About

Payal Kataruka is a skilled Senior Software Developer in Testing (SDET) with over 3 years of experience in UI and API Automation engineering. She has worked with a range of technologies, including SoapUI, Groovy, Appium, Python, Java-Selenium, Cucumber, Katalon, Jenkins, Git, and TestRail, among others. Currently, Payal is working as a Quality Engineer III at Walmart, where she is responsible for ensuring the quality of software products through automated testing. Prior to joining Walmart, Payal worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Mindtree, where she gained extensive experience in Manual, Mobile, UI, and API automation testing. She also has a deep understanding of test automation framework design for UI, Mobile, and API. During her tenure at Mindtree, Payal worked on Katalon tool integrated with BrowserStack, TestRail, Jenkins, and Jira for Mobile, UI, and API, providing a 360-degree automation view. She also worked on the SoapUI tool to automate API through Groovy and designed automation frameworks using Java-Selenium for UI. Payal has hands-on experience with Jenkins for CI/CD and has scripted Python code to minimize manual effort to compare Excel data with respect to the database. Payal holds a degree from Future Institute of Engineering and Management, where she studied from 2013 to 2017. Her education history includes a focus on QA, Test, SDET, Software Engineering, UI, Mobile, Jenkins, Python, Java, and CI/CD. With over 5.61 years of relevant experience, Payal is a highly skilled professional who is passionate about delivering high-quality software products.