Prabhakar Nandakumar
Summary
- Results-driven Automation lead with 8+ years of experience in test automation, framework design and team leadership
- Proven ability to manage automation projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver high-quality software products.
- Strong communication skills and hands-experience working with onsite -offshore models Automated over 500+ regression test cases resulting in 70% test coverage across critical modules Played a key role in transitioning from manual to automated testing in agile teams
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Tester
MSC Technology
10.2025 - Current
- Executed manual and automated tests for Logistics application
- Collaborated with developers to identify and resolve defects.
- Reviewed requirements and specifications for testing accuracy.
- Mentored junior testers in best practices and testing methodologies.
- Designed test plans to ensure software quality and functionality.
- Identified bugs in existing software products and reported them to the development team.
Senior Associate
Cognizant
12.2021 - 10.2025
- To automate regression cases as E2E scenario
- Leading an automation team and Co-ordinate them for ontime deliverables
- Working in Agile methodology and attending all Agile ceremonies
- Led task assignment and workload management, ensuring balanced responsibilities and improve team productivity
- Developed reusable and maintainable test scripts for mobile application
- Execute automation scripts in production during the release and coordinating the team for execution
- Working closely with perfecto team to resolve the blockers, device issues for automation execution
- Collaborated with onsite coordinator to ensure alignment with client expectation and project deliverables
Test Engineer
Infosys
06.2017 - 12.2021
- Identifying Automation Scenarios from the set of Testcases/User stories identified in cycle.
- Running Smoke regression suite after every build and publish the detailed reports with the bugs detected.
- Reviewed the Code prepared by other team mates and suggested improvements if required.
- Running Full Automation suite for every Release and analyse the root cause of failed scripts.
- Automating Batch Jobs related User Stories.
- Preparing and reviewing the Scripting strategy with clients and scripting the same in LeanFT.
Education
Masters in Computer Application -
Bharathidasan University
06-2019
Bachelor of Computer Science -
Achariya Arts & Science College
06-2016
Skills
- Selenium WebDriver
- Playwright
- Appium
- Java
- TestNG
- Cucumber
- Maven
- Jenkins
- GIT
- Rest API testing
- Postman
- Agile
- Scrum
- Team leadership
- Task assignment
- Client interactions
- On-site coordination
Domains Worked
- Banking
- Finance
- Retail
- Logistics
Certification
- Certified in Selenium WebDriver with Java -Basics to Advanced +Frameworks
- Infosys Global Developer Agile Certification
Awards
Received INSTA Award for good performance and delivery
Timeline
Senior Tester
MSC Technology
10.2025 - Current
Senior Associate
Cognizant
12.2021 - 10.2025
Test Engineer
Infosys
06.2017 - 12.2021
Masters in Computer Application -
Bharathidasan University
Bachelor of Computer Science -
Achariya Arts & Science College