About

Kousik Kumar Jana is an experienced Automation Lead at Briq with a track record of delivering projects ahead of schedule and under budget. With over 11 years of experience in automation, Kousik is well-versed in automation concepts and can implement them using various tools and scripting languages. He has expertise in developing and maintaining different automation frameworks, including Keyword driven, Data driven, and BDD framework approaches. Kousik is also skilled in incorporating UI automation in CI Continues Integration processes of organizations using Jenkins. He has a proven ability to create test automation strategies, automation test planning, and tool evaluation. Additionally, Kousik has expertise in API test automation using REST Assured and ReadyAPI. Before joining Briq, Kousik worked as an Automation Developer at Briq and an Automation Engineer at Cognizant. At Cognizant, he was an expert in providing end-to-end solutions in Test Automation and Test Data Management. He developed various types of automation frameworks from scratch in both Selenium with JAVA and UFT. He also has experience in Continuous Integration using Github, Maven & Jenkins. Kousik has worked with testing tools such as Selenium, Java, Jenkins, Maven, GIT, Katalon Studio, Python, Perfecto, Sauce Labs, ExtentX, Cucumber, BitBucket, TestNG, AutoIT, AppliTools, JIRA, HP-ALM, AgileCentral, and UFT. Moreover, he has experience in Database (Oracle PL/SQL) and Unix Shell Scripting and developed ETL automation tools using UNIX shell scripting. Kousik holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Asutosh College and a Higher Secondary (12th) degree in Science from Baradongal Ramanath Institution, Arambagh. He has experience working with various technologies such as test, SDET, Jenkins, Java, Integration, dotNET, ASP.NET, UI, Web, Selenium, SQL, AngularJS, CI/CD, and ETL. In total, Kousik has 14.19 years of relevant experience. Kousik is detail-oriented and has a proven record of corporate client satisfaction.