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Exploring the complex world of the Payroll domain:# Contributing and fostering a culture of Quality in a dynamic, fast-paced organization.# Regularly working with the latest toolsets (Azure DevOps, Playwright, LogRocket).# Collaborating with highly skilled team (product & engineering) who challenge and inspire me to continuously improve.

Greater Boston Area

• Defined testing strategies, methodologies, and best practices, ensuring alignment with project goals and industry standards.• Leading end-to-end testing activities, including functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.• Responsible for building and maintaining scalable, agile API Automation solutions for End-to-End Microservices using Java Rest-Assured & SoapUI with Groovy and UI automation using Selenium Webdriver.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve software defects, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.• Streamlined the testing workflow by 50% through efficient ticket creation, assignment, and reporting in JIRA.• Develop and maintain 10+ reusable test scripts covering core functionalities on Selenium Grid, enabling parallel execution, and increasing test efficiency by 25%.• Improved test suite maintainability by 28% by implementing clear and concise Gherkin scenarios in Cucumber.• Conducted technical interviews to assess candidates' knowledge and skills in software testing, QA methodologies, and relevant tools.• Increased application performance by 18% by optimizing server configuration based on JMeter load testing results.• Provided mentorship and training to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.• Leading a team of QA professionals in developing and implementing comprehensive test plans for complex software projects.• Leveraged Docker containers to create a consistent and repeatable testing environment, reducing setup time and configuration errors.

Acton, Massachusetts, United States

• Responsible for testing RESTful web services using SoapUI and Rest Assured frameworks.• Run/Debug/Create Selenium Web driver w/ Cucumber Feature, Smoke, Functional & Regression Test suite.• Development of Test Automation strategy, Performance Test Strategy and Data validation using SQL.• Implemented BDD frameworks like Cucumber to improve collaboration and communication between QA and development teams.• Automated 20% of functional test cases, leading to a 22% reduction in manual testing effort.• Maintained a clean and organized Git repository with 27% code coverage branches, facilitating efficient collaboration and code review.• Integrated Jenkins with the testing pipeline, achieving a 50% success rate in automated builds and deployments.• Coordinating with the offshore team for in-time task completion on multiple platform-browser combinations.• Implemented Swagger documentation for API testing, reducing test case design time by 20%.• Responsible for the definition and execution of Functional Testing and Support Escalation processes.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Coordination production release cycles, customer tickets and database update activities.• Involved in testing for new Features, Smoke, UAT & Regression testing.• Collaborated with developers to improve API documentation using Swagger, promoting test automation and code clarity.• Recognized and reported critical API bugs using REST Assured assertions, leading to improved API reliability.• Identified and resolved security vulnerabilities in SOAP web services through penetration testing with SOAP UI, enhancing application security.• Achieved a 20% success rate in user acceptance testing (UAT) by effectively communicating testing results and reports to stakeholders.• Streamlined the deployment process using Octopus Deploy, ensuring smooth and reliable software releases.• Utilized JIRA workflows for efficient bug tracking and prioritization, leading to a 10% reduction in bug turnaround time• Automated 14% of database testing tasks using Groovy scripts, improving test efficiency and reliability.• Performed load testing on a critical application using JMeter, simulating 12+ concurrent users and identifying bottlenecks.• Leverage 15+ API testing tools to achieve a 20% increase in API test automation and improve test execution efficiency.• Creation Feature, Smoke & Regression Test Suite using Selenium Webdriver/ TestNG Framework.• Automated 20% of test cases using the Cucumber BDD framework, improving testing efficiency and code readability.• Coordinated with the onsite team for in-time task completion on multiple platform-browser combinations.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Developed test cases for Smoke, Functional & Regression Test Plans to ensure software quality.• Responsible for testing multiple flavor of ERP applications (Web and Standalone applications).• Data Validation for various applications involving SQL server and Oracle databases.• Wrote and Execution of automated TSL scripts & manual Test Sets.• As a Team Lead for the Test Team, responsible for reviewing and prioritizing work requests from clients, estimating effort and reviewing team availability. • Reduced regression defects by implementing and maintaining a comprehensive STLC (Software Test Life Cycle).• Identifying test scenarios, authoring, and reviewing detailed test plans based on analysis of requirements and design documents. • Prepare test status reports, report defects found during test execution and communicate status to all stakeholders. • Responsible for managing QA environments- deployments, troubleshooting issues, and Database Migration.

Bachelor Of Technology, Computer Science

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