Yash Garg

SDET with expertise in building scalable and high-efficiency automation frameworks for Mobile (Appium), Web UI (Selenium & Playwright), and API testing (RestAssured). Experienced in fintech domain testing with strong knowledge of EMI, UPI, and Card workflows. Passionate about improving software quality through robust automation, CI/CD integration, and performance testing using JMeter. Focused on delivering reliable, fast, and maintainable test solutions across modern applications.

Software Development Engineer in Test at Pine Labs (2024-11 – Present)

• Designed and developed mobile automation suite from scratch using Appium + Java for Android emulator and real devices, cutting manual regression effort by 100%.
• Designed and maintained enterprise-grade UI automation frameworks with Selenium, automating 2,300+ test cases and implementing business logic, resulting in higher coverage and stable execution.
• Implemented API-first testing to reduce reliance on fragile UI automation, designing direct interaction with backend services for faster, more stable regression cycles.
• Automated 30+ endpoints REST API testing with Rest Assured and executed large-scale load tests on production using JMeter.
• Created custom utilities for MongoDB & SQL data validation and API response comparison, ensuring E2E data consistency across systems on production environment, reducing manual effort by 100%.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines on AWS EC2 using Jenkins, incorporating automation suites into release workflows to perform pre/post-deployment and production sanity checks.
• Hands-on knowledge of offline payments, Bank & Brand EMI flows, card transactions, PayByLink (PBL), and UPI payments, contributing to test strategy and validation of critical payment workflows.

Software Engineer at Nucleus Software (2023-09 – 2024-11)

• Developed and enhanced cross-browser automation suites for sanity and regression testing using Selenium with Java, supporting IE, Firefox, and Chrome.
• Built web-scraping and data-validation utilities using Playwright + Java to extract and verify large datasets efficiently.
• Designed and implemented custom Java-based automation tools aligned with specific business and testing requirements, improving team productivity.
• Automated API testing using Postman and SoapUI, covering functional, regression, and integration test scenarios.
• Created detailed HTML & jQuery-based automation reports, scheduled via Jenkins, enabling improved test visibility and stakeholder tracking.
• Developed Jira automation utilities using Jira REST APIs in Java for issue linking, ticket creation, and patch deployment workflows, fully integrated with Jenkins.
• Managed and optimized CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins jobs on Linux servers, enhancing automation reliability and deployment efficiency.

Assistant Software Engineer at Nucleus Software (2023-01 – 2023-09)

• Applied RDBMS concepts in designing and implementing database structures for complex applications.
• Developed and tested Java applications, ensuring robustness, maintainability, and functionality.
• Built a role-based full stack application using Spring & Hibernate, implementing maker-checker workflows.
• Worked on Spring Framework and Spring Boot for scalable application deployment.
• Implemented Spring Security for authentication and authorization, strengthening application security.

B.Tech in CSE – AKTU (2023-06)

Secondary Education (2019-04)

Primary Education (2017-04)