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NACHIKET KULKARNI

Mississauga,Ontario
NACHIKET KULKARNI

Summary

Skilled Automation Architect with demonstrated success as an individual contributor, team leader and project manager. Ready to leverage 13+ years of experience in new role with potential for long-term growth and advancement. Focused on training team members and completing full program reviews at all stages of development and testing lifecycle.

Overview

14
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

TD Bank
Toronto, CA

Quality Engineering Automation Lead
03.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Individual contributor and handling a team of 10 Quality Engineers for automation deliverables
  • Involved in Test Estimation, Planning, Defect Reporting and managing BDD KPIs for the project
  • Managing the E2E delivery of product, starting from Planning, attending refinement & grooming sessions, in-sprint automation to SIT & Pre-prod Testing for the Business Banking applications
  • Owning the Test Plan creation and showcasing to Business during the project lifecycle.
  • Supporting Production Releases to validate functionality on Production and providing support during warranty period of a project
  • Working hands-on for creating scripts for Desktop and Mobile applications using Selenium Java and Appium
  • Working on API Automation Testing using Karate API to build in-sprint automation suite
  • Co-ordination between Business Analyst, Product Owners, Developers and Quality Engineers
  • Maintaining & Supporting test cases on English & French version of the application
  • Managing the Jenkins pipeline for Daily and regression execution on Lower environment & Production
  • Responsible for maintaining code in Bitbucket and reviewing Pull Request from all team members to ensure there is a clean merge to master/release branch
  • Owning the script execution (Cross-Browser) during the DEV, SIT and Pre-Production cycles
  • Handling and conducting triage calls with partner teams when needed
  • Managing the Accessibility Automation during in-sprint testing.

JP Morgan Services India Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai, MH

Vice President
06.2015 - 03.2022

Job overview

  • Individual contributor and handling a team of 5 for automation deliverables
  • Experience in Investment Banking Domain
  • Experience with Business Process Automation for PROD environment and have reduced the manual over-head of 14 days for a process to just 1 day
  • Design and Implementation of the Automation Test Framework
  • Involved in Test Estimation, Planning & Reporting
  • Part of the Framework Core Team which builds end to end test solutions for Developers, QAs & BAs
  • Built JavaScript based automation framework for Web Applications using Selenium WebdriverJS
  • Built C# based automation framework for WPF, STD Windows & Web Application using LeanFT 14.02
  • Hands-on experience in scripting languages like JavaScript (NodeJS), VB Scripting, C# Scripting
  • Worked on analyzing and writing Cucumber/Specflow specifications for automation testing
  • Hands-on experience on automation tools like Selenium-Webdriver JS, QTP, UFT, LeanFT with C#
  • Working on automation of APIs using JavaScript
  • Extensive knowledge of API Automation Testing using Karate API Testing Tool
  • Created Visual Based Automation framework with Lean FT which is used for applications which do not expose objects [Automated Bloomberg application using this approach]
  • Working in an Agile environment and also worked as a Scrum Master for the team
  • Experience on Automation of Web Accessibility Testing with Selenium Webdriver JS
  • Setting up Selenium Grid Infrastructure for the automation execution
  • Experience on setting up CI/CD with Jenkins for internal runs along with Jenkins's pipeline
  • Basic exposure on Protractor, Cypress, Playwright - completed successful POCs
  • Good Experience with Git Bash, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Confluence, JIRA board for tracking issues and stories
  • Experience in managing Docker containers on VSI machines, setting up containers for API test execution
  • Worked on building API services for S3 storage
  • Good understanding of Swagger/Open API specification for automation - Developed an automated solution to automatically create API test cases in Gherkin format from the Swagger specification.

TATA Consultancy Services
Mumbai, MH

Business Process Lead
07.2014 - 06.2015

Job overview

  • Worked as a lead for a team size of 4 along with individual contributions for project
  • Worked on HP QTP with VB Scripting Automation to automate the manual scenarios for CITI Bank project
  • Managing client calls on daily basis and submitting reports for the progress and plan to the client at regular intervals
  • Supporting bi-weekly releases and tracking issues and reporting it to the ADs.

Travelex India Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai, MH

Test Analyst
03.2013 - 07.2014

Job overview

  • Worked with off-site teams to complete timely tests and facilitate smooth product releases
  • Produced test scripts for automated testing for new applications
  • Consulted with product owners, manual testers, BA and developers to fully understand intended features and functionality
  • Worked on Test Complete using VB Scripting to design and implement automation testing.

Arctern Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai, MH

Junior Quality Analyst
10.2010 - 03.2013

Job overview

  • Worked as an Automation QA to mainly focus on minimizing the efforts on manual testing and automate the regression test pack
  • Worked with Visual Studio Team System with Coded UI Test using C# language
  • Reported issues on Bugzilla found during the release testing
  • Involved with BA/QA to understand the flow of application.

Education

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Science: Information Technology
07.2010

Skills

  • Test Automation Framework Architect/Design and Implementation
  • Automation Script development using JavaScript, VB Script, C# Script, Java
  • Tool sets: Selenium, Lean FT, QTP, UFT, Test Complete, Test Left
  • API Testing: Karate, Rest Assured
  • BDD: Cucumber & SpecFlow
  • Git
  • Business Process Automation, Web, Windows Automation
  • Defect Tracking Tool: Quality Centre, Empirix, QA Complete, JIRA, JTMF
  • API Automation Testing using JavaScript modules (node-fetch)
  • Basic Knowledge on JMeter
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Teamcity, Jenkins - Pipeline
  • Test Execution: Selenium Grid, Nautilus
  • Mobile Testing: Appium
  • Web Accessibility Automation Testing with aXe WebdriverJS
  • Test planning
  • Cross Browser Testing
  • Open Fin Automation Testing
  • Email Automation with Outlook
  • Automation process design
  • Docker, Amazon s3
  • Kubernetes (Basic Understanding & setup)
  • IDE: Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Eclipse
  • Domains Worked on: Investment Banking, Business Banking, Foreign Exchange, Procurement
  • Safe Agilist

Certification

  • ISTQB Foundation Level Certified
  • Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
  • Software Development Engineer in Test

Accomplishments

  • League of Excellence Award Winner in TD Bank for FY 2023
  • Received Appreciation for Acting as an Owner while leading a project within first quarter of joining the firm
  • Received Quarterly Achievement for driving project E2E till the Production Deployment.
  • Provided class-room training to automation testers on HP Lean FT Basic Usage
  • Trained a team of 14 automation testers for API Testing using Karate API Tool
  • Minimized the manual over-head for the operations team to download 300 files from different systems on daily, weekly and monthly basis
  • Minimized the 14-day manual effort of client on-boarding by automating it and reducing the time taken by 90%
  • Delivered "One Test" script which handles the execution of test on all browsers [Chrome, Firefox & IE] and on Open-fin containers
  • Spot Award for Best Performer
  • Created a basic SharePoint Site for the entire Testing COE to manage all the events, projects, deliverables at one place
  • Part of a engineering team to receive a patent for API Testing which auto-generates API test cases from Swagger specification

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 12/08/89
  • Nationality: Canadian

Timeline

Quality Engineering Automation Lead

TD Bank
03.2022 - Current

Vice President

JP Morgan Services India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2015 - 03.2022

Business Process Lead

TATA Consultancy Services
07.2014 - 06.2015

Test Analyst

Travelex India Pvt. Ltd.
03.2013 - 07.2014

Junior Quality Analyst

Arctern Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
10.2010 - 03.2013

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Science: Information Technology

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