a robust hybrid automation framework (Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, and POM principles). Automated functional, regression, smoke, and UAT test scenarios; implemented BDD with Cucumber; data-driven testing with Apache POI; generated TestNG and Extent Reports; automated REST API testing using Apache HttpClient and validated request/response payloads; Postman for API validation; integrated with Jenkins for CI/CD; UI testing for Angular apps using Protractor; enhanced framework with logging (Log4j), parallel execution, data providers, and JavaScript Executor; backend database testing with SQL; defect tracking using JIRA; collaborated with developers; prepared test execution metrics; supported Agile ceremonies.