Automation Testing : Roles and Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities

Below are some roles and responsibilities for Automation tester.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Understanding the business requirements, application and its components.
Updating Framework functions when needed
Developed and executing the Automation Test Scripts
Reviewing the Test Reports and Preparing Test Summary Report.
Preparation of test scenarios/cases/execution and test results.
Reporting any defects / Observation on day to day basis
Attending the client calls and meetings
Involving in giving daily and weekly status reports to clients.
Involved in knowledge transfer to the newly recruited personnel.
Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, Selenium Grid, Cucumber, Maven.
Extensively automated regression and functional test suites by developing over 237 test cases, 6 test suites using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, JUnit.
Implemented Page Objects framework, Hybrid framework and 21 Page classes from scratch to represent web pages.
Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and SQL Databases.
Configured Maven for JAVA automation projects and developed Maven project object model (POM).
Used Maven, Selenium Grid to execute Selenium automation suites on different platform, browser combinations in parallel.
Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behaviours and step definitions. Developed required Selenium support code in JAVA for Cucumber.
Wrote SQL queries extensively, queried database and generated test reports. Performed Purchase Orders Database testing by developing 14 SQL scripts.
Performed Defect Tracking & Management in JIRA. Generated automated daily reports using JIRA API.
Worked in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings
Assisted Manager by providing automation strategies, Selenium/Cucumber Automation and JIRA reports.
Identified weaknesses in QA Processes, Web testing, Selenium Automation. Suggested & implemented improvements
Building automation regression test suite for the application which can be executed during each sprint release
Developing re-usable methods for repeating steps
Automated highly transactional e-commerce web application using Selenium WebDriver.
Implemented Page Objects, Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, JUnit.

Resume Summary

Expertise in Selenium automation using Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, JAVA, JUnit & Maven
Designed and implemented different automation frameworks from starch like Page Objects framework, Keyword Driven framework, Data Driven framework and Hybrid framework for a number of projects
Expertise in writing Selenium WebDriver automation scripts in JAVA for highly transactional E-commerce websites
Executed automation scripts on different browsers/environments & reported defects/results to the team
Proven ability in developing BDD scripts with Cucumber and writing step definitions for behaviour
Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in source controls like CVS, SVN over the time for improvements and new features
Took ownership of automation and led the automation team by mentoring the team as required
Excellent experience of build tools like Maven and managing JAVA automation projects using them
Experience in interacting directly with End User Clients
Experience in working on Page Object model framework using selenium web driver
Involved in knowledge transfer to the newly recruited persons.
Experience in providing internal training on Selenium Tool
Experience in working selenium with TestNG
Automated highly transactional e-commerce web application using Selenium WebDriver.
Implemented Page Objects, Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, JUnit.