Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

• As the founder and sole creator of LocatorLabs, I conceptualized, designed, and developed a privacy-first Chrome DevTools extension that revolutionizes how QA engineers generate test locators.
• Built from the ground up with zero data collection and 100% offline architecture, LocatorLabs provides intelligent locator generation for Playwright and Selenium frameworks with smart quality ratings (BEST/GOOD/OK) that educate users on best practices.
• I architected the entire solution to work completely client-side using Chrome DevTools APIs, ensuring enterprise-grade security without requiring user accounts, backend infrastructure, or external dependencies.
• The extension addresses critical gaps in the test automation ecosystem by offering features like Selenium 4+ relative locators, element-wise Page Object generator, Shadow DOM/iframe/SVG support, and educational locator descriptions that help engineers understand what they're using.
• Published on Chrome Web Store and serving hundreds of QA professionals globally, LocatorLabs embodies my commitment to building tools that respect user privacy while delivering exceptional value—completely free, with no ads or malware.
• This project showcases my full-stack capabilities in JavaScript, Chrome extension development, UX design, and my deep understanding of test automation frameworks and real-world QA challenges.

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

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Sep 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

• Founder at Naveen AutomationLabs
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Mar 2017 – Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru & Munich - Germany

• Managing QA/SDET team here @Sixt, Bangalore. Working on various Test Automation Frameworks as a Test Automation Specialist/Architect for different Sixt apps (Web, Mobile and BackEnd).
• Forming Test Automation Centers of Excellence (TACoE) - a group of experts in automation solution design.
• As an SDET Automation Expert defining solutions for various projects across the organization on test automation framework creation, productivity/process improvements & driving organization-wide Quality Process initiatives, suggesting best practices, code reviews etc.
• Actively working on building a world class Test Automation Team here @Sixt R&D, India.
• Primary Responsibilities:
• · 20%- Working closely with onsite team to provide QA estimates for proper release sprint planning. Working with Six One teams to understand the code and functionality being delivered in a comprehensive fashion.
• · 20%- Collates daily testing summary and publishes the dashboards of test execution for the sprint cycle. Updates jira statuses with proper test case documentation and status.
• · 40%- Working closely with German Test Leads and Test Analysts to make sure the test case coverage is accurate and ensures all functional aspects of the code delivered have been addressed and testing is making progress with respect to the plan.
• · 20%- Streamline manual testing with automation using advanced automation tools like Selenium, Rest Assured, Appium etc. Always strive for effective QA processes and share ideas with onsite team to improve QA processes.

Jun 2014 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore, India

• Project: Walmart Market Place, Partner Services
• Walmart's MarketPlace Partner/Seller/Supplier Portal/Seller Tools
• Backend Services: Partner/Seller Services, PartnerRead Services, Partner Orchestrator, On-boarding Process (USA, Brazil, Canada)
• Involved in designing of Automation Framework (End to end) for different Walmart'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.
• 3. Lead the automation and QE efforts for the validation of the functionality of the various modules - partner service, seller on-boarding, Data Migration - GGO Sync, Partner Read Services - Integration with different other Walmart's systems: IRS, IRO, IAM, OMS etc.
• 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, HttpClient

Oct 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore, India

• Involved in creation of automation framework using Selenium-Page Object Model design using Java, WebDriver, Grid Hub, POM, ANT/MAVEN and TestNg/Junit4 test framework.
• Integration of selenium code with SOAP Client, Rest Client, webservices, HTTP Client and REX utility.
• Creation and maintenance of Automation Framework using Selenium and execute the Automation suite on weekly basis and publish the results to all the stakeholders.
• Execute Performance tests using Loadrunner and certify that the application meets accepted performance metrics and sustains the desired load in real time environments
• Work directly with the development teams to support both Agile & test driven software development lifecycle methodologies.
• Assist development teams in the Identification, Simulation, Resolving and Tracking of problem events.
• Execute Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, ad-hoc Testing and smoke testing by setting up lab infrastructure for functional testing activities that would replicate the Customer setup.
• Maintain QA and Development team's Datacentre's by making use of VMware vCenter tool. This involves provisioning of new Virtual Machines, deploying required OS, Software's and other custom tools.
• Worked on some 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

Jun 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune Area, India

• Worked as Automation QA Lead Enginner.
• Responsibilities:
• Responsible for Product Automation Architecture.
• Writing scripts, framework designing and execution of automation scripts.
• QTP, Selenium IDE/RC/Web Driver with VB Script, JavaScript and Java.
• Frameworks Designing: Data Driven, Keyword and Hybrid.
• Working as an Individual Contributor and responsible for all automation tasks across the Business Unit.
• Common Automation Framework Designing across the products.
• Backend APIs Automation - java, httpclient, Rest

Jun 2008 – May 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Senior Automation QA Engineer