Tarun Kumar
Senior Vice President at Octro Inc.
Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTarun Kumar is a seasoned digital technology executive with 16 years in gaming and over 20 years of broad industry experience, currently serving as Senior Vice President at Octro where he is helping drive the company toward becoming India’s first gaming unicorn. He blends startup agility and large-enterprise discipline, having led product, P&L, marketing and live-ops across roles from CEO of PlayBuff Studios to senior delivery leadership at Comverse and BSNL. Passionate about crafting user experiences from "blank paper" to million-plus downloads, he pairs strategic vision with hands-on product and architecture instincts. An active technical communicator, he contributed technical writing to the Selenium project—improving docs and adding guidance on page object and data-driven testing—which reflects his attention to clarity and testability. Based in Maple Ridge, BC, he combines cross-cultural leadership with a persistent curiosity for new ideas and continuous learning.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunications at Punjab Engineering College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
test-automation9
selenium9
appium6
page-object6
xpath6
selenium-webdriver6
playframework6
webdriver6
testing6
ruby6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SeleniumHQ/www.seleniumhq.org
Mar 2010 - Jul 2012
Old Selenium website and docs (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:40 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tarun primarily contributed to the Selenium documentation. Their commits focused on fixing errors, improving clarity, and correcting spelling mistakes across multiple chapters. The changes involved updating various sections of the documentation, including chapters on Selenium basics, the Selenium IDE, and test design considerations, indicating a focus on maintaining and refining the existing documentation. They also added content about page object design pattern and data driven testing.
selenium
tarun3kumar/seleniumtestsframework
Jan 2014 - Feb 2021
STF is a webdriver based test automation library which generates comprehensible tests reports comparable to BDD framework, and yet better since no extra test steps / configuration are required. Not just this, STF has tons of other useful features described at -
Contributions:194 commits, 1 PR, 77 pushes in 7 years 2 months
automation-testingstepstesting-toolsselenium-javareports
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