About

Pooja Kawthekar is a highly skilled Quality Assurance Tester and Process Executive with over 5 years of experience in various industries such as Healthcare, Retail, and Autonomous Vehicles. She has a passion for writing automated scripts to conduct Usability Tests and A/B tests on software platforms and internal tools, always pushing forward to include Test Driven Development enabling better data curation for the developers working on them. Pooja has experience in Annotation and Labelling of images and video streams and has led a mid-sized team of testers, being responsible for Test Driven Development (TDD) and writing test cases using Selenium Web Driver (Pytest) for object tracking in raw data received. Her entire professional experience includes interacting with the Project leaders within the organization and business stakeholders on the client end. Currently working at NVIDIA, Pooja is responsible for Test Driven Development (TDD) and writing test cases using Selenium Web Driver (Pytest) for object tracking in raw data received. She has worked on various projects such as Jarvis Labelling, Association Labelling, Semantic Labelling, Parking Detection, People Detection, ITS calibration, and Lidar Detection. She has also provided robust data training models to clients in Retail Industry, Healthcare industry, and Smart city projects under NVIDIA Metropolis. Pooja has expertise in various tools and platforms such as Selenium WebDriver, HPALM, SOAP UI, Tableau, JIRA, Jenkins, Zephyr, Test-NG, Informatica, Visual Studio, Snowflake, Hive, GitHub, HL2 Hatch, Hadoop, and Postman. She is proficient in programming languages such as C/C++ and Python and has experience working on various operating systems such as Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. She has experience in various testing strategies such as Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, Black box testing, Performance testing, Smoke Testing, and Automation testing. Pooja holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Savitribai Phule Pune University. In her free time, she loves to cook, hit the gym, and trek with her friends across Pune on weekends.