Mahendra Janardan

Dedicated and disciplined professional seeking the position to contribute to the company's growth and in turn ensuring personal growth within the organization. Detail-oriented and experienced Automation Test Lead with a stellar record of corporate client satisfaction. Proven achievement in bringing projects to completion.

• Over 10+ years of Banking and IT industry experience in Payment Gateway, Web application and POS terminal application with a wide variety of projects and environments.
• Experience in Automation testing with expertise in tools: Selenium WebDriver with Java, API automation with Rest Assured, DevOps, Jenkins,CI-CD Pipeline,
• Implemented various types of Testing methodologies, Functional Testing with Xray JIRA, Micro Services and API Testing with Postman
• Define and implement test automation strategy including roadmap, tools, framework & approach, following SDLC/STLC lifecycle and managing release Management
• Actively works with development and infrastructure teams for integrating test automation as an integral part of CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and perform DevOps tasks. Initiated pipeline creation in Jenkins for automation of deployment and test suite.
• Designed both UI and API automation framework using Java.Experience in Data driven Testing
• Working knowledge on Payment Gateway, Acquiring Processor,Iso8583,Mastercard/Visa Simulator, Transaction life cycle.
• Performance Testing experience with Jmeter tool and Cryostat Monitoring
• Oversee the overall QA life cycle, from test planning, to implementation, execution, results reporting, test metrics and Automation ROI.
• Working knowledge on Handling Elements, Log4j, properties file. OOPs, Core java,Exception handling, Collections, Array, File Handling.
• Implemented BDD-Cucumber in Automation Project with Gherkin.
• Familiar with API status codes, API documentation with Swagger, documentation tags and templates, well versed with JSON request and response with response model. Expertise in designing POJO class for POST request and Response body.
• Proficient in devising all the artifacts of testing such as Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Defect Reports and Test Summary Report.
• Conducted training sessions on product for fresher and intermediate level engineers.
• Worked on preparing estimations, test folder structure for projects, and maintains daily and weekly status report and preparing RTM for test cases.

Appreciated by Product Owner with Best Performer

Software Testing Fundamentals

Verifone Acquiring Solutions

• Design framework for API and UI automation from scratch.
• Incorporated Testing process like Test Plan, Metrics, Report, and Estimation.
• Designed POJO class and models for API automation.
• Logging and Tracking of defects in JIRA.
• Ramping up the new team members in understanding the application and different
  requirements of project.
• Creating UI Automation scripts using Serenity BDD framework using Junit
• Performance testing of web services using Jmeter.
• Managing QA Team and Conducting Daily Scrum and Stand-up Activities.

Global Ecommerce Solutions

• Gathering requirements and writing the Acceptance Criteria and Use cases.
• Design framework for UI Automation from scratch using Selenium Web driver and Java
• Preparing API documentation with swagger and using tags/templates.
• Guide team members to perform UI and API automation.
• Review of test automation Scripts.
• Responsible for preparing Test Plan, Test Metrics and Estimation.

Rupay Paysecure 

• Understanding the Project Transaction Flow and Detailed Specification
• Understanding the integration between Acquirer(Payment Gateway)-PaySecure-Issuer
• Preparation of Test Cases based on Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Execution of Test Cases and Reporting Issues to Developing Team.(also Performed Out –of Box testing)
• Preparation of Checklist for Regression/Sanity Testing and Execution.
• Actively involved in Product related discussions
• Supporting Banks/Service provider on Technical queries/problems with Paysecure
• Supporting Production Team for issue resolution, Patch Movement and Monitoring
• Attending Daily status call with vendor for Project status update and Technical queries and Publishing MOM.
• Attending Project Discussions with Project Officer and Head’s and Business Team.

• Rupay Pos Certification
• Participated in test cases review and modifying the test cases accordingly.
• Test Execution and bug reporting for PoS applications.
• Participated in test cases review and modifying the test cases accordingly.
• Verification of the Pin@PoS Functionality as per RBI mandates.
• EMV Certifications which includes verification of the mandatory tags
• RTM Download i.e. Remote download of the application and parameter files includes full download, partial download and migration from respective servers
• Design and implement test cases in a rapid prototyping environment with minimal supervision. Co-ordinate with Client on a daily basis for various tasks of the project