About

Nitish Salunkhe is a Senior Software Engineer at ZS with over 6 years of experience in web-based automation testing. He has designed UI/API frameworks for automation testing with Java and created frameworks using TestNG/Junit runners. Nitish has experience in integrating Cucumber to use BDD for better readability of tests and managing dependencies and plugins with the help of Maven. He is skilled in managing code with POM, handling test data from Excels or DB, and handling parallel execution with Selenium Grid. Nitish has experience with Oracle, Postgres database, and SQL query writing, and integrating them within the framework and manual database testing. He has also worked on customizable reports, cross-browser testing, and parallel execution. Nitish has experience in performing Functional, Regression, Smoke, and Sanity Testing on the Application. He has set up CICD Jenkins jobs for smoke suite or daily environment health check-up suite and running Teamcity build and deploy jobs to deploy code into instances or environments. Nitish has integrated REST-Assured compatibility in the framework for applications based on API testing and worked on the Playwright tool for browser-based automation. He has monitored Splunk logs and reported the failures to developers. He has conducted peer reviews of test cases code on Bitbucket/GIT and followed-up to close the review comments. Nitish has excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills. He has creative thinking, good analyzing, and problem-solving skills. Nitish has working knowledge on Agile Scrum methodology using JIRA and HP ALM. Nitish has provided regular updates on progress of development or regression along with blockers, risks, and dependencies to ensure Testing deadlines are met. He has testing experience with a good understanding of Software Test Lifecycle including Test strategy, Test Planning, Test Cases Design, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix, and reporting the results to the client. Nitish has worked with Capgemini as a Consultant and Cognizant as an Associate in the past. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from GCEKARAD. Nitish has relevant experience of 7.78 years and is skilled in test, software engineering, SQL, Selenium, Java, Jenkins, Postgres, UI, and web.