BALAMURUGAN B

(Started as Junior Tester, promoted to Associate Tester in Jan 2023)

• Designed and executed test cases for both web and mobile applications across multiple platforms, encompassing functional, regression, sanity, and integration testing.
• Conducted REST API testing using Postman, and automated the entire API test collection using Python’s requests module, reducing test execution time from days to hours.
• Collaborated closely with developers to perform performance testing using tools like Apache Bench (AB) and JMeter. Identified a critical SSL-layer bottleneck that impacted transactions per second (TPS), and proposed caching strategies to enhance performance.
• Automated, repetitive tasks related to performance testing and daily operations using Python and Shell scripting.
• Developed a robust Selenium and Pytest automation framework in Python, covering nearly 1,500 test cases for full application test coverage.
• Validated backend database operations (insert/update) using SQL queries for data integrity checks.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, and hands-on experience with Git, Docker, and Jenkins.
• Working knowledge of AWS Cloud Services, including IAM, EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, and ELB.
• Provided mentorship and technical guidance to two junior QA engineers.