Hello! I'm Gagandeep Datt, a Senior Test Analyst with 9 years of hands-on experience in manual and functional testing across the software development life cycle. I specialize in test planning, estimation, test case design, execution, and defect reporting, with a strong focus on functional, UI, API, database, and regression testing. I also bring mobile automation experience using the Appium framework and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments. Beyond testing, I thrive in cross-functional collaboration with product owners, developers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust test coverage and high-quality releases. I am adept at risk-based testing, creating traceability matrices, and mentoring peers in best practices for test documentation, automation, and quality metrics.

Gagandeep Datt

Hello! I'm Gagandeep Datt, a Senior Test Analyst with 9 years of hands-on experience in manual and functional testing across the software development life cycle. I specialize in test planning, estimation, test case design, execution, and defect reporting, with a strong focus on functional, UI, API, database, and regression testing. I also bring mobile automation experience using the Appium framework and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments. Beyond testing, I thrive in cross-functional collaboration with product owners, developers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust test coverage and high-quality releases. I am adept at risk-based testing, creating traceability matrices, and mentoring peers in best practices for test documentation, automation, and quality metrics.

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Hello! I’m Gagandeep Datt, a Senior Test Analyst with 9 years of hands-on experience in manual and functional testing across the software development life cycle. I specialize in test planning, estimation, test case design, execution, and defect reporting, with a strong focus on functional, UI, API, database, and regression testing. I also bring mobile automation experience using the Appium framework and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.

Beyond testing, I thrive in cross-functional collaboration with product owners, developers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust test coverage and high-quality releases. I am adept at risk-based testing, creating traceability matrices, and mentoring peers in best practices for test documentation, automation, and quality metrics.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Career Break
May 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024
Career break between roles for personal development and rest.
Test Analyst at Ralph Lauren, UK (Contract position)
June 1, 2014 - November 30, 2014
Executed POS functional testing covering sales and invoicing, returns, gift cards, discounts, back office, employee / customer information and inventory management. Performed integration testing with PDQ devices, tablet apps, and Relate CRM. Prepared test scripts and test data for enhanced customer data capture. Defect logging, reporting and fix validation.
Senior Test Analyst at Oval Money, UK
May 1, 2015 - April 30, 2023
Led front-end testing for the Oval Money Trader Pro platform (website and mobile apps), including requirement analysis, test effort estimation, test planning, automated scripting, defect tracking, and status reporting. Implemented Appium-based mobile automation for Android and expanded automated test coverage. Led exploratory, regression, and UAT testing and contributed to knowledge repository creation for the team.
QA Engineer / Scrum Master at Flextrade Systems, UK
February 24, 2024 - April 25, 2025
Overseeing testing of Fixhub (website and API), a message routing system for FlexTrade trading platform. Directed end-to-end testing strategy, test planning and execution, regression and UAT testing, and risk-based testing. Managed defects in JIRA, facilitated Agile ceremonies, and ensured release readiness and product quality across multiple streams. Mentored QA team members and promoted best practices in test documentation and defect reporting.
QA Engineer / Scrum Master at Flextrade Systems
February 1, 2024 - April 1, 2025
Overseeing testing of Fixhub (website and API), a message routing system that supports the FlexTrade trading platform, connecting clients to financial networks through a network of message routers. Led end-to-end testing strategy for multiple web and mobile projects, including system integration, regression, and UAT; owned test planning and execution with comprehensive test plans, test cases, and traceability matrices; directed defect management, collaborating with cross-functional teams; championed risk-based testing and quality reporting; facilitated Agile ceremonies; enhanced release stability through exploratory, regression, and UAT testing; mentored QA team members.
Senior Test Analyst at Oval Money
May 1, 2015 - April 1, 2023
Responsible for front-end testing of the Oval Money Trader Pro platform website and mobile apps (iOS and Android) in the finance domain. Conducted requirement analysis, test estimation, planning, automated scripting, execution, defect tracking, and SDLC status reporting. Extended automated coverage with Appium for Android apps and Java-based scripting; collaborated with product owners and developers; performed API testing with Postman and database validation via SQL queries; contributed to setting up Appium automation framework; led knowledge repository creation in Jira/Confluence; performed exploratory testing on mobile platforms to validate user flows and edge cases.
Test Analyst at Ralph Lauren
June 1, 2014 - November 1, 2014
Tested Micros Store POS and Micros Relate CRM upgrade across European stores. Conducted POS functional testing of sales, invoicing, returns, gift cards, discounts, back office, employee/customer information, and inventory management; performed integration testing with PDQ devices, tablet apps, and Relate CRM; prepared test scripts and data; logged defects and performed fix validation.

Education

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Qualifications

Master of Computer Application (M.C.A)
January 11, 2030 - April 28, 2026
Bachelor of Computer Applications (B.C.A)
January 11, 2030 - April 28, 2026
Trained in Apache JMeter for non-functional and performance testing
July 1, 2025 - April 28, 2026
Trained in Appium to automate mobile test cases
May 1, 2020 - April 28, 2026
Trained in Selenium (IDE, Web Driver) test automation tool
December 1, 2019 - April 28, 2026
IZ0-007 Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL
January 1, 2012 - April 28, 2026
ISTQB- Foundations of Software Testing
February 1, 2011 - April 28, 2026
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A)
January 11, 2030 - May 11, 2026
Bachelor of Computer Applications (B.C.A)
January 11, 2030 - May 11, 2026
Trained in Apache JMeter for non-functional and performance testing
July 1, 2025 - May 11, 2026
Trained in Appium to automate mobile test cases
May 1, 2020 - May 11, 2026
Trained in Selenium (IDE, Web Driver) test automation tool
December 1, 2019 - May 11, 2026
ISTQB- Foundations of Software Testing
February 1, 2011 - May 11, 2026
IZ0-007 Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL
January 1, 2012 - May 11, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Retail, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Other