Mahesh Kumar

Accomplished Full Stack QA Automation Engineer with 18 years of extensive experience in the IT industry, specializing in both manual and automated testing. Expertise spans Desktop, Mobile, Web, iPad, Flex UI, ETL, and API/microservices testing. Proven track record in designing and implementing scalable automation frameworks from scratch, leading QA teams, and delivering high-quality solutions in fast-paced Agile environments.

QA Automation Engineer - CBRE

(2022-01)

• Developing and maintaining automated test scripts using AccelQ automation tool.
• Validating end-to-end functionality of key project management applications: Principal Delivery Approver, MyProjects, and Capital Planner.
• Ensuring quality and reliability of complex project workflows through robust automation coverage.
• Leveraged AI-driven Azure DevOps extensions to automatically generate comprehensive test cases from user stories, accelerating test cycle preparation.

Senior Testing Analyst – QA Automation Engineer - Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp

(2014-06 - 2021-12)

• Create and maintain automation frameworks
• Develop automation scripts using Katalon Studio tool.
• Lead QA team to test frontend application using Selenium Webdriver and microservices using Jmeter tool.
• Has more than 7 years experience in developing automation scripts using Selenium (Java/Javascript) WebDriver/IDE, Katalon Studio and Cypress.
• Has experience in running Automation testing in Sauce Labs.
• Good Experience in writing XPath and CSS to locate web elements.
• Used Maven as build tool, GIT, Source Tree for version control, Jenkins/Concourse for Continuous Integration and Jbehave, JIRA/Pivotal tracker as defect tracking tool.
• Experienced in designing and implementing different Automation frameworks from scratch like Page Object Model, Data Driven Framework, Keyword driven framework and Hybrid framework.
• Worked on Cross browser testing and tested browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome Safari, Edge and IE using Selenium WebDriver.
• Well versed with Agile process which involved Scrum meeting, Sprint Planning and Grooming Meeting, Retrospective Meeting.

Test Analyst - Infosys Technologies Limited

(2008-06 - 2014-06)

• Developed Test Scripts to implement Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and features for BDD (Behavior Driven Development), TDD (Test Driven Development) using Cucumber in Gherkins format.
• Integrated with Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins for running tests automatically.
• Have experience in creating CI-CD pipeline for running test automation suite integrated with every build deployed using GitLab.
• Have experience in testing mobile devices such as Iphone, Android devices.
• Have good Performance testing experience using Jmeter to test API microservice and UI.
• Involved in ETL testing (Extract, Transform and Load) for enterprise data warehouse project which involved data validation across multiple source applications with separate layers built from foundation to data mart.
• Responsible for testing the backend (DB), after the ETL Job is initiated from ETL and validate along the way by analyzing intermediate files and validating how the initial source data is transformed and updated in the database by writing SQL.
• Worked on testing Merchandise applications, Store Walk Mobile application, reporting tool made in Flex UI.

PG- Business Administration - Business Administration - Symbiosis (2012-01) India

Bachelor of Engineering - Engineering - Anna University (2008-01) India