Mar 2021 – Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 6 mos · India and Europe · Hybrid

• Designed & delivered comprehensive 30+ training programs on Automation Testing, Manual Testing, and REST API Automation.
• Mentored 1100 + learners with 80% career-transition success into QA Automation roles.
• Conducted 1000 + live sessions and framework reviews, improving automation skills by 90%.
• Developed reusable frameworks on GitHub, fostering community learning.
• Partnered with corporate QA teams to align training with real-world frameworks, elevating onboarding by 75%.
• Advised on framework design, CI/CD integration, and industry best practices, improving test efficiency by 40%.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 · 4 yrs · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Defined automation strategies for Northern Trust in the banking domain, boosting test coverage by 35% and reducing manual effort by 40%.
• Developed robust UI automation scripts for NT banking applications using Selenium, Playwright, and designed hybrid test automation frameworks, resulting in a 90% reduction in manual testing effort.
• Utilized Docker on AWS, Azure DevOps cloud infrastructure to deploy and manage scalable, containerized test environments, supporting efficient parallel execution and reducing environment setup time by 70%.
• Validated core banking systems ensuring PCI-DSS and GDPR compliance while aligning test documentation with ISO/IEC 25010 quality attributes (security, reliability, maintainability).
• Performed end-to-end API testing in NT core banking services using Postman and automated API validations with Rest Assured, improving accuracy and reducing manual intervention by 40%.

Apr 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Designed and executed 100+ UI and API test cases for AT&T’s telecom applications using Selenium, Java, SoapUI, and Postman, ensuring seamless service integration with a 95% test pass rate.
• Generated customized test reports for management, providing actionable insights that led to a 20% reduction in defects during production releases, driving quality improvements.

Jul 2013 – Mar 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos · India

• Developed 250+ Selenium-Java scripts for HSBC, boosting testing efficiency by 40% and improving validation accuracy by 25% in validating critical banking functionalities.
• Enhanced the Selenium, Java, data-driven framework and developed a POJO-based JSON parser for REST APIs for HSBC's banking systems, resulting in a reduction of 8 man-days per month.
• Designed CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins to automate regression execution, reducing test cycle time by 30%.
• Created detailed test plans and 100+ test cases from business requirement specifications, ensuring 95% requirement coverage.
• Executed diverse testing types such as Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Regression, Integration, API, and DB testing, achieving 98% defect detection efficiency and accelerating release readiness.