I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer with over eight years of experience working in large enterprise environments, including major Canadian banks. I specialize in building and scaling automation frameworks that improve release speed, test coverage, and overall product quality. I have strong hands on experience with Selenium, Java, Cucumber, API testing, and CI CD pipelines. Throughout my career, I have led automation initiatives from scratch, reduced manual testing effort, and helped teams ship software faster with confidence. I enjoy mentoring junior engineers, improving QA processes, and working closely with developers and business teams to deliver reliable systems. I am known for being detail oriented, practical, and focused on real results rather than theory.

Baljinder Nohra

I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer with over eight years of experience working in large enterprise environments, including major Canadian banks. I specialize in building and scaling automation frameworks that improve release speed, test coverage, and overall product quality. I have strong hands on experience with Selenium, Java, Cucumber, API testing, and CI CD pipelines. Throughout my career, I have led automation initiatives from scratch, reduced manual testing effort, and helped teams ship software faster with confidence. I enjoy mentoring junior engineers, improving QA processes, and working closely with developers and business teams to deliver reliable systems. I am known for being detail oriented, practical, and focused on real results rather than theory.

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I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer with over eight years of experience working in large enterprise environments, including major Canadian banks. I specialize in building and scaling automation frameworks that improve release speed, test coverage, and overall product quality. I have strong hands on experience with Selenium, Java, Cucumber, API testing, and CI CD pipelines.

Throughout my career, I have led automation initiatives from scratch, reduced manual testing effort, and helped teams ship software faster with confidence. I enjoy mentoring junior engineers, improving QA processes, and working closely with developers and business teams to deliver reliable systems. I am known for being detail oriented, practical, and focused on real results rather than theory.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior QA Automation Engineer at Scotiabank, Toronto
January 1, 2022 - Present
Led automation integration into CI/CD pipeline, trained 6 junior QA engineers, reduced deployment times by 35% and increased deployment frequency by 15%. Automated 500+ test cases using Selenium & BDD; implemented API testing with Postman/Newman; data extraction framework saved over $50k.
Senior Automation Engineer at Wipro (Client: TD), Toronto
May 1, 2021 - December 1, 2021
Introduced JUnit and Cucumber BDD, improving defect detection by 25%. Executed 500 automated scripts; automated 85% of smoke/sanity tests with Cucumber, reducing manual testing by 50%. Strengthened version control usage (Git/Bitbucket) and created robust QA strategies.
Senior Automation Engineer at Scotiabank, Toronto
January 1, 2018 - April 1, 2021
Built automation framework from scratch with Selenium WebDriver & Cucumber, increasing test coverage by 50% and reducing manual testing time by 60%. Introduced Jenkins CI; automated post-deployment smoke tests, reducing manual efforts by 55%.
Automation Quality Analyst at IWD Technologies, Mississauga
August 1, 2016 - December 1, 2017
Led QA automation in Agile/Scrum; developed automated test scripts with Selenium WebDriver & TestNG, increasing test coverage by 55% and reducing manual testing by 50%.

Education

Diploma at Sheridan College, Brampton ON
January 11, 2030 - August 1, 2013

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services