Bharadwaj Lokesh Vishwanath
E: Lokesh.bharadwaj@gmail.com
M: +91-9900862000
Professional Summary:
Overall 14+ years experience as an Architect in Automation testing & Automation solutions for
QE services
Experienced in Framework Design, Development, Implementation and Maintenance
Built Tosca accelerators for Salesforce Application for faster adoption.
Ability and proven experience in advising clients on test automation strategy, setting direction for
long term automation plan, bringing in best practices and ROI evaluation
Experienced as TOSCA Architect and developed automation designing framework and provide
solutions for various applications
Experienced in UFT automation solutions for desktop applications
Experience in working with large clients
Experience in providing technical, leadership and strategic direction to the team as solution to
complex testing problems
Experienced in handling and mentoring teams
Experienced in training resources in Tosca automation
Experienced API automation
Experience in working with CI/CD for automated builds Jenkins and Azure
Sound understanding of agile and DevOps methodologies
Advanced / Expert level of knowledge of testing concepts, methodologies, and processes
Technical leader with proven record of leading the testing of complex applications and
functionalities
Technical Skills
Automation Tools : Tricentis TOSCA, HP QTP
Test Managenemt Tools : qTest, Tosca, Azure, HP ALM, Jira
Defect Tracking Tools : Jira, Azure
Languages : VB script
Certifications
Tricentis TOSCA Automation Specialist Level 1 and 2 (AS1 and AS2)
Tricentis TOSCA Automation Engineer Level 1 and 2 (AE1)
Tricentis TOSCA Test Design Specialist Level 1 and 2 (TDS1 and TDS2)
Tricentis TOSCA Automation Specialist API, DI, SAP, Database, Exploratory Testing and TQL
Tricentis qTest certifications. (Introduction to qTest Explorer, qTest Automation Specialist,
qTest Launch, qTest License Activation and Management, qTest Specialist 1)
ISTQB Foundation Level
Education
Master Of Science (MSc) from Sikkim Manipal University.
Bachelor Of Science (BSc) From Bangalore University.
Work Experience
Company Name Designation From To
Apexon Lead Engineer September 2021 Till date
Wipro Test Lead September 2018 August 2021
Cognizant Associate November 2009 August 2018
Project Experience
Project - 1
Project Title : BCBSM
Client : BCBSM
Duration : September 2021 to Till Date
Role : Automation Architect
Description:
BCBSM is a non-profit organization, which provides and administers health benefits to members
residing in Michigan. The main objective of this project is to digitally transform the user experience.
Roles & Responsibilities:
TOSCA Solution Architect for ITTO [IT Testing Office] projects.
qTest Solution Architect for ITTO projects.
Providing technical solutions on Tosca and qTest for complete ITTO.
Providing process improvement solutions to ITTO.
Implementation of Best practices and automation standards across ITTO.
Skilling up the team on Tosca and qTest topics by taking training.
In-Sprint automation enablement.
Performing POCs to check the feasibility and automation challenges.
Working closely with Client, testing teams from all vendors and enabling smooth delivery.
Design Tosca Custom Report.
Set up and Maintain CICD.
Built Tosca accelerators for Salesforce applications
Project - 2
Project Title : TSRD
Client : Credit Suisee
Duration : August 2020 to August 2021
Role : Automation Architect and Automation Test Lead
Description:
TSRD is a window-based application part of the market risk application suite. TSRD maintains
historical pricing data and is used for simulation. TSRD stores, maintains and morphs instrument
data into acceptable format before pushing the data into downstream applications.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Architecture & Design the Automation Framework in Tosca
Developing and Maintaining the Framework along with Leading the Desktop Automation testing
Team
Creating, Maintaining and Reviewing Automated test scripts using TOSCA
Setting up of CICD structure from ALM and updating the results back to ALM and maintaining the
same
Project - 3
Project Title : DOTCOM
Client : Philips
Duration : September 2018 to July 2019
Role : Automation Test Lead
Description:
Dotcom project is a web application developed on AEM platform. The main objective of this project
is to digitally transform the user experience
Roles & Responsibilities:
Architecture & Design the Automation Framework
Developing and Maintaining the Framework along with Leading the Desktop Automation testing
Team
Creation of Custom reports as per the client needs.
Creating, Maintaining and Reviewing Automated test scripts using TOSCA
Coordinating and working collaboratively with Client, Functional and Mobile teams.
Setting up of CICD structure from Azure and updating the results back to Azure and maintaining
the same.
Project - 4
Project Title : Volunteer Management
Client : CFA
Duration : February 2018 to August 2018
Role : Automation Lead
Description:
The volunteer management project's objective is to transform the volunteer experience by providing
a consistent opportunity for them to serve according to their qualifications. The transformation will
benefit those who manage and support volunteers by delivering streamlined processes, Consistent
governance and eventually increasing efficiency.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Pioneer in automating Salesforce application using Tosca and enabling the team on the same.
Pioneer in setting up Tosca Distributed execution architecture
Identifying automation bottlenecks and Providing solutions for complex scenarios.
Enabling the QA team to work on automation with multi-user environment setup.
Creating, Maintaining and Reviewing Automated test scripts using TOSCA
Preparing Test Artifacts like Automation test strategy document.
Coordinating and working collaboratively with Client, Development and Functional teams for the
overall enhancement of software product quality
Project - 5
Project Title : Investment Foundation
Client : CFA
Duration : August 2017 to January 2018
Role : Automation Lead
Description:
The client is a global association of investment professionals. The organization offers multiple
certificates in the stream of investment. Client also oversees the Clients Research Challenge for
university students and the Research Foundation of the Institute. The site's basic purpose is to
provide functionality for users and admin for certificate-related activities. The entire system must be
built to be used online and must be usable on all browsers.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Implementation of Tosca architecture for automation, coaching team about the best practices
and guidelines to be followed for automation
Responsible for identifying automation pain points and providing suitable solutions
Standardization of the automation framework and reviewing estimates provided for various
tasks
Creating and sharing Test Automation reports such as Test execution summary report, RCA
report, Daily Status reports.
Coordinating and working collaboratively with Client, Development and Functional teams for the
overall enhancement of software product quality
Project - 6
Project Title : Scholarship
Client : CFA
Duration : January 2017 to July 2017
Role : Automation Lead
Description:
The client is a global association of investment professionals. The organization offers multiple
certificates in the stream of investment. Client also oversees the Clients Research Challenge for
university students and the Research Foundation of the Institute. The site's basic purpose is to
provide functionality for users and admin for certificate-related activities. The entire system must be
built to be used online and must be usable on all browsers.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Leading the Automation testing Team
Creating, Maintaining and Reviewing Automated test scripts using TOSCA
Preparing Test Artifacts like Automation test strategy document.
Creating and sharing Test Automation reports such as Test execution summary report, RCA
report, Daily Status reports.
Coordinating and working collaboratively with Client, Development and Functional teams for the
overall enhancement of software product quality
Defect tracking in VSTS.
Project - 7
Project Title : Galaxy
Client : Societe Generale
Duration : October 2010 to December 2016
Role : Senior Automation Tester
Description:
The Client is mainly responsible for performing pre-production testing. It also involves in the creation
& maintenance of the test cases & test scripts for the changing requirement of the client. There are
14 applications in the project stream.
Galaxy is one of the applications with the Client. It is a Middle office system. The intention is to
provide a high quality of data and improve market data validation process
Roles & Responsibilities:
Understanding the client requirements and project functionality
Worked collaboratively with developers and other team members in testing complex projects
and in the overall enhancement of software product quality
Leading the team for more than 24months (about 2 years).
Test status reporting to Offshore and Onsite teams.
Preparing Test and delivery artifacts such as Daily status reports, Monthly effort tracker,
Productivity tracker, Downtime tracker.
Create, Maintain and execute Test Scripts for GALAXY middle office application.
Working with Quality Center, Itrack, Jira and SASNEO – Internal tool.
Project - 8
Project Title : Phoenix QA
Client : Mcafee
Duration : November 2009 to September 2010
Role : Automation Tester
Description:
The existing applications were upgraded to a new UI to Phoenix style - changing the header - look
and feel. As a part of the QA team, the responsibility of the Automation team was to work closely
with the manual testing team to identify the automatable test cases, implement the cognizant
automation framework - iFrame and coordinate the script execution. Daily status reports were
shared with the client to track the progress
Roles & Responsibilities:
Understanding the client requirements and project functionality
Worked collaboratively with developers and other team members in testing complex projects
and in the overall enhancement of software product quality
Script Development using QTP.
Implementation of iFrame Framework.
Script Execution.
Test Status Reporting
