Shivraj Darade

Software Tester with 5.3 years of experience across Banking & Capital Markets, Healthcare, and Banking & Financial Services domains. Skilled in building automation frameworks from scratch using Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium with Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Strong experience in functional, regression, API, accessibility, and end-to-end testing, along with CI/CD pipeline setup, release quality gates, and defining quality metrics such as defect leakage, test coverage, and automation ROI.

Proven track record of leading teams through manual-to-automation transitions and delivering daily quality reports to global clients.

Software Tester - Visionary World Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

(2021-04)

QA — Automation Tester (Playwright) - GTB Bank - UAE

Worked on a web-based banking application for GTB Bank (UAE) covering the Banking and Capital domain, with modules including Masters, Payments, Customer Services, and Roles & Groups, serving corporate and business customers.

• Worked as QA — Automation Tester (Playwright) across the project lifecycle.
• Actively participated in project planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, tech huddles, and tech planning sessions.
• Developed and supported the Playwright automation framework from scratch.
• Set up release pipelines and CI/CD quality gates/job creation.
• Performed performance monitoring using New Relic.
• Executed regression automation and smoke automation testing.
• Led the transition of teams from manual to automated testing.
• Built automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Defined quality metrics (release quality, defect leakage, test coverage, automation ROI) and shared daily reports with the client.
• Performed end-to-end testing using Playwright with Java.

QA — Functional Tester and Automation Tester (Cypress, Playwright) - MyEyeDr

Worked on a web-based e-commerce application for MyEyeDr covering contact lenses, dry eyes, sunglasses, and reading glasses, with orders placed via website or MED offices/clinics, backed by the Acuity and Enfinity systems. Worked across two QA environments (ShopQA and MyEyeDrQA) with an admin panel for site configuration, banner settings, logs, and image configuration; used New Relic for production log management, team notifications, and custom query/graph creation for errors and status codes.

• Worked as QA — Functional Tester and Automation Tester (Cypress, Playwright).
• Covered testing types including Functional, Dark Mode, Voice Over, End-to-End, Smoke, Mobile, Regression, and Sanity.
• Actively participated in project planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, tech huddles, and tech planning sessions.
• Developed and supported the Playwright automation frameworks from scratch.
• Set up release pipelines and CI/CD quality gates/job creation.
• Performed performance monitoring using New Relic.
• Executed regression automation and smoke automation testing.
• Led the transition of teams from manual to automated testing and built automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Defined quality metrics (release quality, defect leakage, test coverage, automation ROI) and shared daily reports with the client.

API Automation Tester - Nordea

Worked on a web-based application for the BSF domain (Nordea) covering Netbank, Business Bank, and Mobile Banking concepts for Sweden (SE), Norway (NO), Finland (FI), and Denmark (DK), with modules including Payment, Card, Loan, Accounts, and Transaction. Was part of the Account and Transaction module, testing fixes as per client requirements and working solely on API automation, Jenkins report fixes, and G4 report sending to upper environments (Rtest, Preprod, Production).

• Worked as an API Automation Tester using IntelliJ.
• Sent G4 reports to relevant teams to promote fixes (TSGs/Jiras) to upper environments like Rtest, Preprod, and Prod.
• Fixed Jenkins jobs across Test and Rtest environments.
• Created and executed test cases with bug finding/logging in Jira and Qtest.
• Participated in user story discussions and reviewed scenario writing with PO/Business stakeholders.
• Fixed Jenkins report failures in the cloned repository of the API service product, merged code into the master branch via GIT by raising PRs, obtaining approvals, and re-running Jenkins jobs.
• Performed application testing on BrowserStack (mobile testing).
• Covered testing types including Functional, Accessibility, Reliability, API Testing, Dark Mode, Voice Over, Real Device, SIT Testing, Adobe Analytics Testing, Regression, Sanity, and Mobile Testing.
• Actively participated in Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Backlog Grooming, Retrospective, Daily Scrum, incident discussions, knowledge-sharing sessions, Sprint Demos, and PI Planning.
• Developed and supported the Playwright automation framework from scratch.
• Set up release pipelines and CI/CD quality gates/job creation.
• Performed performance monitoring using New Relic.
• Executed regression automation and smoke automation testing.
• Led the transition of teams from manual to automated testing and built automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Defined quality metrics (release quality, defect leakage, test coverage, automation ROI).

Bachelor of Pharmacy - Pharmacy - Appasaheb Birnale College of Pharmacy, Sangli, Maharashtra

Bachelor of Pharmacy - Pharmacy - Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra