About

Nithin Hethur Vijaya is a highly skilled Software Test Engineer with over 4 years of experience in manual testing, API testing, and database testing. He has a deep understanding of test processes and agile development methodologies. Nithin currently works as a Backend SDET at CRED, a members-only club that rewards individuals for their timely credit card bill payments by providing them with exclusive offers and access to premium experiences. As a Backend QA engineer at CRED, Nithin's main responsibility is to test the application features by consuming APIs and the data entries that have been created in the database. He actively clarifies functional requirements with product owners and applies and owns QA best practices in the team. Nithin is also responsible for preparing test strategy and test plans, estimating the testing phases, developing and executing test cases, and preparing test data. He works with the product team as well as developers to improve the test strategy and reports the status of testing to Team Lead and Project Manager. Nithin is highly skilled in identifying and reporting defects, tracking them till resolution, and performing manual testing of the back-end system to ensure they satisfy the business requirements. He also interacts with the production support and testing teams and performs root cause analysis by debugging along with referring to logs. Nithin's past experience includes working as a Software Test Engineer at Inavantage Solutions Private Limited, where he worked on healthcare domain and pharmaceutical manufacturers. He has also worked as a Trainee Software Engineer on an Ed Tech project at Inavantage Solutions Private Limited. Nithin holds a Master of Science in Global Production Engineering and Management from Warsaw University of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering from Malnad College of Engineering. His tech stack includes test, SDET, backend, and QA. Nithin's relevant experience in the field is 4.35 years.