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Ashes Kumar Das

Ashes Kumar Das

Technical Test Lead
London

Summary

  • Possess a unique blend of strong technical and team leadership and management skills across various layers of software testing lifecycle and processes with over 11 years of experience in Software testing
  • Experienced in leading and managing small to mid sized testing times of(3-10) people.
  • Creating,maintaining and managing test automation repositories and CICD pipelines.
  • Experienced in creating Test documentations and artifacts.
  • Good knowledge of Energy domain
  • Cross skilled and proficient in most mainstream programming languages like C#,Java,Javascript/Typescript and Python.
  • Experienced in liaising with end users and business stakeholders for gathering and processing requirements and in some cases have played the part of SMEs where Business Analysts were absent
  • Extensive experience in Sanity, Exploratory,Regression and Integration Testing, along with test automation and performance testing.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work history

Technical Test Lead

Infosys Ltd
London, City of London
05.2024 - Current
  • Currently working in Trading and analytics area for our Client based in UK Energy sector
  • This is a modernization project which targets to migrate legacy WPF applications into modern angular based web applications with secure Kerberos authentication. It also has a goal to consolidate different business functions into a single portfolio down the line.
  • Developed and maintainer of Playwright and Typescript test automation project with cucumber js.
  • Automate data migration and test data model changes for the new system.
  • Performance testing with Gatling.
  • The Automation tests delivered has reduced functional testing by 80 percent and also delivered cost efficient solutions to client leveraging open source tools.

Technical Test Lead

Infosys Ltd
07.2021 - 04.2024
  • Worked extensively in Credit Risk areas and projects for a reputed Energy major Client
  • Oversaw a team of 10 based and handled deliveries of technical test automation aspects as well as functional and production support changes.
  • Was the lead maintainer of our repositories and developed a reusable and scalable framework for test automation with C#, BDD and mainly server side test automation for various Credit Risk areas
  • Managed data testing activities related to Data migration, Azure Databricks, ETL data loads, Backend validations and SQL server analysis services.
  • Automated API tests with Restsharp for Oauth 2.0
  • Implemented a robust regression test pack for UI tests with Selenium
  • Also developed and supported NFT activities I with Jmeter and Gatling
  • Streamlined tests integrated with CICD pipelines have brought down regression testing efforts by over 90 percent. Resultant execution times have been reduced from 8 to 2 hours.

Senior test analyst

Infosys Ltd
03.2020 - 06.2021
  • Lead Tester in Credit Risk Exposure Analytics programme
  • Worked extensively in backend test automation for validation of exposure measures with dot net C#.
  • Created a reusable repository for data comparison And reporting based on dot net and published it as an artifact in our enterprise jfrog repository. This is still being reused as dependency in many projects
  • Pipelines created and maintained on Azure devops

Test Analyst

Infosys Ltd
01.2018 - 02.2020
  • Worked for a reputed Energy major in their Upstream area. Responsible for testing a suite of applications which involved our client liasing with other contacttors for their Oil And Gas drilling equipments, real time data monitoring through Appdynamics and generating risk and remediation measures backed by Azure ML
  • Worked with typescript/javascript and protractor(now moved to webdriver/io) to develop front end UI tests.
  • CICD setup on azure devops.

Test engineer

Infosys
03.2013 - 12.2017
  • Worked in Front Office Energy trading and derivatives domain for deal capturing, contract management and reporting systems.
  • Worked independently in a challenging environment to deliver end to end test solutions for both functional and robust serverside test automation
  • Worked on rest and soap web services and automated api validations with Java , rest assured and cucumber.Specs were written in BDD and verified by business analysts to ensure all test coverage.
  • Worked on xml schemas and generated dto classes to articially create deal types and push them on Apache Active MQ to thoroughly test all deal types for testing reporting features on Unvavista.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication

Heritage Institute of Technology
Kolkata
07/2008 - 08/2012

High School Diploma - Science and Biology

South Point High School
Kolkata, West Bengal
01/2006 - 01/2008

Secondary Exams - Science

South Point
Kolkata

Skills

  • Programming Languages-C#,Javascript and Typescript,Java,Python
  • Experienced in all aspects of Functional Testing and Test Automation
  • Testing Methodologies-TDD and BDD(Specflow and Cucumber)
  • Project Types-Waterfall and Agile
  • UI Automation and web scraping Tools-Playwright,Selenium,WebdriverIO,Puppeteer,Winium,UFT,Sikuli
  • API testing tools-Swagger,SOAP UI, Postman
  • API test automation- Restsharp,Rest Assured,Fetch
  • Databases-SQL Server, Oracle, Postgressql,Azure Databricks
  • Familiar with entity frameworks like EF Core, Typeorm
  • CICD-Azure devops
  • NFT/Performace Testing- Jmeter,Gatling
  • Technical Documentions-Creating Test plans, RTMs,Test Strategy documents
  • Version management-Git

Languages

English
Fluent
Bengali
Native
Hindi
Advanced

Affiliations

  • Chess
  • TableTennis
  • Learning new technologies

Accomplishments

Got Certificate of Recognition from Client in view of my contributions in Front Office area in a challenging and technical landscape where I used many innovative and out of the box approaches for testing.


Appreciation emails from Business in delivering zero defect releases.

Timeline

Technical Test Lead

Infosys Ltd
05.2024 - Current

Technical Test Lead

Infosys Ltd
07.2021 - 04.2024

Senior test analyst

Infosys Ltd
03.2020 - 06.2021

Test Analyst

Infosys Ltd
01.2018 - 02.2020

Test engineer

Infosys
03.2013 - 12.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication

Heritage Institute of Technology
07/2008 - 08/2012

High School Diploma - Science and Biology

South Point High School
01/2006 - 01/2008

Secondary Exams - Science

South Point

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