About

Gaurav Singh is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building strong SDET, Test Automation, and Quality culture in teams. He is currently working at Meta as a Software Engineer, responsible for building Test Infrastructure, Automated Testing frameworks, and tooling to ease developers' lives across Mobile and Web clients. With over 10 years of experience in Software Testing, QA, and building scalable Test automation frameworks, tools, and infrastructure for Web, Mobile, and Backend systems from scratch, Gaurav is an experienced Software Engineer in Test (SDET). He has hands-on experience in managing QA and SDET functions for a product group and has led a team of 8+ members as an SDET Manager. Gaurav is a polyglot programmer and is adept at writing Java, Kotlin, Python, and JavaScript code. He is also a Test automation university (TAU) instructor with open-source courses on Visual validation with Applitools and API Testing using Python. He has spoken at notable Testing and automation conferences like SeleniumConf, AppiumConf, AutomationGuild, and maintains a blog about his journey in Software engineering and Testing over at https://automationhacks.io/ and a regular newsletter at https://newsletter.automationhacks.io/. Gaurav's tech skills include UI automation using Appium (Android, iOS), Selenium, Applitools, Espresso, and API automation using RestAssured, Requests, Postman. He is proficient in languages like Kotlin, Python, Java, Javascript, Typescript, and Hack. He has experience with build tools like Gradle, Test Runners like TestNG, Cucumber, Pytest, and Load Testing using Locust. He is also skilled in QA, Exploratory Testing, Test Planning, Risk analysis, Estimation, Facilitate bug bashes/mob testing, JIRA, Zephyr, TestRail, CI using Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, and Version Control using Git. Gaurav is a skilled people person and has experience in Roadmap planning and execution, Agile, and Mentoring. He has previously worked as an Engineering Manager SDET at Gojek, where he designed and built QA processes, Test automation strategy, and frameworks for Logistics group from scratch and delivered consumer-facing apps and backend releases at scale. He has also led and mentored a 10 member team of SDET and QE's. Gaurav has a B.Tech degree in Information