About

Pranav Kumar is a Software Quality Architect at Pegasystems with over 9 years of experience in software testing, quality analysis, manual and automation testing, and delivery of IT-based business solutions for leading global clients in various domains such as Shipping, ERP, Manufacturing, Telecom, CRM, IOS, Android, and Service Assurance. He excels in project management, from planning to progress tracking, status reporting, documentation, testing artifacts, QA, and ensuring delivery of projects within time, budget, and quality norms. Pranav has effectively applied Agile Scrum methodology for greater value addition and product delight. Pranav is skilled in the Software Testing Life Cycle from requirements analysis, setting up the test environment, creating test scripts/test cases, testing, defect tracking, and scheduling projects for releases. He has over 9 years of experience with Agile Development methodologies and hands-on experience in Java, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Selenium WebDriver, Javascript, Protractor, Git, and database testing. Pranav's diverse manual and automation testing experience entails sanity, functional, system, regression, and web testing with technical expertise in automation testing using Selenium, Protractor, hybrid and data-driven frameworks, and API testing using Fiddler, Soap UI, and Rest Assured. He has expertise in driving test automations for reducing manual effort, ensuring completion of complex and critical tests on a tight schedule, and delivering applications with minimum defects. Pranav has worked on Core Java for Web Application Automation using Selenium and typescript for Protractor. As a customer-centric professional, Pranav has skills in custom-designing IT solutions and resolving client queries. He has proactively interacted with developers, product analysts, clients for testing status, defect tracking, defect triage meeting, and timely reporting. Pranav is an effective technical lead with proven talent in mentoring team members and enabling knowledge-sharing amongst them. He is a problem-solver with strong communication and analytical skills. Pranav has worked with Epicor Software and EFI in the past, leading testing teams, developing automation frameworks, designing test plans and scenarios, and executing SQL queries for validation of data. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Siwan Engineering & Technical Institute. Pranav is an IoT and Open Source enthusiast, Agile, Accessibility, Web & UI, Quality Coach, Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright, and currently serving notice. He loves experimenting with other verticals of technology from time to time and enjoys being