About

Nitin Nikam is a highly skilled Senior Team Lead with over 12 years of experience in the IT industry. He has a strong background in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with expertise in designing, developing, testing, and implementing software applications. Nitin has a proven ability to understand and map client requirements and translate them into technical specifications. Nitin's competence spans across Performance and Automation Testing of client/server, mobile, web-based, and cloud applications. He has profound knowledge and implementation skills in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Nitin has experience working in both Waterfall and Agile projects and has attended different ceremonies like Sprint Planning Meeting, Scrum, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review, and Retrospective. Nitin is skilled in designing and creating automation frameworks using Python, Java, Selenium Webdriver, Jmeter, Maven, Docker, and Jenkins tools with a focus on Performance Testing. He has experience creating, modifying, and maintaining new and existing Automation Framework Models (BDD/TDD/ATDD, Hybrid, Keyword, and Data Driven Framework). Nitin is also skilled in configuring and integrating Automation Scripts on Continuous Integration tools (CI/CD) like Jenkins for test suite execution and working on knowledge on testing and configuring Cloud. Nitin has a track record of performing Database/Backend Testing by writing complex SQL Queries for data validation and integrity, with skills at writing complex Joins and knowledge in SQL. He has successfully worked with Selenium Grid/Sauce labs for running multiple tests across different browsers, operating systems, and machines in parallel. Currently, Nitin is working as a Senior Technical Team Lead at Pubmatic, where he is steering a team of 14 staff for automation framework development. He is driving organizational level initiatives with complete quality ownership for business-critical products during the development phase. Nitin is also offering mentorship to the team on automation framework and conducting code review of the automation scripts. In the past, Nitin has worked as a QA Lead and QA Engineer at Pubmatic, where he drafted manual test cases using business documents, executed manual test cases, and wrote automated test scripts using Robot Framework and Python for the Media Buyer Portal (MBP)/Media Console product of PubMatic used by demand partners to buy inventory for advertising. Nitin holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Engineering from Pune University and completed his 10th grade from Mamasa