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Khyati Kothari

Cumming,GA

Summary

Experienced Quality Engineering leader with 15+ years of expertise in managing and developing high-performing teams to deliver top-tier product quality. Proven track record of leading large-scale automation initiatives, optimizing testing frameworks, and implementing cutting-edge QA processes across diverse industries. Skilled in strategic planning, driving continuous improvement, and fostering collaboration between cross-functional teams. Strong technical background in test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based testing environments. Adept at balancing leadership, innovation, and technical execution to achieve business goals while ensuring high standards of product reliability and performance.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
Certificate

Work History

Co Chair of Women Excellence Network (WEN)

Nymbus
04.2024 - Current
  • Co-chaired first employee resource group at Nymbus for Women - Women Empowerment Network (WEN), one of pillars in WEN leadership team to elevate initiatives in terms of women equality at work, mentorship, guidance and allyship.
  • Spearheaded events and workshops for bringing gender diversity, leadership, financial wellness awareness.
  • Partnered with HR and People's team for health awareness.
  • Organized book club to help participants relieve stress and find ways to shake out burnouts at work.

Product Performance Test/VP of Product Performance

Nymbus
08.2023 - Current
  • As VP of Product Performance at Nymbus, it is pivotal role in enhancing and optimizing performance of products tailored for small and medium-sized banks (SMBs)
  • Primary responsibilities include overseeing development and execution of test automation and performance testing strategies to ensure highest quality and reliability of products viz: core, onboarding and digital banking functionalities.
  • Gathering requirements related to in-branch banking systems and digital banking systems from multiple stakeholders to develop a comprehensive performance test strategy and deliver the test plan built before go-live for a for a major client.
  • Developing simulation models based on the estimated volumes of transactions for respective clients to thoroughly test performance of the systems when load is increased by 20% to 200%.
  • Developed strategies to maintain and modularize the test automation framework consisting of UI automated tests using Cucumber, Java, Selenium, Appium technologies and tools.
  • Mentoring manual QAs, developers, product owners and automation test engineers with best practices in quality engineering and providing standard guidelines.
  • Negotiating favorable contracts with vendors like Browserstack and Blazemeter, securing advantageous terms for company while maintaining strong professional relationships.
  • Collaborating closely with various department heads on strategic planning initiatives to ensure alignment between corporate goals.
  • Introduced agile processes in terms of automation, CI/CD which helped to increase test coverage considerably by 15% in a quarter.
  • Implemented process improvements in internal and cross-team communications, reducing collaboration challenges, streamlining release testing, and enhancing overall delivery efficiency.
  • Sharing with executive leadership weekly updates, quarterly progress metrics on test coverage, impediments, challenges, solutions and risk mitigation strategies
  • Creating roadmaps, test strategies and test plans that aligns with leadership goals and vision.
  • Managing team of 13 onshore-offshore resources, allocating resources according to the estimations, capacity and bandwidths.
  • Created documentation related to automation test framework, automated test runs, performance testing metrics, test cases and results that is utilized by cross functional teams for guidance and mentoring.

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Marqeta Inc. (FTE)
03.2022 - 07.2023
  • Test Design & Strategy: Developed automation test frameworks and strategies for digital payment systems including spend controls, bill pay, ACH origination, and JIT payments to ensure high quality and reliability.
  • Collaboration: Partnered with product managers and developers to translate requirements into effective test scenarios and cases, creating comprehensive test plans.
  • Automation Implementation: Implemented automation test framework using Cucumber, Java, Rest Assured, and JUnit5, reducing manual effort by 90% and increasing test coverage.
  • CI Integration: Integrated test suites into CI pipelines with Drone CI, automating tests on every PR, merge to master, and deployment.
  • Performance Testing: Conducted load and performance testing using JMeter and Gatling to assess system behavior under various conditions.
  • Reporting & Storage: Integrated Amazon S3 for storing regression and performance test reports, and created cron jobs in Drone CI for scheduled test executions.
  • End-to-End Testing: Performed comprehensive testing of payment systems, including transaction flows, authentication, and error handling for seamless user experience.
  • Script Development: Created and maintained reusable test automation scripts for payment modules, enhancing efficiency and reducing maintenance efforts.
  • Reporting & Analysis: Analyzed and reported test results, defects, and coverage metrics to stakeholders, supporting data-driven decision-making.
  • Issue Investigation: Worked with development teams to reproduce and debug issues, improving overall quality and stability of product.
  • Knowledge Sharing: Provided training and support to engineers, promoting independence in test suite execution.
  • Strategy Refinement: Collaborated with Manager and Lead QA Engineers to refine automation test strategies and best practices.
  • On-Call Support: Participated in on-call support, debugging production issues, and managing technical debts including upgrades and deployments.
  • Backend Engineering: Developed REST APIs for microservice using Spring Boot 3.0, and wrote unit and integration tests for APIs.
  • Reduced software defects by implementing rigorous testing protocols and employing continuous integration tools.
  • Contributed to ongoing improvement of team processes through regular retrospectives and proactive communication of ideas for enhancements.

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

Equifax
Alpharetta, Georgia
2020.09 - 2022.03
  • Led and managed QE team in technical task assignments, resolving tech debt, and improving test framework. Acted as main point of contact for onshore interface teams regarding test data and use case queries..
  • Develop test strategies for cloud system and equivalence testing on legacy vs cloud systems.
  • Established environment for automated CI/CD for testing with Dev-Ops team.
  • Configuration set up for daily test suit execution and API monitoring.
  • Developed hybrid test framework which uses Rest Assured and Junit5 for project and own implementation of test project.
  • Designed and implemented Data Studio Dashboard for representation of various data including test report, comparison reports, defects reports, release items and work in sprint which is used by whole team.
  • Define technical debt backlog for QE team.
  • Created automated utilities in Test Framework to verify data stored in Big Query, Storage and Datastore in Google Cloud Platform.
  • Execute regression test suite and communicate risk and impact of release deliverables to dev and release management group.
  • Perform smoke test in pre-prod and prod environment for each release.
  • Analyze defects created by interface team and provide feedback on resolution to dev group.
  • Perform POCs on add-on capabilities to include in test framework like packaging capabilities in JAR, connecting to cloud resources using Java-client libraries provided by Google etc.
  • Verify functional/regression defects by performing call to downstream external services layer by layer.
  • Executed environment testing like to verify Load Balancer, verify APICA monitoring alerts, verify Google Monitoring alerts.
  • Part of knowledge transfer sessions within and outside team for system and test framework.
  • Active presenter and participant in sprint demos for functionality tests and technical implementations.

Software Developer Engineer in Test

Equifax
Alpharetta, Georgia
09.2019 - 07.2020
  • Developed and evaluated manual and automated test plans to ensure product quality.
  • Built test framework with QE team to run test suites in Google Kubernetes.
  • Created automated XML comparison tool for testing legacy vs. cloud systems.
  • Actively participated in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
  • Conducted end-to-end functional, regression, smoke, and sanity tests.
  • Analyzed and reported automated test failures with appropriate priority and severity.
  • Implemented parallel testing, grouped test suites, and tagged test cases using Junit5.
  • Utilized Jenkins for builds and Google Kubernetes for cloud deployment.
  • Executed smoke tests for production releases to ensure quality in production environment.

Sr. Quality Engineer

Northern Natural Gas
Omaha, Nebraska
2019.01 - 2019.07
  • Project was Web and API testing for project which handled customer/vendor activities that generated contract for vendors, calculated invoices, nominated vendors based on lowest rates.
  • Participated in User Story grooming , technical design reviews, weekly stand-up meetings.
  • Analyzed business requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Developed and mapped test cases with user stories in JIRA, tracking status for weekly reports.
  • Presented test plans to business team for review.
  • Prepared SQL scripts for test data using Oracle SQL Developer.
  • Developed automated test cases using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and Eclipse IDE.
  • Performed functional verification testing (FVT) to ensure designs met requirements.
  • Logged defects in JIRA with details and associated them with test cases for better understanding.
  • Conducted web service testing and XML validation using SOAP UI.
  • Generated test reports to track tested cases and discovered defects.

Test Automation Engineer (SDET)

AmeriHealth
Nashville, Tennessee
2017.02 - 2018.12
  • Project was for healthcare client which created and maintained web-based application that allowed insured to log in and view claims regarding their account.
  • Participated in all SDLC phases from requirements analysis to post-production support.
  • Tested applications in Agile environment using SCRUM methodology, including kickoff meetings and user story reviews.
  • Developed automation framework with Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, Java, and TestNG.
  • Created test scripts from JIRA user stories and documented functional test cases in HP ALM.
  • Automated test execution using Maven build scripts.
  • Designed data-driven framework with Apache POI for extracting data from Excel sheets.
  • Managed and reported defects through JIRA.
  • Executed SQL queries to validate UI and backend data
  • Conducted REST API testing using Postman and RESTAssured.
  • Performed cross-browser, end-to-end, functional, and user acceptance testing.
  • Coordinated with Development and QA teams to establish build schedules.

QA Analyst (Manual/Automation)

Assurant
Miami, Florida
2016.07 - 2016.12
  • Project was for global provider insurance company and was related to Renewing Insurance and Filing Claims online.
  • Conducted testing in Agile environment.
  • Analyzed system requirements and created detailed test plans, test cases, and scripts for Application Under Test (AUT).
  • Executed manual testing to assess functional and business requirements for both positive and negative scenarios using ALM/Quality Center.
  • Verified web services API request and response data in REST and SOAP protocols.
  • Automated API testing for REST services using RESTAssured Java Library.
  • Set up test environment for web services testing.
  • Tested SOA-based architecture applications and SOAP services using SOAPUI.
  • Performed GUI testing by automating scripts in QTP/UFT.
  • Developed and managed QTP/UFT scripts with object models, description programming, and handled dynamic objects with VBScript and regular expressions.
  • Utilized Object Repository, Object Spy, and Checkpoints for QTP script recording.

Manual Tester

Rolcon Engineering Company Ltd.
Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India
2008.11 - 2012.04
  • This System is designed to handle all aspects associated with movement of product into, out of and within four walls of warehouse.
  • Identified test requirements and prepared test strategies, plans, and cases based on business needs.
  • Collaborated with technical analysts to develop functional specifications.
  • Conducted manual testing of modules and system-wide application.
  • Created and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix.
  • Used Quality Center for test case management, execution, and status tracking.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

A. D. Patel Institute of Technology, Gujarat, India
New Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
07.2004

Skills

  • Strategic planning
  • Strong leadership and mentorship
  • Technical Expertise
  • Process Optimization
  • Project and Program Management
  • Resource Allocation
  • Budget Management
  • Innovation and continuous improvement
  • Stakeholder cross functional communication

Certification

SAFe 6.0 Certified Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)

Profession Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Accomplishments

Papers Published

  • Comparison of several cloud computing providers - Elixir Comp. Sci. & Engineering Journal 38 (2011) 4451-4454
  • Demystifying the Mobile Cloud - NUiCONE 2011 International Conference, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

Technical Tools

Datadog

Blazemeter

Logz

Gatling

JMeter

Browserstack

Selenium

Appium

Selenide

GitLab

GitHub

JIRA

Smartsheet

Looker (Data Analytics)

Languages

English

Timeline

Co Chair of Women Excellence Network (WEN)

Nymbus
04.2024 - Current

Product Performance Test/VP of Product Performance

Nymbus
08.2023 - Current

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Marqeta Inc. (FTE)
03.2022 - 07.2023

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

Equifax
2020.09 - 2022.03

Software Developer Engineer in Test

Equifax
09.2019 - 07.2020

Sr. Quality Engineer

Northern Natural Gas
2019.01 - 2019.07

Test Automation Engineer (SDET)

AmeriHealth
2017.02 - 2018.12

QA Analyst (Manual/Automation)

Assurant
2016.07 - 2016.12

Manual Tester

Rolcon Engineering Company Ltd.
2008.11 - 2012.04

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

A. D. Patel Institute of Technology, Gujarat, India

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