BALWINDER SINGH

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

With over a decade of comprehensive Quality Assurance experience, including 6 years in Manual Testing and 4 years in Automation Testing, I've honed exceptional leadership skills. Over 5 years, I've led teams across 2 projects, adeptly managing timelines, client relations, and project roadmaps. Proficient in identifying requirements via JIRA or SRS documents, Excel in Test Plan creation, estimation, and Test case development. Skilled in Python and Selenium, leverage automation tools like AccelQ to reduce manual testing efforts significantly. As a proactive QA, coordinate with Developers, Testers, BAs and Product Owners. Expertise spans diverse domains and technologies, ensuring high-quality QA services.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Resolved automation challenges which led to reduce the time of script creation.

Appreciated by client for completing the project before the deadline with limited resources.

Awarded for coaching people on bench with new automation tool to upskill them.

WORK HISTORY

Senior Automation Engineer, 12/2021 to 10/2023

Accelerize 360 Canada, Inc - Toronto

Experienced in AccelQ automation tool, reduced manual effort by up to 50% through regression and sprint ticket automation, and gave attention to details.

Showcased leadership in fast paced environment, ensured deadlines are met, facilitated effective communication, and problem-solving.

Collaborated with automation team, aided in script creation and debugging while managing team workload as team player.

Created comprehensive test plans, analyze requirements, estimate efforts, and maintain documentation to track testing activities, including MOM and signoff reports.

Schedule automation jobs for Regression testing or integration testing, across environments to preemptively identify issues, for every release and communicate the same to the respective team members.

Providing valuable insights and recommendations based on analytical findings to enhance software quality and reliability.

Prepare quarterly progress reports for team, demonstrating testing progress on application.

Identifying opportunities for innovation in testing processes to increase productivity and reduce manual effort by following best practices.

Coordinate with sales teams for POC calls, ensuring timely completion to boost organization's testing business.

Teat Lead, 11/2014 to 12/2021

TestingXperts Pvt. Ltd. Chandigarh - Chandigarh

Led testing efforts as Test Lead, overseeing API (Postman), Web automation, Selenium, and AccelQ activities, ensuring requirements are met and reducing manual effort by 40%.

Possess deep understanding of test automation frameworks and architecture, focusing on creating automated solutions for regression and smoke testing, thereby minimizing testing time during deployments.

Developed comprehensive Test Plans, traceability matrices, Confluence pages, and presentations for quarterly progress reports, requirement gathering, obstacle resolution, and workload management strategies.

Engaged stakeholders to analyze business requirements and actively participated in Agile Ceremonies, including Backlog refinement, Planning, Scrum, and Retrospective meetings.

Assisted teams in crafting high-level test scenarios and low-level test cases, logging and tracking bugs across environments, and conducting bug retesting.

Conducted peer-to-peer reviews to identify gaps or errors in scripts, fostering knowledge sharing within teams.

Innovated testing methodologies for existing product features, continually improving QA processes to enhance efficiency.

Contributed to sales calls, targeting projects in pipeline and ensuring signing of Statements of Work.

Senior QA Engineer, 01/2013 to 11/2014

QA InfoTech Pvt Ltd. - Chandigarh

Extensively performed Smoke and Regression testing through functional methodologies and make sure to cover all requirements are covered.

Assisted team lead while preparing reports and documents for projects, to get in depth knowledge of QA processes

Managed to write test cases approx. 25-30 (include High, Medium test cases), log bugs, attend agile ceremonies, perform regression testing, retesting, test requirements JIRA tickets and participate in production checkout.

Participated in Test Plan creation with team lead and data creation for test environment.

CONTACT

Address: Kitchener, ON

Phone: 519-***-****

Email: ad4wfd@r.postjobfree.com

SKILLS

Functional Testing

Compatibility Testing

Regression Testing

Project management experience

Knowledge of version control systems

Mobile Application Testing

Security testing knowledge

Customer-focused approach

Cross-browser testing expertise

Expertise in test design

Test management tool expertise

Understanding of Agile methodologies and Waterfall model

Analytical Thinking Capabilities

Experience with CI and CD tools

Strong automation frameworks knowledge

Testing scripts

Test Cases

Root Cause Analysis

Automation

Process Improvement

Project Management

Python Programming

System Integration

TOOLS AND PROGRAMING LANGUAGE

AccelQ, Selenium WebDriver, Pycharm, JIRA, Postman, Jenkin, Confluence, X-ray, TestRail, Rally, Python, Pytest,, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Mantis, Bugzilla, SoapUI, SQL, BrowserStack, Cross Browser Testing, Microsoft Teams.

EDUCATION

Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Applications, 12/2010

Punjab Technical University - Jalandhar, Punjab

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA), Computer Applications, 12/2008

Punjab Technical University - Jalandhar, Punjab

Computer Hardware and Networking Diploma, Computers, 12/2005

Jetking - Chandigarh

CERTIFICATIONS

CSM (Certified Scrum Master), 2023-01-01

ISTQB (Foundation Level), 2023-01-01

AccelQ Certified, 2018-01-01

AWARDS

Start award - Accelerize 360

4 times QA Excellence award - TestingXpers

1 time Pat on the back Award - QAInfoTech

Rock star award - QA Infotech

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