About

Ravikar Bhardwaj is a Lead-QA at Fidelity Investments with over 8 years of relevant experience in the field of software quality assurance automation engineering. He is an expert in developing test frameworks and writing test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Appium, and PyWinAuto with Java and Python. Ravikar has extensive experience in testing web, mobile, and desktop applications and has worked with CI/CD tool Jenkins, version control and SCM tool Git, build automation tool Maven, and bug tracking and agile project management tool JIRA. He is also proficient in web development using Angular, Node.js, and MongoDB. With a solid grounding in software test life cycle and defect management life cycle, Ravikar works closely with development teams to analyze mapping documents created by business analysts and convert them into test scripts. He is well experienced in managing multiple priorities with strict deadlines and has excellent communication, interpersonal relationship, management, and analytical skills. In his current role at Fidelity, Ravikar is responsible for leading the QA engineering team and ensuring the application of best practices. He works closely with stakeholders to review requirement specifications, identify gaps, testability, and test implications. He also conducts Scrum meetings and facilitates discussion and updates. In the past, Ravikar has received multiple excellence awards and the chairman's award for his outstanding contributions. He has built a generic test automation framework that is utilized across projects to minimize the overhead effort of QAs in writing scripts. He has also implemented CI/CD using Jenkins for web development projects and saved several man-hours by automating manual processes for operation teams. Overall, Ravikar is a skilled and experienced QA automation engineer with a strong track record of delivering high-quality results. He is passionate about his work and is always looking for ways to improve processes and drive efficiencies.