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I am an Astute Professional with 14 years of expertise combining industry best practices, techniques and methodologies into existing testing procedures for successful bug fixes and issue resolution. I possess over 5 years of experience in automation using Selenium WebDriver using Java Holds expertise in Software Test Life Cycle including Test Strategy Definition, Test Plan Creation, Test Design, Test Estimation, Test Execution, Test Data Creation & Validation, Test Review, and Defect Reporting & VerificationWrote scripts in Java for automation and utilized Locators and Xpath expressions using tools such as Firebug and Firepath to locate web elementsBagged Team of the Year Award in FY~2020-21 in the company's Annual Excellence AwardFelicitated with company’s DNA Award thrice at Sonata Software Ltd.Conferred with Employee of the Month Award 5 times for outstanding performance at EVRY India Pvt. Ltd.Collaborated closely with a colleague on developing a full-scale Functional Regression Framework which has various components including reportingContributed in designing, developing & maintaining Regression Test Automation Framework for Web applications using SeleniumEstablished the continuous Integration Platform using Jenkins to execute test cases for Functional, Validation, End-to-end & Regression Testing for web applications on a daily basisProven track record in reducing defects by brining the process wherein Developer should publish Release Notes with 90% Unit Test Cases passing before release for testingShouldered the additional responsibility of testing Informatica related tickets in absence of respective developer, which was successful in testing the implementationFacilitated smaller teams within the group for automation as well as testing activitiesAchieved 100% automation of the product by encouraging junior team members to take up automation and implement the same Developed methods in the framework which could take data either from excel or database based upon the needs