About

Jeffrey Kingsley is an ISTQB certified SDET with over 9 years of experience in quality assurance. He is a Solutions Architect for Digital Products at Visa Europe, where he focuses on automating innovative and creative solutions without compromising on Time-to-Market using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Jeffrey has managed and worked in functional and automation teams for 3 years and as an individual contributor for 6 years. Jeffrey has a keen sense of awareness in building Automation Tools using Java and Python, and has built various in-house tools that enable the test engineering community to be more productive. He has a wide knowledge in API, Web, and Desktop based application testing and familiarity in Functional (Manual) and Automation testing with tools and libraries like Selenium, Rest Assured, HttpClient, QTP, Postman, SOAPUI, Parasoft, and Jenkins. Colleagues consider Jeffrey as the 'go-to' person when it comes to problem-solving in both domain and technical issues. He is known to be a skilled multi-tasker and always has customer satisfaction at the forefront without compromising on the quality of the deliverable. Jeffrey has a passion for testing with attention to detail and believes that learning is a continuous process and that we are a work in progress. Jeffrey's past work experiences include being a Staff Software Engineer and a Senior Software Test Engineer at Visa, where he championed change by driving new initiatives, built an in-house framework for Governance and Monitoring the health of the release by integrating the Automation suites with Test Management Tools, and solved long-standing problems for the team by building tools that monitor Test Data on across multiple components for quick resolution. He also has experience in Functional and Integration testing of critical components, API automation and execution using SOATest, SOAPUI, Postman, and UFO (Internal Tool), and UI Automation using Selenium. Jeffrey holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science from St. Joseph's College of Engineering, an International MBA in Information Technology from Ulyanovsk State University, and completed his schooling at Don Bosco Egmore. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, test, Selenium, SDET, Java, Integration, Jenkins, Web, Software Engineer, Python, and UI. With over 10.87 years of relevant experience, Jeffrey is a highly skilled Solutions Architect with a passion for quality assurance.