About

Raj Kumar is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at MindTickle with over 8 years of experience in software testing. He has expertise in both manual and automated testing of client/server and web applications, with a strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) & Bug Life Cycle (BLC). Raj is well versed in GUI automation using Selenium and Opkey and has experience in release management and deployment processes using Jenkins/SVN for build deployment. Raj has a good understanding of Linux and SQL commands, with experience in build deployment on Linux setup. He has experience in requirement gathering, analysis of requirements, and impact analysis, and has tested web applications in Agile development processes. Raj is involved in functional testing, regression testing, and retesting, and has prepared test cases, test data, and executed test cases. He has also been involved in Defect Status Meetings (Bug Triage) along with Developers & Team Members and has knowledge of preparing Test Plan & Requirements Traceability Matrix. Raj has excellent communication and presentation skills, is hardworking with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies, and has performed rigorous functional testing of critical projects. He has experience with Bugzilla and JIRA and has experience in performance monitoring using AppDynamics tool. Raj has a strong understanding of testing concepts, excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills, and is an excellent team player. In his previous role at Zycus, Raj was an Associate Test Lead, leading small teams of 4 people, preparing regression suite for automation, and mentoring and training junior QA. He was also involved in interviewing and shortlisting of trainees, test case and test plan review, 1st level inspection/ investigation of debugging issues, release management, and release deployment process on Linux Server. In his earlier role as Software Test Engineer at Zycus, Raj identified test cases for automation, developed methods for repeating steps, wrote and executed test scripts using Web Driver, and conducted functional, regression, and system testing for various modules. Raj has a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from KIIT University and a diploma in hardware and networking from Central Tool Room & Training Centre (CTTC), Bhubaneswar. He also has a 12th-grade degree in Maths and Science from Woodbine Modern School and a matriculation (10th) degree in General Studies (Math