• Lead a team of 3 QA Engineers on several high-profile projects on the Banking team.• Mentored SDETs and QA Engineers on automation best practices and automation infrastructure.• Built first Kotlin automation framework of its kind at Acorns, ultimately used as inspiration for Kotlin frameworks around Acorns.• Created backend automated test frameworks from scratch using Ruby/Rspec and Kotlin/Kotest.• Contributed to cross-team Kotlin repositories to drive standardization and usage of Kotlin at Acorns.• Member of a Kotlin Guild at Acorns aimed at driving adoption and standardization of Kotlin at Acorns.• Created and maintained tooling for test user generation, used for automated and manual testing by all teams across Acorns.• Worked with 3rd party vendors on requesting features to ease automation and used these APIs to facilitate automated end to end testing.• Automated GraphQL queries and mutations used in microservices.• Collaborated with Techops to build CI/CD Pipelines in AWS Codepipeline and Harness.• Worked in both Scrum and Kanban teams using Jira to track progress.• Used Jira for defect tracking and reporting.• Employed TestRails for test asset management.• Created a Kotlin based system to write results to TestRails from Kotlin automated test frameworks.

• Created end to end test automation from scratch using Go, to test requests across GRPc services and tabulate results in Amazon Aurora.• Accomplished QA CI using Jenkins Pipelines to kick off automated tests when a new build is deployed to QA.• Created tests using the Go test framework and GoConvey, to test GRPc services written in Go.• Used Amazon AWS schedules to start and shutdown services, both adhoc and via schedules.• Used AWS cloud formation templates for service configuration.• Employed AWS Lambda to trigger actions based on set conditions.• Used Nightwatch to create UI automation tests for frontend applications.• Generated rich reports in Tableau by sourcing data from Amazon Aurora into Tableau.• Employed Amazon S3 to store and retrieve data.• Used Postman for test requests and responses to REST endpoints of Go GRPc services.• Worked in Agile Scrum teams employing two week sprints using VersionOne to track progress.• Setup performance testing best practices at the organization using Gatling; including load, stress and endurance testing.• Used VersionOne for defect tracking across teams.• Used Enterprise Git for version control.

• Created and maintained Java web automation frameworks using Selenium and TestNG, built using Maven.• Used Git as code repository for Automation artifacts and code.• Scheduled automation runs via Jenkins utilizing the Maven build process.• Used SoapUI to test SOAP web services used in a Service Oriented Architecture.• Participated in Design and FRD reviews to provide input and get clarification on requested changes from stakeholders.• Formulated Test Strategy documents for releases and projects to capture expectations, environment and deliverables. • Identified Test Cases and created Test Plans in HP ALM (Formerly Quality Center).• Executed and documented Test Runs in HP ALM Test Lab for different types of tests like functional, data, regression, acceptance, performance, integration, smoke, boundary, negative etc.• Logged Defects in HP ALM and tracked them through their lifecycle from creation to resolution.• Facilitated Defect Review meetings with stakeholders to manage defects and align expectations and outcome.• Performed data validation on databases and data marts using Oracle SQL constructs and queries. • Conducted ROI analysis and identified Test Cases for automation based on factors such as repeatability, regression, and stability etc.• Created Java Based automation of REST Web Services using the Rest Assured API.• As part of the core automation team, helped establish automation best practices and standards..• Created utilities to interact with HP ALM to facilitate documentation and defect tracking.• Led teams of different sizes and technical strengths on multiple successful projects.• Mentored junior team members and facilitated code reviews and discussions on Automation within the team.• As lead, performed Administrative tasks such as providing HLOEs, estimation, resource planning and task assignment.• Created and generated QA Metrics using HP ALM to track progress.• Generated and provided reports of test runs via HP ALM to management.