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Gaurav Samantaray

Gaurav Samantaray

Bengaluru,Karnataka

Summary

Seasoned Lead/Senior Quality Assurance professional with over 7 years of experience in Manual and Automation Testing. Specializes in BDD frameworks using Java, Cucumber, Rest Assured, Selenium, and TestNG. Skilled in API testing (Postman/Rest Assured) with a focus on JSON report and schema validation. Proficient in Agile/Scrum methodologies within Banking (Mortgage) and Taxation domains. Expertise includes analyzing functional requirements, creating test cases, scripts, and maintaining RTMs. Demonstrated proficiency in smoke, functional, regression, and UAT testing across UI (Java-Selenium) and API (Java-Selenium-Rest-Assured) frameworks. Adept at promoting effective collaboration with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to ensure high-quality application delivery through robust defect tracking and reporting mechanisms.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager-QA

Goods And Services Tax Network (GSTN)
07.2023 - Current
  • This is the application used by the businesses of India to interact with the taxation system. Interactions vary from registration of businesses to filing returns, taking refunds, filing appeals, etc.
  • Project: Goods And Services Tax
  • Duration: 2 Years

Manager-QA

National Institute for Smart Govt (NISG)
07.2022 - 06.2023
  • This is the application used by the businesses of India to interact with the taxation system. Interactions vary from registration of businesses to filing returns, taking refunds, filing appeals, etc.
  • Project: Goods And Services Tax
  • Duration: 11 Months

Software Test Analyst

Black Knight India Solution Pvt Ltd
07.2018 - 07.2022
  • This application helped the loan originators acquire the details regarding the borrowers, verify their details, record keeping, converting leads to loans, thereby easing the borrower verification and loan disbursal procedure.
  • Project: Empower LOS(Loan Sphere)
  • Duration: 4 Years 1 Month

Education

Master of Business Administration - Finance Management

D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
Pimpri, Pune
10.2024

B-TECH - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Mahavir Institute of Engineering And Technology
Bhubaneswar
08.2011

12th -

Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2
Bhubaneswar
04.2007

10th -

Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2
Bhubaneswar
03.2004

Skills

  • Testing Tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Behavior Driven Development, Rational Quality Manager, Jenkins, Postman, Cucumber, Selenium, TestNG
  • Defect Tracking Tools: Microsoft Team Manager, Team Foundation Server, Rational Quality Manager
  • Languages: Gherkin, Java
  • Web Technologies: HTML, XML, JSON
  • Development IDE’s: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Test Manager, POSTMAN, Eclipse, IntelliJ
  • Domain Knowledge: Mortgage and Banking & Finance, Taxation and Health Domain
  • Additional Responsibilities: Internal audit trainings, Quality testing, Continuous improvement, Specification review

Certification

  • International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) from Scrum Alliance

Accomplishments

  • “Pat on the Back” award in December 2015.
  • “Pat on the Back” award in April 2017.
  • “Rising Star” award in September 2019.
  • “Star Performer” award in January 2020 and April 2020.
  • Salutations from the Product Owner and President of BKFS in April 2022.

Timeline

Manager-QA

Goods And Services Tax Network (GSTN)
07.2023 - Current

Manager-QA

National Institute for Smart Govt (NISG)
07.2022 - 06.2023

Software Test Analyst

Black Knight India Solution Pvt Ltd
07.2018 - 07.2022

Master of Business Administration - Finance Management

D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth

B-TECH - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Mahavir Institute of Engineering And Technology

12th -

Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2

10th -

Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2
Gaurav Samantaray