Dominic Kakkassery

Technology driven professional with strong experience in the area of Manual testing with good knowledge of all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA Life Cycle that includes Designing, Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process and Documentation of Test plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts, QA Automation using Selenium with Java,C#, and Cypress with JavaScript. Extensively lead and worked on several projects in the areas of Healthcare and Banking domains for leading organizations. Qualified Test Engineer proven to implement and maintain cost-effective methods of system testing and troubleshooting to reduce operating costs. Technically-savvy and skilled at quickly learning new concepts, software and equipment. Collaborative team player with excellent communication and interpersonal talents.

• Developing Automation Frameworks from scratch using tools like Selenium(C#,Java) and Cypress(JavaScript).
• Developing test scripts on Automation Frameworks like BDD with JBehave and specflow using Gherkin, BDD with Cypress (JavaScript) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework and Page Object Model.
• Working on API automation using SWAGGER API.
• Using SWAGGER API application to hit the API and check the response meets the expected requirement manually.
• Working on setting up Cypress automation run on GitHub actions, making it easy for everyone to run the testcases from GitHub actions in any environment
• Using automated scripts to perform Functionality Testing and Regression testing during the various phases of the application development
• Working on CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins.
• Developing BDD tests using Cypress Automation tool by writing behaviors and step definitions, and developed required Cypress support code in Javascript
• Developing automation smoke test suite that run everyday on Production environment to check the health of the system using GitHub Actions
• Interacting with business users for UAT testing
• Working on Manual testing in stage environment before the release is deployed to PROD environment.
• Using Project management tool Rally.
• Running Cypress Automation regression suite every week on test and stage Environment, which makes it possible to have Production release every week.
• Developing testing workflow by creating database tables to store the test data, so that the data is reused for different scenarios
• Developing scripts to test real time health care data using SQL.
• Comprehensive understanding of all phases of Test Life Cycle, including requirements gathering, test planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking and reporting
• Leading a team of QA Automation Engineers (onshore and offshore) to achieve timely and efficient client delivarables.
• Working on Agile-Scrum methodologies.
• Prior to joining CitiusTech, worked as a Senior Subject Matter Expert for a telecom solution provider. During the tenure at CitiusTech, successfully delivered projects to multiple clients

• Automated test fixtures and processes to eliminate more than 40 labor hours per month.
• Supervised team of 4 staff members.
• Collaborated with team of 17 members in the development of the product.
• Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
• Achieve weekly release by running Automation regression suite in different environment like dev, test, stage with accuracy and efficiency.
• Documented and caught edge case defects which could lead to major outage in PROD environment