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Nithiya Gopal

London, United Kingdom,Surrey

Summary

Senior Software engineer with strong expertise in C#, Java, and JavaScript, focusing on test automation and quality assurance. Proficient in Selenium, PlayWright, and Postman, ensuring efficient testing processes. Experienced in REST API development, SQL database management, and AWS cloud services. Utilizes Jenkins for continuous integration and Apache JMeter for performance testing, driving innovation and enhancing software quality.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior Engineer

Aspire Systems
London
03.2022 - 04.2025
  • Developed and executed PlayWright-based automation scripts for web applications using TestNG frameworks with C# and JavaScript.
  • Designed and implemented 100 automated test scenarios, reducing regression testing time by 30%.
  • Collaborated with developers to automate complex calculations in forecasting, decreasing testing cycle time by 65%.
  • Executed comprehensive test plans for high-stakes software rollouts, achieving a 99% success rate on initial product launches.
  • Analysed and documented test results with JVM reports, maintaining thorough defect tracking and resolution.
  • Recommended process improvements to enhance team capabilities in software testing best practices.
  • Developed over 50 API test cases using Postman and RestAssured, attaining 98% test coverage on critical endpoints, thus reducing defect leakage by 30%.
  • Conducted API performance testing with JMeter, ensuring response times met SLAs and minimising performance-related production issues by 30%.

Software Tester

Izetam Technologies
Chennai
05.2018 - 02.2022
  • Project #1: Cocolita | Domain: E-Commerce | Methodology: Agile

· Understanding the Business Requirement Specifications and find the scope of the Application functionality.

· Analyzing the user stories from Backlog

· Involved in Preparation of Test Procedures, Test Scenarios, Cases and Test Data.

· Review occurs after the completion of test plan/test case/test scenario.

· Involved in Test Execution, Results Evaluating and Defect Reporting.

· Conducted Functional testing with Valid and Invalid inputs for positive and negative test cases.

· Analyze formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configurations, issues.

· Prepared feature scenarios and automation scripts in Selenium with Cucumber.

· Involving Hybrid Framework comprising Data Driven,POM.

· Attending daily scrum calls, sprint reviews, sprint retrospective, sprint planning.

· Experience in attending the status calls and reporting to the clients

· Responsible for Integration Test, Regression Test and coordinated UAT execution.

· Involved in discussion with the Business Analysts in Functional issues.

· Raising defect using JIRA Report testing status to QA Manager and Project Team weekly.


  • Project #2: Sky Airline | Domain: Airline | Methodology: Agile

· Analyzing and Understanding the user stories and acceptance criteria.

· Identifying the test scenarios that need to be automated.

· Prepared and executed Test Cases as per System Requirements and User Stories.

· Implemented different automation frameworks like POM, TestNG.

· Executed and debug test scripts.

· Participated in Sprint Planning Process and developing Test Plan.

· Performed defect tracking and management in JIRA.

· Track Bug Report to its closure.

· Logging Defects in Defect tracking tool for failed scenario & retesting it on previous build.

· Analyze the test results and maintain the test reports using JVM Reports

· Involved in all levels of Agile starting from test planning to retrospective meeting.

· Enhancing the Selenium Test cases for Cross browser testing.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Civil Engineering

Anna University
09.2013 - 06.2017

Skills

Programming Languages:

  • Microsoft C#
  • Java
  • JavaScript


Automation Tool:

  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Playwright
  • Postman for APIs
  • REST API design and implementation
  • SQL database queries


Frameworks:

  • Cucumber BDD framework
  • TestNG TDD framework


Performance Testing Tool:

  • Apache JMeter for performance testing


CI/CD or Cloud Tools:

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Jenkins CI/CD

Certification

Certified Tester, Foundation Level

ASTQB

Timeline

Senior Engineer

Aspire Systems
03.2022 - 04.2025

Software Tester

Izetam Technologies
05.2018 - 02.2022

Bachelor of Engineering - Civil Engineering

Anna University
09.2013 - 06.2017
Nithiya Gopal