About

Aparna B is an experienced QA Automation Engineer with over 8 years of experience in manual and automation testing for web applications, Rest API, and client-server architecture. She has a strong background in all phases of the software testing life cycle (STLC), software development life cycle (SDLC), and bug life cycle. Aparna has worked in both Waterfall and Agile environments, including daily scrum meetings and sprint planning. Aparna has developed web automation frameworks using Java, TestNG, Junit5, Selenium Web driver, Page Object Model, and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) using cucumber and Test Driven Development. She has also developed Rest API automation with cucumber frameworks to test CRUD http methods using Rest Assured, TestNG, Junit5, JSON, and Postman. Aparna has experience executing test automation scripts in Dev, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod on Azure and Docker environments, and has utilized Jenkins and Bamboo to run tests on continuous integration and continuous deployment CI/CD pipeline. Aparna is proficient in utilizing bug tracking tools such as JIRA, Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Quality Center, and Rally. She has experience in debugging and identifying HTML elements using CSS Selectors such as XPATH and ID, and has hands-on experience in Quality Assurance, including Functional, System, Smoke, Regression, Black box testing, Integration, and User Acceptance Test (UAT). Aparna has experience in designing and implementing automation frameworks, including TDD, BDD, data-driven, keyword-driven using Selenium WebDriver. She is experienced in SQA (Software Quality Assurance) including Manual and Automated testing with tools such as Selenium WebDriver, HP Quick Test Professional, and Junit, TestNG, LoadRunner. Aparna has expertise in testing Web Services-SOA architecture, XML transactions, SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, and REST using various industry-standard tools like SOAP UI. Aparna has worked on multiple projects and has been extensively involved in User acceptance testing (UAT), End to end, System Integration Testing (SIT), Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke testing, Sanity Testing, Validation testing, Backend testing, Performance Testing, batch process testing, and Cross-Browser testing. She has experience in Web debugging tools like XPath, Firepath, and Firebug, and has provided efficient locators for strategies like Xpath and CSS to run web-driven scripts. Aparna has worked for companies