Santosh Kumar Panda

• Led the proactive design and development of Automation Frameworks, facilitating the transition from legacy Selenium (Java) to modern Playwright (TypeScript) paradigms to facilitate and enhance API & Microservices testing.
• Demonstrated expertise in Agile methodologies by meticulously guiding diverse projects through critical phases such as Test Strategy & Estimation, Test Case Design & Execution, Defect Tracking, and comprehensive Report Generation.
• Using Application Insight for monitoring the logs for better insight and error analysis.
• Created a roadmap for the automation team that included planning, assigning, and tracking tasks to ensure timely and efficient delivery of automation solutions.
• Performing In-Sprint Automation and continuously optimized the framework to enhance the overall testing process.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve quality issues throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to provide updates on QA activities, progress, and issues.
• Led a team of 8 Automation and Functional QA, responsible for creating a culture of excellence in testing across US and India locations.

Singtel R1 and R2 (Nov 2020 - Sept 2021)

• Evaluated the viability of user stories through regular BA consultations.
• Actively involved in Sprint Planning, Scrum Meetings, Testing, Demonstration and Retrospective Planning.
• Actively involved in Design & Development of Automation Framework using Selenium and REST Assured Framework.
• Products Used: MEC, CRM, OMS, SPEAR, MTPOS, Kenan Billing, AMDD.

AEG Sales Incubator (Jan 2017 - Nov 2020)

• Defect Reporting, Analyzing, Tracking and Report Generation using Quality Center.
• Worked on in-sprint automation using Ginger to accommodate the changes in the flow structure.
• Performed Functional along with Non Functional Testing involving Accessibility and Interruption testing
• Tools/Framework Used: Amdocs GINGER, REST Assured, SOAP, POSTMAN, Selenium (with Java), SQL, WAT, NVDA, Putty.

Order Capture Engine (Nov 2015 - Dec 2016)

• API Testing using SOAP and POSTMAN
• Tools/Framework Used: Amdocs GINGER, SOAP, POSTMAN.

ATT.Com Core Regression ( July 2013 - Sept 2015)

• Performed Smoke and regression testing on every build of the application.
• Defect Reporting, Analyzing, Tracking and Report Generation using Quality Center.
• Creating SQL queries to extract and analyze data using SQL Developer
• Performing Accessibility Testing.
• Tools/Framework Used: SOAP, POSTMAN, Selenium (with Java), CURL, SQL, WAT, Putty, NVDA.