Aruna Mohan

• Led automation architecture and quality strategy for large-scale energy and utility platforms covering UI, API, and end-to-end workflows.
• Architected and owned a Playwright + TypeScript automation framework, designed for scalability, reusability, and CI/CD readiness.
• Implemented Page Object Model (POM) and modular design patterns, reducing automation maintenance effort by 30%.
• Developed and maintained API automation and contract tests using Postman and SoapUI to validate backend services independently of UI.
• Integrated automated test execution into Jenkins and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous testing and faster release cycles.
• Implemented parallel execution, environment configuration, and test tagging, optimizing execution time and infrastructure utilization.
• Collaborated with product owners, developers, and DevOps teams to define end-to-end test strategy, release criteria, and quality metrics.
• Acted as quality gatekeeper for releases, ensuring stability through automated smoke, regression, and integration test suites.
• Conducted automation code reviews, enforced best practices, and mentored team members on advanced Playwright concepts.
• Provided leadership visibility through execution reports, defect trends, and quality dashboards.

• Designed and enhanced Selenium + Java automation frameworks using TestNG, Page Object Model (POM), and data-driven architecture.
• Led automation of critical end-to-end business workflows, reducing manual regression effort by 40% and improving release stability.
• Developed and maintained UI and API automation suites, validating both frontend behavior and backend service responses.
• Introduced framework-level utilities for logging, reporting, retries, and exception handling, improving test reliability and debuggability.
• Integrated automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous testing and faster feedback to development teams.
• Implemented parallel execution strategies to reduce execution time and optimize test infrastructure usage.
• Actively participated in test strategy discussions, requirement reviews, and defect triage with developers and product owners.
• Built automated execution reports and dashboards, providing visibility into test coverage, failures, and quality trends.
• Mentored junior QA engineers on automation best practices, test design, and framework usage, acting as a technical go-to person.
• Supported transition from manual-heavy testing to automation-first approach, improving overall QA maturity.

Automation Engineer

• Automated airline reservation, ticketing, and GDS workflows using Selenium WebDriver for large-scale travel platforms.
• Developed and maintained functional and regression automation scripts for web-based applications.
• Implemented automated smoke test suites to validate critical flows and support early build verification.
• Collaborated with QA analysts and developers to analyze requirements and identify automation candidates.
• Enhanced script stability by improving element locators, synchronization, and reusable utility methods.
• Executed automation suites as part of release and regression cycles, reporting defects with detailed reproduction steps.
• Participated in defect triage and sprint ceremonies, contributing to improved defect turnaround time.
• Supported maintenance of existing automation scripts to align with frequent application changes.
• Gained hands-on exposure to end-to-end test execution, debugging failures, and improving test reliability

• Tested AEW&C systems responsible for long-range target detection, threat evaluation, and guiding interceptors, interfacing with sub-systems.
• Designed and executed test cases by analyzing requirements, reviewed test cases, and ensured traceability using Traceability Matrix.
• Reported and tracked bugs using Bugzilla, maintaining detailed bug reports.