NITISH KUMAR
Summary
Dedicated and disciplined Software professional with 14 Years of experience, seeking the position to contribute to the company's growth and in turn ensuring personal growth within the organization. I believe that my technical, functional and communication skills will enable me in facing the challenging career ahead. Decisive Engineering Manager highly effective at operating in dynamic, high-pressure environments. Successfully handle multiple simultaneous responsibilities while exceeding objectives and satisfying tough clients.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager (SDET)
Setu Fintech
09.2022 - Current
- KPI Management: Established key metrics for defect density and test effectiveness, boosting automation coverage to 95% and reducing customer-reported defects.
- Team Leadership: Led a 15 member team and formed Automation team from scratch, set daily goals, conducted appraisals, and aligned individual objectives with team targets.
- Release Cycle Management: Managed complete release cycle for automation and testing.
- Framework Architecture: Designed and developed test automation frameworks and tools from scratch.
- Product Ownership: Delivered high-quality products from development through production.
- Integration & Collaboration: Worked with cross-functional teams to create CI/CD-compatible test automation solutions and resolved post-release issues.
- Mentorship: Promoted culture of learning through mentoring.
- Key Skills: Expertise in API/UI/Performance Testing, framework design, team leadership, and conflict management.
- Tool Development: Built tools using LLMs for Info-sec and compliance, enhancing productivity.
- Dev Support: Managed Dev support and introduced faster processes.
Software Principal Engineer
Dell Technology
06.2021 - 09.2022
- Established and led central automation team at Dell India, serving multiple portfolios within CPG unit.
- Architected comprehensive Pytest-based automation frameworks covering Web-UI, API, Desktop, DB, and Jenkins, with integrations for C#, PowerShell, and Python.
- Developed hybrid frameworks for desktop automation and file caching solutions for frequent artifact downloads.
- Automated API and UI testing from CSV files and set up Jenkins pipelines for daily and weekly execution.
- Designed API performance automation with JMeter and implemented test strategies across products.
- Mentored and guided team members to independently contribute and presented automation progress to upper management.
Senior Technical Lead
Ribbon Communication
06.2012 - 06.2021
- Involved in Maintaining, Designing and Developing Automation framework Responsible for Project planning, resource Planning and task allocation Responsible for tracking and execution of project to completion Developed tools to simulate HTTPS server and http client Responsible for review, implementation of Automation suites Functional and Performance test design and Automation Responsible for Projecting Testing and automation progress in program meeting and show casing status to upper management
Software Engineer
Huawei Technologies
03.2010 - 06.2012
- Responsible for test design, Test automation of Next Generation Intelligent platform Automation of test using TTCN3 and action words Responsible of Automation of UI test using rational functional tester
Education
Skills
- Python
- Aws
- RestAPI
- Docker
- FastAPI
- Pytest
- Framework design
- Tools Development
- Leadership
- Team Management
- Prioritization
- Automation
- Performance
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager (SDET)
Setu Fintech
09.2022 - Current
Software Principal Engineer
Dell Technology
06.2021 - 09.2022
Senior Technical Lead
Ribbon Communication
06.2012 - 06.2021
Software Engineer
Huawei Technologies
03.2010 - 06.2012
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