About
I was Born and brought up in Tamilnadu, India . Growing up, I had a unique
perspective of the world - being indian and being an Engineer. I really enjoy learning new things
and am constantly seeking out new learning opportunities. I'm not afraid of failure. In fact, I think it
is an essential part of the experimental process that gets you to success.
I graduated from the Sethu Institute of technology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, with a B.E in Mechanical
Engineering as an Institute level Bronze Medalist.
Years of experience in the field of Information Technology and services, providing automation and development services with varied technologies and requirements.
Projects Completed up to date including professional and own creational projects.
Certifications done with readily available online validation of the certificates from Leading E-Learning Providers.
Proficient Technologies with professional handson experience in End to End Testing, Automation, Backend-Web Development and Devops.
Awards and Recognition from Multi-national company for professional outstanding performance, team work, out-of-box thinking with recognized certificates from the organization
Skills
I'am an Excellent problem solver with good analytical skills, solid understanding of a software development and computer programming, highly organized and creative, possess engineering leadership, strong research skills, excellent written and communication skills with high proficiency in writing automation scripts.
Resume
I'm an Experienced Automation Engineer with a demonstrable history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in API Automation, JMeter, Maven, Agile Methodologies, Quality Assurance, and UI Automation. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Engineering - B.E. focused in Automation Testing and Web Development and all related Technologies.
Summary
Abdus Shakur
Highly dedicated Quality Assurance Automation Engineer & Developer, Offering with over 2.88 years of Industry Experience in Automated Testing.
- Madurai, TamilNadu, India.
- abdusshakurt@gmail.com
Professional Experience
Quality Assurance Automation Lead
Apr 2020 - Present
Tata Consultancy Services, Kochi, Kerala, India
- Consistently received highest band for three years along with 2X pay rise after clearing an organization level high talent capablity assessment in 2021
- Capable of managing multiple user stories simultaneously even of high complexities.
- Presented live demo to clients for newly created custom framework from scratch with multiple features.
- Lead in the design, development and implementation of the automation tests
- Delegate tasks to the members of the team and provide counsel on all aspects of the project.
- Had a clear idea of how the app is supposed to work in every aspect. Set up a test environment in alignment with all the requirements
- Manage Offshore Testing Team and Ensure daily tasks to be promptly fulfilled & comments to be updated in Effort tracking tool.
- Fulfilled all the stories/tasks committed to at the start of the sprint/day, zero spillovers.Participate on Scrum stand up, Sprint grooming, Sprint planning & retrospection connects.
- DevOps: Integrate the automation project with Dev project & Dev pipeline thereby. With every deployment the regression suite to run smoothly. Also ensure JIRA integration of automation status is done by end of each sprint.
End to End Automation Engineer
Sep 2019 - Present
Tata Consultancy Services, Kochi, Kerala, India
- Brainstorming for requirement analysis and identifying and prioritizing test requirements.
- Prepare test plan documentation, Estimate time, efforts and Finalize on tools and platform.
- Picking out requirements for both automated and functional testing.
- Understand the Product expectations thoroughly.
- Ensure proper communications are proactively triggered to the concerned audience when the regression suite fails. Conduct RCA & send out the details to the right audience.
UI Automation Engineer
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Tata Consultancy Services, Kochi, Kerala, India
- Worked in a project involving ERP Based Application UI and API Testing
- Create Automation scripts for Provided module with test steps, test data from scratch.
- Validate the execution of the intended functionality in application using the GUI Identification of Functional issues as well Application bugs during automation.
- Recognized for creating a Automation Utility for a ERP Based module which allows every element in web page to be accessed without providing xpaths. hence, reduced multiple lines of code, error handling implementing it as a framework level feature.
- Follow up on the status of delivered scripts in jira until script approved and take to closure.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical.
2014 - 2018
Sethu Institute of Technology, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.
- Completed Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical with Distinction and CGPA of 8.979.
- Graduated Bachelor of Engineering, as an Institute level Medalist.
- Received Certificate of Appreciations and rewards for securing more than 9 GPA in Multiple semesters.
Higher Secondary Education
2012 - 2014
Thiagarajar Model Higher Secondary School, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.
- Maths - Biology
- Completed Higher Secondary Education with 84.3 %.
Secondary Education
2011 - 2012
Thiagarajar Model Higher Secondary School, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.
- Graduated Secondary School with 94.6 %.
- Secured 3rd place at School level.
- Recognized for Meritorious acheivements in Secondary school by JCI India and TAMGRADS.
Certifications
Selenium WebDriver with Java - Advanced + Frameworks
Indepth Understanding of Building Backend for Web Applications from Scratch
JMeter - Performance Testing
Design Robust Performance Testcases in Jmeter tool with the help of available features and Monitor the Performance of application with different Load Parameters
Git Complete - The Definitive Guide
Very Solid Understanding and Hands-On Experience with Git and related source control concepts.
Figma UI / UX Design Essentials
Design Interface using Powerfull tools like constraints for responsive layouts
GMath - Permutations and Combinations
Well Researched Explanations as well as time saving techniques for Solving Permutations and Combinations (PnC) problems
Achievements and Awards
Awards
On the Spot Awards
3 Awards
Tata Consultancy Services, Kochi, Kerala, India
For Ensuring the Quality of organization delieverables, with Increased attention to details and impeccable knowledge of the domain.
Created Highest number of automation scripts in the team at the critical delieverable period.
Provided the leadership with extra edge to talk about the wealth of knowledge regarding domain or technology to the customers.
Team Awards
3 Awards
Tata Consultancy Services, Kochi, Kerala, India
Best team award based on the appreciations from client and inclusive of 2 On-the-spot award for exceptional performance as a team.
Insitute Level Medalist
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical
Applause Award
Out-Of-The-Box thinking
Tata Consultancy Services, Kochi, Kerala, India
For solving critical customer issue with a simple java program based tool.
Java Web Services
Virtualized Data Service
Spring Boot
Virtual data service which records the changing data at a specific point to database and pushes the same to the cache upon test execution for regression.
Availabilty Dashboard
Spring Boot, React and MongoDb
Environment availabilty service with React based UI Dashboard which displays the availability of test environments.
UI Automation
Automation Framework
Framework Enhancement
Designed an Automation framework based on selenium implementing a Page-Object Model, Extent Report and query based data extraction from excel with filtering algorithm to speed up scripting upto 5X for test suites.
Automation Tool
Value Addition
Created an application specific tool which follow the specified pattern of xpath extraction. To completely automate the process of navigations thereby increasing automation teams productivity.
API Automation
Custom API Framework
Automation framework
Created a REST-Assured based automation framework with in-built dynamic header management and embedded OAuth token generation mechanism with Apache poi based test data and integrated mongoDb support for centralized and parallel test suite execution.
Velocity template integration
Framework Enhancement
Dynamic generation of json upon test execution to enable hassle free test data maintenance with increased productivity.
Jira Integration
Jira , TestNG
Embedded Jira Integration to the custom developed framework. Which enables local or over the cloud executed test cases to reflect the live result status in jira eliminating the need of manual updation
Devops
Single Touch Regression Suite
Jenkins
Enabled test cases from multiple projects to be executed in multiple environments with a simple customizable parametrized jenkins job.
Health Check Report
Jenkins
Highly flexible environment monitoring tool for over 20+ Api's in 12 enviroment with scheduled reports being sent to the clients.