Who am I
Hi there 👋, my name is Pramod Yadav and I am a freelance Test Automation Expert (ZZP).
Power Tester is my one man software testing company. I have a little over 20 years of experience in building end to end test automation solutions for both enterprise and startups customers. Some of my well know startup customers were Mercell, Felyx and ClipBoardHealth. Some of the enterprise customers include ING, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, European Patent Office and Atradius.
Skills and experience
Test Automation
I love to work with latest tech and tools and have experience automating both frontend (monolith, micro-frontend web and mobile), backend (microservices Rest and Soap) and databases (both SQL and noSQL databases).
Test integration with CICD
I also have solid experience working with DevOps tools such as Azure Devops, GitHub actions and Jenkins and have used them to integrate tests closely in CICD pipelines.
Test Monitoring
For monitoring test results, I have experience using tools like ElasticSearch, Kibana, DataDog and BrowserStack Test Monitoring.
Test Tools
After experimenting with a ton of tools for automation (frontend and backend), my tool of choice are now Playwright (with TypeScrpit) for web automation and RestAssured (with Java) for API automation. I have extensive experience working with Selenium (Java) and Appium (Java) as well. For API exploratory testing I have used both Postman and SoapUI extensively.
Note: Although for Mobile automation, I would prefer to explore other tools like Espresso and XCUITest, which work better with source code and are more robust than Appium.
Leadership style
Apart from being a very hands on guy, I have solid experience leading, mentoring and scaling small and big test automation projects and teams, creating test strategies, and putting them into action.
My unique experience in both technology and management, allows me to operate at highest levels, both as a leader and as an individual contributor.
My team see me as a natural leader, mentor, continuous learner and a team player that they love to work with.
Motto: Learn, share, have fun!
I love to learn new tools and technologies and share what I have learned with others via my YouTube channel and open source GitHub projects such as restpro, zero, slurp and happium on API, Web and Mobile automation respectively.
I also created and published a few useful GitHub actions on GitHub Marketplace that QA community can use to accelarate testing. For reference:
- This dynamic sharder github action would do dynamic scaling of github runners based on the changed test files in a pull request.
- This dynamic sharder will do dynamic scaling of github runners based on tests to run.
- This dynamic sharder github action would provide the quality gate result of BrowserStack Quality Gate API - a powerful API that help deal with flaky and failing tests better.
At times, I also create hobby projects just for fun.
For example, I once thought of finding out how frequently I call my friends and family. I parsed my monthly PDF phone statements using PowerShell and integrated It with Google Contacts to create a list of names-with-frequency report. If you want to give it a try, checkout this repository named circle.