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Work history
Education
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Projects Undertaken - ETL
Projects Undertaken - Web Portals
Projects Undertaken - Mobile Apps
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Tajinder Singh

Tajinder Singh

Hounslow,UK

Summary

Lead - QA Automation expert with over 18 years of extensive experience in software testing and automation across diverse industries such as FinTech, Energy, Insurance, Media and E-Commerce. Proficient in leveraging cutting-edge technologies like Selenium, Java, Python, Postman, JUnit, Playwright and AI/ML to enhance testing frameworks, ensuring quality across ETL, web, APIs and mobile platforms. Committed to driving innovation and maintaining high standards in testing processes while fostering collaboration in multicultural settings to achieve project success.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Test automation team lead

UR Unified IT Solution
Hounslow, Greater London
2025.05 - Current
  • Developed automation framework for UI in Playwright and Typescript.
  • Implemented and automated test flows using Playwright MCP server.
  • Led and mentored QA team members on QA processes, test planning, execution, and documentation, ensuring adherence to industry best practices.
  • Stakeholder management and communication skills across business and technical domains.
  • Manage system integration, data validation, UAT, regression, and Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) across platforms, and related systems.
  • Developed automation framework for API in Postman and Newman.
  • Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, test strategy, test estimation and test execution.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines for QA to pre-prod environments on Digital Ocean.
  • Individual contributor for test automation.

Lead Automation Engineer

Qualitest
London
2021.08 - 2025.11
  • Lead automation framework development in Python and Azure Databricks.
  • Facilitate data transformation and integration from Azure Data Factory.
  • Collaborate with offshore teams to resolve technical challenges.
  • Develop and present proof of concepts to clients.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines for QA to pre-prod environments on Azure DevOps.
  • Have developed utilities on Python and Ollama which helps tester to find broken cases and Identify test cases.
  • Have automated Guidewire application using Selenium and Playwright.
  • Migrated Guidewire 8 to Guidewire 10.

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Publicis Sapient
2015.08 - 2021.07
  • Leading/Building team of Automation testers and Manual testers.
  • Good experience in creating automation framework, test automation planning, analyzing automation candidates and creating test scripts.
  • FX eTrading - Working knowledge in ensuring reliability and performance of Algorithmic Trading Models and Engines by Mocking Market Data. Making sure Controls Testing, Onshore and Offshore Trading, Spot and Future Trading, Compliance.
  • Solid experience building, maintaining, and scaling automation testing using Appium, Selenium, BDD using Cucumber, NodeJS or similar for React native/iOS/Android apps.
  • Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, test strategy, and test execution.
  • Working knowledge on Cloud Infrastructure deployments/design (Google Cloud).
  • Continuous integration [CI/CD pipeline] of test suite using Jenkins

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Collabera Technologies
2014.04 - 2015.08
  • Led team of testers, enhancing automation framework and test planning.
  • Implemented BDD frameworks, improving test efficiency and accuracy.
  • Integrated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, streamlining deployment processes.
  • Utilized ANT, POM, and Gradle to build robust automation solutions.
  • Identify automation candidates, optimizing test script creation.

QA Manager

BSL Information Technology Pvt. Ltd
2009.11 - 2014.01
  • Led and Manage automation and manual testing teams, enhancing testing efficiency and accuracy.
  • Collaborated with business users to design comprehensive test strategies and plans.
  • Conducted unit testing for Oracle and PL/SQL, improving system reliability.
  • Utilized Quest Code Tester to streamline testing processes and ensure quality.
  • Delivered measurable improvements in software quality and user satisfaction.

Software Test Engineer

Agilis Information Technology International (India) Pvt. Ltd
2006.04 - 2009.11
  • Executed comprehensive software testing strategies, identifying and resolving critical bugs to enhance product quality and reliability.
  • Meticulously documented test cases and procedures, ensuring consistency and facilitating knowledge transfer within QA team.
  • Pioneered new testing methodologies, including exploratory and risk-based approaches, leading to more efficient bug detection and improved software quality.
  • Conducted thorough regression testing, ensuring seamless integration of new features and maintaining system integrity across multiple software releases.
  • Mentored junior QA team members, fostering knowledge sharing and promoting best practices in software testing methodologies.

Education

Master in Computer Application - Computer Science

IGNOU
Delhi

Diploma - Advance Computing

C-DAC
Delhi

Skills

  • Selenium
  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Cucumber
  • TypeScript
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Appium
  • RestAssured
  • Postman
  • CI/CD
  • JUnit
  • AI/ML
  • WebdriverIO
  • Playwright
  • Azure DataFactory
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Azure DataBricks
  • Big Query
  • ETL
  • Mobile Automation
  • JMeter
  • SAP Hybris
  • C#
  • Playwright MCP Server
  • Guidewire 10
  • SQL
  • Artillery
  • Pytest
  • BDD/TDD
  • XRay

Certification

  • Foundation Level Certification, Jun 2009 ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board)
  • GCP – Associate, Aug 2020 Google Cloud Platform
  • Leapwork Professional Certification, Dec 2023

Projects Undertaken - ETL

Title: Data Migration

Platform: Azure Cloud [Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks]

Domain: Medical (Client - BSI)

Description: Data Migration project is on Azure Cloud Platform where embedded data files are ingested into Azure Cloud, where data transformation processes, using services like Azure Data Factory, standardise and enrich the data. Finally, the transformed data is stored in Azure Data Bricks catalogs for further analytics, reporting, or integration with downstream systems.

Title: Data Transformation

Platform: Google Cloud, Guidewire [BigQuery, DAGs]

Domain: Insurance (Client - Admiral)

Description: Data Transformation project is on Guidewire and Azure Cloud Platform where Guidewire is utilised for generating structured data files, such as policy, claims, or billing data, extracted from its insurance suite. These files are then ingested into Google Cloud, where Java framework performs data transformation tasks, such as standardisation, cleansing, and enrichment. The transformed data is stored in BigQuery, enabling advanced analytics, reporting, and seamless integration with downstream applications.

Title:   Endeavour Plus – Corporate Core
Platform:   Google Cloud [BigQuery, Airflow]
Domain : FinTech, Banking (Client - Lloyds Banking Group)
Description :   E+ Corporate Core is on Google Cloud Platform consist of two main aspects Strategic Data Layer [SDL] andStrategic Feed Layer [SFL]. In SDL, Data sourced from upstream systems is ingested from raw layer BigQuery tables andtransformed to the strategic data model. Later, same data is used in SFL for the generation of feeds and reports.

Title:  Signal Overrun Risk Assessment Tool (SORAT)

Platform: Algorithum Testing [Client  - Network Rail]
Description       :  Signal Overrun Risk Assessment Tool (SORAT) is the process by which client discharges its legal responsibilities toundertake a suitable and sufficient risk assessment of its activities so far as the consideration of risk arising from category ‘A’signals passed at danger (SPADs).

Projects Undertaken - Web Portals

Title: Cinqd

Platform: MERN, Playwright, TypeScript

Domain: ERP [Client - Cinqd]
Description: Cinqd is an ERP system providing efficient growth solutions. The HR, CRM, task management, and project management modules integrate seamlessly with platforms such as accounting systems and Microsoft applications. Discover tailored solutions for various industries.

Title: Data Policy

Platform: Guidewire 10, Selenium, Java

Domain: Insurance [Client - Admiral]
Description: The Data Policy project is built on Guidewire 10, where Guidewire is utilized for generating structured data files, suchas policy, claims, or billing data, extracted from its insurance suite. Automated testing is performed using Selenium and Playwrightto ensure the accuracy and reliability of data extraction and processing. Automation Framework allowing you to write end-to-endtests for its web functionalities across different browsers and platforms which helps further on Guidewire 8 to Guidewire 10migration.

Title:   Consumer Onboarding - Loans

Platform: React Native, Selenium, Java
Domain :  FinTech, Banking [Client -  Lloyds Banking Group]
Description   :    Loans- Lloyds Banking Group web application is designed to help you borrow to help pursue your goals with abank loan. Both franchised user and non-franchised user can borrow loan as part of different journeys.

Title :   Travel Money
Domain : FinTech, Banking [Client - Lloyds Banking Group]
Description   :    Travel Money - Lloyds Banking Group web application is designed to help you to FX eTrading. Ensuring there liability and performance of Algorithmic Trading Models and Engines by Mocking Market Data. Making sure Controls Testing, Onshore and Offshore Trading, Spot and Future Trading, Compliance.

Title                : Loreal
Testing Tools : Selenium Webdriver and Jenkins
Domain : ECommerce
Description    :  It is an e commerce web portal where user can experience through fully-integrated Mainstream tourism business,from inspiring and booking to flight and transfer right through to the holiday itself in a hotel or on board a cruise ship. 


Title                 : Tesco
Testing Tools :  Selenium Webdriver, Jenkins and Cucumber
Domain : ECommerce
Description     : It is an e commerce web portal where user can place the order of his/her choice items of different categories likewomen, men children’s and etc. JoeFresh provide the special discount and vouchers on shopping.

Title                : TUI Travel
Testing Tools   : Selenium Webdriver and Jenkins
Description     :  It is an e commerce web portal where user can experience through fully-integrated Mainstream tourism business,from inspiring and booking to flight and transfer right through to the holiday itself in a hotel or on board a cruise ship. 


Title                 : JOEFRESH
Testing Tools   :  Selenium Webdriver, Jenkins and Cucumber
Description      : It is an e commerce web portal where user can place the order of his/her choice items of different categories likewomen, men children’s and etc. JoeFresh provide the special discount and vouchers on shopping

Projects Undertaken - Mobile Apps

Title: Lloyds Banking Group – Mobile App

Domain:  FinTech

Description: Lloyds Banking Group is a mobile app for iOS & Android, and I was responsible for creating and maintaining mobile automation framework developed on BDD, JavaScript, Selenium Appium and WebdriverIO, have implemented multi mobile testing using Perfecto, helped offshore and onshore team on technical issues, presented end of test report, test strategy, test metricise document to client.

Title :   British Gas Smart App
Domain : Energy
Description  :   The app is designed to manage your energy account, track your live usage, book service and repair, buy home care,chat to advisor, in-app notification, change energy tariff, submit meter reading, view & pay bills and many more features at theswipe and tap of a finger.


Title                  :  YasIsland
Testing Tool  : Selenium, Appium
Domain : Travel
Description   : YasIsland mobile application is designed to offers you holiday experiences that are bound to delight and inspire. Appwill have displayed top attractions, pristine beach, shopping malls and dining experiences and much more.


Title                 :  YasWaterWorld
Testing Tool  : Selenium, Appium
Domain : Travel
Description   : YasWaterWorld mobile application is designed to book rides and to explore the water world with locations for ATM,Restaurants, etc. App will have displayed attractions, shopping malls and dining experiences and much more.

Timeline

Test automation team lead

UR Unified IT Solution
2025.05 - Current

Lead Automation Engineer

Qualitest
2021.08 - 2025.11

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Publicis Sapient
2015.08 - 2021.07

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Collabera Technologies
2014.04 - 2015.08

QA Manager

BSL Information Technology Pvt. Ltd
2009.11 - 2014.01

Software Test Engineer

Agilis Information Technology International (India) Pvt. Ltd
2006.04 - 2009.11

Diploma - Advance Computing

C-DAC

Master in Computer Application - Computer Science

IGNOU
Tajinder Singh