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Goutham Hothur

Haywards Heath,United Kingdom

Summary

I bring over 12 years and 8 months of extensive experience in the IT industry, currently serving as a Test Lead at Wipro Limited. My expertise spans both Functional and Automation testing within the framework of Agile Methodology. I possess comprehensive proficiency in API automation utilising tools like Postman, Rest Assured, and SoapUI, alongside UI Automation testing employing Selenium with BDD cucumber using Java. Additionally, I have hands-on experience in Database and security testing, as well as a strong background in CI/CD and Git

Overview

13
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work history

Wipro technologies

2021.11 - Current (4 education.years_Label & 7 education.months_Label)

Job overview

  • Good hands-on experience in Functional Testing for both client and server architecture
  • Good understanding and implementation of Agile practices (SAFe certified)
  • Improvise test process by implementing Shift left and setting Quality gates at different stages of Release pipeline
  • Reduce redundant efforts in the team and set up best practices in the team to bring more business value
  • Experience is defining and implementing Test Strategies and Test Plan
  • Key member of the team during phases of Discovery, refinement of the features and user stories for functional and non-functional testing using Rally and JIRA
  • Expertise in developing Rest Assured Framework from scratch and Automating Rest APIs
  • Strong experience in web service and API testing using tools Postman and Soap UI
  • Hands-on experience in Selenium for UI automation using Java
  • Hands-on experience in Automation framework using BDD Cucumber
  • Experience in testing event-based applications using Kafka
  • Hands-on experience in creating and executing performance tests in JMeter
  • Good experience in Developing Testing Framework from scratch and integrating it to
  • CI/CD.

Cognizant Worldwide Limited

Sr Associate
2011.05 - 2021.10 (10 education.years_Label & 5 education.months_Label)

Job overview

  • SAFE Agile for Team members
  • Worked as, giving services in Banking and
  • Financial Services domain to a World leading credit card company American Express as a

Cognizant technology solutions, Wipro Limited

Lead Tester/Engineer, Project Lead
2011.05 - 2021.10 (10 education.years_Label & 5 education.months_Label)

Job overview

  • And application SME
  • Worked on Credit card Loyalty rewards Application which involved projects like Cashback product launch, Cobrand product launch, New Bonus Campaign, Redemptions
  • Worked on project which manages correspondence triggers like Email, Mobile Push
  • Notification and Letter for Card member actions via Micro services based cloud application
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Understanding the Customer Requirements and deriving the Test Scenarios/Conditions to ensure complete requirement coverage
  • Experience in designing different types of system test cases based on the User requirements
  • Experience in preparing very detailed and extensive test data to ensure thorough testing
  • Good understanding of the Software Life Cycle and associated test artefacts
  • Proven experience in Test management with experience in preparing execution status report
  • Defect reports and weekly status reports
  • Good Communication skills and adaptable to challenging environment
  • Technical skills
  • Certifications
  • Project, Ability to work with teams geographically spread across the globe and coordinate testing activities and also liaise with Business teams and technical teams alike
  • Ability to analyse requirements and draft test scenarios to ensure thorough requirements coverage coupled with debugging skills to identify the bottlenecks and issues impacting the functionality
  • Expertise in functional testing with good experience of Performance, Usability, Accessibility, and Compatibility
  • Working as a, in Banking and Financial Services domain to
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Working for Open Banking API application as Test Lead for 3 scrum teams
  • Working on multiple Open Banking applications like AISP, PISP, COF
  • Working on multi brand Banking applications for Retail, Business and Commercial journeys
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Build test frameworks for the new features
  • Co-ordinate with the onshore client product owner and help with discovery and analysis
  • Manage, lead, train offshore team of 12 people
  • Collect, manage and circulate automation metrics every month
  • Create test plan and strategies based on different features
  • Create and manage Automation packs for Sanity, Functional, Regression testing
  • Co ordinate with other teams to manage dependencies and support when needed
  • Ensure 100% test coverage
  • Perform annual Conformance testing and provide a report to OBIE
  • Perform Disaster and Security Testing.

Education

DRKIST

Bachelor's Degree (B.Tech) from Computer Science and Technology
2010

Skills

  • From Legacy to modern
  • Programming languages:
  • Java, Unix, Python, Go, SQL, PL/SQL
  • Scripts: Groovy, JavaScript
  • Testing tools: IntelliJ, Postman, JMeter, SoapUI, Pycharm, VScode, Xcode
  • Automation testing/framework: Selenium, POM, BDD Cucumber, Rest Assured, Spring Context
  • Kafka , Basics of webdriverio
  • Management tools: Rally, Jira
  • CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Maven, Git
  • DAST Tool: Burp Suite
  • Cross-platform testing

Certification

ISTQB Foundation Level

SAFe 4 Practitioner

Timeline

Wipro technologies
2021.11 - Current (4 education.years_Label & 7 education.months_Label)

Sr Associate

Cognizant Worldwide Limited
2011.05 - 2021.10 (10 education.years_Label & 5 education.months_Label)

Lead Tester/Engineer, Project Lead

Cognizant technology solutions, Wipro Limited
2011.05 - 2021.10 (10 education.years_Label & 5 education.months_Label)

DRKIST

Bachelor's Degree (B.Tech) from Computer Science and Technology
Goutham Hothur