Kritika Agarwal

ISTQB Certified Automation Test Engineer with 4 years of experience in the Banking domain, specializing in enterprise test automation using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG, Maven, and Rest Assured. Skilled in automation framework development, API automation, database validation, parallel execution, and reusable automation utilities. Currently pursuing the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification.

QA Automation Tester at Tata Consultancy Services (2021-06 – 2025-09)

• Designed, developed, and maintained scalable automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber, and Maven for enterprise Banking applications.
• Automated end-to-end functional, regression, smoke, sanity, and cross-browser testing, ensuring consistent quality across multiple application releases.
• Implemented parallel test execution using TestNG to reduce regression execution time and improve release efficiency.
• Developed comprehensive API automation suites using Rest Assured, including certificate-based authentication, request validation, response validation, and backend verification.
• Built reusable Page Object Model (POM), data-driven, and hybrid framework components to improve automation scalability, code reusability, and maintainability.
• Created reusable Java utilities with Apache POI to automate database connectivity, execute SQL queries, and validate results against expected excel datasets.
• Developed configurable database validation utilities for dynamic SQL query execution using excel mapping files, reducing manual validation effort.
• Automated comparison of SQL query results across multiple environments by validating database outputs against expected excel datasets.
• Designed reusable utilities for Excel-to-Excel comparison, JSON validation, and file comparison to facilitate backend testing and data migration.
• Performed backend data validation using Oracle, MySQL, Starburst, Hive, and Teradata, ensuring data consistency throughout the application lifecycle.
• Executed bulk-triggered automation test suites to support large-scale regression testing across multiple releases.
• Managed source code using Git, including branching strategies, pull requests, merge conflict resolution, and code reviews.
• Worked within Agile Scrum teams, actively participating in sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, release planning, and defect triage.
• Logged, tracked, and validated defects using ALM and Zephyr, collaborating closely with developers and business analysts to ensure timely resolution.
• Mentored junior automation engineers on framework development, coding standards, and automation best practices.

Master of Business Administration in Business Administration – Manipal University (2026-05)

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering – Matrusri Engineering College (2021-07 – 2021-07)