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KEDAR TIWASKAR

KEDAR TIWASKAR

Fremont,CA

Summary

  • 12.8 years as a Senior Quality Engineer, ensuring high-quality software through comprehensive testing processes.
  • 4 years of Automation testing expertise with Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and Selenium WebDriver.
  • 5 years of QA Lead experience, leading successful teams to deliver exceptional results.
  • Proficient in end-to-end, UI/UX, web, and black box testing.
  • In-depth knowledge of mobile testing (iOS and Android) and SDK testing.
  • Skilled in Mobile Automation Testing using Appium.
  • Strong Agile methodology experience, driving efficient development cycles.
  • Meticulous attention to detail, enhancing product design and customer experience.
  • Proven track record of delivering management reports and impactful presentations. Diverse industry experience: Health, Insurance, Online Media, Marketing Automation.

Overview

12
12

Years of professional Quality Assurance Experience

Work History

Sr. Software Engineer QA

Nisum Consulting
Fremont, CA
09.2019 - 06.2023
  • Sterling team : OMS- Order Management System (Client: Williams Sonoma)
  • Domain: Ecommerce
  • While working in Sterling, I conducted testing for the order life cycle, which included checking dates, creating orders using XML, and ensuring their accuracy within the Sterling
  • Created the master test plan for complete QA activities which involved creating of Test plan, test cases with complete understanding of the system
  • Worked closely with offshore QA team to make sure about execution of test deliverables, analysis of test results, detection and documentation of defects, and validation of bug fixes
  • Actively worked in SQL Developer Database
  • Automated a feature from scratch using existing Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber framework
  • Java is used for automation
  • Used RestAssured for API automation related to order flow
  • Worked as QA Lead- Coordinated with a team of nine offshore QA professionals
  • Import Stock PO- Sterling team POC for testing Import Stock PO orders
  • Online Outlet Scale- Sterling team POC for testing Online Outlet items/order received from ECom team
  • I conducted project-level testing for features and end-to-end testing for releases
  • Rejuvenation.com- Frontend testing
  • Created the master test plan for complete QA activities which involved creating of Test plan, test cases with complete understanding of the system
  • Worked as the sole QA professional responsible for ensuring the overall quality of our product, Rejuvenation
  • Designed an automation framework using Watir Webriver and Cucumber
  • Wrote automation code using JavaScript for regression testing and Integration testing
  • Designed end-to-end QA test procedures and participated in end-to-end testing, complete order placement flow
  • Verified execution of test deliverables, analysis of test results, detection and documentation of defects, and validation of bug fixes
  • Developed framework using Capybara and designed integration tests
  • Load testing using Jmeter
  • Admin Portal- Backend testing
  • I was involved in testing the Backend Admin Portal and played a key role in conducting end-to-end testing for all its features, including regression testing, re-testing, functional testing, and UI testing
  • I was responsible for testing changes made to the Admin portal and ensuring that they were accurately reflected on the actual website
  • Tested various configurable changes related to functionality like Promotions, Homepage etc

Software Testing Lead

Avegen Health
Pune, Maharashtra
04.2019 - 06.2019
  • Domain: Health
  • Product- HealthMachine
  • Responsible for overall quality of our product called as HealthMachine
  • Confirmed the execution of test deliverables, analyzed test results, identified and documented defects, and validated bug fixes
  • Used JavaScript for Cypress automation
  • Involved in E2E testing, Regression testing, Re-testing, Functional testing and UI testing
  • Test plan creation, test case writing and test data generation
  • Responsible for test data configuration and actively handling client communication for account setup
  • Extensively worked on configuration of account and different forms using JSON

Sr. QA Engineer

Smartek21 Pvt. Ltd
Pune, Maharashtra
11.2017 - 03.2019
  • Domain: NLP and AI
  • Product- SmartBotHub and BotBuilder
  • Handling QA activities for backend API
  • Automated bot flow using Selenium WebDriver and Java
  • Handling End to end QA activities for the product- BotBuilder (Functional testing, UI testing, Testing integrated modules- Black Box testing)
  • Testing user based authentication activities (User management)
  • Worked on generating the executable for core component SBH
  • Designing end-to-end QA test procedures with optimal mix of manual and automation test cases
  • Worked on generating the executable for all the other components such as BotBuilder, NLP
  • Configured the client environment to make sure that the executables run correctly
  • Worked on setting up backend and frontend for above components
  • Project- Non Functional testing of our platform using jmeter
  • Currently working as only individual contributor for Load testing of SBH- our platform, using Apache jmeter
  • Successfully able to increase the load to 4000 concurrent users

QA Lead

Wingify Software
Pune, Maharashtra
01.2016 - 10.2017
  • Domain- Marketing automation
  • Product- PushCrew (Angular JS)
  • Setup Quality Assurance processes for PushCrew
  • Setup and handled technical support process
  • JavaScript programming was done for extensively testing JS API's
  • Led focus group discussions for new features so as to increase the overall quality standard
  • Timely and efficient execution of QA processes and on-time delivery of new features
  • Came up with better solutions of the challenges faced
  • Resulted in product with better features and led to increased monthly recurring revenue

QA Lead

Idyllic Software
Pune, Maharashtra
05.2015 - 12.2015
  • Domain- Insurance
  • Project- Verticalfox |
  • Project Outline- The project was a medium to automate the insurance process for US based clients
  • Setup of complete QA processes for an enterprise level project and conducted detailed analysis of current process
  • Engaged in discussions with engineering team and business analyst (BA) to understand the areas of improvement
  • Familiar with Underwriting calculations
  • Improved speed of delivery of features

QA Engineer

Vertis Microsystems LLP
Pune, Maharashtra
10.2012 - 05.2015
  • Domain- Online Media
  • (Client: Ooyala)
  • Product- Ooyala Backlot (Technology- Ruby on Rails)
  • Managed release cycle every week and made release processes more efficient
  • Facilitated creation of dashboard to enable better visibility of test coverage for client teams Actions:
  • Involved in execution of test scripts using JavaScript and creation of new test scripts
  • Debugged the issues related to our media player using JavaScript since our media player can be managed using JS commands
  • Used JavaScript extensively to fix automation script related issues
  • Worked on developing test harness where all results can be shown to client
  • Executed all necessary testing, whether manual or automated, according to schedule and any productivity targets committed
  • Improved automation execution and had maximum coverage
  • Faster release process since valid and correct automation was in place

Education

Masters - Computer Applications

DYPIMCA
01.2013

Bachelor - Computer Applications

SFS College
01.2010

Skills

  • Selenium Cucumber Framework with Java
  • Sterling
  • Version Control- Git
  • JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Java
  • API Testing tools- RestAssured and Postman
  • Defect tracking – JIRA
  • Continuous Integration- Jenkins
  • Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Sikuli IDE
  • Charles Proxy, Xcode, Eclipse, Jmeter
  • Agile/Scrum Methodology
  • Linux

Timeline

Sr. Software Engineer QA

Nisum Consulting
09.2019 - 06.2023

Software Testing Lead

Avegen Health
04.2019 - 06.2019

Sr. QA Engineer

Smartek21 Pvt. Ltd
11.2017 - 03.2019

QA Lead

Wingify Software
01.2016 - 10.2017

QA Lead

Idyllic Software
05.2015 - 12.2015

QA Engineer

Vertis Microsystems LLP
10.2012 - 05.2015

Masters - Computer Applications

DYPIMCA

Bachelor - Computer Applications

SFS College
KEDAR TIWASKAR