About

Vivek Patel is a Principal Member of Technical Staff (QA) at Oracle India with a robust experience of 9+ years in the software industry as an Automation and Manual Tester. He has a demonstrated history of working with Web-based, Cloud-based, Cloud/Server, Desktop-based, and Mobile Applications. Vivek possesses strong programming skills in Java and has implemented and restructured Test Automation Framework development using JAVA, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG & Maven. Vivek has experience in leading and driving Test Automation activity and managing QA processes. He is actively involved in effort estimation and leading testing efforts. He has designed automation for REST API Automation using Selenium, JAVA, and Rest-Assured and has exposure to working with customer escalations. He is proficient in analyzing business requirements and client needs, designing Testing Strategies, building Test Plans and environments, Test Design, Test Scripting, and Test Execution. Vivek defines and tracks quality assurance metrics, including test results, defect counts, and performance discrepancies. At Oracle, Vivek is responsible for managing end-to-end QA/Automation activities, QA process improvements, suggesting & implementing best practices to strengthen the Quality of the Product. He owns the test automation strategy and leads automation testers by promoting his vision throughout the test community. Vivek is also responsible for building and maintaining test infrastructure, driving defect triage meetings with the team, and developing and maintaining a testing framework to find bottlenecks and support the team to mitigate them. Before joining Oracle, Vivek worked as a Staff Software Engineer (QA/Automation) at Conga, where he effectively managed a team of 4 automation engineers and designed and implemented an automation framework, test suite, and test scripts using Selenium, Java, Maven, and TestNG. He also widened automation coverage to 97%, which eliminates manual efforts during each release cycle and saves 75% of testing time. Vivek has experience developing automation roadmaps and establishing short-term and long-term automation goals at the organizational level. Vivek holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communication from GCET and completed his 12th Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bhagawati Vidhayalya. He possesses a tech stack that includes test, qa, Software Engineer, SDET, Selenium, Java, Jenkins, Integration, Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD, Web, Mobile, infra, and iOS. With relevant experience of 9.70 years, Vivek is an expert in the field of Automation and Manual