HARDIK PATEL
Toronto,CANADA
Summary
Dynamic quality professional with extensive experience in quality assurance and process optimization, committed to enhancing product quality and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Recognized for exceptional collaboration skills and adaptability in fast-paced environments, effectively leveraging technical expertise and meticulous attention to detail. Prepared for senior quality roles with a robust focus on driving continuous improvement, problem-solving, and maintaining product integrity. Proficient in quality assurance methodologies, risk management, and navigating regulatory standards, alongside strong software development and automation programming skills in Java and Python to foster team collaboration and meet evolving project demands.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Quality Engineer (Test Lead) – FTE
TD Bank Group
Toronto
03.2025 - Current
- Led Save & Resume Easy Apply personal landing project test case design and planning ensured comprehensive testing covered. This new enhancement has projected reduce customer drop off by 14k in first year.
- Reduced cross team dependencies by 60% using virtualization of tool and dependencies with test data.
- Initiated self-serve asset development for Quality Engineering Test Data Management (TDM) to reduce manual effort for test data.
- Production support and manual testing and root cause analysis for incidents and post-incident reviews and documentation.
- REST assured API automation, UI Automation, JAVA Programming, SQL, Jenkins Pipeline, TMX(Threat Matrix).
- Provided knowledge transfer and training for new releases, including onboarding new team members and interns.
- Ensured comprehensive testing (SIT, PAT, Prod) and coordinated post-migration validation.
- Technologies: Java, Selenium, Cucumber, HTML, JavaScript, Jenkins, SQL, JTMF, Unix, Mainframe, ServiceNow.
Software Quality Engineer (Test Lead) – Contract (TD Bank Group)
FDM Group
Toronto
02.2023 - 02.2025
- Led L3 Production Support for the Easy Apply Team.
- Developed automated test scripts using Java and Python.
- Performed manual testing, UI and mobile automation, API Automation testing, and SQL database queries.
- Debugged and investigate production incidents, defects, collaborating with business and stakeholders.
- Supported deployment processes, created and maintained support documentation.
- Provided knowledge transfer and training for new releases, including onboarding new team members and interns.
- Ensured comprehensive testing (SIT, PAT, Prod) and coordinated post-migration validation.
- Documented and participated in post-incident reviews and root cause analysis.
- Technologies: Python, Java, Selenium, Cucumber, HTML, JavaScript, Unix, Mainframe, ServiceNow, Putty
IT Consultant (Software Developer)
FDM Group
Toronto
04.2022 - 02.2023
- Developed a Java-based web application, Virtual Voting System (VVS), using Spring Boot and Angular.
- Created REST APIs and integrated them with the frontend.
- Planned and executed BDD testing with Cucumber and Selenium.
- Conducted API testing with Postman and manual testing with XPath.
- Established a TDD environment using Junit and Mockito for a separate project in its early stages.
- Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Selenium, Cucumber, Junit, Mockito
Software Developer
Bluepixel Technologies
India
06.2018 - 07.2019
- Developed a Java-based ERP system for managing payroll, attendance, income, and expense reporting.
- Created front-end and back-end components, writing HQL queries for database interactions.
- Presented a demo of the application at the Techfest event at Gujarat Technological University.
- Technologies: HTML, CSS, Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript
Education
Post – Graduate Certificate - Information Technology Business Analysis
Conestoga College
Kitchener, Canada05-2021
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Information Technology Engineering
Gujarat Technological University
Ahmedabad, India05-2017
Skills
- Programming Language and OS
- Java
- Python
- C and C
- Linux, Windows, MacOS
- Testing
- Test Planning
- Selenium
- Cucumber
- REST Assured API Automation
- UI Automation
- TDD Mockito, JUnit
- Web Designing, Development, Framework
- HTML, CSS
- JavaScript
- Angular
- Maven Project, Springboot
- Project Management and Tools
- Agile Methodologies
- GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub
- Jira, JTMF, Confluence
- Excel, PowerPoint, Word Document
- Jenkins
- ServiceNow (Incident Management)
- Quality inspection techniques
- Engineering change management
- Corrective and preventive actions
- Control plan development
Accomplishments
- Improved SIT and UAT automation coverage by 80% through setting up jenkins pipeline to execute test suit continuously and automatically for achieving CI/CD.
- Implemented API automation integrated with UI to avoid data dependencies, which increased test efficiency by 55%.
- Achieved Additional 20% Automation coverage by introducing TDM Automation for Data Conditioning tasks.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Certification
- Licensed Oracle Certified AI Foundational Associate- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Valid till October 30th 2027
- SDET Java : Automation Testing
- Microsoft Certified : Azure Fundamentals
- SAP Certified : SAP HANA Query Optimization
Timeline
Senior Quality Engineer (Test Lead) – FTE
TD Bank Group
03.2025 - Current
Software Quality Engineer (Test Lead) – Contract (TD Bank Group)
FDM Group
02.2023 - 02.2025
IT Consultant (Software Developer)
FDM Group
04.2022 - 02.2023
Software Developer
Bluepixel Technologies
06.2018 - 07.2019
Post – Graduate Certificate - Information Technology Business Analysis
Conestoga College
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Information Technology Engineering
Gujarat Technological University