A QA / Automation Test Engineer with 9 years hands on experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle that includes Test strategies, executing Test plans, designing Test cases, and defect management, developing Automation scripts, implementing Framework and Test libraries for software products within a complete Waterfall and Agile scrum lifecycle.• Experience in Software Quality Assurance Testing (Manual and Automation), testing of Web based Applications and Mobile testing in domains like Banking, Ecommerce, Learning Management System.• Working in Agile methodology, attending daily scrum calls, sprint planning, Review and Retrospective, Refinement meetings with team to ensure effective testing effort and discuss the scope of the next sprint.• Proficient in working with testing tools and carrying out Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Systems Testing, Black Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Regression Testing of Web based applications.• Broad experience in testing web application on cross browsers and on mobile using emulators and real devices.• Responsible for all QA deliverables like test planning/scheduling, test scenario, test cases, test data preparation, test coverage reports, defect reports, raise issues pre-production and production support.• Experience in UI Automation using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG, Hybrid Framework, with Maven tool.• Involved in automating regression and functional test suites in BDD framework (Cucumber)using Selenium WebDriver, Java and JUnit.• Experienced in creating scripts using Keyword Driven and Data driven framework to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files.• Perform cross browser and parallel testing of the application using Selenium Grid.• Experience in Web services and REST API testing using Postman, SOAPUI. Knowledge of API Automation using REST Assure. • Experience in automation of mobile testing using Appium.• Working knowledge of Jenkins CI/CD tool and Version Control Systems.• Strong knowledge of writing SQL queries.• Performed defect tracking and management in Jira.• Facilitate and provide training for in-house staff in using the software applications and automation framework.• Strong interpersonal and communication skills result oriented, hard working with a quest and passion to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.• An effective team player with abilities to work collaboratively with Developers, Analysts, Product owner and Client representatives.