Nishit Bera

🔹Leading a team of 8 QA professionals for a key SBIG client, ensuring efficient delivery and quality outcomes 🔹Spearheading Change Requests (CRs) from UAT to successful production go-live 🔹Developing and maintaining AI-driven automated dashboards for real-time tracking of test cases and defect status 🔹Actively participating in Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, defect triage calls, requirement demos, and walkthrough sessions

🔹 Led a hybrid team of manual and automation testers for a high-stakes payment gateway application, ensuring quality across fast-paced Agile-Waterfall sprints. 🔹 Achieved 100% defect traceability by leveraging Nifty for seamless test case uploads, real-time defect reporting, and sprint-wise QA dashboards. 🔹 Surged bug detection efficiency by automating Selenium script executions for daily builds, proactively catching issues from frequent third-party integrations. 🔹 Succeeded in performance testing by simulating high-load, concurrent transactions using JMeter, mimicking real-world payment spikes within infinitesimal milliseconds. 🔹 Grew test coverage and reduced QA cycle time by 30% through the innovative use of ChatGPT to generate exhaustive, edge-case-focused test scenarios. 🔹 Surpassed onboarding SLAs by ensuring zero-defect releases in merchant and vendor onboarding, tax modules, and bill payment workflows. 🔹 Championed end-to-end QA ownership, collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Dev, and UAT teams to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant releases.

🔹 Initiated and led the implementation of the Robot Framework for API automation using Python in Visual Studio Code, delivering a successful demo to the R1 client and laying the groundwork for scalable test automation. 🔹 Succeeded in building a robust API automation suite for R1 and ACTRIV projects by leveraging Swagger-documented APIs to design test cases and automate validations using Robot Framework, despite no prior experience in automation. 🔹 Achieved quick mastery in Cypress to automate the login functionality of the web application, enhancing early bug detection and usability testing. 🔹 Grew automation coverage by exploring live APIs via Swagger and dynamically crafting test scenarios aligned with evolving documentation. 🔹 Surged delivery speed and QA accuracy while working in full Agile Scrum cycles for R1 and Service Up clients, adapting to sprint-wise priorities with ease. 🔹 Surpassed learning challenges by using ChatGPT to independently learn and implement UI and API automation workflows, embracing every challenge without backing down. 🔹 Deployed automation code through GitHub and Bitbucket, maintaining version control and collaborating efficiently with peers across distributed environments.

🔹 Led a 5-member QA team in the Shipsy vertical, actively driving sprint progress by participating in all Agile Scrum ceremonies, ensuring alignment across QA, development, and product teams. 🔹 Achieved rapid resolution of production bugs by working closely with the support team, providing hands-on guidance to streamline root cause analysis and minimize downtime. 🔹 Grew team ownership and efficiency by fostering a collaborative, learning-driven environment, encouraging initiative, peer reviews, and open communication. 🔹 Succeeded in creating trips using Postman APIs and enabling a pull-based assignment mechanism to allocate trips to riders based on nearest hub locations, drastically reducing manual effort and enhancing operational accuracy. 🔹 Surged system performance by conducting JMeter-based load testing, simulating peak order volumes using historical data to ensure the platform scaled effectively during festivals and high-traffic sales periods. 🔹 Surpassed operational benchmarks by combining real-time API usage, performance testing, and location-based logic, significantly improving delivery speed, platform reliability, and user satisfaction during critical business windows.

🔹 Succeeded as a Senior Test Engineer across both Waterfall and Agile models, driving quality for multiple general insurance clients by actively contributing to defect triage meetings, sprint ceremonies, and delivering daily status and execution reports to ensure transparency and timely delivery. 🔹 Achieved deep domain expertise in general insurance products, mastering the entire testing and defect lifecycle, and mentoring newly joined team members on best QA practices — which led to being entrusted as both SME and tester for a major Bharti AXA General Insurance project for 6 months, boosting domain strength and team knowledge retention. 🔹 Surpassed manual testing limitations by developing an advanced Excel-based calculator with dynamic formulas to test reinsurance and accounting entries, saving significant time and improving accuracy during financial validations.

🔹 Succeeded in managing seamless code deployments across all environments using Team Foundation Server (TFS) by efficiently merging code, executing database scripts, and ensuring post-deployment synchronization between production and pre-production environments to maintain consistency and stability. 🔹 Achieved significant time and effort savings by developing a batch script to speed up file copying into respective folders, and setting up an inbuilt Windows Scheduler to automatically execute DBA-provided database backup scripts twice weekly—enhancing data integrity and minimizing manual overhead.

🔹 Succeeded in managing seamless code deployments across all environments using Team Foundation Server (TFS) by efficiently merging code, executing database scripts, and ensuring post-deployment synchronization between production and pre-production environments to maintain consistency and stability. 🔹 Achieved significant time and effort savings by developing a batch script to speed up file copying into respective folders, and setting up an inbuilt Windows Scheduler to automatically execute DBA-provided database backup scripts twice weekly—enhancing data integrity and minimizing manual overhead.