Prabir Chakraborty
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic Staff Quality Engineer at Walmart with a proven track record in automation strategy and test architecture. Spearheaded Playwright migration, enhancing execution speed and stability. Adept in CI/CD pipelines and GitHub workflows, while fostering team leadership and effective communication to drive quality assurance and compliance auditing initiatives.
Overview
2
2
Languages
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Quality Engineer
Walmart
05.2020 - Current
- Led automation team of 6-10 engineers to develop and implement robust testing solutions.
- Spearheaded Playwright migration improving execution speed, stability and automation coverage.
- Modernized automation framework through reusable libraries, modular architecture, reporting, API/UI integration and parallel execution.
- Enhanced GitHub workflows with branch protection, pull request governance, and quality gates to ensure code integrity.
- Strengthened CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Concord, resulting in improved release quality and consistency.
- Conducted audits of manufacturing processes to ensure adherence to standards.
- Developed quality assurance processes for product testing and validation.
- Developed and implemented quality plans, protocols, and procedures.
- Created and optimized automated testing tools for repetitive tasks.
- Worked with off-site teams to complete timely tests and facilitate smooth product releases.
- Monitored and facilitated bug resolutions to optimize software.
- Documented, triaged, and managed defects in software and worked with developers to facilitate timely resolutions.
Automation Lead Engineer
Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent)
01.2014 - 05.2020
- Designed Selenium automation frameworks, REST API automation, Jenkins integration, reusable libraries, mentoring and enterprise automation strategy.
- Developed testing protocols for automated systems and software integrations.
- Evaluated and implemented new automation tools to improve workflow reliability.
- Facilitated training sessions on automation solutions for diverse teams.
- Analyzed data from different sources to identify patterns or trends that can be used for automating certain tasks.
Automation and Functional Testing
Aricent Technology
Bangalore
12.2010 - 01.2014
- Automated and performed functional testing using Selenium, SilkTest, Java, and Perl on enterprise telecom platforms, enhancing overall software reliability.
- Conducted system analysis and testing to identify and resolve technical issues, improving system performance and user experience.
- Developed functional solutions to complex problems, resulting in significant cost savings for the organization.
Education
MCA - Computer Applications Development
AMC Engineering College
Bangalore08-2010
BCA - Computer Applications Development
St. Xavier's College
Ranchi, Jharkhand12-2006
Skills
- Test automation expertise
- Playwright framework
- Selenium framework
- Continuous integration
- Jenkins
- Concord integration
- GitHub workflows
- API testing mastery
- Regression testing
- Test planning
- Automation Strategy
- Test Architecture
- Shift Left Testing
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- Postman
- Scrum framework
- Quality assurance standards
- Team leadership
- Resource coordination
- Automation strategies
- Problem solving
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Accomplishments
- Top performer award, Q2 2024
- Team award, Q3 2023
Timeline
Staff Quality Engineer
Walmart
05.2020 - Current
Automation Lead Engineer
Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent)
01.2014 - 05.2020
Automation and Functional Testing
Aricent Technology
12.2010 - 01.2014
MCA - Computer Applications Development
AMC Engineering College
BCA - Computer Applications Development
St. Xavier's College