Chandan Kumar
Bengaluru
Summary
Accomplished IT professional with 17+ years of onsite/offshore experience in Agile methodologies, automation architecture, and cloud technologies. Skilled in leveraging Gen AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to enhance test coverage, improve efficiency, and accelerate time-to-market. Expertise in DevOps pipeline creation, automation architecture, and managing Azure/GIT repositories. Certified in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Accessibility (CPACC), ensuring compliance with organizational policy guidelines.
Proven track record of leading global teams, managing complex projects, and optimizing testing frameworks for multi-module web applications. Adept at delivering high-quality customer experiences, maintaining SLAs, and driving continuous improvement. Strong background in accessibility and analytics test automation with seamless framework integration.
Recognized for exceptional problem-solving, collaboration, and leadership skills. Experienced in resource management, risk mitigation, and technical documentation. Passionate about innovation, process optimization, and aligning technology solutions with business objectives.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Associate QA
01.2022
Senior Associate QA
L1
01.2014
Sapient Consulting Pvt. Ltd
01.2011
CJ1- GAQ
08.2021 - Current
- DEV, local, Staging, UAT (uat1, uat2, uat3) & Prod (Sanity)
- Tools/Technology : Java, Selenium, TestNG, BDD, Rest Assured, Postman, Zephyr, Confluence, Splunk, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Swagger, SonarQube, Mural, Browserstack, Selenium Grid, GitHub Co-pilot, ChatGPT
Advisor
Goldman Sachs
10.2017 - Current
- Team Size : 25
- Projects : Portfolio 1, /Technology : JAVA, IntelliJ REST API, Swagger
Test Analyst
Goldman Sachs, Bain
04.2014 - 08.2017
- The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
- Is leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals
- Responsibilities:
- Gathering requirement from stakeholders
- Creating:
- Automation Test Approach: JSON based REST manual API test scenario/scripts in swagger and excels
- Automation framework using maven, Gradle and implement the framework for Front, back and middle office systems
- Leading Test execution of JSON based REST API test scripts using swagger and Postman
- Automating REST API’s using JAVA using IntelliJ
- Controlling regression sign-off for a release
- Setting up the test data to be used for automation execution and for integration testing
- Developing Automation scripts in JAVA for REST API end points and pushing the code to GIT system & building using Jenkins
- Executing the manual/automation script in Integration, QA, Beta UAT, Pilot UAT environments
- Analyzing the failures and check the putty/Splunk logs
- Providing QA sign off at the end of Test execution
- Logging issues in JIRA
- Participating in daily team meetings and client calls, Bain Capital QA Centralization
- Client, Capital
- Team Size : 15
- Projects : WorkDay, Taleo, Investran, Private Equity, Investment Finance, Sankaty, SharePoint, Box, BlueCoat, Environment : QA, UAT & Prod
- Tools/Technology : .NET, CRM, Investran, SharePoint, Excel VBA, QTP, ALM, BOX, Cognos
- Description:
- This project is all about the Bain QA Centralization where every team member works with all the BU’s stakeholder and gather requirement information and they start work from planning phase, design and implementation and get the work validated on QA, UAT and Prod
- While working with all the BU’s work multiple vendor products are being used across all the projects and a brief are listed in the Roles and responsibility section
- Responsibilities:
- Private Equity:
- Designed and implemented the Automation framework
- Automated POC and demo to stakeholders and Project team
- Integrated the Automation scripts with multiple applications (Web application, Cognos Reports and validate the run time XML at the back-end system)
- Monthly meeting with Project team
- Investment Finance:
- Helped project team who ran multiple finance applications (COLT, InvestNet, RDS, CAS, Document & Task Management, and CRS) in an iteration which runs throughout the year but on quarterly basis
- Understood the business and reduced the manual testing work through Automation scripts
- Sankaty:
- Designed and developed Automation Framework in such a way that it will help in validating thousands of BU’s Invetran reports during Investran version upgrade
- Developed excel macro utility to compare Unpatched & patched version of reports
- Ran the Automation scripts through scheduling which ran over weekends and analyzed the reports and sent the overall analyzed reports to Business teams
- Brookside:
- Designed and developed Automation framework for Cognos Reports generation
- Validated the base reports on every new build which in turn certifies the referenced reports
- QA centralized Core team:
- Designed, developed and implemented the Automation framework for all the projects across all BU’s listed above
- Integrated the automation framework with Octopus Build deployment tool in such a way that when build completes then automated smoke scripts should trigger and Build Pass or Fail email should be trigger to Dev team notifying Build success/Failure
- QC migration on Dev and Prod environment from time to time to keep latest version
- UFT/QTP Automation license server installation, Configuration and management throughout the Organization
- Box Automation: Creating Box regression automation suite to validate any new patch release doesn’t affect the organization customized code
- Workday, HRMS & Comp summary testing: test the new enhancements or same scenario every year twice just before appraisal cycle to make sure product is working fine and are ready to be used by HR and finance team
- Worked across geography: helping offshore QA team members in case of any technical or environmental issues
- UAT validation and giving sign-off of some vendor’s work to certify that they have delivered the work as per SOW
- SharePoint cloud migration testing: validation of content and security group and its member and compare in old and new site and give sign-off before moving to Prod release
- Shared knowledge within onshore and offshore team
- Managed UFT and ALM license server; offshore and onshore team members
- Created Test cases for UAT users; Test Plan, Automation Approach and Overall execution summary document
- Tested the applications with various Browsers (IE11, Chrome & Firefox latest version, Safari on Mac Laptop and devices (IPhone, Android phone and iPad)
- Daily sync up with clients and stakeholders
Associate QA
L2
01.2011 - 12.2013
QE Manager
DHL
01.2012 - 03.2013
- International GmbH is an international courier, package delivery and express mail service
- As a part of this there are customer journey where two tracks CJ1 and Cj2 which involves customer end to end journey for path to purchase
- Responsibilities:
- Gathering requirement from stakeholders
- Creating:
- Creating QE Roadmap and strategy in Confluence and review with stakeholders
- Milestone document, Epic/Story/sub-tasks for QA/QE team
- Automation framework using Java, BDD, Selenium, TestNG, rest Assured, Azure, Bitbucket
- Maintaining automation documentation in confluence
- Non-Functional Test automation framework (Accessibility & Security)
- KPI development for stakeholder
- Creating and developing analytics automation features
- Developing architecture for Zephyr integration with framework
- Estimation for new project for QA/QE engagement
- Managing:
- Git repo and azure pipelines for automation tracks
- Team members and assigning tasks
- Time to market from automation execution speed perspective and by reducing overall run time
- Clients, stakeholders across automation tracks
- Research & Implementation:
- Exploring GenAI at organization level activity
- Making POC successful and presenting within team
- Increased efficiencies by leveraging GenAI tools
- Automating REST API’s using Java framework
- Splunk log analysis for 3rd party API integration
- Controlling regression sign-off for every 2 weeks sprint
- Setting up the test data to be used for automation execution in staging
- Analyzing the failures and check the Splunk logs
- Providing Automation sign off at the end of Test execution
- Logging issues in JIRA and defect triage during sprint cycle
- Participating in daily/weekly team meetings and client calls
- Managing the QA & QE team across the geography
- Collaboratively working with multiple accounts/projects/tracks., SSIS, SSRS
- Tools/Technology : SOAP UI- 4.5.1, QTP 10.0, Gpg4win, 7Z, JIRA, .NET
- Description:
- ED will allow ABS originators to submit loan-level data electronically
- The loan-level data will be checked for compliance with specific ECB reporting templates as well as for consistency and timeliness
- This loan-level data will be made available to market participants to increase transparency of existing and future ABS transactions
- Typically, the following market participants are expected to provide data to and/or access ED system:
- Data Owners will register the ‘deals’ within ED and receive a Globally Unique Transaction Id referred as ED Code
- ED Code will remain constant throughout the life cycle of the deal
- As part of ED Code generation a Data Owner is also expected to ‘nominate’ a Data Provider for a deal
- Data Providers will upload loan performance data on a periodic basis against deals for which they are nominated as Providers by the Data Owner
- Data Users will decide whether to invest in ABSs by analysing the underlying loan performance data by searching and downloading deals from ED
- Additionally, the loan level information would be equally valuable to the Rating Agencies while ratifying the securities
- Responsibilities:
- Wrote High level scenario & identified Test cases; Test cases for File Upload and Search Deal for RMB and SME asset class
- Mapped, identified test cases and with traceability matrix
- Logged the defect in JIRA as per defect life cycle structure
- Created Users, Organization and assigned roles to the users in AD (Active directory)
- Executed Automation scripts for API from SOAP UI tool
- Performed Utility Testing (Window based client app which directly uploads the RMBS, SME and BOE file upload (directly from Excel)
- Project, : Markit
- Client : Markit
- Team Size : 35
- Project : Markit
Aditi Technologies Pvt. Ltd
10.2007 - 01.2010
Development Engineer
04.2008 - 09.2009
Associate Engineer
10.2007 - 03.2008
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Telecommunication Engineering
BNM Institute of Technology
01.2007
Skills
- Automation Architecture
- JAVA
- Selenium
- BDD
- Healthcare
- Finance
- Jira
- Rally
- Mongo DB
- Cosmos DB
- GIT
- Maven
- Jenkins
- Decision-making
- Time management
- Problem-solving
- Goal setting
- Relationship building
- Product knowledge
- Solution-oriented approach
- Accessibility
Certification
- IAAP Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Microsoft Azure AZ-900
- QTP [HP0-M16]
- ISTQB (Foundation Level)
Languages
English
Hindi
It Skills
JAVA, Selenium, BDD, Finance, CRM, Healthcare, Regulatory Reporting, Jira, Rally, Mongo DB, MS SQL Server, Cosmos DB, GIT, Maven, Octopus, Jenkins, Azure, GitHub Co-pilot
Personal Information
- Bengaluru
- Overseas
- Industry Preference: IT
- Passport Number: Y1191662
- Date of Birth: 02/18/81
Timeline
Senior Associate QA
01.2022
CJ1- GAQ
08.2021 - Current
Advisor
Goldman Sachs
10.2017 - Current
Test Analyst
Goldman Sachs, Bain
04.2014 - 08.2017
Senior Associate QA
L1
01.2014
QE Manager
DHL
01.2012 - 03.2013
Sapient Consulting Pvt. Ltd
01.2011
Associate QA
L2
01.2011 - 12.2013
Development Engineer
04.2008 - 09.2009
Aditi Technologies Pvt. Ltd
10.2007 - 01.2010
Associate Engineer
10.2007 - 03.2008
Bachelor of Engineering - Telecommunication Engineering
BNM Institute of Technology
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