Skip to content
View pnilava03's full-sized avatar
  • Bangalore

Block or report pnilava03

Block user

Prevent this user from interacting with your repositories and sending you notifications. Learn more about blocking users.

You must be logged in to block users.

Maximum 250 characters. Please don’t include any personal information such as legal names or email addresses. Markdown is supported. This note will only be visible to you.
Report abuse

Contact GitHub support about this user’s behavior. Learn more about reporting abuse.

Report abuse
pnilava03/README.md

Hi, I'm Nilava Pal πŸ‘‹

Lead SDET | Senior QA Automation Engineer | Manual & Automation Testing

I am a QA/SDET professional with 10.5+ years of experience in Manual Testing, Automation Testing, API Testing, Mobile Testing, CI/CD, QA documentation, and QA team leadership.

I help product teams improve software quality, reduce release risk, increase automation coverage, and deliver stable applications faster.


πŸ”§ Core Skills

  • Manual Testing: Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Exploratory, UAT
  • Automation Testing: Selenium WebDriver with Java, TestNG, Cucumber BDD
  • API Testing: REST Assured, Postman, Insomnia
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
  • Framework Design: Page Object Model, Hybrid Framework, BDD Framework
  • Mobile Testing: Android & iOS, Appium basics
  • QA Documentation: Test Strategy, Test Cases, QA Summary Report, Release Sign-off
  • Defect Reporting: Severity, Priority, Impact, Screenshots, Logs, Loom Videos
  • Team Leadership: Handling and mentoring 10–15 QA members

πŸš€ Key Achievements

  • Reduced regression execution time by 60%
  • Improved automation coverage from 40% to ~80%
  • Reduced production defects by 30%
  • Built scalable UI + API automation frameworks with CI/CD execution

πŸ“Œ Featured Projects

1. Manual Testing Portfolio

Repository: [ManualTesting](https://github.com/pnilava03/ManualTesting)

Includes sample test cases, bug reports, QA status reports, UAT checklist, test summary report, and test strategy documentation.

2. UI + API Automation Framework

Repository: [AutomationUIAndAPI](https://github.com/pnilava03/AutomationUIAndAPI)

Hybrid automation framework using Selenium Java, REST Assured, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Page Object Model.

3. AAA Life SDET Automation Framework

Repository: [AAALifeSDETAutomationFramework](https://github.com/pnilava03/AAALifeSDETAutomationFramework)

SDET-style framework covering UI smoke testing, API automation, JSON schema validation, negative API testing, and reporting.

4. API Automation Framework

Repository: [API_AutomationFramework](https://github.com/pnilava03/API_AutomationFramework)

REST Assured-based API automation framework with reusable components and CI/CD-ready structure.

5. Mobile Automation

Repository: [BaselineAPP](https://github.com/pnilava03/BaselineAPP)

Mobile automation practice using Appium for Android/iOS application testing.


πŸ§ͺ What I Can Help With

  • Build automation frameworks from scratch
  • Automate UI and API regression suites
  • Create manual test cases and regression checklists
  • Perform exploratory, functional, and release validation testing
  • Create clear bug reports with screenshots, logs, and Loom videos
  • Set up Jenkins/GitHub Actions CI/CD execution
  • Prepare QA Summary Reports, Test Strategy, and Release Sign-off documents
  • Stabilize flaky automation tests
  • Improve test coverage and release confidence

πŸ›  Tech Stack

Java | Selenium WebDriver | TestNG | Cucumber BDD | REST Assured | Postman | Insomnia | Maven | Jenkins | GitHub Actions | Appium | Git | GitHub | Jira | Dockerized Selenium Grid


🀝 Let's Connect

I am open to QA, SDET, automation testing, API testing, mobile testing, and release validation opportunities.

If you are looking for someone who can combine manual QA thinking, automation framework design, API validation, CI/CD execution, and clear QA documentation, I’d be happy to help.

I focus on building practical testing solutions that help teams release faster, reduce production risk, and improve overall product quality.

Pinned Loading

  1. AutomationUIAndAPI AutomationUIAndAPI Public

    This automation framework enables end-to-end testing across UI and API layers using a unified architecture.

    Java 1

  2. OpenCartAutomation OpenCartAutomation Public

    OpenCart Application Automation Framework This is a Selenium-based Automation Testing Framework designed specifically for the OpenCart e-commerce application. It follows industry best practices suc…

    Java

  3. APIAutomation_RestAssured APIAutomation_RestAssured Public

    APIAutomation_RestAssured is for API Automation Where I have Automate Google API and Jira API using BDD (Cucumber Franmework)

    Java 1

  4. BaselineAPP BaselineAPP Public

    This is for MobileAutomation testing using Appium

    HTML 1 1

  5. MobileAutomation MobileAutomation Public

    Java 1

  6. LAMBDATESTPlayground_TestAutomationFramework LAMBDATESTPlayground_TestAutomationFramework Public

    HTML