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Rishabh Wadhwa

QA Automation Lead
Málaga

Summary

Experienced Automation QA Lead with 9.5 years of experience in the IT industry with background in ensuring software quality and efficiency. Strong skills include team management, process improvement, and proficient use of testing tools. Demonstrated success in implementing new testing methodologies to enhance productivity and product quality. Confident communicator with ability to liaise effectively between technical teams and stakeholders.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

QA Team Lead

Verisk
02.2023 - Current

Verisk Analytics, Inc. is an American multinational data analytics and risk assessment firm based in Jersey City, New Jersey, with customers in insurance, natural resources, financial services, government, and risk management sectors.
Responsibilities:

  • Evaluated new tools and technologies in the industry, recommending upgrades when necessary for increased productivity.
  • Conducted root cause analysis for recurring issues, leading to long-term solutions, and improved reliability.
  • Implemented automation tools to reduce manual testing efforts, increasing efficiency and accuracy.
  • Managed resources effectively, ensuring optimal team performance and productivity.
  • Advised on best practices for software development processes, contributing to higher-quality deliverables.
  • Delivered excellent results under tight deadlines by effectively managing workload distribution among team members.

Tools and Technologies:
AWS services, Selenium, Postman, JMeter, Jira, Bamboo, K6, New Relic, SonarQube, Kibana, Splunk.

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
07.2022 - 10.2022

Apple | Jul 2022 - Oct 2022

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company that specializes in consumer electronics, software and online services headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborated on requirements and processes with project managers and developers.
  • Identified appropriate situations for implementing test automation, accounting for situations where automated testing was counterproductive.
  • Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to improve.
  • Participated in test automation code review meetings and provided feedback in code corrections.

Tools and Technologies:

Swift, Internal Apple tools

Automation QA Lead

Avizva Technology Solutions
10.2019 - 06.2022

Argus - Data Integration | Jan 2021 - June 2022

Argus as an organization interacts and integrates with multiple different systems (internal and external) and vendors from an operational perspective. These interactions pertain to transactions and data flows and are critical for Argus to run efficiently to provide the service it needs to provide its customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Team lead, ensuring overall stability and quality of data flow across multiple systems.
  • Create Test Plan, Test Strategy and Release Notes.
  • Create and maintain Automation framework using TestNG for validation of data.
  • Validate multiple APIs being used in the system.
  • Validations involve validation of output files produced post-integration with respect to input data, validation of audit logs produced during data integration, scheduling and triggering integration jobs, database checks for audit and tracking entries.
  • Implement CI/CD using Jenkins.
  • Onboarding and mentoring new team members, including both experienced and entry-level talent.

Tools and Technologies:

IntelliJ, Java, TestNG, Maven, Report Portal, Jenkins, RestAssured, Postman, Filezilla, JIRA.

WellServ Platform | July 2020 - Jan 2021

WellServ is a platform to support WellDyne Member Service Representatives and also administration of WellView Portal Assets (like content etc.) and for operations team to service WellView Members.

Responsibilities:

  • Create and maintain Automation framework using BDD and Cucumber for acceptance testing of AUT.
  • Create Test Plan, Test Strategy and Release Notes.
  • Create Automation scripts for Sanity and Regression testing.
  • Implement CI-CD using Jenkins.

Tools and Technologies:

IntelliJ, Selenide, Java, Cucumber, Maven, Jenkins, Report Portal, Apache Kafka, JIRA.

EBMS - Data Integration | Oct 2019 - July 2020

EBMS's Data Interchange is an Enterprise Integration Platform for all data transmission within EBMS (all internal interfaces) and with its Partners (all external interfaces).

Responsibilities:

  • Create well designed & efficient test scenarios to validate data integration (for claims, eligibility and more) between multiple source and destination systems. This data can take multiple forms and structures ranging from simple databases to complex flat file structure and everything within.
  • Ensure successful data migration from one database to another using data transformations as per crosswalks and validate data for individual groups and members, post such transformations & enrichments.

Tools and Technologies:

Talend for Data Integration, IntelliJ, Selenium, Java, Azure DevOps.

Sr. Automation QA

Healthians
02.2019 - 10.2019

Healthians is premier provider of in-home health test services, delivering a diverse array of diagnostic health tests nationwide in India.

Responsibilities:

  • Developed Automation framework using selenium and java from scratch.
  • Perform Functional & Regression Testing.
  • Perform Performance testing using JMeter and Postman.
  • Gained knowledge on AWS device farming for automating cross-platform mobile app testing.
  • Validation of data entries in DataBase using MySql.
  • Defect logging and tracking using JIRA.
  • Mentor new team members, provide training on Domain, Process and Project.

Tools and Technologies:

Eclipse IDE, Selenium, Java, Maven, JMeter, Postman, AWS Device Farming, MySql, JIRA.

QA Automation Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2015 - 10.2019

KPN | Aug 2016 - Feb 2019

(Koninklijke KPN N.V.) is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company. KPN started as a public telecommunications company and is based in The Hague, Netherlands.

Responsibilities:

  • Create Test cases and Test scenarios.
  • Create and execute Automation scripts using Selenium.
  • Defect Logging and Tracking using JIRA.
  • Perform Functional & Regression Testing.
  • Track requirements and efforts using JIRA.

Tools and Technologies:

Eclipse IDE, Java, Maven, Salesforce, JIRA.

Discover Financial Services Inc. | July 2015 - July 2016

DFS is an American financial services company, which issues the Discover Card and operates the Discover and Pulse networks.

Responsibilities:

  • Create Automation scripts for UI functionalities using UFT.
  • Perform Functional & Regression Testing.
  • Defect logging and tracking using HP ALM.
  • Mentor new team members, provide training on Domain, Process & Project.

Tools and Technologies:

UFT, HP ALM.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim
07.2010 - 07.2014

Timeline

QA Team Lead - Verisk
02.2023 - Current
Senior Associate - Cognizant Technologies Solutions
07.2022 - 10.2022
Automation QA Lead - Avizva Technology Solutions
10.2019 - 06.2022
Sr. Automation QA - Healthians
02.2019 - 10.2019
QA Automation Engineer - Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2015 - 10.2019
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology
07.2010 - 07.2014

Skills

Functional testing

Rishabh WadhwaQA Automation Lead