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Abhay Kumar

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Software Quality Assurance Lead Engineer with 10 years of experience, specializing in manual, API, and automation testing within agile and fast-paced delivery environments. Proven track record of leading QA strategy, execution, and delivery planning across industries such as E-Commerce, Telecom, and Banking, with deep domain expertise in SWIFT ISO20022, SEPA, cross-border/cross-currency payments, FXS, and payment origination.

Proven ability to ensure product quality and timely delivery in complex systems through strategic test planning, cross-functional collaboration, automation maintenance, and end-to-end delivery oversight

  • · Leading QA teams across web and mobile testing, ensuring high-quality, on-time deliveries in agile environments.
  • · Managing and contributing to automation testing using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG with hybrid framework implementation and Apache POI-based data integration.
  • · Overseeing test planning, tracking, and reporting via JIRA, HP ALM, and Rally.
  • · Strong understanding of Core Java for effective technical collaboration with dev teams.
  • · Proficient in SVN, Git, and Onestash for efficient script and codebase management.
  • · Well-versed in SDLC/STLC, guiding test case design using techniques like decision tables.
  • · Driving various black box testing types: Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, and Regression.
  • · Managing mobile testing initiatives, ensuring cross-device and OS compatibility.
  • · Familiar with JMeter for performance testing (load, stress, scalability).
  • · Skilled in writing dynamic XPath expressions for AJAX-based applications.
  • · Solid grasp of ATLC, actively involved in verification & validation practices.
  • · Facilitating Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, estimations, and defect triaging.
  • · Handling CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins, build deployments.
  • · Ensuring end-to-end quality by leading QA efforts from planning through to final delivery.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Lead

Ferns N Petals (FNP) – Global Gifting Platform
Gurgaon
11.2023 - Current

Project: Fnp.com front end, backend & apps.

November 2023 to Current

Tools: BDD Framework using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG, Apache POI, OneStash, Maven, Jenkins, Jira, QA Complete, Oracle 11g.

Brief: FNP (Ferns N Petals) is a leading, global gifting brand that offers a comprehensive range of products

for every special moment.

Role: Test Strategy and Planning, Team Leadership, Test Execution Oversight, Defect Management Automation and Efficiency, Reporting and Communication, Release Management, and Cross-Functional Collaboration; also Build Deployment, Server Integration, Test Result Verification, and Identify Scenarios and Business Flows Feasible for Automation. Design and develop business and scripted components using the BDD framework.

QA Lead

FIS Global
Gurgaon
12.2021 - 11.2023

Bank Mandiri (Indonesia), JP Morgan, Citi Bank – Cross-Border Payments & ISO20022 Migration

Tools: Jira,Spira, Oracle 11g, Excel, SQL, SWIFTNet, Payment Testing Tools.

Brief: FIS Global is a leading fintech company delivering banking, payments, and capital markets solutions worldwide.

Rolse: Worked on cross-border payment projects involving SWIFT, SEPA, FX, and COV, focusing on ISO20022 migration to ensure smooth clearing and settlement flows and compliance with industry standards.

Role: Managed legacy MT file and MT to MX transformation and validation for clearing and settlement flows. Demonstrated strong expertise in ISO20022 messages (pacs.008, pacs.009, camt.056, pacs.004, camt.029, camt.053, pain.001) and MT–MX mapping. Performed end-to-end testing, accounting entry validation (debit/credit), nostro/vostro reconciliation, and exception handling (returns, rejects, cancellations), ensuring compliance with CBPR+ guidelines. Executed SIT/UAT, defect analysis, and core banking integrations, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve SWIFT November 2025 mandate compliance.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Mastek
Gurgaon
02.2019 - 10.2021

VitaminShoppe (US) – E-commerce Platform

Tools: Jira, Oracle 11g.

September 2020 to October 2021

Brief: At VitaminShoppe.com, our VShoppe app, and in over 780 stores across the country, you'll find a huge assortment of high-quality, cutting-edge supplements, proteins, healthy weight support, aromatherapy, herbs, superfoods, natural beauty products, and more. We're always exploring fresh ways to bring you the latest trends, healthy living solutions, and trusted expertise in our in-store health.

Role: Tasks included manual testing, and production support. It involved manual testing activities like devising test plans and strategies, writing test cases using the BDD approach, regression testing, exploratory testing, setting up the environment, and automation testing by creating scripts for test cases, executing scripts, recording, and communicating defects. Report progress and issue resolution status to management.

QA Test Engineer

IBM
Banglore
07.2018 - 01.2019

Client: ProQuest(US)

Project: Telecom.

July 2018 to January2019

Tools: BDD Framework using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG, Apache POI, OneStash, Maven, Jenkins, Jira, Sipra, QA Complete, Oracle 11g.

Brief: ProQuest is a single, web-based, integrated ordering platform that supports internal and external

customer access through VBC and Vec portals.

Role: Understand the flow of the application, analyze test cases, and identify scenarios and business flows that are feasible for automation. Design and develop business and scripted components using a hybrid framework.

QA Engineer

Tech Mahindra
Banglore, Singapore
08.2015 - 06.2018

ZALORA – E-commerce Platform
Client: ZALORA.

Project: E-commerce.

July 2016 to April 2018

Tools: BDD Framework using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG, Apache POI, OneStash, Maven, Jenkins, Jira, Sipra, QA Complete, Oracle 11g.

Brief: ZALORA is a web-based application, B2B. It provides an e-commerce portal for the end user. The website has over 30,000 products online, and hundreds of new products are added every week. Through this website, users can manage their store, with options for users of any age group to search for their relevant product order numbers and order through different modes of payment.

Role: Understand the flow of the application, analyze test cases, and identify scenarios and business flows feasible for automation. Design and develop business and scripted components using a hybrid framework.

Education

Bachelor of Technology: EEE -

Dr. MGR Educational & Research Institute
Chennai

Skills

Test Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver

Test Management Tool: HP ALM, QAC, and JIRA

Languages: Core Java, SQL, Basic

IDE: Eclipse

Database: Oracle 11g, ATG

Unit Testing Framework: TestNG, BDD

Other tools: Apache POI, Maven, SVN, Jenkins

Domain: E-Commerce, Telecom, and Banking

Timeline

QA Lead

Ferns N Petals (FNP) – Global Gifting Platform
11.2023 - Current

QA Lead

FIS Global
12.2021 - 11.2023

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Mastek
02.2019 - 10.2021

QA Test Engineer

IBM
07.2018 - 01.2019

QA Engineer

Tech Mahindra
08.2015 - 06.2018

Bachelor of Technology: EEE -

Dr. MGR Educational & Research Institute
Abhay Kumar