About

Vikas Shukla is a Director of Engineering- QA at Paytm with over 11 years of experience in Automation and Manual Testing. He is an experienced Quality Assurance Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Vikas is skilled in WebDriver, Appium and Web Automation, API automation, Cucumber, Rest Assured, GoR, Test Planning, Resource Management and Testing strategies, and People Management. He is passionate about working in startup culture and has experience of more than 10 years in startups. Vikas has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) focused in Computer Science and has experience in creating teams from scratch. He has worked with Paytm as a Senior QA Manager and as a QA Manager for Paytm mall (Backend + Frontend) where he led a team of 30 members. Vikas has several highlights in his career, including increasing code coverage from 40% to 67% in one year, creating a generic framework for API Automation using Cucumber and Rest Assured, and reducing the number of production bugs by increasing automation and laying down processes. Vikas has expertise in Automation Testing, Setting up Teams from scratch, and Creating a testing team. He is also skilled in using ZAP for performing security testing on Web-based applications, WireMock as a generic mock server for all teams, and Awaitility for testing Async jobs. If you want to talk more about Automation Testing, Setting up Teams from scratch, or Creating a testing team, Vikas is the person to contact. You can email him at viks.shukl@gmail.com.