NIRMAL KUMAR BV
Freelance Test Architect, Test Automation Mentor
Chennai
Summary
QA Architect and Mentor with more than 14 years of software product quality assurance experience including test planning implementation and execution. Proficient in Web, Mobile and Web-Services testing. Excellent at quickly identifying high level test strategies and problems. Collaborative but decisive personal style; effective communicator and problem solver
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
QA Automation Architect
KNOW
Chennai
05.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: KNOW is one single mobile platform that completely transforms frontline operations, training, and communications
- The platform digitizes various tasks such as daily checklists, workflows, shift planning, attendance tracking, and data collection
- It serves industries including logistics, construction, retail, and hospitality, aiming to streamline workforce management and improve operational efficiency
- Developed a unified framework for Web and Mobile automation using Selenium and Appium
- Have been leading the complete automation efforts in the Organisation
- Have automation the complete Web automation sanity test cases and have integrated it with Lambdatest platforms
- Have been automating the mobile automation test cases
- Training the team with the necessary knowledge for them to contribute in automation
- KNOW is one single mobile platform that completely transforms frontline operations, training, and communications
- The platform digitizes various tasks such as daily checklists, workflows, shift planning, attendance tracking, and data collection
- It serves industries including logistics, construction, retail, and hospitality, aiming to streamline workforce management and improve operational efficiency
QA Automation Architect
Pickyourtrail
Chennai
03.2023 - 01.2025
- Company Overview: Pickyourtrail is a travel tech Startup that delivers tailor-made international holidays
- Pickyourtrail aims to change the customer experience in explore destinations at their own pace with completely customized tour packages
- Have been leading the complete automation efforts in Pickyourtrail in both Web and Mobile platforms
- Have automated 70% of the features in Web
- Have done scraping projects for operational efficiency
- Training the team with regard to Web and Mobile Automation
- Interviewing the candidates from an automation perceptive
- Pickyourtrail is a travel tech Startup that delivers tailor-made international holidays
- Pickyourtrail aims to change the customer experience in explore destinations at their own pace with completely customized tour packages
QA Consultant
Delibo
Chennai
12.2023 - 01.2024
- Company Overview: Delibo - Smart Parcel Locker is an intelligent electronic storage solution that allows for secure shipment delivery of varying sizes, equipped with a variety of digital and physical components, such as card readers, LEDs, motors, sensors, and software
- Do Beta testing on the product from a customer perspective and give feedbacks to the Product director
- Triage the bugs based on the priority and assign to the developer
- Guide the team on the right practices for testing
- Delibo - Smart Parcel Locker is an intelligent electronic storage solution that allows for secure shipment delivery of varying sizes, equipped with a variety of digital and physical components, such as card readers, LEDs, motors, sensors, and software
Manual and Automation Testing Mentor
Guvi
Chennai
06.2022 - 01.2024
- Company Overview: GUVI is an IIT-M & IIM-A incubated Ed-tech company that focuses on providing personalized learning solutions for its learners right from online learning, upskilling & recruitment opportunities in world-class quality
- Tutoring the students with regard to Manual Testing and Web Automation Testing using Selenium and Java
- Conduct Mock interviews for the candidates and share feedback to the students
- Conduct Pre-boot camp sessions to the students
- GUVI is an IIT-M & IIM-A incubated Ed-tech company that focuses on providing personalized learning solutions for its learners right from online learning, Upskilling & recruitment opportunities in world-class quality
Quality Assurance Manager
Pickyourtrail
Chennai
04.2021 - 02.2023
- Company Overview: Pickyourtrail is a travel tech Startup that delivers tailor-made international holidays
- Pickyourtrail aims to change the customer experience in explore destinations at their own pace with completely customized tour packages
- Have been leading the complete Automation and Manual efforts at Pickyourtrail
- Have implemented Parallel Execution of Web Automation usecases using Zalenium
- Have implemented Kubernetes for parallel execution of BDD automation usecase
- Pickyourtrail is a travel tech Startup that delivers tailor-made international holidays
- Pickyourtrail aims to change the customer experience in explore destinations at their own pace with completely customized tour packages
Quality Assurance Automation Lead
Pickyourtrail.com
Chennai
03.2019 - 03.2021
- Have built a Hybrid and BDD Automation framework for Web using Cucumber, Selenium and Java
- Have started to build Mobile Web Automation framework using Appium
- Have built API Automation framework using Rest Assured
- Have built Scraping APIs for 4 websites as part of giving accurate pricing in the product using Python and Java
- Have empowered the entire team with automation and everyone have contributed to the existing automation suite
- Have been involved in tracking the Sprint delivery with Developers and Product Managers
- Have been involved in the design discussions during the development of any feature in the Product
- Have been involved in the Sprint Planning meetings and provide estimates on QA effort involved in each item
- Have brought various processes within the team like JIRA for Defect tracking, Testlink as Testcase management tool, Bug triage meetings, Sprint retrospections, Weekly Presentations on Tech Topics etc
Specialist
CSS Corp Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
11.2015 - 03.2019
- Company Overview: Client Name: Blackboard Inc
- This is a learning management system that provides a learning system for course delivery and management for institutions; a community and portal system for communication; a content management system for centralized control over course content; and a system to record and analyze student assessment results
- Have Integrated Selenium with REST API for validating test cases Achievement: Developed more than 20 automation tools using scripting for Application Support team (Operations and DBA team)
- Involved in UAT/Production Support Activities
- Client Name: Blackboard Inc
- This is a learning management system that provides a learning system for course delivery and management for institutions; a community and portal system for communication; a content management system for centralized control over course content; and a system to record and analyze student assessment results
Senior Device Associate
Amazon Development Centre (India) Pvt Ltd
Chennai
12.2010 - 10.2015
- Had written Perl script for automating build update/flashing of devices
- This was implemented across different teams and was recognized for it
- Point of contact for Kindle for IOS platform to Seattle QAE's and Kindle for PC/MAC with the Chennai QAE's
- Have extensively worked on testing the Amazon tablets and was sharing some of the crucial reports straight to the VP's which created more visibility among wider audience
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Anna University Anand Institute Of Higher Technology
Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Kazhipattur 09.2005 - 08.2009
Skills
Selenium
Playwright
Appium
Rest Assured
Apache JMeter
Core Java
Python
Javascript
Typescript
Automation Frameworks (BDD, Hybrid)
Mentoring in Test Automation Courses
Scraping Websites using Selenium and Python
Selenium Grid using Docker
Selenium Grid using Kubernetes
AWS
Timeline
QA Automation Architect
KNOW
05.2024 - Current
QA Consultant
Delibo
12.2023 - 01.2024
QA Automation Architect
Pickyourtrail
03.2023 - 01.2025
Manual and Automation Testing Mentor
Guvi
06.2022 - 01.2024
Quality Assurance Manager
Pickyourtrail
04.2021 - 02.2023
Quality Assurance Automation Lead
Pickyourtrail.com
03.2019 - 03.2021
Specialist
CSS Corp Pvt. Ltd
11.2015 - 03.2019
Senior Device Associate
Amazon Development Centre (India) Pvt Ltd
12.2010 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Anna University Anand Institute Of Higher Technology
09.2005 - 08.2009
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