About

Karan Chaudhary is an experienced Software Development Engineer in Test - II at Discovery Inc. with a passion for writing code that helps assist testing. With over 7 years of experience in software testing, he has applied different testing measures on frontend, backend, and system level aspects of mobile and web products. Karan has a strong background in mobile automation, API automation, deployments, and configuration tooling. He is skilled in using Appium, iOS automation, Android automation, GitLab, Selenium IDE/RC/Web Driver/GRID, JAVA, Shell scripting, Junit, TestNG, XPath designing, Maven, Jenkins, SVN, GIT, Oracle, MySql, Postman, SOAP, REST-based web services, Rest Assured, and Cucumber as BDD automation. He also has sound knowledge of data structures and algorithms along with basic OOPs/SOLID programming concepts. Karan's credentials include an ISTQB certification, Java, SQL, and Selenium for testing automation, and DevOps practitioner certification. He has worked with several companies, including Testvagrant Technologies and Mindtree, where he consulted in product-based environments to ensure product quality. He has specialized in testing mobile apps for both iOS and Android platforms, contributed to the automation framework maintenance, and added new automation test cases. Karan has also worked on backend architecture, finding edge cases, and adding tests to automation suites for preventing any bug leakage. He has written blogs based on his new learnings to help peers when they get stuck at a particular problem. He has contributed to the existing reporting by adding utilities supporting the existing framework with new tools and plugins wherever found needful. At Mindtree, Karan worked as a Senior Software Engineer - Automation QA in a DevOps project, with experience in web automation using Selenium as an automation tool with JAVA language binding. He has also worked on various types of designing frameworks, including TDD and BDD. He has exposure to web services and web API automation, and he has worked on HTTPClient and RestAssured with JAVA for basic API automation testing. Karan has good exposure to continuous integration tool i.e., Jenkins and source code management tools like SVN and GIT. Karan holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University and completed his schooling from Army Public School (APS). With his relevant experience of 7.36 years, Karan is a valuable asset to any team he works with.