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Kunal Shokeen

Kunal Shokeen

Delhi

Summary

Accomplished professional with 11 Years of expertise in automated testing technologies and methodologies. Strategic leader experienced in designing robust test frameworks and driving quality assurance initiatives. Skilled at architecting scalable automation solutions to enhance security and ensure product stability. Proven track record of leading teams, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices. Focused on innovating testing approaches to deliver exceptional product quality and efficiency in high-stakes environments.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead QA Engineer

Make my Trip
07.2022 - Current
  • Lead and manage a team of 6 QA engineers, including backend and frontend testers, ensuring high team performance and collaboration.
  • Develop and implement automation testing strategies for both backend and frontend applications, focusing on improving testing coverage and efficiency.
  • Conducted daily standup's, sprint planning, and retrospectives within an Agile environment.
  • Responsible for end to end product quality releases.
  • Working on Web,API and App automation.
  • Testing integrated microservices with CI/CD setup using docker.
  • Designed a cross platform Appium framework to run same test case on Android/IOS using polymorphism of @FindBy interface.
  • Handled BrowserStack integration, execution over real devices for Appium (Android/IOS).

Lead SDET

Dineout
03.2021 - 06.2022
  • Managed E2E delivery for DineOut App.
  • Spearheaded the transition from Appium to XCUITest for iOS UI automation, improving test stability, performance, and alignment with native iOS development practices.
  • Designed and implemented seamless integration between XCUITest and existing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring a smooth transition without disruption to the release cycles.
  • Refined and optimized the test automation framework by leveraging XCUITest’s native capabilities, enhancing reliability and reducing flaky tests compared to Appium-based scripts.
  • Led the effort to refactor over 300 existing Appium test scripts to XCUITest, ensuring minimal code duplication and leveraging platform-specific features such as XCTest for better performance.
  • Identified areas for further optimization in the new XCUITest framework, including parallel test execution and test data management, leading to continuous improvements in test automation efficiency.


Senior Associate QA

Publicis Sapient
06.2019 - 03.2021
  • Worked on web automation on Salesforce using Selenium
  • Developed a data driven framework to retrieve test data from JSON files using POJO and
  • Gson library
  • Integrated Adaptavist for JIRA cloud with Selenium using Rest API’s to push automation test execution results on JIRA test cycle
  • Implemented ReportPortal which is an AI powered test automation dashboard to acquire, aggregate and analyze test reports to ascertain release health
  • Used Selenium Grid for running multiple tests across different browsers, operating systems and machines
  • Created and executed test suites in parallel order using TestNG and viewing test suite reports.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Airtel
05.2018 - 05.2019
  • Implemented automation testing using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA and Maven
  • Developed a data driven framework to retrieve test data from JSON files using POJO and
  • Gson library
  • Used Selenium Grid for running multiple tests across different browsers, operating systems and machines
  • Created and executed test suites in parallel order using TestNG and viewing test suite reports.

Senior Engineer - QA

TO THE NEW
05.2016 - 05.2018
  • Worked on web automation using Katalon Studio automation tool.
  • Created automation test cases using Web recorder utility, manual and script mode in Katalon Studio
  • Integrated Katalon studio project with Git and Jenkins for continuous integration
  • Created custom keywords to expand built-in keywords and reuse them across different test cases
  • Worked on Rest API automation using Rest Assured Library, Java and TestNg
  • Validated Rest API responses including status code, headers and body
  • Defect reporting and Tracking using JIRA.

Software Engineer

Vinculum Solutions
06.2014 - 05.2016
  • Implemented automation testing using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA and Maven
  • Configured Maven for JAVA automation projects and developed Maven project object model (POM)
  • Implemented parallel execution of test suites on BrowserStack for multiple browsers using TestNg
  • Worked effectively with Developers, AGILE Team, Project Management to achieve Selenium automation, high quality, release deadlines and QA process improvements.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology

Higher Secondary -

Mount Abu Public School

Skills

  • Performance testing
  • Continuous integration
  • Test planning
  • Usability testing
  • Functional testing
  • Regression testing
  • User acceptance testing
  • Java programming
  • Process improvement strategies
  • Quality assurance expertise

Timeline

Lead QA Engineer

Make my Trip
07.2022 - Current

Lead SDET

Dineout
03.2021 - 06.2022

Senior Associate QA

Publicis Sapient
06.2019 - 03.2021

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Airtel
05.2018 - 05.2019

Senior Engineer - QA

TO THE NEW
05.2016 - 05.2018

Software Engineer

Vinculum Solutions
06.2014 - 05.2016

Higher Secondary -

Mount Abu Public School

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
Kunal Shokeen