Sushil Kumar

About Sushil Kumar

Persuasive & influential IT professional with over 15 years of rich and global experience in Driving Software Testing, Providing technical solutions for Automation RFPs. Proficient in developing test strategies, test plans, and effort estimations. Experienced in leading teams, implementing Agile methodologies and managing stakeholder relationships. Skilled in identifying business opportunities, placing resources at client locations, and driving the training and upskilling of team members to meet evolving project needs.• Framework Designing developing automation frameworks (Cucumber BDD, Keyword Driven, Hybrid, POM) based on project requirements by utilizing automation tools and open-source libraries (Selenium WebDriver, UFT, Cypress, Rest Assured)• Proficient in gathering requirements and translating them into functional and automation testing artifacts, understating business requirements and providing Test strategy and Test Plan, Efforts• Estimation to converts and execute the testing artifacts like creation/execution of test scenarios, test cases, developing, transitioning and customizing test Scenarios into automations scripts with specified guidelines.• Developed innovative solutions to enhance quality, improve product and resources performance, and drive strong return on investment (ROI), Optimized the testing cycle and enhanced resource productivity by identifying and automating critical and repetitive business scenarios by implementing Shift left testing approach in SDLC. Leveraged Jenkins pipelines for execution during regression testing, reducing test cycle time and facilitating faster defect resolution through rapid feedback• Extensive experience in overseeing QA Automation teams at client locations along with offshore and Onsite, managing QA resources from multiple vendors, and facilitating collaboration across multiple Scrum PODs & teams.• Understood, investigated core application system issues raised and liaise with appropriate parties (internal / external) for the successful resolution of issues within expected time of customers.• Proven track record of facilitating communication between clients andvendors, Positioning the organization for enhanced profitability through theintroduction of advanced technologies; forged lasting relationships withstakeholders by actively collecting client feedback on resources performance andensuring the coordination of relevant training and upskilling to meet evolving clientrequirements.• Experienced in working with latest technologies,including AWS, DevOps, and Generative AI (GenAI).

Experience

1. Engineering Project Manager

   Virtusa

   Mar 2022 — Present · Pune, IN

   Contribution as ->• Providing technical solutions for Automation RFPs, developing test strategies, test plans, and effort estimations for projects. Implementing Agile methodologies in project, managing stakeholder relationships, identifying businessopportunities, placing resources at client locations, upskilling of team members to meet evolving project needs.• Guiding team to developing automation frameworks (Cucumber BDD, Keyword Driven, Hybrid, POM) based on project requirements by utilizing automation tools and open-source libraries (SeleniumWebDriver, UFT, Cypress, Rest Assured)• Gathering requirements and translating them into functional andautomation testing artifacts, understating business requirements and providingTest strategy and Test Plan, Efforts Estimation to converts and execute the testingartifacts like creation/execution of test scenarios, test cases, developing,transitioning and customizing test Scenarios into automations scripts with specifiedguidelines.• Extensive experience in overseeing QA Automation teams at client locationsalong with offshore and Onsite, managing QA resources from multiple vendors, andfacilitating collaboration across multiple Scrum PODs & teams.• Proven track record of facilitating communication between clients andvendors, Positioning the organization for enhanced profitability through theintroduction of advanced technologies; forged lasting relationships withstakeholders by actively collecting client feedback on resources performance andensuring the coordination of relevant training and upskilling to meet evolving clientrequirements.

Education

• Maharshi Dayanand University

  MSc(CS), Computer

  2003 — 2005

• Maharshi Dayanand University

  MCA, Computer

  2005 — 2006