Delson Roy — DevOps Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer | Automation Lead | Driving Excellence in Test Automation & QA Strategy I am a Senior Quality Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience, passionate about transforming quality assurance through cutting-edge automation strategies. My expertise lies in designing and implementing scalable automation frameworks that enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate product delivery. Currently, I am working with TD Bank (client) in the Finance & Stock Market domain, where I focus on trading platforms, margin calculations, risk management systems, and seamless financial integrations. My role involves building high-performing automation solutions to ensure reliability and compliance in complex financial workflows. Over the past year, I have successfully led initiatives that significantly optimized testing efforts, resulting in higher quality releases and substantial cost savings for my current and previous organizations. 🔹 Key Areas of Expertise: ✅ Web UI Automation – Selenium with Java ✅ API Automation – REST Assured, Postman (Manual API Testing) ✅ BDD Frameworks – Cucumber ✅ Test Frameworks – TestNG, JUnit ✅ Performance Testing – JMeter ✅ Cross-Browser & Cloud Testing – BrowserStack, Sauce Labs ✅ CI/CD Integration – Jenkins, GitHub Actions ✅ Version Control & Collaboration – Git (Merge Conflict Resolution) ✅ Containerization & Test Environments – Docker ✅ Agile & V-Model Methodologies 🔹 Key Achievements: ✔ Efficiency & Cost Reduction – Designed and implemented a Hybrid Automation Framework, reducing manual testing efforts from 85% to 35%, leading to significant cost savings and faster product delivery. ✔ Leadership & Mentorship – Successfully led and mentored a team of 6-7 QA professionals, driving collaboration, innovation, and efficiency in Agile environments. ✔ Technical Excellence – Built and optimized robust automation frameworks for web, mobile, and API testing, ensuring seamless integrations with CI/CD pipelines for faster and more reliable releases. ✔ Strategic Impact – Introduced shift-left testing approaches, minimizing defects early in the development cycle, improving product quality, and mitigating risks effectively. Beyond my professional career, I am deeply passionate about meditation and mindfulness, embracing the philosophy of living in the present moment. This practice not only enhances my focus and decision-making but also strengthens my commitment to continuous learning and self-improvement—both in technology and life. Let’s connect and collaborate to drive innovation in test automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Test Automation Expert with strong leadership in QA strategies.

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Experience: 1 yr 10 mos

Skills

Test Automation
Api Testing
Quality Assurance

Career Highlights

Designed Hybrid Automation Framework reducing manual efforts by 50%
Led and mentored a team of 6-7 QA professionals
Introduced shift-left testing approaches improving product quality

Work Experience

Cognizant

Senior Automation Engineer (1 yr)

Auctor Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer (2 yrs)

UST

Senior Test Analyst (3 yrs)

Instriva Technologies Pvt Ltd

Test Analyst (3 yrs)

Prime Focus Technologies

Software Engineer (10 mos)

Education

at Lambton College

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Visvesvaraya Technological University

Delson Roy

DevOps Engineer

Toronto, Ontario, Canada1 yr 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Designed Hybrid Automation Framework reducing manual efforts by 50%
Led and mentored a team of 6-7 QA professionals
Introduced shift-left testing approaches improving product quality

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Test Automation Expert with strong leadership in QA strategies.

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Core Skills

Test AutomationApi TestingQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Quality Assurance AnalysisTest AssuranceJavaSelenium WebDriverTestNGCucumberREST AssuredJenkinsDockerBrowserStackSauce LabsJMeterPython (Programming Language)SeleniumGitHub

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Experience

Cognizant

Senior Automation Engineer

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

Client: TD Bank (Toronto, Canada) | Project: Arranged Finance | Domain: FinTech & TD Securities
Spearheading QA automation for EquiLend Spiral platform with focus on Arranged Financing, Margin Calculations, and Stock Lending workflows.
Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), and REST Assured.
Perform API Testing (REST Assured, Postman) to validate order placements, trade confirmations, risk metrics, and financial transactions.
Execute integration testing across trading systems (AF Engine, Softek, Broadridge, Viper) ensuring accuracy in securities data, trade settlements, and margin overrides.
Collaborate with business teams to validate stock market domain logic including CUSIP/SEDOL identifiers, coupon & par values, marginable vs non-marginable securities.
Implement authentication & authorization checks (OAuth, Basic Auth) for secure financial API workflows.
Drive CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, GitHub Actions enabling faster and more reliable releases.
Perform cross-platform testing using BrowserStack and Sauce Labs to ensure seamless user experience across trading platforms.
Conduct performance and load testing with JMeter to validate system stability under high trading volumes and market volatility.
Ensure compliance with banking regulations, risk policies, and stock market standards while delivering high-quality releases.

Quality Assurance AnalysisTest AssuranceJavaSelenium WebDriverTestNGCucumber+8

Auctor business solutions pvt. ltd.

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Mar 2023 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

Developed and executed a comprehensive automation strategy for web applications using Java, Selenium, BDD with Cucumber, and Page Object Model (POM) design patterns. Leveraged Appium for mobile automation, leading to a 20% reduction in manual testing efforts and accelerating the release cycle.
Integrated Selenium with Jenkins and GitHub, automating the build and test processes to ensure continuous integration and delivery. Configured Jenkins pipelines to run automated tests, and scheduled the emailing of detailed test reports to stakeholders, providing real-time visibility into testing outcomes and project health.
Led the end-to-end test lifecycle within an Agile framework, ensuring consistent quality delivery to clients. Oversaw sprint planning, test execution, and defect management, aligning with product development teams to meet tight deadlines and deliver high-quality software.
Designed and maintained detailed test plans, effort estimations, and execution activities using tools like Jira, Zephyr, and Confluence. This meticulous planning and documentation ensured a smooth testing process, minimizing defects and achieving a seamless transition from development to production.
Integrated Selenium with Jenkins and GitHub, automating the build and test processes to ensure continuous integration and delivery. Configured Jenkins pipelines to run automated tests, and scheduled the emailing of detailed test reports to stakeholders, providing real-time visibility into testing outcomes and project health.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams across different geographical locations to capture and document detailed functional business requirements. Facilitated demo sessions and sprint reviews to ensure stakeholder alignment and early detection of potential issues, enhancing overall project transparency and success.

Quality Assurance AnalysisPython (Programming Language)JavaSeleniumCucumberJenkins+6

Ust

Senior Test Analyst

Oct 2018 – Oct 2021 · 3 yrs · Thiruvananthapuram Area, India · On-site

Building and maintaining an automation framework using Selenium and deploying weekly automation series and publishing results to all stakeholders.
Work directly with development teams to support both agile and test-driven software development cycle methodologies.
Helps development teams identify, simulate, resolve, and monitor problem events.
Perform functional testing, integration testing, system testing, ad-hoc testing, and smoke testing by creating a lab infrastructure for functional testing activities that mimic customer settings.
Support QA and development team and data center with VMware vCenter. This requires deploying new virtual machines, deploying the necessary operating systems, software and other custom tools.
Worked on great projects like newScale Service Catalog, Cisco Prime Service Catalog, Cisco Intelligence Automation for Cloud and UCS integration with Prime Service Catalog
Environment: Java, VMware Cloud Infrastructure Management Tools, Selenium WebDriver, JBehave, Eclipse, Quick Test Professional 10.0, SVN, Ant, SQL, Oracle, JBoss, WebLogic and WebSphere.

SeleniumJavaJBehaveSQLOracleVMware+3

Instriva technologies pvt ltd

Test Analyst

May 2015 – May 2018 · 3 yrs · kochi · On-site

Involved in designing of Automation Framework (End to end) for different Instiva's Single Page Applications (SPA), BackEnd API Automation (CRUD/REST operations, Data migration Automation)
1. Setup the test infrastructure - the test case management system, continuous integration system and the best practices for automation.
2. Build and maintain a data-driven test framework which can be used for performing both front-end and back-end tests.
4. Own the QA for the various categories of external interfaces with which the Marketplace platform communicates. This includes:
a. Web Services : SOAP and Restful APIs
b. Databases : Oracle, SQL Server, NoSql - Cassandra, Solr, DataStax
c. Email
d. On-boarding, Tomcat Activiti, Partner Orchestrator
e. GGO Sync (Data migration through Golden Gateway Orchestrator and DBLink)
5. Participate in customer calls and debug any issues seen in the customer environment.
Environment: Java, J2EE, OneOps cloud infrastructure management tools, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Eclipse, Maven, GIT-Hub, SQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Tomcat, Solr, DevOps, Docker, HttpClientProject

JavaSelenium WebDriverCucumberSQLOracleDocker+1

Prime focus technologies

Software Engineer

Jun 2014 – Apr 2015 · 10 mos · Bangalore

Worked with product owners to develop user acceptance criteria and ensure that testing activities aligned with business goals, resulting in a 15% improvement in customer satisfaction.
Successfully designed comprehensive test scenarios that cover all the functional and non-functional requirements ensuring that all the user stories are thoroughly tested.
Conducted functional, system, integration, and regression testing to ensure that all the features and functionality of the system are tested and validated

Agile MethodologiesManual TestingQuality Assurance