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I am an ISTQB-certified Senior Test Engineer with 12 years of experience across banking and multinational consulting domains. I specialize in functional, integration, regression, API, and performance testing, with strong hands-on expertise in automation frameworks and industry best practices. I thrive on delivering high-quality, defect-free solutions within tight timelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure quality across the SDLC. I excel at identifying risks, ensuring compliance, and driving test coverage to meet business and technical requirements. I am analytical, detail-oriented, and skilled at clear, professional communication to stakeholders. I continuously seek opportunities to optimize testing processes and help teams ship reliable software.…I am an ISTQB-certified Senior Test Engineer with 12 years of experience across banking and multinational consulting domains. I specialize in functional, integration, regression, API, and performance testing, with strong hands-on expertise in automation frameworks and industry best practices. I thrive on delivering high-quality, defect-free solutions within tight timelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure quality across the SDLC. I excel at identifying risks, ensuring compliance, and driving test coverage to meet business and technical requirements. I am analytical, detail-oriented, and skilled at clear, professional communication to stakeholders. I continuously seek opportunities to optimize testing processes and help teams ship reliable software.

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I am an ISTQB-certified Senior Test Engineer with 12 years of experience across banking and multinational consulting domains. I specialize in functional, integration, regression, API, and performance testing, with strong hands-on expertise in automation frameworks and industry best practices. I thrive on delivering high-quality, defect-free solutions within tight timelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure quality across the SDLC. I excel at identifying risks, ensuring compliance, and driving test coverage to meet business and technical requirements. I am analytical, detail-oriented, and skilled at clear, professional communication to stakeholders. I continuously seek opportunities to optimize testing processes and help teams ship reliable software.…I am an ISTQB-certified Senior Test Engineer with 12 years of experience across banking and multinational consulting domains. I specialize in functional, integration, regression, API, and performance testing, with strong hands-on expertise in automation frameworks and industry best practices. I thrive on delivering high-quality, defect-free solutions within tight timelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure quality across the SDLC. I excel at identifying risks, ensuring compliance, and driving test coverage to meet business and technical requirements. I am analytical, detail-oriented, and skilled at clear, professional communication to stakeholders. I continuously seek opportunities to optimize testing processes and help teams ship reliable software.

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I am an ISTQB-certified Senior Test Engineer with 12 years of experience across banking and multinational consulting domains. I specialize in functional, integration, regression, API, and performance testing, with strong hands-on expertise in automation frameworks and industry best practices. I thrive on delivering high-quality, defect-free solutions within tight timelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure quality across the SDLC.

I excel at identifying risks, ensuring compliance, and driving test coverage to meet business and technical requirements. I am analytical, detail-oriented, and skilled at clear, professional communication to stakeholders. I continuously seek opportunities to optimize testing processes and help teams ship reliable software.

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Automation Test Engineer at SEIT LHV Bank, London

September 1, 2024 - Present

Designed and implemented test strategies and plans; built a custom automation framework using Playwright, Cucumber BDD, and TypeScript for UI and backend validation; built automated REST and gRPC backend tests; configured CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for smoke and regression tests; validated AWS-based gRPC service integrations; performed backend testing with Postman and integrated with CI; maintained Confluence documentation and JIRA defect tracking; collaborated with cross-functional teams; developed a Selenium-based BDD framework with Java and JUnit.

Automation Test Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group, London

August 31, 2024 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plans from user stories; defined functional automation strategy; designed and developed a BDD automation framework using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Java, and JUnit; built an end-to-end API test framework using REST Assured, Java, and JUnit; configured scheduled runs and data-driven tests for Postman API tests; involved in CI/CD using Jenkins; built UI and gRPC backend automation with Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript, and Mocha; created a performance framework with JMeter; authored Postman collections and integrated with Newman; managed code in GitHub; performed database testing (SQL, DB2, Oracle).

Test Lead at Oportun, London

April 30, 2020 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plans from user stories; defined automated testing strategy; implemented BDD automation with Cucumber BDD and JUnit; developed automation scripts in Java; built Cucumber BDD framework using JavaScript, Cucumber, Cypress; developed automation API tests using Cypress, Mocha, and JavaScript; configured scheduled data-driven tests for Postman; built performance tests with JMeter; created Postman collections for API testing and integrated with Newman; maintained GitHub repository; performed database testing with SQL, DB2, and Oracle.

Test Engineer at Standard Chartered Bank, London

September 30, 2019 - October 8, 2025

Prepared test plans from user stories; implemented BDD automation using Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript; implemented end-to-end tests using Selenium WebDriver, Java; developed Cucumber BDD framework with Cucumber, TestNG; built automation API framework using REST Assured, Java, and JUnit; configured tests for CI/CD; performed data-driven API testing and UI validations.

Test Engineer at HTC Global Services, India

July 31, 2019 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plan and manual test scenarios; implemented functional automation strategy; built BDD automation framework using Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript; developed Java automation scripts; built Cucumber BDD framework with Cucumber, TestNG; developed API automation using REST Assured, Java, and JavaScript; configured scheduled runs for Postman API tests; implemented performance testing with JMeter; maintained GitHub repository; performed DB testing (SQL, DB2, Oracle).

System Analyst at Atos, India

December 31, 2015 - October 8, 2025

Prepared test strategy and test plan documents; drafted manual test scenarios; developed automation test scripts in Java; built Cucumber BDD framework with Cucumber and TestNG; developed automation API framework using REST Assured, Java, and TestNG; configured scheduled runs and data-driven testing for Postman; built performance tests with JMeter; created Postman collections for API testing and integrated with Newman; maintained code in GitHub; executed regression suites in Jenkins.

Automation Test Engineer at SEIT LHV Bank

September 1, 2024 - Present

Designed and implemented comprehensive test strategies and structured test plans aligned with business and technical requirements. Built automated test coverage for REST and gRPC services; configured CI/CD pipelines; validated AWS-based gRPC services; performed backend testing; maintained documentation and test framework guidelines; collaborated with teams.

Automation Test Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group

August 31, 2024 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plans from user stories; implemented functional automation test strategy; designed and developed BDD automation framework using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Java and JUnit; constructed E2E API test framework using REST Assured, Java, and JUnit; configured CI/CD with Jenkins; developed UI and gRPC backend automation; performance testing with JMeter; API testing with Postman/Newman; database testing across SQL, DB2, and Oracle.

Test Lead at Oportun

April 30, 2020 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plan from user stories; implemented BDD automation; developed Cucumber BDD test frameworks; automation API test framework; performance testing and Postman/Newman integration; database testing across SQL, DB2, and Oracle.

Test Engineer at Standard Chartered Bank

September 30, 2019 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plan from user stories; implemented BDD automation using Playwright, TypeScript; E2E test framework using Selenium WebDriver, Java; Cucumber BDD with TestNG; API testing via REST Assured/JUnit; CI integration for API testing.

Test Engineer at HTC Global Services

July 31, 2019 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plan; implemented BDD automation using Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript; automation scripts in Java; Cucumber BDD using Cucumber/TestNG; REST API automation using REST Assured/Java; UI automation via Playwright; performance testing with JMeter.

System Analyst at Atos

December 31, 2015 - October 8, 2025

Prepared test strategy and test plan documents; manual test scenarios; automation scripts in Java; Cucumber BDD; REST Assured; JUnit; performance testing with JMeter; API testing via Postman/Newman; regression runs on Jenkins.

Automation Test Engineer at SEIT LHV Bank

September 1, 2024 - Present

Designed and implemented test strategies and structured test plans aligned with business and technical requirements. Built and maintained a custom automation framework from scratch using Playwright, Cucumber BDD, and TypeScript for UI and backend validation. Created automated coverage for REST and gRPC services, enabling robust backend testing alongside UI validations. Configured CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to run smoke tests on PRs and regression suites with tag-based executions. Validated AWS-based gRPC services by testing integrations with EventBridge, API Gateway, and CloudWatch logs. Performed backend testing using Postman with dynamic correlations and integrated them with GitHub Actions for automated execution. Maintained documentation and test framework guidelines in Confluence, and managed test planning, execution, and defect tracking in JIRA. Collaborated with developers, product owners, and business analysts to drive quality across the SDLC and ensure timely, defect-fre

Automation Test Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group

August 31, 2024 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plans from user stories. Defined functional automation strategy. Designed and developed BDD automation framework using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Java, and JUnit. Constructed E2E API test framework using REST Assured, Java, and JUnit. Configured scheduled runs and data-driven tests for Postman API tests. Involved in CI/CD process using Jenkins. Designed and developed UI and gRPC backend automation framework using Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript, and Mocha. Constructed automation framework for performance testing using JMeter. Created Postman collections for API testing and integrated with Newman. Maintained code in GitHub. Performed database testing on SQL, DB2, and Oracle.

Test Lead at Oportun

April 30, 2020 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plans from user stories. Equipped functional automation test strategy. Implemented BDD automation framework using Cucumber BDD and JUnit. Developed automation scripts using Java. Developed Cucumber BDD framework using JavaScript, Cucumber, Cypress. Developed automation API test framework using Cypress, Mocha, and JavaScript. Configured scheduled runs and data-driven tests for Postman API tests. Constructed automation framework for performance testing using JMeter. Created Postman collections for API testing and integrated with Newman. Maintained code in GitHub. Performed database testing on SQL, DB2, and Oracle. Constructed automation framework for performance testing using JMeter.

Test Engineer at Standard Chartered Bank

September 30, 2019 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plans from user stories. Equipped functional automation test strategy. Implemented BDD automation framework using Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript. Implemented E2E test framework using Selenium WebDriver, Java. Developed Cucumber BDD test framework using Cucumber, TestNG. Developed automation API test framework using REST Assured, Java, and JUnit. Configured scheduled runs and data-driven tests for Postman API tests.

Test Engineer at HTC Global Services

July 31, 2019 - October 8, 2025

Prepared well-structured Test Plans from user stories. Prepared manual test scenarios and test cases. Equipped functional automation test strategy. Implemented BDD automation framework using Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript. Developed automation test scripts using Java. Developed Cucumber BDD test framework using Cucumber, TestNG. Developed automation API test framework using REST Assured, Java, and Java. Configured scheduled runs and data-driven tests for Postman API tests. Developed Cucumber BDD framework using JavaScript, Cucumber, Cypress.

System Analyst at Atos

December 31, 2015 - October 8, 2025

Prepared test strategy and test plan documents. Prepared manual test scenarios and test cases. Developed automation test scripts using Java. Developed Cucumber BDD test framework using Cucumber, TestNG. Developed automation API test framework using REST Assured, Java, and Java. Configured scheduled runs and data-driven test approaches for Postman API tests. Constructed automation framework for performance testing using JMeter. Created Postman collections for API testing and integrated with Newman. Maintained code in GitHub. Ran regression suites on Jenkins CI/CD.