Vinay Madan is a consultant QA analyst and has an MS degree in information systems. He has more than 8 years of experience in diversified fields of software testing, quality assurance, and test management, both manual and automated.
He has worked on projects for leading international clients on smart card issuance, payment gateway, big data, security, telecom, and e-learning. He is an avid learner with strong technical expertise on functional and performance automation testing tools, such as Selenium, QTP, Cucumber, JMeter, and Load Runner.
Over the years, he has worked with multiple testing methodologies, including Agile, Scrum and customized Waterfall for Windows, the Web, and mobile. He is passionate about automation, open source technologies and loves sharing his knowledge on blogs and forums.
Satyajit Rai is a programmer with an interest in the design and implementation of large-scale distributed systems. He has designed and developed large and complex enterprise systems as well Internet-scale systems. He has developed expertise on different programming languages on different platforms. He is passionate about development-related best practices and puts a lot of emphasis on the performance, reliability, maintainability, and operability aspects of the system.
Over the course of his work at Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune, India, he worked on the performance aspects of many systems at different stages, such as architecture, design, deployment, performance evaluation, and tuning. He used his knowledge of a diverse set of systems to improve the performance of many such systems. At Persistent Systems, he was also instrumental in building a large-scale performance testing service, which was developed using JMeter on the AWS cloud.
Ripon Al Wasim is currently a senior software engineer at Cefalo (http://www.cefalo.com/). He lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has over 13 years of experience in the software industry. His professional expertise includes software development and testing. He also has some experience as a trainer in Java and testing.
He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) and JLPT Level 3 (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) certified.
Ripon is an active participant in the professional community Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/users/617450/ripon-al-wasim).
He is also one of the reviewers of Selenium WebDriver Practical Guide, Ripon's first official effort with Packt Publishing.