A Senior Test Consultant with commercial IT experience in Banking, Digital Media, eCommerce, Retail, SEO & education domain’s testing using Agile,SCRUM, V methodologies and test management, test reporting using Functional, System, Automation (using Open source tool set Selenium2-Webdriver,Eclipse, JAVA, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins and also well versed with Selenium Automation using Visual Studio 2010, NNuit) JIRA, UAT, Component integration, System Integration, Business Acceptance Testing and Mobile Testing. Always interested in migration and transformation projects and projects which deals with digital or enterprise level web applications. Technical Experience:: Tools: Quality Center, JIRA, TFS, MS Visual Load Test, Mobile BrowserStack, Selenium Webdriver C#. CMS: SiteCore 6.5 & 7.0, Hybris, Adobe CQ5, Umbraco, WordPress. Analytics: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, iJento, SiteCatalyst, GA_Debugger & FireBug Methodologies: V-model, Agile (SCRUM, TDD, BDD, KanBan), Automation: Selenium Webdriver using Java-TestNG/C#-NUnit I have created modular lightweight test framework to test frequently used workflows in the system, using Visual Studio 2012, NUnit & Selenium Webdriver, while working in DotNet House. Also, currently working on building lightweight framework using JAVA, Page Factory Pattern, Page Object Model, TestNG, Maven. For in-scrum BDD requirements working on Cucumber-JVM based BDD tests using Junit. Eclipse, Java Selenium2 based Test Automation Reporting tool: TestNG, JUnit Build Management: Maven, SVN, Git Continuous Integration: Jenkins, TeamCity Gherkin: CucumberJVM, Json reports. Performance Testing: Microsoft Visual Load Test (Visual Studio Ultimate 2012) & LoadUi I have used Microsoft Visual Load Test to perform basic Load & Performance tests on the end-user facing websites. Also, used a Opensource Load testing tool – LoadUi to record response time & behaviour of system under normal anticipated user load. Many Thanks -Laxmikant

Sr Automation Tester @ Working on Selenium-Java Page Object Model based light-weight BDD (Jbehave) & data driven framework. Its a nice experience of working with a Agile team multi-tasking on various digital & workflow based complex projects. We use Jenkins, Maven2, Selenium Grid & Grid. From 2015 to Present (less than a year) London, United KingdomSelenium Test Automation Engineer & digital Tester @ I worked as a QA Automation engineer on a digital transformation project, of a reputed Insurance client of Cognizant. Working on a BDD driven agile methodologies. Joint Review of Gherkin/Cucumber feature files in GIVEN, WHEN, THEN format. Creation of Selenium Page Factory & Page Object driven tests using Cucumber-JVM-JUnit framework. Working on a TestNG, Xunit based framework using Selenium WebDriver to expedite delivering early sprint testing. Domain wise working on a Banking and Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) bouquet suite. Many Thanks From 2014 to Present (1 year) London, United KingdomSr Digital Tester @ I work as Senior Agile tester on couple of exciting mix of digital and financial projects at Hugo and Cat in London. My work starts right from the Sprint test planning involves test planning,resourcing, estimation , test execution and reporting. Provides one stop testing service to dynamic agile projects. Worked on reputed client brands from Tourism, Financial industry & other electronic Digital brands. XBrowser testing & early test automation using Browserstack, Microsoft Visual Studio+NUnit. Technology stack used: .NET,Visual Studio 2010, SiteCore, Umbraco, MS Dynamics, Responsive Mobile design, facebook OpenGL api. Crossbrowser testing on wide range of Android & iOS mobile and tablet devices. Thanks From 2013 to 2014 (1 year) London, United KingdomSr. Test Analyst @ Working on large Agile Digital eCommerce project of the large Insurance brand. My work involves providing Agile testing and consulting service to the client, by working on large enterprise CMS system and Interface testing. From April 2013 to July 2013 (4 months) London, United KingdomSr Technical Tester @ I worked on as a Sr Technical Tester & QA consultant working on Digital media Agile projects of TSL education. I applied Solid quality assurance principles to data migration & web content management tasks. I performed SEO, meta-tags & analytics testing on Google and Adobe suite (Omniture, Autonomy, Google Analytics) Worked on Selenium 2 based light regression testing framework. Co-ordinated UAT & Beta-testing for modern cloud based web solution used by educators on both sides of atlantic. Performed broadspectrum of cross-browser (popular web & mobile versions), tagging, Apple iMac testing. Created and baselined set of test reporting templates. From August 2012 to February 2013 (7 months) Sr. Test Analyst @ Worked on monthly sprint’s testing deliveries of a telecom product , which are distributed across to bluchip telecom operators. > Conducted integration testing of client server based application with Webbased Flex web-application & API interface testing. > Worked on batch testing of telecom data-files (DoCoMo, Huwaie,CDMA, 3G variants etc..) > Worked on complete System & Integration testing solution comprising of Functional, Non-Functional, Performance testing. >Worked on trunk integration, beta & Release Candidate testing alongwith crossbrowser compatibility & MSI package installation testing. From September 2011 to August 2012 (1 year) London, United KingdomTest Manager @ > Delivered Prudential group head office Test strategy and Functional & non-Functional test plans for individual projects under Head office function. > Was involved as a Sr Agile tester devising test strategy > Prepared Testing Metrics report after each phase of testing > Reporting & Compliance testing From January 2011 to October 2011 (10 months) Test Lead [Delivery] @  Worked closely with DWP Business to gather requirements & later in testing cycle to get business signoffs  Performed smoke testing, functional testing for the new functionalities implemented and regression testing for existing functionalities and Compatibility testing  Bug tracking & triage From March 2010 to January 2011 (11 months) Blackpool, United KingdomSr Agile Tester @ Cognizant is a NASDAQ listed leading provider of information technology, business consulting, enterprise applications and business process services. I have worked for various blue chip clients like- JP Morgan Chase-IB,IS, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, UK's leading retail banking group. From 2005 to 2010 (5 years) Sr Tester @ Worked on JPMC's Investment Banking, Investment services & PB FX, PB FI & commodities Line of business. ===================================================================== Back Office & Middle office consolidation – This application is a critical application for JPMC Investment Bank division. It transforms the feed files & present the data into three levels: Details, Function & Management. It provides RED AMBER & GREEN ratings indicating the status of the trades executed (CASH segment, FOREX & DERIVATIVES (F&O)) on various global exchanges like- London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, NY & US OTC. Tibco messaging service alongwith Replication server was incorporated in the complex multi-tier architecture. Technologies: Quality Centre 9.2, JAVA/J2EE application with Oracle as backend, MQ messaging. Achievements: >Received appreciations for combining deep Investment banking domain knowledge with Quality assurance practice for efficient testing project delivery, with highest quality provided to JPMC’s BU clients. Thanks From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) System Tester & Jr Automation Engineer @ Project: Credit Risk & Basel II :CEAS-II was a decision support system, for credit risk rating of various classes of the loans. It generated the risk rating for the customers of a CIBC bank in compliance with the BASEL-II requirements. Credit Risk along with Operational Risk, Market Risk were measured which helped the management to make informed decision for loan sanctions Technologies: J2EE applications, JIRA, Quality Centre, QTP, HTML, WebLogic Middleware. Achievements: Worked on creating data driven Automation test framework using QTP,TSL & HTML for bespoke formatted reports. Thanks From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Analyst GT @ Developer in Microsoft technologies- ASP, IIS, Interdev. SQL server2000. From January 2005 to April 2005 (4 months) Analyst @ Analyst developer in Microsoft technologies- ASP, Interdev, IIS, SQL Server2000, MySQL. worked in Pharma, retail, media, modelling domain. From August 2004 to January 2005 (6 months)

BCS & MCS, Comp Science @ Fegusson college, Pune University From 2000 to 2004 Bachelor's degree, Computer Science @ Fergusson CollegeFergusson College Laxmikant Somni is skilled in: SQL Server, Banking, Test Director, Manual Testing, Testing, Test Management, Microsoft SQL Server, Quality Center, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional Testing, Test Planning, Selenium, Quality Assurance, Test Strategy