Senior Lead Automation Test Engineer at Virtusa Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (2022-02 – Present)
Led end-to-end test automation strategy and quality assurance delivery for Citi Group's enterprise banking platform, managing a QA team of 11 engineers across distributed environments.
- Led end-to-end test automation strategy and quality assurance delivery for Citi Group's enterprise banking platform, managing a QA team of 11 engineers across distributed environments.
- Designed and built a scalable test automation framework using Java and Selenium, supporting version-wise regression testing across multiple concurrent release cycles.
- Established GitHub PR review workflows and automation coding standards, ensuring framework maintainability and consistent quality across the team's output.
- Developed reusable core library components for the shared automation framework, reducing time-to-test for new features and improving long-term scalability.
- Integrated automated regression and smoke testing suites into the CI/CD pipeline, enabling continuous quality gates on every code build and reducing late-stage defect discovery.
- Managed test planning, test execution, and defect management processes within Agile sprint cycles, maintaining structured sprint-level QA documentation and sign-off.
- Mentored junior automation engineers on framework best practices, code review standards, and shift-left testing principles, strengthening the team's technical capability.
Senior Software Test Engineer at Pyramid IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (2020-01 – 2022-01)
Delivered test automation across Web, Salesforce CRM, and REST API layers using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, and Rest-Assured.
- Delivered test automation across Web, Salesforce CRM, and REST API layers using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, and Rest-Assured, increasing automated test coverage across the regression suite.
- Executed test strategy and test planning for Agile sprints, writing test cases for user stories and conducting regression testing, smoke testing, and sanity testing on each release build.
- Optimised parallel test execution in the automation framework, reducing regression run time and enabling faster QA feedback to the development team.
- Managed defect lifecycle end-to-end in JIRA — logging, triaging, and tracking defects per sprint with structured root-cause analysis to prevent recurring patterns.
- Contributed to sprint planning and backlog grooming as QA representative, defining acceptance criteria and embedding testability into user stories early in the SDLC.
Quality Assurance Developer at Infogain India Pvt. Ltd. (2019-01 – 2019-12)
Built automated test scripts for the NCR Silver POS system covering Web and API layers.
- Built automated test scripts for the NCR Silver POS system covering Web and API layers using Selenium, Java, and Rest-Assured, reducing manual regression effort significantly.
- Performed API automation and database integration testing using MySQL to validate POS transaction data, inventory sync, and reporting accuracy.
- Designed structured test cases covering functional, integration, and regression testing scenarios for the POS platform's core workflows.
Software Test Engineer at IGspectrum India Pvt. Ltd. (2017-08 – 2019-01)
Developed a custom Java-based OCR automation tool and automated end-to-end regression scenarios for NHS digital health systems.
- Developed a custom Java-based OCR automation tool using Apache Tesseract to validate scanned clinical document processing, replacing a previously manual verification process.
- Automated 200+ end-to-end regression scenarios for NHS digital health systems, reducing manual testing effort by approximately 40% and enabling faster sprint closures.
- Maintained a structured test case repository for NHS workflows, ensuring coverage across critical patient-data processing paths.
Test Engineer at GingerWebs Pvt. Ltd. (2015-05 – 2017-07)
Automated end-to-end exam portal test scenarios for web platforms.
- Automated end-to-end exam portal test scenarios for web platforms, building the initial regression automation suite and eliminating repeated manual testing cycles.
- Performed backend validation using MySQL to verify business logic in exam scoring, result generation, and student data workflows.
- Maintained versioned test suites with full JIRA-based traceability between test cases, user stories, and defects across multiple product releases.
