About the Author
I am a multiskilled professional who dons many hats. I started my career as a Research Scholar under Dr Naren Ramakrishnan at Virginia Tech where I worked on Data mining project for bioinformatics. At Crestech Software Systems I was part of the Centre of Excellence Team under the CEO, which was responsible for providing cutting edge solutions to the delivery team. I have worked on tools like Selenium, Watir, RFT, JMeter, LoadRunner, Rational Robot and similar tools. I managed the team of developers, testers, support function, presales, marketing and technical writing for the inhouse product OpKey. I also managed the company patent and trademark division. In 2014 I founded 5 Elements Learning, where I coach people on Selenium, Appium, Cucumber ecosystem, which includes tech stack for test automation project. I coach using programming languages like Java, Python, CSharp and Ruby. I have taught more than 1000 people from across the globe. I am also an instructor at Udemy, with more than 20K followers, and have many paid and free courses hosted for testers. I continue to be an active participant for various global conferences like Selenium Summit, APISummit Delhi Software Testing Conference, Selenium India Conference, Global Testing Retreats. I have participated as Jury, Organizing Committee Member, and as Speaker.I am grateful to be mentored and taught by Michael Bolton and Maaret Pyhäjärvi on the concepts of Exploratory Testing. I am a Steering Committee member with Agile Testing Alliance, since 2021,and a long time advisory board member. My work involves designing programs on various global certifications on automation, organizing conferences, and handle the social media presence of Agile Testing Alliance, with a team. I am a published author with BPB publications. My first book, Selenium with Python A beginner's book is among the top 10 books on amazon for the category. My second book Selenium 4 – A Quick and Practical Guide is available on LeanPub. I believe in certifying my learnings, and holds various certifications like ISTQB, CP-SAT, CP-WST, CP-DOF, Cucumber School Completion, SpecFlow among others. An avid reader, traveller, & writer at heart. I enjoys fiction, non fiction books, & writing poetry, short stories on life experiences. I share my work on Medium, and could be found at : https://medium.com/@pallavimuseAnd to my alma matters - VIT, IBAB, CDAC, Vivekanand School, DAV school, & Holy Angels I remain indebted. A firm believer in larger good, I donate my resources to eVidyaloka,PFA, WildLife SOS,& Jabarkhet Forest Reserve.
