About

Pratik Dam is an independent software consultant and architect with over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked with various organizations and on freelance projects, building products across domains such as networking and security, advertising and social media, and entertainment. Pratik has served in multiple roles, including developer, QA, Scrum Master, and tool developer. He has experience managing and mentoring small, mid-sized, and large teams across different time zones. Pratik's contributions have been primarily in build and configuration management, automation frameworks design strategy, test automation coding, DevOps strategy layout, performance testing, and capacity planning test infrastructure development. He has also served freelance customers on mid to large-sized projects based in the US, UK, Australia, and Middle East nations. Currently, Pratik works as a Principal Engineer at Pluribus Networks, where he manages manual testing and automation frameworks for REST interfaces. He also manages TestLink and automation tools for Confluence/TestLink for the QA team. Pratik has experience in GUI automation framework and REST API automation for analytics products, security, and vulnerability testing, and CI and Jenkins build process automation for the analytics product. In his past roles, Pratik has worked as a Quality Engineer at Tribune Digital Ventures, where he worked on data migration tool suites, test automation, and continuous integration and infrastructure strategy. He has also worked as a consultant at Fusion Cybertech, where he was involved in software development efforts, shell scripting, and migration of J2EE-based applications. Pratik holds a Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation Technology/Technician from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and completed his schooling at Don Bosco Park Circus. His tech stack includes test, senior software engineer, QA, Jenkins, SDET, infra, integration, P2P, DevOps, CI/CD, Selenium, Java, and MongoDB. With over 24 years of relevant experience, Pratik is a seasoned IT professional with a diverse skill set.