Nithin Patil

13+ years experience in Software Testing of Digital Business Models in eCommerce & Supply Chain Platforms by transforming Customer Experience, increasing Operational Efficiency & developing new Revenue Generation streams.

• Developed innovative testing strategies and streamlined processes with development activities to reduce testing redundancy and risks leading to 45% efficiency gain across multiple projects.
• 30% reduction in cost of poor quality via industry best practices.
• Experience in setting up automation framework for integration and regression testing activities.
• Defined best practices, test strategies and methodologies for Functional, Regression and Automation tests.
• Successfully managed a diverse range of projects from conception through implementation.
• Enhanced and standardized software defect life cycle management process that helped to reduce downtime from bug detection to resolution with an estimated gain in time of ~3 weeks/project.
• Collaborated and established periodic requirement reviews by stakeholders to ensure requirements were well defined that lead to delivery of flawless applications in production.

SDLC Processes: Agile, TDD.
Test Planning: Scoping, estimates, strategy, plans, presentation, coordination.
Risk Management: Identify risks and plan best case approach for risk mitigation.
Implement/Mentor of QA processes, techniques, standards, in non-structured business cultures.
Test Case Management: Managing test cases with/without requirements/design docs.
Defect Management: Tracking, reporting and defect triage/management meetings.
Test Execution: Web apps, SOAP/RESTful API's.
Test Types (manual): Functional, Regression, Integration, Sanity, System, UAT, Production, Creative, Accessibility, Cross Browser.
Release Management: Plan, develop, coordinate and lead software release activities with application and support teams.
Automation: Cypress, JavaScript, Web services, GitHub, Azure DevOps

Technology Frameworks: AEM, Hybris, ATG.

Application Platforms: Ecommerce, CMS, Supply Chain Management.

Business Marketing: B2C, B2B,

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Test Execution
- He has acted as an SME for complex test executions providing test leads directions across multiple Cargill products
- He has partnered with delivery/program management to ensure appropriate reviews are planned and team adheres to schedule
- He is responsible for overall reporting and quality of testing process across multiple Cargill products by leveraging appropriate tools and techniques
- He has drived the strategy and managed the test execution for multiple mid sized & large sized Cargill products and drove strategic decision in collaboration with clients & program management
- In some products situations, he was able to pitch in and help the team with test case creation and execution support leveraging domain knowledge.
Framework(s) and platforms
- He has worked on different domains like eCommerce, CMS, Supply Chain, Retail and has gained better knowledge of them respectively.
- He has even worked and gained lot of experience in frameworks and platforms like ATG, Hybris, AEM, Microservices, Test Automation
- He always shares ideas for the design/ development/ enhancement of test frameworks and applications to implement manual and automated test solution
- He is responsible in creation of Cypress framework from scratch as per the relevance and covering E2E automation
- He was able to lead and take proactive measures to resolve anticipated challenges with the framework
- He managed to customize the framework as per the need of a different kind of products
- He has performed root cause analysis and implemented mitigation plans to avoid recurrence
- He has tried and trying to execute best practices to achieve progressive automation in multiple products
He has developed skills required for frameworks as per the demand
- He has lead automation implementation for medium to large products
Design creation
- He has acted as an SME to suggest test design strategies based on the different product's constraints and opportunities
- He always ensured and guided his team that the requirements/ technical specifications has the level of detail and clarity so it can be used by team members to start testing activities
- As he is leading Cargill QA/QE team who are spread across multiple products, he has always worked closely with cross-functional teams/tracks, product teams and clients to develop project schedules, execute test plans and cases and deliver high quality products
- As we have different products with similar kind of test management tools or automation tools etc etc, he has always championed the use of reusable artifacts from testing repository for similar kind of products within Cargill
Test Strategy, Tools and Reporting
- He has exhibited thought leadership in defining strategies for different Cargill products involving complex system integrations and business
- He was able to define test strategy by making efficient use of platforms/framework features
- He has driven necessary conversations to ensure test strategy is defined for the long term with all necessary inputs
- Based on his experience within Cargill products and also from his earlier experience, he comprehensively identified risks and planned for mitigation approach
- He has lead the design/architecture of new test solutions, and the refinement of existing frameworks, processes, and tools
- He has provided and/or reviewed time estimates, technical recommendations and proposed solutions based on technical and business requirements
Architecture & Design
- He identified and produced relevant design documentation for API and Functional Automation
- He has even designed the approach for Browser & devices automation solution using automation frameworks and also with PoV and PoCs too
- He has driven necessary conversations to ensure architecture is defined for the long term from re-usability point of view
- He has identify implicit automation requirements w.r.t products and obtained clarifications from engineering teams
- He has constantly communicates automation requirements and resulting architecture framework solution to team members to ramp up team on design work
- He has become the conceptual custodian of the automation framework for the team
- He has directed the setup and use of devops tools across both CI, CD. Reviewed the effectiveness and impact of metrics captured by devops tools and improve the solution
- He is accountable for overall reporting and quality of automation process across products by ensuring adaption and application of devops tools and techniques
Programming & Scripting
- He is able to mentor the team in Automation and setup processes for distributed Development like version control and branching etc
- He has guided the team in solving the technical challenges of the team
- He is able to define generic guidelines, ensuring continuous improvement of code quality by reviewing implementation of best practices at project level
- He is able to guide the multiple teams in implementing the Automation best practices
- He is able to envision and implement accelerators to enhance the automation coverage across projects
Innovation
- He has looked for ways and options to leverage new testing approaches and practices to advance the state of Quality
- He has been acknowledged by client as generating some form of business differentiation
- He has produced different PoVs and PoCs
- He has been acknowledged by DIP client as generating some form of business differentiation due to Cypress automation
Client & Consulting
- He has addressed business problems, lead different sessions/demos, worked with archs and drives viewpoints
- He has experience in speaking to business users to understand problems
- He has scheduled and sets agendas for client sessions/demos
- He engages with platform and application leads & test leads from different products
- He has experienc even in handling client conflicts and opposing viewpoints to drive towards a common solution
Presentation
- He has created presentations that addresses business issues
- He ensures that the presentation contains quality related options that meet business needs
Client focus & impact
- He has managed difficult Quality discussions and establish consensus across different kind of team groups
- He has ensured on time delivery of product to client

Test Execution
- He has acted as an SME for complex test executions providing test leads directions across multiple Cargill products
- He has partnered with delivery/program management to ensure appropriate reviews are planned and team adheres to schedule
- He is responsible for overall reporting and quality of testing process across multiple Cargill products by leveraging appropriate tools and techniques
- He has drived the strategy and managed the test execution for multiple mid sized & large sized Cargill products and drove strategic decision in collaboration with clients & program management
- In some products situations, he was able to pitch in and help the team with test case creation and execution support leveraging domain knowledge.
Framework(s) and platforms
- He has worked on different domains like eCommerce, CMS, Supply Chain, Retail and has gained better knowledge of them respectively.
- He has even worked and gained lot of experience in frameworks and platforms like ATG, Hybris, AEM, Microservices, Test Automation
- He always shares ideas for the design/ development/ enhancement of test frameworks and applications to implement manual and automated test solution
- He is responsible in creation of Cypress framework from scratch as per the relevance and covering E2E automation
- He was able to lead and take proactive measures to resolve anticipated challenges with the framework
- He managed to customize the framework as per the need of a different kind of products
- He has performed root cause analysis and implemented mitigation plans to avoid recurrence
- He has tried and trying to execute best practices to achieve progressive automation in multiple products
He has developed skills required for frameworks as per the demand
- He has lead automation implementation for medium to large products
Design creation
- He has acted as an SME to suggest test design strategies based on the different product's constraints and opportunities
- He always ensured and guided his team that the requirements/ technical specifications has the level of detail and clarity so it can be used by team members to start testing activities
- As he is leading Cargill QA/QE team who are spread across multiple products, he has always worked closely with cross-functional teams/tracks, product teams and clients to develop project schedules, execute test plans and cases and deliver high quality products
- As we have different products with similar kind of test management tools or automation tools etc etc, he has always championed the use of reusable artifacts from testing repository for similar kind of products within Cargill
Test Strategy, Tools and Reporting
- He has exhibited thought leadership in defining strategies for different Cargill products involving complex system integrations and business
- He was able to define test strategy by making efficient use of platforms/framework features
- He has driven necessary conversations to ensure test strategy is defined for the long term with all necessary inputs
- Based on his experience within Cargill products and also from his earlier experience, he comprehensively identified risks and planned for mitigation approach
- He has lead the design/architecture of new test solutions, and the refinement of existing frameworks, processes, and tools
- He has provided and/or reviewed time estimates, technical recommendations and proposed solutions based on technical and business requirements
Architecture & Design
- He identified and produced relevant design documentation for API and Functional Automation
- He has even designed the approach for Browser & devices automation solution using automation frameworks and also with PoV and PoCs too
- He has driven necessary conversations to ensure architecture is defined for the long term from re-usability point of view
- He has identify implicit automation requirements w.r.t products and obtained clarifications from engineering teams
- He has constantly communicates automation requirements and resulting architecture framework solution to team members to ramp up team on design work
- He has become the conceptual custodian of the automation framework for the team
- He has directed the setup and use of devops tools across both CI, CD. Reviewed the effectiveness and impact of metrics captured by devops tools and improve the solution
- He is accountable for overall reporting and quality of automation process across products by ensuring adaption and application of devops tools and techniques
Programming & Scripting
- He is able to mentor the team in Automation and setup processes for distributed Development like version control and branching etc
- He has guided the team in solving the technical challenges of the team
- He is able to define generic guidelines, ensuring continuous improvement of code quality by reviewing implementation of best practices at project level
- He is able to guide the multiple teams in implementing the Automation best practices
- He is able to envision and implement accelerators to enhance the automation coverage across projects
Innovation
- He has looked for ways and options to leverage new testing approaches and practices to advance the state of Quality
- He has been acknowledged by client as generating some form of business differentiation
- He has produced different PoVs and PoCs
- He has been acknowledged by DIP client as generating some form of business differentiation due to Cypress automation
Client & Consulting
- He has addressed business problems, lead different sessions/demos, worked with archs and drives viewpoints
- He has experience in speaking to business users to understand problems
- He has scheduled and sets agendas for client sessions/demos
- He engages with platform and application leads & test leads from different products
- He has experienc even in handling client conflicts and opposing viewpoints to drive towards a common solution
Presentation
- He has created presentations that addresses business issues
- He ensures that the presentation contains quality related options that meet business needs
Client focus & impact
- He has managed difficult Quality discussions and establish consensus across different kind of team groups
- He has ensured on time delivery of product to client

Test Execution
- He has acted as an SME for complex test executions providing test leads directions across multiple Cargill products
- He has partnered with delivery/program management to ensure appropriate reviews are planned and team adheres to schedule
- He is responsible for overall reporting and quality of testing process across multiple Cargill products by leveraging appropriate tools and techniques
- He has drived the strategy and managed the test execution for multiple mid sized & large sized Cargill products and drove strategic decision in collaboration with clients & program management
- In some products situations, he was able to pitch in and help the team with test case creation and execution support leveraging domain knowledge.
Framework(s) and platforms
- He has worked on different domains like eCommerce, CMS, Supply Chain, Retail and has gained better knowledge of them respectively.
- He has even worked and gained lot of experience in frameworks and platforms like ATG, Hybris, AEM, Microservices, Test Automation
- He always shares ideas for the design/ development/ enhancement of test frameworks and applications to implement manual and automated test solution
- He is responsible in creation of Cypress framework from scratch as per the relevance and covering E2E automation
- He was able to lead and take proactive measures to resolve anticipated challenges with the framework
- He managed to customize the framework as per the need of a different kind of products
- He has performed root cause analysis and implemented mitigation plans to avoid recurrence
- He has tried and trying to execute best practices to achieve progressive automation in multiple products
He has developed skills required for frameworks as per the demand
- He has lead automation implementation for medium to large products
Design creation
- He has acted as an SME to suggest test design strategies based on the different product's constraints and opportunities
- He always ensured and guided his team that the requirements/ technical specifications has the level of detail and clarity so it can be used by team members to start testing activities
- As he is leading Cargill QA/QE team who are spread across multiple products, he has always worked closely with cross-functional teams/tracks, product teams and clients to develop project schedules, execute test plans and cases and deliver high quality products
- As we have different products with similar kind of test management tools or automation tools etc etc, he has always championed the use of reusable artifacts from testing repository for similar kind of products within Cargill
Test Strategy, Tools and Reporting
- He has exhibited thought leadership in defining strategies for different Cargill products involving complex system integrations and business
- He was able to define test strategy by making efficient use of platforms/framework features
- He has driven necessary conversations to ensure test strategy is defined for the long term with all necessary inputs
- Based on his experience within Cargill products and also from his earlier experience, he comprehensively identified risks and planned for mitigation approach
- He has lead the design/architecture of new test solutions, and the refinement of existing frameworks, processes, and tools
- He has provided and/or reviewed time estimates, technical recommendations and proposed solutions based on technical and business requirements
Architecture & Design
- He identified and produced relevant design documentation for API and Functional Automation
- He has even designed the approach for Browser & devices automation solution using automation frameworks and also with PoV and PoCs too
- He has driven necessary conversations to ensure architecture is defined for the long term from re-usability point of view
- He has identify implicit automation requirements w.r.t products and obtained clarifications from engineering teams
- He has constantly communicates automation requirements and resulting architecture framework solution to team members to ramp up team on design work
- He has become the conceptual custodian of the automation framework for the team
- He has directed the setup and use of devops tools across both CI, CD. Reviewed the effectiveness and impact of metrics captured by devops tools and improve the solution
- He is accountable for overall reporting and quality of automation process across products by ensuring adaption and application of devops tools and techniques
Programming & Scripting
- He is able to mentor the team in Automation and setup processes for distributed Development like version control and branching etc
- He has guided the team in solving the technical challenges of the team
- He is able to define generic guidelines, ensuring continuous improvement of code quality by reviewing implementation of best practices at project level
- He is able to guide the multiple teams in implementing the Automation best practices
- He is able to envision and implement accelerators to enhance the automation coverage across projects
Innovation
- He has looked for ways and options to leverage new testing approaches and practices to advance the state of Quality
- He has been acknowledged by client as generating some form of business differentiation
- He has produced different PoVs and PoCs
- He has been acknowledged by DIP client as generating some form of business differentiation due to Cypress automation
Client & Consulting
- He has addressed business problems, lead different sessions/demos, worked with archs and drives viewpoints
- He has experience in speaking to business users to understand problems
- He has scheduled and sets agendas for client sessions/demos
- He engages with platform and application leads & test leads from different products
- He has experienc even in handling client conflicts and opposing viewpoints to drive towards a common solution
Presentation
- He has created presentations that addresses business issues
- He ensures that the presentation contains quality related options that meet business needs
Client focus & impact
- He has managed difficult Quality discussions and establish consensus across different kind of team groups
- He has ensured on time delivery of product to client