About

Riya Sasmal is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer in Test II with over 4 years of experience in automating web application testing using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG and Cucumber framework. She has designed and developed automation frameworks like Keyword Driven, Hybrid driven, and Data Driven with experience in developing in Core Java programming using OOPS concepts. Riya has a good expertise in scheduling jobs via Jenkins (Continuous Delivery) and Continuous Integration for automating the build and deploy processes, allowing significant increase in test automation. She has experience in identifying object locators and creating object Repository using Firepath, FireBug, SelectorsHub, and IE developers. She is also proficient in getting data from excel by using Apache poi and has used Maven to build and run the Selenium automation framework. With extensive working experience on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), its methodologies such as Agile and SCRUM-process, Riya has a sound knowledge on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concept. She has extensively used Java for test case automation and has a good understanding of Automation Life Cycle. Riya is an expert in xpath expressions and has worked with TestNG and Cucumber Framework. She has also worked with the Apache POI Library and has executed test scripts on IE, Chrome, and Firefox. Riya has been involved in Framework development and has professional expertise in Smoke Testing, Backed end Testing, Black-Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Cross Browser/Cross Platform Testing, UI Validation, Web Services, Performance Testing, Usability Testing, and Boundary Value Testing (BVT). With a quality assurance and software testing experience involving client/server, Product Development, and web-based applications, Riya has written and executed test cases, ad-hoc product testing, reported bugs, and reported test status manually and also using Jira and Bugzilla. She has exposure to all stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), and software development methodologies such as DevOps, Agile, V Model, Waterfall, and SCRUM. Riya is currently working as a Software Development Engineer in Test II at Akamai Technologies and has previously worked at IBM as a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer and Test Specialist. She holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from RCC Institute of Information Technology