Gokulakrishnan Andavar

Overall 13+ years of experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and implementation phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile Projects. Extensive work experience in Software Automation Testing Robust experience in Web-based, DevOps, GUI, Desktop, Web Services and Mobile applications testing. Extensive experience in Automation Testing Tools using, Selenium Web Driver (Java), Cucumber BDD Java with Sauce Lab, Microservices, Quick Test Professional (QTP)/Unified Functional Testing (UFT), LISA, Rest API, Ruby Watir, Ruby Mechanize, Sikuli (Image Based automation- Jython), JMeter, Postman and Auto IT. Expertise in leading team for maintenance and development engagements. Excellent Communication, analytical skills and a Good Team Player with problem-solving capabilities and worked on Multi Large Scale Projects. Part of different testing methodologies like Waterfall and Agile methodology. Excellent Knowledge and Hands on experience: Smoke, Functional, System Testing, and Regression Testing. Proficient in Automation, Manual, Database and Service Testing. Expertise in parsing/loading the JSON & XML data files into database. Good domain knowledge in Banking and Information Media & Entertainment. Depth knowledge on Software development lifecycle (SDLC), Testing Lifecycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle and Test processes. Specialized in development of Test Plans, Test Procedures, writing Test Scenarios, Test Cases from the Scrap / Use cases & Functional specification and generating Test scripts. Excellent Knowledge and Hands on experience: Smoke, Functional, System Testing, and Regression Testing. Experience in User Acceptance / Software Testing Life cycle (STLC) starting from creating test plans, test cases to performing different types of testing, test execution (validation from prediction to actual results) / validation, defect tracking, implementation plans and production support. Good experience on like Test Management tools Rally, JIRA, Quality Center (QC) / Application Life Cycle Management (ALM). Extensive experience in Bug tracking and reporting. Expertise in GUI testing, Functionality testing, System testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, Front end testing, Back end testing and Regression testing and Web based applications. Experience in Testing Mobile Application using Appium during POC.

• Dot NET Framework fundamentals- Certificate- 2011
• Java- Certificate- 2014
• Selenium + cucumber- Certificate- 2015
• Agile Scrum and scaled Agile- Certificate- 2019

• Received Best performer Award for my performance in various Lexis Nexis Automation projects.
• Received “Brovo Bronze and Associate of the Quarter” for my performance in various Lexis
  Nexis Automation projects.
• Been successful in effectively communicating my ideas with the team and also contributed in
  improving the quality of deliverables for the project
• Handled Quality Center and Cognizant 2.0 activities
• Handled QTP , Selenium Junit/TestNG and Cucumber Framework training to various project teams
• Have successfully explored Watir tool and worked in a critical project and made on time delivery
  which is very well appreciated by the Project Management.
• Have successfully explored selenium tool and worked in a critical project and made on time delivery which is very well appreciated by the Project Management.
• Flexible and versatile to adopt any new environment and work on any projects.
• Collaborated with team of 3 in the development of AMEX Reusable automation Framework in UK.
• Collaborated with team of 2 in the development of freddie mac automation framework

• Automation Centre of Excellence(ACoE)

ESHC - Managed Services QA, 02/2021 - Till Date, USA & Canada,

Express Scripts provides integrated pharmacy benefit management services including network-pharmacy claims processing; home delivery pharmacy services; specialty pharmacy benefit management, through its subsidiary Accredo.Refill Transfer Manager and Care central is a development and maintenance project come under Express Scripts project portfolio focused on building the data repository from scratch to create a repository for the applications, technologies, scanning tools & Vulnerability management handling by Express scripts.

Freddie Mac- Pricing, 04/2017 - 02/2021, USA,

Freddie Mac makes homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable. Operating in the secondary mortgage market, we keep mortgage capital flowing by purchasing mortgage loans from lenders so they in turn can provide more loans to qualified borrowers. Our mission to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability to the U.S. housing market in all economic conditions extends to all communities from coast to coast.

AMERICAN EXPRESS US, UK- Senior Automation QA Engineer, 09/2015 - 04/2017, United States, United Kington,

Payments allow merchants to see their paid transactions, Submissions and settlements). Merchant Interactive payments global application are available in all the markets (US/CA, LAC, APA and EMEA).

Lexis Nexis- Automation Test Engineer, 11/2010 - 09/2015, India,

Lexis Nexis integration with inbuild application in Law, legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic