Varun Viswanathan, Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Varun Viswanathan

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Financial.com

Location
India
Education
Master's degree, Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Experience
9 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 10 Months

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Financial.com
  • India
  • My current job since December 2020

Handled the functional testing activities for an equity trading product developed for TD Bank, Canada and accessibility testing adhering to WCAG 2.1 guidelines.
•Supported the UI automation of the product using the internal framework based on Selenium and Java with TestNG/Cucumber

Quality Assurance Engineering Specialist at Baker Hughes
  • India
  • August 2018 to September 2020

Good exposure to production activities and associated remote operations, in oil and gas industry
•Designed API automation framework based on Java, Serenity (Rest Assured) and Cucumber
•Worked on development of a consolidated framework (UI + API) based on Java, Selenium and Rest Assured, designed as per SOLID principles
•Managed a team of 5 automation/manual testers across 2 different Agile-SCRUM teams
•Involved in CI/CD activities for the respective projects, with Jenkins/Azure Devops
•Through parallel automated tests, the time required for smoke and sanity suite execution was cut short by more than 70%. Also, the timeline for regression suite came down by 50%.
•Associated with maintaining an existing framework for UI automation based on JavaScript (Protractor)
•Participated in different testing related hackathons and tech talks, both offline and online

Test Analyst (Associate at Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • India
  • April 2014 to August 2018

Exposure to Banking and Insurance domains (IFC-World Bank Group and Northwestern Mutual projects)
•Handled automation of different applications using Selenium (Java), UFT (VbScript) and Ranorex (C#)
•Maintained and enhanced the internal test framework with improved capabilities
•Exposure to both UI and desktop-based applications
•Enabled 100% automation of several document comparison activities which helped in considerable cost savings
•Worked on different Request for Proposals and Proof of Concepts, related to the client engagement

Education

Master's degree, Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
  • at University of Nottingham
  • January 2013

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Cochin University of Science and Technology
  • January 2012

Specialties & Skills

Web Testing
Selenium
QA Automation
AUTOMATION
BANKING
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
INSURANCE
JAVASCRIPT
Functional Testing
API Automation
Rest Assured
Selenium
MICROSOFT C#

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Test Automation training (Training)
Training Institute:
Cognizant Academy

Hobbies

  • Reading