Vivek Kumar

About Vivek Kumar

Technical Lead and Staff Engineer with 11.6 years of experience in automation testing, test framework development, and manual testing. Currently working at Visa on international payment systems, specializing in Java, Selenium, Cucumber, REST Assured, and CI/CD pipeline automation. Skilled in designing scalable test frameworks, API and UI testing, and performance validation using tools like Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, and Kafka. Strong expertise in SDLC/STLC, requirement analysis, and mentoring teams to deliver high-quality, reliable software in agile environments.

Experience

1. Staff Test Engineer

   Visa

   Jun 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Project: Test Automation Framework – International Payments (Currencycloud) Leading the design and implementation of a scalable, multi-layered automated testing framework for an international payments platform (Currencycloud). Designing and evolving a scalable, multi-layered test automation framework for component, integration, and end-to-end (E2E) testing using Spring Boot, Spock, Cucumber, and REST-assured to ensure robust validation of APIs and microservices. Implementing service virtualization and mocking strategies with tools like WireMock and Kafka test utilities to isolate dependencies, while leveraging Docker and AWS CLI to provision dynamic, production-like test environments. Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enabling fast, reliable feedback across deployments. Continuously validating REST APIs, asynchronous Kafka events, and service interactions to maintain high code quality. Enhancing the framework with performance and volume testing capabilities, simulating high-load transaction scenarios to proactively identify bottlenecks and ensure system scalability under real-world conditions.

Education

• Jaypee Institute Of Information Technology

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Selenium
• Html5
• Test Cases
• Manual Testing
• Functional Testing
• Api Testing
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Rqm
• Software Testing Life Cycle (Stlc)
• Defect Life Cycle
• Jdbc
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Sql
• Eclipse
• Multithreading
• Testng
• Soapui
• Quality Assurance
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Java
• Selenium Webdriver
• Automation
• Hp Quality Center
• Test Planning
• Junit
• System Testing
• Rational Functional Tester
• Test Automation
• Web Testing