About

Ashok Kumar is a highly skilled Principle QA Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the field of software engineering of enterprise applications. He has been in retail e-commerce for the last 4.7 years working on Hybris e-commerce suite and other customized business solutions. Ashok is an expert in software quality engineering, with deep expertise in automation framework development, test automation tools, test strategy, team management, product release management, and performance testing. As a leader and mentor of the quality engineering team, Ashok built an automation framework using Java and other open source technologies that were used by the QA team to automate the e-commerce site. He also built a robust, scalable, and high-quality test automation framework from scratch in Java using Page Object Model and TestNG approach for functional and non-functional feature testing of web and native apps. Ashok is also an expert in building REST API(s) automation from scratch using REST Assured and Postman. Ashok has extensive experience in functional, integration, regression, compatibility, localization, and exploratory testing. He is well-versed in automation framework - Page Object Model, BDD using Cucumber and keyword-driven, other frameworks - Spring, Hibernate, programming languages - Java, scripting languages - Shell script, JavaScript, test automation tools - RestAssured v3.1, Selenium WebDriver v3.11, Appium v1.8.0, TestNG v6.10, ExtentReport v2.41.1 and Apache JMeter for Performance testing, test management tools - JIRA, TestRail and TestLink, other tools - Eclipse, Maven, Jenkins, Postman, Newman, and Robomongo, debugging tools - XPath, Firebug, CSS, Firepath, and UI Automator, source control tools - Bitbucket and SVN, platforms - iOS v11.3, Android v8.0, Linux, and Windows, and databases - MySQL, Oracle10g, and MongoDB. Ashok's relevant experience is 11.78 years, with past companies including Pronto Networks as a Software Engineer and Craft Silicon as an Internship Trainee. He holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from PES College. Ashok is currently working as a Principle QA Engineer at Landmark Group, where he continues to demonstrate his expertise in software quality engineering and automation framework development.