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BHARAT KUMAR VADHER

Senior Test Engineer
Manchester

Summary

Strategic and results-driven QA leader with 14+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, test management, risk mitigation and process transformation. Proven expertise in leading cross-functional teams, implementing scalable testing strategies, and driving shift-left practices. Skilled at aligning QA with business goals and optimizing delivery pipelines for high-quality releases in fast-paced environments. Known for fostering innovation, building high-performing teams, and designing cost-effective, reliable testing solutions that improve production outcomes while adhering to development budgets.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Senior Test Engineer

Booking.com Transport Limited
05.2022 - Current
  • Actively supported the development of a booking insurance platform that issues quotes and policies for cars and accommodations, based on geographical location and reservation-specific conditions.
  • Spearheaded end-to-end implementation and testing of Booking Claims Studio, which streamlines car insurance claim processing by enabling customers to file claims on car reservations, and empowering claims handlers with efficient management, document handling, and secure data storage—helping to launch the MVP within 9 months of project initiation.
  • Actively participated in and led the analysis and implementation of automated claim processing, integrated payouts, and a centralized dashboard for reporting, compliance tracking, and operational oversight.
  • To support Development, Testing, and UAT, I created an automated data creation suite that reduced data generation time from 3 to 5 minutes to instant, enabling the creation of thousands of records within minutes, and saving over 500 hours of effort.
  • Supported development, integration, and validation of booking services with multiple insurance partners across regions, ensuring seamless interoperability, and enabling future enhancements that unlocked multiple revenue streams.
  • Led the UAT of the BCS project, identified over 200 defects, and served as the primary testing owner. Suggested potential solutions to the development team, facilitating timely issue resolution that ensured a successful MVP go-live, without compromising quality or compliance.
  • Managed third-party development and testing teams, overseeing their deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards, timelines, and project requirements. Coordinated cross-team collaboration, facilitated communication between internal stakeholders and vendors, and enforced improved ways of working and best practices to achieve seamless integration and high-quality releases.
  • Established governance, processes, and audit standards to ensure compliance and quality, successfully meeting SOX, DMA, and GDPR regulations.
  • Defined test strategies, developed test plans, and led comprehensive testing across back-end microservices, SaaS front-end, fintech components, and migration projects within a serverless architecture—delivering multiple iterative system enhancements, and successfully completing several migrations.
  • Collaborated with directors, product managers, analysts, and developers to prioritize goals, refine requirements, and deliver scalable solutions, and enhancements across the vertical.
  • Owned SIT and UAT cycles, ensuring defect-free production releases through rigorous integration and regression testing.
  • Defined a comprehensive defect management strategy that maintained an average defect age of less than two days and upheld a zero-defect policy, keeping the open defect count at zero for the past three years.
  • Led the automation initiative by implementing API automation for the backend engine using RestAssured and the TestNG framework, achieving 99% test automation coverage.
  • Modernized QA frameworks by integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines using SonarQube, Snyk, and ZAP Security Scanning for enhanced quality and security.
  • Pioneered advanced QA practices—such as serverless testing, risk-based testing, security testing, capacity planning, and shift-left strategies—and led organization-wide initiatives to define and implement a QA strategy aligned with the company’s vision.
  • Mentored engineers and testers through training, workshops, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Elevated quality standards by enhancing testing practices and processes, successfully delivering numerous system enhancements, and multiple migrations with zero production issues or rollbacks.
  • Conducted performance testing and capacity planning, complemented by multiple cycles of security testing and issue resolution, to enhance application security and ensure compliance with industry standards.
  • Actively participated in PoCs and spikes to explore GenAI use cases, contributing to the integration of GenAI capabilities into existing workflows, to automate manual processes, and to drive operational efficiency.
  • Recognized as the go-to person across the team and vertical for functional, technical, and business queries, and recommendations.
  • Consistently received excellent feedback from senior managers and directors, earning an 'Exceeds Expectations' rating for the past three years.

QA Module Lead

IGT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
08.2013 - 04.2022
  • Led the end-to-end implementation of the Oman Government's eVisa, Immigration, and Advanced Risk Assessment systems, integrating with mainframe systems to ensure real-time visa-on-arrival eligibility checks and risk-based traveler assessments, enhancing national security, and streamlining border operations.
  • Contributed to the Border Control solution by automating high-risk traveler detection using biometric technologies—Identity Management, eGates, monitoring stations, mobile apps (iOS/Android), and backend services—to ensure secure, efficient border crossings.
  • Worked on-site at Royal Oman Police (ROP) HQ in Muscat, leading global QA teams through Agile sprints. Ensured high-quality, scalable delivery by driving collaboration, test strategies, and continuous improvement under tight deadlines.
  • Supported seamless integration with legacy mainframe systems, resolving data compatibility issues across both modern and traditional datasets.
  • Played a key role in end-to-end testing for immigration and eVisa systems, collaborating with clients and ROP officials. Logged and tracked over 1,000 defects during SIT and UAT, contributing significantly to product stability.
  • Delivered tailored implementations of the ARAS and Border Control solutions for clients in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, South America, and Italy, providing ongoing support and maintenance.
  • Led the design and delivery of mobile solutions, including the Security Check and Entry/Exit apps (Android/iOS), in collaboration with product owners and end users—successfully delivered to the Qatar Government post-UAT.
  • Supported development and testing of biometric integrations (fingerprint, document readers, eGates, etc.) across web, desktop, and mobile platforms for clients in Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, South America, Jamaica, and Italy.
  • Designed and implemented automated test frameworks using Cucumber, Selenium (Java), and Rest Assured for full front-end and API coverage.
  • Validated mobile applications on iOS and Android, and executed extensive API testing via Postman to support biometric workflows and traveler services.
  • Architected CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps, enabling continuous testing and reliable production deployments.
  • Owned QA deliverables end-to-end, managing builds, integrations, and releases to ensure zero-defect rollouts in mission-critical environments.
  • Conducted risk assessments, removed blockers, and maintained high team productivity across distributed teams.
  • Delivered QA reports, led defect triages, partnered with developers to accelerate fixes, and regularly presented demos and updates to senior stakeholders.
  • Played a key role in strategizing performance and load testing for ARAS, Entry/Exit, and eVisa systems, simulating real-world usage by injecting over 200 million records into data sources to validate system scalability and stability.
  • Maintained expert knowledge of industry trends and advancements in module development technologies, ensuring that our organization remained competitive within the market landscape.
  • Successfully managed multiple complex projects simultaneously while maintaining high-quality standards across all deliverables.

Software Test Engineer

Passion in You Pvt. Ltd.
02.2013 - 08.2013
  • Supported the refinements of business requirements and functional testing of passion in your social media website.
  • Identified critical bugs and worked closely with the Product team and developers to ensure timely resolution, resulting in a more stable product.
  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
  • Enhanced product reliability through thorough functional, regression, and performance testing.
  • Designed testing scenarios for usability testing.

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd.
06.2011 - 01.2013
  • The project Trinetra is about testing of software applications deployed in various camera ranges (CYBER-SHOT, CAMCORDER) to be launched in consumer market.
  • Understand the business requirements and Software Specifications for different Camera Products, and creation of Test Design Document.
  • Responsible for Functional Testing of Camera firmware on different Camera devices including point and shoot camera, DSLR and Professional Video Recorders.
  • Responsible for Test Case creation, Execution, Bug tracking and reporting.
  • Test Exit Summary Report and Test plan creation.
  • Daily project status report to client.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Computer Science Engineering

Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, GGSIPU
New Delhi
04.2001 -

Higher Secondary Certificate - Science

Shree Laxminarayan Trust Gujarat Senior Secondary School
New Delhi
04.2001 -

Skills

Testing Methodologies: Manual Testing, Functional,Regression, API, System Integration, UAT, A/B Testing, Exploratory, Contract, Mobile, Database, Security, Usability, Accessibility, Performance, Load, Stress, Failover Testing, Capacity Planning

Test Management Tools:
JIRA, HP ALM, ALM Octane

Automation Tools & Frameworks:
Selenium WebDriver, TestCafe, Playwright, RestAssured, Cucumber, Gherkin, Percy (Visual Testing), Page Object Model, Page Factory, TDD, BDD, ATDD

Programming Languages:
Java, JavaScript, Python, OOPS

API Testing Tools:
Postman, SoapUI, RestAssured

Performance Testing Tools:
JMeter, Artillery, k6

Mocking & Virtualization:
WireMock, Mockito, Mockoon

Observability & Monitoring:
CloudWatch, Kibana, Grafana, Honeycomb, Alertmanager

Cloud Platforms & Services:
AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

CI/CD & Version Control:
Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Maven, Gradle, Git, GitHub, SVN

Code Quality & Security:
SonarQube, Black Duck, Snyk, ZAP security scan

Agile Frameworks:
Scrum, Kanban

Leadership & Collaboration:
Team Leadership, Cross-Functional & Geographical Collaboration, Stakeholder Engagement, Decision Making, Hiring & Onboarding

Core Competencies:
Communication, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Analytical & Organizational Skills, Quick Learner

IaC tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CDK

Web Services: XML, REST, SOAP, JSON

DataBases: Dynamo, Couchbase, Mongo, Relational (SQL)

Other tools: IntelliJ Idea,Eclipse IDE, ABIS- Gemalto & Innovatrics, Pega

AI/ML tools: OpenAI GPT-4 / GPT-4o, Mistral, Meta LLaMA 3, Google Gemini 15

Certification

ISTQB, International Software Testing Qualifications Board

Key Competencies And Achievements

  • Technical Leadership: Led embedded QA teams as the technical authority, promoting quality as a shared responsibility. Provided hands-on guidance in test design, automation, and exploratory testing.
  • Test Planning & Execution: Extensive experience planning, developing, and executing test strategies for global products. Delivered robust test planning using risk-based techniques to drive effective risk assessment and mitigation strategies across platforms.
  • Mentorship: Mentored engineers, fostering quality ownership and technical growth. Key contributor in hiring, coaching, and building high-performing QA teams aligned with modern quality engineering.
  • Cross-Platform Quality Expertise: Led end-to-end testing across mobile, web, and back-end systems, ensuring comprehensive coverage and consistency.
  • AI-Driven Innovation: Partnered with engineering teams to implement AI-driven initiatives, leveraging Gen-AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, enhance test coverage, and accelerate development/testing cycles.
  • Strategic Organizational Impact: Spearheaded organizational QA initiatives to streamline guidance and support future-focused projects, translating vision into measurable outcomes.
  • Process & Standards: Defined and enforced processes improving efficiency and quality, including peer reviews, Git version control, build management, and formal test documentation.
  • Agile & Scrum Leadership: Facilitated all Agile ceremonies and coached teams on Agile principles and Scrum best practices.
  • Test Automation & Strategy: Executed and scaled automation strategies across complex domains by partnering closely with engineering and infrastructure teams. Championed continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines to deliver rapid, reliable feedback and ensure high-quality releases.
  • Client & Stakeholder Management: Served as the primary client liaison, overseeing testing requirements and directing cross-geography teams including third-party contractors while ensuring strong governance, effective supplier oversight, and proactive stakeholder management for seamless delivery.

Cloud & Serverless: Led initiatives to optimize development and testing in

serverless and cloud modernization, defining best practices within AWS, Azure,

and GCS.

• Non-Functional Areas: Expertise in performance, capacity planning,

accessibility, observability, security testing, and integrating these across

development lifecycles with mocking and stubbing.

• Quality Metrics & Measurement: Defined and implemented quality metrics to

assess test effectiveness, optimize testing efficiency, and ensure measurable

product quality.

• Domain Expertise: Broad experience in Consumer Products, eCommerce,

Airlines, Travel, Insurance, and FinTech domains.

Timeline

AWS Essentials

07-2025

Senior Test Engineer

Booking.com Transport Limited
05.2022 - Current

CSM, Scrum Alliance

04-2019

QA Module Lead

IGT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
08.2013 - 04.2022

Software Test Engineer

Passion in You Pvt. Ltd.
02.2013 - 08.2013

ISTQB, International Software Testing Qualifications Board

02-2012

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd.
06.2011 - 01.2013

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Computer Science Engineering

Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, GGSIPU
04.2001 -

Higher Secondary Certificate - Science

Shree Laxminarayan Trust Gujarat Senior Secondary School
04.2001 -
BHARAT KUMAR VADHERSenior Test Engineer