About

Kousik Sinha is a highly skilled Lead Test Analyst with over 14 years of experience in automation testing. He has extensive knowledge in analyzing complex applications using various tools such as Cypress, Protractor, Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, AutoIT, QTP/UFT, Jira and Zephyr, QC/ALM, Jenkins, Maven, Git & GitHub, Gherkin, Cucumber, BDD, TDD, and ATDD. He also has good exposure to performance testing using K6, JMeter, HP Load Runner & HP Performance Centre. Kousik is proficient in API Testing using RestAssured, Java, Hamecrest, TestNG, and Postman. Currently, he is honing his skills on using SOAP UI using Groovy for API Automation. Kousik has excellent programming skills in languages such as Java, JavaScript/Type Scripts, C, and VB Scripting. With over 7 years of team leading experience, he has worked on various projects, including Matcotools(US), Aldermore Bank, and OnBase. In his current role as Lead Test Analyst at Coforge, he is working on the Matcotools project, where he uses Postman/Newman with Javascript and Azure for API Functional Automation Testing, K6, Javascript, Grafana, Influfxdb, and Azure for API Performance Testing and Chaos Engineering. Kousik's key deliverables include developing and maintaining frameworks, using Azure DevOps for pipeline and test execution, documentation, and defect tracking, integrating Azure with Postman and K6 for CI/CD, preparing and training junior testers on his framework, and actively participating in defect triage, test planning, sprint task distribution, and sprint activity creation along with product owners. Kousik holds a Master's degree in Computer Application from Indira Gandhi National Open University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Zoology (Hons) from Calcutta University and completed his Higher Secondary (12th) from WBCHSE. Kousik's technical skills include test, Javascript, Java, Azure, Selenium, Jenkins, SDET, CI/CD, Web, DevOps, Integration, UI, and Typescript. With 11.86 years of relevant experience, Kousik is a highly skilled professional who has contributed to the success of various projects.