Kumar B. — Operations Associate

A professional with over 16 years of experience in software quality assurance and testing, dedicated to ensuring high-quality software product delivery. Eleven years focused on test automation, with expertise in various modern technologies and methodologies. This professional has successfully built and trained new QA teams, Expertise includes leading the end-to-end Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) from planning to execution. Collaboration with development and product teams aligns with business objectives. Proactive identification of process inefficiencies, and implementation of best practices are used for continuous optimization. They excel in collaborative environments, working closely with developers, Product Owners, and Product Managers to align QA efforts with core business objectives and manage risks effectively. Core Technical Expertise & Tools: • Automation & Frameworks: Proficient in Selenium WebDriver, REST-API And Assured,Cucumber, and Kafka event-based systems automation. Experienced in Defining and implementing robust data-driven, hybrid, TestNG, and BDD frameworks, utilizing the POM design pattern. • DevOps & Tools: Strong exposure on CI/CD/CT pipelines, using tools like Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GIT, Docker (Portioner, UCP), and ELK stack for logging and monitoring. • Cloud & Modern Tech: Exposure to AWS (Secret Manager, Parameter Store, S3 Bucket), Kafka event-based systems, Camunda/BPM workflows, and leveraging Gen-AI tools like Amazon Q and GitHub Copilot to enhance productivity and expertise in testing SOAP web services using Postman and SoapUI. • Domain Expertise: Experience across the Insurance, Banking, Health Care, and Hospitality domains. This individual is passionate about automation efficiency and provides clear, data-driven reports to stakeholders on effort savings, risks, and future roadmaps. They are well-versed in Agile methodologies (Safe Agile ceremonies) and tools like JIRA, QC ALM, and TestRail. Collaboration and new challenges are welcomed. Feel free to connect to discuss opportunities!

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Quality Assurance expert with a focus on automation in the Fintech and SaaS sectors.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 16 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Test Automation Framework
Microservices
Agile Methodologies
Functional Testing

Career Highlights

Over 16 years in software quality assurance and testing.
Expert in test automation with modern technologies.
Proven track record in building and training QA teams.

Work Experience

HCLTech

SDET Manager (3 yrs)

Senior SDET lead (3 yrs)

Accenture

SDET lead (10 yrs 6 mos)

Education

Bachelor's degree at Vidyavahini First Grade College

PUC at Basaveshwara College of Arts, Science and Commerce, 2nd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-10

SSLC at Sri Veshweshwara Swamy High School

Kumar B.

Operations Associate

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 16 years in software quality assurance and testing.
Expert in test automation with modern technologies.
Proven track record in building and training QA teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Quality Assurance expert with a focus on automation in the Fintech and SaaS sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Test Automation FrameworkMicroservicesAgile MethodologiesFunctional Testing

Other Skills

API AutomationAgile TestingAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaBehavior-Driven Development (BDD)Camunda BPMCucumberDevOpsElastic Stack (ELK)GitHP QTPHP Quality CenterJIRAJava

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Experience

Hcltech

2 roles

SDET Manager

Promoted

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Created feature files and executed Cucumber Scripts using Java/Cucumber.
Design and develop Eventbase Automation framework using KAFKA, Cucumber,
Java and Rest-Assured libraries.
Review the feature requirement.
Design Component and Integration Test cases.
Create project Test Strategy Documents.
Provide product demo to all stakeholders of the developed feature
Train/guide teammates.
Communicate with external integration vendors to understand the requirements and create test data
Testing the Microservices architecture.
Supporting production releases and validation Understand the camunda /BPM workflow to create the scripts for Integration testing.

CucumberJavaKAFKARest-AssuredTest Automation FrameworkMicroservices

Senior SDET lead

Mar 2020 – Mar 2023 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

 Leading a team of QAs in Scrum activities and as well as contributing individually.
 Understanding the Manual test cases & User stories to define the automation regression
suite.
 Designed and implemented Automation frameworks for REST API Web services and Web
application using Http Client Java library, RestAssured and Selenium Webdriver.
 Added value to the High-Performance Pricing project by developing automation test scripts
under Agile Scrum Methodology
 Designed and developed automation framework for functional and regression testing using
Java, Selenium, Maven and TestNG
 Active participation in smoke testing for REST API services, for monthly Release.
 Part of sprint planning and sprint retrospection meetings.
 Performing automation tasks for End to End workflows & test runs.
 Sending Daily status report/ weekly status reports for manual and automation testing and
communicating with onshore.
 Estimating the user stories, tasks for Sprint/Release.
 Created feature files and executed Cucumber Scripts using Java/Cucumber.
 Driving the QA Status call with Onshore team.
 Preparing Defect report as per severity and priority Active participation in Bug triage meetings

REST APISelenium WebdriverJavaMavenTestNGTest Automation Framework+1

Accenture

SDET lead

Aug 2008 – Feb 2019 · 10 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

Understanding the User Stories, Regression suite and deriving Automation scenarios using Selenium.
Prepared and Execution of test scripts using Selenium.
Developed the Automation Test Scripts.
Performed data driven using Properties.
Reviewing the Test Reports using TestNG.
Performed functional, compatibility testing on different browsers like Firefox & Chrome.
Performed Database testing using Java.
Performed Web Services automation testing using SOAP UI pro.
Experience on REST testing using chrome DHC extension.
Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases.
Performed various black box testing Methodologies Like functional testing and Regression Testing.
Successfully Leading Test Team of 09 members.
Involved in collecting the Daily status report/ weekly status reports and communicating with Client
Defect Tracking and Reporting
Involved in Page Object Module & Hybrid Framework to execute the Scripts.
Involved in creating EVS Metrics.
Involved in training and helping junior team members on successfully automating the scenarios.