Subhash Kotra

STE

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Timeline
Skills
Manual testing
Quality center
Qtp
Test automation
Regression testing
Test planning
Test cases
Requirements gathering
Testing
Software quality assurance
Quality assurance
System testing
Test management
Test strategy
Hp qtp
Hp quality center
Selenium
Hp quicktest professional
Software development life cycle
Business requirements
Software testing life cycle
Test execution
Defect tracking
Agile testing
Usability testing
Bug tracking
Jira
Integration testing
Requirements analysis
Waterfall project management
Team leadership
Test automation framework
Automation lead
Appium
Api automation
Sql
Agile methodologies
Java
Testng
Xml
Software project management
Web services
User acceptance testing
About me
Senior SDET with 11+ years of experience in IT, including 8+ years’ experience in Test Leading and Test Management. Highly successful in test delivery in a number of projects across a number of industry sectors; including Banking, Retail, Gaming etc. Extensive experience in Software Testing, Testing Strategy, Software Process Improvement, Test automation Selenium Expertise (Web & Android/iOS applications -- Using Appium), BDD, API, SOAP UI, Postman, Cucumber-JVM, TestNG, Java, QTP/UFT, Quality Centre/ALM,SQL, VbScript, Java script, Oracle,SQL Server, HP Quality Centre (QC), JIRA, Git, Bugzilla, SVN, Maven, Jenkins Direct line management of multiple teams including Resource acquisition, Interviews, Setting up teams, Day-to-Day Line Management, Mentoring and Performance management. Expertise in effectively collaborating with internal and external Team members, all acroos the globe with an experience of Scrum Master role too. Have a valid B1 visa until 2027
Education
- Biju Pattnaik University of Technology
  2002 - 2006
  Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science
- Kendriya Vidyalaya
  1990 - 2002
- Cambridge Judge Business School
  2022 - 2023
  100%
Experience
- MAQSoftware
  Nov 2006 - Nov 2007
  STE
- Megasoft
  Nov 2007 - Nov 2008
  SE-I
- IVYComptech
  Dec 2008 - Sept 2010
  Test Engineer
- Wells Fargo India Solutions
  Feb 2011 - Jan 2017
  Migrated of test scripts from QTP 11.0 to Selenium2.0 for IVR,CIV Sales & ServicesScripted the test cases for automation using SeleniumUsed Selenium+TestNG+Maven combo for the projectWorked with SVN as the versioning tool for the automation codeCreated automation framework (BPT) using QTP 11.0 Execution and Maintenance of QTP automation scripts Agile Methodology Tasks monitoring and assigningCreate and maintain automated Regression bed for the various web services using XML’sBeing SPOC for one of the Ultra-Tier I applicationMentoring the new team members in the teamSet up and chair meetings with US partners to get more work for the India teamChair meetings with development and Functional team to provide insights to the defects Show less
  - Sr QA Specialist
    Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
  - Qa Specialist
    May 2012 - Jan 2015
  - Sr. QA
    Feb 2011 - Apr 2012
- NCR Corporation
  Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
  Senior Software Development Engineer Test
  Created automation framework for both Web based and Mobile based applicationsCurrently Using Appium for Mobile and Selenium for Web based applicationsWorked on multiple POC's for the different approaches for automationDid POC on SeeTest for mobile automation Scrum master for Automation Agile teamTracking JIRA for activities of team membersSPOC for entire QA Hyderabad location of the projectMentoring junior team membersHiring for QA engineers and day-day leading activities Show less
- GE Digital
  Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
  Staff QA Engineer (Automation)
- Tide
  Apr 2020 - now
  Strategising overall QA processes at Tide.Playing around with Meastro tool for Flutter Automation.Specialisation in Mobile Automation with Appium but have experience on various tools like Cypress, Selenium etc.Along with them, primarily my role is to increase the branding for Tide in India Building teams and automating projects using Test Pyramid—-with Selenium, Appium, Webservices. Creating micro services for internal use.
  - Engineer-5(Staff QA Engineer/QA Automation Lead)
    Feb 2022 - now
  - Lead SDET
    Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Licenses & Certifications
- FinTech Innovation: Disrupting the Financial Landscape
  Emeritus
  Aug 2023
  View certificate
- Business Analytics: Decision Making Using Data
  Emeritus
  Jun 2023
  View certificate
- Microservices Contract Testing with Pact
  Udemy
- #ATAGTR2023 #Speakers
  Agile Testing Alliance
  Nov 2023
  View certificate