Ankit Laddha
Verified Expert in Engineering
Quality Assurance Developer
Berlin, Germany
Toptal member since April 17, 2020
Ankit is a testing advocate with 15+ years of experience who has streamlined and set up testing and agile processes as well as test automation frameworks (web/mobile/api/performance). He is a great mentor and coach with experience helping team members align on quality definitions. Industry-wise, he has mostly worked in banking, insurance, and retail, but he brings a user-focused, end-to-end perspective to any project.
Portfolio
Experience
- Analysis - 7 years
- Test Automation - 7 years
- Selenium WebDriver - 6 years
- Appium - 6 years
- Testing Strategy - 6 years
- Agile Coaching - 6 years
- API Testing - 6 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 5 years
Preferred Environment
Skype, Google, Git, Slack, Jira, IntelliJ IDEA, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is coach various teams in shift-left testing, fill BA absence in the project, and develop test automation frameworks.
Work Experience
Lead Quality Engineer
NDA [Banking Industry]
- Improved and delivered a quality banking product from functional and non-functional usability aspects. Introduced various improvements in the team's agile and quality processes, including story kick-off and dev-box testing.
- Mentored and coached team members in various aspects of testing, including test strategy definition, exploratory testing, and test automation framework implementation.
- Advised and helped teams implement a proper testing pyramid in the front and back ends.
- Set up and improved the QA recruitment process and created and aligned different problem statements for interviews, home assignment reviews, and face-to-face interviews.
- Created cross-platform (Android and iOS) automated test suites using Appium, running against various test environments and remotely on Sauce Labs.
Screening Developer
Toptal
- Was an integral part of Toptal's screening team for the QA role (manual and automation).
- Had the highest interviewer rating given by the candidates joining the Toptal network.
- Suggested and implemented various process improvements, questionnaires, and practices to the team for a better candidate interview experience.
- Came up with various interview questions and improvements for the team to have a more productive and better screening process.
Automation Expert
PayerSciences LLC
- Worked with clients to set up Cypress UI automation for a React-based web application from scratch. Used Azure Cloud to run automated tests as part of CI.
- Logged and tracked bugs in Jira. Did exploratory testing for the web app. Came up with a strategy on what and how to cover automation.
- Oversaw daily test execution and removed test flakiness, if any.
Senior Quality Analyst
Thoughtworks India
- Envisioned and put various relevant test agile/automation practices into place.
- Implemented UI tests using gauge-java, API tests using REST Assured, and response time and performance tests using Gatling.
- Conducted various exploratory testing and bug finding session in the team.
- Planned, supervised, and coordinated various testing strategies/practices in the team, e.g., defect triage, client communication, QA effort estimation, and sprint showcases.
- Led the team in analyzing the stories and writing acceptance criteria in the absence of a business analyst.
- Drove various QA initiatives within the QA community of a company, e.g., Lunch and Learn every Thursday.
- Served as a committee member of VodQA (QA-driven free conference).
Test Automation Lead
Paul Mason Consulting
- Led a team of four to five testers to successfully deliver the quality product/application.
- Evaluated, tracked, reported, and improved testing-related artifacts.
- Communicated and coordinated effectively for various testing activities while at the client's location (Swindon, UK) for six months.
- Developed multiple automation frameworks from scratch, per project needs.
- Created various templates/pamphlets showcasing the features of the automation framework.
- Created various sales decks showcasing the ROI and introducing automation to the project.
Senior Engineer
IGate
- Demonstrated excellent skills in various phases/activities of testing, e.g., FRD review, test scenario and test case creation, smoke testing, and functional testing.
- Made informed decisions for various testing activities and gave various signoffs during the testing and release phases.
- Worked closely with all stakeholders and raised potential problems at an early stage by analyzing and validating requirements early in SDLC.
- Learned and drove the complete defect lifecycle management.
- Implemented and showcased POC for test automation of the web application using QTP/UFT. Evaluated manual vs. automation effort estimation, which led to acquiring a small-scale project from the client.
Experience
Sample Test Automation Frameworks | E2E, API Automation
Banking Mobile App | Mobile UI, API Automation
Retail Website | Web UI Automation
Internal Client Web Application | Web UI Automation, API
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Charotar Institute of Technology - India
Certifications
Applitools Cross Browser Hackathon - Silver Winner
Applitools Hackathon
Visual Testing Hackathon - Silver Winner
Applitools Hackathon
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Selenium WebDriver
Tools
Jira, Git, TestRail, Figma, WebdriverIO, Cucumber, Zapier, n8n, IntelliJ IDEA, Slack, Skype, ELK (Elastic Stack), GoLand, Android Studio, Xcode, HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Languages
JavaScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, C#
Frameworks
Appium, Selenium, Spring Boot, Cypress, Ranorex, Spring 5
Paradigms
Manual Testing, Scrum, Test Automation, Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Automation, Automated Testing, Agile, E2E Testing, Page Object Model (POM), Testing, Waterfall Development
Storage
PostgreSQL, Datadog, MySQL
Platforms
Docker, Mobile, Web, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Android, iOS, WordPress, MacOS
Other
Quality Assurance (QA), Manual QA, QA Testing, Interviewing, Interviews, Recruiting, API Testing, Agile Coaching, Analysis, Recruitment, Testing Strategy, Test Management, Software QA, Test Reporting, Defect Management, QA Automation, Over-the-top Content (OTT), Test Automation Frameworks, Automation Tools, Complex Problem Solving, Analytical Thinking, APIs, SDET, Code Review, Performance Testing, Exploratory Testing, CI/CD Pipelines, Mobile Device QA Automation, AI Automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), Google, GoCD, Gauges, UFT, Cross-browser Testing, Visual Regression Testing, UI Testing, Lambda Functions, Project Lombok, Onboarding, Supabase, Full-stack Development
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