Nikhil Jaltare

Product: Enterprise Security with Seqrite
Technology and Tools Used: PyTest, Selenium with Python, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Shell Script, AWS, K8S, Docker

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Developed a robust automation test strategy tailored to the new product's requirements.
• Built a scalable automation framework using PyTest, Selenium, and other tools.
• Assembled and trained a skilled automation team, fostering a high-performing environment.
• Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous testing and rapid feedback.
• Achieved significant improvements in test coverage and defect detection, enhancing product quality.

Key Achievements:

• Achieved 90% reduction in total test execution time through parallel execution.
• Successfully defined and implemented a comprehensive test plan and automation strategy, resulting in establishing an automation framework and achieving test coverage from 0% to 80%.

Product: TIBCO Cloud API Management
Technology and Tools used: Selenium-Java, TestNG, Ant, Maven, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Splunk, Shell Script, AWS, Azure, GCP, K8S, Docker, Jmeter, Aurora, mysql

Roles and responsibilities

• Lead the automation testing team, delivering technical leadership in the design and architecture of a standardized automation framework adopted by all QA teams.
• Develop test automation strategies for Functional, Regression, and Performance Testing based on technical analysis, complexity, and reusability.
• Recommend and implement new tools and methodologies to enhance productivity and quality.
• Collaborate with product teams to align long-term solutions for the test automation roadmap, tools, framework, and approach.
• Evaluate and select test automation tools, ensuring best practices for alignment across different products and applications.

Key achievements

• Created an automation framework enabling product deployment verification across 10+ regions in a multi-zone cloud setup.
• Achieved 80% reduction in test execution time through parallelization, alongside a 30% increase in regression test coverage.

Project - Credit Workflow Tool
Client - HSBC
Domain - Credit and Lending
Technology and Tools used - HP UFT, HP ALM/QC, TOSCA, VBScript

Roles and responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4 members to create and maintain a standardized test automation framework for functional and regression testing.
• Evaluate and identify test automation and management tools, estimate test efforts, and create test schedules with assigned team members.
• Review and guide test automation created by Software Test Engineers, ensuring updates based on revised test cases.
• Schedule and execute test automation, consolidating and reporting test results to stakeholders.
• Collect and address requirement queries by guiding stakeholders to obtain appropriate resolutions.

Key achievements:

• Successfully created automation framework for Build Verification Test (BVT) which
  decreased build turnaround time for QA by 50%.
• Increased early detection of defects in lifecycle by 40%.

Project – Point of Sale (POS)
Client - FedEx
Domain - Retail and Logistics
Technology and Tools used - HP UFT, VBScript, HP ALM/QC, Postman, SoapUI, Unix

Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinate with clients and offshore teams to schedule project testing, providing regular updates on testing status.
• Prepare test plans, distribute automation tasks, and motivate teams to ensure efficient testing.
• Collaborate with app owners to identify and automate test cases/scenarios, ensuring comprehensive coverage.
• Design and implement automation frameworks using VBScript in HP UFT, integrating with HP ALM for effective test management.
• Execute automation scripts, analyze results, and maintain scripts to ensure ongoing reliability and efficiency.

Key achievements

• Consistently received client appreciation for time-efficient project delivery.
• Created an automation framework for Shipment Rate verification using HP UFT / QTP Data-Driven framework, achieving a 60% reduction in total test execution time, and automated report generation and consolidation processes for all teams, reducing efforts by 75%.