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Sandeep J

Ilford

Summary

Sandeep – Test Automation Engineer (Senior SDET) with 10 Years of Experience


• Having around 10+ years of experience in software testing using Functional and Automation (Selenium,
Cypress and Katalon Studio, Postman)
• Hardcore tester and test automation enthusiast
• Certified ISTQB certified automation test engineer with R&D experience.
• Proficient in the insurance domain, I have worked on various modules such as Customer module, Policy
Management, Agent Management, etc.
• Expert in GUI, API, and Desktop automation and have good exposure to automated tools like
Selenium/Cypress/Katalon Studio.
• Experience in mobile automation tools Appium, Android SDK, Sauce labs and Browser stack.
• Experience in automating both mobile native and browser supportive applications.
• Automated test scenarios for native, hybrid, and mobile web applications using Appium.
• I have experience in digital transformation of native apps to web applications.
• Have extensive experience in technical test automation consulting for various projects spanning across from
different tech stacks, zero automation to full-fledged automation.
• Also have good experience in improving maturity levels of test automation by identifying tech debts, practices and
developing value adds by means of test automation.
• Profound in assessing various test automation tool that will fit for technical.
• landscape of the engineering team and developing or setting up test automation framework from the scratch
• Have Participated in number of frameworks development from scratch & framework designing & development.
• Rich exposure and experience with Devops tools like Azure & Jenkins; Helped projects in moving CD –
continuous development maturity levels by enabling test automation solutions on the pipeline including
containerization using Dockers.
• Have executed different type of black box testing at different levels like functional, regression, web application
testing, Automation testing using Selenium / Cypress / TestCafe / KatalonStudio tools.
• Worked extensively in Waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Good experience in testing the Web Services, Rest and Micro Services using APItools.
• Proven experience in Test Planning, Designing, execution, Test estimations,
• planning and Delivery for multiple and large projects.
• Good experience in Cucumber, Gherkins, Jenkins, Cypress, Docker, Maven, REST-assured, Selenoid, and
Appium.
• Good experience in developing the scripts with Rest Assured framework and SoapUI framework.
• Having good experience Mockoon server, and RestFull services with Spring Boot to test Mock services.
• Gained knowledge in R & D on automation testing with different automation tools.
• Having Strong Core Java experience which including Object oriented concepts including Java 8.
• Experience in creating complex SQL queries, also having sound knowledge inOracleDB.
• Experience on Azure Devops and Azure Kubernetes in Test Automation.
• Self-motivated, energetic and highly ethical in all work-related assignments thus able to immediately contribute to
corporate goals and objects.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

GMS Global Solutions (Freelancing)
10.2022 - 12.2023
  • Understanding the requirement and functional specifications of the application
  • Prepared and executed test cases as per system requirements and user stories
  • Experienced in preparation of automated test scripts using selenium for user stories in Jira
  • Extensive experience in using frameworks like TestNG, POM, Junit
  • Prepared automation scripts in selenium webdriver using Cucumber framework
  • Created and maintained automated test scripts for API testing using Restful.

Senior Software Test Engineer

ValueMomentum
10.2019 - 02.2021
  • Acting as Point of contact for this project
  • Involved in the feasibility study to finalize the test automation framework
  • Involved in the design and development of the framework with selenium with java
  • Analysis of test requirement and automation feasibility
  • Responsibilities included close interaction with development team, project managers, environment team, integration team and mentoring the quality assurance team
  • Experience managing QA engagements with a size of 6 -7 resources with end to end accountability from managing the client, and work at offshore location
  • Designed and implemented the Hybrid driven automation framework using selenium with java, TestNG and Rest Assured to implement End-2-End automated regression testing
  • Involved in setting up overall QA process for Manual/Automation/Performance and advised best practices to client
  • Drive metrics, continuous improvements, and automation opportunities
  • Hands on test manager with experience in testing java applications
  • Solid exposure to Manual testing under Waterfall and Agile methodologies
  • Accountable for overall QA Delivery
  • Overseeing the demand management process
  • Establishing and executing the account management disciplines, business management processes, and associated reporting
  • Design/Define the test strategies for the application testing team
  • Working to address performance issues, service quality and account quality reviews
  • Identify and create automation opportunities and plan the implementation strategy
  • Conducting peer reviews and providing constructive feedback.

Consultant - SDET

Capgemini Pvt Ltd
04.2019 - 10.2019
  • Working closely with an in-house development team to provide quality assurance on the company's websites and applications
  • Delivery of test plans, test cases, defect reports and execution logs in line with Project Methodology for functional requirements
  • Test preparation and execution of regression and UAT testing cycles
  • Handled both functional manual testing and test Automation deliverables
  • Writing reports from QA cycles, including presentations to project stakeholders
  • Bug Tracking & Reporting
  • Team Management
  • Development of test script in Java using Selenium WebDriver in VS
  • Framework Development from scratch and maintenance
  • Providing assistance & KT to Team to acquire knowledge on TA
  • Involved in Database testing and rating XML testing
  • Attending project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings with the development team
  • Worked on various insurance products Hood (Property Insurance), DLG (Business insurance), PureBroker (Vehicle insurance), and R&D (property insurance)
  • Worked on Composer, Administration, Product Administration, and Security administration modules for configuration.

Associate Consultant

Capgemini Pvt Ltd
09.2014 - 04.2019
  • Analysing functional specifications & business scenarios
  • Direct coordination with Client and Onshore/Offshore teams
  • Planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks
  • Creating test strategy and test plan
  • Daily Reporting on the tasks accomplished, issues and status
  • Recommended a well defined automation strategy with low maintenance and reasonable/acceptable implementation cost
  • Ensure release-testing commitments are met and monitor progress of the release to recognise the scope change and potential impact to target dates
  • Set the release specific test strategy and the scope that includes the types and amount of testing based on resource capacity and skill set
  • Scheduling the tests for execution and then monitoring, measuring, controlling and reporting on the test progress, the product quality status and the test results
  • Writing Test Completion report on completion of test cycle
  • Analysing the Requirements from the client
  • Conducting Review Meetings within the Team
  • Preparing Test Cases, Test Reports & Test Plans, Maintaining Test Cases, Test Cycles
  • Identify a scenario which needs to be automated
  • To verify the test results from successfully executed test cases from both manual and automated test scripts, then document them using Test Director.

Senior Software Test Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Limited
01.2013 - 09.2014
  • Understanding the requirement document and business rules
  • Executing test cases and test data to validate requirements
  • Interacting with the onsite coordination for requirement analysis and delivery related activities
  • Involved in review meetings along with test lead and collect data for test cases
  • Involved in sanity testing on initial software build for testability checking
  • Logging defects and validating the resolved defects
  • Conduct regression testing on every modified software build to close bugs
  • Coordinated with developers for defect analysis and their fixes
  • Involved in the impact analysis on many change requests
  • Development of test script in Java using cucumber-BDD framework
  • Framework maintenance & enhancement
  • Reviewing feature files & internal coding’s to increase reusability
  • Make the developed script to be executed in MAC-Safari
  • New Tools and Technologies exploration
  • Integration/Feed Testing
  • Re-Usable Component Development.

Software Test Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Limited
10.2011 - 01.2013
  • Understand and Analyse business Requirements
  • TC Preparation and Functional Testing for Native App and Mobile Web
  • Creating test plan, estimates and assign resources
  • Automation Feasibility study for both Web Application & Native APP
  • Developing Automation test scripts for Smoke, Functional, Regression and Integration Testing
  • Execute selenium scripts and analyse the test reports
  • Report defects and assist fixes through participation in Defect Triage
  • Attending project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings with client and development team.

Education

Masters's Degree in Advanced Computer Science -

University of Hertfordshire
10.2022

Skills

  • Java
  • Selenium
  • C#
  • TestNG
  • Appium
  • PostMan
  • API Testing
  • Security Testing
  • Performance testing
  • JMeter
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Rest Assured
  • JIRA
  • Quality Assurance
  • Test Automation
  • Build Automation
  • APIs
  • REST
  • Azure Devops
  • Agile Methodology
  • Cypress
  • TestCafe
  • Java Script
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Katalon Studio
  • BDD/Cucumber
  • NUnit
  • Mocha

Certification

  • ISTQB Certification
  • Oracle Certified Java Professional

Timeline

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

GMS Global Solutions (Freelancing)
10.2022 - 12.2023

Senior Software Test Engineer

ValueMomentum
10.2019 - 02.2021

Consultant - SDET

Capgemini Pvt Ltd
04.2019 - 10.2019

Associate Consultant

Capgemini Pvt Ltd
09.2014 - 04.2019

Senior Software Test Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Limited
01.2013 - 09.2014

Software Test Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Limited
10.2011 - 01.2013

Masters's Degree in Advanced Computer Science -

University of Hertfordshire

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