Hi, I’m
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