About

Gopal Krushna Nayak is a highly experienced Senior Manager in Quality Assurance with over 15 years of experience in software testing. He has a strong focus on automation testing and possesses excellent Java programming skills, enabling him to write clean, maintainable code. Gopal is proficient in OOPS concepts, data structures, and has a good understanding of web fundamentals such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Gopal has extensive experience in the design and development of automation frameworks and has automated various applications using Selenium Webdriver, Java, and TestNG. He is well-versed in the Page Object Model, Selenium grid, parallel execution, and execution on headless chrome browser. Additionally, he has experience with BrowserStack to test applications across various browsers on different OSes and mobile devices. Gopal has evaluated various JavaScript-based UI automation testing tools such as WebdriverIO, WebdriverJS, and Protractor. He has also developed a framework using WebdriverIO and automated a few applications using it. He has automation experience in Java API testing and is good at white box testing. Gopal has excellent knowledge of testing REST services and has used Advanced REST Client and Postman for manual testing. He is well-versed with Apache HttpClient for automation testing and has developed a prototype based on Python for REST APIs automation testing using Requests module, unittest, and ddt. He has experience in performance testing using Jmeter and has evaluated a Python-based performance testing tool called Locust and developed a framework. Gopal has experience in writing unit tests using Junit and has effective skills in writing SQL queries. He has a good understanding of nosql databases such as MongoDB and InfluxDB. He has managed a team of more than 10 members for 5 years and is good at Test Strategy, Test planning, Test Design, Defect Management, and estimation. He has a good understanding of the Software Test Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies and has working knowledge of Agile-Scrum methodology. Currently, Gopal works as a Project Manager at Arcesium and has previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer - Quality at Intuit and a Member of Technical Staff at VMware. He has a PGDIT degree from IIT and a BTech degree from NIT Silchar. Gopal's tech stack includes test, QA, Java, Selenium, CI/CD, JavaScript, SQL, UI, Software Engineer, Python, NoSQL, MongoDB, Integration, Mobile, Web, SDET, product