CEYLAN AKYOL

A dynamic Test Automation Engineer with 6 years of experience in Manual and Automated Testing within a Banking Company. Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) Experience in Scrum Environment and Sprint Meetings (Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective meeting) to develop faster, iterative, and innovative processes. Complete knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts by using inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, and polymorphism Developed dynamic methods, reusable actions, and error handling using Java. Expert in Data-Driven, and Behavior-Driven, Hybrid Test Automation Framework, built on Page Object Model and Cucumber supporting Parallel Test execution to reduce time and achieve End-to-End coverage. Implemented BDD Framework with Serenity, Maven, Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, JUnit, and Jenkins. Used Gherkin Language in Feature File to be able to create test scenarios. Enhanced existing Framework to improve the overall Test Automation reusability and maintainability. Used Maven to keep classes and resource files organized and manage dependencies. Automated Test executions on Jenkins to accomplish Continuous Integration and delivery in DevOps. Used JDBC to connect to databases like SQL Server and Oracle to store, delete, manipulate and retrieve data from many applications. Tested RESTful Web Services and GraphQL using Postman and REST Assured Library using Java Programming Language. Created and retrieved Test Data using Cucumber Scenario Outline and Excel file using Apache POI. Reported software defects in Jira and interacted with the developers to resolve technical issues. Experienced in Black Box, Functional, Smoke, Regression, Cross-Platform/ Browser, Parallel Testing, Positive and Negative Testing. Simplified overall Automated Testing process reducing the quantity and increasing quality. Excellent work ethic, strong communication skills, positive attitude, great and easy-going team member. Dedicated team player, easily adaptable in a new environment, passionate about Testing. Self-motivated Developer adds high level of experience over more than 6 years collaborating and working on multiple web-based projects. Passionate, hardworking coder with penchant for developing customized interfaces that factor in unique demands for accessibility, reachability and security. Organized approach to meeting multiple, concurrent deadlines. Pulls from active knowledge of current technology landscape to promote best practices in web design.