Aug 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Singapore · Hybrid

• In my current testing leadership role, I spearhead a dynamic team dedicated to enhancing product quality and optimizing testing processes across the software development lifecycle. My team and I are at the forefront of creating innovative solutions that directly contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of our development workflows and improve the overall quality of the delievery.
• We recently began exploring generative AI, during which we have developed a chatbot capable of generating high-quality product documentation from specific requirements. Additionally, this chatbot can answer questions related to those requirements and associated test cases.

Dec 2021 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Singapore · On-site

• I have worked closely with the CTO to embed Quality in the Software delivery process for Nexus by introducing quality gates at every stage of the delivery process including Requirement Gathering, Design, Coding, Testing, CI/CD, Code Reviews, Quality metrics, and post-release monitoring.
• Led a Team of engineers who are a good mix of full-stack engineers, SDETs, performance testers and test leads.
• Our Engineering Squad is responsible for:
• Enabling driverless testing without any human touch point for both API and UI interfaces.
• Testing of all the user journeys distributed across 100+ micro-services.
• Test data generation and management
• Developing test doubles (mocks/stubs) for different internal and external services to facilitate component/module level testing
• Performance and scalability testing in a distributed environment using Gatling, K8s, and Grafana
• Developing synthetic monitors for prod and non-prod environments and fire alerts when something goes wrong
• Testing Dashboards to show the requirement traceability and coverage.

Mar 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Singapore

• Led the Test Platform team for FM (Financial Markets) Digital Channels where my role was to design and develop the entire Test Platform to enable the automated and driver less continuous testing in a CI/CD environment.
• Responsible for :
• > UI Automation for Trading applications (Selenium Grid, Docker, Kubernetes)
• > Server side and API testing for the backend micro services (Rest APIs, WebSockets, Kafka, Cassandra, Avro)
• > Automated testing of e-trading using Fix adaptors and clients (QuickFixJ)
• > Performance testing of the entire platform (Java, JMeter, JMH, Gatling, Kubernetes)

Feb 2016 – Feb 2019 · 3 yrs · Singapore

• Derivatives Transaction Pricing:
• Working on designing and implementing the Test Automation for Derivatives Transaction Pricing platform.
• Technologies involved are:
• ReactJs, TypeScript, Nodejs, QuickfixJ, Selenium, RestAPIs, Kafka, Avro, Hazelcast, Cassandra, WebSockets, SockJS,Cucumber-JVM, Java, Spring, JMeter, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Selenium Grid.
• Market Risk:
• > Worked on UI automation of AngularJS/ReactJS applications using Selenium and designed the Selenium Grid infrastructure.
• > Developed automation of Big Data testing using Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Java and Cucumber.
• > Developed utilities for reports re-conciliation using Java, HSQLDB

Jun 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Led the whole QA Automation effort for Equinox.
• > Led the team of 10 automation developers and responsible for complete automation delivery in Web, Mobile, API and Performance testing space.
• > Designed an auto-scalable Selenium Grid for executing automation scripts using technologies like AWS EC2, Docker, Vagrant, OpenSSH and Jenkins. It helped in reducing the execution time and cost.
• > Built the Web Automation framework from scratch for their digital web platform using Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, Java, Maven and BrowserMob Proxy.
• > Designed and implemented the automation solution for Salesforce CRM application using Selenium WebDriver, Salesforce REST APIs and Java.
• > Helped in maintaining the Trainer app automation developed in C#, NUnit and Selenium.
• > Automated their iOS App using Appium and Java and helped in reducing the regression cycle.
• > Played the role of Performance testing architect where I was responsible for doing performance testing for all the important products using technologies like JMeter, Blazemeter, BrowserMob, AWS, Splunk and NewRelic.
• > Responsible for calculating automation ROI and presenting the Automation testing benefits to the senior stake holders.

Jun 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Lead the QA Competency Centre for Noida location where my roles and responsibilities were:
• > Evaluating new QA technologies in Mobile Automation, Performance Testing and Testing Cloud space.
• > Conducted many Internal trainings and Workshops on Mobile automation including an external meet-up on Appium.
• > Built POC on Mobile Automation tools like Appium, Espresso, Ranorex, Robotium, Perfecto, Appthwack(Amazon Device Cloud).
• > Represented my company in external conferences like Selenium Conference.

Jun 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr

• > Joined the Equinox project team as iOS Automation developer.
• > Later expanded the team to 10 members and ventured in to other areas like API automation, Performance Testing and Web Automation.

Sep 2012 – Jun 2013 · 9 mos · Noida Area, India

• Lead the whole QA team at MyCityWay (BMW Ventures Company). I am responsible for formulating test strategy for MyCityWay. It includes functional, automation, regression, Big Data and performance testing. I am managing the work of whole testing team and closely working with the Development lead to design the testing framework.

Aug 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr · Noida Area, India

• > Worked in Structured Finance Domain.
• > Responsible for developing and maintaining automation for all the SF products using tools like QTP, Selenium Webdriver and Java.
• > Developed some data reconciliation utilities using Excel Macros.
• > Implemented Selenium Grid for distributed execution.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• > Joined the Automation COE (Center of Excellence) team under the Insurance Vertical.
• > Worked as a key resource to enhance their existing automation framework called FLAME(Fuzzy Login Based Automation Model and Engine).
• > Integrated the framework with QTP, RFT and Selenium
• > Demonstrated the framework to strategic Insurance clients and worked on the Estimation and ROI calculation for different projects.

Nov 2009 – Jun 2010 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

• > Worked for the newly created Automation COE team.
• > Responsible for developing the Automation framework using QTP, Excel Macros and ALM.
• > Conducted training on the automation framework for different project teams

May 2007 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• > Worked for Oracle e-business Suite QA team under Application Technology Group.
• > Responsible for the quality of two products Web ADI(Application Desktop Integration) and Report Manager under the General Ledger module.
• > Developed the functional automation using Winrunner and QTP.
• > Also involved in automation for some server side validation using Bash scripting.
• > Was introduced to Selenium RC for one of the small assignment where I have written some web automation scripts using perl and Selenium RC.

Sep 2005 – May 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• > Joined Infosys as Software Engineer and trained in C, C++, Oracle and Linux at their Bhubaneswar centre.
• > Later joined the AT&T Centralized Testing Team under the Telecom vertical.
• > Developed the automation for AT&T's dish project using QTP.
• > Developed some internal utilities in Excel VBA for fetching test reports from HP Quality Centre using OTA library.