About

Arun Selvam Kanthavel is a Senior Software Test Automation Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the software testing industry. He has expertise in testing various platforms such as Android, iOS, web applications, and backend services. Arun is well-versed in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, Test Life Cycle, and Bug Life Cycle. He is skilled in testing at every phase of the testing process, including Functional, Regression, UI, Acceptance, Ad-hoc, Back End, and End-to-End testing. Arun has extensive experience in agile methodology with a good understanding of SDLC and STLC. He is proficient in using automation and performance testing tools such as Selenium WebDriver, XCUITest, ui automator, Rest-Assured, JMeter, and DevOps to develop testing scripts. He has expertise in understanding Requirement Specifications and preparing test scenarios, test scripts, test cases, test reports, and test design documents. Arun's main responsibilities include creating test plans, test scripts, and test estimation by understanding and analyzing business requirements. He has hands-on usage of Build Tools Jenkins, Maven & Gradle. Arun has experience working with Project Managers and Technical/Functional Teams for executing concurrent projects. He is proficient at mapping client’s requirements, defining heavily used business scenarios, and creating test scripts. Arun has anchored testing requirements and developed test strategy, track & monitor project plans. He has strong communication, coordination, and networking capabilities. Currently, Arun works as an SDET 2 at Ola, where he is responsible for creating and maintaining the Automation Framework using REST-Assured and executing the Automation suite on a daily basis. He has worked with multiple Automation Projects, such as the tooling project for QA, which includes Kafka automation. Arun has also worked directly with the development teams to support both Agile & test-driven software development lifecycle methodologies. He has extensive experience in API Testing using Postman for functional and performed web services testing using Rest-Assured with Java. Arun has worked with various companies in the past, including Gavs Technologies and The Viral Fever, where he was responsible for creating mobile test automation frameworks using Appium-Page Object Model design for hybrid apps, UI Automator-Page Object Model design for Android native apps, and XCUITest-Page Object Model design for iOS native apps. He has managed the complete automation phases from initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and reporting. Arun has also