About

Giridhar Rajkumar is a seasoned Quality Assurance Lead with over 13 years of experience working in Agile environments. He has a passion for software development and is an expert in providing technical advice to overcome testing challenges and implementing solutions using futuristic tools. Giridhar has a wealth of experience in end-to-end BDD strategy planning and implementation, including process automation activities like framework design. He is a specialist in implementing continuous testing phases for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment with suitable tools. Giridhar has expertise in designing and implementing Selenium-based test automation frameworks with respect to Java and C# technologies. He is extremely talented in innovating new tools for testing strategies with respect to BDD and other open-source test automation solutions. Giridhar has trained over 5000 IT professionals, including fresh graduates and experienced individuals, on Selenium with Java and C# technologies, BDD concepts, and test automation. He has authored books on BDD strategies and best practices for Gherkin writing and Say Hello to DevOps in Amazon UK. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the learndevtestops.com blog and an instructor at Test Automation University. Currently, Giridhar works as a Quality Engineering Manager at Deloitte, where he manages internal products from a quality assurance perspective. He interacts with business owners to implement testing strategies for product development, comprehensively records defects discovered during execution of QA cases, and monitors QA activities across all audit products to ensure successful improvements. He reports progress and provides metrics or reports required to support the QA Managers & Leads. In his previous roles, Giridhar worked as a Test Automation Architect/Lead at Hexaware Technologies, where he managed the test automation portfolio and its transformation for a leading UK financial services provider. He also worked as a Test Automation Consultant at Wipro, where he led a transformation team for a banking customer to support their QE transformation targets. Giridhar holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. His tech stack includes test, QA, SDET, Senior Software Engineer, Selenium, Java, DevOps, CI/CD, integration, mobile, UI, and infra. Overall, Giridhar has 9.43 years of relevant experience in the field.