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Gobinda Roy

Bengaluru

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with proven expertise in automation frameworks and API testing tools. Achieved significant test coverage improvements and defect reduction at PayPal India through effective shift-left practices. Skilled in Kotlin, JavaScript, Java, and Python, with a strong focus on collaboration to enhance continuous integration and testing processes.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

PayPal India
Bangalore
09.2021 - Current
  • Managed quality assurance for PayPal's regulatory compliance projects, working with tight government deadlines and cross-functional teams - Compliance, Payment & Risk to meet federal requirements.
  • Built a comprehensive test suites for microservices and automation scripts, reducing manual testing time by 60%
  • Wrote complex SQL queries for transaction data validation across databases, preventing compliance issues before production
  • Collaborated with product, engineering, and compliance teams to establish testing standards that scaled with business growth and evolving regulatory requirements.
  • Built automated testing frameworks using Playwright for APIs/web and Espresso for Android, achieving 90% test coverage and reducing regression testing time by 60%.
  • Implemented shift-left testing practices with development teams, cutting post-production defects by 45% and manual testing effort by 70%.
  • Identified and resolved testing gaps that contributed to a 70% drop in customer service calls related to tax reporting errors and backup withholding problems. * Oversaw quality processes for KYC verification serving 40+ million users in India, helping protect over $130M in annual revenue while maintaining transaction approval rates above 70%.

Lead Quality Engineer

ITC InfoTech
11.2020 - 09.2021
  • Developed Java/TestNG automation framework from scratch and built Appium scripts for Android/iOS testing on real devices with Xcode setup and provisioning.
  • Integrated Sauce Labs cloud testing with framework using Sauce Labs API and designed CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins, Maven, Git, and shell scripts.
  • Built Azure DevOps pipelines for Android/iOS builds with automated QA smoke testing before release deployment.
  • Implemented continuous integration using Jenkins for automated builds/tests and performed SQL-based data validation during system testing

Associate QA Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solution
12.2012 - 11.2020

Spearheaded automation efforts in retail and hospitality industries for established chains.

Education

B. Tech - Electronics Engineering

Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College

CBSE 12 -

Indira Gandhi Memorial High School (Science)

Skills

  • Language: Kotlin, JavaScript, Java, Python
  • Test library: Espresso, Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium

Automation & AI-Enhanced Testing

Created new multiple agents using Claude code that work autonomously, save time during test preparation, and test execution phase by 20%

Contact

Email: gobinda.roy682@gmail.com

Contact: +91 987-495-3378

Address: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

PayPal India
09.2021 - Current

Lead Quality Engineer

ITC InfoTech
11.2020 - 09.2021

Associate QA Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solution
12.2012 - 11.2020

B. Tech - Electronics Engineering

Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College

CBSE 12 -

Indira Gandhi Memorial High School (Science)
Gobinda Roy