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Rahul Choudhary

I am a Lead SDET with over 10 years of experience in automating web, mobile, and API testing, having worked across a range of companies, including both small and mid-sized firms as well as global organizations like Amazon and Walmart. I bring a strong track record in building and leading high-performing automation teams, developing comprehensive testing strategies, and delivering scalable automation frameworks.

I am passionate about driving quality and innovation in software development and am eager to contribute my expertise in quality engineering and automation to a forward-thinking organization.

I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my experience and skills can align with your team’s goals.

  • Role

    Senior Lead - SDET

  • Years of Experience

    11.5 years

  • Professional Portfolio

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Skillsets

  • Pom(page object model)
  • Gherkin
  • Postman
  • Api verification
  • Automation framework
  • AWS/GCP/Azure
  • Backend Automation
  • Cypress
  • Database Testing
  • Device farm
  • Frontend automation
  • Java script
  • mobile automation
  • Appium
  • REST Assured
  • test plan
  • Test Strategy
  • Web services automation
  • Whitebox testing
  • Writing testcases
  • Playwright(js)
  • Nosql(mongo, etc)
  • Gherkin(cucumber)
  • Etl / elt (data pipeline)
  • Automation using ai and ml
  • Robot framework(python)
  • TestRail
  • Python - 7 Years
  • Java
  • Python
  • Selenium
  • JMeter
  • TestNG
  • Appium
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • SQL
  • Java - 11 Years
  • Java
  • Python
  • Selenium
  • JMeter
  • TestNG
  • Appium
  • Java
  • Python
  • Selenium
  • JMeter
  • TestNG

Professional Summary

11.5Years
  • Sep, 2024 - Present1 yr 1 month

    Senior Lead - SDET

    09 solutions
  • Apr, 2023 - Sep, 20241 yr 5 months

    Lead SDET

    Hevo Data
  • Feb, 2022 - Apr, 20231 yr 2 months

    QAE-2 (L-5)

    Amazon
  • Sep, 2016 - Jul, 2017 10 months

    Automation Testing Engineer

    Crestech software systems
  • Aug, 2017 - Jun, 20202 yr 10 months

    SDET-2

    Corevalue Technologies
  • Jun, 2020 - Oct, 20211 yr 4 months

    QAE-3

    Walmart
  • Apr, 2014 - Sep, 20162 yr 5 months

    Testing Engineer

    Primologic systems

Applications & Tools Known

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    Jenkins

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    TestRail

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    Gherkin

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    Docker

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    AWS

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    GCP

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    Azure

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    Git

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    Jira

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    Postman

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    TestNG

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    JMeter

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    Selenium

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    Rest Assured

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    Appium

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    Java

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    NoSql

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    SQL

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    Visual Studio

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    RestAssured

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    Appium

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    Visual studio

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    Appium

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    TestNG

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    AWS

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    GCP

Work History

11.5Years

Senior Lead - SDET

09 solutions
Sep, 2024 - Present1 yr 1 month
    Leading a team of 8 QA engineers, driving manual and automation quality initiatives. Collaborating with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and Developers to analyze sprint requirements and define test strategies. Created a Robot-based automation framework using Python and Playwright. Automated scripts and validated results for Database/LS Specific system. Validated REST/SOAP APIs using Postman and automated using RESTAssured, Unirest, Pytest, etc. Utilized AI tools for test automation.

Lead SDET

Hevo Data
Apr, 2023 - Sep, 20241 yr 5 months
    Led a team of 5 engineers. Validated and automated ETL-based systems with 150+ Data sources and 8 destinations. Designed scalable Gherkin-based RestAssured test automation framework. Established CI/CD with Jenkins. Defined automation strategies for current and future features. Authored framework documentation and reduced onboarding time by 70%. Leveraged AI tools for test case creation and efficiency.

QAE-2 (L-5)

Amazon
Feb, 2022 - Apr, 20231 yr 2 months
    Managed test allocation for a team with focus on Arabic speakers for Alexa device testing. Automated test cases for Web, Backend, and Mobile using BlueGrass Automation and NLU Validator. Led test case design and documentation. Independently led Amazon Music Voice domain.

QAE-3

Walmart
Jun, 2020 - Oct, 20211 yr 4 months
    Designed new Cucumber-based automation framework using TestNG and RestAssured, and Cypress-based framework for web projects. Mentored and led team of 4 testers, managed sprints and task allocation. Acted as the main point of contact for returns process, coordinating with 8 teams.

SDET-2

Corevalue Technologies
Aug, 2017 - Jun, 20202 yr 10 months
    Automated multiple projects: Backend using Rest assured and UniRest, Frontend-Web using Cypress, and Frontend-Mobile using Appium. Domain expertise in US Healthcare systems (FHIR, HL7, CCDA, etc). Prepared test strategies and plans. Functional validations and exploratory testing. Managed team resources across client projects and cycles, handled onboarding, training, and appraisals.

Automation Testing Engineer

Crestech software systems
Sep, 2016 - Jul, 2017 10 months
    Mobile automation using Appium, Opkey, and AWS Device Farm for Payback system. Automated APIs using RestAssured, UniRest, and WireMock. Led client communications and project meetings. Trained and mentored 3 interns on automation.

Testing Engineer

Primologic systems
Apr, 2014 - Sep, 20162 yr 5 months
    Handled functional validation in the financial domain, client communication, automation using Visual Studio Coded UI in C#. Sole QA resource managing requirements and coordination.

Achievements

  • Developed test automation framework for backend Data pipeline service using Gherkin based RestAssured framework reducing overall ship time by around 60%.
  • Selection of tools, Framework, and design as per need of company and CI/CD implementation using Jenkins and process for nightly build and on demand test execution.
  • Planning of how fast and with what assumptions and base lines we can develop framework so that it may not only assist current features but will handle in case the whole Tool revamps.
  • Provided initial training on framework which I developed to 5 Engineers; it eventually helped reduce testing time by 50% for the organisation.
  • Managing a Team of 5 engineers and taking part in appraisal cycle of these Engineers.
  • Developed documents for the test automation framework including Design doc, Synopsis, HLD and LLD Diagrams, Dedicated doc on 'how to run framework taking clone from Git' and 'how to add new test cases to it'.
  • Automated selected test cases for all UI(Web), Backend and Mobile using 2 different frameworks namely BlueGrass Automation and NLU Validator for Voice command specific automation reducing overall testing time by 30%.
  • Created a new framework based on Cucumber based approach using TestNG and RestAssured, which cut-down the test automation time by around 40%.
  • Mentored other team members in understanding the new framework and proposed a development path which helped them a lot.
  • Handled testing team tasks, preparation of Sprint tasks, priority assignment, and handling Adhoc tasks.
  • Routed and assigned QA tasks for my team involving multiple collaborations with 8 different teams in Walmart.
  • Test Automation framework designing
  • Tool Selection and Process
  • Test strategy and planning
  • Training and Development
  • Team Management
  • Documentation
  • Test-Cases Designing and assembling
  • Test Automation
  • IC in Testing
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Functional validations
  • Quality Advocacy
  • Team handling
  • Functional validation
  • Client communications
  • Automation Testing
  • Mobile Automation
  • API Automation
  • Training and Management

Education

  • B.Tech IT

    IEC-CET (2013)