About
Dolly is a QA engineer with more than 10 years of experience in a range of industries, including real estate, travel, finance, and aviation. She's created multiple testing frameworks from the ground up using Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, and Cypress and automated QA processes. Dolly manages test execution not only from the technical point of view but also from the customer's, as she believes product usability is as vital as functionality.
Experience
About 13.4 yrs of professional experience, estimated from the roles below (overlaps counted once).
- Jan 2020Present
Lead QA Engineer
Property Finder
Led and mentored a team of 16 QA engineers, ensuring precise execution and achieving a 20% increase in overall product quality. Addressed and mitigated a critical staging bottleneck issue, significantly reducing QA time by approximately eight hours per sprint. Liaised with other release training teams to manage the testing of cross-dependencies. Created the OKRs for the QA team and helped them achieve them. Created Jira dashboards for all the QA teams for better visibility of automated and manual tests. Engineered a specialized Cypress automation framework designed for API testing and integrated with Jenkins. Spearheaded shift-left testing, contributing to a 15% reduction in post-release defects and maximizing organizational benefits. Created the QA engineering technical competency model, resulting in a 10% improvement in hiring quality and facilitating effective promotions within the QA team.
- Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Senior Software QA Engineer
Emirates Group
Led UAT triage meetings and prioritized defects to be resolved. Implemented API testing using Postman and prepared automation scripts using REST. Performed nonfunctional testing using JMeter and prepare scripts for load tests. Tested applications on different mobile devices to check for responsiveness. Liaised with the content team to ensure that the content in the SDL Tridion CMS could be displayed using all the languages found on the website.
- Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Senior QA Engineer
S&P Capital IQ
Created scripts for feature testing using UFT and VBScript. Managed releases so that they were on time while ensuring quality so that met the client's expectations. Identified, created, verified, and tracked defects using TFS. Followed a Scrum process and participated in scrum meetings, planning, and retrospective meetings. Met with POs to determine their needs and requirements to ensure that we satisfy them.
- Jan 2013 – Jan 2017
Test Analyst
Accenture
Developed a testing automation framework using Java and Selenium. Tested "Solution Live Front Door" website and its integration with Skype for business. Created, reviewed, and executed test cases and checklists; also performed exploratory, functional, regression, black box, and UI testing. Presented demos to stakeholders for new features delivered during the sprint. Reported daily to high management about the current quality situation.