Abitha Hariharan

• Company Overview: Fire TV is an AV streaming product, and one of Amazon's top-selling in-house devices. This compact network appliance delivers digital audio/video content streamed via the internet to high-definition televisions. The product has expanded globally and is available in the market with multiple variants, including a TV version.
• Roles and Responsibilities:

Quality Assurance & Testing Leadership

• Led end-to-end test automation using Java and Selenium WebDriver across multiple Fire TV web application platforms, ensuring seamless streaming functionality and user experience.
• Wrote and executed automated test scripts in Java using Selenium WebDriver for functional, regression, smoke, and sanity testing of Fire TV web applications, covering content browsing, search, playback controls, and account management modules.
• Automated cross-browser testing using Selenium WebDriver across Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari, to ensure Fire TV web application compatibility and consistent behavior.
• Performed manual API testing using the Postman tool for Fire TV backend services, verifying RESTful API endpoints, including GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods for content streaming, user authentication, device registration, and subscription management APIs.
• Validated API response status codes, response body, headers, and response time manually using Postman for Fire TV microservices to ensure backend functionality and data integrity.
• Identified, documented, and tracked bugs efficiently through thorough testing using Selenium WebDriver automation and manual testing techniques, logging defects in JIRA with detailed reproduction steps, screenshots, and logs.

Testing Execution and Strategy.

• Executed comprehensive functional, regression, smoke, and sanity testing for new Fire TV features and system updates using both Selenium WebDriver automation and manual testing approaches.
• Conducted thorough requirement analysis from user stories and functional specifications, creating detailed test plans and test strategies for each sprint cycle.
• Designed and developed 500+ test cases covering positive, negative, boundary value, and edge case scenarios to ensure maximum coverage across Fire TV web modules.
• Implemented risk-based testing approaches to optimize test coverage in critical Fire TV application areas, including content streaming, payment processing, and device connectivity.
• Performed manual API testing using Postman by sending API requests to Fire TV backend services, validating JSON response structures, error handling, authentication tokens, and data accuracy.

Agile & Process Management:

• Actively participated in daily stand-up/scrum meetings, contributing to task identification, story point estimation, and sprint planning for automation and manual testing deliverables.
• Engaged in sprint retrospective meetings to drive continuous process improvement in testing methodologies, and automation script enhancements.
• Managed the defect lifecycle in JIRA from defect logging to closure, ensuring proper documentation with severity, priority, environment details, screenshots, and reproduction steps.
• Created and maintained JIRA dashboards with defect metrics, test execution progress, and automation coverage reports for stakeholder visibility.
• Generated detailed test execution reports and status updates, providing sprint-wise test summaries, pass/fail analysis, and defect trends throughout the testing lifecycle.
• Participated in sprint demos, showcasing test automation execution results, API testing outcomes, and overall quality metrics to stakeholders and product owners.
• Tracked all automation tasks and test script development activities as JIRA stories/sub-tasks within sprint backlogs for proper progress tracking.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentored new team members on Java Selenium WebDriver basics, Postman manual API testing setup, GitHub version control workflows, and project testing processes.
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions on Selenium WebDriver locator strategies, wait mechanisms, exception handling, and browser automation techniques for junior team members.
• Guided team members on GitHub usage, including repository cloning, branching, committing, pushing code, raising pull requests, and resolving merge conflicts.
• Collaborated closely with development teams to facilitate prompt bug resolution by providing detailed defect reports, with Selenium automation logs, Postman API response details, and step-by-step reproduction steps.
• Coordinated regression test automation activities across multiple Fire TV web applications, ensuring that automation scripts were updated and maintained for every new release.

Quality Assurance Impact

• Enhanced Fire TV product reliability through comprehensive automated testing using Java Selenium WebDriver, and manual API validation using the Postman tool, resulting in a significant reduction in production defects.
• Designed and executed usability testing scenarios to improve the Fire TV user experience across web portals, including content discovery, streaming playback, and account management workflows.
• Optimized test case efficiency by identifying reusable test scripts and eliminating redundant test scenarios, reducing overall test execution time while maintaining thorough coverage.
• Implemented risk-based analysis techniques to prioritize testing efforts on critical Fire TV modules including payment gateway, content streaming, and user authentication.
• Successfully handled over 25 projects within fixed timelines, delivering quality automation scripts and comprehensive manual API testing coverage across Fire TV product variants.

• Methodology: Agile
• Tools: Jira, Test trail, Quip,Confluence,excel.
• Domain Knowledge: Fire OS, Amazon devices,Web pages.
• Skills: Good analytical and planning skills, Good Accuracy and attention to details, Excellent problem solving analysis, Excellent judgement according to the situation, Time Management.