Dolly Arora
Verified Expert in Engineering
QA Engineer and Developer Developer
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since July 20, 2021
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.
Portfolio
Experience
- Manual Testing - 8 years
- Cucumber - 8 years
- Git - 8 years
- TestNG - 8 years
- Agile QA - 8 years
- Selenium - 8 years
- REST Assured - 5 years
- QA Leadership - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Test Automation, Manual Testing, Selenium, Cucumber, Java, JavaScript, Cypress, QA Testing
The most amazing...
...thing I've made was an E2E automation testing framework for a leading real estate digital platform in the Gulf region and incorporated it with CI/CD pipelines.
Work Experience
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.
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.
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.
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.
Experience
Solution Live Front Door Platform
I tested this website manually and was involved in gathering client requirements and making presentations to the client.
ClariFI
I developed a testing framework for them using UFT and VBScript.
Dubai Experience
I built the web and API automation framework and led the team to deliver the project within the given timeline.
Property Finder
I was responsible for all the day-to-day deployments and led a team of QAs to deliver the project on time.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Lingaya's University - Nacholi, India
Certifications
PSM 1
Scrum.org
ISTQB Foundation Level
International Software Testing Qualifications Board
Skills
Tools
REST Assured, Git, Cucumber, Jira, Postman, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Apache JMeter, TestRail
Frameworks
Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, Swagger
Paradigms
Manual Testing, Automated Testing, E2E Testing, Software Testing, Test Automation
Languages
SQL, Java, VBScript, JavaScript, Ruby
Platforms
MacOS, Eclipse, Windows, Linux
Other
Agile QA, Quality Assurance (QA), Manual QA, Website QA, UI Testing, UX Testing, Agile Software Testing, API Testing, QA Leadership, QA Automation, UFT, QA Testing, Scrum Master, Desktop Automation, Mobile App Testing, Test Management
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