Pankaj Shukla

Operations Associate

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India4 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Revamped automation framework, stabilizing 100+ test cases.
Achieved 95%+ test coverage, reducing manual effort by 70%.
Led automation efforts in complex enterprise applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Test Automation Specialist in the SaaS and Healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Test AutomationAutomation FrameworksTest PlanningDefect Management

Other Skills

SeleniumPlaywrightAppiumCI/CDKeyword Driven FrameworkData Driven FrameworkSQLTest ExecutionDell Boomi ProcessUser Acceptance TestingEnd-to-end TestingLinuxOracle DatabaseJavaJMeter

About

• 4.9+ Years of Experience as SDET in Manual & Automation Testing • Strong expertise in Functional, Integration, System, Regression, and UAT Testing • Hands-on experience in UI Automation using Selenium WebDriver with Java, Playwright with JS, TestNG, Cucumber and Maven • Designed and implemented scalable automation frameworks using Page Object Model (POM) • Proficient in API Automation using REST Assured, Postman, and Insomnia • Experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Azure Pipelines • Automated 380+ test cases across UI and APIs, reducing regression cycle time by ~35% • Achieved 95%+ test coverage and reduced manual testing effort by ~70% through automation • Experience in database testing using SQL, Oracle, Netezza, and MongoDB • Hands-on experience in Salesforce testing and backend validation • Worked on enterprise-level applications in Finance & Healthcare domains • Led QA deployments and performed validation in Linux-based environments • Strong understanding of SDLC & STLC with experience in Agile (Scrum) methodology (4+ years) • Experience in test planning, test case design, execution, and defect tracking using JIRA • Mentored junior QA engineers and contributed to improving team productivity

Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Iss | institutional shareholder services

2 roles

Associate

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Mumbai · Hybrid

Role: Associate | SDET (Automation, Selenium, Playwright)
Responsibilities:
Revamped and re-engineered the complete automation framework for a React-based application, stabilizing the suite and making 100+ test cases fully functional
Led automation efforts for the project, driving framework improvements, execution strategy, and ensuring high-quality releases
Set up Appium automation framework (POC) for mobile testing, validating feasibility and enabling future mobile automation strategy
Built a new automation framework using Playwright (POC), evaluating performance, stability, and cross-browser capabilities for future scalability
Designed and configured pipelines and batch execution processes to enable seamless CI/CD integration and scheduled test runs
Optimized automation execution by implementing smart waits, reusable utilities, and dynamic locators, significantly reducing flaky tests
Developed custom reporting and logging mechanisms to provide clear insights into failures, improving debugging efficiency and faster issue resolution

SeleniumPlaywrightAppiumCI/CDAutomation FrameworksTest Automation

Analyst

Jul 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai · Hybrid

Role: Sr. SDET/ Test Analyst(Selenium, Java)
Responsibilities: •
Involved in Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Retesting, Ad-hoc testing, Functional and Non-Functional Testing.
Elicited requirements from business to determine functional specifications leading to concrete implementation requirements.
Designed and developed Hybrid Framework.
Performed Keyword Driven and Data Driven Frameworks using CSV, CSS Selectors as a part of Framework.
Performed Data driven testing by passing multiple sets of data by using Excel data reader as plug-in.
Used Page Object Model (POM) repository design pattern for storing all the web elements for code maintainability and reusability for Selenium automation.
Performed End-to-End testing by Manual and Automation.
Worked on different kind of Web Element locators like ID, Name, CSS Selector, Xpath for identifying the fields.
Used Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) document to ensure whether all the proposed test cases are covered or not as per SRS document.
Performed Selenium automation using Selenium Web Driver.
Tested Service Oriented Architecture application using Soap UI.
Reviewed the requirements and use case diagrams to write Test Cases/ Test plan that would test various scenarios.
Worked with JIRA as a project management and defect tracking tool.
Performed Integration and Regression tests to check compatibility of new functionality with the existing functionalities of the application.
Wrote SQL queries extensively, queried database and generated test reports.

SeleniumKeyword Driven FrameworkData Driven FrameworkTest PlanningSQLTest Automation

Infosys

3 roles

Senior System Associate

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

Role: Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
Performed various types of testing like functional, system, uat and integration testing.
Involved in the test plan preparation.
Documentation of various processes and issues for future reference.
Prepare automation test scripts for regression by using Selenium.
Involved in automation framework enhancement.
Executing automation test scripts & defect management.
Defect Reporting, Defect Tracking and preparing different reports on daily basis.
Error handling implemented in application to ensure the quality regression.
Identify root causes of technical issues in execution and out of box failures.