About

Chandrakant Rathod is a highly skilled QA Lead with over 19 years of experience in the field. He possesses a wide range of Test Automation Skills, including regression, functional, smoke, manual, and automated testing. Chandrakant is highly proficient in understanding business requirements and working with QA leadership to identify and prioritize test cases that should be automated. He has extensive experience in designing, developing, and maintaining test automation software, and he understands how to work with source code control tools and software architecture and framework concepts. Chandrakant has a proven track record of working with development teams and QA leadership to come up with appropriate test automation strategies for various parts of applications. He is also capable of providing technical direction and approaches to QA leaders. Chandrakant is an expert in designing test approaches supporting a dynamic Agile development environment and providing input into software integration testing and release of the final product. He works closely with development team members to troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis. Chandrakant has excellent communication skills and can explain test case objectives to teams or team members not familiar with QA methods. He has the ability to create application workflow tests and expand beyond low-level functional test cases used during new development efforts. Chandrakant is also skilled in documenting and managing day-to-day work efforts, communicating roadblocks or issues, and querying. Chandrakant has worked with several automation tools like Katalon Studio, Postman, Selenium, and Java. He has worked with coding languages like Java, JavaScript, and Typescript and used Jenkins for CI/CD. He has also worked on performance testing with tools like JMeter. Chandrakant has worked with companies like Bacancy, Q3, and as a freelance Manual & Automation Testing consultant. He has worked with several testing techniques and methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, Kanban, and Scrum environments using JIRA and Trello. Chandrakant has an Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering from Aptech Computer Education.