Ashwini Kumar

Led comprehensive QA efforts within the Lending Business team, driving automation and enhancing testing frameworks for critical financial products.

• Automated end-to-end testing processes for Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) and Personal Loan (PL) products, significantly improving testing efficiency and reducing manual testing efforts by 80%.
• Accelerated test cycles and improved coverage for critical business workflows by automating the complete end-to-end loan creation to disbursement journey, including Android app workflows using Appium.
• Enhanced testing framework robustness by integrating Cursor AI, which improved test reliability and reduced debugging time through intelligent suggestions and automation.
• Streamlined Cucumber feature generation using GitHub Copilot, boosting productivity and ensuring consistency in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) practices.
• Improved overall product quality by meticulously reviewing test cases, identifying, and resolving critical bugs early in the development lifecycle.

Orchestrated comprehensive test case development and pioneered automation strategies to optimize efficiency and ensure robust evaluations of applications.

• Orchestrated comprehensive functional, automation, and regression test case development for innovative features, ensuring thorough coverage and quality.
• Pioneered automation strategies, refining tests to handle pop-ups and window scenarios, optimizing their efficiency and improving test stability.
• Ensured robust evaluations of the D2 application through rigorous testing using Java-Selenium and Report Portal.
• Captured precise requirements and facilitated clear communication through Business Demos by collaborating closely with product owners.

Led and executed test plans for new software rollouts and managed API/Web automation for critical retail and order management systems.

• Led the development and execution of test plans and scripts for project-based, new software rollouts, encompassing functional, automation, and regression testing for Web and Android applications.
• Developed and executed automated tests for Web and API (SOAP/RESTful) services, leveraging Java, J-Behave, IBM DB2, and TIBCO messaging systems.
• Collaborated extensively with product owners and development teams to gather requirements, identify early-stage challenges, and present business demos to leadership.
• Maintained testing suite code repositories on GitLab and conducted comprehensive integration testing with downstream applications and third-party services, optimizing XML/JSON responses for complex scenarios.