Ashok Kongala

• Led quality engineering for four critical applications, managing over 60% of Infra.Market's revenue workflows.
• Architected a reusable, cross-platform automation framework (Selenium + Appium) adopted across multiple solutions; reduced automation setup time by 60%, and enabled 70% coverage of end-to-end workflows.
• Delivered multiple high-stakes releases with less than 1% production issue rate.
• Enabled 60% faster regression cycles by combining automation coverage and lean test planning.
• Mentored over 10 engineers, including 10 interns; drove a 3x productivity boost through structured onboarding and internal boot camps.
• Drove performance benchmarking (k6) and security audits (OWASP 10). Championed shift-left practices by introducing QA gates, test observability, and documentation templates.

**Key Achievements & ROI**

• Contributed to 60% of the total order inflow via tested systems.
• Cut manual QA effort by 60%, and improved delivery confidence.
• Automation framework enabled 50%–60% reuse across verticals.

• Developed and scaled UI and API automation using Java, Selenium, TestNG, and Rest Assured.
• Built reusable UI component libraries, adopted across 6+ products.
• Led QA cycles in agile teams, reviewed PRs, and defined sprint-level quality deliverables.
• Initiated UI performance testing POC using NeoLoad.
• I mentored new team members and helped in the faster project ramp-up.

**Impact:**

Delivered a 25% increase in automation coverage.

Recognized with two consecutive Spot-On awards.

• Spearheaded functional, UI, and SOAP-based API testing for mission-critical aviation applications.
• Designed and executed end-to-end validation flows, including edge cases and negative scenarios.
• Created regression packs, release sanity plans, and production validation checklists.
• Contributed to internal automation POCs to evaluate Selenium-based frameworks.
• Implemented a POC to evaluate UI automation using UFT.
• Owned the entire test lifecycle for three projects and single-handedly delivered the releases.
• Test management using JIRA and HP QC while actively collaborating with the dev, UAT, and BA teams.
• Facilitated peer reviews, release sign-offs, and conducted KT sessions for new modules.

**Impact:**

• Recognized with 3 Unstoppable Spot-On Awards for outstanding individual contributions, consistent high-impact performance, and 4x A-Team Spot-Ons for collaboration and ownership.
• Played a key role in reducing UAT issues by 30% through rigorous QA regression ownership.