Yogesh Arora

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ABOUT YOGESH ARORA

ISTQB Intermediate & PRINCE2 Practitioner certified, with an MSc in Electronics & IT (Sheffield Hallam University).• Extensive experience across financial services, wealth management, SME banking, telecom, media, transport, and broadcast, focused on regulatory-compliant financial services.• Successfully led end-to-end testing for major projects (including UBS–Credit Suisse Merger Migration, Sky OnDemand, oneTransport, Voice-Based Search, NTB Commercial Lending) ensuring timely, high-quality releases.• Recipient of Excellence in Test Delivery at Sky and Outstanding Test Automation Achievement at InterDigital.• Designed and implemented automation frameworks reducing execution time by up to 40% through optimized architecture and tool adoption. Migrated tests to data-driven models, enabling dynamic execution and improved coverage across environments. These initiatives supported multiple successful releases with rollback rates under 1%.• Expert in automation frameworks: Playwright, WebdriverIO, Cypress, Selenium, RestAssured, with BDD (Cucumber), TestNG/JUnit, Maven, Gradle, Node.js, XML, JSON. Designs innovative, high-efficiency test frameworks.• Skilled in API testing (Postman, Insomnia), automated API frameworks, and complex test data generation/validation.• Strong coding skills in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Scala (intermediate), with clean code practices and code reviews.• Skilled in leveraging AI/ML for smart test coverage and actionable insights, fostering innovation across frameworks, using tools like SauceLabs, LambdaTest, Applitools, Axe, Xray, Squash, ReportPortal, Adobe Analytics, Azure Monitor.• Full-stack testing of web/mobile UIs, back-end, microservices, monoliths, REST APIs, CMS, search systems, and IPTV.• Expertise in Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Waterfall, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), Docker, and containerized automation pipelines.• Led QA teams (up to 15 members) across UK, Italy, Germany, India, USA, Ukraine, Poland, and Israel—driving recruitment, mentoring, performance, and collaboration.• Skilled in performance testing (Gatling, JMeter), security, regression, exploratory, integration, and accessibility testing.• Strong SQL/NoSQL (MongoDB) database testing, large dataset preparation, and query writing.• Experienced in environment/release management, CAB coordination, deployment sign-off, change control, and monitoring (Charles Proxy, Wireshark, Kibana, Check_MK).• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, defect triage, and root cause analysis, with focus on quality, efficiency, and process optimization.