I am a dedicated IT professional with 15 years of experience, including 7 years focused on software testing as Automation Test Lead, SDET, and Test Automation Engineer, and 8 years building software as a Senior Java Developer. I have experience working directly with clients onsite in Belgium and Japan, including ING Belgium and Apple Yokohama. My strengths include delivering robust automation for web applications using Selenium WebDriver (Page Object Model) and Playwright, designing BDD frameworks with Cucumber, and automating REST APIs with REST Assured. I thrive in Agile environments, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and enjoy solving complex QA and development challenges.

Boopalan Gnanasekaran

I am a dedicated IT professional with 15 years of experience, including 7 years focused on software testing as Automation Test Lead, SDET, and Test Automation Engineer, and 8 years building software as a Senior Java Developer. I have experience working directly with clients onsite in Belgium and Japan, including ING Belgium and Apple Yokohama. My strengths include delivering robust automation for web applications using Selenium WebDriver (Page Object Model) and Playwright, designing BDD frameworks with Cucumber, and automating REST APIs with REST Assured. I thrive in Agile environments, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and enjoy solving complex QA and development challenges.

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I am a dedicated IT professional with 15 years of experience, including 7 years focused on software testing as Automation Test Lead, SDET, and Test Automation Engineer, and 8 years building software as a Senior Java Developer. I have experience working directly with clients onsite in Belgium and Japan, including ING Belgium and Apple Yokohama.

My strengths include delivering robust automation for web applications using Selenium WebDriver (Page Object Model) and Playwright, designing BDD frameworks with Cucumber, and automating REST APIs with REST Assured. I thrive in Agile environments, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and enjoy solving complex QA and development challenges.

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Language

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Work Experience

Automation Test Lead at ING Bank
January 1, 2015 - Present
Automation Test Lead handling a 3-member automation team, developing regression suite for DSP application. Analyzed UI/backend test scenarios, framed automation-friendly scenarios, and developed scripts with Playwright, Selenium, and Cucumber with Java; API automation with REST Assured and Cucumber. Executed regression for releases and reported issues to stakeholders; reviewed team code for framework compatibility and guided improvements.
Senior Automation Test Engineer / SDET at Rabobank, Chennai
June 1, 2022 - December 1, 2024
Automation of UI (Selenium, Cucumber BDD, TestNG) and API testing (REST Assured) for Spring BOC cloud-based application; maintained mocked backend stubs with RIT; performed cross-environment integration/regression testing and contributed to refining user stories and prod release QA support.
Test Lead – Onsite at Apple, Yokohama
May 1, 2019 - May 1, 2022
Test Lead for Siri Automation Testing. Led a 7-member onsite team; automated iOS/watchOS tests in Swift (XCode); developed device build deployment automation; contributed to framework validation and weekly status/sign-off reports to Cupertino; triaged defects by domain.
Java Developer at Aetna
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2018
IOC Web Development – Java development involving requirement analysis, design, coding, and unit testing; developed Spring MVC features, UI with HTML/CSS/JS, and Hibernate ORM; contributed to automation scripting using Selenium and JUnit.
Java Developer at Aetna
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Web Apps Dev Ops Migration – migrated Ant-based builds to Maven, integrated with GitHub, Nexus, and UDeploy; created Maven POMs and ensured automated builds and deployments.
Java Developer at Aetna
January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2016
JSF to Spring Conversion – migration project converting JSF to Spring framework in the view and controller layers; performed impact analysis, design, development, QA support, and timely delivery.
Java Developer at Aetna
February 1, 2011 - December 31, 2014
EBSARRT & Enterprise Billing Data Set Up – developed multiple components across all layers; implemented reconcile payment and payment allocation features; acted as a core contributor for issue analysis and onshore coordination.
Test Automation Lead at ING Bank
January 1, 2025 - Present
Leading a 3-member automation team to develop regression test suites for the DSP application; analyze test scenarios, frame automation-friendly scenarios, develop scripts with Playwright, Selenium, and Cucumber, and perform API testing with REST Assured; execute regression for releases and report issues to stakeholders.
Test Automation Engineer at Rabobank
June 1, 2022 - December 1, 2024
Sr Automation Test Engineer / SDET for Spring BOC cloud-based web application; automated UI with Selenium/Cucumber/TestNG; API testing with REST Assured; created/maintained mocked backend stubs with RIT; contributed to refinements and sprint planning; provided QA data support.
Test Lead at Apple
May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2022
Onsite test lead for Siri Automation Testing in Yokohama; managed a 7-member team; automated XCode tests for iOS and watchOS using Swift; built automation for build/download/install processes; generated framework validation artifacts; delivered weekly status and sign-off reports.
Senior Java Developer at Aetna
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2018
Involved in all phases of IOC Web Development; Spring MVC-based solutions; UI with HTML/CSS/JS; Hibernate; automation tests with Selenium and JUnit.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics at Anna University - Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2010
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics at Kongu Engineering College, Anna University, Perundurai
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2010

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment