An ISTQB certified Software Test Engineer and an enthusiastic fast learner with a passion for technology. I started my career as a maths tutor at Career Launcher and moved to take up QA responsibility at Mphasis Ltd and then to Siemens Ltd. I also worked as a Cybersecurity Intern with Optum, Ltd Letterkenny and I am an active ACM and IEEE member who follows the current research trends and tries to keep myself updated about technological advancements. Currently pursuing responsibilities as a Test Automation Engineer in Eurofins science (Ireland) Ltd and in parallel, working on my thesis as part of MSc cyber-security program at 'Letterkenny Institute of technology'. My research interests include blockchains, web security testing, OWASP Top 10, open-source software vulnerability assessment, pen-testing tools and frameworks like burp suite, Metasploit, Kali Linux, and OWASP ZAP. I have an excellent academic record of 1.1 Grade. My professional expertise includes Keyword driven and test-driven development using robot framework (python), and, rest-assured and Postman for RestAPI automation testing, selenium+ TestNG (Java) and Protractor(Javascript) for UI test Automation, behaviour driven+TDD testing using Cucumber and Jasmine,.Appium. I have hands-on experience with industrial and data center networks, and docker and VM virtualization technologies. https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveendvd I was also featured in postman community spotlight for my contributions: https://blog.postman.com/community-spotlight-praveen-mathew/