Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Test Automation Architect | Framework Innovator | Open-Source Advocate With 19+ years of specialised experience, I design end-to-end testing solutions that accelerate quality across Web, Mobile, API, and Desktop applications. I transform testing workflows through strategic planning, scalable frameworks, and team leadership – all integrated into CI / CD pipelines. What I Deliver: ✅ Full-Cycle Testing Leadership: Develop comprehensive testing strategies, manage processes from planning to execution, and maintain expertise in manual testing, exploratory testing, and boundary value analysis. ✅ Automation Excellence: Build and maintain robust test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Rest-Assured, WebDriverIO (TestNG, Maven, GitHub) while ensuring best practices through code reviews. ✅ Framework Engineering: Architect extensible automation frameworks for cross-platform environments (Android, iOS, Web, API, Desktop) with seamless CI integration with Cloud platform integration like BrowserStack and LambdaTest. ✅ Team Development: Mentor engineers to up-skill rapidly, conduct technical reviews, and foster adoption of optimal testing methodologies. ✅ Open-Source Innovation: Create reusable testing tools on GitHub & Maven Central, empowering global testing communities. ✅ Technical Agility: Proficient in Java, JavaScript, C#, TypeScript and good knowledge in Ruby, Groovy, Kotlin. Ability to quickly master emerging tools to solve evolving challenges. ✅ Quality Advocacy: Combine debugging expertise with risk-based test planning to prevent defects and optimise coverage. ✅ Tooling Enhancement: Leverage React, Next.js, TailwindCSS for testing documentation and productivity tools. Driven by sustainable quality, I bridge technical execution with strategic vision – ensuring systems scale reliably while teams grow capability. My passion is building self-sustaining quality ecosystems that makes the lives easy for the testing community.
- Automated 100+ Manual Test cases in a month for their Law Enforcement and RIPC Web application using the open source Boyka Framework with Java to automate their Web and Android based application, thus reducing regression testing time for the Manual team. - Led the Test Automation adoption by migrating their Web and Android Test automation scripts to Katalon Studio, enabling manual QA teams to contribute to the automation and to accelerate their release cycles. - Led peer code reviews for automation scripts, enforcing Page Object Model (POM), DRY principles and best practices, improving framework maintainability. - Demonstrated the Test automation solution to the key stakeholders like QA Managers, Test Leads and Squad Leads.
- Led a 4-person QA team for STC, a leading Saudi based telecom company, in performing automated testing of their Web application for prepaid and postpaid users. - Performed complete Test automation health check for projects Test automation solution using Selenium WebDriver with Java and provided a detailed analysis and technical gaps where the automation could be improved by implementing POM design, best coding practices thus boosting framework stability. - Led peer code review for the team for their test automation scripts ensuring proper coding standards, best practices and proper POM design is followed. - Mentored 4 junior automation engineers by providing them training for different Test automation tools and coding best practices thus improving the overall team proficiency.
- Tested and implemented the Test automation for an API application for the payments middleware application for a Startup. - Provided the personal SDET training. - Provided Test automation support to a No-Code Test automation startup. - Mentored a QA professional guiding them in their career. - Wrote Test automation related Blogs for LambdaTest. - Created tutorial videos for Appium on YouTube.