Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Tools
Test Frameworks
Test Build / Integration Tool
Software
Programming Languages
Databases
Additional Information
Timeline
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Tarun Narula

Sr. Technical Leader - QC
Gurgaon
Tarun Narula

Summary

Progressive Experience of 13 years 11 months with expertise in Automation and Manual Testing for Web and Mobile Applications (iOS/Android) in Banking domain for Prepaid and Gift Cards, IoT domain for embedded homesmart solutions, and Telecom domain. Rated Excellent performer for four consecutive years. A top draw performer with high productivity potential under high pressure and an impeccable knack of finding bugs. Proficient in Test Automation using Selenium Webdriver and Appium with TestNG framework using BDD and POM.

Overview

14
years of professional experience
3

Domains

Work History

R Systems International

Sr. Technical Leader
04.2021 - Current

Job overview

Project : US Bank Prepaid, Gift and Reward Card Portal Testing

  • Advised management, business and technical staff on solutions for increased efficiency.
  • Performed extensive testing of products and generated test reports based on findings.
  • Researched and adopted new techniques to add value to existing automation framework.
  • Performed accessibility testing for all web portals conforming to WCAG 2.2 standards.
  • Cultivated a culture of innovation within the team by promoting collaborative problem-solving and encouraging exploration of new ideas.
  • Enhanced software performance by identifying and resolving technical issues in legacy systems.
  • Mentored junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
  • Assessed project milestones, estimations and team performance to keep team members on-task.
  • Guided teams during continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.

Altran

Technical Leader
01.2018 - 04.2021

Job overview

Project : IKEA Home Automation Solutions

  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well- organized sprints
  • Reduced overall testing hours 40% by writing and optimizing automation test scripts in Appium and Selenium along with TestNG and Maven
  • Carried out Continuous regression testing (Jenkins) through nightly batch run.
  • Garnered extensive knowledge on Zigbee, CoAP and MQTT protocols and their operations
  • Mentored and improved peer knowledge of automation software and tools by engaging in all available trainings and seminars
  • Attended triage meetings to understand and consider scope changes for the release during test execution phase
  • Followed Agile testing methodology, participated in daily Scrum meetings and tested each Sprint deliverable
  • Analyzed CoAP, Zigbee and MQTT logs during various stages of testing for effective debugging
  • Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs
  • Carried out continuous integration and project deployment using Jenkins and
  • CI/CD setup
  • Performed testing for Amazon Web services, Global DB, Dynamo DB,
  • Cloudwatch Logs, AWS Lambda testing.

Altran

Sr. Test Engineer
01.2014 - 06.2018

Job overview

Project : Ruckus Mobile Apps and Reliance Jio

  • Carried out sanity and regression testing cycles on every build.
  • Involvement in designing of Hybrid framework from scratch.
  • Created Test cases using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations
  • Expertise in Automation tools such as Remote WebDriver, Appium, Java,
  • Jenkins(Continuous integration), Maven (Regression), TestNG (Regression),
  • Eclipse, Junit and Android Studio / XCode
  • Execution of test suites and HTML report generation using TestNG.
  • Identified weekly Test Execution Targets and communicating daily progress
  • Mentored a team of testers on functionality and development of the Automation Framework
  • Developed utility scripts for periodic Health Check of servers
  • Carried out connectivity testing whenever the code was moved into production.

Tech Mahindra Ltd

Sr. Software Engineer
05.2010 - 04.2014

Job overview

Project : AT&T Wholesale Integration Testing

  • Designed new cases after analyzing Technical and Business Requirement of
  • CR (Change Request)
  • Troubleshooted and Re-tested failed cases and prepared Test Result reports
  • Opened and tracked defects with developers in HP ALM.
  • Interacted closely with developers, environment team, client, team manager/lead and team members for feature issues and discussion
  • Ensured timely delivery of Monthly Maintenance Releases and Tri-annual
  • Releases
  • Carried out connectivity testing when the code moved into production.

Education

Kurukshetra University

Bachelor from Computer Science
08.2005 - 7 2009

University Overview

  • Graduated cum laude
  • Managed a student project of creating professional website for local college.

Skills

Proficient in Selenium Webdriverundefined

Tools

• Selenium

• RestAssured

• Appium

• Axe Auditor

• Eclipse

• Android Studio

• XCode

• Postman

Test Frameworks

• Cucumber / BDD 

• TestNG 

• Page Object Model 

• JUnit 

Test Build / Integration Tool

• GitHub 

• Jenkins 

• Maven 

Software

  

• Copper PlugIn 

• Charles Proxy 

• MS-Office 

• Test Management (QC, JIRA, Version One) 

Programming Languages

  • Core Java 

Databases

• TOAD for Oracle 

• MySQL 

• DB2

Additional Information

  • Backpacking
  • Rock Music
  • Football
  • Fictional Literature

Timeline

Sr. Technical Leader

R Systems International
04.2021 - Current

Technical Leader

Altran
01.2018 - 04.2021

Sr. Test Engineer

Altran
01.2014 - 06.2018

Sr. Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra Ltd
05.2010 - 04.2014

Kurukshetra University

Bachelor from Computer Science
08.2005 - 7 2009
Tarun NarulaSr. Technical Leader - QC