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MaxQ Project Overview

MaxQ is a comprehensive platform featuring Admin and Public applications, designed to manage categories, companies, SKUs, users, and orders efficiently. The system ensures seamless functionality, user-friendly interfaces, real-time updates, and secure data validation.

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  • Admin & Public App Testing
  • Category & SKU Management
  • User & Order Processing
  • UI/UX & Performance Validation
  • Security & Data Integrity Checks
MaxQ platform showcasing Admin and Public applications for efficient category, SKU, user, and order management

🔥 Responsibilities & Contributions

As a QA Lead, I played a pivotal role in ensuring system stability, reliability, and performance through a structured testing approach. My key contributions included:

✅ Manual & Automation Testing: Designed and executedfunctional, regression, smoke, and exploratory test cases. Automated web and mobile test cases using Playwright, Selenium & Nightwatch.js.

✅ API & Performance Testing: Validated APIs usingPostman & Swagger. Performed load & stress testingwith JMeter.

✅ Cross-Browser & Device Compatibility Testing: Ensured smooth performance across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices using BrowserStack. Verified compatibility for iOS & Android platforms.

✅ CI/CD Integration & Defect Management: Integrated automated test execution in CircleCI. Tracked and managed issues inJira Notion & Trello.

✅ Performance Monitoring & Issue Resolution: UsedNew Relic to monitor system performance and detect bottlenecks. Analyzed logs and real-time metrics to proactively prevent performance degradation.

✅ Minor Bug Fixing & Debugging: Collaborated with developers to identify and fix minor UI/functional bugs. Performed root cause analysis to reduce recurring defects.

✅ Documentation & Release Notes: Created detailedtest reports, user guides, and troubleshooting documentation. Drafted and published release notes for clients, summarizing key updates and fixes.

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🧪 Testing Approach & Methodology

✔️ Functional & Regression Testing – Ensured seamless user interactions and system stability across updates.

🚀 Automation-First Strategy – Focused on scalable test automation to minimize manual efforts.

🛠️ Shift-Left Testing – Integrated early-stage testing to detect defects before production.

📊 Data-Driven Testing – Validated diverse input scenarios to enhance system reliability.

🌍 End-to-End Testing – Covered UI, API, and database validation for a complete test coverage strategy.

⚙️ Performance & Load Testing – Optimized system response times and stability under peak loads.

🔄 Continuous Testing in CI/CD – Integrated automated test execution in CircleCI for rapid feedback loops.

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🎯 Challenges & Solutions

🔹 Flaky Tests & False Positives – Improved stability by optimizing test retries and debugging failures.

🔹 Long Test Execution Time – Implemented parallel test execution to speed up feedback loops.

🔹 Inconsistent API Responses – Integrated contract testing with Postman to ensure API consistency.

🔹 Cross-Platform Compatibility – Conducted device testing across multiple browsers and OS environments.

🔹 Performance Bottlenecks – Used load testing tools to simulate high-traffic scenarios and optimize performance.

📊 CI/CD Enhancements

🔄 Automated Test Execution – Integrated test runs in every deployment pipeline.

🔄 Pre-Release Smoke Tests – Implemented automated checks before pushing updates to production.

🔄 Regression Suite in CI/CD – Ensured consistent test coverage for each release cycle.

🔄 Real-Time Test Reporting – Configured reporting dashboards for quick issue tracking.

🔄 Faster Rollback Strategy – Automated rollback procedures for failed deployments.

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📂 Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

📌 Test Plan & Strategy – Defined clear testing objectives and execution approaches.

📌 Bug Reports & RCA – Maintained structured defect tracking with root cause analysis.

📌 Automation Framework Documentation – Provided detailed guidelines for maintaining scripts.

📌 Training & Onboarding – Conducted QA workshops to align teams on best practices.

📌 Release Notes – Summarized key updates, fixes, and improvements for stakeholders.

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🛠 Tools & Technologies Used

🧪 Test Automation – Playwright, Cypress, Selenium

🔍 API Testing – Postman, Hoppscotch, Thunder Client

🚀 CI/CD Integration – CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins

📊 Monitoring & Logging – New Relic, Datadog, Kibana

🔄 Version Control – Git, Bitbucket, GitHub

📋 Test Management – Jira, TestRail, Zephyr

⚙️ Performance & Load Testing – JMeter, K6, Artillery

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