Ujjaval Patel

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Senior QA Automation Engineer

✅ A highly motivated and enthusiastic ISTQB qualified QA Automation Engineer and Scrum Master with first-class analytical, communication and technical skills.

💪 Currently learning React & React Native.

😎 Strong Manual Tester with experience in Automated testing using WebDriverIO and Cypress.

👔 Responsible, Dependable and willing to drive for success.

🌊 Worked with testing methodologies including Agile, Waterfall and V-model.

👶 Experience of leading and mentoring Junior QA's.

💯 Able to work under pressure, with internal and external parties to all levels.

Current Company:

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OverView:

The UK’s leading platform for property finance, reforming the mortage industry through Technology. In 2019 we became the first UK Fintech to securitise a portfolio of buy-to-let mortgages.

Dates:

May 2021 - Present

My Responsibilities:

▪ Extensive use of postman tool to test complex external and internal API’s.

▪ Automating postman collections, mocking responses, great understanding of variable scoping, auth types, writing pre-request scripts to obtain bearer token. Testing using csv, json, pdf files.

▪ Extensive use of Cypress framework to automate our UI and API’s. Use of custom commands, intercepting XHR network requests, use of fixture data.

▪ Establish and communicate QA standards, methodologies, and best practices, ensuring junior QAs understand and adhere to them.

▪ Use of Mocha, chai, moment, faker, mysql, mochaawesome, libraries.

▪ Use of Docker to containerise Cypress and use in our Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.

▪ Extensive use of GIT to deploy feature branches to production after passing the pipeline.

▪ Extensive experience in Sprints/Kanban style of working. Working in agile environment following all ceremonies.

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Dates:

July 2020 – May 2021

Key skills Learned:

▪ Creating and maintaining test automation scripts, using framework like WebdriverIO for our mobile automation, using BDD cucumber format. Using cypress framework for web application.

▪ Creating page object model design patterns in WebdriverIO, for developers to reuse.

▪ Executing completed e2e tests on BrowserStack, ensuring all functionality is working as expected on all lowest supported mobile devices.

▪ Working very closely with other mission teams to ensure quality checks are embedded in our CI/CD process, our e2e tests jobs has to pass in order for any PR’s to be merged.

▪ Participating in all scrum ceremonies, adapting and working in agile environment, participating in 3 amigos sessions to better identify bottlenecks and provide QA solutions.

▪ Working very closely with the product team and business to implement automated e2e function and non-functional test coverage cases, capturing our manual regression using TestRail.

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Dates:

August 2019 – July 2020

Key skills Learned:

▪ Test automation using WebDriverIO with Appium, using Mocha & Chai.

▪ Testing FE & BE tickets on PR's, before merging to master.

▪ Exploratory testing on alpha-releases, reporting & tracking front-end & back-end bugs using Jira.

▪ POC for Mettle UI mobile testing, using WebdriverIO with Appium using BDD (Cucumber) tool.

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Dates:

February 2018 – July 2019

Key skills Learned:

▪ My Second client from Ten10 Consultancy.

▪ Extensive use of SQL wrote and ran advanced queries to retrieve data from several databases.

▪ UAT, E2E, Functional, System, Integration and regression testing was conducted.

▪ API testing using Postman.

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Dates:

September 2017 – January 2018

Key skills Learned:

▪ My first client from Ten10 Consultancy.

▪ Participated in delivery of Web Applications, Mobile and Portals to support the business objectives.

▪ Performed cross-browser testing on BrowserStack & iOS, Android devices for mobile testing.

▪ Accountable for adding documentation, test cases, dashboards into Jira and Confluence.

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Dates:

July 2017 – July 2019

Key skills Learned:

▪ This was a two year graduate contract with Ten10 Consultancy, which provided range of clients.

▪ 5 weeks intense bootcamp based in Leeds, which covered a vast amount of testing terminologies, methodologies and automation frameworks.

▪ Alige working environment, following all Scrum ceremonies.