Ashwini Kumar

Ashwini Kumar

Senior QA Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN.

About

Highly accomplished Senior QA Engineer with 7 years of experience specializing in Fintech and Retail domains, focusing on Order Management and Fulfillment Systems. Proven expertise in automating end-to-end testing processes, including Web, API, and mobile applications, leveraging tools like Java, Selenium, Appium, and Playwright. Adept at enhancing test efficiency and product quality through advanced automation strategies, AI integration (Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot).

Work

Paytm
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Senior QA Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Summary

Led comprehensive QA efforts within the Lending Business team, driving automation and enhancing testing frameworks for critical financial products.

Highlights

Automated end-to-end testing processes for Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) and Personal Loan (PL) products, significantly improving testing efficiency and reducing manual testing efforts by 80%.

Accelerated test cycles and improved coverage for critical business workflows by automating the complete end-to-end loan creation to disbursement journey, including Android app workflows using Appium.

Enhanced testing framework robustness by integrating Cursor AI, which improved test reliability and reduced debugging time through intelligent suggestions and automation.

Streamlined Cucumber feature generation using GitHub Copilot, boosting productivity and ensuring consistency in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) practices.

Improved overall product quality by meticulously reviewing test cases, identifying, and resolving critical bugs early in the development lifecycle.

OpenText
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Quality Assurance Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Summary

Orchestrated comprehensive test case development and pioneered automation strategies to optimize efficiency and ensure robust evaluations of applications.

Highlights

Orchestrated comprehensive functional, automation, and regression test case development for innovative features, ensuring thorough coverage and quality.

Pioneered automation strategies, refining tests to handle pop-ups and window scenarios, optimizing their efficiency and improving test stability.

Ensured robust evaluations of the D2 application through rigorous testing using Java-Selenium and Report Portal.

Captured precise requirements and facilitated clear communication through Business Demos by collaborating closely with product owners.

Cognizant
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Senior Test Analyst

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Summary

Led and executed test plans for new software rollouts and managed API/Web automation for critical retail and order management systems.

Highlights

Led the development and execution of test plans and scripts for project-based, new software rollouts, encompassing functional, automation, and regression testing for Web and Android applications.

Developed and executed automated tests for Web and API (SOAP/RESTful) services, leveraging Java, J-Behave, IBM DB2, and TIBCO messaging systems.

Collaborated extensively with product owners and development teams to gather requirements, identify early-stage challenges, and present business demos to leadership.

Maintained testing suite code repositories on GitLab and conducted comprehensive integration testing with downstream applications and third-party services, optimizing XML/JSON responses for complex scenarios.

Education

Guru Nanak Institute of Technology - Kolkata
Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Bachelor of Technology

Electrical Engineering

SDMY College - Bihar
Bihar, India

12th BSEB

Science

St. Joseph's School - Bihar
Bihar, Bihar, India

10th CBSE

Science

Languages

English
Hindi

Skills

Automation Tools

Selenium, Playwright, RestAssured, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber.

Languages

Java, JavaScript, Node.js.

Databases

MySQL, Redis, MongoDB.

Test Tools

Postman, Charles Proxy, BrowserStack, LambdaTest.

Version Control

GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket.

DevOps & CI/CD

AWS, GCP, Jenkins.

Logging & Monitoring

Kibana, Elasticsearch, Grafana, New Relic.

Development Tools

IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Cursor AI.

AI Tools

GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini.

Project Management

Jira, Kiwi.