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Hi, I'm Dhruba Aryal

QA Automation, Data Quality and Cloud Technology Professional

I have previous professional experience in manual software testing, database testing and DevOps engineering. I also hold a bachelor's degree in Earth System Science and Environmental Engineering.

After taking a career break for important family responsibilities, I am actively preparing to return to a long-term technology position. My current focus is on strengthening my hands-on skills through practical projects in API testing, SQL database validation, Python automation, Selenium, Docker, CI/CD and AWS.

Professional Experience

  • 15 months of experience in manual and database software testing
  • 7 months of experience in DevOps engineering
  • Previous exposure to GitHub, GitLab, Linux, shell scripting, Docker, Terraform and AWS
  • Experience using SQL for database queries and data validation
  • Scientific and engineering background in environmental systems

Current Technical Focus

  • Manual and database testing
  • REST API testing with Postman
  • SQL data validation
  • Python programming for test automation
  • pytest test automation
  • Selenium web automation
  • Git and GitHub
  • GitHub Actions and CI/CD
  • Docker and Linux
  • AWS cloud services
  • Environmental data quality

Technical Skills

Software Testing

  • Manual testing
  • Functional testing
  • Regression testing
  • Integration testing
  • Database testing
  • API testing
  • Test-case development
  • Defect reporting
  • Positive and negative testing
  • Boundary-value testing

Programming and Data

  • SQL
  • Basic Python
  • Shell scripting
  • Database validation
  • Data-quality testing

Automation Tools

  • Postman
  • pytest
  • Selenium
  • GitHub Actions

Cloud and DevOps

  • Linux
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • AWS EC2
  • AWS IAM
  • AWS VPC
  • CI/CD fundamentals

Productivity Tools

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Projects Under Development

API and Database Testing Portfolio

A practical testing project demonstrating test planning, manual test cases, defect reporting, REST API testing with Postman and SQL database validation.

Python API Test Automation Framework

A Python and pytest framework for automatically validating REST API functionality, authentication, response data and negative scenarios.

Selenium Python Automation Framework

A browser-automation framework demonstrating functional, regression and data-driven testing using Selenium, Python and pytest.

ETL and Data Validation Framework

A database quality project designed to validate record counts, null values, duplicates, data transformations and source-to-target accuracy.

Environmental Data Quality Platform

A future capstone project combining environmental engineering, Python, SQL, automated data-quality testing and data visualization.

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Earth System Science and Environmental Engineering — City College of New York, 2015
  • Bachelor's Degree in Science, 2001

Career Focus

I am seeking opportunities in:

  • Quality Assurance
  • Database Testing
  • API Testing
  • Software Testing
  • QA Automation
  • Data Quality
  • Application Support
  • Cloud-Oriented Quality Engineering

Connect With Me

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  1. daryal89 daryal89 Public

    Professional GitHub profile highlighting QA, database testing, automation, cloud and data-quality projects.

  2. api-database-testing-portfolio api-database-testing-portfolio Public

    Manual, REST API and SQL database testing portfolio demonstrating test planning, defect reporting and data validation.