Prashant Puri
About Prashant Puri
Prashant Puri is a QA Analyst/Software Tester currently working at CIBC in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with extensive experience in automation and manual testing across various industries.
Company
Prashant Puri is currently employed at CIBC in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been working there as a QA Analyst/Software Tester since 2017. CIBC, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, is one of the major banks in Canada, providing various financial services including retail and business banking.
Previous Employment
Before joining CIBC, Prashant Puri gained significant experience in quality assurance and software testing across different organizations. From 2016 to 2017, he worked at CanEquity in Toronto as a Quality Assurance Tester. Prior to that, he served as a Quality Assurance Analyst at UBS from 2013 to 2016. He also held the role of Software Tester at Citi in Mississauga, Ontario, from 2012 to 2013.
Education and Expertise
Prashant Puri holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from Conestoga College, which he completed between 2015 and 2016. He also earned a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science from Lovely Professional University, graduating in 2012. His educational background laid a strong foundation for his roles in quality assurance and software testing.
Software Testing and Automation Skills
Prashant Puri possesses a wealth of expertise in software testing and automation. He has developed Selenium automation scripts in Java using IDEs like Eclipse and IntelliJ, and built test frameworks from scratch using TestNG/JUnit and ANT/MAVEN. As part of his role, he utilized Jenkins configured with GitHub and Maven for Continuous Integration. Prashant has implemented cross-browser and cross-platform web testing using Selenium GRID and Selenium WebDriver with Sauce Labs Cloud Integration.
Web Services and API Testing
In his testing roles, Prashant Puri has undertaken both manual and automated testing of various Web Services and APIs using SOAP and REST protocols. He employed tools like POSTMAN and SOAPUI over HTTP and performed complex database testing and validation using SQL queries involving joins, correlated subqueries, and XML technologies. Prashant is also familiar with mobile automation testing tools such as Appium and Android Studio.
Defect Tracking Expertise
Prashant Puri has extensive experience in defect reporting and tracking processes. He has utilized industry-standard tools such as Bugzilla, JIRA, and HP Quality Center to handle defect management. In addition, he has worked with XML, XSD, XSL, XPATH, and implemented Web Services using WSDL and SOAP, involving features like Policies and Services.