Abhishek R.

Abhishek R.

QA Engineer

Trivandrum, India
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About Me

Abhishek is an expert Software Quality Engineer with 7+ years of in-depth insight in the delivery of delightful end-user experiences by facilitating test sessions to bridge the gap between engineering, quality assurance and business needs. He has mastery in the implementation of JavaScript-based test automation frameworks on projects; building QA processes, finding and eradicating intricate bugs, determining risks and working to prevent potential problems. He is an avid learner of new tools and techniques, great team player and excellent communicator on projects.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
QA Engineer
2020 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

ACIS - Allianz
ACIS - Allianz
Software Test Engineer
2014 - 2014
Trivandrum, India
  • Validated automated tests in Java using Selenium Webdriver, executed Adobe AEM/CQ5 tests on CMS pages and collaborated in test strategy creation and test planning.

  • Participated in the peer review of test cases and scripts, creation and maintenance of requirement traceability matrix, and execution of test sets in the quality center.

  • Liaised with different teams on projects; providing sufficient information for liaison meetings between requirements, testing and app development teams, and feedback on quality issues.

QBurst Technologies
QBurst Technologies
Lead Quality Engineer
2012 - 2019 (7 years)
Trivandrum, India
  • Acted as a lead point of contact between several offshore testing teams and QBurst Technologies' project team; executing test strategies on different platforms to improve quality and test code coverage.

  • Employed the latest tools in the revamp of FR Uniqlo's automation suite to perform better; reducing auto-test times from 3.5 hours to 1.5 hours and improving the release processes.

  • Provided hands-on expertise for the set up of required test beds (hardware, software and network), validation and usability of API endpoints using Postman, API error handling tests and defect triaging.

Portfolio

Lead Quality Engineer - Fast Retailing (Uniqlo.com)
Lead Quality Engineer - Fast Retailing (Uniqlo.com)

Worked on a mobile e-commerce website for Asia's biggest fashion retailer with more than 100 million users in Japan; built using React/Angular.js. This project was targeted at the Japanese market with very different features from the company's website for other countries. Acted as a lead to the project team including both QA and frontend developer; directing tasks for release planning along with PMs and the client, extensive testing and refactoring of code on the upgrade of the product, utilized WebdriverIO v5 for increased stability of automated tests (300+ automated e2e tests rewritten), and provided support for root cause analysis of bugs, auto-check failures and implemented corrective actions. Worked on performance testing of APIs for Apple Pay integration using JMeter, maintenance of CI/CD systems, revamp of automation suites, and integrated direct API calls with the test to reduce execution times of auto-tests. Managed the delivery of 100+ high-quality feature releases without any major bugs; leading to a spike in overall online revenue from 5% to 20% of total revenue.

Senior Quality Engineer - Fast Retailing (Uniqlo - Ariake CMS)
Senior Quality Engineer - Fast Retailing (Uniqlo - Ariake CMS)

Participated in the development of a custom-made CMS solution for Uniqlo's e-commerce website; the project was a highly scalable frontend rich React SPA, with a unified design and maintainability released to millions of potential customers through multiple websites in the targeted countries. Worked on functional testing of CMS and SPA components, automated the CMS components using Selenium Webdriver and WebdriverIO at the next stage. Wrote BDD test scripts using Cucumber, created stories from client requirements, identified web functional groups to derive CMS components and encouraged active client interaction to track project progress. Collaborated with the dev team for feasibility on the implementation of identified components, and oversaw end to end testing of CMS pages with cross-browser testing in web and mobile views. Led the QA team for the initial release of the product; leading to an initial 7 member team growing to a 100+ technical team in just 1.5 years. The CMS solution led to the successful launch of Uniqlo's websites across various countries and a gain of more than 150 million e-commerce buyers globally.

Senior QA Engineer - Buzz Mobile App (Bajaj Allianz)
Senior QA Engineer - Buzz Mobile App (Bajaj Allianz)

MobiBuzz is an employee engagement/Twitter-like social media app that encourages corporate learning among employees of Bajaj Allianz company. Handled exploratory testing and test automation, prepared/updated the test case document for testing, and test effort estimation. Wrote automated tests using Appium with Java, managed test case design and execution, discussed queries with dev team/client, updated test cases based on the discovered defects, set up the required test beds, escalated issues on project requirements and conducted defect triage meetings. Released the app at the first attempt to the App Store and Google play store with 10,000+ users.

Software Test Engineer - CQ5-JBoss Migration (AEM Upgrade)
Software Test Engineer - CQ5-JBoss Migration (AEM Upgrade)

Worked on an important project to migrate Allianz's internet/intranet pages (17+k web pages) to a newer Adobe CQ5 version (Adobe AEM) CMS. Participated in test strategy creation and planning, CMS pages testing and authoring, and wrote automated tests in Java using Selenium Web Driver. Handled peer reviews of test cases and test scripts, triaged bugs and provided sufficient information for liaison meetings between the requirements, testing and App development teams. Adhered to ACDM, Programme Test Strategy Approach and Quality Centre Guidance; writing 2,000+ high-quality test cases for components and page authoring and delivering the final solution in record time.

Education

Education
ISTQB Certified
Indian Testing Board(ITB)
2014 - Present (10 years)
Education
BSc. Computer Science
Cochin University for Science and Technologies
2008 - 2012 (4 years)